I decided to finally take the leap and begin blogging my ideas and thoughts on Reiki and the 13+ years I've had working with the technique in my life. No surprise that I'm a late bloomer in my life, which includes the blog.

I'm also working on a manuscript which I started several years ago and hope that this blog will provide a good structure to get some ideas into chapter form.

The most passionate issue right now for me is taking Reiki to the next level of its evolution-to the mainstream.

Every effort I've been involved with Reiki has attempted to do this-creating a state-certified healing arts school of Reiki to give practitioners and teachers the option of an alternate vocation. Creation/experimentation of Reiki products, and a grass-roots organization The Reiki Fellowship, that acts as a marketing & promotion union for students and practitioners. Together, we can do more, pooling our resources, providing services at festivals and expos.

I'm thinking a Reiki clinic would be a next step.

Communichi, the acupuncture clinic in Seattle, is a good model, but unlike Reiki, it lets recipients just lay in chairs by themselves while the needles take effect. We'd have practitioners providing services.

Maybe we'd be a portable Reiki clinic, since we have begun to master what it takes to be portable in setting up/taking down for festivals and expos.

We could offer Reiki clinic services once/month at a certain location.

Sessions would be on sliding scale and would last 30 minutes.

Fees collected would give 80% to practitioners, 20% to Fellowship for coordination, use of equipment, etc.

Ideally we wouldn't have the overhead of a monthly rent, perhaps that would be waved or reduced as we would be bringing a much-needed service to that population.

Festivals and expos provide a stream of willing participants (aka clients). Where else could we go where there are streams of people (so that the marketing/advertising would not be as labor-intensive)?

Corporations? (i.e. team appreciation days), Health fairs, Natural food markets, stores that sell the zero gravity chairs, holiday shoppers!

Lets brainstorm ideas, and those interested,