Reiki II

Reiki II is the second degree, called Okuden in Japan. In Reiki I you met the energy through your hands; here you learn to focus it with three symbols. The symbols are not different energies; they are ways of focusing on a particular quality of Reiki. Reiki II can be taken 21 days after Reiki I: completing the twenty-one days of daily self-treatment that follow the first attunement means you have settled into the energy. A single attunement is given at this level.

How the distance course works

The courses on this site are taught at a distance. You choose a time on the calendar and pay; the confirmation and a calendar invitation arrive by email. The day before the session you receive the handbook; I recommend reading it before the attunement. At the agreed time you lie down or sit somewhere quiet; no video call or app is needed. The attunement takes 20–30 minutes. Afterwards your certificate is issued in your name, with your lineage, and its link is emailed to you.

The three symbols

• The power symbol: to strengthen the energy and focus it on one point, to open and seal a session, to clear a room
• The mental-emotional symbol: the symbol of harmony and balance, for working on habits of thought and feeling that no longer serve you
• The distance symbol: to send Reiki to someone who is not with you, to a period in the past or to a day ahead

How to draw and use the symbols is explained step by step in the handbook, and you study them there before the attunement.

Distance Reiki

What Reiki II changes most is that you can work where your hands cannot reach. The handbook gives several ways: with a photograph, with an object that stands for the person, by picturing yourself beside them, to a group of people at once, with a distance-healing notebook or box. In the same way you can send Reiki to your own past, or to an exam or an interview ahead of you.

Mental and emotional work

At this level the emphasis of the work shifts to the mental and emotional level. The handbook sets out a step-by-step way of working with the symbols on an emotional matter you want to look at. It also gives example intentions for the daily practice in the twenty-one days after the attunement.

Who is it for?

For those who have completed Reiki I and want to work with the first three symbols, send distant healing and focus on mental and emotional matters.

Reiki is a complementary energy practice; it does not replace a doctor, a psychologist or medication.