Blog | Reiki

We are offering an exciting new service for our Lucy’s Love Bus patients in Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire! One of our integrative therapists, Christy Dole, has developed a 90-minute training for those who want to learn Reiki through Lucy’s Love Bus. Christy is a Reiki Master and RYT Yoga Instructor. She is Reiki certified by Libby Barnette (Reiki Healing Connection) following the lineage of Usui, Hayashi and Takata.

Reiki is a gentle, hands on therapy that promotes healing in the body on a cellular level. Reiki is always for the highest healing good and there are no contraindications. In other words, you can use Reiki all the time for anyone.

Christy can teach Reiki I to parents, caregivers, siblings, and children who are fighting cancer. Children often find it empowering to have a coping mechanism that they can use at any time to help them deal with the pain and stress of cancer treatment. For parents, it is wonderful to have an additional tool to offer comfort to your child when they are anxious, or experiencing pain.

How this program works:

• This session will take place in your home.
• Lucy’s Love Bus will be billed for this training- there is no cost to you.
• You will receive a Reiki I training book. We will have a 15-20 minute discussion on the history of Reiki, how it works, how to do it and what it is used for.
• After that, Christy will attune you. Attunement takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes (depending on how many people are in the training).
• Following the attunement we go right to practicing. We can practice on you, me, family members, pets, whoever is there.
• We will have 10 to 15 minutes for any questions or discussion.
• Christy will leave you with a Reiki Certification- following the lineage of Usui, Hayashi and Takata

After this brief training, you and your child will have this tool with you for life.

Reiki helps fight symptoms at different stages of conventional cancer treatment. During Chemotherapy/radiotherapy treatments, Reiki can help ease the symptoms and restore balance, tranquility and inner peace, providing release from anxiety.

Some cancer patients claim that Reiki has helped with pain management, relaxation, and side effects of treatment like nausea and stomach upset. (http://cancer.about.com/od/alternativetreatments/a/reiki.htm)