Reiki is a wonderful healing art, and most of its varieties work well for hands-on healing. But Reiki, which was originally intended to be a spiritual evolution system with healing as a secondary purpose, needs to evolve. Over the past century, Reiki has become: bloated and overcomplicated, zillions of symbols, complicated procedures and systems of hand positions, ridiculously high fees, organizational politics and intrigues, unverifiable fairy tales, mumbo-jumbo and outright nonsense about its origins, and enough principles and rules to shame a religion. Enter Danish musician and Reiki Tummo student Ole Gabrielsen. Ole developed Kundalini Reiki and revolutionized energy work.

What is Reiki?

Reiki roughly means "Intelligent Universal Life Energy". You gain access to Reiki via "attunement". During attunement, the body's energy centers (chakras) and channels are opened and strengthened. This way you can have access to this energy and channel it through your hands. You can then "switch on" the energy, just by intention. Reiki can also be used on animals, plants, water, etc. Furthermore, it is possible to accelerate your personal development process dramatically by activating the Kundalini.

What is Kundalini?

Roughly translated, Kundalini means "circular power". Having your Kundalini awakened basically means that certain healing channels and chakras have been opened, thereby gaining you access to the Earth's energy. The root chakra, which is the energy center near the coccyx, acts as an entrance for the Kundalini energy. This energy is also referred to as "the Kundalini Fire". Hereafter, the energy runs all the way up through the body, through the "main energy channel", and out of the Crown chakra.

This energy channel goes from the Root chakra to the Crown chakra on the top of the head. Activated Kundalini will eventually lead to a complete cleansing of the chakras, the body parts and the energy channels.

Traditional paths to Kundalini awakening are fraught with danger and difficulty, leading most spiritual teachers to avoid instructing people in their use. This is an extreme example of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater"! Kundalini Reiki is so safe that a person who is having, or has had problems with wrong Kundalini awakening, or other problems with the Kundalini energy, can most often be helped by the Kundalini Reiki attunements.

What is Kundalini Reiki?

So how are Kundalini Reiki and traditional Reiki different?

Unlike most other Reiki, Kundalini Reiki uses both Reiki energy and Kundalini energy. The Reiki is greatly strengthened by the Kundalini, Which is "tempered" (made perfectly safe to use) by the Reiki.

Kundalini Reiki uses no symbols and no complicated system of set hand positions. Starting the energy flow is achieved by a phrase of intent.

Kundalini Reiki is passed on to the student in three levels, each of which makes considerable modifications to the bodies energy system. With the second level a daily Kundalini Reiki Meditation (sort of a mini Kundalini raising) is taught to the student, and in level three a number of special energies (DNA Reiki, Birth Trauma Reiki, etc.) are imparted, intended to heal certain energy conditions that most people suffer from to some degree.

There are two different kinds of Kundalini reiki, a basic or "lite" (I call it "Classic") version which is often taught for free or around $10, and a newer generation version with a much stabler and more powerful attunement process and a simplified system of levels. This much improved version is usually taught for $75 to $150 online, or much more in a live teaching situation.

At my website Kundalini Reiki Center, I offer the advanced version of Kundalini Reiki (including 3 Booster Empowerments) for $75, and as a bonus, I throw in Purple Reiki (an excellent energy for clearing blockages) as sort of a fourth level.

My website Kundalini Reiki Center (see resource box) is my online Reiki training site where I offer not only Kundalini Reiki, but some other related systems such as Gold Reiki and Full Spectrum Healing. I also offer a simpler alternative to Kundalini Reiki called New Usui Reiki.