About Reiki

REIKI (with Catherine Whittaker, Reiki Master):
Rebalance your life and get your spark back. Reiki is a simple energy modality with very powerful results. This relaxing and enjoyable treatment gets rid of emotional baggage that no longer serves you, rebalances your physical and emotional energy flow, and often eliminates aches and pains as a result.

During a Reiki session, Reiki energy is channeled from the practitioner to the recipient. Reiki energy goes exactly where it needs to go, in the appropriate dose. For that reason, it is not possible to receive too much Reiki.

Reiki restores our life force energy (commonly known as our energy field), removing blockages and clearing out emotional baggage. Our energy field tends to deplete itself mostly when we are sad, angry, stressed, sick or eating improperly, for example, and tends to be in much better condition when we are happy, excited, healthy and eating properly.

Being around people that have a depleted energy field can also affect our energy field, which is more commonly known as absorbing bad energies. The reverse is also true and we can absorb good energies from people with a healthy energy field.

When our energy field is depleted or blocked (often through no fault of our own), this imbalance can often cause a variety of emotional and physical pains. Although some people are more sensitive than others, energy fields that have been depleted for long periods of time (eg: stress at work), are more susceptible to mysterious aches and pains that won’t go away.

Benefits
The benefits of Reiki are numerous and different for everyone, even session to session. However, the most common benefits include:

• Deep and profound relaxation
• A sense of total peace within the body
• A “lightness” as if all the weight of the world has been lifted from you
• A balancing of the male and female sides of the body
• High motivation
• Improved concentration and focus
• A sense of being balanced
• Clear and more vivid dreams
• Deeper meditation
• Reduction or elimination of aches and pains
• Spiritual advancement
• Change in attitude
• Better overall health

Plus, Reiki works as an enhancement to other healing modalities that you may currently be following, such as reflexology.

What to expect
The ultimate goal of a Reiki treatment is to open up all the energy centers in your body and get rid of any emotional blockages that could be preventing you from enjoying life to the fullest. By getting rid of emotional blockages that no longer serve you, physical pains often improve or disappear.

Reiki treatments are very safe but powerful. A variety of physical feelings such as cold, heat, tingling, and light movements in your arms, legs and body are common, as well as no feeling at all. On the emotional level, some clients experience a trigger of emotions during the session, or even visions of colors, past events, or again, nothing at all.

Results may be immediate but sometimes takes up to 21 days to take affect. The benefits that you gain from a Reiki session can vary time to time, and sometimes are extremely obvious, and sometimes, much more subtle.

Reiki sessions are done with client fully clothed on massage table, complete with blankets, pillows, music and candle light for a very relaxing experience.

How often should I have a Reiki session?
Monthly sessions are ideal. The Reiki energy will work for a full 21 days, and we recommend that you wait an extra seven days to be able to fully analyze how you responded to the last session.

Am I ready for a Reiki Session?
If you are ready to heal and feel open-minded enough to give it a try, chances are you will be extremely pleased and are definitely ready for Reiki!

Can sessions be done by distance?
Yes! Although nothing beats one-on-one energy and interaction, distance sessions are ideal if you are too sick to leave home, the hospital, or are just too far from a practitioner. Distance sessions are also ideal for children who you know would not be able to stay still for a session, or a loved one who is not able to talk / move.

Except for young children and very ill adults, distance sessions are always scheduled for a specific time with the recipients’ permission and knowledge.

Does Reiki work on pets?
It certainly does! For more information, please visit our Pet Healing page.

About the Practitioner
Catherine Whittaker, B.Sc., Reflexologist , Reiki Master/Teacher - All Reiki practitioners are different and have their own style. Getting a Reiki session at Cozy Corner is no different. Although the name of the session is Reiki, the primary focus is to give you exactly what you need to heal faster. As a result, all Reiki sessions are combined with a few types of light holistic body work, three additional energy modalities, and Catherine’s own healing work. This makes each session unique, and longer. Most treatments are at least 75 minutes.

Catherine is fascinated about learning how energy blockages affect us on physical, mental, and spiritual levels, and is determined to help her clients not only identify and release these blockages, but most importantly to prevent them from coming back.

We are all students of this universe, and we are all uniquely different, but together, we can sometimes learn a few things.

Testimonials
“Hi Catherine! Well, to tell you what is happening is going to be a pleasure. Thanks so much for your caring. Release of the grip continues. Your work is a gift, as is your intention!

I would say that I am detoxifying! There's been insights and tears, release of more burning pain and better walking. It’s happening!”

“Hello Again Catherine, I just came in from a quick walk and had to relay that I have not been so pain free since before the disc operation in 1984! Amazing!!! Perseverance – and good work – we did it!”

    I. Trider, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

“Hi Catherine - It was so great to hear your voice after my big move to Ontario this spring. I know I shouldn't compare reiki treatments between practitioners, but you are amazing Catherine! You do not need a bio amethyst mat or anything else to make your treatments effective. Your outstanding abilities have been a blessing to me and I've come a long way in a short period of time. Before this, I felt like I was stuck "between a rock and a hard place" for over a year and a half, with tremendous stress coming from a number of directions. Once again, I thank you and I'm grateful each day for having met you.

    J. Smith, Burlington, Ontario

“My first appointment with Catherine proved to be a worthwhile and powerful experience. I had been living with chronic neck and shoulder pain for over two years and despite my efforts at trying several healing modalities, my first Reiki session almost eliminated the pain, permanently! Since that day, I make sure to follow-up with monthly visits. Among the many treatments, I was able to avoid a knee operation (although its not perfect, the knee healed itself enough that I can run again), I have regained energy that had been loss for many years, and we recently managed to get rid of an anxiety issue that had surfaced a few years ago.”

“Each session is different, and we try to focus on a different issue each time. Either way, I would highly recommend this treatment for overall health and well-being.”

    Cathy M, Halifax, NS

"Catherine instantly makes you feel comfortable upon arriving for a session. The session itself is a wonderful, soothing, and relaxing experience, which incorporates many modalities such as Indian Head Massage, Gemstone Therapy, and Reiki. I would highly recommend anyone to have a session at Cozy Corner!

    Paula, Business Owner, Halifax, NS

All services are by appointment only.
Please call us today at (902) 463-COZY (2699) to book your time!