Reiki: Restore Balance, Find Inner Harmony & Deep Relaxation
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a gentle yet powerful healing practice that supports balance in body, mind, and spirit.
Whether you’re feeling stressed, emotionally drained, or physically out of alignment, Reiki offers a space for deep restoration, presence, and healing.
Rooted in the understanding that everything is energy, Reiki helps clear blockages and promote the natural flow of life force throughout the body. Through hands-on or hands-above techniques, the practitioner holds space for stuck patterns to soften—so your system can return to its innate state of balance and wholeness. It’s a holistic practice that supports physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.
With roots in Japanese tradition, Reiki (霊気) translates to “universal life energy”—the subtle, natural force that flows through all living things.
How Reiki Works
Reiki is based on the principle of universal life energy (Rei = universal, mysterious, spiritual consciousness), Ki = life energy,vital force). Energy follows intention-and when guided with presence, Reiki invites the body’s own intelligence to recalibrate.
During a session, the Reiki practitioner lightly touches or hovers their hands over different areas of your body, allowing energy to flow where it is needed most. Many people experience warmth, tingling, a deep sense of calm as the energy moves through them, or simply a deep exhale as the nervous system begins to settle. Behind the scenes, Reiki supports a shift into the parasympathetic state—the body’s natural mode for rest, repair, and regeneration.
From a scientific perspective, Reiki is classified as a form of biofield therapy or energy medicine. Ancient cultures called it Qi, prana, or life force. The words may differ- but the effect is often the same: a sense of coming home to yourself.
Reiki is confirmed in many cultures as an alternative therapy and can be accompanied alongside the modern medicine.
Reiki isn’t something that’s “done to you”—it’s a co-creative process, a remembering of what’s already within.
Reiki sessions in person are available to book at Hember Studio. Photo Love Taylor
CommonBenefits of Reiki
Reiki supports your system and well-being on many levels:
✦ Relieve Stress & Anxiety: Reiki calms the nervous system, releases tension and soothes emotional overwhelm
✦ Balance Emotions: Helps release emotional blockages, shame, fear, anger, guilt, or grief held in the body
✦ Support Physical Healing: Reiki aids recovery from illness, chronic pain, or injury, supporting the body’s natural healing process.
✦ Improve Sleep: Promotes deep relaxation, easing insomnia and inner restlessness
✦ Boost Energy & Clarity: Clears stagnation, supports mental focus, and emotional flow, leaving you feeling refreshed and more in tune with yourself
✦ Oxytocin & Calm: Stimulates the body’s “happiness hormone” and deep parasympathetic states
✦ Backed by Research: Reiki is supported by modern studies and recognized in Sweden as “friskvård” (tax-deductible health benefit, “friskvårdsbidrag”)
Reiki has evidence from modern research. Classified as rehabilitative fitness and is eligible for “friskvårdsbidrag “ in Sweden
Whether subtle or profound, Reiki often unfolds in layers—like a soft unraveling of tension stored deep within.
For an active approach to healing, you can also combine Reiki with breathwork, which works directly with the nervous system to accelerate emotional and energetic release.
When can Reiki help
Reiki is a holistic therapy that can be beneficial in many situations, including:
Emotional stress, overwhelm, and burnout
Pain relief from tension, headaches, or chronic discomfort
Support for insomnia or sleep disturbances
Aiding recovery from physical or emotional trauma
Deepening relaxation and nervous system regulation
Finding inner peace and mental clarity
As you experience Reiki, you may notice subtle shifts in your energy, emotions, and ability to process deeper feelings like grief, anger, or fear—creating space for healing and transformation
Experience deep relaxation with a Reiki session at Studio Hember.
Photo: Love Taylor
Reiki in Stockholm or Distant Healing
Kia Agerhem is a certified Reiki Master with profound experience in energy work and holistic healing. Her approach is intuitive, grounding, and tailored to meet you where you are. Reiki is a powerful tool for relaxation, transformation, and deep healing, and she will offer a safe space to support you on your journey. Kia offers 1:1 sessions in Stockholm or Distant Reiki (which might feel off, but is truly an experience).
Kia also holds Restorative Yoga infused with Reiki at Yoga Yama, Stockholm, and combined sessions with Breathwork & Reiki.
Learn Reiki (Training in Stockholm)
If you feel drawn to Reiki beyond receiving a session—if something in you wants to learn the language of energy—you’re warmly invited into my Reiki trainings in Stockholm. These small-group trainings are an initiation into a grounded, transformative practice: for your own healing, and (if you choose) to support others.
In my Reiki trainings you’ll learn to:
Channel Reiki for self-healing and for giving sessions to others
Deepen intuition and learn to sense energy with clarity and integrity
Understand the foundations and principles of Reiki healing
Held in a trauma-informed container with grounded guidance. Begin with Level 1 (Shoden), deepen through Level 2 (Okuden), and step into Master (Shinpiden) when the timing is right.
Reiki Sessions
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Experience the benefits of Reiki from the comfort of your own home
Reiki is an alternative therapy that efficiently soothes the nervous system, balances our energy and stimulates deep relaxation. It can improve physical, emotional and mental health, including pain, stress, anxiety, and insomnia and promotes our body's own ability to heal
Prior your session you will receive information on how to best prepare. Following the session you will receive an email with notes, insights or sensations that might have come through.
40 mins / 950 SEK
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Experience deep relaxation and balance your energy with Reiki
Reiki is an alternative therapy that efficiently soothes the nervous system, balances our energy and stimulates deep relaxation. During the treatment, you may feel body flow, heat, and cold, but it's a comfortable and non-invasive process. Afterwards, we'll discuss any sensations or feelings you may have experienced.
Döbelnsgatan 12a / 55 mins / 950 SEK
FAQ’s
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Reiki is an energy healing with old roots from Japan and has been practised for over 2500 years, and is a gentle, light-touched healing modality that will help soothe your nervous system, stimulate deep relaxation and your body’s own natural ability to heal and recover. It can help in reducing stress, and personal transformation, as a complement during illness and as a tool to enhance your everyday well-being.
We are built up by energy, and when optimal, the energy within us should flow easily and freely. Sometimes this is not the case and we can feel stuck or stressed. Reiki healing aims to help the flow of energy and remove blocks, in a similar way to acupuncture or acupressure, and with the use of a variety of light hand placements and techniques Reiki activates the body’s own healing process. Reiki soothes the nervous system, helps to balance your own energy and stimulates a very deep relaxation.
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Reiki has evidence from modern research to be an effective treatment in reducing stress and depression, anxiety and physical and mental pain or tension. Reiki can improve sleep and insomnia, reduce symptoms of illness, help with a personal transformation and be used as a tool in your journey within. Physically, treatment increases the oxytocin in the body - what is usually called the body's own happiness hormone.
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Reiki is classified as rehabilitative fitness by the Swedish Tax Agency, which means that you can use your fitness allowance for Reiki.
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For virtual Reiki sessions online you will receive a pdf with tips on how to set up your space and what to think of, before your session. If we meet in person you will get the address and guidance to the location.
But most important, be in a space where you feel comfortable and you won’t be disrupted.
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Oh yes! It is lovely!
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Yes clothes are worn.
What to expect from a Reiki session:
✦ Reiki sessions can result in various experiences such as insights through images, colors, temperature or energy shifts
✦ The experience of Reiki is deeply supportive, soft and enjoyable, providing a chance for the body, mind, spirit and soul to recover
✦ The healing takes place with clothes on. Afterwards, we have a conversation about any feelings or sensations that arose within you or me.
✦ Reiki can be done at a distance and is just as effective as physical Reiki