An hour where nothing is asked of you.
You stay fully clothed. You lie on a padded table under a blanket. I rest my hands lightly on or just above your shoulders, head, and feet, and we both stay quiet for an hour. Most people fall asleep. That's allowed.
Breathe with it
Four counts in, six counts out. This is roughly the pace a session settles into.
Three ways in. All of them start with you lying down.
Fully clothed, under a blanket, for an hour. If that's all you needed to know, pick one. If you'd like the longer answer first, it's just below.
Your first session
We'll sit with tea for fifteen minutes first. Not an intake interview, just a chance for you to ask the awkward questions and for me to tell you exactly what I'm about to do. Then an hour on the table, and you're free to fall asleep. Nothing is expected of you, and there's no second appointment to turn down at the end.
An hour on the table
No preamble. Shoes off, blanket up, and we begin. You choose light touch or hands resting just above you, and you can change your mind halfway through without saying a word about it. Some people come every month. Some come once a winter, when the year has caught up with them.
Distance session
You get comfortable at home at a time we agree. We speak for a few minutes beforehand, you rest, and I call you back afterwards. Made for the weeks when leaving the house is the hardest part: recovery, small children, a bad stretch, or January in Ontario.
Red light therapy needs the studio, so it isn't available with a distance session.
How booking actually works
I work alone, in a small private studio, so I confirm every appointment personally before it's real. You tell me roughly when suits you, and we go from there.
That means we'll have a short conversation before your first visit. Most people tell me it's the part that made them comfortable coming at all.
- Send a request. Tell me which session you'd like and the days and times that tend to work for you.
- We speak. A short call or message so we can meet each other before you're lying down in my studio.
- I confirm. Once we've spoken, I'll lock in your time and send you the details.
- Payment is cash, on the day. Nothing is taken up front, and nothing is stored.
Twenty four hours' notice to cancel, no charge. Less than that, half the fee. If you're ill, just tell me and we'll move it.
Cost shouldn't be the reason you don't come. If the fee is out of reach right now, say so when you write. I keep a few sliding scale spots each month and no explanation is required.
If you're new to this, start here.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese practice developed by Mikao Usui in the 1920s. A practitioner rests their hands lightly on or just above the body while the person receiving it lies still. There is no manipulation, no oils, no pressure, and nothing to take off.
What people generally describe afterwards is deep rest: the shift out of fight or flight into something much slower. That rest is the whole point. Reiki is balancing to the individual and supports the body's own capacity to settle. I don't diagnose anything, I don't treat illness, and I won't ask you to believe anything in particular in order to come in and lie down.
Why Reiki?
You don't need a reason. But most people arrive with one, and it's usually somewhere in here.
You can't get to sleep, or can't stay there
Exhausted all day, wide awake at 2am. The problem often isn't tiredness. It's that your body hasn't been given permission to stand down.
Your baseline is anxious
Not a crisis. Just a low hum that never switches off. Reiki won't remove what you're anxious about. It gives your nervous system an hour away from it.
You're carrying pain, or treatment for something
Reiki sits alongside your medical care, never instead of it. Many people I see are mid-treatment and want one hour where nobody is measuring or asking how they're coping.
Life has asked a lot of you lately
Some years take more than they give. Whatever yours has held, you're welcome here without recounting a word of it.
You've lost the thread of yourself
Everything is technically fine and you feel oddly far away from it. Stillness is where people tend to find their way back.
You want to meditate and can't
Sitting alone with an app is hard. Being held in stillness by someone else is much easier, and it's often the doorway in.
Benefits of Reiki
The rest is real, and it leaves a mark. You don't have to take my word for it either. Researchers have put people on the table, wired them up, and watched what happens.
When people receive a real session, their heart rate variability rises, which is the same signature the body produces when it finally lets go of vigilance. In one study it rose more than for people given a convincing imitation by someone with no training. Your body knows the difference before you do.
Across randomised trials, people consistently report lower pain and lower anxiety after Reiki, with some of the largest effects showing up in the people carrying the most. It's why Reiki has quietly made its way into hospitals, hospices and cancer centres.
A recent pooling of randomised trials found Reiki improved quality of life. Not one symptom in isolation, but the whole texture of a person's day: the sleep, the stress, the capacity to enjoy things again.
No drug, no pressure, no interaction with anything else you're doing. Reiki is consistently described in the literature as safe and gentle, which is why it sits so easily alongside whatever else is in your life.
Where I land
You already know energy is real. You've felt a room change the moment someone walked into it. You've known somebody's mood before they said a single word. We move through this all day long and mostly agree to call it nothing.
I believe the chakras are real. I believe the energy running through you is real, and that there is nothing supernatural about it.
But what I stand on isn't a theory. It's the hour itself. It's the people who arrive certain that nothing will happen, and feel something let go anyway. I've felt it. They've felt it. That's enough to build a life's work on.
Usui taught these before he taught anything else.
They're the ethical spine of the practice, recited each morning and evening. Everything I do sits inside them.
Do not anger
Do not worry
Be grateful
Work honestly
Be kind to every living thing
“I went in sceptical and spent the whole hour waiting for something to happen. Nothing happened. I slept eleven hours that night for the first time in a year.”Client testimonial placeholder
“She explained exactly what she was going to do before she did it. I never once felt like I had to pretend to feel something.”Client testimonial placeholder
The ones people actually ask.
Do I have to take my clothes off?
No. You stay fully clothed the whole time, shoes off, under a blanket if you'd like one.
Will you touch me?
Lightly, on the shoulders, head, arms and feet. Or hands held just above the body if you'd rather. You choose before we start, and you can change your mind mid session.
What if I don't feel anything?
That's common and it's fine. There's nothing you need to feel, generate, or believe for the hour to be worth having.
Why can't I just book online and turn up?
Because I work alone in a private studio and I'd like us to have met, even briefly, before you're lying down in it. You send a request, we have a short conversation, and then I confirm your time. It takes a few minutes and it protects both of us.
Is this a substitute for medical care?
No. I don't diagnose, I don't treat illness, and I won't ask you to stop anything your doctor has told you to do. Reiki sits alongside medical care, never instead of it.
Can I have red light therapy on its own?
Normally it's an add on to a session, but if it's specifically what you want, ask me and we'll sort something out.
Three careers, and it turns out they were all the same.
face, daylight, warm
I started out in cosmetics, and people assume that was about the makeup, but it wasn't. I did it because of how people felt when they looked up afterwards, and that's what kept me doing it as long as I did.
Then I moved into interior decor, which turned out to be the same job, but with more room to work. I spent years building spaces that not only looked good, but felt good to be in. The energy of a room does something to you the whole time you're in it. Ask anyone who's walked into a house and immediately wanted to leave but didn't know why.
Reiki came to me as a client. I booked a session, then I booked another, and I kept going back because I felt something I hadn't felt anywhere else. It took me a while to realize what it was. I could feel the energy in me, and I can feel the energy in others. I'm open, I pick up what people are carrying, and I always have. I just never knew what to do with it before then.
So I trained, through Reiki Levels I, II and III. I'm now a Reiki Master, and a teacher as well. I've watched it work on people who walked in skeptical, but you have to be open and willing to receive.
From faces, to spaces, to people. One purpose.
Veronica Damouni · Certified Reiki Master · Levels I, II & III · qualified to teach
Trained through [lineage / teacher], [year] · Fully insured · Vulnerable sector check on file
Say hello first
You don't have to book anything to talk to me. If you're unsure, curious, or want to ask something you'd rather not ask in front of anyone, write to me and I'll answer it properly.
hello@manifesting-wellness.com
[phone number]
Where to find me
A quiet room off [Street] in [Town], Ontario. Street parking outside, and the [nearest transit] stop is two minutes away.
I'll send you the full address and the door code once your session is confirmed.