Altruistic reiki is run by Meryl, who is fully trained in traditional Japanese reiki to the Okuden level. My teacher’s lineage are all Japanese, with a very short reiki lineage back to Usui Sensei. This is essential to being able to give the purest form of reiki healing that Mikao Usui taught. I can be found on the UK Jikiden Reiki Association site, which also gives an in-depth guide to its reiki.

Originally I took the first level of western reiki with a teacher who had produced a very commercial course manual to create a teaching system for her courses. There was no spiritual feeling within the book and she seemed surprised when I couldn't feel the reiki energy from her. In comparison, I took my second reiki level with my sister, who had been a reiki master for over a decade. Although it was taught in a looser way, the system still felt systematic. Something was missing for me from western reiki.

I was delighted come across Tadao Yamaguchi's book "Light on the origins of Reiki", I subsequently found a Japanese teacher and took both shoden and okuden levels with her. Healing changed in me and I felt so at home with my new found skills. The energy flowed freely and the importance of finding the byosen sensation (blockages in the body) became more prominent. I began to feel that I was healing what my client’s body was shouting out for.

I currently work from home with my own therapy room. I am based in the beautiful Cwmcarn forest valley and even the fresh air here is revitalising. Generally, my clients fall asleep for part of a session and leave with a sense of their body self-healing. To get the real benefit of Jikiden reiki, clients should take a couple of regular sessions to start the healing and then continue on a lesser time scale until the body has healed. I suggest you don't stop until you feel the full benefit.

For details on how to make an appointment and costs please use this   Link to Altruistic Reiki