Experiencing Karuna Reiki
Karuna Reiki logo, ICRT
For those who want to know more about Reiki or want to have a better idea about how the various forms of Reiki differ, I decided to post how I personally experience the forms that I use and teach, dedicating a blog to each form:
- Eastern/Traditional Usui (Gendai is very similar to me),
- Western Usui (the most common in the USA),
- Usui/Tibetan Reiki, (Holy Fire II will be posted shortly)
- Sekhem-Seichim (SSR),
- Karuna,
- Reiki Tummo (I practice but don’t teach)
In this blog series, I’m writing from the practitioner’s point of view, not the client’s. Here is a link to How I Experience Integrated Energy Therapy (IET), another energy healing modality I practice and teach. I’ll be talking from the practitioner’s point of view, not the client’s.
Everyone perceives or experiences energy a bit differently so please take this information as a personal account and not an objective or more universal description.
Karuna Reiki®
I feel a difference in my hands when I work with Usui Reiki or SSR compared to when I work with Karuna Reiki. The sensation is not always distinctly different, but there are clear tendencies. In contrast, Karuna Reiki is less about what I feel in my hands or in my body, and more about how the client reacts and how I sense that. For example, there’s a symbol that means peace, and I always feel a palatable calm and serenity come over the client and me when I use it. Yes, that’s a feeling, but it isn’t localized in my hands.
Karuna goes physically deep but in a gentle way. There can be tremendous healing without a lot of heavy releasing. I frequently sense increasing tranquility as the session progresses. Clients often fall asleep or say that they traveled somewhere else during the session.
Reiki as Compassionate Action:
Karuna is a Sanskrit word that can be translated to “compassionate action” (International Center for Reiki Training – ICRT). Karuna gives the practitioner a lot of tools to work with clients on emotional issues and deep-seated patterns in a very compassionate and non-threatening way. That’s why it’s so subtle. And, I believe that’s why I tend to very lightly feel the healing in a compassionate way in my heart or in my breath. Overall, working with Karuna is very heart-centered.
Vibrational Qualities:
Many practitioners say Karuna is vibrational. I generally don’t feel this myself, but when it’s combined with healing drums, the vibrations of the drum are deeply penetrating and beyond what the drum would feel like without the Karuna energy. The sensation is alluring and profoundly harmonizing.
Karuna Reiki attunements are complicated and require a lot of focus from me unlike Usui or Sekhem-Seichim (SSR) attunements, which are more rhythmic and like a dance or trance.
Remember, this is my personal experience. Others can perceive or experience Karuna Reiki quite differently.
If you have questions about the different forms of Reiki, please see the website page on Reiki or contact me.
