FACILITATED BY: Reiki Godmothers Aki Hirata Baker & Manu Del Prete
EXCHANGE: $150-$300 Sliding Scale
This is a 3-day course taking place Wednesday July 10th-Friday July 12th from 7pm-10pm EST (may ends 30 min. early on day 1 &2).
This is offered for all energy healing and spirituality practitioners as a way to decolonize their practice for better efficacy and reducing harm, designed by Reiki Godmothers, Aki Hirata Baker and Manu Del Prete drawing from their years of teaching and practicing experiences.
Though energy healing practice is an ancient and modern day practice; education of energy healing is most often framed from a patriarchal and colonized perspective. This is not only an issue for the integrity of the practice, but also for the efficacy. As above, so below, and as within, so without; especially in the field of spirituality and energy healing, how things are framed within our psyche directly affects our practice.
It was designed by Aki Hirata Baker and Manu Del Prete, Reiki Godmothers of MINKA Brooklyn drawing from their popular Usui Reiki, Earth Evolution Reiki, Intuition Development and Psychic Development courses, with a particular focus on decolonizing practice they have developed and been practicing. Their style of teachings and practice has been known for their transformative qualities, and they attribute their efficacy in their decolonizing spiritual practice.
In this class you will learn:
The history of spiritual belief system
How colonization affects our current belief system
Energy healing as spiritual practice
The practice of undoing the colonization within our psyche
Demystifying multi-dimensionality
This course will include:
Lecture for theoretical understanding
Journal prompts for self-reflection and self-discoveries
Small group discussion for integration, community building and further discoveries
Day 1:
Opening Ceremony
Community Agreement
Overview & Aim
Effect of colonization on our spiritual practice
Day 2:
Progression of the belief system
Justification of the colonization within religious system
Religious Dogma, Colonization and Oppression
Witch trial
White Supremacy culture as the belief system of the colonization
Day 3:
Energy Healing as a spiritual practice
What is/what is NOT a spiritual practice
The benefit of energy healing
How to create a energy healing practice for spiritual growth
Symptom of colonization in spiritual and healing field
Binary, polarity and hierarchy
Demystifying our multi-dimensionality
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Aki Hirata Baker, born and raised in Japan, immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. She is a student of the earth and the cosmos, an initiated medicine woman, and a moondancer. Attuned to various energetic healing frequencies—including Usui Reiki, Earth Evolution Reiki, IET, and 13th Octave LaHoChi—she is also a master teacher of Usui Reiki, cochanneler of Earth Evolution Reiki symbols, and the founder of MINKA Brooklyn. Aki has trained under numerous teachers of ancient traditions including Naina Marballi, Suzy Meszoly, Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman, Sergio Magaña, Rita Navarrete Perez, Tonia Gonzalez, and more.
Manu River Del Prete is an energy healing facilitator and teacher, channeler, psychic ability coach, Galactic Akashic reader, past life regression therapist, and Feng Shui and space clearing practitioner. She has devoted over three decades to exploring the boundaries of the invisible energies. Through her teaching, coaching, and comprehensive practice—from medical intuition to life alignment or shifting—Manu integrates psychic, physical, and metaphysical energies. She assists her clients to experience an awareness that they already possess, by which greater health and well-being can be achieved.
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Paying it Forward
We provide most of our community offerings and private sessions by sliding scale. This is based on the idea of ‘paying it forward’ which enables more people to access healing and wellness. This works when people pay as much as they can for our offerings to help others who may be less fortunate be able to gain access, too. We believe everyone is entitled to heal and thrive, and that practitioners deserve to earn a living wage. We are all in this together and choose to do our best to take care of one another. Thank you for being part of the MINKA community!