Reiki III (B) — Master / Teacher

This level is less a transfer of knowledge than a handover of responsibility. You receive the attunement, learn to work with the four symbols at teaching level, and learn the whole attunement process, so that you can attune your own students.

What the handbook insists on most is not technique but readiness. Collecting students the moment the certificate arrives is described as something that darkens the future of this work. You are asked to live Reiki for yourself first: a full session on yourself every day, on others whenever you can, and building your own experience before you begin to teach.

The step between levels is the same at every level: once you have completed the 21-day clearing that follows an attunement, you can move on to the next one. Experience deepens by itself in the days that follow; the attunements you have received open up as the time comes. Skills such as working easily with the symbols, or holding the Hui Yin position long enough to give an attunement, grow along the way through practice.

There is also an honest warning: if there are things in you still to be resolved, if old problems are still running, that is taken as a sign that you are not ready. No one is without problems, but a teacher needs to be clear in spirit and mind.

The handbook also describes the practical weight of teaching: taking your own needs seriously, the tiredness that comes with frequent healing, teaching in settings you do not control. The attunement process, the symbols and the order of teaching are all set out in detail.