The Rising Light cohort is complete. Sovereign Light returns February 6, 2027, on a New Moon eclipse. Join the waitlist to hear first.
Sovereign Light
Activate the Channel. Remember the Current.
Reiki I (Level 1) and Reiki II (Level 2), taught together as one arc. This round is complete—every attunement given, every certification issued. The current goes quiet for a season, then returns. Sovereign Light opens again February 6, 2027, and again August 2, 2027, both new moon eclipses.
Why it is called Sovereign LightThis is traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki, the same lineage and the same six attunements. Sovereign Light is simply the name I give to the way I teach it, a slower, spaced, live cohort, so you can tell it apart from the weekend-style way it is often taught.
Why This Isn't Done In a Weekend
You can be certified in Reiki I and Reiki II in a single weekend. Many people are. Two days, a stack of handouts, six attunements delivered back to back, and you go home on Sunday evening with a channel that opened faster than your body knew what to do with.
There is nothing wrong with those teachers. But there is something wrong with the pace.
An attunement is not information. It is a change in the way energy moves through you, and your nervous system needs time to meet it. Time to settle. Time to notice what shifted. Time to practice before the next door opens.
So we take ten weeks, not two days.
One module at a time.
Attunements on Saturdays, spaced to land.
Twenty-one days of daily self-practice.
Nothing rushed. Nothing crammed. Nothing skipped so that a certificate can be handed to you before Monday.
Sovereign Light gives you the same six attunements. It simply refuses to hand them to you all at once.
You are not behind. This is the pace.
What Students Say
Two people who've walked this path, in their own words.
I'd already been through Level 1 and 2 elsewhere—16 hours in a weekend, sent home with books and charts to fill in the blanks. I only received 2 attunements. Carissa's Reiki I alone gave me 4, plus step by step preparation, feedback, and every session recorded so I can go back anytime I need a refresher. I now have real confidence in my competency, and I know my clients feel the difference too.
Beverly McGowan, FNP Founding Light cohort
Receiving the attunements felt like coming home—a remembering of something much older than this life. Now I feel a deeper connection to my body and the energy around me. I can catch myself mid-spiral and use Reiki to come back to center. It's become less something I do in sessions and more a way of moving through the world.
Hannah Founding Light cohort
What Actually Happens in an Attunement
If you've never received one, the word can sound far bigger than the experience. Here is the plain version.
About an hour, Saturdays at 1:00 PM CT
Ceremonies are held live inside the Attunement Portal using Kajabi's live video. The join link sits right in the lesson for each attunement, so you always know exactly when and where.
Plan for about an hour, sometimes a little longer when questions run on afterward.
Cameras on. This is a session, not a broadcast
We're in it together. Carissa guides you through the process as it unfolds, and there is room to talk before and after.
When the transmission itself begins, you simply sit comfortably or lie down and close your eyes. Nothing to perform, nothing to get right, nothing you can accidentally break.
People feel different things
Warmth in the hands. Tingling. A wave of emotion arriving from nowhere. Color behind closed eyes. Deep sleepiness.
And some people feel very little the first time. That is not a failure and it does not mean it didn't work. An attunement isn't measured by sensation.
You don't have to believe anything
Reiki is not a religion and asks you to convert to nothing. Hold whatever faith you hold, or none at all.
Skepticism doesn't block it. Curiosity is enough.
Once given, it doesn't expire
An attunement is a permanent shift in the way energy moves through you. You will not lose it if you stop practicing for a season, and you will never need to purchase it again.
What you receive in these weeks is yours for the rest of your life.
You are attuned whether or not you're there
This is distance Reiki. Time and space are not obstacles to it. Every student is held in the ceremony, present or not, so the attunement is offered to you either way.
If you cannot be there live, it waits at the edge of your field until you are ready to receive it. Watching the replay is simply how you meet it consciously. Nothing is lost by arriving later.
Afterward, drink water and give yourself a soft landing. Most people notice the days following an attunement more than the hour itself. That is exactly why these are spaced across weeks rather than stacked into an afternoon.
New to Reiki and want the basics first? Start with What Is Reiki?, or read what the Reiki symbols are and are not.
The Arc: Level 1 and Level 2 in Ten Weeks
From the New Moon eclipse to the Full Moon, and onward into April. This wasn't arranged. It's simply what the calendar did.
Your daily self-Reiki practice carries you from the final attunement to the full moon. The gap is not a wait. It is the integration.
This same arc also opens again August 2, 2027—a total solar eclipse, new moon in Leo, the same sign this arc first began under.
Tuition and What Is Included
Reiki I and Reiki II (Level 1 and Level 2) are taught together as one path, so there is one tuition and one cohort.
Sovereign LightUsui Shiki Ryoho ReikiCertification
Six attunements over ten weeks
Both levels, one cohort, one tuition
Join the WaitlistNo prior Reiki training required.
What you receive
- Six attunements, given live on Saturdays at 1:00 PM CT across ten weeks
- Certification in Usui Shiki Ryoho at Reiki I (Level 1) and at Reiki II (Level 2)
- Twenty-one days of guided daily self-practice between the two levels
- Every ceremony recorded, so you can return to it any time
- Your own copy of the lineage as its own document, naming every teacher from Dr. Usui down to me
- Membership in the Sovereign Reiki Collective, our community on Kajabi, with a chat for your own cohort. It stays open after the classes end, so you can always come back and talk with me
- A cohort capped at twenty, so every student can still be seen
You will see your own payment options at checkout, including buy now, pay later choices such as Klarna and Afterpay where they are available to you. If a different arrangement would help, I can also set up a payment plan over three or six months with no interest and no fee. Email me and we will find what works.
The Path, Level by Level
Reiki is learned in steps, one attunement at a time. Here is how the path runs in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition I teach, and how you enter each part of it.
Sovereign Light · Levels 1 & 2 together
Taught as one path, in live cohorts of twenty. Opens February 6, 2027.
Step 1
Reiki I
Level 1
Opens the channel. Four attunements, and the practice of Reiki on yourself and on others.
Step 2
Reiki II
Level 2
Two more attunements and the first three symbols, including the one for distance Reiki.
Already hold a Reiki I certification? Email me with your certificate and I will help you join at Reiki II.
One-on-one · By email
No group, no waitlist. Each is taught teacher to student.
Step 3
Reiki III
Level 3
Attunement to the master symbol, the key a Reiki Master uses to pass on attunements.
Step 4
Reiki Master
Teacher training
Learning to teach and to attune others, with one final attunement of its own. No new symbol comes with it.
In the way I was taught, you go to the Reiki Master you feel is your teacher. I do not list or sell these as programs. If you feel I am the teacher to attune you, email me and we can talk.
From Dr. Usui An unusually direct line
Reiki passes hand to hand, teacher to student, unbroken from its origin. Most modern practitioners stand fifteen, twenty, or more transmissions from the source. This lineage is short, and it is documented.
- Dr. Mikao UsuiFounder, Usui Shiki Ryoho
- Dr. Chujiro Hayashi
- Hawayo Takata
- Beth GrayOne of Takata's twenty-two Masters
- Glen Dunning
- Robert Brady
- Marlene Cleckner
- Nancy Lennon & Julie BlanchardCarissa's co-Reiki Masters
- Carissa AndrewsYour teacher
June 21, 2008 · Signed by Julie M Blanchard
When you are attuned in Sovereign Light, you enter this line. Inside Reiki I you receive your own copy of it as its own document, naming every teacher from Dr. Usui down to me, so you know exactly whose hands the current came through.
To be precise about what that does and doesn't mean: Reiki I and II make you a practitioner. You can work on yourself and on other people. Adding your own name to this line by teaching and attuning others is a separate training and a later one. That comes at Reiki III and Reiki Master training, and it isn't what this is. But if you ever go that far, this is the line you would be handing down.
Questions About Reiki Certification
The plain answers, before you decide anything.
How can I get certified in Reiki?
You are certified by completing training with a Reiki Master who attunes you at each level. In Sovereign Light, you complete Reiki I (Level 1) and Reiki II (Level 2) together over ten weeks, with six attunements, and you receive certification in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition at both levels. It opens next on February 6, 2027. You can join the waitlist to hear before anyone else.
What is Sovereign Light, and is it traditional Reiki?
Yes, it is traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki, taught in the lineage you can see on my lineage page. Sovereign Light is the name I give to how I teach it: the same Reiki I and Reiki II, the same six attunements, spaced across ten weeks in a live cohort of twenty rather than stacked into a weekend. The name is there so you can tell my way of teaching apart from other ways of teaching the same tradition.
Is online Reiki certification valid?
Yes. Attunements are valid whether they are received in person or online. What matters is that they come from a Reiki Master in a lineage they can name. Mine is laid out teacher by teacher on my lineage page, with the certificate behind it. Reiki is not a licensed or regulated profession, so your certificate reflects completion of training within the Usui Shiki Ryoho system.
What is the difference between Reiki Level 1 and Level 2?
Reiki I (Level 1) opens the channel. You receive four attunements and learn to practice Reiki on yourself and on others. Reiki II (Level 2) brings two more attunements and the first three Reiki symbols, including the distance symbol for distance Reiki. In Sovereign Light the two levels are taught together as one path.
How much does Reiki certification cost here?
Tuition is $888 for Reiki I and Reiki II together. You will see your own payment options at checkout, including buy now, pay later choices where available, and I can set up a three or six month payment plan with no interest and no fee if that would help.
Is there a community, and does it end when the course does?
Yes. Every student joins the Sovereign Reiki Collective, our community on Kajabi, with a chat for their own cohort. It does not close when the classes are over, so you can come back and talk with me, and with your cohort, whenever you need to.
How long does it take?
Ten weeks from the first attunement to the last, with Saturday ceremonies at 1:00 PM CT, plus twenty-one days of daily self-practice between Reiki I and Reiki II. It is spaced this way on purpose, because an attunement is a real change in how energy moves through you and your body needs time to meet it.
Do I need any Reiki experience first?
No. Sovereign Light begins at the beginning. You do not need to believe anything in particular, only to be curious.
What if I cannot attend a ceremony live?
Every ceremony is recorded. Live participation is encouraged for the coherence of the field, but it is never required in order to receive. If you cannot be there, the attunement is still offered to you, and the replay is how you meet it consciously.
I already have a Reiki I certification. Can I join at Reiki II?
Yes. If you hold a Reiki I certification, from me or from another teacher, email me with your certificate and I will help you join at Reiki II.
Will I be able to teach Reiki afterward?
Reiki I and II make you a practitioner. You can work on yourself and on other people, including at a distance. Teaching and attuning others is a separate, later training, taught one-on-one at Reiki III and Reiki Master. I do not list those as programs. If you feel I am the teacher for you, you are welcome to email me.
When does the next cohort start?
Sovereign Light opens on February 6, 2027, and again on August 2, 2027, both at new moon eclipses. Each cohort is limited to twenty students.
New to Reiki? Start with What Is Reiki? or read about distance Reiki.
Before You Decide
If you would like to know more about what you would be entering, these are the pages I would read first.
Join the Waitlist
Sovereign Light opens again February 6, 2027, and again August 2, 2027. Reiki I and II (Level 1 and Level 2) are taught together as one path, $888. Join the list below and you'll hear before anyone else, before any public announcement.
Reiki I & II, Together
The full path, from your first attunement to Reiki II certification. No prior training required.
Join the WaitlistAlready hold a Reiki I certification from elsewhere? Email me and I will help you join at Reiki II.
Each cohort is intentionally limited to twenty seats. Not to create urgency, but because a transmission of this kind asks to be held closely. Twenty is the number at which every student can still be truly seen.
All attunement ceremonies are recorded. If you cannot attend live, the transmission moves through the replay in the same way. Live participation is encouraged for the coherence of the field. It is never required in order to receive.
This is not diluted.
This is held.