REIKI REVELATIONS

by Brian Brunius

Oregon, USA, Summer 2014

The idea for The Reiki Songbook began to emerge for me at The Northwest Reiki Gathering in 2014 as I listened to Ellen Montague sing her Reiki song, “Coming Home to Reiki.” The song brought a hundred people together, in one voice. Singing it as a group redirected our energy, focused us, relaxed us, harmonized us, and so much more happened that I cannot put into words.

I knew then that these songs had to be heard, had to be sung, that the younger generation of Reiki masters would benefit so much from learning these songs, sharing them with their communities of students, and being able to recognize and sing their own Reiki songs that may begin to coalesce within them.

I posted Ellen’s song to YouTube and watched over the years as it garnered views and comments. There simply were no other Reiki songs online for people to find. Ellen’s was the only one.

Leicester, England, Spring 2019

At the annual gathering of The Reiki Alliance in England in 2019, I had the beautiful experience of hearing the conference organizing team lead us in a song they had created for the conference, “Weaving Heart, Soul, and Spirit Into Fields of Grace.”

Weaving Heart, Soul and Spirit into Fields of Grace

Weaving Heart, Soul and Spirit into Fields of Grace

Weaving Heart, Soul and Spirit into Fields of Grace”

Set to a timeless Celtic tune we sang “We are all weaving together, fields of grace.” As the group sang this song several times a day over ten days, it built up a tremendous power to unite us, to focus our energies, and to concentrate the power of our circle so fields of grace literally radiated out from us into the world around us.

Even one person gently humming the song in the circle would bring the noisy group of more than a hundred masters into perfect harmony, swaying and singing together.

It Had to Happen

After that conference in England, I contacted Cynthia Faust asking for a Skype call with her to share these ideas that were in my head and would not leave me alone. Cynthia agreed to facilitate the emergence of my vision, and patiently spoke with me week after week until the core of the project formed and the vision started to crystallize.

Ellen Montague, the woman whose song started me on this journey, joined the project in 2020. Together we are just at the starting point of collecting songs and finding ways to share them with the world.

With Love, Brian Brunius