REIKI 
    We teach the USUI SHIKI RYOHO
    System of natural hands-on healing

Elaine and Roger Gemme, Reiki Masters from
Grass Valley, Ca. offer Reiki treatments and classes with an attitude of sacredness, intimacy and loving safety.

As artists, Elaine & Roger employ their extensive knowledge of gemstones and color in creating exquisite magical jewelry.

What is Reiki and How does it Work?

• The word Reiki comes from ancient Japanese script: Rei (an intelligent, spiritual, healing) form of Ki (energy) It can be read as "Spirit led, life force energy". The Reiki is a particular frequency of spiritual energy. Its unique characteristic is to balance and restore the energy within the individual to its normal and natural conditions.

• Everything in the universe is energy.
  It exists at different levels and at different frequencies. There is a life force energy that permeates our bodies. We use this energy to maintain our well-being and to heal ourselves from injuries or illness. When there is a shortage or blockage of this energy we become ill.

• Sickness may be due to past events.
  When we repress emotions or bad memories, or develop negative thought patterns, we compact the energy somewhere in our bodies and over time this causes blockages that prevent a free flow of energy throughout the body.

• When we run short of our own energy supply, we want to take it from others.
  This results in power plays (active or passive) and bursts of anger or other emotions. We tend to think that there is a limited supply of energy because we don't know how to increase the amplitude or frequency. Reiki can do this.

• Reiki is this same energy operating at a much higher frequency. There is an unlimited supply. This energy can be channeled by a Reiki practitioner.

• Masters and sages of all times have known the secrets of how to channel this energy. There have been stories from many religions and cultures of miraculous cures.

• The "laying on of hands"  is an ancient technique of energy transference that predates all known history. It was described in detail in Tibetan Buddhist texts.  A form of this healing was used in ancient Egypt and widely practiced by the Essenes in pre-Christian times.

• Reiki is a modern version of these ancient healing techniques. It does more than healing; it actually improves the quality of life at many levels. It changes you and it changes your life.