Annual Reiki Conference

It was wonderful to see so many of our members join us for our first in-person event for three years, and as arrivals started flowing in around 9am, the excitement levels were high! It was a bright, sunny day and 120 members took their places in the beautiful Coulson Manor Hotel reception suite ready and bubbling to meet everyone in person for the first time in so long.

Our compère for the day was the charismatic Geoff Rolls who kept the day running seamlessly between each speaker in his own calm style. Geoff gave his introduction and also shared some of his thoughts about his kinesiology practice throughout the day.

Next up was Torsten Lange, international speaker and author of multiple Reiki books under the Hay House label. Torsten brought us some extremely interesting insights about Reiki but also talked about the direction the human race is travelling. He shared his personal journey to finding Reiki and how it has changed his life in truly amazing ways, leaving so many attendees feeling inspired and thoughtful. In fact some of the subjects that came up during this session carried on later into the evening when our committee were talking about the day.

Jo and Simon Fellows then showed us what an amazing team they are by talking us through the methods and instruments they use on their yoga retreats. This started with the ocean drum which is used to mask distracting background sounds and create ‘white noise’ to allow your focus to be on the drums. Once the sound bath began, everyone melted into their chairs as they enjoyed the serenity of the penetrating sounds produced by the range of singing bowls.

Several attendees commented on the amazing energy in the room with so many Reiki people in one place all sharing these experiences together.

After a lunch break our Reiki Research Coordinator, Dr Duncan Cross took us through the preliminary results form the most recent UKRF survey published in July. The subject of this survey was ‘Reiki and Meditation’ and sought to find out about the demographics of the Reiki community.

Duncan explained the importance of collecting this type of information so we can know more about the community as a whole. This is an important step in becoming more inclusive and to enable us to bring in members from all nationalities, genders, religions, age groups and races – Reiki is for everyone after all.

Duncan’s talk brought up important topics around inclusivity and has helped UKRF to start growing the diversity team within our organisation – which can only be a great thing for us all. A couple of members were so inspired by this that they have now joined our committee to help with our diversity and inclusion commitments, including bringing new online events for the future.

We were then ready for Jasmin Harsono’s meditation session which was a lovely way to connect to the Reiki energy. Jasmin Harsono is a wellness practitioner and author who created this meditation technique called the Three Diamond Breath. This technique is based on the Japanese energetic system and involves breathing exercises that focus on three energy centres in the body: Hara, Heart, and Third Eye. Looking around the room it was obvious that everyone was fully immersed in the meditation, and again the energy in the room was fabulous.