Evolving the Astral Body: The heart of the why will require roughly 50-75 learning and practice hours to receive your Certificate of Completion. If you elect to complete the Practicum to earn a Certificate of Achievement, you’ll spend another 75-85 hours in client practice and development of your Practicum materials to upload for review and feedback.

You learn at your own pace, so there’s no timeline for completion other than the one you set for yourself! The more you immerse yourself in the material, the deeper your understanding of energy healing and how to relate it to your clients will be.  

Evolving the Etheric Body: Supporting physical healing will require roughly 40 learning and practice hours to receive your Certificate of Completion. If you elect to complete the Practicum to earn a Certificate of Achievement, you’ll spend another 36-45 hours in client practice and development of your Practicum materials to upload for review and feedback.

Energetic Assessment: Determining Root Cause is a 15-month commitment with live online classes every 2 weeks. There’s a lot of assignment work, and it is both rigorous and intense. The work begins with learning the program elements, and conducting an Energetic Assessment on a physical issue in your body. Then the process is repeated with a practice client and a diagnosis they would like to dig into to determine root cause and evolutionary potentiality. If you’re going to help clients determine the root cause behind an illness, you need to know how to do so, and your accuracy and the integrity of the process needs to be pristine.

When I complete an EHI practitioner program, am I a licensed practitioner?

No. At this time, there is no such thing as a license for energy healing. There is an organization that is beginning to address regulations for energy healing practitioners, but there is no formal organization overseeing energy healing across the United States. If you are from a country other than the US, there may be specific laws about energy healing that EHI is unaware of. The onus is on each individual practitioner to determine state or country regulations.

You are not required to certifiy in either Evolving the Astral Body: The heart of the why or Evolving the Etheric Body: Supporting physical healing. However it is recommended that you do so. A Certificate of Completion is awarded when the program is completed, and a Certificate of Achievement is awarded if the Practicum is completed. If you do not complete the Practicum requirements, you will not achieve certification. Certification at EHI conveys that you have a completed a body of work in accordance with EHI’s requirements. Your work and work product is reviewed within EHI, but is not subject to any external regulating body as none currently exists. 

Each State has its own business licensure requirements for registering a business within the State. You’ll need to do the due diligence to understand business registration requirements in your State.

If I’m in the Practitioner Program, may I share the materials that I receive in online courses in my healing practice?

If you have completed the EHI Practitioner Program, you may purchase co-branded self-care skills to use with clients, as well as posters that assist you in supporting your clients as they work with you in your practice. All of EHI’s materials are copyrighted, thus when provided as resources to practitioners, must be used as is, without modification of any kind. 

Perhaps you’re familiar with or have studied Reiki. A common question we receive is about the difference between that modality and the Practitioner Programs at EHI.

Background on Reiki

Reiki is a form of energy work branching from many ancient lineages. It holds a spiritual component in the symbols and invocations used. It is a simplistic form of energetic healing that funnels chi to the client’s energy system.

Reiki uses a practitioner-as-conduit approach, the symbols and invocations assist the healer with allowing the energy to flow through them and into the client. That means that Reiki is being filtered through the practitioner’s unconscious awareness on its way to the person they are treating. So your client is getting secondhand energy that goes through your system as a filter. This is often discounted when clients address this concern with Reiki Masters. It shouldn’t be overlooked. Energy hygiene is a really important aspect of efficacious treatment. There’s no possible way to keep the stream of chi flowing through the Reiki Master from mingling with their own energies.

For most Reiki Masters, it’s tough to earn a living.

Why?
  1. It can be difficult to get paid for what many others are giving away for free.
    Think of it this way: If I were to open a coffee shop on a street corner where there were two other cafés giving away free coffee with the purchase of a croissant or muffin, I’d need to create a very special niche of my own to attract customers. Without a differentiating niche, I’d likely close my doors within weeks or months.
  2. Reiki Masters who charge for client sessions are often at the low end of the payment spectrum for alternative healing services.
    Here’s an exercise for you: using your favorite search engine, review the fees for alternative healing services in your community. Look at the fees for acupuncturists, homeopaths, massage therapists, craniosacral therapists. Then look at the fees on the websites of 3-4 Reiki Masters. Usually, the fees will be lower than these other practitioners.
  3. Reiki has become commoditized. Commodity pricing is always a race to the bottom – someone is always willing to sell a product or service for less than you.
    Because there are so many Reiki Masters out there, and the cost of entry to the field is generally quite low in terms of both learning time and financial investment, there’s potentially hundreds or thousands of them in a large city. There will certainly be fewer in a smaller city, but trust me, there will be plenty to go around. What’s the difference between one Reiki Master and another? Personality, perhaps. Yet it’s ubiquitous enough that it’s hard to create and hold a distinction in the type and quality of service available.

To be clear: I’m not suggesting that practitioners should charge exorbitant fees.

I am advocating for extensive education for energy healing, that gives the practitioner the depth and breadth of knowledge that will help them succeed, which coincidentally enables fee structures in line with other highly trained practitioners- you deserve to earn a living!

Bottom Line:

The EHI Practitioner Programs are an ideal way to continue (and clean up) what Reiki students have learned, deepen and extend the context and form, and integrate their work with clients into a responsible, effective, and systems-based approach to energy healing that can be monetized.

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