Reiki Found Me

A lived experience of staying true to inner guidance through the unfolding of life.

Reiki found me…

Many moons ago, in my early twenties, I was travelling through the Australian outback on a group 4WD adventure.

I met a Swedish man, Sven, and his American partner, Katie. We connected easily and found ourselves talking about alternative therapies — acupuncture, shiatsu, Reiki.

I was open to everything at that time. Life felt wide open. I trusted people when I could feel they were genuine.

Katie asked if I wanted a Reiki healing.

I said, “sure, why not”… though I remember thinking, I’m young, I don’t need anything healed.

Which makes me smile now.

A space was prepared around the campfire.

Katie knelt beside me, softly guiding me to breathe and relax.

I melted into the swag beneath the night sky.

And then it happened.

Something moved through my body — alive, unmistakable, expanding through everything at once.

I had never felt anything like it.

Not in this life, at least.

WOW.

It was like something switched on inside me — an explosion of energy moving through and activating my entire system.

I couldn’t explain it.

And I didn’t try.

I just let it happen.

Fully. Completely.

I opened my eyes and the night sky felt different — not just stars, but something vast and alive.

In that moment, I felt completely connected.

When I returned to Melbourne, I began searching for what I had experienced.

Reiki wasn’t widely known then — no internet, no mobile phones… a very different world.

(We really did have to go and find things out 😄)

Somehow, I found my way.

At 23, I completed my First Degree in Usui Reiki.

From there, life moved.

Study. Curiosity. Change. Experience.

I explored alternative therapies, spiritual teachings, and spaces that felt strangely familiar — as if something in me already recognised them.

Life continued in full expression.

I travelled. I loved. I became a mother. I built a career.

And life, as it does, moved through seasons of expansion, challenge, loss, rebuilding, and beginning again.

But underneath it all, something remained steady.

That original experience never left me.

At a certain point, I reached a career crossroads and stepped into running a small business — something I understood in a practical, lived way, but not in a formal or structured sense.

It wasn’t complicated… but it was entirely new territory in how I was being asked to hold it, grow it, and sustain it over time.

All I had was grit, passion, determination… and a quiet internal trust in what I was sensing.

And I built from that.

I worked, held space, taught, and continued evolving within that expression of my work.

It was a period of deep learning, responsibility, connection, and ongoing inner listening.

Then came a globally disruptive period that affected life for many people in different ways.

While everything externally was shifting, something internally began to clarify for me.

Not immediately — but gradually.

A quiet recognition that I could no longer continue in the same way I had been.

So I listened inward.

As I always have.

That listening became more precise over time.

I began to notice burnout — not as a single moment, but as a gradual depletion of capacity where what I had been holding no longer felt sustainable in the same way.

It wasn’t collapse.

It was clarity arriving through lived awareness.

Something needed to change.

In 2022, I reached a natural point of completion within that business chapter.

And I made the decision to step away.

Not from failure, and not from a breaking point — but from completion, burnout, and internal realignment converging into clarity.

Something in me was asking for a different way of being with life and work.

And I trusted that.

What remained was not a new direction — but the same thread that had always been there underneath everything.

Quiet. steady. unbroken.

Looking back, Reiki has been that thread through it all.

A universal life force — vast, intelligent, and beyond full comprehension.

And yet something every living being is already part of.

It has now been over thirty years since that night in the outback.

And I remain in awe of it.

These days, I return to simplicity.

To the earth.
To presence.
To what is here now.

Allowing Reiki to move through everything I do.

As a lifelong student of the mystery teachings, there is no doubt in me:

Reiki found me.

And it continues to move through how I live and share.

We are multidimensional beings having a physical experience.

Through my Quantum Reiki offering, I hold space for awareness, connection, and self-healing — drawn from lived experience and traditional practice.

If you feel drawn to this path, you are welcome to connect.

Kimley