How is Reiki Release Different?

Like many energy healers, I began by becoming attuned to and learning the Japanese style of energy healing called Reiki. In the traditional method of Reiki, we simply place our hands on an individual and channel spiritual life force energy.

Most of us are taught how to channel Reiki energy by either using standard hand positions or our intuition to sense where energy is most needed. Ultimately, spiritual life force energy is supremely intelligent and knows and goes where it is most needed. This alone is a powerful healing modality.

However, after a few years of channeling Reiki, in more or less the traditional manner, my intuition began guiding me more deeply into the client’s healing process. It began giving me impressions of my client’s emotional blocks and pain as well as brief flashing images of past trauma.

If you can feel it, you can heal it

At first, I wasn’t sure what do with this information. I initially kept it to myself. But with my intuition and spirit guides nudging me forward, I eventually began to share the insights I was receiving with my clients. Often this alone allowed the client to acknowledge and release much of the pent up or buried emotion. They would cry, sob or simply confirm the memories and trauma as it floated back into their awareness. I provided a soft landing for these experiences by gently encouraging the client to allow the feelings of hurt and pain to move through them, to just allow up them to bubble up to the surface.

I’m not sure who coined the phrase, “If you can feel it, you can heal it” but there is indeed great wisdom in it. Especially for those us who were too young to know how to deal with the painful events we experienced, and so to protect ourselves, we buried our emotions.

For some clients, it is enough to become of aware of the buried hurt and pain for them to release it. For others, becoming aware isn’t enough for them to fully release it. As I am keenly sensitive to emotion and energy, I can feel when the energy behind the emotion has been released and when it hasn’t. So for these clients, I began asking my intuition and Spirit Guides, “What would help them let go of this? What should we do next?”

Intuitive guidance is much more intelligent

Each client, along with his or her history and willingness to heal, is different. Therefore a cookie cutter approach to energy healing is not ideal. I tried incorporating other methods that I had read about, but found while one technique might work for one client, it didn’t work for all clients. And so, I gave up trying to think my way through it and began relying more and more on the intuitive guidance I receive during sessions. When I did this, the feedback from clients what tremendous:

“I feel like I lost 40lbs!”

“A huge weight has been lifted.”

“I feel uplifted and empowered now.”

“Exactly what I needed to break through some old blocks and really move forward.”

This is why intuition plays such a key role in the Reiki Release®  Method. And yes intuition and intuitive healing can be taught!

What makes the Reiki Release® Method so powerful

In general, I’ve found that the following components are key to helping clients overcome any conscious or unconscious resistance to releasing trapped emotions and negative beliefs:

  1. For instructional purposes, the Reiki Release® Method has about a dozen or so steps, but when you boil them all down, there are just three key steps: releasing, refilling and reprogramming.
  2. The activating power behind these basic steps is the free will intention and participation of the client.
  3. Lastly, it is the intuitive process that determines, out of all the endless possibilities, which release/refill/reprogram techniques are ideally suited to the client.

It is the alchemy of the method itself, the client’s participation, and intuited guidance throughout that facilitates a deeply transformative and healing experience.


Facilitated by  Natalie Eve Marquis, RMT, CH

Natalie Eve Marquis, RMT, CH is a heart-centered catalyst helping people heal and deepen their connection to their inner wisdom and the Divine. She is a Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive energy healer, certified consulting hypnotist, intuitive consultant and teacher.

Natalie’s unique Reiki Release® Method is a powerful intuitive healing process that helps pinpoint and release the root causes of emotional blocks and negative beliefs so you can heal, transform and live your best life ever!

Natalie teaches intuitive energy healing and all levels of Reiki certification both online and in person. She also provides a variety of fun and informative workshops on intuition development, past life healing, and more in NH, MA, AZ, and NC.

You can work with Natalie by phone/web.