What is a Reiki Initiation?

Reiki practitioners go through a process called attunement, or initiations in which a Reiki Master performs a procedure to open up the student’s energy system to increased energy flow and power. To perform attunements, the teacher uses sacred symbols in specific sequence, together with visualizations and breathing patterns. They sacred Reiki symbols have Japanese names, and are derived from Japanese and Sanskrit characters.

The purpose of attunements is to allow the future Reiki practitioner to conduct or transmit the energy of Reiki to assist in the healing. Each attunement which are ceremonies, with a joint meditation by teacher and student, during which the student is receptive, and the teacher is “tuning” the student’s energy centers to the Reiki energy, or universal energy of love and compassion After receiving the attunements, the student becomes capable of transmitting this energy through his or her energy centers in the head, chest and palms to the client.