Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions I receive about Reiki, what sessions are like, and how to prepare. Whether you're completely new or returning to your practice, this space is here to support you.
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Reiki is a gentle yet powerful energy healing practice that promotes balance, relaxation, and well-being on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Originating from Japan, Reiki is based on the belief that universal life force energy flows through all living things. When this energy is blocked or imbalanced, it can manifest as stress, fatigue, or emotional tension. Reiki works by channeling this healing energy to restore harmony, allowing the body’s natural ability to heal and thrive.
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Reiki is for anyone seeking emotional healing, nervous system regulation, energetic alignment, or spiritual connection. It’s safe, non-religious, and supportive whether you're feeling stuck, anxious, disconnected, or ready to grow.
Reiki meets you exactly where you are and gently supports your return to balance.
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Distance Reiki allows you to receive the healing energy of Reiki from anywhere in the world—no matter where you are physically. Energy is not limited by time or space, and Reiki practitioners are trained to send healing through intention and connection.
Here are the key benefits of receiving Reiki from a distance:
Deep Relaxation & Nervous System Reset
Distance Reiki helps calm the body’s stress response, supporting deeper rest, regulation, and emotional ease—just like in-person sessions.Energetic Clearing Across Time & Space
It works on emotional blocks, energetic stagnation, or past experiences that may still be affecting your energy field today.Accessible from Anywhere
You can receive healing without needing to travel. Whether you're at home, traveling, or in another country, Distance Reiki meets you where you are.Sacred Time to Reconnect with Yourself
Sessions create intentional space to tune in, release what no longer serves, and realign with your inner wisdom.Spiritual Support Beyond the Physical
Many clients report feelings of warmth, tingling, visuals, or emotional releases during sessions. It opens space for connection with your guides, higher self, and clarity. -
Each Reiki session is intuitively guided and uniquely tailored to your energy. You’ll relax, set an intention, and receive channeled healing through Reiki, often supported by chakra balancing, intuitive messages, and energetic clearing.
You may feel physical sensations, see images or colors, or experience emotional release — all of which are signs of energy moving and integrating. Afterward, you’ll receive gentle guidance or insight to help you process and integrate the experience.
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Yes — Reiki can be just as powerful remotely as in-person. Distance Reiki works because energy is not bound by physical space. In online Reiki sessions, you’ll lie down in a quiet space while I channel healing energy to you, wherever you are in the world.
Clients often describe feeling warmth, tingling, deep relaxation, and emotional clarity during virtual Reiki. It’s a sacred energetic container that transcends location.
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Yes — I’m here to support you before and after your session. Feel free to message me with reflections, questions, or anything you’re processing. This journey is deeply personal, and I’m honored to walk alongside you.
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No — you don’t need to believe in Reiki for it to support your healing.
Reiki is a gentle yet powerful form of energy healing that works with your body’s natural wisdom. It isn’t based on belief or mindset — it’s based on the universal flow of life force energy. Whether you’re deeply spiritual, curious, or simply open, Reiki can meet you exactly where you are.
That said, being open to receive — even just a little — can allow your nervous system to relax, making it easier for your body and energy field to respond to the session.
Many people who are new to Reiki or unsure at first still walk away feeling:
Deeply relaxed or emotionally lighter
More clear, grounded, or at peace
Subtle shifts in mood, insight, or energy over time
You don’t have to believe — you just have to show up. Reiki does the rest.
Your Reiki Experience
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Create a calm, uninterrupted space where you feel safe to relax and receive. Wear comfortable clothing, light a candle if you feel called, and set an intention for your healing. You don’t need to “do” anything — just be present and open to receive.
For the most aligned experience, avoid alcohol, recreational substances, or heavy stimulation at least 24 hours before your session. These can cloud the energetic field and make it harder for your body to fully receive the healing. The clearer and more grounded you are, the more deeply Reiki can support you.
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While one session can offer immediate clarity, calm, or energetic release, a full Reiki cycle is typically 4 sessions spaced about two weeks apart. This rhythm allows time for integration between each experience, and helps you move through layers of healing — physical, emotional, mental, and energetic — with greater ease and depth.
Some clients continue receiving monthly or seasonal sessions after the initial cycle to maintain alignment, clarity, and energetic support as life evolves. Trust your body and your intuition — you’ll know when it’s time.
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Yes — Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive healing modality that supports the body’s natural ability to heal and regulate itself. It’s safe to receive Reiki during pregnancy, postpartum, illness, and medical treatments, as it works in harmony with the body’s own intelligence.
In fact, many people find Reiki especially helpful during these times, as it brings:
Nervous system regulation
Emotional grounding
A sense of peace and connection to your body’s wisdom
Energetic nourishment for both you and your baby (if pregnant)
As always, let your practitioner know how you’re feeling — we’ll hold a compassionate and responsive container for your needs.
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After a physically or emotionally intense experience—like sickness, labor, surgery, or trauma—your spirit and energy field may partially disconnect from your body. This isn’t a flaw; it’s a natural protective mechanism. Sometimes the body needs space to focus on survival or healing, and the energy steps back to allow that.
But once the crisis has passed, your healing isn’t complete until you fully return to yourself.
If you’ve ever said “I just don’t feel like myself” after something hard, this is why.
Energy work, like Reiki or soul retrieval practices, helps call your spirit back home to the body. It gently reweaves your connection to your physical self, restoring wholeness, clarity, and grounding. This is especially powerful after:
Birth or postpartum
Prolonged illness or surgery
Emotional shock, heartbreak, or grief
Burnout or nervous system collapse
Your healing deepens when your energy, body, and soul are back in sacred relationship. This is your invitation to reclaim your fullness—and to feel at home in your own being again.
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Reiki is an energetic healing practice that works with the subtle body — the part of us that holds emotional, spiritual, and energetic imprints beyond words or logic. Unlike talk therapy, which primarily works through the mind and conversation, Reiki allows the body to release stored energy, stress, and emotional residue without needing to explain or relive the story.
Where talk therapy can offer insight, Reiki offers embodied integration. Many people find Reiki:
Helps them move stuck energy they’ve already talked about but haven’t fully released
Offers clarity or emotional shifts without needing to “figure it all out”
Supports nervous system regulation, grounding, and spiritual connection
Complements other practices like therapy, coaching, or somatic healing beautifully
It’s not about choosing one or the other — it’s about creating a holistic healing path that supports your whole being: body, mind, energy, and spirit.
Spiritual Tools + Energy Questions
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Energetic cords are invisible strands of energy that form between people, places, and even past experiences. These cords are created through emotional bonds, intimate moments, shared trauma, repeated thoughts, or unresolved feelings. Every time we engage deeply with someone — whether through love, conflict, or intensity — an energetic connection can form.
Some cords are nurturing and supportive, like those rooted in mutual respect, care, or soul alignment. Others can become heavy, draining, or entangled — especially when the relationship is no longer in alignment with our growth, or if there's lingering resentment, dependence, or unspoken pain.
These cords live in the subtle body — the energy field around and within us — and can affect how we feel, how we think, and even how we show up in the world. Without realizing it, we may be carrying energetic ties to people or situations that are no longer meant to be part of our lives, which can lead to:
Emotional confusion or looping thoughts
Feeling "pulled back" into the past
Difficulty fully letting go of someone
Fatigue or heaviness without a clear cause
A sense of being blocked, stuck, or held back energetically
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It’s common to hear advice like “just cut the cord,” but doing this without conscious awareness, permission, or intention can actually cause more harm than healing.
Here’s why:
Energetic Shock to the System
When we abruptly sever an energetic cord — especially one tied to deep emotion or trauma — it can create a jolt in our system. It’s like yanking out a root without tending to the soil. This can lead to emotional confusion, physical fatigue, or even spiritual disorientation.Unprocessed Emotions Get Trapped
Cutting without awareness often leaves fragments behind — unresolved emotions, grief, guilt, or confusion — still lingering in the field. Rather than healing, it creates energetic fragmentation, where parts of your spirit feel scattered or incomplete.Unintended Harm to Others
If we cut a cord in anger, fear, or control, we may unknowingly send an energetic “rip” through the field of the other person too — creating karmic tension or reinforcing loops of pain instead of closure.It Weakens Trust With Your Own Intuition
Quick disconnection bypasses your inner wisdom. When you override your gut instinct or emotional truth in favor of detachment, you lose the opportunity to integrate lessons and grow stronger from the experience.What I Offer Instead: Conscious Energetic Clearing
I hold a compassionate, safe space to help you identify which cords are ready to dissolve — without force, bypassing, or fear.
Together, we honor the role the connection played, reclaim the energy that belongs to you, and allow the release to be gentle, sacred, and complete. This restores clarity, energetic wholeness, and trust in your own body’s wisdom.
You don’t have to sever anything violently to heal.
You can release with love, integrate the truth, and return to your power — whole, rooted, and free.
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Shadow integration is the practice of gently meeting the hidden, denied, or uncomfortable parts of ourselves — the emotions, beliefs, or behaviors we’ve learned to suppress in order to feel safe, accepted, or in control. These parts form what we call the “shadow,” not because they are bad, but because they’ve been cast out of the light of our awareness.
By bringing compassion and curiosity to these inner aspects, we begin to understand the root of emotional triggers, patterns, or self-limiting beliefs. Rather than trying to “fix” or reject ourselves, shadow work invites us into deeper self-acceptance, emotional clarity, and healing.
At Expand for Light, we hold space for this process with gentleness. Shadow integration matters because it:
Frees up stuck or repressed energy
Heals emotional wounds at the root
Deepens your capacity for authenticity, wholeness, and peace
Helps you stop repeating old patterns that don’t align with your truth
This work is sacred — and it honors all parts of you.
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Past life regression is a gentle yet powerful healing process that allows you to access memories or impressions from other lifetimes — not for the sake of curiosity, but for deep energetic release and reclamation.
Often, the patterns, fears, or emotional blocks we carry didn’t start in this lifetime. Through guided regression, I help you explore the root of unresolved energy that may be lingering from past experiences, relationships, or contracts. We then call your energy back into the present moment and renegotiate the story — with compassion, sovereignty, and intention.
This work supports you in:
Releasing outdated karmic imprints
Calling back your energy from places where it’s been scattered or tied up
Breaking unconscious contracts that are no longer in alignment
Healing trauma that still echoes into your current life
The result? More presence, more clarity, and a greater sense of wholeness — here and now.
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It is the way our cells store experiences, emotions, and energetic imprints from past events—whether joyful, traumatic, or deeply transformative. Beyond the brain, the entire body holds onto memories, influencing thoughts, emotions, and even physical well-being.
Unprocessed emotions, stress, or trauma can become energetic imprints stored within the body’s cells, potentially manifesting as tension, discomfort, or emotional patterns. Through practices like Reiki, energy healing, and somatic work, stored energy can be released, blockages cleared, and the system realigned, allowing for greater freedom, clarity, and emotional balance.
As a healing modality is based on the idea that our cells store not just physical information (like DNA and biological functions) but also emotional, energetic, and even ancestral imprints. These stored memories can include past traumas, unresolved emotions, limiting beliefs, and energetic blockages that influence our well-being on multiple levels—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
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Emotional & Energetic Imprints:
When we experience trauma, deep emotions, or repetitive thought patterns, our bodies don’t just process them mentally—they can also be stored at a cellular level.
This can manifest as tension, chronic pain, illness, or emotional triggers that seem to persist even when we try to heal on a conscious level.
Inherited & Ancestral Memories:
Some healing traditions believe that we carry not only our personal experiences but also ancestral traumas and imprints within our cellular structure (epigenetics also supports this idea scientifically).
Clearing cellular memory can help release inherited patterns that may be unconsciously influencing our lives.
Energy & Frequency Stagnation:
Cells operate on vibrational frequencies, and when trauma, stress, or limiting beliefs accumulate, they can lower the body’s overall energetic frequency.
Healing modalities like energy work, breathwork, meditation, and Reiki aim to raise vibrational frequencies and allow the body to naturally return to balance.
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Deep emotional release and a sense of lightness
Relief from chronic tension, pain, or fatigue
Enhanced emotional resilience and clarity
Feeling more aligned with one's true self and life purpose
Greater ease in breaking free from repeating life patterns.
