✨ A Guide to Energy Healing, Reiki & Shamanic Healing: Restoring Balance on Every Level

In today’s fast-paced world, more people are turning to ancient and intuitive healing practices to restore balance, manage stress, and reconnect with their soul’s essence. Among the most profound and accessible forms of holistic healing are Reiki and Shamanic Healing—modalities that support emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being in deeply integrative ways.

Whether you’re just beginning your healing journey or looking to deepen your understanding, this guide offers insight into what these practices are, how they work, and what you can expect from a session.

🌿 What Is Energy Healing?

Energy healing is a non-invasive, holistic approach that works with the body’s subtle energy systems—like the chakras, meridians, and nervous system—to release blockages, restore harmony, and activate the body’s innate healing intelligence.

Rather than targeting symptoms alone, energy healing addresses the root causes of imbalance, offering support for those experiencing:

• Emotional distress or trauma

• Chronic stress or anxiety

• Fatigue or sleep disturbances

• Physical tension or pain

• Spiritual disconnection or confusion

  
  

While there are many forms of energy healing, two particularly transformative methods are Reiki and Shamanic Healing.

✨ Understanding Reiki

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese healing technique that channels universal life force energy through the hands of a trained practitioner to promote healing across all levels of being. This energy is not directed by the healer—it is intuitively received by the body wherever it is needed most.

Though Reiki is often performed with light touch, it can also be shared from a distance, making it accessible to clients worldwide. This is possible because energy transcends space and time—it responds to intention.

During a Reiki session, clients may experience:

• Warm or cool sensations in the body

• A deep sense of calm and peace

• Release of emotional tension

• Gentle shifts in awareness or spiritual insight

• Visions, colors, or a dream-like state (theta brainwaves)

It’s not uncommon to feel lighter, more centered, or even inspired after a session. Reiki works quietly, yet profoundly.

🌬 What Reiki Is and Is Not

Reiki is not a religion, nor a cure—it is a supportive practice that encourages your body and energy field to shift out of survival mode and into a state of rest, repair, and reconnection.

It doesn’t force healing—it makes space for healing to happen naturally.

✅ Reiki does:

• Support relaxation, clarity, and nervous system regulation

• Work beautifully alongside medical treatments

• Help release emotional and mental tension

• Promote presence, peace, and empowerment

❌ Reiki does not:

• Replace medical treatment

• Rely on belief to work

• Require physical touch to be effective

🌿 What Is Shamanic Healing?

Shamanic healing is one of the oldest forms of energy work, practiced across cultures for thousands of years. It is based on the understanding that everything—seen and unseen—is connected, and that illness often stems from disconnection: from the body, from the Earth, from spirit, or from the soul.

Unlike Reiki, which uses pure life-force energy, Shamanic healing incorporates the guidance and wisdom of:

• Nature and elemental energies (wind, fire, water, earth)

• Spirit guides and ancestors

• The client’s own higher self

Practitioners often use visualization, breathwork, sound, or journeying techniques to help clients release heavy energy, retrieve lost soul aspects, and reclaim personal power.

Clients may experience:

• A sense of expansion or movement in the body

• Visions, inner guidance, or spiritual insight

• Emotional release or transformation

• Connection to past lives or ancestral memory

• A deeper understanding of life patterns and purpose

Shamanic healing often brings to light what’s been buried or unseen—inviting not only healing, but awareness, self-love, and wholeness.

💫 Reiki vs. Shamanic Healing: What’s the Difference?

While both are forms of energy medicine, Reiki is a more passive, soothing practice, while Shamanic healing can feel more active or revelatory. Reiki gently balances; Shamanic healing may stir deep transformation.

Some practitioners, like those at Lead By Light, LLC, combine both modalities to create personalized sessions that meet each client exactly where they are.

💖 Benefits of Energy Healing

People turn to Reiki and Shamanic healing for a wide range of support. Some of the most common benefits include:

• Reduced anxiety, depression, and stress

• Relief from chronic pain and inflammation

• Better sleep and nervous system regulation

• Emotional release and clarity

• Improved immune function and cellular regeneration

• Spiritual insight and intuitive development

• Support during pregnancy or fertility journeys

• Recovery from trauma or grief

The healing is often gentle, yet cumulative—building over time with consistency.

📆 How Often Should I Receive Energy Healing?

There is no one-size-fits-all answer. Many find bi-weekly sessions ideal for integration and growth, while others benefit from weekly support during times of heightened stress, transition, or healing (e.g., pregnancy, chronic illness, burnout, or emotional overwhelm).

You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from energy healing. It’s also a powerful tool for maintenance, alignment, and self-discovery.

🌎 In-Person or Distance Healing?

Both are equally effective. Whether you’re receiving Reiki in-person or remotely, what matters most is the intention and attunement of the practitioner. If you’re exploring distance sessions, be sure your healer is certified at Reiki Level II or above, as this level includes training in distance techniques.

🧘‍♀️ How to Prepare for a Healing Session

• Wear loose, comfortable clothing

• Drink plenty of water before and after

• Arrive with an open heart and an open mind

• Be prepared to relax deeply and receive

• Honor your experience afterward—rest, reflect, or journal

Healing isn’t always about fixing—it’s about reconnecting to what’s already whole within you.

🌟 Want to Learn More or Go Deeper?

If this guide has inspired curiosity, reflection, or a desire to experience these healing modalities for yourself, you’re warmly invited to explore more with Lead By Light, LLC.

Led by Jordyn—Reiki Grand Master, Shamanic Healer, Intuitive Psychic Medium, and Quantum Practitioner—we offer deeply personalized sessions, transformative mentorships, and online certification programs designed to empower others to heal, awaken, and lead by their own light.

✨ Learn more or book a session at www.leadbylight.com