Reiki 2nd Degree: Okuden
Reiki 'Second Degree' course lasts for 12-13 hours, which is equivalent to two day's training. You spend approx. six hours working through a multimedia study pack, at your leisure, and then attend a single-day live course. During the live part of your training you will focus on practical energy work, guided by an experienced Reiki teacher and in the company of a few other students - there will be no more than four students on any of our Second Degree courses.
This approach provides you with a complete training in Reiki at Second Degree. You can learn at your leisure, in the comfort of your own home, allowing you to learn the three Reiki symbols fully, giving a chance for all the information to sink in and helping you to realise any questions that you might have. You then arrive on the course well-prepared and already knowing a great deal about Reiki. We spend the live part of your course working with energy and putting what you have learned into practice.The Study Pack
You will have a chance to go through your study pack usually for a few weeks before the course, and this gives you a good grounding in Second Degree Reiki. Imparting a load of information on a live course is a really ineffective way to learn or to teach, so we help you to get to grips with the 'knowledge' side of Reiki before you arrive on your day-course. The study pack consists of a comprehensive professionally-printed 110-page 'Okuden' manual and a specially-produced audio CD containing extensive commentary tracks. Your pre-course reading and listening will focus you on these areas:
What is so important about Second Degree?
First Degree Reiki provides you with a solid foundation for your future practice, and provides you with important tools that you can use to help balance your energy system, and promote self-healing and spiritual development. But there is far more to Reiki than can be passed on - or assimilated - in just one course. Reiki 'Second Degree' provides you with ways of deepening your experience of the energy, furthering your self-healing and spiritual development, and providing you with approaches that will enhance your treatment of others, whether in person or at a distance. Second Degree moves your Reiki onto a new level.
Our Second Degree course echoes the original system that Reiki's founder taught by still rooting your practice in personal energy work. Reiki is first and foremost about you, about your development and growth, and at Second Degree you will learn further tools that you can use to move your experience of Reiki on to the next level. So on this course you will learn to enhance and deepen your self-healing by getting to grips with and fully assimilating two important energies - two important aspects of the energy - referred to as earth ki and heavenly ki in the original system. Meditating on earth ki and heavenly ki regularly will help to really move on you self-healing. We will use some symbols to represent or access these important energies, or aspects of the energy. Two of the symbols that we use are based on those that were taught to one of Dr Hayashi's students, rather than the quite distorted symbols that you can find on some Western Reiki courses. A further symbol has been drawn for us by a Japanese Master Calligrapher, and so is completely accurate.
Second Degree should be about moving beyond the basic guidelines of First Degree, to embrace intuitive working and to understand the importance of intent. A major part of this course involves using a Japanese approach to treating others that allows the energy to guide your hands to the right places to treat, so rather than following a prescribed set of hand positions, you will gear your hand combinations to the energy needs of each person you work on. Intuitive Reiki treatments are something special: deep and intense, a wonderful experience for both the giver and receiver.
The Certificate
All courses are accompanied by an attractive certificate signed by your teacher. In this case your certificate confirms that you have received instruction and Reiju empowerments and have satisfied the requirements of the "Second Degree" of Reiki.
Course Fees
The fee for the Second Degree Course is £190, with an £80 deposit paid in advance, and the balance of £110 paid to your teacher, by cash or cheque, on the day of your course.
Coming from another lineage?
If you took your First Degree course elsewhere, we would not expect you to redo your First Degree with us, but what we will do is to send you our First Degree course materials - the course manual and audio CD - so that you can see exactly what we teach at this level. We will also set you some 'homework' to do so that you have been through the same practical exercises as our other First Degree students, so you don't miss out. These materials would ordinarily cost £27.00 but we will only charge you £10.00 for these; they are paid for when you pay your course deposit.
Course Schedule
Note: Arrive at 9.30am. Finish time no later than 4.30pm
Once you've been on your Second Degree course we want you to know that your teacher will be on hand to deal with any questions or queries that you might have. As a teacher through www.reiki-evolution.co.uk you as the student have access to the following various ways of support, and our students can support each other. This is what Reiki Evolution offer at the moment:
Please click here for course dates and booking information
Reiki 2nd Degree: Okuden
Reiki 'Second Degree' course lasts for 12-13 hours, which is equivalent to two day's training. You spend approx. six hours working through a multimedia study pack, at your leisure, and then attend a single-day live course. During the live part of your training you will focus on practical energy work, guided by an experienced Reiki teacher and in the company of a few other students - there will be no more than four students on any of our Second Degree courses.
This approach provides you with a complete training in Reiki at Second Degree. You can learn at your leisure, in the comfort of your own home, allowing you to learn the three Reiki symbols fully, giving a chance for all the information to sink in and helping you to realise any questions that you might have. You then arrive on the course well-prepared and already knowing a great deal about Reiki. We spend the live part of your course working with energy and putting what you have learned into practice.The Study Pack
You will have a chance to go through your study pack usually for a few weeks before the course, and this gives you a good grounding in Second Degree Reiki. Imparting a load of information on a live course is a really ineffective way to learn or to teach, so we help you to get to grips with the 'knowledge' side of Reiki before you arrive on your day-course. The study pack consists of a comprehensive professionally-printed 110-page 'Okuden' manual and a specially-produced audio CD containing extensive commentary tracks. Your pre-course reading and listening will focus you on these areas:
- What Reiki's founder taught and how we can follow the original system in the modern world
- How to benefit from the energies of earth ki and heavenly ki through meditation
- The importance of experiencing a state of oneness and its use in distant healing
- How to use earth ki and heavenly ki when treating others
- How to open yourself to intuitive working
- Ways of directing the energy using intent
- The Reiki symbols: how to draw them and say their names
What is so important about Second Degree?
First Degree Reiki provides you with a solid foundation for your future practice, and provides you with important tools that you can use to help balance your energy system, and promote self-healing and spiritual development. But there is far more to Reiki than can be passed on - or assimilated - in just one course. Reiki 'Second Degree' provides you with ways of deepening your experience of the energy, furthering your self-healing and spiritual development, and providing you with approaches that will enhance your treatment of others, whether in person or at a distance. Second Degree moves your Reiki onto a new level.
Our Second Degree course echoes the original system that Reiki's founder taught by still rooting your practice in personal energy work. Reiki is first and foremost about you, about your development and growth, and at Second Degree you will learn further tools that you can use to move your experience of Reiki on to the next level. So on this course you will learn to enhance and deepen your self-healing by getting to grips with and fully assimilating two important energies - two important aspects of the energy - referred to as earth ki and heavenly ki in the original system. Meditating on earth ki and heavenly ki regularly will help to really move on you self-healing. We will use some symbols to represent or access these important energies, or aspects of the energy. Two of the symbols that we use are based on those that were taught to one of Dr Hayashi's students, rather than the quite distorted symbols that you can find on some Western Reiki courses. A further symbol has been drawn for us by a Japanese Master Calligrapher, and so is completely accurate.
Second Degree should be about moving beyond the basic guidelines of First Degree, to embrace intuitive working and to understand the importance of intent. A major part of this course involves using a Japanese approach to treating others that allows the energy to guide your hands to the right places to treat, so rather than following a prescribed set of hand positions, you will gear your hand combinations to the energy needs of each person you work on. Intuitive Reiki treatments are something special: deep and intense, a wonderful experience for both the giver and receiver.
The Certificate
All courses are accompanied by an attractive certificate signed by your teacher. In this case your certificate confirms that you have received instruction and Reiju empowerments and have satisfied the requirements of the "Second Degree" of Reiki.
Course Fees
The fee for the Second Degree Course is £190, with an £80 deposit paid in advance, and the balance of £110 paid to your teacher, by cash or cheque, on the day of your course.
Coming from another lineage?
If you took your First Degree course elsewhere, we would not expect you to redo your First Degree with us, but what we will do is to send you our First Degree course materials - the course manual and audio CD - so that you can see exactly what we teach at this level. We will also set you some 'homework' to do so that you have been through the same practical exercises as our other First Degree students, so you don't miss out. These materials would ordinarily cost £27.00 but we will only charge you £10.00 for these; they are paid for when you pay your course deposit.
Course Schedule
Note: Arrive at 9.30am. Finish time no later than 4.30pm
- General Introduction: reviews what has happened since First Degree
- Talk: the original system that Usui taught and how we can echo the original approaches
- 'Second Degree' empowerment: first of three connections to Reiki
- Talk: earth ki and heavenly ki and the use of symbols to represent these energies
- Practice session: Go through energy exercises to experience earth ki
- 'Second Degree' empowerment: second of three connections to Reiki
- Practice Session: Go through energy exercises to experience heavenly ki, and compare with earth ki
- Talk: using these two energies in a treatment context
- Practice session: using the two energies on each other
- 'Second Degree' empowerment: third of three connections to Reiki
- Talk: Oneness and Distant healing: various approaches explored
- Practice: distant healing session
- LUNCH
- Talk: the use of intent to direct energy
- Practice session: various methods of directing energy - using visualisation and intent - includes "many hands" and eye method
- Talk: working intuitively using the Japanese approach called "Reiji ho"
- Long Practice session: opening to intuition and allowing the energy guide your hands
- Conclusion
Once you've been on your Second Degree course we want you to know that your teacher will be on hand to deal with any questions or queries that you might have. As a teacher through www.reiki-evolution.co.uk you as the student have access to the following various ways of support, and our students can support each other. This is what Reiki Evolution offer at the moment:
- Internet Support/Discussion group for all our students who have an e-mail address. You can contact approx. 1,200 other Reiki people (September 2007 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.
- Access to a network of regular Reiki shares (get-togethers) at various UK locations where you can meet other Reiki Evolution students, chat, receive Reiju empowerments and swap treatments
- Access to updated versions of your Reiki 2 manual. You can access future versions of the manual for free via the homepage of our Internet discussion group.
- Free ongoing support and advice by e-mail or telephone
Please click here for course dates and booking information