Offered by Betsy Ranum MA, RN, NBC-HWC

Reiki +

Rest & Relaxation Coaching 

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a healing art with its roots in Japanese origin. 


Reiki is defined as the life energy that flows through all living things. Reiki Practitioners understand that everyone has the ability to connect with their own healing energy and use it to strengthen energy in themselves and help others. It is believed that a person’s “ki” or energy should be strong and free-flowing. When this is true a person’s body and mind are in a positive state of health.

A Reiki session can help ease tension and stress and can help support the body to facilitate an environment for healing on all levels – physical, mental, and emotional. A session is typically experienced as pleasant and relaxing and is often utilized for one’s personal wellness.

A session can be 30, 45, 60, or 90 minutes long. A discussion will usually take place during an initial session with a Reiki Practitioner. They will describe the session to the client, give the client an opportunity to discuss any particular problems or issues they are experiencing, and ask them what they are hoping to achieve from their session. 

For the actual session, the client will rest comfortably on a massage table on their back with their shoes removed. Unlike massage therapy, no articles of clothing are removed and a client is always fully clothed; loose, comfortable clothing is suggested. 

A session can either be hands-on, where a practitioner will apply a light touch during the session, or hands-off where they will hold their hands slightly above your body. If a client prefers not to be touched they can indicate this to the practitioner before they begin.


The session will then proceed with the Reiki Practitioner moving through specific standard Reiki hand positions beginning at the person’s head or feet. A recipient of Reiki might feel a warming sensation or a tingling during the session or nothing at all but sheer relaxation. The session is typically pleasant, relaxing, and invigorating.

What does Reiki treat?

Reiki is not a “treatment” so much as a mind-body-spirit practice to support stress reduction and relaxation. Many people use Reiki for wellness. Reiki is not a cure for a disease or illness, but it may assist the body in creating an environment to facilitate healing. Reiki is a great tool to use as a complement to traditional medicine and is practiced in many hospitals, hospice, and medical care settings.

Reiki Coaching Mash-up

Reiki Coaching Mash-up pairs Reiki practice with an integrative health & wellbeing coaching approach.

Integrative Health & Wellbeing Coaching provides a gentle and powerful container for Reiki practice. Coaching is the art and science of behavior change, personal growth, and capacity-building. Combined, their synergy invites opportunities for depth, reflection, and insight. 

Reiki and Integrative Health & Wellbeing Coaching are two paths to the same destination: the still, quiet inner wisdom that resides within all of us.

Why Rest & Relaxation?

The wellbeing of individuals is inseparable from the wellbeing of the collective, and the planet. Those of us who care about justice, love our communities, and feel our inextricable interconnection with all life: I want for us to be rested and resourced. In the face of the horrors of dehumanization and genocide we are witnessing globally at this moment, I continue to sense that there is a role (and perhaps not a small role) for subtly powerful and life-affirming mind-body-spirit practices. At their greatest potential, states of rest and relaxation can mitigate suffering, harmonize dysregulation, return us to our most deeply held values, orient us toward aligned action, buoy and fortify the spirit, and remind us of our interconnectedness. 

What does a Reiki/Coaching Mash-up Session look like?

  • Mind-body-spirit check-in + invitation to set an intention for Reiki practice.

  • Hands-on Reiki practice (always an option for hands-off Reiki if desired).

  • Brief debriefing opportunity to integrate any insights that emerged during the Reiki practice, and identify intentions, goals, or next steps.

  • 30-minute, 60-minute, & 90-minute sessions available.

Reiki

  • 30, 45, 60 & 90-minute in-person sessions available.

  • All sessions are pay-from-the-heart

    $34 - $134

Reiki Coaching Mash-up

  • 30, 45, 60 & 90-minute in-person sessions available.

    Mind-body-spirit check-in + invitation to set an intention for Reiki practice.

    Hands-on Reiki treatment (always an option for hands-off Reiki if desired).

    Brief debriefing opportunity to integrate any insights that emerged during the Reiki practice, and identify intentions, goals, or next steps.

  • All sessions are pay-from-the-heart

    $34 - $134

Rest & Relaxation Coaching Series

  • 90-minute in-person sessions

    Collaborative, holistic coaching approach.

    Possibilities to incorporate mind-body-spirit practices that elicit regenerative states of rest & relaxation, as appropriate to you e.g. guided imagery & meditation, mindful self-compassion, Reiki, hypnotic techniques, astrology, Enneagram, metaphor and archetypes, biofeedback, and more.

  • 3-session series ($350)

    or

    6-session series ($600)