I'm interested in seeing how long either your level 3 trainig you took was, or how long you teach level 3. As apprenticship, etc.

take care
Wayne

my internship was for nominally 6 months, but for however long it took for my RMT to feel I was ready, and however long it took me to facilitate 50 sessions.

It took me roughly 5 months to get my certificate.

Andy

My teacher taught me Level 3 in one day, using the standards set by the International Center for Reiki Training. (I currently do not teach Level 3 - I don't feel that I'm ready to take that step yet.) However, it was about a year before I really started to work with the techniques I'd learned and I'm still trying to deepen that part of my practice.

I took a 2-day course for certification at level 3 in Tera Mai Reiki. No real apprenticeship but a very good basic weekend course , and the option of meeting up every month...

I don't recall the exact format of my internet attunements, but suffice to say the training was optional... whether I reached master level or not, it's difficult to say, but I think I got to at least level 9 before I ran out of patience.

I also have a DVD attunement at level 3, from a Manster who recommends that you keep returning to the DVD to enable regular re-attunement!!! There is no indication on the DVD of how to conduct attunements (so I suppose you just let people watch your DVD)!!!

Now that I'm a Master, of course, there's nothing that you, or anyone else for that matter, can say that I don't already know. So, no change there then.


John

I forgot to mention that my Reiki teacher holds Reiki shares every other month, which allows us the opportunity to connect with other Reiki folks and learn/practice skills.

I still feel like I'm learning and part of my issue is trying to find time to practice some of the meditations/techniques when I'm very busy with a full-time job, part-time business and a family!!

5 days including to be a reiki master which I would have liked to be longer I had to findout more via internet, forums etc, but she was the one i could afford to go to.


Serenelight

The long answer:

I received my first level 1, 2, and 3 in 1993--not quite sure if the Reiki Master Teacher title was fully a part of the community at that time (but I think it was just emerging).

Level 1 was three days (Friday evening, all day Saturday, all day Sunday), and Level 2 was the same. Many of us inquired about the Reiki Master training from the teacher, Denise Crundall (from Australia, now deceased). She required the $10,000 fee and that the student provide a hands-on Reiki treatment to someone while that person died (such as through hospice volunteer work). From what I have heard, she only attuned one person to Reiki Master (but I do not know that students name).

I could not afford $10k at that time, so went about things in a different way. By the end of 1993, I solicited a print ad from someone performing authentic Reiki Master attunements. If I recall correctly, I paid $750 or perhaps $800 for the attunement. The entire process took less than an hour, and that was it. She got her money, I got the attunement and certificate, she left, and that was it. She did not stay in contact with me, and I do not know if she continues to teach Reiki or not.

I began to perform attunements to small groups while I was living at San Francisco Zen Center, but eventually stopped for a number of reasons. One reason was that I was asked to stop by the employees of the center (my performing attunements in the Buddha Hall made others uncomfortable because it wasn't "zen"), another was that one year I would be living in San Francisco and the next Los Angeles (because of corporate take-overs--I would have to move to keep my job with the same/new company), and the other was that my life was just plain unstable at that time. I decided just to focus on the one-on-one process through my massage client base.

While I practiced one-on-one, I read and studied various material. By 1994 or so I began work as a hospice volunteer and eventually had the experience Denise wanted her students to have... and understood why she made such a requirement. Beginning in 1996 or so, I became involved with the alt.healing.reiki (AHR) crew and was introduced to global group distance attunements.

My Reiki Master training continued by working individually with others, and through the world-wide efforts and support of the regulars on AHR for many years (that includes distance Reiki attunements). In 2006, my training reached a new phase when I began to host Reiki meetings in my apartment. In 2009, my training continues because we no longer meet in my apartment but rent a commercial business space where we set up massage tables (we currently own four), offer a Reiki Clinic, and perform ongoing attunements on each other. We meet two Sundays per month, and sometimes each receive at least six attunements.

Have you heard the saying "we don't know what we don't know"? Well, in spite of my teachy-weachy RMT certificates, each time I lead a class, I gain a greater understanding of how much I don't know.


The short answer:

16+ years (my enrollment status is "active").

Stephen,

It sounded like you re-attune people. Is that correct? I've heard there's some value in doing that, but when I asked my teacher he sort of just shrugged it off. He said it can be very healing but beyond that had no inherent value (in terms of increasing your energy vibrations.) Curious to know what your take is on that.

Dragonfly wrote:Stephen,

It sounded like you re-attune people. Is that correct? I've heard there's some value in doing that, but when I asked my teacher he sort of just shrugged it off. He said it can be very healing but beyond that had no inherent value (in terms of increasing your energy vibrations.) Curious to know what your take is on that.

Hi Dragonfly.

I like to think that the attunements are not about giving power or increasing vibration but rather becoming more self aware.

stephenbuck415 wrote:

Dragonfly wrote:Stephen,

It sounded like you re-attune people. Is that correct? I've heard there's some value in doing that, but when I asked my teacher he sort of just shrugged it off. He said it can be very healing but beyond that had no inherent value (in terms of increasing your energy vibrations.) Curious to know what your take is on that.

Hi Dragonfly.

I like to think that the attunements are not about giving power or increasing vibration but rather becoming more self aware.

Nice, Buck! I also like to think of it as simply sharing (amongst equals, regardless of who is "officially" teacher and who is "officially" student - we're all students of life when it comes right down to it!). What are we sharing? Some might say energy, some might say Spirit, but I like to think of it as simply sharing Love.

Love and Light,

Garry

Thanks guys! I just wanted to make sure I heard that distinction because I have heard/read many different interpretations about what benefit one would receive from multiple attunements. I very much like the idea of sharing.

Dragonfly wrote:Thanks guys! I just wanted to make sure I heard that distinction because I have heard/read many different interpretations about what benefit one would receive from multiple attunements. I very much like the idea of sharing.

For me, receiving another attunement to something I've already been attuned is just another chance to receive a very nice blessing. Certainly something that is fun to share with someone.

I have been giving this a lot of thought over the last year or so.
My own Reiki 3 training was 4 days, plus follow up sessions, plus Reiki shares.
When I first started to teach Reiki 1 I did not feel that confident about doing so and that is something many others say.
I am currently not teaching because I don't feel able to be able to do the job properly. This is not because of any shortcomings in my own knowledge or ability, but in the willingness of students to undergo the extensive training that I feel is needed to be a fully confident and competent Reiki teacher.
For me Reiki 1 should be a at least a 6 month course. There is a lot more than just Reiki to be developed. There is the whole spiritual development side of things and that cannot be done in a weekend, it takes time. There are other considerations as well, for instance a basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology, the laws (rules and regulations) that are relevant in your part of the world as well as the manipulation of energy, and that is just Reiki 1. Reiki 2 has the symbols and a further development of energy manipulation. Reiki 3 is all about passing on your knowledge.
From personal experience the spiritual development side of things is an ongoing and personal process, so what is right for one will not be right for another.
Knowing how to put together a workshop or series of workshops is the biggie thou. You can't teach effectively until you can do this (IMO).
How long does it take to teach? Could be months, could be longer.

Well this is a good topic. What I have to say may well be long and controversial (I'm already not posting in another place because of their reaction to a similar posting).

My own Level 3 - well I'm not sure how to quantify how long it took. I had an attunement at Level 3 as part of a number of one to one evening sessions with my RM, I also helped with a Level 1 and Level 2 attunement. Because of various factors, I stopped seeing my RM after about 2 months.

Now I teach Level 3 as a sort of ongoing mentorship: it depends on the student really. I attuned my best friend to Level 3 as a birthday present and as a way of saying thank you for introducing me to Reiki, but she doesn't call herself a Reiki Master. I have one Level 3 student at the moment, she's had the attunement and some input on scanning, deepening the connection and the spirit world, but doesn't want to teach yet so we've left the teaching bit for another time. I will have another one in the summer, we just have to fix a date. I think she will want to be a fellow worker more than the other two so I might have to compose a different syllabus.

Here's the controversial bit. I think you need to reach lots of other stuff alongside Reiki: however, others think you should just teach Reiki, and try and keep it as close to the Usui Reiki tradition as you can.

My reasons for wanting to cover other things are that I am a Western Christian (basically), not a Japanese Buddhist/Taoist/Confucian/whatever. When Reiki found me I had a belief system which my teachers had given me, which included auras, chakras, spirit world, angels, guides - all that stuff which isn't really Reiki but which I find fits perfectly. In wanting to do this I am honouring my teachers: I honour Usui Sensei but he is not my only teacher.

I am also a spiritual healer and teacher, and was approached by a student who wanted to learn what I knew. We sat down and agreed a one year syllabus which used the spiritual healing syllabus but combined it with the three levels of Reiki. It works really, really well.

Continuing on with a discussion on another forum here, am I creating another form of Reiki, or the Pandora's Box system of energy work... (hey perhaps I ought to trademark that!)

Pandora wrote:Well this is a good topic. What I have to say may well be long and controversial (I'm already not posting in another place because of their reaction to a similar posting).

My own Level 3 - well I'm not sure how to quantify how long it took. I had an attunement at Level 3 as part of a number of one to one evening sessions with my RM, I also helped with a Level 1 and Level 2 attunement. Because of various factors, I stopped seeing my RM after about 2 months.

Now I teach Level 3 as a sort of ongoing mentorship: it depends on the student really. I attuned my best friend to Level 3 as a birthday present and as a way of saying thank you for introducing me to Reiki, but she doesn't call herself a Reiki Master. I have one Level 3 student at the moment, she's had the attunement and some input on scanning, deepening the connection and the spirit world, but doesn't want to teach yet so we've left the teaching bit for another time. I will have another one in the summer, we just have to fix a date. I think she will want to be a fellow worker more than the other two so I might have to compose a different syllabus.

Here's the controversial bit. I think you need to reach lots of other stuff alongside Reiki: however, others think you should just teach Reiki, and try and keep it as close to the Usui Reiki tradition as you can.

My reasons for wanting to cover other things are that I am a Western Christian (basically), not a Japanese Buddhist/Taoist/Confucian/whatever. When Reiki found me I had a belief system which my teachers had given me, which included auras, chakras, spirit world, angels, guides - all that stuff which isn't really Reiki but which I find fits perfectly. In wanting to do this I am honouring my teachers: I honour Usui Sensei but he is not my only teacher.

I am also a spiritual healer and teacher, and was approached by a student who wanted to learn what I knew. We sat down and agreed a one year syllabus which used the spiritual healing syllabus but combined it with the three levels of Reiki. It works really, really well.

Continuing on with a discussion on another forum here, am I creating another form of Reiki, or the Pandora's Box system of energy work... (hey perhaps I ought to trademark that!)

First, let me say that I agree with your approach Pandora.

Furthermore, each RMT must figure out how they will teach. Even in your public schools, every math teacher and every English teacher have a different style of teaching. Different students will gel with different teaching styles, and so one teacher may be horrible for them, while another will be awesome.

You find a lot of the Japanese terminology associated with Reiki, and I think you are spot on, that these things are actually part of the cultural Japanese spirituality that came over from China and Buddhism. As a matter of fact, it is very likely that the lineage of the term Tanden is derived from the Chinese Dantien, which is derived from the Chakra’s from India. So it could be said that the Seiki (sp?) Tanden is actually the Dantien or Hara is actually the 2nd Chakra. The position is slightly different, but largely in the same area.

Since Reiki is so spiritual, I agree, we should do our best to incorporate it into our own spirituality.

Now, I know Wayne and I don’t always agree 100% on this topic. But ultimately I think we should search our heart, and it will know the right course for each one of us. And that right course may be different than it is for others.