About Our Founder
I am Selahm (“peace through pause”) Skybird (“the phoenix who has risen to liberation”) Beman (“the wisdom and stability of the mountain”). They/them.
If you are ready to begin, Antioppression Reiki will guide you out of the manufactured hell of oppression, into the real world of liberation, where you can thrive personally and collectively.
As a child, I longed for life to make sense, but it never did. The adults around me seemed just as confused as me. This made me feel uneasy so I spent my time with nature; observing, learning, and connecting.
Years later as an adult who was still confused, I got severely ill with long-haul covid. My new disability gave me the limitations I needed to finally make sense of life. I was too tired to play the game of oppression and I had to escape. I fled to the madness, wildness, ease, and power of liberation.
It is confusing at first, but Life makes more sense here. Life is profoundly nondual/ nonbinary which feels unsafe to our colonized mindsets of scarcity, isolation, rationality, proprietary, and force. But life is abundant, sensual, nourishing, playful, and alive. If you are brave enough to receive this aliveness, you will overflow with life, which always wins in the end.
Come play with me!
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ancient and modern wisdom
Life is institutionalized liberation. You are nature, therefore you are liberation. There is no where to get to and nothing to become. You already are. Unfortunately, inside the manufactured world of institutionalized oppression we learn unhealthy habits like self hatred, fear of our power, and shame about who and how we are. If you have barriers to your experince or expression of your prefection, worthiness, power, or magic, you can heal that. You can expand your colonized mind and heal your traumatized body. It can be done! The Antioppression Reiki currilculum will help you reclaim your light and your darkness for love and light rooted in truth and justice. Become an unstoppable force of f*ing nature. Ain't nothing to it but to do it.
antioppression reiki curriculum
Reiki level 1, 2, and 3 are taught from the nontraditional Usui Reiki lineage.
Just FYI, some people do care which Reiki lineage they engage with, some don't care, and most don’t know there are differences.
Reiki 1, 2 and 3 include the standard curriculum for nontraditional Usui Reiki, but include a focus on healing internalized oppression and are offered in a more decolonized and liberatory format. Our antioppression format and focus allow students' gifts to manifest more quickly. However, the content is comparable to all other Reiki Level 1 courses and you may “test out” of any level if you have done elsewhere if you feel confident you meet the Antioppression Reiki Emotional Prerequisites.
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LEVEL 1 REIKI
Healing The Seed
Level 1 Reiki is the introductory training where students “meet” Reiki energy and open up their ability to channel Reiki healing energy for self-healing and/ or treating others. Includes an introduction to Ayurveda’s seven chakras system and to the bioenergetic field, a decolonized history of Reiki, the Reiki hand positions, various Reiki hands-on healing techniques, and an introduction to the art and science of interpreting energetic information. Level 1 Reiki begins with training to do self-healing sessions. A unique addition to our curriculum is to focus on claiming personal healing and wellbeing. We use reiki to heal any blocks to receiving, resting, and self-care. We cannot give what we will not receive, and Antioppression is about receiving justice. So, Antioppression Reiki practitioners must learn to receive everything they deserve. Overall, Level 1 Reiki empowers individuals to use Reiki, and it lays the foundation for Reiki 2, and Reiki 3 (sometimes called the Reiki Master Training). Participants will receive a Level 1 Reiki Manual and upon completion, a Level 1 Reiki Certificate from The Antioppression Reiki School. Level 1 Reiki Students will have enough training to claim their personal healing. Level 1 Reiki is the prerequisite for Level 2 Reiki.
REIKI LEVEL 1
Healing the Soil
Level 2 Reiki is an intermediate training that deepens the connection to Reiki energy and increases the ability to channel, direct, and trust it. Students are energetically connected to new reiki symbols that allow them to send energy through time and space. Students also learn various methods of distance (“remote”) healing to use with family, clients or to send healing energy to our ancestors. Beyond hands-on healing, students learn to send healing energy to individuals, situations, or events regardless of physical proximity or timeline. One of the key elements of Second Degree Reiki is the introduction to three sacred Reiki symbols and their corresponding mantras. Students learn to draw and activate these Reiki symbols and then receive instruction on ancestral healing, and engage in an exploration of their family tree. Students use Reiki distance healing protocols to direct healing energy to ancestral and intergenerational patterns. Students will practice giving and receiving distance sessions with each other to build confidence and help each other heal. Overall, Level 2 Reiki levels up Student’s Reiki tools and knowledge to expand their healing abilities and deepen their understanding of Reiki energy. Students will receive a Level 2 Reiki Manual, and upon completion, a Reiki Level 2 Certificate from The Antioppression Reiki School. Level 2 Reiki Students have enough training to do Reiki sessions on others for free or payment. Level 2 Reiki is the prerequisite for Reiki Level 3.
REIKI LEVEL 3
Healing the Ecosystem
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antioppression reiki curriculum
Reiki level 4, 5, and 6 are taught from the Antioppression Reiki Curriculum, found nowhere else.
These 3 trainings are offered only as a 3-course package so you can complete the sessions with the same cohort you’ve come to love and trust. Antioppression Reiki is where we reclaim our interdependence and this cohort model is part of your healing. In these advanced Reiki trainings you meet rainbow Reiki energies to reclaim authentic self expression, and high vibrational dark energies to reclaim pleasure.
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antioppression reiki curriculum
REIKI LEVEL 4
Unhooking From Oppression
Coming
REIKI LEVEL 5
Coming
Reclaiming Darkness
REIKI LEVEL 6
Harnessing Chaos
Coming