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Ten reviews of Reiki Surry Hills from Google Listings
A pleasure to share my reviews with y’all. And thanks to all my clients who have taken the time to give me one:
Here are the latest ten reviews of Reiki Surry Hills from Google Listings, where I currently have 75 reviews with an average of a 5-star rating.
🌟 Mark Ryan said:
Great experience, highly recommend!
🌟 Maggie Tremenda said: Andy was very helpful. The atmosphere of the place is very relaxing and calm. The positive energy is present in the room, and if you relax and let go off your worries, the treatment can heal you. I experienced healing power myself. Thank you Andy for making me feel better. Kindly appreciated.
🌟 O S gave me 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (5 stars)
🌟 Brock Forsblom said:
Andy is kind and professional and has created a beautiful, serene environment for the work. Highly recommend
🌟 Taya Neville said:
You are fortunate if you are led to find Andy and experience a treatment with him. Such a genuine and kind man ❤️
🌟 Sam Little said:
Very relaxing and good treatment
🌟 Annie Phan said:
Andy was very warm and welcoming. The session was really relaxing and calming, like a state of meditation and I felt myself feeling lighter, mind and body clearer for the next couple weeks after the session. I felt at peace and a lot happier, like I got my energy back! Was a good experience!
🌟 Marlentyus Aditya said:
I’ve had mixed emotion during my first reiki session it was magical experience and im so grateful i found Andy… Energy healing is no joke guys, some things are unexplainable but human mind is very powerful the only thing that limits us is our imagination….all we need to do is to Believe it.. i will definitely be back again next week.
🌟 P S gave me 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (5 stars)
🌟 Ishan Chouhan said:
Andy is amazing. The place is so calm and full of positive energies. Andy helped me understand a few things about my stressful time, and it is definitely helping me. A day after the session, I felt lighter, happier. The energy flow I am feeling is beyond words. Thanks Andy for this.
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,800 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
A half a dozen reviews from Fresha
Quite a few clients have told me that Fresha, my booking system, is really easy to use. It sends reminders. It allows for electronic payments. Every once in a while, there’s an issue. If someone makes a mistake on their email or phone number, the messages don’t reach them. More often than not, if a client has set up their Fresha account in another country, Fresha allows them to sign in and book the reiki appointment, but forgets to ask them to update their information. But generally, I’m pretty happy with it, since they bought out Bookwell, my old service.
The other new function added since I joined is that I can now reply to my reviews, which is nice, although this means you have to read my replies as well as the reviews. Oh well.
Here are a half a dozen reviews from Fresha. I’ll try to be more prompt about posting these up. It’s good to keep the blog active on my webpage, as I understand it tells the interweb that I’m active and open in general.
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,600 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
An embarrassing story about an emoji
A number of years ago, I gave a few treatments to a client in unusual circumstances. He had cancer, and his family was hoping that the reiki treatments would help him deal with the effects of the treatment and that he would feel better. What was unusual was that they all wanted to be in the treatment room at the same time. I’m not sure why exactly. Perhaps to make sure he was safe and comfortable, and to support him. It was maybe to act as translators if necessary, as he didn’t speak much English. But they all sat together on the sofa in the reiki room, a mother, a brother, a wife and an adorable child, and they were all perfectly quiet during the treatment. As I usually only have a client in the room with me, or very occasionally a partner or family member, to have so many people in the small room was strange.
I think for the third treatment, the brother had sent an enquiry about a date and time and I thought had confirmed it, so I put it in my calendar. It was before my practice really took off, because of my Google listing and the online booking system (Bookwell, and now Fresha), and before I was giving treatments pretty much every day, as I do now. I’d had a few occasions of clients not showing up and it did, honestly, make me angry, that I had blocked off my time for them to come, that I’d prepared the room for the treatment, and probably made tea for them. And that they didn’t call in advance to cancel or rebook. And because I didn’t have many clients then, it felt more significant than it was.
So when the family didn’t show up, I was annoyed. Not as angry as the first no-shows, but I still wanted to make a point. I texted the brother and asked if they were coming, and he said no. So, I sent a text that said ‘If you can’t come to a treatment, you really need to let the person know beforehand’. His response was immediate, and he said something like ‘Why are you being so angry? I don’t have time for this.’
I’m ashamed to say that I continued the argument, saying that I wasn’t angry, I was just making a point. It got worse with each text exchanged and I ended up saying that his brother could come for treatments still but I’d prefer that he not come along. I never saw any of them again.
I’m ashamed of my behaviour. It’s not a big thing for someone to miss a treatment. These days, I can just brush it aside and see it as an opportunity to use the time in another way. And who knows what stress and pain the brother was going through, worrying about his brother with a serious form of cancer?
By sharing this story, I want to say that we can always, on a daily basis, do better, be better, and be compassionate and kind. Just because I do healing on others doesn’t mean that I don’t need healing myself.
It actually wasn’t until a few years later that I realised I was even more wrong in the situation than I’d thought. That emoji above: for some reason, I thought it meant ‘yes’ until it finally dawned on me that the praying hands or folded hands emoji, as it is known, is a depiction of the Japanese gesture for saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and is most often used as thanks. So, the brother was not confirming the appointment. He was simply thanking me for letting him know that the time he mentioned was available.
So, some big lessons for me, which are the same as the reiki precepts:
Be kind and compassionate to yourself and others
Do not anger
And I would also add: Know your emojis.
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,600 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
Seven reviews of Reiki Surry Hills from Google Listings
It’s always a pleasure to share my reviews with y’all. A review gives an impression for potential clients of what real people experience in a reiki treatment, and multiple reviews shows a range of experiences. They can also be fun to read for people who’ve been to a treatment, to see what others have said! I’m grateful to anyone who’s taken the time to leave a review for me. It’s much appreciated.
🌟 Ninian said:
No other pro to go to for an absolutely surreal experience. Everyone experiences this differently, but I certainly felt like a brand new person afterwards. The atmosphere is so ambient and Andy is a tremendously patient listener. I really felt ‘at home’. I will continue regular sessions. I felt very comfortable and at peace. I highly, highly recommend Andy.
🌟 Bella S said:
Andy was very welcoming and took time to listen to my reason’s for booking my session. I felt extremely comfortable with him. He has made his home a beautiful retreat for people seeking help. This was my first Reiki experience and i would highly recommend it to anyone seeking any form of healing. I left my session feeling a lot more at ease with what I’m going through at the moment. As days pass i continue to feel better and stronger. I will definitely be returning for follow up session’s as i feel my soul will truly benefit from this amazing process. Thank you, Andy 🙏
🌟 William S said:
I had a magical experience with Andy!
My first Reiki experience – the massage allowed me to make contact with my energy field and become more conscious of it.
Andy was very welcoming and professional.
Highly recommended!
🌟 Amy S said:
Great experience with Andy. Very calming atmosphere and amazing reiki. 100% recommend him.
🌟 Deborah C said:
Andy is a wonderful and gentle practitioner. I felt at peace and a lot of my pain was gone after I had my first session with him. The place where he practices has a beautiful energy.
I would highly recommend Andy to anyone in need of a reiki session.
🌟 Carmen L said:
Very caring and thorough and made me feel so much better. Thankyou!
🌟 Linda said:
I tried Reiki for the first time with Andy and did not know what to expect. It ended up being a very healing experience. The place feels like a sanctuary the moment you walk in and Andy has this calm, accepting energy that immediately puts you at ease. I fell in and out of deep sleep during the session and felt very rested afterwards. In the days that followed, Andy checked in on me and sent me encouragement. Thank you Andy. I highly recommend his services!
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,600 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
COVID-19 health precautions and reiki
Currently, as of October 2022, much has changed in terms of the NSW government guidelines for managing COVID. People no longer need to isolate, but are asked, if they have COVID, to stay at home.
So, it seems like life is almost back to normal, whatever that is. Generally, as I only see up to two clients a day (very occasionally three), and I’m the only one who gives treatments, I always considered my reiki service to be more like a visit to a friend, and very low risk of infections either from me or to me.
Still, we know that Omicron is very infectious. So:
- If you are sick, please don’t come for a treatment. If you have a fever, cough or difficulty breathing, please seek medical care and COVID-19 testing. If you’ve made an appointment and need to cancel it, please let me know as early as possible that you’re not coming.
- I would prefer to give treatments to clients who have been at least double-vaccinated. I won’t check your vaccination certificate though and will operate on trust.
Mask-wearing.
- If you would like to wear a mask during the treatment, I’m happy with that but I’m also fine with you not wearing a mask.
- I’m also fine if you would like me to wear a mask during the treatment.
- We can take off our masks if and when we’re drinking water or tea.
If you’ve been exposed to COVID-19 and it’s suggested that you self-isolate, please don’t come for a treatment at this time. For my part, I’ll make sure the place is clean and tidy and that my hands are washed, though I would do this during non-COVID-19 times too. Thanks for reading. Hope to see you soon.
Last updated: 12 October 2022
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,100 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
Don’t come to reiki!
Not long ago, a client called up about her treatment. I had worried about her, since she made the booking at 2am for the morning after, but then she rescheduled to the next day. But she called in the morning. Should she come? She was feeling absolutely terrible, and couldn’t get in to see her therapist, and was tired and just wanted to sleep.
I was glad she asked. I think if you’re in a crisis, reiki isn’t really going to help. If you know that it will help you in a situation like this, then by all means, book in for a treatment. But otherwise, I think that if a client is too upset to really function then a reiki treatment, which is about tapping into a quiet, healing energy, isn’t going to be possible. And as I’ve written before, reiki is a collaboration. I can’t make you heal, or make you feel quiet or relaxed. You have to be open to healing and being in a state to receive that healing.
Another client weeks before had come, actively hurting from a relationship breakup. While I hoped that a treatment could help ease her pain and relax her, she said there was too much quiet and too much time to think. She spent the whole treatment thinking about her breakup and I’m not sure if the treatment helped in any way.
As a final scenario, I’d recommend not coming to reiki if you’re not familiar with it and you’re hoping for a very specific result (particularly in terms of a physical issue). This reminds me that I had a client years ago who felt a cold coming on and came in to try to prevent it from doing so … which didn’t work. But what I’m thinking of is a person who called up because their parent’s cancer treatment wasn’t working. As we chatted, it became clear that they had no idea what reiki is: they were wondering whether people get blocked energy which causes illness (I’ve written about this and believe no) and it sounded like they desperately just wanted something which could work for their parent. Reiki should never substitute for medical treatment and I also never want to give someone false hope. A person recently called who wanted a cure for terrible headaches that he’s had for four years, that doctors and therapists haven’t been able to help. But he had no idea what reiki was, and I advised him not to come since it didn’t sound like he would be satisfied unless he found his magic cure.
Most of my clients find reiki beneficial and some think it’s wonderful. But I can’t guarantee specific results and you have to be in a state to be able to receive it. So, if you sound like any of these scenarios above, don’t come to reiki! But if you’re interested in a treatment for other reasons, or you’ve had reiki before, do come to reiki! I look forward to seeing you.
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,100 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
What I say before each treatment
If you’ve been for a reiki treatment with me, you’ll have heard this before… What I say to clients when they come for a treatment and before it starts. If you come for a treatment, this is what you’ll hear:
- I’ll welcome you to the apartment, ask you to take off your shoes and if you need to use the bathroom before we start.
- I’ll invite you to sit down and ask if you want water or tea.
- Then I’ll ask you why you came for a treatment or if you’ve had reiki before.
- I’ll respond to the explanation of why you’ve come with whether it’s common for other people to come for the same reasons, or I might ask you if there are other actions that you are taking to address the situation, particularly if a situation is complex or a problem longstanding.
- I’ll ask if you have any other questions, and then invite you to lie on the table, with your head on the pillow, looking up, and that most people like the under-knee pillow to keep them straightened out.
- If it’s cold weather, I’ll ask if you want a cover, and if it’s hot, I’ll ask if the fan is on a fast enough setting!
- Then, this is what I say to start things off:
- ‘I invite you to close your eyes and relax into this space that you’ve given to yourself.’ Not everyone closes their eyes automatically, so it’s good to say so. I have had some clients open their eyes at times, but I think it’s best to be relaxed to close one’s eyes instead of looking at the fan or ceiling, or trying to see what I’m doing. Then I like to acknowledge that clients have made done a positive act already by either wanting to address a problem, try out reiki, or just feel better. Even if the treatment was a gift, a client still needs to make time for themselves to come to the treatment. And it’s all part of the idea that the treatment is a partnership. I’m not doing reiki on you. You are joining me in a healing treatment.
- ‘Take in a few long and slow breaths, and if that feels comfortable, continue to do for the treatment’. It’s amazing how little breath some people take. But it’s so important to relaxing and being still. You can feel it the moment that you take in a big, deep breath of air. Rarely, if I see someone having troubles with breathing, I might suggest taking in a breath of air to the count of four or five, and exhale at the same pace. Try it. It feels good, doesn’t it?
- ‘You can allow your mind to wander, think of nothing, meditate or follow your breath, whatever feels most comfortable.’ So many clients early on asked ‘What should I do during a treatment?’ that I thought I should try to set the scene right away. I also want to counter the idea that to meditate, or receive reiki, or to be still, that your mind automatically clears and you stop thinking. Our minds are always in motion; that’s what they do. If you want to meditate, it’s not about clearing the mind completely for an hour. It’s noticing when the mind wanders away, and then bringing it back to the centre (or your breath). And do it again. And again. Many clients report that they had trouble stopping thinking about their problems or otherwise, or that the reiki treatment did help them to still their minds. I think what’s important is not to fight the thoughts too much, to either let the mind wander or think of nothing, in a gentle way and see what comes up. I used to say ‘You can think about the issues you’re facing’ because I do think that in a relaxed state, you can sometimes solve your problems or see new solutions; but I worry if clients get caught up thinking about their problems the whole treatment in a way that interferes with them relaxing. So I’ve stopped saying it!
- ‘Finally, I invite to take part in healing yourself and to take from this treatment what it is that you need at this time. I’ll ring a bell at the end of the treatment.’ I’ve followed my teacher, Frans Stiene, with this line and I think it’s so important. Again, it’s about not just ‘receiving’ a treatment, but being active: asking your subconscious to heal yourself, and that you are taking an active role in taking what you need, not just hoping that someone else will do the work to heal you. I used to ask that you ‘set the intention to heal yourself’, but I found a fair number of clients got this mixed up with setting intentions, and then, instead of having an open and quiet mind, it seemed they were concentrating very hard on repeating intentions or affirmations. It’s better to just to be open to what the treatment might bring you.
And then the treatment starts…
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given over 900 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
A half a dozen reviews of Reiki Surry Hills
As of February 2022, it looks like the Omicron wave of COVID-19 is lessening in Sydney. This period has been a bit quieter for me. I think clients are being somewhat cautious about being out and about; I’ve been doing this too. In this context, I haven’t felt like making too many new blog posts, since we’ve all been a little less active, but perhaps I shall put on my optimistic glasses and try to post a bit more. I’ll start by sharing half a dozen of my first reviews on Fresha, which bought out Bookwell, my old booking service. So far, clients seem to be really enjoying using Fresha, and find it easy to use and book in. My only complaint is that I lost all my Bookwell reviews, as they wouldn’t transfer them over, and I’m discovering now from clients that it’s not particularly easy to leave reviews for me on Fresha. So, if you managed to, special thanks!
Discover the gifts and benefits of a session of Japanese reiki therapy, healing energy from an experienced practitioner. Visit my website or Facebook page for more information and SMS, email, call me or book online if you’d like to make an appointment. Since 2011, I’ve given more than 2,100 reiki treatments.
Clients come to relieve stress, anxiety and for many other issues, or to just give reiki a try to see what it does for them. Folks come from all over Sydney and elsewhere to see me. While it’s easiest to get to me from the CBD, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Kings Cross, Redfern and Potts Point, I’m pretty easy to get to from anywhere in Sydney.
Reiki, sleep and remote healing
One of my regular clients, let’s call her Anita to keep her confidentiality, switched to remote reiki treatments during the lockdown. In case you haven’t heard of it, reiki practitioners can give treatments at a distance, to a client in another room, neighbourhood or even country. It is often called ‘distance’ healing, though, as my teacher, Frans Stiene, points out, the whole idea is to ‘be one’, and to share the energetic space, the opposite of distance. I usually use the expression ‘remote reiki’ instead.
If I wasn’t a reiki practitioner myself, I think I might find the concept hard to believe. But at the same time, when we talk to each other by phone, or see each other on the computer using Zoom or Skype, we may not physically be in the same space, but we feel each other. Most of us have had the experience too, of feeling someone we are close to, a family member or partner or friend, thinking about us, even when they are far away. The biggest reason that I believe in remote reiki though is because of my personal experience having them, and the experience of my clients.
In the treatments that I’ve given, I think 100% of my clients have reported ‘feeling’ the treatment and having good results. Because it is a bit more ‘out there’ than a treatment in person, I do check, before someone books for a remote treatment, that they’ve had reiki before and are open to it. I think if you are inexperienced with reiki and don’t know what to expect, or if you’re cynical in any way about it, it would be possible to not feel or block out the effects, perhaps like when you’re supposed to be on a Zoom work call, and instead you’ve turned off the screen and are checking your Facebook!
Anyways, for Anita, what I was excited to learn was that while she didn’t find the remote treatments as strong as in-person ones, she still felt effects. And the proof was in her health monitor, which she later showed me: an inobtrusive rather pretty ring, called an Oura ring, which monitors your heart rate, sleep and relaxation. Her ring told her that when she was having reiki, it was like having a nap: her heart rate slowed down, and her ring thought she was asleep.
More recently, Anita shared with me a screenshot of her Oura ring results, during an in-person treatment, and she gave permission to me to share it with you. I was very excited to see it, as it showed that not only during the treatment did the ring think she was asleep, but that the majority of the sleep (60%) was deep sleep, rather than light sleep. And that out of the 50 minute treatment, she was able to go into that sleep-like state for 43 minutes of it, which seems pretty good to me.
To me, this is a very good explanation of one of the ways that reiki works. It allows your brain to tune into the brain waves of deep relaxation and sleep, rather than the day-to-day brain functioning which helps us get to appointments and not bump into things when we’re walking!
And that place of relaxation is healing. I’ve read that sleep it is when repair and healing takes place. Some people believe dreams are the brain’s way of healing and reordering. When we don’t get enough sleep, we feel bad, and if we don’t get enough sleep over long periods, it can have really detrimental effects on our health.
Many clients say after a treatment, ‘I think I fell asleep’, and I think this is a good thing. Some might ask, why not just get some sleep instead of doing reiki? But I think a reiki treatment is intentional relaxation. It is rest with purpose and the best kind of sleep rather than sleep because you are too tired to stay awake, or because you have to.