Most people who feel drawn to Reiki training circle it for a while before they say yes. The hesitation usually isn’t about the money or the dates. It’s that nobody has told them, plainly, what happens in the room.
So here it is. This is what our two-day Reiki Level 1 weekend holds, told the way we’d tell a friend.
First, what Reiki Level 1 actually is
Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice, passed from teacher to student in the Usui lineage. Level 1 is the first degree, and it has one focus: learning to give Reiki to yourself.
That surprises people. Many arrive expecting to leave qualified to treat friends and family. Working on others is Level 2. Level 1 is quieter, and honestly more important. You learn to put your own hands on your own body and let your system remember what settled feels like. Everything else we teach is built on that foundation.
If you’ve ever heard us say the deepest healing work you’ll do is on yourself, this weekend is where that stops being a nice idea and becomes a daily practice.
Day one: arriving, lineage, and your first attunements
We gather at noon and start slow. Tea, introductions, what brought each person into the room. We cap the training at eight students, so there is no back row to hide in and nothing to perform.
Then we walk through where Reiki comes from. The history of Mikao Usui and the lineage that carries this practice, told plainly. No mystique for mystique’s sake.
The center of day one is your first attunements. An attunement is a quiet ceremony where a Reiki master opens the channel that has been in you all along. Some people feel heat in their hands. Others just get very still, or find themselves crying without quite knowing why. Every response is a right response. We wrote more about this in 6 common Reiki sensations and what each one means.
The rest of the day belongs to your own two hands. You learn the self-treatment hand positions and practice them right there, with both of us in the room to guide you.
Day two: going deeper, then certification
Sunday goes a layer deeper. You receive your second set of attunements and settle further into the hand positions. Somewhere in there, most students start to notice where their own energy asks for attention.
This is also the day we get practical. A practice only matters if it survives contact with your actual life, so we spend real time on how to keep daily self-Reiki alive next to a full schedule and a phone that never stops asking for you.
By the end of day two you are certified in Reiki Level 1.
What you take home
The certificate matters less than what it stands for. Here’s what you actually leave with:
- A daily self-treatment practice you can do in bed, or in a parked car before you walk into something hard
- All four traditional Level 1 attunements, received in person over the two days
- A training manual with the hand positions and course content, yours to keep
- Access to our student community, so the weekend has somewhere to continue
- The foundation for Level 2, if offering Reiki to others ever calls you
Who this weekend is for
You don’t need any experience with energy work. Some of our steadiest students walked in skeptical. That’s welcome here.
And if you’re the sensitive one, the person who absorbs the weather of every room you enter, Level 1 gives you something concrete to do with that sensitivity instead of just being tired from it.
Reiki isn’t a religion. It sits comfortably alongside whatever faith you hold, or none.
The details
When: Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19, 2026, beginning at noon each day (12 hours of training across the weekend)
Where: in person at our studio near Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles
Investment: $550, which includes your attunements, certification, and training manual. Payment plans are available, just ask.
Class size: eight students, so everyone gets real attention from both of us
Full course page: Reiki Level 1 certification, and an overview of all our Reiki training levels
If this has been circling you
Some people read a post like this and feel a quiet yes. If that’s you, we’d love to have you in the room this July.
Reserve your place: Reiki Level 1, July 18 & 19 →
Questions first? Write to us. A real person answers, and it’s one of us.
Jaime & Yonatan Elkayam are certified Usui Reiki Master Teachers and the founders of Word of Mouth Integrative Wellness in Los Angeles.