"How Reiki changed my life" - 6 Reiki Masters share their experience
“Having Reiki as a personal self-treatment practice is a way for me to feel often and deeply connected to something greater than me, a powerful yet gentle, loving, supportive energy.“
Double Blind Mag - How the Physical Sensations In Your Body Influence Your Thoughts and Feelings
“That’s how I know something is true,” says Romana Cottee, a Reiki master who runs her own practice in Berlin. “If I think something and feel it at the same time, I think, yes that’s true. It’s a deep truth, as if the body is correlating what’s happening in the mind. That’s how I get a lot of lessons and teachings and insight and direction—it sometimes stops me in the street—the body saying ‘yes, that’s the right thing’ at the same time as the mind.”
Featured in 'How to trust your body' article by Saga Briggs - published in Psyche Magazine
In this wonderful and incredibly informative article written by one of my former Reiki students - Saga Briggs - Saga shares how to deeply tune into your body, and listen to its messages for us. Including how Reiki has supported her on her own healing journey and relationship with her body.
Podcast Interviewed by Our Future Is Ancient
Thanks so much to Pia from Our Future is Ancient for this podcast interview.
This interview is more of a personal interview about my childhood and homeland influences, in comparison to the Conversations For The Mystically Curious podcast interview in the following blog post which is more Reiki focussed.
Podcast Interviewed by Conversations for the Mystically Curious
I enjoyed this podcast interview with Conversations for the Mystically Cursion so much!! The release of this episode beautifully marks my two year anniversary of doing the Reiki thing full time. 🤩 You can catch me from about 10 minutes in here via Spotify or find it via search on other podcast platforms.
Interviewed by Soul Collective Berlin
Thank you to Marianne and Natalie from Soul Collective for featuring me in their weekly Soul Sessions newsletter. You can read the interview below.
Reiki and Pregnancy
Here is a testimonial from a client I supported with Reiki through the stages of her IVF, pregnancy, and after birth. I am truly grateful for my part in this journey, it was special for us both.
“During pregnancy I embarked on a reiki journey guided by Romana that supported my pregnancy immensely and that ultimately transformed me…
Interview about I use crystals in my work and daily life, by Kismet Berlin
KATE: Was it your interest in reiki that led you to crystals or was it the other way around?
ROMANA: I think first of all were crystals, definitely. I went on a retreat with a lady who was doing cacao ceremonies and I took a clear quartz crystal with me. For some reason, the people on the retreat with me were calling me “Stone Woman” because they said my energy was so solid. I’m like a grounded rock.
Interview about my journey with Reiki, by Gemma from Therapeutic Reiki
When Romana discovered reiki in Mexico three years ago, her life path was changed forever. Now a reiki master living and working in Berlin, Germany, Romana shares her story.
Adjusting to change in 2020
What to do? Alongside using different studios, I have always had a treatment space available at home in my apartment in Kreuzberg. I initially felt a lot of resistance around working more from home, as I felt somehow it seemed unprofessional. It took me some time to realise that this was just a personal limiting belief, and a block I was creating for myself. The clients always really enjoyed visiting me at home, as the treatment room has a really lovely peaceful energy. In fact, I can honestly say it is the most serene and calming energy of any studio I have worked in!
Online Reiki Courses Now Available
Can you really learn how to do Reiki online via webcam training? Yes! How do I know this? Well, this is how I did all of my Reiki training, and Reiki has become my life and my full-time job. I met my Reiki Master Teacher while I was travelling in Mexico. I lived with her for a while, but as I was mostly back-packing and living in hostels, constantly on the move and in shared living situations, I didn’t feel like it was the right moment to dedicate myself to the practice. So she began to teach me via Skype once I returned to Europe. This is how we did all of my Reiki training - 1-on-1 via Skype. So I am very sure of the effectivity of this method.
Working at Holzmarkt
I’m very happy to now offer Reiki Treatments and teach Reiki Courses at the creative Holzmarkt venue, in a private studio space which overlooks the Spree river in Berlin.
Reiki Level 1 Course in Munich
I was very grateful to be invited to teach a Reiki Level 1 course in Munich at the Tushita Gallery. What a perfect location! It was my first time in Munich, and I hope to be back again later in the year. Here are some photos from the weekend.
Why Reiki? Who needs Reiki? Can I learn how to do Reiki?
We know how to keep our physical body clean and healthy, for example by taking regular showers and eating nourishing food. But energy maintenance is still something a little unusual or something not thought about by many people. According to ancient Vedic texts, Chinese medicine and many other sources, we have many channels of energy which run throughout and around our bodies. These channels and energy centres can become out of balance or develop some ‘traffic jams’ such as on our modern road systems. It all needs maintenance and attention.
Really great video about Reiki with Hyakuten Inamoto
A video taken from the International Reiki Conference in Sydney, Australia 2015. After leading the audience through a short Self-Treatment sequence, Hyakuten Inamoto, a Japanese Buddhist Monk, talks about the simplicity of the Reiki practice, spiritual practice & the ego, the Five Principles of Reiki, the styles of Reiki , the past and the future of Reiki. Enjoy!
Healing, Spirituality and Self-Help Book Recommendations
I wanted to share with you some books that have come into my life at different times and really spoke to me. They helped me gain new insights into situations I was going through, or made me feel reassured about the way I was thinking and feeling during the time the book came to me. I really believe that there is some magic in that moment when we start reading a book, and it tells us so many things we were just waiting to hear.
Spring Equinox Rituals & Celebrations
Winter is a great time for going inwards, resting, hibernating, and taking time to recharge, but at some point you feel ready to be outside again, moving around more, getting projects moving.
Reiki Share at Salon Verde in Berlin
It was really beautiful to be part of a Reiki Share in Berlin this weekend - the coming together of a group of Reiki practitioners and energy workers from different backgrounds to exchange ideas and healing practices. I really enjoyed feeling connected as a community, surrounded by a shared understanding.
On understanding Reiki, and why I became a Reiki Practitioner.
Reiki involves channelling energy, universal energy, which as a Reiki practitioner you learn how to tune-in to and allow to flow through you. This idea may sound strange and unbelievable to some people. I can totally understand that, but I can also tell you that for me and many others, Reiki and the connection to this energy, and channelling it as a healing practice is very real. It is something that can be physically felt and, for some people, can be perceived in a visual way too.
The Gift of Self-Healing
It might have looked like I was doing exciting things via social media, but in reality I was struggling, with anxiety, self-doubt, insecurity and overwhelm. Following the launch of my website I was lucky enough to receive quite a lot of interest. I began by offering Astrology readings as well as Reiki treatments, however I also still work my day-job as an English teacher. The first two weeks of the year were non-stop for me and I quickly became burnt out and run down.