Reiki Practitioner Certification Level 2

Deepen your skills and start practicing professionally

Building on the skills of Reiki Level 1, this weekend is about continued self-healing, growth and empowerment. It is a significant step along your personal healing journey, making Reiki an essential part of your daily routine and deepening your own inner/spiritual development.

Learn a series of new symbols and skills - for your personal use and to practice professionally

The additional techniques and skills this level provides will enable you to work with clients and facilitate their healing journeys.

You will learn the meaning and application of three sacred master symbols, as well as six non-traditional power symbols. New techniques will be demonstrated so that you can apply these symbols not only to energise and heal your own body and emotions, but also send positive energy across space and time, ask for protection, and cleanse spaces from negative energies.

Master Teachers Joan Miller and Steven Henderson are both accredited with and referred by the Australian Reiki Connection

What's included

Over 12 hours in-person instruction and experience with Joan and Steven you will receive:

Three Traditional Usui System of Reiki symbols with practical applications for hands on, distant healing and cleansing a room

Six additional non-traditional symbols from the Tibetan Usui lineage for enhancing work with specific situations

Three Level 2 attunement processes to open up your channels to receive life force energy

Instruction and guidelines on professional principles when working on other people or in a private practice

Information on how to scan, clear and balance chakras

Methods of practising distant and absent healing

Certificate for Level 2 Tibetan Usui Reiki upon completion of workshop

Copy of Master Teacher lineage recognised by Australian Reiki Connection

Ongoing support from your facilitators after the course

Expand Your Understanding with Reiki Level 2 Training

As a Reiki Level 1 practitioner you will already have experienced shifts in your energy, your perception of the world around you and your ability to have more compassion and gratitude for yourself, others and the Universe. By signing up to our Reiki Level 2 training, you will have the chance to work with Reiki Master Teachers Joan and Steven to deepen this understanding and experience new growth in your spiritual awareness.

At Reiki Level 2 you will learn a series of additional Usui Reiki symbols and non-traditional Power Symbols to enable you to progress, both in terms of your daily use of Reiki and your spiritual growth. This will allow you to start working with clients and facilitate their healing journeys.

Move to Reiki Practitioner Level 2

By joining one of the wonderful Reiki 2 immersion weekends held at Krishna Village, the qualification you receive at the end of the course will enable you to apply the energy and techniques you have learned to other people as clients to help with their healing journeys. Our course will teach you how to send Reiki to someone at a distance, via a technique called absent healing. This method of Reiki is just as effective as treating a client in the same room. To take part in a Reiki II course, you need to have already completed Level 1 training and be able to show us your certificate of completion.

Prepare for your Reiki Level 2 Attunement

To prepare for your Reiki 2 attunement and to clear your energy field, we suggest that you avoid drinking alcohol for up to seven days before you arrive at Krishna Village and limit caffeine and nicotine for at least 24 hours before the start of the course.

We would also suggest that you eliminate or reduce the intake of meat and fish from your diet three days before the course starts. During your time with us here at Krishna Village, you will enjoy three delicious vegetarian meals per day.

If you are taking medication, you can continue to take it. You may also want to reduce the amount of outside stimulation such as television, social media, newspapers and spend some time meditating, walking or sitting in nature and increase your intake of water.

This weekend will include hands on practice for working on another people, lying down on a massage table or seated in a chair, including hand positions for clearing and balancing the chakras and sweeping down the aura.

Working on other people requires a high level of trust and responsibility. We will discuss professional conduct and ethics so you are aware of relevant regulations and Professional Practice Principles when setting up a practice and working on clients.

Please note: To join this Level 2 course, you need to have completed your Reiki Level 1. To be able to participate, you need to provide evidence of your Reiki Level 1 certification and lineage to tibetan.usui@hotmail.com before course start.

To see if this experience is for you, read our FAQ for retreat guests and have a look at our Code of Conduct. If you are dealing with any physical or mental health issues, please also check our Are you ready page to make sure this is a suitable course for you.

Meet your teachers

Joan and Steven are a dynamic and inspiring couple, and as a husband/wife team have a unique approach to teaching this wonderful modality. They have been receiving intensive training in the Tibetan Usui System for over two decades and have been facilitating Reiki courses (up to Reiki Master Teachers level) together in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Joan Miller is a practising Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher trainer and has been faculty on teacher training programs for over 20 years. She teaches Reiki in Sydney and at the Krishna Village in Northern NSW and has trained a number of practicing Reiki Master/Teachers throughout NSW. Joan became a Reiki Master Teacher in 2003. Her passion for teaching Reiki has grown over the years and her main focus is sharing her experience and insights to others who feel drawn to healing and helping others.


Steven Henderson first became interested in Reiki in 1998 and completed his Reiki Master Teacher certification in 1999. He was searching for how to connect with spiritual energy and people, recalling memories and feelings from staying at a spiritual retreat centre as a young adult where he felt wholeness, connection and purpose.

Over many years studying and researching different modalities, Steven was drawn to Reiki partly because of its simplicity, the use of symbols and the ability to use Reiki in conjunction with other modalities. He has practiced and taught Reiki for over 20 years using his experiences and learnings to assist people to find their own connection, inner wisdom and intuition.


Joan and Steven are both members of the Australian Reiki Connection, Australia’s leading Reiki Association.

Course Schedule

Your course begins early on Saturday morning. Check-in for room bookings is on Friday. 

Day 1: Friday (Arrive, settle in and relax)

12:30pm - Lunch (at Krishna Village)

2pm onwards - Check-in to your room

4:15pm - Afternoon Yoga (optional)

6:15pm - Dinner (at Temple)


Day 2: Saturday

5am - Sunrise Yoga (optional, see retreat schedule)

6:30am - Morning Yoga (optional, see retreat schedule)

8:30am - Breakfast (at Temple)

9:30am - Introduction to Energy and Unconditional Love of Reiki

10am - Learn 8 steps to take before channelling energy

10.30am - Learn how to draw and use three sacred Traditional Symbols Reiki symbols

11.30am - Receive another 6 non-traditional sacred symbols for use in specific situations

12:30pm - Lunch break (at Temple)

2pm - Receive your hand chakra activating first attunement for Reiki Level 2

3.30pm - Practical 'Standard Reiki' Session, working on person lying down on a massage table. Integrate the use of symbols and techniques to clear and balance chakras

6pm - Finished for day 

6:15pm - Dinner (at Temple)


Day 3: Sunday

5am - Sunrise Yoga (optional, see retreat schedule)

6:30am - Morning Yoga (optional, see retreat schedule)

8:30am - Breakfast (at Temple)

9:30am - Receive your crown chakra activating second attunement followed by your third attunement for Reiki Level 2 

12:30pm - Lunch (at Krishna Village)

1:30pm - Learn techniques using the sacred symbols to (a) cleanse a room of negative energy and (b) send someone Absent Healing (Reiki over time and distance)

2:30pm - Discuss how to set up a practice, ethics, joining Reiki associations and insurance

3:30pm - Practical session working on another person sitting in a chair

4:30pm - Certificate Ceremony 

5pm - Course finishes

Cost & Payment

The cost below includes: tuition, 3 meals/day and accommodation for 2 nights (Fri-Sun).

Commuter (no accommodation): AU$485

Camping (Tent): AU$547

Camping (Van): AU$555

Budget Room: AU$615 or AU$570 each (2 people sharing)

Queen/King Rooms in Bhakti Guest House & Lotus Pod: AU$685 (1 person) or AU$595 each (2 people sharing)

Cabin: AU$715 (1 person) or AU$610 each (2 people sharing)


Please note: There is a minimum 2-night stay for all room bookings. Campers can choose to book in for just 1 night. To enquire about the latter, please contact us via email or phone.

Payments - We require a $600 deposit to hold your stop in the course. The full payment is due no later than 6 weeks prior to the start of your course.  Please visit our Terms and Conditions for more information.

Make it a Retreat Holiday: Simply add a few extra nights in the booking process...

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Your course begins early on Saturday morning. Check-in for accommodation bookings is on Friday. 

What our graduates say

SUCH A POWERFUL SPACE

Steven and Joan are the best teachers I didn't ask for! Reiki for me has always been a personal journey because I never really felt confident practicing on other people, but this course was run so well and the information offered is clearly from experience and not just regurgitated information. Joan and Steven have over 40 years accumulative experience with Reiki and it shows in their teaching! Thank you both for holding such a powerful space and delivering this modality so simply... I feel confident to practice outside of myself! I feel like a wizard at Hogwarts.
- Marc

COMPLETELY BLESSED

I feel completely blessed that I have been guided over the years through to Level 4 Teacher by Joan and Steve. Their passion for and dedication to Reiki is inspiring. The way in which they show honour to this energy by teaching it with utmost respect ensures that it will continue to be treated with the highest regard by all who are taught by these two incredible people in the future.
- Carolyn

A TEACHER OF TEACHERS

I studied Reiki level 1 & 2 with Joan in 2012 and found her knowledge and mindful approach to sharing the teachings highly valuable. I walked away with clarity and understanding of how I could incorporate the teachings into my own personal practice and into my work. As a Movement educator and Manual therapist, it has been hugely valuable to have Reiki as a tool to balance my own energy and that of my clients. Joan’s knowledge of the human body and awareness of energy through touch allows for a supported learning environment where you will feel safe and respected. I have studied with Joan as a Yoga Teacher and body worker and believe she is a Teacher of Teachers. This will be an investment well made.
- Amy

WARM AND INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT

I have attended numerous Reiki workshops and shares hosted by Joan and Steven. It's amazing how knowledgeable they are, and how they always manage to create a warm and interactive environment. They form a great team and I can highly recommend working with them".
- Vincent

PROFOUND GIFT

Joan's experience and affection for Reiki totally inspired me to focus more on self-love and healing. Before studying level 1 & 2, I thought of Reiki as being a service to others and was completely missing the point that we’ll be limited in what we can facilitate as practitioners if we’re not committing to our own energy and consciousness first. I'd say this is the profound gift Joan shares with you, and in a way that you discover it for yourself so it resonates and sticks! She’s one of the best, most humble and funniest teachers I know.
- Phil

MASTERFUL SPACE HOLDING

I am so grateful to Joan for her masterful space holding and gentle way of imparting her wisdom to us during our Reiki 1 and 2 transmission. I felt held in a container of pure light, and Joan was truly authentic and clear with every aspect of our course, and beyond. So much gratitude.
- Erin

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