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Essential Reiki

Diane Stein's Essential Reiki is the book that broke the reiki secrecy. Where the tradition's teachers had guarded the symbols and the attunement methods behind expensive degrees, Stein, a feminist healer and author of All Women Are Healers, put the whole system in print, and this volume became the reference a generation of practitioners learned from. Part one covers the first degree: the story of Mikao Usui and the lineage, what reiki energy is, and the healing session in full, with hand positions for self-healing, for treating others and for group work, pets included. Part two gives the second degree: the symbols themselves, drawn and explained, distance healing across time and space, and her nontraditional chapter on opening the kundalini as a bridge to the higher degrees. Part three presents the master level: the dai-ko-myo in its variants, how attunements are passed, how to teach, and reiki as a path of enlightenment, closing with her afterword on healing in a time of planetary crisis. Worksheets for teaching and a bibliography complete the book. Beloved, argued over, and still the honest place to see the whole art in one volume.

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