The level XI symbol is called the Great Strength. It aims to increase your inner strength and personal power. It aims to assist you in seeing that adversary is actually a way to grow and strengthen you if worked with. These energies also have the potential of strengthen the Reiki energies you work with.
Before you enrol
Prerequisite
No prerequisite — if you feel ready, you may take it.
The symbol of this level is Dai Chi Kara — Great Strength, or Great Force. It is written in Japanese kanji and carries its own name.
It is meant for reaching the endurance that lies deep in a person when resistance or pressure comes from outside: opposing views, objections, the moments when people put you in a difficult position. It is expected to strengthen your resolve to do what you believe is right.
The examples in the handbook come from far away but feel familiar. When Socrates was condemned to death and his friends bribed the guards so he could escape, he said that everyone must obey the law even when innocent, and stayed. What we meet is usually plainer: resistance from friends and family who think Reiki is a bad thing, sometimes the threat of being cut off. The majority is not always right — people hold to tradition because it makes them feel safe.
With the attunement you learn this level's meditation, used in the moments when you feel your strength has been taken. These energies are also said to strengthen the other Reiki energies you work with. The handbook contains the symbol, the meditation, the attunement ritual and the symbol codes.
Source and lineage
How this system reached me
- Mikao Usui
- Chujuro Hayashi
- Hawayo Takata
- Phyllis Lei Furumoto
- Pat Jack
- William Lee Rand
- Johnny De'Carli
- Felix Korbla Akorli
- Everton Cardoso
- Arykerne Ribeiro
- Petro K. Yankani
- Andrew Brocklebank
- Catherine A. Hand
- Cherianne Burmeister
- Diane Rodriguez
- Stewart Farquharson
- Yücel Durmaz
The last name in the chain is mine; when you complete this course your certificate carries the same chain with your name added.
The manual. You receive the course handbook in my own edition — faithful to the source text, re-set so that it reads clearly on a screen.
Prerequisite
You are expected to have been working actively as a Reiki Master for at least six months, and the levels are taken in sequence. This is a guideline rather than a gate — it is what works for most people.
Some students arrive ready by another route, through years of their own practice, even without having taken these particular systems. If you feel ready, you may go ahead; the decision is yours.
One thing said plainly: an attunement opens as far as the ground beneath it allows. If that ground is not settled yet, the level is still given, but you may not see the response you hoped for straight away. That is not a failure, only timing — a level taken early usually waits for you and settles into place once you are ready.
If you are not sure, choose the free introductory conversation first. We talk on WhatsApp, look at where you are, and decide together which level to continue from.
Free introductory conversation →Related courses
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