Phil and Roisin are Second Degree Reiki practitioners of the Usui System of Reiki Healing.
Their introduction to Reiki came about as the result of a serious car accident. Boxing Day morning, 1998, they were going shopping in Powell River, hit black ice on the highway and rolled the vehicle twice. Roisin was bruised and shaken, but Phil had serious facial injuries, possible head injuries as well.
After many hours in Powell River hospital he was transported by air ambulance to St. Paul’s hospital in Vancouver for extensive surgery.
The prognosis was for a long recovery with undetermined outcome. He had severe injuries involving one eye, and one side of his face and head, with severed nerves.
After returning home to their community in Lund, B.C. they received a phone call from neighbours asking if Phil would be open to receiving Reiki treatments. Although not at all familiar with Reiki they were touched by the offer and gladly accepted. The Reiki practitioners were Maggi Lindsay and Sally Keays.
Phil had come home from hospital with several medical prescriptions, including some strong pain medication. After the first Reiki treatment, (which took place in their home, two days after his return from hospital) he discontinued all prescribed pain killers. Maggi continued treatments with phenomenal results. He had been unable to open his injured eye. After one of his Reiki treatments it opened wide.
The amazement everyone felt at Phil's successful and speedy recovery was shared by their medical doctor in Powell River. Their insurance provider, ICBC, was also duly impressed with the $$ amount saved on medical treatments!
Roisin and Phil feel total gratitude to Reiki healing and Maggi, Sally for sharing it with them.
A couple of years later Maggi Lindsay was gathering a group together for Rick Bockner, a visiting Reiki Master from Cortes Island. Phil and Roisin offered their home for the workshop and the Magical Dome to Rick for accommodation. They were initiated into the First Degree of the Usui System of Reiki Healing during this time.
Since then they have been using Reiki for their own healing, offering it to their family, friends, pets, plants etc. They also practice it in the wider community.
In March, 2007, Reiki Master Rick Bockner was again in Powell River. Another gathering was held and Roisin and Phil were initiated in the Second Degree of the Usui System of Reiki Healing at the Magical Dome.
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