About Peter

Peter’s Story

Reiki is what first opened my mind to a more energetic and spiritual way of life.

I didn’t have the best opinion of therapy back then. My only real experience had come in 1999, when I was 22 years old. My father had just died, and that had left me with some unresolved issues that I was struggling to deal with by myself, and in time, I slipped into depression. The doctor eventually referred me for counselling and it did not work for me at all. Whether I wasn’t ready, or the relationship between me and the counsellor wasn’t right, I don’t know, what I did know, is that it didn’t help me and I ended up feeling worse as a consequence.   

Fast forward to 2014, and my wife at the time was often low level poorly. There was often something wrong, like a slight cold or a cough or just something small going on somewhere that would stop her from feeling her best. She would also worry a lot, catastrophising about what might happen, and often thinking about the worst case scenario in any given situation.

One day, seemingly out of the blue, she went and did her Reiki 1. She’d never even had a treatment before, but somehow felt that she was meant to do this.

Now, at that time, I was quite insensitive to the energies, and didn’t really feel much during the actual attunement, however, I did see some colours, and remember feeling warmth and cold but not knowing what it meant. What I did know, is that I felt good! At that time I used to suffer with a pain in my right knee. I’d had it for years. It always got worse when I was feeling stressed. I had been to the doctor about it, I had had x-rays at the hospital and had also had physiotherapy. I had a large rubber band and did regular exercises to strengthen the muscle in my leg which was supposed to help with the pain. Nothing ever had helped, not even painkillers, not until I was attuned to Reiki.

The knee pain disappeared overnight. I now had a new way of dealing with any stress or potential stress that came my way. Reiki. I loved the principles I had learned, they made sense to me, and helped me to instantly improve not only my outlook on life, but the way I felt inside too.

My journey with Reiki continued over the next few years, with Reiki 2 and then advanced Reiki, where the master energy comes in. I was becoming more and more aware of energy and using it and working with it on a daily basis, not only in the form of Reiki, but also in any other form it may take, broadening my awareness and skillset to now include energy clearances and teaching crystal pendulum workshops.

I undertook my Sound Therapy training in 2023, qualifying towards the end of March. It was like no training experience I had ever had before.

When I stepped into the cabin with the gongs and other wonderful instruments, I felt like I was home. It then felt like I was remembering, not learning, as we went along and got to know the various instruments. I felt somehow energetically connected with it all, and I always knew what my intention was when playing an instrument, what effect I was going for and what influence it had on a persons energy.

I felt confident and natural and was loving every minute of it! When it came time to do my case studies, I got them all organised quickly, I did extra too, and wrote them all up straight away, reflecting healthily on what worked and what I could change, and making little tweaks to my practice here and there accordingly. It was different to any other previous experience I had  whilst training, and I was really enjoying it.

I went back and finished the training, qualifying on a Wednesday afternoon. That weekend, I did a treatment on anyone I could get my hands on, my wife, my mum, my sister, my mother in law etc… and was enjoying this new passion and excitement I was feeling. My job for all of this time had been as the assistant manager at a national kitchen retailer, and when I went back into work on the Monday I felt different. I came home that night and declared that I had felt a shift in my identity. I no longer felt like I was a kitchen designer, I felt instead, that I now identified as a Sound Therapist. We sat that evening and excitedly came up with a 5 year plan, which culminated in me being a fully self employed therapist. It was an exciting thought.

I went in to work the next day and was busy telling a couple of my colleagues about my news when my manger came in. That was odd, it was his day off. He called me into his office and closed the door. The company had taken the decision to get rid of the assistant manager role. I was being made redundant. It felt like fate. Like it was meant to be. I had felt a shift in my identity, I had responded by accepting it and planning my new future, and now that new future was coming to me!

So I believe I am doing what I am meant to be doing. I am being of service. I love helping people. I love introducing people to new concepts and ideas, broadening their horizons and maybe showing them a different perspective. I love helping people to think better and feel better and now I am fortunate enough to get to call this work.

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Details of all my treatments and sessions can be found in the Services section of the webiste.

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