What Is a Reiki Massage?
My two most popular offerings are the Reiki Massage and the Guided Inner-Journey.
These healing services are both designed to:
regulate your nervous system
reduce physical pain
calm mental anguish and
help you explore the unknown, misunderstood or confusing parts of yourself and your personal life experiences
In this post, I’ll be explaining everything you might want to know about the Reiki Massage offering. My next blog post will be focused on the Guided Inner-Journey, so be sure to check that out if you’re interested.
THE REIKI MASSAGE
The Reiki Massage is perfect for people who are in the Chicago area and want to work on cultivating a peaceful relationship between their body, mind, emotions and spirit. This service combines therapeutic massage therapy with energy balancing techniques for a relaxing, enlightening and holistic healing experience.
PRE-SESSION CHECK-IN
Every session begins with some time for us to connect and chat about your intentions. You’ll have an opportunity to share how you’re feeling and what your needs are. This is a time for you to truly be seen and heard, with no judgment.
You can tell me about any aches and pains in your body, mental/emotional issues you’ve been dealing with or even interpersonal conflicts or problems. Nothing is “too much” here, and anything you want to share helps me understand your needs more clearly.
As I listen, I’ll be tuning into your energy field and getting a feel for what we’ll be working on that day.
WHAT’S THE PROTOCOL?
In general, I like to start with the bodywork and weave the energy work in as we go. Every session is fully customized to your specific needs at the time, so I’m always deferring to the energy of the moment and the guidance I receive from your subtle body.
THE MASSAGE
The bodywork portion of the session will integrate swedish relaxation techniques with deep tissue, trigger point therapy and myofascial unwinding, as needed. I’ll take note of any aches and pains you may have mentioned in our pre-session chat and be sure to give your body extra attention in those areas.
During this time, your body will begin to soften and let go of any tension that may have been stuck in your soft tissues. Your parasympathetic nervous system will feel safe to come online and your conscious mind will be able to take a well deserved rest.
I like to create an environment where you can be lulled into a hypnotically restful state. From there, your body can more easily release what’s ailing you and open up to receive the harmonizing energy of Reiki.
THE REIKI
When I practice Reiki, I’m always infusing psychic healing techniques as I channel the Life Force energy.
A traditional Usui Reiki practitioner has trained to be able to easily plug themselves into the “channel” of Life Force energy (this is the same energy that makes a seed sprout or an embryo grow), and then transmit that energy to the recipient. I’ve been trained to also listen for communication from your Divine/Higher Self, from our guides and from your body (yes, your organs are sentient and will communicate too).
For me, these communications usually come through as colors, symbols, pictures, words or phrases. During the session, I will jot down notes about anything significant that comes through. We’ll discuss these at the end.
THE ENVIRONMENT
I won’t talk much (or at all) for the duration of your time on the table, except to check in with you once or twice about your comfort or the massage pressure. I’ll encourage you to drift off and let go if you want to.
I may take you through a brief guided relaxation technique if it seems your nervous system could use the support. Gentle ambient music will play in the background along with the white noise of a small air purifier.
The room lights will remain dark with only the dim, soothing glow of a salt lamp and a candle. When you’re laying supine, you’ll be given the option to have a weighted eye pillow over your eyes. The table warmer will be on according to your preference and the session will include hot towels for your back, neck and feet.
All of these details ensure a warm, restorative environment where all facets of your body and being can shift toward harmony.
WHY IT HELPS
By combining the forces of therapeutic massage and Reiki energy balancing techniques, we can approach your ailments from many perspectives and holistically infuse healing into all levels of your body, mind and spirit.
It’s extremely common for the energy of emotions and traumas to get stuck in the tissues of the body. Physical pain, disease and disorder in the body very often have an emotional, energetic root. When tension in the soft tissues melt, there’s more room for stuck energy to move and more Life Force to flow.
This will not only help you to feel a reduction in stress and pain, but it will also bring you more capacity for pleasure, joy, trust and growth.
BOOK A SESSION
If you’re in the Chicago area, I would love to share this offering with you!
You can choose between a 90 minute or a 2 hour session. Come experience this grounding and transformative time for yourself.
Hundreds of people have found these sessions to be integral to their healing process. You can check out my testimonials page to read some of their stories.
I so look forward to working with you, dear human. Feel free to direct any questions to me about this service in the comments of this blog, or email me directly via the contact form on my website.
Heal You Soon
Much Love, Amber Renee