A Journey Through Energy Healing

Meera Krishnamurthy had built what most would call an enviable life: a senior director role at a Bengaluru-based technology firm, a comfortable apartment, a full calendar. What she had not built — and only began to notice in her thirty-ninth year — was any meaningful sense of peace. The chronic lower back pain that had been her companion for three years was, her physician gently suggested, likely psychosomatic. A colleague who had completed Shubhangi Khade's Reiki Level 1 course handed Meera a business card.

Meera attended the Reiki Level 1 weekend with the pragmatic intention of addressing her back pain and returning to work on Monday. What happened instead was something she still struggles to articulate fully. During her first attunement, she experienced an involuntary release of emotion she hadn't expected — tears she hadn't known were stored. Shubhangi held the space with extraordinary composure, explaining later that blocked grief in the solar plexus chakra often manifests as lower back tension.

Over the following months, Meera progressed through Level 2 and eventually completed her Reiki Master certification under Shubhangi's mentorship. The back pain had largely resolved by the end of the third month of consistent self-practice. More significantly, she negotiated a four-day work week, began a small ceramics practice, and reconnected with her mother for the first time in earnest in nearly a decade.

“People ask me what Reiki actually does,” Meera says now, as a practitioner who offers private sessions from her home studio. “I tell them it creates stillness where there was noise. Once you can hear yourself again — truly hear yourself — everything else becomes possible.” She calls Shubhangi her 'anchor' — the teacher who made her feel safe enough to go deep, and then trusted her enough to find her own way back.

“I had spent fifteen years climbing a ladder leaned against the wrong wall. Reiki didn't just heal my body — it gave me the clarity to step back, look at my life honestly, and choose differently. That courage came from Shubhangi ji's guidance.”

— Meera K., Mumbai