Reiki Healed My Anxiety

For years, Ananya struggled with a kind of anxiety that no prescription seemed to reach. It lived beneath the surface — a low, persistent hum of dread that coloured every morning and stole her sleep most nights. She had tried therapy, medication, and meditation apps, yet the relief was always temporary. A colleague's offhand mention of Shubhangi Khade's Reiki Level 1 course changed the course of her life.

“I was sceptical,” Ananya admits with a gentle laugh. “I had a science background. The idea of channelling 'universal life force energy' felt abstract to me. But I was desperate enough to try.” She attended the weekend intensive — two days of attunements, theory drawn from the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition, and extensive hands-on practice under Shubhangi's patient guidance.

The attunement on the first evening was a turning point. Ananya describes feeling a warmth move through her palms that she had never experienced before — not heat, exactly, but a 'presence.' By the end of the second day she was practising self-Reiki each morning, a ritual that has become as instinctive to her as brushing her teeth. Within three weeks, her sleep had deepened noticeably. Within two months, she voluntarily reduced her medication under her doctor's supervision — a milestone she had not dared imagine.

Today, Ananya is a certified Reiki Level 2 practitioner. She offers free sessions to family members and volunteers at a community wellness centre on weekends. She credits Shubhangi's ability to hold space — equal parts grounded wisdom and gentle humour — as the reason the learning felt safe enough to be transformative. “She never asked me to believe anything,” Ananya says. “She simply showed me how to feel.”

“The shift was subtle at first — a quiet in the chest I had not felt in years. Then, gradually, the storms inside me simply ceased. Shubhangi ji did not just teach me Reiki; she taught me how to come home to myself.”

— Ananya M., Pune