Reiki Kids Articles
Teaching Reiki to Children, Part I
Teaching Reiki to children has been such a gift, for it is actually the children who are teaching me. Their openness and willingness to explore their innate abilities makes each class special and unique. I share so much laughter, creativity and fun with these children. They have taught me what childhood should be like and how to help manifest it.
A ten-year-old girl named Claire inspired me to create a program specifically for children. Her parents, Elizabeth and Scott, had taken Level I Reiki with me. A few days after their course, they called me saying they really needed to talk to me. They spoke to me from separate extension phones and told me what had transpired in their home after the Reiki I workshop.
Elizabeth’s mother had been looking after her two children for the duration of the workshop. When Elizabeth and her husband arrived home, her mother said, “I don’t care what you learned this weekend, my knee is hurting so bad I need you to try it on me”. Elizabeth was a little apprehensive about her newly acquired skill but she remembered how she could really feel the energy when she created an energy ball between her two hands. She did this just to make sure the energy was running and as she began to feel the energy between her hands, Claire said, “Oh Mommy, can you show me how to make one of those beautiful balls of colour too?” Her mother showed her what to do and Claire could quite easily see the energy and talked about the different colours she was seeing. She helped her mother do Reiki on her grandmother, careful to keep her hands above the area being treated so that she could still see all the colours. When Claire’s father went to move a stool that was beside the grandmother, Claire said, “Don’t take that stool. Nanny’s angel is sitting there.” Then Claire took her mother aside and said, “You remember when I was little and I could see the angels? Well, they are back I can see them again. You brought the angels back!”
Elizabeth recognized that there might be challenges having a child who is clairvoyant and so she called me to get some advise and assistance. I listened patiently to all she had to share with me. She really needed someone to talk to about this wonderful little being that was her daughter. I told her what a special gift Claire was and that the most important thing was that she lived in a house where her perceptions were honoured. “Your job”, I said, “is that of a true Guardian, to protect her and make sure no one ever exploits her gifts or ridicules her”.
It was through my conversations with Claire’s mother that I realized I needed to create something for special ones like Claire. I couldn’t accept that she had to wait until she was an adult to learn Reiki. From my own experience I knew that many children shut down these special abilities because they feel they have no use for them in their physical world. I knew that Reiki would give them an outlet and a practical way to use their perceptions. As Reiki Practitioners we all know how simple Reiki is and that it is neither dependent on spiritual evolution nor intellect, so why should it be kept from someone based on an age barrier? I was also encouraged by some of my Reiki students who told me that if I set up a class for kids they would provide me with willing participants.
Teaching Reiki to children has been such a gift, for it is actually the children who are teaching me. Their openness and willingness to explore their innate abilities makes each class special and unique. I share so much laughter, creativity and fun with these children. They have taught me what childhood should be like and how to help manifest it.
A ten-year-old girl named Claire inspired me to create a program specifically for children. Her parents, Elizabeth and Scott, had taken Level I Reiki with me. A few days after their course, they called me saying they really needed to talk to me. They spoke to me from separate extension phones and told me what had transpired in their home after the Reiki I workshop.
Elizabeth’s mother had been looking after her two children for the duration of the workshop. When Elizabeth and her husband arrived home, her mother said, “I don’t care what you learned this weekend, my knee is hurting so bad I need you to try it on me”. Elizabeth was a little apprehensive about her newly acquired skill but she remembered how she could really feel the energy when she created an energy ball between her two hands. She did this just to make sure the energy was running and as she began to feel the energy between her hands, Claire said, “Oh Mommy, can you show me how to make one of those beautiful balls of colour too?” Her mother showed her what to do and Claire could quite easily see the energy and talked about the different colours she was seeing. She helped her mother do Reiki on her grandmother, careful to keep her hands above the area being treated so that she could still see all the colours. When Claire’s father went to move a stool that was beside the grandmother, Claire said, “Don’t take that stool. Nanny’s angel is sitting there.” Then Claire took her mother aside and said, “You remember when I was little and I could see the angels? Well, they are back I can see them again. You brought the angels back!”
Elizabeth recognized that there might be challenges having a child who is clairvoyant and so she called me to get some advise and assistance. I listened patiently to all she had to share with me. She really needed someone to talk to about this wonderful little being that was her daughter. I told her what a special gift Claire was and that the most important thing was that she lived in a house where her perceptions were honoured. “Your job”, I said, “is that of a true Guardian, to protect her and make sure no one ever exploits her gifts or ridicules her”.
It was through my conversations with Claire’s mother that I realized I needed to create something for special ones like Claire. I couldn’t accept that she had to wait until she was an adult to learn Reiki. From my own experience I knew that many children shut down these special abilities because they feel they have no use for them in their physical world. I knew that Reiki would give them an outlet and a practical way to use their perceptions. As Reiki Practitioners we all know how simple Reiki is and that it is neither dependent on spiritual evolution nor intellect, so why should it be kept from someone based on an age barrier? I was also encouraged by some of my Reiki students who told me that if I set up a class for kids they would provide me with willing participants.
