Reiki and Energy Healing in NYC: Sessions and Training With Saba Hocek

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The new mother who has not slept through the night in a year. The lawyer who notices her jaw is locked when she gets home. The retiree whose grief has settled in his chest. The client at the edge of grief, before a surgery, or after months of treatment that left the body raw. The client who has been reading about Reiki for years and finally booked the session.

Reiki holds all of them without insisting on a category.

The initial session itself is ninety minutes in a quiet room, fully clothed on a treatment table, hands moving through a sequence of positions the Japanese tradition codified a hundred years ago and Usui-lineage practitioners still practice today. You stay aware. You direct nothing. You lie down for an hour and let the body show you what it has been carrying.

What Ninety Minutes Looks Like

You arrive ten minutes early. You settle. You optionally choose an essential oil to be used during your session. You lie down on a treatment table fully clothed, in a candlelit room arranged for the work. Saba works in silence. Hands move through positions that start at the head and travel through the torso, on or near the body wherever the session calls for. Some positions are light touch. Some hover above the body. There is no manipulation and no requirement to feel anything in particular.

A weighted eye mask allows the client to drift somewhere between waking and sleep. Some report a quieter mind and a lighter body afterward. Some report little they can name, and that is also a real outcome of the session.

In this initial session, Saba will, using her signature technique called Biological Intuitive Technique (BIT), seek to uncover the root cause of emotional, physical and energetic blockages often pinpointing episodes of a particular age. Giving this awareness to the client allows them to be participatory in their healing process.

Afterward, water and rest. A light meal if you are hungry. The effects of a session carries for a week to ten days as most notice the work settling over the days that follow.

Pricing

Format	Duration	Investment	Best For
Initial Reiki Session	90 minutes	$313	Most clients begin here
Standard Reiki Session	60 minutes	$187	Follow up sessions continue here
Couples Reiki	120 minutes, two practitioners	$495	Partners receiving simultaneously
Children's Reiki	60 minutes (parent in room)	$187	Younger clients with parent present
Pet Reiki with a Reading	90 minutes	$313	Discover what your pet may be feeling, thinking, wanting.
Pet Reiki	60 minutes	$187	Pets love Reiki

Six formats fit six different situations — from the 90 minute discovery session to the standard hour for clients who want the core work. Distance video sessions for clients out of New York or having difficulty traveling. Couples sessions, children’s sessions, and animal sessions. The Reiki for Pets page covers animal sessions in full.

The Lineage Matters

The Reiki offered and taught at Self Empowered Minds is in the Usui/Holy Fire lineage. Mikao Usui developed Reiki in early twentieth-century Japan. The Holy Fire extension, carried through William Lee Rand’s organization, sits within that same line. Saba is a Reiki Master in this lineage. She runs training cohorts that graduate new practitioners several times a year.

There are many practices that call themselves Reiki and offer something else. The session you book here is the one Mikao Usui codified, in the lineage William Lee Rand extended. Saba has been working in this line for years.

Biological Intuitive Technique

The Method We Developed

Inside the broader Reiki work, Saba developed a method she calls Biological Intuitive Technique, or BIT. The method came out of years of intuitive work and noticing patterns in the person’s body associated with specific sensations. BIT integrates three layers into a single session:

Reiki energy work as the foundation
Intuitive observation of patterns Saba notices during the session

A BIT session integrates in to the structure of standard Reiki session. BIT method discovers the root cause of the client’s challenges and through Reiki begins to release the blockages. We also teach BIT as a Master-level certificate path for practitioners who want to add it to their own work. Pricing on consultation. The Training page has the full path.

Reiki Training, If You Want to Learn This

Some clients arrive for sessions and discover they want to learn the work themselves. Saba runs Level I, II and Master training cohorts that include three months of weekly mentoring circles (level I is exclusive of the mentoring), because integration is what makes a credential into a practitioner. The full path, prerequisites, and tuition are on the Training page.

The Travel the World Reiki Circle

We offer Reiki group circles three times a week. Sundays are with a sound bath. Tuesdays are themed and always with a unique activity. Thursdays are with a meditation and are via zoom. The first Tuesday of every month, the Active Studios space becomes something between a Reiki circle and a community evening.

In a group setting, each person receives Reiki. Afterward, food and appetizers featuring cuisine from a different country each month, wine, and an optional Bachata lesson. Training graduates enjoy five group classes free.

Booking the Next Session

You can book a Reiki session directly. If you are unsure whether the right starting point is a single session, the weekly circle, or the training path, the free fifteen-minute consultation is the place to figure it out. The Reiki room sits on East 81st Street between First and York, in the Upper East Side, just blocks from the 86th Street 4/5/6 trains and the Q at Second Avenue.

(917) 268-2154

420 E 81st Street, Suite 1, NY 10028

About this work

Reiki is a Japanese energy-work tradition offered as a complementary wellness modality. It is not a medical treatment, does not diagnose conditions, and is not a substitute for licensed medical or mental-health care.

Sessions and training led by Saba Hocek, Reiki Master in the Usui/Holy Fire lineage and developer of the Biological Intuitive Technique. Also certified Hypnotist and Brain Coach. Author of Intuitive Hypnosis.