by Amy Alward | Jul 9, 2025 | Coming Attractions, Distance Healing 101, Featured Posts
A Reiki Share is a gathering of people who come together to give and receive Reiki in a spirit of generosity, learning, and mutual care. It’s a beautiful way to dip a toe into Reiki if you’re new, practice regularly if you’re a student, or stay nourished and connected if you’re a practitioner.
At Whole Self Unity, we host twice-monthly online Reiki Shares via Zoom, making it easy for you to experience the power of group healing from the comfort of your own home. No matter your level of experience—or your budget—you’re invited.
A Reiki Share, Simply Explained
Join Reiki Shares from anywhere via Zoom
A Reiki Share (sometimes called a Reiki Circle or Reiki Exchange) is a group gathering where Reiki is both given and received. It’s designed to be a supportive space where everyone benefits. Typically, shares are open to people attuned to Reiki as well as those who want to receive or are simply interested in learning more.
The atmosphere is relaxed, collaborative, and healing. The focus is less on formal instruction and more on shared energy and connection.
What Happens During a Reiki Share?
Every Reiki Share is a little different, but here’s what you can expect from our online Reiki group:
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A warm welcome and brief introductions, as well as an opportunity for intentions, and Q & A (questions and answers)
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A short grounding or meditation with formal intention setting for the group
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Group Reiki sending and receiving, often in pairs or small breakout rooms (depends on the number of attendees)
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Time for gentle reflection, integration, and optional sharing
We hold a container of respect, confidentiality, and safety, so you can show up just as you are.
Sessions last around 90 minutes and can be a deeply relaxing and energizing experience for all involved. If you can’t attend for the full session, you are welcome to join or depart at any time–don’t feel you can only show up if you can stay the whole time.
Benefits of Joining a Group Reiki Session
Emotional support and shared healing energy
Whether you’re a practitioner or a first-timer, group Reiki shares offer unique benefits:
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Deep rest & relaxation: Reiki in a group setting often amplifies the sense of calm and ease.
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Ongoing practice: Perfect for Reiki students to keep their flow going between classes.
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Healing community: You’ll connect with others who value energy healing and holistic support.
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Balanced giving and receiving: Practitioners often feel deeply replenished after sharing Reiki.
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Accessible healing: Our online Reiki shares are a form of community service—free or low-cost—making energy healing available to more people.
What Makes an Online Reiki Share Special?
Energy transcends space and time, and so does Reiki. In a Zoom-based Reiki Share, the healing is just as powerful, with the added benefits of convenience and accessibility. We do offer some LiveStream share options on social media platforms, but this format allows the practitioners and recipients to interact privately.
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Join from anywhere in the world
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Relax in your own home environment
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Participate even if you’re navigating illness, mobility challenges, or a full schedule
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Meet like-hearted people you might never encounter locally–virtually, face-to-face
Healing in motion—together and free
When you sign up, we’ll send a few simple guidelines that help keep our Reiki Shares safe, welcoming, and respectful for everyone involved—whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth.
Distance Reiki is a beautiful reminder that connection is energetic first—and that healing is always available.
Our Online Reiki Group: What to Expect
At Whole Self Unity, we host twice-monthly Reiki Shares via Zoom. These online sessions are open to:
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Reiki students and practitioners from any level, any lineage
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Curious newcomers who want to feel what Reiki is like before booking a private session
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Anyone exploring becoming a Reiki student or finding the right teacher
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Practitioners looking to build relationships and network
Each session includes time to share Reiki, meet others, and rest deeply. There is no pressure, only invitation.
Join our next online Reiki Share using the list below or sign up to get updates about future events.
Reiki Shares and the Spirit of Unity
Group Reiki energy shared in light and unity
At Whole Self Unity, our mission is to make healing accessible, especially to those who might not otherwise have access to this kind of care. Reiki Shares embody this vision: welcoming, inclusive, and grounded in mutual respect and compassion.
Whether you’re here for community, curiosity, or connection—you belong.
Want to experience Reiki in a safe, supportive group?
Join us for our next online Reiki Share—all are welcome.
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by wholeselfunity | Nov 11, 2022 | Coming Attractions, Featured Posts, Self Care Toolbox
Annual Fundraiser!
Welcome to 100 Hours of Healing 2022! This ongoing fundraiser launches each year on our birthday (Veterans’ Day) and continues through to the end of the year. We are looking for new friends to support and empower our charitable mission: fostering healing into wholeness through community, education, and treatments.
Whole Self Unity – What we DO
As a 501C3 nonprofit organization we rely on the support from our community to help adults in need. Our focus is to allow access to integrative therapies as an additional to traditional medical care (meditation, yoga, Reiki, nutrition, and coaching). Currently, we are raising money to provide free or low cost classes to veterans/military, first responders, educators, healthcare workers, disaster victims, and elders. Please feel free to donate at any time–welcome to our community.
Join Us – We Need YOU
The primary goal of this year’s 100 Hours of Healing event is to make 100 new friends. We are offering a full integrative healing conference online–no geographic or scheduling barriers. Access content from your own space in your own time. These offerings are gifts in exchange for your charitable donation of just $5. The market value of these healing talks, demonstrations, meditations, and exercises would drive a retail price of $20-100 a session. We are offering these gifts as part of our service to the community. We don’t want to price to stop anyone from connecting with us.
FREE Offerings for ALL
In fact, if you are not in a position to donate at this time, we want you to join the community anyway. Follow this link to register for a FREE guided meditation Grounding: Feeling Present to Feel Better. All are welcome here, and we are so excited to have you join us!
In addition, some FREE content will be offered LIVE on our Facebook Page. The program below lists all events according to the times they were promoted on Facebook. However, each presentation is available whenever and wherever you like. As the event continues, the program below will be updated with those offerings as well. Happy birthday!
100 Hours of Healing – General Info and How it Works
Listed below are the complete offerings as part of the 100 Hours of Healing program. Each presentation is offered as a gift in exchange for a $5 donation, and you can register to receive the private link to as many topics as you like! If you would like to donate more than $5, please consider a $50 donation level, we will thank you with an All Access Pass to each presentations.
Follow the links (click the titles) to access the presentation listing/make donations. Links for LIVE offerings will take you directly to the free Facebook link to view the offering immediately.
This campaign will continue through to January 1, 2023, when we will focus on offering classes, events, and treatments. So if you want access to any parts of the program, please donate or connect with us soon! The private links to the presentations will be accessible on into the future. We do reserve the right to republish this content publicly at our discretion, but are pleased to offer our donors this exclusive access. Thank you!
100 Hours of Healing Event Program
Kickoff Video – Overview of Whole Self Unity and Coming Attractions, meet the co-creators and find out more [Link to facebook free discussion coming soon]
What is Reiki |World Peace Meditation – Amy Alward, find out about what Reiki does, how it works, and sample a little Reiki meditation as we send Reiki toward world peace inside ourselves and in the world. All are welcome, especially those with no experience with Reiki. All practitioners also welcome, any lineage, any level.
Nutritional Goal Setting – Moana Schwertsik  If many individuals are already setting goals, what need is there for information regarding goal setting? The short answer is that individuals generally do not set goals that maximize positive outcomes. In essence, the problem is getting people to set the right kind of goals—ones that provide direction and motivation.
Breathing, Mindfulness and Meditation – Tracey Payton, Breathing, mindfulness and meditation are always to reduce stress and create awareness. Come learn some new techniques experience a guided meditation and learn more about these strategies.
Stretching Clinic – Amy Alward gives a 60 minute talk on the benefits and mechanics of therapeutic stretching. With 10 years of experience as a sports massage therapist, this is information her clients generally get over a number of visits. If you are struggling with muscle pain, or how to best stretch productively, or need help staying flexible, do not miss this presentation!Â
Portion size – Moana Schwertsik LIVE on Facebook [link coming soon], Â Over the years, portion sizes have been steadily increasing. What used to be a large-sized drink or side dish at restaurants is now often a medium or small-sized order on modern menus. We will learn how to better understand this often overlooked subject and discuss methods for creating healthy portion size.Â
Mountain Meditation – Tracey Payton, join for a short meditation.Â
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Why Boundaries are Essential | Energetic Hygiene – Amy Alward, part of a larger series on Energetic Hygiene directed at folks working on their own healing or learning to help others heal. This is a core piece of Amy’s Reiki classes, but you don’t have to be learning Reiki to benefit–just as you don’t need to be a doctor to understanding why keeping wounds clean just works better for good healing. Energetic Hygiene is about vibrational wound care, something we all have.
Creating Healthy Habits – Moana Schwertsik  Creating healthy habits is a real world challenge and can be overwhelming. From the variety of food products available today to the hectic schedule and social media pressure.  Eating healthily can seem challenging in most of these situations but it does not have to be. We will explore how to prepare and plan for different situations in the real world.
Getting Unstuck – Tracey Payton, Feeling stuck in your life, health, relationships, or all of the above? This workshop will help you build and create awareness about where you are stuck and how to move away from stuckness. We will create a mantra and also learn about mindfulness exercise that help relieve and move stuckness.
Feel Better in Your Body | Energetic Anatomy Basics – Amy Alward, part of a larger series on esoteric anatomy, and the constructs of Energetic Anatomy of the Human Energetic Field. There are parts of ourselves we cannot touch, see, or hear (as a general rule), that can be influenced with thought, intention, visualization, and meditation practices. This talk offers a quick overview of the major structures. If you have heard of chakras, but don’t really know what they are or how they are supposed to “work” this talk is for you!
Influences of Food Choices – Moana Schwertsik  Health and wellness are two of the hottest buzz words in the nutrition industry. But what do those terms really mean and how do they relate to each other? There are numerous things that influence where a person lies on the spectrum of health, ranging from pathology to a state of optimal well-being.  One of the biggest components of a healthy lifestyle is nutrition. Just like a person’s overall state of health and wellness, food choices are greatly influenced by the world around us.  We will learn how to choose foods which will support out health and wellbeing. It is time to make smart choices with our food and I will get you started on that path.Â
Overcoming Overwhelm – Tracey Payton, Join Tracey for an intentional workshop to support you with Overcoming Overwhelm. Who couldn’t use pointers with that?! This workshop will give you simple actions and tools to create more space in your day, reduce stress and deliver more peace of mind and productivity. Does this sound like something you need?
Karuna Reiki Sound Healing – Amy Alward offers a complete meditation/healing session for FREE, all you have to do is register at the link. Bring your healing intentions, sit back, relax and receive. Karuna Reiki is a compassionate form of energy healing for relaxation and stress reduction. Karuna is often used in combination with singing and chanting to empower the compassionate vibration of unconditional love.
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Crystal Empowerment – Amy Alward, offers a quick talk about the properties of crystals that make them ideal for computing AND for energy healing. This talk also includes some tips for success if you want to use crystals to aid your healing–including how to cleanse and charge your crystals and pitfalls to avoid that can slow or set back healing progress. This presentation includes a 20-minute guided meditation for healing the earth, your crystals, and how to empower your rock friends to aid your journey.
Hydration – Moana Schwertsik  Water constitutes a greater percentage of body mass than any other substance. It helps fill the spaces inside the cells, outside of the cells, and in all major vessels.  All the cells in our bodies contain and are surrounded by water, so having the right balance is very important. Adults can survive several weeks without food, but only a few days without water, because we cannot store water like we can store food.Â
Finding Your Life’s Purpose – Tracey Payton, we will walk you though an exercise on finding your life purpose, vision, mission statement. Using simple fill-in-the-blank tool and a powerful guided meditation, by the end of this presentation you will have a complete reflection to help guide you to the next direction you desire.
Follow the link below to browse our ticketing box office!
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by Amy Alward | Sep 14, 2022 | Coming Attractions, Self Care Toolbox
It is a time of change, and a time of stress out there. Seems like every day we take three steps forward into balance, and get shoved back two steps by things beyond our control. We can’t always control all the externals, so self-care (managing the internals) is essential to surviving AND thriving. Giving yourself Reiki boosts any self-care routine.
Self-care is one of those individual things completely unique to you: lifestyle, personal history, experience, and needs at a given time. Starting with the physical body may be plenty to take on at first: sleep well, eat well, drink more water, move yourself, and care for your hygiene. If you have the capacity for more, then add:  environment, boundaries, nourishing joy, and focusing on positive goals or affirmations. (Whew. This is a lot to juggle.)
Yes, those ideas make great sense when you seek balance. Still, my favorite self-care tool is to give myself Reiki. What I love about self Reiki is that I can boost every self-care practice by allowing my Reiki to flow as part of that practice.
Just add Reiki!
Reiki? What is Reiki?
Reiki is a relaxation technique from Japan–many find that it comes to mean more to them as they learn. Everyone I have talked to (or taught or worked on) feels better after Reiki. The relaxation that comes with Reiki is deeper and more healing than simply laying down to nap.
Often Reiki is given in a similar setting to massage: one practitioner providing Reiki, to one client, for a set fee, and length of time. However, if YOU become a Reiki practitioner, you will be able to offer yourself a Reiki session wherever and whenever you like–for as long as you need! FREE!
In fact, providing yourself with a powerful stress reduction tool, and means toward energetic healing if the main objective of Reiki I. Self Reiki is the most important lesson of your first Reiki class.
How does Self Reiki work?
Self Reiki can be given as part of a meditation practice, and we teach our students to sit and breathe with their Reiki (this is called Gassho, which means hands coming together). Practitioners spend a few moments allowing their Reiki to flow, breathing and observing–morning and night. Others might feel comfortable praying, or committing to the Reiki Ideals (turning from anger and worry, embracing gratitude, diligence, and kindness).
Your self-care needs are unique to you, so is each person’s relationship to Reiki. How you invite it into your life, and how you choose to work with Reiki is completely your choice. As a Reiki teacher, I’m do not teach dogma or beliefs, I simply provide approaches and techniques.
The unconditional love and compassion found in Reiki means each practitioner receives complete acceptance. There is no way to give yourself Reiki incorrectly–except maybe to avoid giving yourself this beautiful gift of peace.
You are most definitely enough. Just as you are.
Can I give myself Reiki if I don’t have much time?
Absolutely! There are so many ways to explore and play with Reiki that will help you boost your own self-care. Obviously, there are the meditation and formal self-healing practices mentioned above. However, not everyone has time for a formal meditation practice, and there are ways that self Reiki can easily be woven into the regular patterns of your life.
Formal Self Reiki:Â lay down and place hands on parts of yourself that need healing or pain relief.
Blessing food, water, medications: add Reiki and intentions anything that goes on or in your body. You can offer energy toward the benefits of medications, and reduce side effects. Infuse food you prepare with unconditional love–and see how the taste improves!
Clearing sacred spaces:Â work with Reiki to energetically clean spaces, tools, or vehicles.
Empower goals: giving Reiki to your intentions, dreams, goals, and plans. You may find it easier to take actions steps that move you toward your desired future.
All of these things can be done by Reiki I practitioners–with ease and joy. In addition, all of these things can be done in moments as part of the warp and weft of every day.
Whatever your self-care routine, you can forklift your experience and inner balance by simply adding Reiki. No need to schedule anything, go anywhere, or pay anyone anything (although you might still want to get a session from someone else now and then). Learning Reiki is the gift you give yourself that literally keeps giving many times over.
The beauty of learning to give yourself Reiki as a Level I practitioner, is the commitment you bring to help yourself–to feel better, to heal, to become a better version of who you are. Reiki is waiting, you just have to open the door, and get started.
Have Questions? GOOD!
If you’ve read this far, you probably have a few–or maybe you have an experience to share. This is a safe space to explore and connect.
Online classes (including Reiki I) are coming via zoom in 2023 and beyond. Check the calendar for upcoming events when you are ready to get started. We’re looking forward to sharing the peace of Reiki with you!
