Reiki Studio Leiden
Welcome to Reiki Studio Leiden, a school and practice specializing in the tradition of the Usui system of natural healing, Usui Shiki Ryoho, led by Reiki Master Dr. Lies Pennings. You can come here for Reiki treatments, Reiki therapy, Reiki courses, and in-depth workshops, ceremonies, and lectures.

What is Reiki?
Reiki is a healing and spiritual practice of Japanese origin. Reiki is a combination of the Japanese kanji “Rei” and “Ki.” This expresses a connection between our own life energy and the spiritual, universal, and omnipresent life energy. By gently placing your hands on your (clothed) body, universal life energy is transmitted. Reiki supports your body’s self-healing capacity. Reiki relaxes and easily brings you out of your head and into your body. This allows you to feel better. Feel how you are, what your body is trying to tell you, what you can trust, and what steps you need to take.

Reiki Treatment
A Reiki treatment is unique every time. It brings peace and solace when you experience physical pain or discomfort, stress, or an emotionally difficult time. When your life is full of choices and obligations, it brings clarity and focus about what you have to do. And sometimes you feel a nurturing feeling, where you can be completely yourself. The challenge, of course, is to remain in this state of clarity, gentleness, and awareness throughout the day. Reiki helps you with this.

Experience Reiki
Would you like to experience Reiki? You are welcome if you are curious about what Reiki can do for you. You can come with all your physical, emotional, and energetic questions. Before the Reiki treatment, I will attune myself to your question or theme and then explore with you the essence of it, setting in motion precisely what resonates with you in that moment. This way, healing occurs and you gain greater clarity about what lives in your subconscious. You’ll release your pain, sleep problems, anxiety, and stagnant energy, and gain focus on the right steps to live your life.

Learn Reiki
Want to learn how to give yourself and others healing energy in an accessible, thorough, and safe way? At Reiki Studio Leiden, you can learn Reiki with a Reiki 1 course and deepen your practice with a Reiki 2 course.

Self-Care and Self-Love
Reiki offers you a simple way to support yourself with your own hands as you navigate life’s challenges. With a simple laying on of hands, it brings you closer to who you are meant to be. People who learn Reiki and practice daily look back after six months or a year and are amazed at how much they’ve changed. How they place themselves more centrally in their lives, how heart’s desires finally take shape in a job, partner, or journey, and how old traumas or addictions no longer linger. It’s also remarkable how they’ve improved their sense of touch, how they’ve become more receptive to their intuition, and how they’ve become more gentle with themselves. And all of this with a short course and your own hands!

Reiki Community in Leiden
After the Reiki 1 course, you’ll immediately have access to the Reiki community of people from Leiden and the surrounding area, all of whom I’ve initiated into Reiki over the past few years. The Reiki Community WhatsApp group is an accessible way to meet like-minded people, keep practicing Reiki in your daily life, and gain access to exclusive Reiki circles and Reiki events. You’ll also stay informed about what’s happening in the global community where I’m active, including as a facilitator for the Board of Directors of The Reiki Alliance, the international organization of Reiki Masters Usui Shiki Ryoho.

Who am I?
Someone who takes spirituality seriously, yet is also practical. Someone who enjoys a different perspective but also appreciates structure. Someone who sees, knows, and feels clearly, and who gets straight to the core. Someone who is passionate about understanding and reflecting on her own feelings and can also laugh heartily at herself. A mother, family manager, sociologist, healer, teacher, Netflix binge-watcher, aspiring gardener, techno enthusiast. And above all… a passionate Reiki practitioner.