What does Reiki feel like?

Reiki is an individual experience and cannot adequately be expressed. However, it has been described by many as heat or warmth generating from the hands. Sometimes it feels tingly. When people send from a distance, people often feel a bubble of energy or love.


It is important to remember that you do not take in the other person's symptoms in order to heal them. You are there as an open and conscious channel of universal life force energy, like a straw which is open to draw down healing energy.

Besides from heat, the most reported feelings from a Reiki session which are deep feelings of love, compassion, relaxation, and often relief of physical or emotional pain.