Heal & Restore
Why Reiki?
Reiki helps calm the nervous system by promoting deep relaxation, it shifts the body out of stress mode and into a state of rest and repair. This can reduce anxiety, ease muscle tension, improve sleep, and support overall physical balance through well-understood physiological mechanisms.
It also supports the body’s natural capacity to heal by reducing internal interference such as mental stress and emotional holding. Reiki creates a quiet, supportive space where awareness increases and the body can regulate itself more effectively. Many people experience emotional clarity or release as tension stored in the body softens.
How does Reiki Work?
Reiki works by increasing the “life force energy” that flows through us and around us and causes us to be alive. The life force is responsive to our thoughts or feelings and can become disrupted and diminished by negative thoughts or feelings, especially about ourselves. If this energy is low, we are at a higher risk of becoming sick or stressed. If our life force energy is high, we are more likely to be happy and healthy.
Reiki provides a positive boost of “ki” which raises the energy field’s vibratory level in and around the negatively affected areas of the body, causing negative energy to dissipate and fall away. Thus, Reiki restores the healthy, natural flow of the life force.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is an ancient practice of channeling energy through the palms in a gentle, non-invasive way. This vital spiritual energy helps activate the body’s natural healing processes, releasing physical and emotional blockages while bringing deep relaxation and calm.
In the early 20th century, while on a meditation retreat at Mt. Kurama, a sacred mountain in Kyoto Japan, Usui Mikao Sensei experienced Reiki energy and discovered how it enhanced his healing abilities.
Use Reiki when your system needs healing & restoration.
Lineage: Our Reiki Teachers
Tellez Sensei, San Francisco
SF Reiki Center was developed & founded in San Francisco by Master Teacher, Christopher Tellez.
He started practicing Reiki in 2010 and became a Reiki Master Teacher in 2016 after studying under Brian Brunius of NYC Reiki Center.
Christopher sits on the board of Reiki Centers of America and the Northwest Reiki Gathering, and is an active member of the Reiki Alliance.
Inamoto Sensei, Kyoto
Komyo ReikiDo was developed & founded in Kyoto Japan by Japanese Buddhist Monk & renown international Master Teacher, Inamoto Hyakuten.
Komyo ReikiDo is a keep-it-simple Reiki system & practice, based on the Japanese aesthetic of Less is More. The practice motto is: Place your hands, Surrender & Smile. Simple to learn & profound in the effect on mind, body & inner being.
Komyo = Light or illumination
Reiki = Sacred Energy of the Universe
Do = Spiritual Path or Way
In Reiki, each practitioner carries a “lineage”, a transmission of teachers that traces back to Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki. Above is the lineage connecting Usui Sensei to the SF Reiki Center and Komyo ReikiDo.
Reiki Sessions
In-person session involves a practitioner lightly placing hands on or above a fully clothed person's body to direct universal life force energy, promoting deep relaxation, stress reduction, emotional healing, and overall balance
Zoom virtual session if you are unable to attend in person or when we are in different locations
Email anytime session no need to meet once the the necessary information has been provided for the session