A serene man receiving a Reiki healing treatment, serving as the main header banner for the Reiki healing and courses page at the Katarina Tilley Meditation Centre in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
A serene man receiving a Reiki healing treatment, serving as the main header banner for the Reiki healing and courses page at the Katarina Tilley Meditation Centre in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

Reiki Healing & Reiki Training in Clacton

“Reiki is love, love is wholeness, wholeness is balance, balance is well being, well being is freedom from disease.” - Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki.

Reiki Healing in Clacton

Experience gentle, nurturing and restorative Reiki sessions with Saguna (Katarina Tilley), a qualified Reiki Practitioner & Master Teacher at Katarina Tilley Meditation Centre, easily accessible for clients across Colchester and the wider Essex area.

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a natural, Japanese hands-on healing therapy, which often brings about deep peace and great harmony, through its quiet and nurturing energy. During a session, this gentle healing energy is channelled to flow precisely where your mind and body need it the most.

The serene and peaceful interior of the private Reiki and meditation cabin, prepared for a holistic healing session at the Katarina Tilley Meditation Centre in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

A space for healing and rejuvenation

The Experiential Shift

Reiki often guides you into a deep meditative state. A session offers a profound space to:

  • Quiet Internal Noise: Calm a racing mind and drop deep into the present moment.

  • Release Emotional Burdens: Gently open up to your feelings and dissolve stored emotions and energy blocks.

  • Restore Balance: Bring deep peace and harmony to your physical body, mind and emotions. It is a journey into silence and relaxation and can be a means to inner healing.

  • Great Bright Light: Reiki can feel like a lovely glowing radiance, which flows through you and around you.

  • Greater Inner Harmony and Peace: Reiki promotes a greater sense of well-being, harmony and peace, in addition to feeling replenished and nourished. Reiki is a beautiful experience.

During Your Visit

During your first visit, I will take a consultation to gain relevant information. Then you will be able to relax fully clothed, on a comfortable therapy couch, for the duration of the treatment. You will be able to close your eyes, let go of the outside world and go deep within.

Session Duration: Please allow 90 minutes for your first visit (includes both the personal consultation and your treatment. Subsequent sessions are 1 hour long.

Location: In person at the peaceful Katarina Tilley Meditation Centre in Point Clear, near Clacton-on-Sea.

Investment: £40 per session.

What People Are Saying About The Reiki Sessions

“After visiting Katarina’s practice for a Reiki treatment, on a long-term back problem, I’m now living without pain. For me the results have been miraculous and life changing in a very positive way.”

— Peter

“Reiki sessions leave me feeling deeply relaxed, calmer, and more balanced both emotionally and physically. During the session I often feel a comforting warmth and sense of peace. Afterwards I feel lighter and more able to cope with things.. ”

— Jacqui

“I look forward to my Reiki sessions because Reiki really helps relax my mind and body. It reduces any worries. It also gives me inner peace and contentment.”

— John

Reiki 1, Reiki 2 & Master Courses in Clacton, nr. Colchester, Essex


Reiki 1 - First Degree Reiki Training - Shoden Level (Beginner Courses)

This lovely beginners' course introduces you to the gentle healing art of Reiki. While the practical training is comprehensive, the experience is deeply relaxing, often marking the start of a wonderful spiritual healing journey, that supports your personal inner development.

A student practicing hands-on healing during a Reiki 1 partner session serving Clacton and Colchester.

Course details:

Duration: 2 days.

Course hours: 09:30 - 17:30.

Cost: £195 - includes manual and certificate.

Deposit £95, To honour our small group size, bookings and payments are non-refundable and non-transferable.

What You Will Learn:

On this Reiki 1 course you will learn Western Reiki and Mikao Usui’s original Reiki, which is a natural, simple, powerful and intuitive healing method. This training course covers:

  • History & Theory: Learn the origins of Reiki, how Reiki works and the seven chakras as a spiritual roadmap to awaken latent energy and elevate consciousness toward ultimate liberation.

  • Hands-On Healing: Practice hands-on and self-healing, give and receive Reiki healing during practical training sessions. You will practise twelve Western hand positions and Mikao Usui's original five hand positions.

  • Energy Sensing & Awareness: Learn how to scan the body, sense subtle energies and be shown how to see auras.

  • Meditation & Mindfulness: Practice guided visualisation meditation, learn Usui’s original Gassho meditation and be introduced to mindfulness. You will be shown how to see auras. You will gain an understanding of the chakras.

  • Energy Exercises: Learn Usui’s two original energy exercises.

Attunements and Empowerments:

  • You will receive several attunements and Reiju empowerments during the course.

  • This training may enable you to practise Reiki healing on yourself, your friends and your family.

Course Group Size:

  • Intimate Learning Environment: To ensure focused guidance and plenty of practical experience, a maximum of 4 participants are accepted per course, serving Clacton, Colchester and nearby areas.


Reiki 2 - Second Degree Reiki Training - Okuden Level (Practitoner Courses)

This wonderful, relaxing and enriching Reiki 2 practitioner training expands your connection to Reiki. Dedicated to understanding the use of symbols and kotodama within the healing practice. It provides many tools for facilitating Reiki healing - perfect for those wishing to practice Reiki professionally or further their personal spiritual journey. This second-degree course has the potential to profoundly deepen and strengthen your existing Reiki energies.

Course Details:

Time-Span: 2 days.

Course hours: 09:30 - 17:30.

Cost: £225 - includes manual and certificate.

Deposit £125, To honour our small group size, bookings and payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Two students practicing advanced energy healing techniques during a Reiki 2 certification course taught by Katarina Tilley, serving clients across Colchester and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
Students learning sitting down healing with Kotodama on a Reiki 2 course serving Clacton and Colchester.

What You Will Learn:

On this Reiki 2 Practitioner course you will learn Western Reiki and Original Usui Reiki to enable you to practise Reiki professionally. This training covers:

  • Sacred Symbols & Kotodama: Learn the three Western Reiki symbols and the three original Japaneses Kotodama (sound energies). Learn how draw and use the symbols, in-person and at a distance. Learn how to chant the Kotodama and use them to to facilitate healing, for yourself and others.

  • The Experience of Oneness: Discover how one specific Kotodama transcends simple energy work, to offer a profound experience of oneness - a beautiful, heart opening practice previously unknown in Western Reiki.

  • Advanced Healing Techniques: Learn the art of distant Reiki healing, working with focused intention, and an advanced visualisation technique.

  • Holistic Root-Cause Healing: Gain a deep understanding of how disease manifests in the body and how to work with the root cause of a condition.

  • Traditional Japanese Practices: Learn how to practice Hatsu Rei Ho, integrate crystals into your healing sessions, deepen your daily meditation practice and further your mindfulness journey.

  • Professional Practitioner Skills: Learn the practical essentials of how to confidently set up a professional Reiki practice and maintain compliant client records.

Attunements and Empowerments:

  • You will receive three original Usui Reiju empowerments and one attunement, for this level.

Course Group Size:

  • Intimate Learning Environment: An intimate learning environment limited to a maximum of 4 participants per class, allowing for personalised mentorship and deep practical training, serving Clacton, Colchester, and surrounding areas.

Professional Practice & Insurance Registration

Upon successful completion of this Reiki 2 Practitioner course, you will receive a certificate that is fully recognised by leading independent insurance providers in the UK. This enables you to:

  • Secure Professional Indemnity Insurance: Confidently get the necessary coverage to protect your business.

  • Launch Your Private Practice: Legally and confidently set up your own independent treatment room, offer therapy sessions to the general public, and charge for your professional services.

Please note: If your specific career goal is to seek direct employment as a practitioner within the NHS or formal hospital clinics, you will require a course structured under the voluntary 9-month National Occupational Standards (NOS) framework. If you wish to build a thriving, independent private practice serving private clients, this course gives everything you need.


Reiki Master Teacher Training - Reiki Master Teacher Courses

This high-vibrational training fully prepares you to confidently attune and teach others, marking a beautiful milestone on your healing path. Whether your goal is to become a professional teacher or simply deepen your existing energies to attune your house and garden, this Master course welcomes your unique spiritual journey.

Course Details:

Course Length: 2 days.

Course hours: 09:30 - 17:30.

Cost: £475 - includes manual and certificate.

Deposit £200, To honour our small group size, bookings and payments are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Saguna Katarina Tilley passing a sacred attunement to a student during a Reiki Master course training course in Essex.png

What You Will Learn:

Step into the highest level of training, learning how to attune students to Western Reiki and empower students to the Original Usui Reiki way. This training course covers:

  • Professional Mastery & Ethics: Explore the essential pillars needed to become a successful Reiki Master. We dive deeply into building a practice with good ethics, high integrity, and proper preparation for teaching others.

  • Master Symbols & Kotodama: Receive and learn how to work with the Usui/Tibetan Master symbols, alongside the sacred Master Kotodama

  • The Art of Attuning/Empowering Others: Learn step-by-step how to confidently carry out original Reiju empowerments and attunements on yourself and others, gaining a proper understanding of the purpose behind every ritual.

  • Self-Empowerment: Learn Usui’s original self-empowerment method of working with an energy ball technique, to empower yourself.

  • Distance Attunements & Distance Reiju empowerments: Learn the art of passing distance attunements and distance Reiju to others.

Attunements and Empowerments:

  • You will receive the Reiki Master attunement and the Original Usui Reiju Master Kotodama empowerment, which will enable you to teach Reiki to others.

Course Group Size:

  • Intimate Learning Environment: In order to offer you the highest quality of personal attention and mentorship, a maximum of 2 participants are accepted per course, serving Clacton, Colchester and nearby areas.

What People Are Saying About The Reiki Courses

“Had a fantastic weekend learning Reiki 1 with Katarina. The whole experience has been life changing and thought provoking. I have come away feeling totally empowered by the whole experience. Katarina made me feel so welcome and cared for. I’d highly recommend this course and any course taught by Katarina, it was amazing from beginning to end.”

— Dominique

“Some say that Reiki finds you... rather than you find Reiki. Either way, I’m so grateful that it came in to my life and that I had Katarina Tilley as my teacher. So much so, that I went on to do level 2 with her… then my Masters. ”

— Sue

“WOW what an amazing 2 days!!! A truly life changing experience, which continues to grow day by day. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to find peace within themselves.”

— Eleni

Testimonials

“I attended the Reiki 1 Beginners Course and can only say that it has been the start of a turning point in my life. I was initially a bit nervous of attending but as soon as I entered Katarina’s home I felt instantly at ease. She is very warm and welcoming and the group that I was with have now become friends. The Reiki Course itself is a very relaxing but busy two day course and it is worth every penny spend! On the first course Katarina opens you up to the Reiki energy through a relaxing ritual and goes on to teach you how to do the healing on yourself and others.

I have since used the Reiki on my family (even my sceptic partner who is the one that asks me to do it over and over again!). For me on a personal level it has opened my eyes and has given me a new outlet on how to deal with my emotions, to keep calm, meditate and ultimately dragged me out of my self-pity hole and to think of others and to try practice patience and tolerance. I do believe Reiki is a very personal journey to go on and willingly help to improve your life in the best possible way. For our group it was a very calm, spiritual, cleansing two days where we learnt so much about ourselves and I cannot wait to attend the Level 2 course. ”

— Debbie, Colchester

“I had spent a lot of time looking for just the right person to teach and coach me in Reiki and having had various discussions with different people, I was beginning to think that I would never find the connection I was looking for in the person that was to teach me.

However when I found Katarina, something in me lit up and I knew I had found my mentor.
I initially met with Katarina to have a Reiki session and to see if there was the connection I was looking for.
Well I’m more than happy to say I was not disappointed. From the moment I met Katarina I could feel warmth and love radiating from her and she is truly dedicated to improving and helping people to evolve and become more enlightened.
The courses Katarina runs are fantastic, very well structured and so full of information and knowledge which will help you advance.

Katarina is a true inspiration and I would have no hesitation in recommending her to any one who wishes to develop their spirituality.
Love, peace and harmony”

— Stephen, Chelmsford

“Dear Katarina

I can’t tell you how elated I was after the wonderful weekend in your company and the Reiki training. As you know, I have been on the edge of your teachings for many years and have often marvelled at the peace and purity that you exude. The description ‘Living in the Light’ is so apt as it appears what you do and are. Your teachings are so at one with all that is good and how everyone would like their life to be, I wish everyone could see just what gifts you have to offer and how just spending time in your company, can be truly transformational. Since my training, I have continued to use the tools that you have given me and in times of stress, recall your voice and words of wisdom.

Thank you again from the bottom of my heart for igniting the gift of love.”

— Louise, Chelmsford

“I had the pleasure recently to refresh and upgrade both my Reiki Levels I and II in Little Clacton, under the direction of Reiki Master, Katarina Tilley. Whilst I found the two days to be very intensive and full-on I have to say I completely enjoyed the whole experience.

Katarina is very knowledgeable and experienced in Reiki and other healing modalities and easily guides you through the whole experience with sensitivity and humour. I felt completely at ease the whole time I was there.

I have a lot of new things to take on board now but it is fair to say my Reiki seems more intense and deeper than I have experienced before.

I would thoroughly recommend Katarina to anyone who is thinking about learning Reiki or in fact looking for a treatment.”

— Nick, Holland-on-Sea

“It was a strange feeling, something was very different, gone was the heavy dark blanket restraining me, strangling me holding me down. I just knew that for the last 40 years I had disappeared and now something within me was urging me to search for the real reason of my existence. I was feeling confused and my mind churning over with thoughts of well being, I searched and found Katarina Tilley.

This was the beginning of a journey that I never for one moment expected would change my whole perception of thinking and being. I embarked on the Reiki Level I with Katarina soon after meeting her. Katarina explained very clearly the basic principles and practise of Reiki and I received a very powerful attunement. It made many things fall into place.

Soon after I realised I had received much more than Reiki from Katarina, she opened up a gateway for a deeper understanding. It was at this point a change really began, I felt as if I was back in love with the world again. It was almost as if I had been in a deep dark sleep and I was slowly awakening to this beautiful new world around me. Calmness ande was taking me over, it was powerful.

I carried out Reiki on friends and it was an incredible privilege to help others. Feed back was positive so I knew it was time to embark on Reiki II. This attunement was truly amazing. Katarina has a non-judgemental and effortless way of teaching. Through her deep knowledge and wisdom she guided me through this level to a higher connection. I particularly enjoyed the Kotodama. I can only describe my state of mind as joyous since I started on this journey. Katarina has given me clarity and opened my eyes as to the help I can give others as well as support me through my personal life. Thanks Katarina.”

— Ann, Chelmsford

“I have recently had the pleasure of achieving Shinpiden Level (Reiki Master Teacher) at Living in the Light Meditation Centre by my Reiki Master Teacher, Katarina Tilley. The course was conducted under strict social distancing rules. The course was again full-on, especially on the first day and I went home that evening completely exhausted. Katarina covered an incredible amount of content but always at a pace that suited me and she always made sure I understood each topic before she moved on to the next. She has an amazing teaching style that is both sensitive to the student’s need but being incredibly effective at the same time.

If you want to become a Reiki Master and have any thoughts of personal ego then these are soon knocked out of you, not only by the amount of course work but by the subtle way Katarina guides you through the responsibilities this level demands.

I read recently that become a Reiki Master is not the end of your training but is in fact the beginning of your training into self mastery. This is certainly applicable to me as I am sure it is for many others but the good thing is that Katarina is only a phone call or email away and is happy to act as a guide and mentor in your own personal journey. I am not ashamed to say that I have successfully taken advantage of this help since achieving this level.

I thoroughly recommend Katarina to anyone who is Okuden Level (Second Degree Reiki) and feels ready to become a Reiki Master.”

— Nick, Holland-on-Sea

“I’ve just finished the Reiki 1 course with Katarina. Well I can’t praise Katarina enough, as soon as I walked in the door Katarina put me at ease. I learned so much from her over the weekend, Katarina is a wealth of knowledge and information about Reiki. She gave me self confidence and a belief in my abilities. Such a wonderful person, I would recommend this course to anyone interested in learning about Reiki.”

— Helen, Clacton-on-Sea

Katarina Tilley’s Reiki Lineages

Western Lineage

Mikao Usui

Chujiro Hayashi

Hawayo Takata

Iris Ishikuro

Arthur Robertson

Diane McCumber

William Rand

Allan Sweeney

Katarina Tilley

Japanese Lineage

Mikao Usui

Suzuki San

Chris Marsh

Taggart King

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