Heart Light Reiki, LLC with Patricia

Welcome to the website of Patricia (Patty) Penner, Traditional Usui Reiki and Karuna Reiki^® Master Teacher, Healing Touch Level III Student, Crystal Healer, Emotion Code Practitioner, and Angel Card Reader.

I’m located off the Beltline at Rimrock Rd in Madison, Wisconsin.

Below are all the services I perform in person or remotely (distantly).

What is Reiki you ask …the long and short of it is a Japanese man named Mikao Usui had a mystical experience on a sacred mountain in Japan (Mt. Kurama) around 1900 whereby he was given the knowledge of hands-on healing system we now call REIKI, and he eventually began treating others, opened a school to train others in the method and it ended up coming to the United States eventually through one of his Master Teachers (Chujiro Hayashi), and then through one of Hayashi’s students (Mrs. Hawayo Takata).

In layman’s terms I call it “hands on spiritual healing” for two reasons. One, the energy of Reiki that practitioners connect to when channeling Reiki is said to be “Universal Life Force Energy”, the energy that animates all living things. Some believe that source comes from the Creator (God or whatever your faith believes to be the source of all life here, in space, everywhere). In my experience as a Reiki Practitioner and teacher since 2004, I feel it is definitely a divine energy and that the Creator/Source brought it through at this time because it would be so sorely needed in the extreme times we live in now on this planet. There are many other beliefs out there and there are hundreds, if not thousands of books out there on Reiki (see Resources page).

In order to be able to channel Reiki energy, one has to take Reiki Classes and be “connected” to the energy in a ceremony we call “an attunement”. You cannot just make a decision you want to “be” Reiki and “ta da” you have a Reiki connection, and you can channel it. There are 3 or 4 levels of Reiki training, depending on who your teacher has studied with – Level I, Level II, Level IIIa and Level IIIb. In my lineage (how I trace my teacher’s connection to the energy from her teacher back through Mrs. Takata, Dr. Hayashi and ultimately to Dr. Usui.

Level I is the beginner level, Level II we could say is the intermediate level, Level IIIa is the Master Practitioner level which gives you the green light to open a Reiki Practice and offer Reiki sessions to the public), and Level IIIb is the Reiki Master Teacher Level.

When you have a Reiki session, the practitioner connects to the energy we call Reiki by simply holding up their hands and saying, ‘ Reiki On” and channels it through their body (it comes into the crown chakra, goes down both arms and out through the hands), and places them on the body of the person they are giving Reiki to. Reiki is performed on massage table on a fully clothed body, preferably under a sheet or blanket or both (we are not licensed massage therapists so it is illegal for us to be touching a person who is not fully clothed), also your body temperature drops during a Reiki session because you get very relaxed and sometimes fall asleep.

A typical Reiki session is about an hour to 90 minutes long (performed just on the top of the body usually, but some practitioners also give Reiki to the back of the body as well, depending on what the receive (client) is coming to see them for). Things you might experience during a Reiki session are feeling heat, buzzing, or tingling where the practitioners hands are, or in other places of your body (the energy is said to be an “intelligent” energy, it knows where to go and what to do, so even if my hands are on your shoulders and you have digestive issues, you might feel these things in your abdomen).

Sometimes an energy block is released (an area of stuck negative emotions or energies), when this happens the practitioners hands may get very hot and they begin to sweat, and they might also do some really deep breathing and intend that whatever is being released is taken up to the White Light to be transformed to a more healing energy to heal (whatever we might want to send it to – the planet, a situation on Earth like a major earthquake, flood, etc., or to another person they know of in need of Reiki). Some people may start to cry if an old stuck emotion has come up to be released also. We can never predict what will happen, but it’s good to know what to expect so if it does happen you are not taken by surprise.

In my practice, when the session is complete, I also “sweep the aura” and wrap the person in a “white light blanket”. The sweeping removes any energies that were released during the session, and the blanket is about protection. After the session you are in a nice clear and open place and then you have to drive home, so I do this to “surround” you with protection before I let you out into the world! This is something unique to me – I learned it from another practitioner who attended a Reiki Share of mine many years ago who lived in another state and was in town visiting relatives and found me online.

Additionally, I begin receiving “information” almost immediately after I was in training to become Reiki. One day me and a few others were practicing on each other and the person I was giving Reiki to was complaining of back pain. As she lay on her tummy on the table and I put my hands on her low back, I immediately “saw/heard” that she had fallen off a step ladder. When I asked her if she had fallen off a ladder, she sat up and looked at me in amazement and revealed that she had indeed fallen off a step ladder a few days ago. Then she put it together that that was the source of her back pain.

I started “seeing” people in spirt, or being aware of Angels and guides were in the room or working with me, and other things during Reiki sessions until eventually, I was also delivering “messages” from my clients crossed over loved ones while I was giving them Reiki, or was led by Reiki to a certain part of their body to give Reiki to and more. I have since then become a full-blown psychic medium (I did study mediumship with the Spiritualist Church for a while also).

Not all people who are Reiki are psychic, don’t get me wrong, that’s just my experience. I also never guarantee that I will receive information or give messages when performing Reiki, it’s not something I have control over.