Huh? What do you mean by "Shamanic" Reiki?

In a nut-shell, Shamanic Reiki is using shamanic healing practices while performing traditional Reiki on a client to help enhance the healing.

I know what you’re thinking, “What the heck are shamanic healing practices”? 

Well it’s a good thing you have a Shamanic Practitioner right here to tell you, right?

Shamanic healing practices can include things like Shamanic Journeying, energetic cord cutting, or even soul retrieval.

And now you’re even more confused 😅!

Let me put it into simpler terms. 

Shamanic healing is about healing of an individual's soul. 

The belief is that in each life-time, your soul gains karmic energy - either low vibration or high. 

Sometimes, emotional trauma can injure or cause the soul to break off small pieces that stay in those lower vibrational frequencies. Or the soul can gain energetic attachments to other souls through emotional connections that can be useful (like your attachments to your children) or not so useful (like that ex that keeps popping back into your life).

A Shamanic practitioner uses specific practices to engage with the Spirit World and can channel guidance from spirit guides, spirit animals, ancestors or other enlightened beings for your highest good (or vibration - whichever term resonates). The practitioner can even access your Spiritual Body or Highest Self, which is the larger part of “You”. What we call the “soul” is just a small part of that Higher Self that is having a human experience in a physical body. 

They can then channel this guidance and use it to help you to re-integrate (or release) those pieces of your soul that have been lost, cut those energetic cords that may be holding you back, or can provide you guidance and healing for specific emotional traumas that are causing physical pain.

So what is the difference between Traditional Reiki and Shamanic Reiki?

I’d love to tell you!

Traditional Reiki is about accessing the Universal life force energy. The practitioner becomes a channel for that energy to the individual receiving. The energy is not coming from the practitioner, it is coming from Source (or the Divine if that’s your thing) and the practitioner is only guiding the energy with their intentions. The intent of this energy is to bring you back into balance and help kick-start the body to naturally heal itself, even if we are not sure of the cause of the illness or ailment.

Ultimately, the energy will travel to where it believes it needs to go. It is a passive practice for both the practitioner and the client; with the individual receiving just allowing the energy to flow through them, and oftentimes falling into a meditative or relaxed state.

Now, adding a Shamanic flare to Reiki creates a more active and proactive treatment. Most times the practitioner is engaging with the Spirit World, channelling guidance to the client, while performing the Reiki.  The practitioner is also manipulating the energy during a session, interacting with the client's energy, on top of allowing the Reiki energy to go where it needs to go.

It can be much more interactive with the client, with the practitioner asking questions or guiding them through visualisations to aid in the healing. 

It really is a collaboration between the client, the practitioner, and Spirit (or Source/Divine/God/The Universe or whatever floats your boat) where the channelled guidance provides added insights to what is going on in the body (and Soul) and can help to better release blocked energy, or cut energetic ties that might be holding the client in their current unbalanced state. The wisdom and guidance received can then be incorporated into the intentions of the Reiki energy to enhance the healing.

I have found that incorporating shamanic practices into a Reiki session provides a much deeper and more complete healing experience. 

So if you are looking to... 

• Address specific issues related to your physical, spiritual, mental or emotional states,

• Understand why you are feeling the way you feel,

• Get guidance on how to improve current issues that may need healing or resolution,

• Cut ties with previous trauma, past life karmic energy, or individuals that may be holding you back,

• Make peace with your inner child, or

• Work on current energetic patterns that may be holding you back from personal growth,

...then you might want to try a Shamanic Reiki Session!