Decolonizing Reiki: The Path of Energy Healing with Aki Hirata Baker

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Aki Hirata Baker, a multi-modality healing facilitator, teacher and speaker, whose work is based on the anti-racist spiritual liberation principle. She uses various energetic healing modalities, flower essence therapy, Ayurvedic medicine, yogic principles, and lineage practices of medicine way and Toltec tradition to facilitate healing, which she considers to be the basic ingredient of social change and collective liberation. Aki is the founder of MINKA Brooklyn, a collectively-run healing space that centers the work to heal from all forms of social oppressions to restore an un-capitalistic approach to the “business of being well.”

Main Topics Discussed:

• Defining “energy healing” and the history of Reiki
• The difference between “cultivated” and “channeled” energy healing
• How to begin the process of decolonization in our energy healing path
• Decolonizing our mindset by ridding ourselves of binary thinking
• Why every energy healing practitioner ought to take an anti-racism or decolonization class

Bit more on our teaching philosophy, please take a look HERE.

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As a thank you for being a part of our community, we are sharing with you the secret discount code for you to share only with your community members. If you are in a financial position to pay full fee, please do so as this always helps us to offer more financial assistance for those who face finical hardship because of historical and current systemic barrier to access resources.

Here’s the list of offerings and discount code: Quantum Leap Activation (Joshua Tree) and/or Decolonized Usui Reiki Weekend Intensive in LA (individual level registration) - Community 10% discount code - SCREIKI10

• Level 1 https://minka.as.me/reiki1LA
• Level 2 https://minka.as.me/reiki2LA
• Quantum Leap Activation

Decolonized Usui Reiki WEEKEND PACKAGE (originally $550 bundle rate with additional 10% at $495)

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**If you have taken Reiki 1 & 2 with us in the past and want to re-take the course again (OR you have been a MINKA work exchange in the past), we have 50% discount for you. Please email us privately!**If you know any folks with lived experience as Black, Brown and Indigenous who is interested in bringing this work to their community, and has financial barrier for attending this course, please also email us for further discounts. Thank you in advance;) and feel free to reach out with any questions.

Aki & Manu