My First Level One Reiki Teaching

I heard from an artist I had previously met about some local art course given at the Hockley Resource Center. This being so close to home I decided to check it out. The course had already started and I was too late so I browsed thru the reception area and picked up a brochure called Quantum Leap; a weekend workshop was to start in 2 weeks, I knew I had to attend.

My spouse thought I was loosing it and did not wish to attend with me. Little did I know at the time that this would be my first step to the Red Road. A lady Shaman called Sea Dancer ran the workshop and it was all based on the Sioux teachings of the Medicine Wheel and how we develop in the Circle of Life. There was an alter of rattles, symbols of snakes and animal skulls. This was totally against my Catholic upbringing so I had a little trouble adapting at first. However, I soon learned that these were all good people searching for a meaning in life and the universe.

I met a great person who was also a Reiki teacher at the workshop and he gave me his card. At that time I did not really know what Reiki meant but I would soon learn. After the workshop I explained to my wife about the weekend and meeting the Reiki master, I told her I was given his card for a reason and wished to pursue it further. She wanted no part of it but could see I was persistent.

I called the Reiki master and as it so happened, he and two other Reiki masters were holding a Reiki Level One teaching class that weekend. Since they only offered this class occasionally both my wife and I decided attended …WOW … I had ah-haa experience when I could feel the energy moving across my body!

After this experience I remembered my Dad always saying he could not understand the power in a childs touch - he use to ask one of us children to place our hand on a part of his back that was giving him pain and the pain would leave - unconditional love is what it’s called.

After the teaching weekend, my wife and I both had our level one Reiki teaching.

Writte by: Migweech Man of Horse Who Listens to the Whisper of the Wind