New: Reiki Level 2 Symbols Guided Practice Journal and Reiki Healing Attunements Record Keeper

As promised, January 2019 begins the rollout of new products I created at the end of 2018. This first batch supports people trained and attuned to Reiki Level 2 and/or Reiki Level 3 (Master or Master Teacher). I have long wished these products existed for my students and finally figured out how to create them in a print on demand format. Details and links below:

Reiki Level 2 Symbols: A Guided Practice Journal

by Laura Bruno, M.A., RMT

You’re a Certified Reiki Level 2 Practitioner, now what? How can Reiki Symbols and Reiki Level 2 Awareness improve your daily life? This guided practice journal shares 42 prompts, exercises, techniques and ideas to deepen your experience of the Reiki Level 2 Symbols.

Learn new ways to give and receive Power, Mental Emotional Balance, and Reiki Distant Healing. Designed by a Reiki Master Teacher to support students trained and attuned to Reiki Level 2, this 42-day program explores Universal Life Force Energy in a profound and personal way.

Please note: this is a guided practice journal for people already trained in and attuned to Reiki Level 2. This guided practice journal helps you to maximize your Reiki Level 2 practice, but it requires prior training in how to draw the symbols.

I’ve taught Reiki since March 2002, and I keep encountering Level 2 Practitioners who finished their certification without a clear understanding of the amazing tools they received. This guidebook includes many tips and exercises I share in coaching sessions and in my Level 3 training of people who’ve taken Reiki 1 and 2 from other Reiki Master Teachers. It turns my research and experience into questions that help you discover how the Reiki 2 symbols work for you in your life. The more you practice Reiki, the stronger it flows. This guided journal allows you to take theory and apply it in a joyful, expansive practice. You can purchase this 7 x 10″ guided journal by clicking here.

Reiki Healing Attunements Record Keeper

By Sync Winks

The Reiki Healing Attunement is one of the most powerful techniques learned in Reiki Level 3. You can use a Reiki Healing Attunement to supercharge goals, health, career, finances, relationships, and so much more.

Use this journal to record the date, intentions, who or what you’ve attuned, and any observations before, during and after the Reiki Healing Attunement. The prompt pages leave room for notes, photos, drawings and other details to track your Reiki experience and results.

Please note: this is not an instruction guide. Learning how to perform a Reiki Healing Attunement requires training and certification in Reiki Level 3 (Master or Master Teacher). This is a notebook for people already attuned and trained to Reiki Level 3, who know how to perform a Reiki Healing Attunement. The notebook contains prompts to record each Reiki Healing Attunement in one convenient location, so that you can track and improve your results.

I published this notebook under the pen name Sync Winks, because this will be your Reiki Healing Attunements Record Keeper, not mine. A hallmark of Reiki Healing Attunements is a major increase in synchronicities and “can’t make this up” coincidences — hence the pen name Sync Winks.

I designed this 7 x 10″ notebook to coordinate with the Reiki Level 2 Symbols practice journal. Both products support greater awareness of how Reiki flows in your life. Recording date, time, intention and results of Reiki Healing Attunements in one place encourages deeper understanding of how this powerful tool works. You can return to your notebook for encouragement, faith boosting, and success reminders. You can also track experiments with different timing (i.e. morning, evening, New Moon, Full Moon, Wheel of the Year, etc.) to see if and how those things affect your results. You can purchase the Reiki Healing Attunements Record Keeper by clicking here.

Additional Products on the Way …

I know many of you are anxiously awaiting the guided Lyme recovery journal. That was a much larger project, and my final, final proof copy should arrive this Wednesday. As soon as it becomes available on Amazon, I’ll post the description and link. Besides the Reiki support products and the guided Lyme recovery journal, I created several other products I’ve long wished existed. Stay tuned for those!

February 2018 Specials and Imbolc Energies

Happy Imbolc, Candlemas, Groundhog’s Day and St. Bridget’s Day! Early February is filled with celebrations of light, creativity, and the subtle shift from deep Winter towards early Spring. Yesterday I saw the first tips of a daffodil poking through the soil, along with dandelion flowers on my walk. Despite the chilly temps and grey skies in Michigan, Nature reminds us of the latent burst of color and life hiding beneath the surface.

This month’s specials support the flowering of those latent gifts. The beloved ancient Goddess Brigid (aka Bride, Brighid, Brigantia) who became the Christian St. Bridget traditionally inspired healing, smithcraft and poetry; she was also considered the midwife at Jesus’s birth. What better time to focus on taking creativity and healing to the next level?

FEBRUARY 2018 SPECIALS

$77 Creative Jump-Start

The unusual astrological alignment in February 2018 offers a fantastic time to get creative. Creativity (or rather, blocked creativity) comes up so often in sessions, especially Medical Intuitive Readings. So often, when I mention the need for creative expression, people tell me, “I’m not creative,” or “I used to be creative, but I haven’t done anything like that for 20 years.”

In this 20-minute special, I scan your energy for ways to jump-start your creative process. This might mean focus on an unexpected area, or it might come through as a workable strategy for your lagging creative project. I tailor each session to the individual, so this special will work equally well for people experiencing a total block, as well as for self-identified artists, writers, singers, dancers, jewelry creators, and more.

If you suffer from chronic hormonal imbalance, hot flashes, PMS, neck, throat, thyroid, and/or hearing issues, you might also find a Creative Jump-Start helpful when more normal treatments have failed to yield results.

$77 ($13 savings from the usual 20-minute rate). Offer valid through February 28, 2018. Please contact me to sign up.

$555 Reiki Level 3 Master Teacher Certification Special

I’ve only offered this special once before, but yesterday I received a strong sense to do so again for the month of February 2018. I’m taking $95 off the normal rate for in-person or correspondence/phone/distance training and certification for Reiki Level 3 Master Teacher.

This special obviously does not apply to everyone, as you will need at least Reiki Level 2 Certification from me or another Reiki Master Teacher in order to qualify for the training. I also require a casual but effective application process so that I get a sense of readiness for this next level. 555 indicates divinely guided positive change, so it seems like an appropriate number for certification to teach “divinely directed healing energy,” another definition of Reiki besides “Universal Life Force Energy.”

People considering this special might find this Reiki Master Teacher FAQ post helpful in answering common questions related to discerning your own readiness and our compatibility as teacher and student. You do not need to know for sure you’d like to teach Reiki in order to take this training. You just need to feel ready to learn Reiki from the perspective of one who could teach and who has committed to living the Reiki Principles as much as possible in your own life.

For more than a decade, many students who already received their Reiki Level 3 training from another Reiki Master Teacher have completed their second Reiki Level 3 Master Teacher Certification with me in order to increase their confidence and knowledge before going on to teach their own students. Because many teachers don’t teach others to teach, preparing Reiki Master Teachers to teach their own students has become my specialty. I honor this training process as a sacred journey and transmission.

If you decide you’d like to apply for in-person (in Kalamazoo, MI) or long distance Reiki Level 3 Master Teacher Certification, please contact me, and we’ll start the short application process. The message to post this special was so strong this morning, that I’m excited to see who steps forward. Offer valid if prepaid on or by February 28, 2018.

Reiki and 2012

Wow, the energies on Earth have really amped up since Fall 2011! So many Reiki Level 2 Practitioners keep getting the nudge to complete their training and share Reiki with their own students. I used to offer RMT trainings only twice per year; however, I also am feeling a strong pull to help raise the collective vibration of this planet, especially in early 2012. Teaching teachers and empowering Lightworkers both carry potential for exponential ripple effects. I love it! The more people stepping into their own power and radiating healing, loving, universal life force energy, the faster and more thoroughly we can all collectively shift into the glorious new world that already awaits.

Thank you to all the people assisting this shift through your own personal transformations: as within, so without. Thank you to everyone finding courage to let your most radiant, clear, loving Self shine through to inspire others. Thank you to everyone imagining a freer, kinder, gentler world: as above, so below. And thank you to everyone for being right here, right now, at this very special time. I love you!

The next Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Level III Master Teacher Certification Class will be taught on Sunday, February 26, 2012 from 10-6 at a private classroom in Madison, WI. If interested, please contact me (775-750-9140 cell or brunoleaf at yahoo dot com) so that we can discuss your previous training and make sure the RMT training makes sense for you at this time. Students must have at least Reiki Level 2 training in order to register for this class. Pre-registration and a deposit are required because participants will receive handouts ahead of time for review.

Taking this class also entitles participants to audit (free of charge) all additional Reiki Certification Classes taught by Laura Bruno, space permitting. Many students value this chance to observe earlier levels from a Master’s perspective. Class size is limited, so please contact me soon if you have interest and wish to reserve your spot.

This workshop is for those who would like to deepen their healing gifts and/or who feel a calling to teach. The instruction includes:

• How to give attunements for every level.
• Master symbols and attunement.
• Anthakarana, Tibetan, and Usui Master symbols.
• Violet Breath.
• Complete Healing Attunement instructions and practice.
• Hui Yin exercise.
• Handouts for Reiki Master/Reiki Master Teacher.
• How to teach all levels.
• Discussing the 21 day cleansing.
• Reverence for life.
• Giving self attunements.
• Beginning a Reiki teaching practice.
• Attracting students that resonate with you.
• Teaching in different settings.
• Special positions for specific imbalances.
• Reiki and Manifestation
• Special uses and applications for Healing Attunements.

Please contact me at 775-750-9140 (cell/text) or brunoleaf at yahoo dot com (email) to set up a time to talk about the class. You might also find this article helpful in determining if you feel ready to take this next step and if you resonate with me as a teacher. I am a Medical Intuitive, Life Coach, author, artist, and Soul Reader. I became a Reiki Master Teacher in March 2002 and have taught Reiki Certification Classes around the United States for nearly a decade.

Reiki Master Teacher FAQ’s

Reiki Master Teacher Training: Some Frequently Asked Questions

Just what does it mean to call oneself a Reiki Master? 

It depends, like all things, on whom you ask.  In my own definition, becoming a Reiki Master means someone has committed to his or her own personal growth and to embodying as much as possible in daily life the Five Reiki Principles. (“Just for today, do not anger.  Do not worry.  Be filled with gratitude.  Devote yourself to your work, and be kind to every living thing.”) It does not mean perfection, but rather an opening of oneself to a life of service, allowing Spirit to act through our bodies and words (the “Rei” and the “ki” together).  The term “Master” is itself a bit misleading, particularly when applied to Reiki, because one does not ever “Master” universal life force energy. That’s totally not the point!  It’s more a sense that one is working towards mastering one’s experiences of anger, worry, gratitude, devotion (expressing one’s gifts) and kindness to all living things.

What’s the difference between a Reiki Master and a Reiki Master Teacher?

There is only one Level 3 attunement, so in that sense the Reiki Master and Reiki Master Teacher attunement is the same. Some of the class content also overlaps; however, Reiki Master Teacher training class content goes deeper into the theory and practice behind the teachings. It also prepares students to become teachers themselves. You will learn how to give Reiki Healing Attunements in both a Reiki Master and Reiki Master Teacher class, but you will only learn how to initiate other students in the Reiki Master Teacher class.

I stopped teaching the plain Reiki Master class many years ago, because I found so many other teachers’ students requesting me to train them as Reiki Master Teachers. They had spent the money on their Master class, but now that they felt ready to teach, their former teachers either weren’t teaching anymore or didn’t feel confident to train other teachers. (This attitude is, unfortunately, rather prevalent! Sometimes Reiki Master Teachers view their own students as potential competitors; other times, the teachers just get very nervous about the scope of knowledge required to teach others how to teach. In any case, I never worry that my Reiki Master Teacher students will “steal” students from me. We all have different gifts and personalities, and my feeling is that the more people able to teach Reiki, then the higher vibe, more Reiki-infused world we live in.)

Should students wait a set length of time before becoming a Reiki Master or Reiki Master Teacher?

Again, this depends on whom you ask. Because time keeps accelerating on this planet, processes that may have once taken many years have begun to happen in a matter of weeks or months. When evaluating if someone is ready to teach, I find tradition an important factor, but I also read the energy of individuals and the times we live in.

Once trained to Reiki Master Teacher level, it sometimes takes years before students decide to venture fully into teaching Reiki. You really have to “live it” in order to teach it well.  I have coached various people who received training as Reiki Master Teachers (from someone else) many years ago but who just now feel called to teach. Our coaching sessions support ways of integrating Reiki into their lives as well as strategizing how to teach each level and deal with student questions.  These clients actually had all the necessary knowledge and attunements to do this work earlier, but they are just now embracing it in a more profound way.

Some Reiki Master Teachers would argue that this “proves” the students took Reiki Master training before they were “ready.”  I disagree.  The Reiki Master and Reiki Master Teacher attunement is very powerful, and I have seen it work in very deep ways in people’s lives.  It may take six months to five years fully to integrate that attunement, but the process of integration at least begins with the attunement.

When Reiki Master Teachers expect students to have completed all their internal work and have finished hundreds of hours of Reiki sessions in order to become a Reiki Master, I have not found their students any more or less prepared than people who choose to move faster through the levels.  Sometimes such requirements or perfectionism offer people an excuse not to move forward when, in fact, they really do need to accept more responsibility. Ideally, one wants to feel challenged but not pressured to move forward. It’s a personal decision, and I only offer the class to people when I believe they could be ready for it — were they inclined to commit on a deeper level to their own and others’ healing and service.

Even though Level 3 students receive in class the attunement and the knowledge to teach their own certification classes, whenever I teach a Reiki Master Teacher class, I always offer students the chance to audit additional workshops.  As they feel ready, they can then apprentice or assist me in my Reiki classes.  I consider this an important but informal process, similar to how Usui’s students followed him around his clinic. Students of the Reiki Master Teacher level receive the Level 3 attunement in class, and this enables them to pass along Reiki to future students.  Having received the necessary instruction and attunement, they could technically skip the auditing process and just start teaching, assuming they feel ready to do so. They could also read a lot of Reiki books and practice inviting Reiki into their lives, and then teach from their own perspective rather than following their teacher’s beliefs or method.

In recent years, I have trained a number of Reiki Master Teachers who began teaching immediately after taking the class. I’ve heard feedback from their students and can tell that these RMT’s are truly doing wonderful service and know their stuff!

Can I take Reiki Master Teacher training even if I’m not sure I ever want to teach?

Yes. Again, it’s a very personal process, and many people never decide to teach but take the classes just for personal development. That’s fine; the attunement and the lessons learned continue to inform their lives.  I will say from my own experience that I have learned so much about Reiki through teaching. As the old saying goes, “If you really want to learn something, teach it!” I have found this to be accurate in my case, as I’ve had so much more opportunity to observe how Reiki works in students’ lives. It’s truly an amazing process, and the more classes I teach, the more excited I become about Reiki.

When is your next Reiki Master Teacher Certification Class?

Although I schedule regular Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 classes, I tend to offer in person Level 3 classes only by request or if I sense several people are ready for this next level of training and responsibility. Over the years, I have trained groups of Level 3 students, as well as individual in person classes. By far the most common method of training for the past four years has been private Level 3 training through a series of phone sessions, reading assignments, homework, and a distant Level 3 attunement. In that sense, location really doesn’t matter at all. We just schedule the phone sessions as we go along.

If you have any interest in Reiki Master Teacher training, your best bet is to contact me via email (laura at asklaurabruno dot com) and we can discuss your previous Reiki experience, my teaching style, your expectations and any additional logistics. I find that with all Reiki training, but particularly with the Level 3 Master Teacher Training, it’s really important that the student and teacher resonate. If you want to learn how to teach, as opposed to just learning information and receiving an attunement, then you’ll also want to select a teacher whose teaching style, philosophy and attitude seem compatible with your own. You can get a sense of me from my blog and testimonials, but I also require a phone conversation before committing to teach any additional Reiki Master Teachers.

What’s the best way to contact you about Reiki Master Teacher training?

Please email me at laura at asklaurabruno dot com. That email goes to my iPhone, and unless it’s a holiday, I always try to respond within 24 hours.