CLASSES
Next Reiki 1 Class (Live Virtual):
February 20th - 24th, 2025
Reiki 1 - Live Virtual Class & Healing Retreat taught from Okinawa, Japan
In this introductory class, you'll learn the basics of Reiki as a component to spiritual practice and as a method of healing for greater ease and fulfillment in your daily life. You'll receive four (4) Reiki attunements which will connect you to Reiki for your entire life.
We will be learning about the folk healing art of Reiki, meditation techniques, various ways to allow Reiki to enhance daily life, such as sending Reiki to food and water, self-healing, and how to give Reiki to others. This will be 5 days of healing and retreat to bring ease and calm to the body, heart, and soul.
Class will be taught live on Zoom. Space is limited up to 7 students to ensure a safe student-centered and intimate healing experience for each and all.
Some things you'll be investing in with this class:
~ a week of healing retreat within the "Reiki Bubble" for the heart, body, and spirit
~ the ability to heal emotional, mental, and physical pain or illness for yourself and loved ones
~ a healing ability that's yours to use for the rest of your life
~ a way to help heal chronic illness and bring calm & gentleness to the mind and nervous system
~ techniques and ritual to enhance spiritual practice & well-being
~ learn to give professional Reiki sessions to others
~ learning and receiving healing alongside like-minded souls in a safe & emotionally nurturing space
~ ongoing mentoring and support
~ access to our monthly virtual Reiki practices
..and so much more!
"The Reiki class is also a deep personal soul healing experience and retreat. It's incredible."
Sample Class Schedule - all EST
1st day, Thurs: 7 - 9pm
2nd day, Fri: 7 - 9pm
3rd day, Saturday: 6 - 9pm
4th day, Sunday: 6 - 9pm
5th day, Monday: 7 - 9pm
Reiki with Olivea ~ a message from the teacher
Dear prospective student,
I appreciate your interest in learning Reiki with me. I'd like to introduce myself a little here so you can know more about me first, as choosing the right teacher is a very important decision.
I'll start by admitting that I didn't want to become a Reiki Master! I know how that must sound but please allow me to explain.. I was happily running a professional Reiki practice in NYC as a Reiki 2 practitioner. I even referred clients to other teachers when they asked me to teach them. To me becoming a Reiki Master and teaching felt like too much responsibility as I was already bravely engaging in the challenges and constant growth as an entrepreneur in Manhattan. It wasn't until someone asked me in a certain way to teach them and expressed from their soul that they would only learn from me. At that moment I saw that Reiki would help this person's life tremendously and that Reiki was asking through this person for me to challenge myself to step into the next level of things. Somehow, it was like the decision was already made because I could no longer say no. Shortly after, I was initiated as a Reiki Master and began teaching, with this person in my inaugural class in NYC. In this way, I learned that becoming a Reiki Master is earned through commitment to living Reiki and continual self-practice. Reiki Masters are also teachers and can only be so if they have at least one student who recognizes them as their teacher. I hope you'll consider these things as you search for your teacher, let Reiki guide you.
As a Reiki Master Teacher I also remain a Reiki 1 & 2 student always. Reiki continues to guide and teach me, especially when I teach Reiki classes. The learning never ends so I'm honored to continue holding classes for students world-wide because each class is somehow better than the last.
Reiki is something anyone can learn in one class and give to themselves, friends, and family for stress relief, relaxation, and emotional/mental healing for the rest of their lives. You don't need to be a healer or even subscribe to a spiritual way of life to practice Reiki. Anyone (even children) can learn and use Reiki to feel better and to allow more SPACE for healing in all areas of life.
So what guided me to Reiki in the first place? Well, a Reiki Master approached me one day as a customer at my job and told me Reiki would be able to help me and that I'd really like it. All these years later I suppose she saw in me what I saw in that first student of mine, that Reiki would make a tremendous difference in my life. She persisted and kept telling me about it even though, to be honest, I wasn't all that interested. I was a busy New Yorker afterall! But about a year later I was back home in Georgia (where I'm from) caring for my mom who was recovering from her cancer treatment and wished so poignantly to be able to offer her something gentle that would help her feel better as nothing else was working. As you can imagine or maybe have experienced in the past, it's excruciating to watch a loved one writhe in pain. Anyway, she eventually got better and I returned to NYC and all but ran to this Reiki Master asking for a class. The time had come and I was ready.
The first thing that felt like a revolutionary concept was that I was encouraged to give Reiki to myself to heal myself first. I had never heard this before. My sense of care was always directed or centered around others and never myself first. So I was curious and eager to try this out.
Slowly but surely I felt lighter in all areas of my life, including relationships, and finances, and I even felt emotionally and mentally healthier. It was nothing short of a miracle because I suffered from clinical depression for many many years. After a year and a half, with my teacher's encouragement and blessing, I opened a healing practice in Manhattan.
As you may know, I'm now in Japan and the reason for this is because Reiki has continued to guide me to powerfully heal myself first and I have continued to be challenged to enter into the next level of things over and over. In 2019 I was undeniably guided to leave NYC and move to Okinawa, Japan (my maternal ancestral land). This was not easy!! In fact, I did everything in my stubborn way to stay, everything (you might remember this happened before I became a Reiki Master when I kept saying no to teaching). And then, the last straw occured when my body started to break down in a big way. I became very sick and I knew that it would only get worse if I didn't leave within the year. So I gave myself 2 months to say goodbye to all my friends, clients, and students, to being a New Yorker for life, close everything down, pack 2 suitcases, and go. Without knowing the language, or if I'd be able to extend my visa without a proper job, it was the craziest challenge of my life. Even though I was truly afraid of everything I also knew I could do it. I had the capacity. I'd been through so much that had fundamentally trained me to get me there.
Reiki knows everything and will always challenge us to become more of our true selves. This is what healing means. And somehow Reiki knew that I needed to be on my ancestral land and connect to my maternal heritage with my entire being to heal and understand some fundamental truths so that I could become more of my truth, that being here would help and support me in a big big way that just wasn't possible anywhere else. And I can now share from the other side with undeniable certainty that it's safe (and correct!) to let Reiki continue to guide and teach us. Reiki is its own protection, we only need to keep going.
Teaching virtually from here was another challenge, trust me I was not happy about it and put up one of my stubborn fights again lol. I'm a purist in this way and couldn't imagine the intimacy of in-person classes being translated into a virtual space. However one of my treasured students in NYC kept asking for a virtual class, again she asked in a certain way, and by then I knew very well when Reiki was giving me that nudge to keep going. So despite my comfort level-- there was none-- about it all I "gave in" and held my first virtual class remaining open to Reiki's teachings. To my surprise, it was not only incredible to connect with students in different locales at the same time, but I learned with my whole heart that Reiki spans beyond time and space and can't be contained in any way, not even within the limited scope of our human intelligence and understanding. It remains a profound teaching that I wouldn't have learned if not for the opportunity to teach virtually.
So one more thing (thank you for your continued reading!) I'm not like any other teacher anywhere ever! I only say this because Reiki has deeply guided me into my truth and no one else can do what I do and vice versa. My teaching style has developed with me over the years so that now I can teach with my whole life. I'm a great big mixed bag of stubborn wacky fire-stuff, daring feminine power, extreme fragility, gentleness, deep caring and the biggest Love you'll ever experience! I'm absolutely a lot! And it's all used to teach and to show with my life what's possible with Reiki. I'm not meant to be everyone's teacher, only those who are undeniably guided to my door.
I continue to learn every day that living Reiki is a way of being in a space of powerful and steady peace within and without, and being completely tremendously joyously human. Each challenge is an expansion and Reiki guides us gently yet powerfully into our self/mind mastery. Reiki has allowed me to touch life's ecstasy tangibly vs. only in theory, and to understand a kind of cheer that infuses the brain and blood with purest medicine that goes backward and forward in time. As a medicine woman and high priestess, I do all I can to hold a safe space filled with beauty and love so that my students are surrounded by this understanding from beginning to end of class. So each class is also a powerful healing journey of its own, a deepening, a journey of the heart; not at all a traditional Reiki class. My students are very courageous people and so am I, so in class, we are courageously journeying to the center of our souls together. Reiki guides us all.
If you're still reading, thank you! When the time is right for you, when all the stars align, I hope you'll take that step to learn the simple folk healing art of Reiki for yourself and for your loved ones too.
In cheer,
Olivea
Tuition Investment:
$500 for each new student
$300 for returning Reiki with Olivea students only
Last day to register is February 6th, 2025. Please note that tuition is nonrefundable.
Reiki 2 Class -
Deepening Reiki Practice
Mrs. Takata would say, "Reiki 1 is all you need!" Many students want to learn Reiki 2 thinking it's a "more advanced level" when in fact Reiki 1 is all you'll ever need to heal yourself and others. If you're in need of a refresher it's recommended to take Reiki 1 as a returning student since each class is unique and a healing journey all its own. Logic tells us that by taking a class again we are repearting the same thing, but with Reiki classes this is NEVER the case.
This Reiki 2 class is open for those practitioners who have completed Reiki 1 with Olivea, are guided to deepen their Reiki practice and would like to send Reiki over distance. It's generally advised to wait at least one year after completing Reiki 1 before diving into Reiki 2.
We'll delve further into the alchemy of energy healing, allowing Reiki to guide the way. This live virtual class will have a similar structure as our Reiki 1 class journey with 5 days of healing retreat within our lovely "Reiki Bubble", and with additional references to Japanese culture for deeper understanding.
In this class students will learn symbols to send Reiki over distance. All students will receive one additional attunement in sacred ceremony.
Sample Class Schedule - all EST
1st day, Thursday: 7 - 9pm
2nd day, Friday: 7- 9pm
3rd day, Saturday: 6 - 9pm
4th day, Sunday: 6 - 9pm
5th day, Monday: 7 - 9pm
Tuition Investment
$600 for each new Reiki 2 student (must have completed Reiki 1 with Olivea)
$400 for returning Reiki 2 with Olivea students only
~ Prerequisites:
+ Reiki 1 class with Olivea
+ participation in at least (2) two Community Reiki Practices
+ at least one year between Reiki 1 & 2 classes
Tuition is nonrefundable.
Reiki 3 Class -
Reiki Master Teacher Level
This master level 5-day class is taught in-person in Okinawa, Japan in late October. Students will be required to not fly directly to Okinawa but to spend some time exploring mainland Japan (Reiki's birthlace) first.
This class is only available to students who have completed Reiki 1 & 2 with Olivea and have undergone consistent 1 on 1 mentoring. Further details are given to students who are ready for this ultimate journey of the heart.
There's space for up to 6 students per class.
