Reiki for Stress Relief and Personal Growth
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This course is unique, and does not seem to be available anywhere else as far as I can see. This course enables you to use Reiki for your own personal benefit, for self-development, for spiritual development, to relieve stress and bring some clarity and simplicity into your life. It is an ideal 'try it and see' introduction to Reiki.
This "Personal Use" Reiki Home Study course guides you through half of our First Degree course, the half that deals with personal development, not working on others, and if at any time you would like to 'upgrade' your training to the full First Degree course you can do this easily.
The course consists of a comprehensive 94-page course manual, detailed course instructions/handouts and MP3 tracks with commentary and guided meditations, all of which you download. The manual contains text, descriptions and digital images, and the audio tracks provide you with the sort of guidance that you would have received on a live course. On top of that we also include a 5,000 word guide to your weekly energy projects and we guide you step by step through your course.
With these comprehensive instructions, manual and audio tracks, and one-to-one e-mail support, I am happy that the course gives you as much as you would have had, had you attended one of a 'live' version of this training, and more. We think that home study courses have some definite advantages, in fact: instead of having the time available to you limited by the length of a live course, you will have the opportunity to spend a lot longer working with the various exercises, really getting to grips with and assimilating each stage before you move on at your own pace. This approach comes a lot closer to the way that Reiki's founder - Mikao Usui - taught, with students working with him one-to-one and developing themselves over an extended period.
The Course itself
The course will take approx. 5 weeks to complete, and is based on carrying out a series of graded 'energy projects' totalling 18+ hours of practical energy work, which constitutes far more energy work than students carry out on live Reiki training courses. You will be doing something with energy every day. We will provide you with a series of distant empowerments.
Receive one-to-one support as you work through your course
It would not really be good enough to just give a student some training materials and tell them to get on with it. We think that it is very important to make sure that our home study students have carried out all the practical exercises that they need to carry out in order to feel confident in what they are doing, and it is important that we are on hand to answer and questions or queries that our students have, and to advise them and support them as they progress through their course.
What we do is to break the course down into a series of stages, or 'projects', where for each stage the student does some reading, listens to the audio commentary, carries out practical energy exercises and then sends us feedback by e-mail to let us know what they have done and what they have experienced. We can then gear our support to what the student has done and what they need. Training is one-to-one.
"Your e-mail support was great: considerate, patient and kind."
Jason Brown, Macedonia
"I really liked that the support from Taggart was there, but that I could also go at my own pace and wasn’t put under any pressure to complete by a certain time."
Catherine Duffy, Northamptonshire
Tune in to the Reiki energy
During your home study course you will receive a flurry of distant 'Reiju' empowerments during the early stages of your course. These traditional Japanese empowerments open up the channels through which Reiki flows, they help you to recognise something that is already within you. They are equivalent to Western-style Reiki 'attunements' and enable you to use Reiki for your own benefit and for the benefit of the people around you - your family and friends. This ability will stay with you for life, you will never lose it, and Reiki works for everyone!
During the later stages of your course, you will 'tune in' to distant Reiju empowerments which we send out every day, on Mondays. Your Reiki potential will not lessen over time, so tuning into these empowerments is not essential, but doing so will make a difference to you and your Reiki practice and echoes the practice of Reiki's founder, Mikao Usui, who empowered his students on a regular basis..
"Other people questioned how it could be possible to learn through this method, but Taggart’s empowerments definitely work and they come just at the right moment."
Jayne Spenceley, South Yorkshire
Learn to work with energy
Reiki is all about working with energy, so some of the first practical exercises that you carry out during the course involve learning to experience your own energy and that of other people, plants and animals. You will practice on a group of friends and/or relatives who will act as 'guinea pigs' for you.
You will also be introduced to and practice some Japanese energy exercises that you can use every day to balance your energy system and to make you a stronger and clearer channel for Reiki. These energy exercises come from Japanese Reiki, in its original and later forms, and have been missing from Western Reiki for 50 years.
Learn how to Treat yourself Japanese style and Western style
Reiki in its original form is much more about working on your self than it is about working on other people, so you will learn several approaches that you can use to work on yourself, and your 'Reiki Meditations' audio CD talks you through a traditional Japanese self-treatment 'meditation'. You will find out how relaxing an experience this is and you will be carrying out this self-treatment for several weeks during your course. We will also explain the Western approach to carrying out self-treatments and you have the opportunity to experiment with these different methods.
Audio tracks
This course is accompanied by a dozen MP3 tracks taken from our First Degree and "Reiki Meditations" audio CDs. 10 commentary tracks summarise the main themes of your course, and the remaining two tracks are guided meditations that you will need to use on this course. By having MP3 the main things that are said to you on a live course, you really receive a version of 'live' training, but in the comfort of your living room, or your car, or on a walk (using a Walkman) or wherever you choose to listen. You can, in effect, 'replay' your teacher again and again!
The guided meditations take you through Hatsu Rei Ho (Japanese energy exercises) and a self-treatment meditation that Reiki's founder taught. So instead of fumbling around trying to read the instructions in your manual while trying to keep in the flow of it, you can simply play the MP3, close your eyes, and follow the instructions. Your meditation will flow all the more easily because of this, and you'll learn how to do it without having to try too hard!
"The audio was my favourite piece of material. It enabled the ‘dip in’ approach and really helped with course consolidation. Fantastic for meditation and self-treatment."
Caron Sanders-Crook, London
"I found the guided meditations crucially important in setting a routine, with regards to timing and length of the exercise practices. Without it I would have fallen into patterns of shortcuts for both Hatsurei ho and self-treatment meditation."
Felipe Jauregui, Surrey
The Course Manual
Each Reiki Evolution course is accompanied by a comprehensive manual that covers everything we teach during your course, and more besides. Our 'Personal Use' manual runs to 94 A4 pages, with 32,000 words and many digital images; it provides you with a permanent record of your training and is a useful reference volume. For this course you download your course manual (and the course instructions, handouts and MP3 tracks) but if you wish you can order a professionally-printed copy of the First Degree course manual - see the "Reiki Manuals" link to your left.
"I found that the combination of the manual and audio tracks was very helpful, and being able to cross reference between the two plus the fact that I was able to take my time and re-read any part I had possibly overlooked or forgotten was for me a definite plus."
Ronald Knowles, Essex
"The manual was enjoyable to read and very clear."
Sarah Binns, Fife
The Certificate
Since this course is not a full First Degree course, we do not provide you with a certificate. But if you wish to 'upgrade' to the full First Degree course you can do this at any time by paying an additional £50; we will then guide you through the whole course and upon successful completion of the 'upgrade' you will receive a Reiki First Degree certificate like our other students.
Course Fees
The fee for the this Home Study Course is £57 paid in full in advance. Go to this page Home Study Enrolment to enrol on this course.
Upgrading to the full First Degree course
At any time during your course, or at any time afterwards, you can 'upgrade' to the full First Degree home study course by paying an additional £50. We will then provide you with all the materials that you need (course manual, audio CDs, course instructions and handouts) and you can complete the remainder of your First Degree training.
Taking the short course, and then the 'upgrade', will not cost you any more when compared with purchasing the First Degree home study course.
Course overview
Here is an overview of the way that the Home Study course will work, showing in general terms what you will be doing during each of the six stages of the course.
| Stage 1 | This stage is all about familiarising yourself with the course and doing some background reading and listening. Your first project will be to explore the meditative practice of mindfulness and to consider the Reiki precepts. |
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| Stage 2 | This stage you will receive repeated distant empowerments, start to carry out some simple Japanese energy exercises, and start to play with energy. |
| Stage 3 | This stage you will extend your Japanese energy exercises into a longer sequence and you will receive a further distant empowerment. |
| Stage 4 | This stage you will add a powerful self-treatment meditation to your basic daily energy exercises, you will experiment with various approaches to self-treatment, and receive a further distant empowerment. |
Ongoing Support and Advice
Once you've been on your course we want you to know that Taggart and Lorraine will be on hand to be on hand to deal with any questions or queries that you might have and to help and support you in your practice of Reiki. We have tried to set up various ways that we can support you, and our students can support each other. This is what we offer at the moment:
- Internet Support/Discussion group for all our students. You can contact approx. 1,400 other Reiki people (June 2008 figures) who have done the same training as you, Reiki1s, Reiki2s and Masters. If you have any queries, if you have any ideas that you want to share, if you want to simply enthuse about something, then go ahead.
- Free distant Reiju empowerments each week anytime on a Monday. Every week you can 'tune yourself in' to a Reiju empowerment from Taggart, anytime on a Monday (and more than once if you like!). This will give your Reiki practice a real boost and echoes the way that Reiki was taught by Mikao Usui, with empowerments week-in week-out throughout your training.
- Free ongoing support and advice by e-mail or telephone.
"Contact and support does not end with the course: it is ongoing. You still receive regular newsletters and upon finishing the course, you will be invited to join the Reiki online chat group. This puts you in touch with other Reiki practitioners and allows you to discuss Reiki experiences and queries with both Taggart and other practitioners."
Jackie Wiles, Conway, North Wales
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