Two streams, one simple session.

Reiki is a Japanese system of meditative healing practice associated with Mikao Usui. Over time, different teaching streams developed. Two broad descriptions often used are Western Reiki and Eastern Reiki.

Owen has trained in both Western Reiki, through the Takata lineage, and Eastern Usui-based approaches. In practice, his sessions are kept simple, calm and client-centred. You do not need to understand Reiki theory to receive a session. The value comes from the experience itself: a quiet space to rest, settle and reconnect with calm.

Western Reiki aka "Takata Reiki"

Western Reiki commonly refers to the form of Reiki that spread through Hawayo Takata and her students.

It often emphasises:

• structured hand positions

• clear levels of training

• treatment routines

• lineage and attunements

• practical hands-on healing

• simple explanations suitable for everyday use

This is the form of Reiki many people in Australia first encounter. 

Owen’s Western Reiki training provides a clear and practical framework for offering Reiki in a professional setting, with attention to consent, boundaries, client comfort and safe practice.

Eastern Reiki

Eastern Reiki usually refers to approaches that draw more directly on Japanese Usui-based practices and later attempts to understand Reiki in its original cultural context. These approaches may place more emphasis on:

• meditation

• breath and awareness

• spiritual cultivation

• simplicity

• intuitive or responsive practice

• the Japanese Reiki precepts

• the practitioner’s own meditative development

Eastern Reiki approaches can vary depending on teacher, lineage and interpretation.

For Owen, this Eastern stream supports a quieter, more meditative way of practising Reiki. It sits naturally beside Stillness Meditation, where simplicity, ease and direct experience are central.

How Owen uses this background

Owen does not ask clients to choose between Western and Eastern Reiki.

Instead, he draws on both streams within a Stillness Meditation framework.

This means the practical emphasis is on:

• relaxation

• calm

• stillness

• respectful touch or non-touch

• clear consent

• client comfort

• allowing the client’s own settling process to unfold

The session remains simple, quiet and client-centred.

There is no pressure to believe anything, visualise anything, or adopt any particular explanation. You are welcome to ask questions, but the session itself is experiential.

Reiki and Stillness Meditation

Stillness Meditation is central to Owen’s wider work. Reiki sessions are therefore offered not as a complicated energetic system, but as a quiet meditative touch therapy supporting rest, ease and balance. The aim is to help create conditions in which the body and mind can settle naturally.

A Reiki session may include:

• stillness-based practitioner presence

• gentle touch through clothing

• hands held near the body

• a non-touch approach

• quiet rest

• time to settle before and after the session

The process is fully explained beforehand, and you remain in control at all times.

Client choice and consent

You remain fully clothed during Reiki sessions.

Before the session begins, Owen explains what will happen and checks your preferences. You may choose:

• light touch

• hover or non-touch Reiki

• seated or lying-down work

• to pause

• to change position

• to stop the session at any time

You do not need to give a reason.

Reiki is offered here to support relaxation, calm and general wellbeing. It does not replace medical, psychological or psychiatric care.

For more information, see:

How Sessions Work
Client Safety & Rights

A simple summary

Western Reiki gives a clear practical structure.

Eastern Reiki deepens the meditative and contemplative aspect.

Stillness Meditation gives Owen’s work its central direction: calm, ease, simplicity and direct experience.

The result is a quiet, respectful Reiki session focused on helping you settle, rest and feel more at ease.