This month I ran the first community Reiki clinic in
Ludlow. Having booked the room and put
out publicity and a request for practitioners to help at first I had no
response, so imagined myself sitting alone in a room with an empty treatment
couch. However I'm happy to say this was
not the reality!
I was delighted when two of my students got in touch to say
they would come and help give treatments.
On the day one of them had a cold, so very sensibly decided not to come,
so that she wouldn't pass it on. So
there were two of us giving the treatments.
I had decided on a time that would follow on from the community lunch
that is held at Rockspring Community Centre in Ludlow, thinking that some of
those who came for the lunch might also enjoy a Reiki treatment to follow.
Following the model of other Reiki clinics around the world
we scheduled 30 minute sessions for each person. The room was booked for 2 hours, so with the
two of us giving treatment together this meant we could do 4 treatments.
Then the day before I received a phone call from one person
to say he wanted to book a treatment at the clinic. He had seen a poster at Rockspring while
there for the community lunch. So I was
pleased to go
Jean and I set up the room and I put up notices around the
centre to help people find us. Before
our due start time two more people turned up - a woman from my Singing for Lung
Health group and her husband. As our 1st
customer had booked his session for 1.30 pm we treated one of them at 1 pm and
the other had to wait until after the other treatment - they were able to watch
the treatments as they waited.
As we were treating the first customers two more people
came! This posed a slight problem as we
were supposed to finish at 3 pm, which left only one further 30 minute
session. However I was able to extend
our time (and Rockspring had kindly given us use of the room free for this
first session) so that we could offer a treatment to everyone who came. They too waited patiently and quietly,
observing the other treatments.
It made me realise that more practitioners are needed to
offer treatments, so that we can be doing 2 or 3 at once and therefore offer
Reiki to more people. Three of those who
came this month have already booked to come again next month which leaves only
one appointment available if we only have 2 practitioners again!
So 5 people who had never received a Reiki treatment before
had the opportunity to do so and all said that they enjoyed the
experience. Although this session was
free, several of them also wished to make a donation, so we have a month's room
rent in hand going forwards. This means
that we can offer lower cost treatments without a concern about making a loss.
So if you are a Reiki student, whether 1st or 2nd degree,
and can get to Ludlow on a Thursday afternoon to help with the community clinic
your hands will be most welcome! It's
good practice and you will hopefully learn from the experience as well as
offering the wonderful gift of a Reiki treatment to people who need it.
