Hi Steve,
The Reiki Master is attuned to heal others and attune others to become Reiki Masters! The Reiki Master basically uses certain symbols to use during the healing process! All Reiki is is Energy Healing and it's perfectly safe it is known to help cure a few illness and help ease the pain of some diseases! The energy just flows where it is needed to help heal others!
It is very cool experience i highly recommend ya guys to try it! The energy from the Reiki Master places the hands on different parts of the body or close above the body either way works! Something about the energy from the person doing the healing is amazing!! Anyone can do it there is no wrong way to do reiki! I send Distant healing a lot and others have benefited from it so there really is something to it! If distant healing is powerful can you imange what its like to have a real session!!

So if u care to tell more i am interested. How is Reiki different than other spiritual practices or r their many similarities??
Yes Reiki is different from other practices cause it is energy related the energy goes where it needs to heal that area of the body it does get hot and the more ya use reiki the hands become warm/hot with more practice! I gotta take a refresher course here soon trying to go on memory here lol! Seriously though yes there are some similarities like with massages ya can use Reiki too i had that done before! I guess it depends what your interested in is all! I love it reiki just impressed by the energy it gives off to heal someone!!

Hope that helped some Steve! Any more questions let me know? I love talking about it!
i like that connection between message and healing. Yoga means unity. Unity of body, mind and spirit. If we ignore or are unconscious of one of these we have challenges with balance. We all have imbalances that we are working out in the material world. They manifest in our interrelationships with others in our financial challenges, in our habits or in our own bodies and minds etc. Everything we witness in our encounters with this world is in direct correlation to our state of consciousness. We see what we need to work and what class we are in this school house of life by the challenges that are presented to us for our learning and progress.
It is interesting to me that if the body is stimulated or messaged, it releases stress and puts the mind at ease thus letting the spiritual nature flow like a ecstatic stream, into a river, with no obstacles in it, to enter the sea.
Jitendra