So, you’ve spent an idyllic few days in a Reiki class and witnessed some impressive changes. Perhaps you’ve been treating family and friends and noticed equally remarkable results. Now, you feel ready to expand your reach and offer Reiki as a service. But how do you approach the topic of putting a price on Reiki?
Charging for Reiki can initially feel uncomfortable. After all, we are asking someone to pay for something that we:
- Love to do
- Practice daily with ease
- Benefit from
- Simultaneously heal with
- Have probably been offering for
free and - Have little guidance on
However, the business side of Reiki plays a role in determining service fees, and there are plenty of online resources to help with this.
Many practitioners begin their professional Reiki journey part-time, either as a second job or to complement other services. This flexibility allows for a more gradual approach to pricing.
Finding the Right Price
So, how do we determine the right price and feel confident about it? A few perspectives may help.
Our Energy
It’s crucial to feel comfortable charging for our services because Reiki is all about energy flow. If we feel hesitant or embarrassed about our pricing, it can create energetic blocks that impact both our self-practice and client treatments.
Setting a price also presents an opportunity to assess our self-worth. If discomfort arises, we can reflect on why by asking:
- I am not experienced enough
- Do I undervalue Reiki
- People may not pay it
- I haven’t charged people before
- I learned Reiki less than one
year ago
To work through these doubts, try writing down 30 reasons why charging feels uncomfortable. The first 10 will be easy, the next 10 will challenge you, and the final 10 will tap into deep subconscious beliefs. Once acknowledged, you can release these limiting thoughts through self-Reiki, allowing your energy to flow freely.
Our Environment
Consider the space where you offer Reiki. Is it a dedicated treatment room, a professional clinic, or a shared living space? The environment significantly influences the client experience. If distractions such as loud noises or interruptions exist, it may be worth making adjustments to enhance professionalism. Some ways to improve your setting include:
- Investigate a new rental space
- Be more professional in our personal setting
- Become a mobile practitioner
- Compliment the treatment space with soft lighting, music or scents
- Perform a Reiki blessing in the treatment space
If making changes isn’t feasible, ask yourself: “How much would I be willing to pay for a session in this space?”
Our Time
It is common practice to charge by the hour, but this doesn’t have to be the case. Time is something that exists in the relative world, and is indeed responsible for many of our dis-eases and dis-harmonies. And having been conditioned to think in minutes and hours our entire lives, how could we possible charge any other way? There are a few realistic options, we can charge by:
- The treatment – set the treatment time too!
- The minute – smaller numbers make us feel more comfortable and the client determines the final figure
- The package – we often require more than one treatment to feel the benefits, therefore a total amount for 3, 4 or 5 treatments may work for us, and our clients
- Contribution – leave the total entirely up to the client. We must resolve to hold no attachment to the contribution to ensure the continuity of free flowing energy
- As an add on – to an existing service we offer
Our Values
After considering all aspects of our treatments and how our client may value them. It is essentially the way we value the treatment that matters. When we are attuned to Reiki, we are simply reminded of the energy we have access to. When we engage in self practice every day, the healing energy helps break down the habitual thoughts and habits that contribute to our dis-harmony and dis-ease processes and it is our desire to help others do the same that propels us to into receiving an exchange for our time and attention.
We request something in return that the recipient values, in order for them to value the treatment and receive the greatest possible healing.
We are asking them to value their health.
Edit: In today’s world you can easily let people know that you are now offering Reiki as a service, social media is a good option, you can even select who you want to be available to, take a look at my Facebook Page by clicking the button below:
Good luck in your professional journey 🙂
