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6 HEALTH & WELLNESS
January 15-17, 2014

REIKI: WHAT IS IT?

Practioners offer their take on Japanese style of healing

By ISABEL GAUTSCHI
from a reiki practioner into a client, that client
Pamplin Media Group
is going to receive the energy that’s going to
Ohelp them be aligned regardless of if the mis-
n a chilly January morning, Brittni alignment or discomfort is of a physical nature,
Ballou, Angela Tanner and Victor an emotional nature, or a psychological nature,
Boill are sitting in a circle, passing it will naturally go to where it’s necessary.”
around a coyote tooth.
Battagione, who owns Oracle Wellness in

Sushila Battagione, a reiki master teacher, Portland, said that people come to her for reiki
explained that they are engaged in an “energy
for all sorts of reasons.
Issues range from physical discomfort and exercise.”
disease to emotional trauma.
Ballou, Tanner and Boill are
Reiki
So, what exactly is reiki?
gathered in Battagione’s home to

The Northwest Reiki Association describes study reiki.
it as “a holistic method of stress reduction and As she continues with the lesson, Batta-
relaxation that also promotes healing. It gione has Ballou, Tanner and Boill hold vari-
brings about deep relaxation, destroys energy ous objects such as a feather, a crystal and a
blockages, detoxiies the system, provides new igure of the Hindu deity Baby Ganesh.

vitality in the form of ‘universal life energy’, Battagione asks them to describe what they
and increases the vibrational frequency of the sense from the objects.
body.”
She explains that it is an “energy exercise”
The site explains that Mikao Usui “discov- not speciic to reiki.
ered the healing art of reiki” in Japan in the “The concept behind reiki is that it’s a uni-

early 1900s.
versal healing energy that doesn’t have any
“Reiki can be translated and broken down negative side effects to it,” Battagione said in an
into two words. ‘Rei’ means ‘universal energy’
interview. “And through the act of channeling it

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Angela Tanner,

a student of
Battagione, is
engaged in an
energ y

exercise.
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