“Two heads are better than one.”
Power comes in numbers. Two people who work well together can create magic.
Similarly, I have found that combining two healing arts can greatly enhance their individual powers. Especially when they combine as well as Reiki and Yoga.
After reading this article, you will see how these unique healing arts blend effortlessly together, allowing for an integrated healing experience.
What is Reiki?
For an in-depth explanation of what Reiki is, check out my blog: “What is Reiki: Everything you need to know + 9 ways it can energize your daily life.”
In a nutshell, Reiki is a hands-on technique from Japan to channel life-force energy for healing.
There are many uses for Reiki. One important way to use this powerful force is for deep relaxation and spiritual development. Reiki restores and balances the body, promoting health, well-being, and aliveness. It brings balance to your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and psychic bodies.
Through specific hands-on techniques, you can use Reiki to alleviate pain, help treat different ailments, and improve well-being.
Reiki is unique because of its versatility and accessibility. Anyone can practice Reiki and the only equipment you need is your hands.
Because of its simple yet radically effective nature, Reiki is a great healing art to pursue. It allows you to integrate calmness, embodiment, and a slower pace in your life to contrast with the busy and chaotic society we live in.
You know what else allows you to do this? Yoga!
What is Yoga?
The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning to yoke or direct and concentrate one’s attention on; to use and apply. It also means union or communion.
“[Yoga means] the yoking of all the powers of body, mind and soul to God; it means the disciplining of the intellect, the mind, the emotions, the will.... It means a poise of the soul which enables one to look at life in all its aspects evenly.” – Mahadev Desai
Yoga therapy is fundamentally a practice of refining the fluctuations of consciousness. Using postures, meditation, mantras, and breath, yoga cultivates deep awareness in the body, mind, and spirit.
Yoga therapy and dance yoga are excellent for anyone wishing to create a clearer sense of ease, alignment, strength, and vitality in the body. In that sense, yoga is both physical AND spiritual. It relies on a deep listening and tuning into the body.
“When his/her mind, intellect and self (ahamkara) are under control, freed from restless desire, so that they rest in the spirit within, a wo/man becomes a Yukta – one in communion with God […] When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within her/himself finds fulfillment. Then s/he knows the joy eternal which is beyond the pale of the senses which her/his reason cannot grasp. S/he abides in this reality and moves not there from. S/he has found the treasure above all others. There is nothing higher than this. S/he who has achieved it, shall not be moved by the greatest sorrow. This is the real meaning of Yoga: a deliverance from contact with pain and sorrow.”
– Bhagavad Gita, chapter 6