Information about David Lewis BA(Hons), DipH

Usui Okuden Practitioner

David Lewis is a qualified Usui Reiki Practitioner with many years of relaxation and healing experience. He is based near Driffield and works mainly in York and the wider Yorkshire area. He has a popular and successful mobile service and can visit you in your home, hotel or place of work. He also works from treatment rooms in the region, selecting only those of the highest standards. He also makes regular trips to London where his reputation is now growing.

Reiki overview

Reiki is a Japanese holistic relaxation therapy that has had many documented and researched healing benefits. Reiki has many joys and benefits. It is particular useful when used to unwind, relax and see stress and anxiety melt away. Pre-event nerves from meetings, weddings, conferences etc can be significantly reduced so that people enjoy what they are doing and get a lot more out of their day. Reiki helps people sleep peacefully and wake up feeling refreshed , balanced and energized. It is a strengthener of the mind and can help people overcome barriers and obstacles that could otherwise ruin what it is they are wanting to do.

Further information and extracts

For those who would like a wider understanding of Reiki and its origins we have compiled some extracts which should help. The following extract is taken from 'Reiki Evolution - Everything you need to know about Mikao Usui's simple healing system'

What is Reiki? Reiki is an oriental method of working with energy that you can use for your own benefit and for the benefit of other people. In its original Japanese form in the 1900s Reiki was very much about working on yourself: it was a system that you could use for self-healing, self-development and spiritual development. But when Reiki was first taught in the West in the 1970s, and since that time, Reiki teaching has focused much more on Reiki as a treatment technique - something that you do to other people – and the system appears to many people to be a sort of oriental spiritual healing, a hands-on treatment method that involves channelling energy. Reiki is now being classed as a sort of complementary therapy, so people might practise Reflexology, or Aromatherapy, or they might practise Reiki.There are very many different ways of practising Reiki, with lots of different Reiki ‘variations’ having seen developed in the West over the years.

To understand Reiki, you need to get your head around the idea that there is a subtle energy that permeates us and surrounds us, an energy which we can learn to experience and direct, an energy which we can move through our bodies and channel through us into other people. While this may seem to be a strange thing to believe from a Western perspective, it is a central belief in many Asian cultures and underlies many exercise systems, meditation practices and healing or treatment methods.

In China, for example, this energy is referred to as “chi”, which you may have heard of. Chi is used in a whole range of Oriental practices, for example:

Feng Shui (the art of placement); Acupuncture; Tai Chi and Qi Gong; Martial arts

Feng shui is a way of arranging your living environment to allow for the smooth flow of chi through the rooms of your home, eliminating areas where ‘stagnant chi’ might accumulate, and slowing down the speed of fast-moving chi, for example. This chi is external to you.

When you visit an acupuncturist they insert fine needles into various points to encourage your own chi to flow properly through a series of meridians or energy channels that run the length of your body. Tai Chi and QiGong are graceful Chinese exercise systems that are designed to build up, or cultivate, your personal reserves of chi and circulate this energy smoothly throughout your body, breaking down any blockages and bringing things into balance on all levels.

In Japan the energy is called “ki” and they have their own version of acupuncture – Shiatsu – which uses massage and finger-pressure on acupuncture points. Japanese Martial arts techniques like Karate and Aikido work with chi, with the practitioner building up their reserves of chi and focusing it in a martial context, and the Japanese version of qi gong – called kiko – also works through the practitioner cultivating and moving this energy through their body.

In India the same energy is referred to as ‘prana’ and breathing exercises, meditations and yoga techniques have been developed to bring your energy system into balance. In India they do not think in terms of meridians, but of chakras: energy centres running the length of your body from the crown of your head to the base of your spine. There are seven main chakras and further subsidiary ones in other locations, situated on energy channels known as ‘nadis’.

Spiritual Energy?

Chi is not a ‘cold’, ‘clinical’ energy: it is an energy that encompasses all aspects of us. Chi encompasses and reflects our physical being but also our thoughts and emotions and our spiritual side.

The next extracts have been sourced from reiki.org

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness... and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

Reiki is said to accelerate the body's own natural ability to heal itself, on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. It involves the Reiki Practitioner placing both hands on or above the client in specific positions, which 'opens' up the body's energy channels and helps to clear any blockages that may be affecting the flow of Ki (or Qi/energy).