The story behind the September 13 Reiki Level 1 cohort

A weeks ago I wrote about stepping back into my Reiki Master Teacher era, and I want to pick that thread back up, because I don't think I said the whole truth of it the first time.

What I quietly let go of

The truth is that I stepped away from teaching for a while without fully admitting that's what I was doing. I kept doing sessions, kept showing up for clients one on one, hands above the body, mapping out what needed to move. That part never stopped and never felt like a question. But teaching, standing in front of a room or a screen and saying "here is how you do this yourself," that I quietly let go of for longer than I meant to.

I think I told myself it was a season, that I'd come back to it eventually. What actually happened is smaller and more honest than that. I got asked, again and again, by people I was working with one on one: can you just teach me how to do this? Not because they wanted to leave me as their practitioner, but because they wanted the thing I had. The tool. The dial. The ability to open and close and direct, instead of needing someone else's hands every time the noise got too loud.

The moment it became overdue

I kept saying "soon." And then ELLE UK ran a piece that mentioned my work, and something about seeing it externalised like that, seeing this practice I do quietly in rooms with one other person described to a much wider audience, made the "soon" feel overdue. If the work was resonating that far outside the room, it clearly needed to leave the room more often than I'd been letting it.

So I'm teaching Reiki Level 1 again, in person for the first time in a while, starting September 13.

Why this round matters to me

Here's what I want you to know about why this round matters to me specifically. I'm not building this to be big. I'm building it to be exactly what I needed when I first sat in a training like this myself, unsure if any of it was real, unsure if I was "spiritual enough" to be there, and needing someone who wasn't going to talk down to that uncertainty. Small group. Real attention. Enough room for questions that don't have tidy answers yet.

If you've been following along here for a while, especially if you've read what I've written about being an old soul, about the dark night, about the strange dislocation of ascension symptoms, I suspect some of you have been circling this idea for a long time without letting yourselves name it: I want to learn to do this, not just receive it.

Who September 13 is for

I'm not going to pretend this is a casual invitation. It's a specific one, aimed at the people who have been reading here for a while and quietly wondering if they're allowed to want this for themselves. You are.  

I'm genuinely glad to be teaching again. It turns out that was the part I missed most.

See you in class!

With so much love, Cindy