I taught Reiki 3 today to (strangely enough) three students. Between the three of them and my friend and student and Reiki Master, John, we had a fun time.
Unlike the last class, this was not for CEUs. When I started, I talked a lot about the Reiki history as my knowledge of it has changed considerably since reading William Rand's book. I explained the changes, and went into several other things about mastership in being a master.
Next I taught the advanced energy work of sight scanning, and locating and clearing blocked chakras. They all did very well on everything. Obviously they can use practice, but they caught on real quick.
After that I taught Reiki with animals, which is harder than it used to be teaching out of my studio rather than out of my home. At home, it was really easy to grab a dog or cat and show the basic differences and how one has to work with them. Since I don't have any of the above at my studio I was reduced to drawing on the whiteboard. Unfortunately my artistry is not what it could be. J
I talked a little about electricity and how some of it basically works and how polarity therapy is similar to it. (Unfortunately, my artwork got several panning comments from the audience.) From there, I demonstrated and let the students practice each of the combination Reiki and polarity moves that make up my Reiki 3. All the students did fabulously well.
After that I talk for a bit on Reiki and death, how Reiki energy can be what the soul needs to travel from this side to the next. My one student told me that he had given Reiki to someone in the hospital who was dying, and that they passed on the very next day.
The final piece was giving and teaching the attunement process. One of the students had to leave early, and will be coming back in a few days to learn how to give attunements and pick up his certificate. I hope that happens soon as I will be leaving town on the fourth for two weeks. I would like to see the process completed before I do that.
It is always nice teaching Reiki (or anything for that matter), but I find the higher levels a little bit easier to deal with simply because I know the people that I'm teaching. When students come in for Reiki 1, they don't know me, and I usually don't know them, and we spent a lot of time learning about each other as to teaching styles, learning styles, and so forth. By the upper levels, we all know each other, and know what to expect from each other. That makes it just a little bit easier. We can also joke around a bit to which makes the learning process easier.
But like I said, it was a fun class, and everyone did well and enjoyed it.