21/08/2026
You can train your body to perform.
You also have to teach it how to recover.
This is one of the things I love about working with athletes.
When you’re constantly training, competing, travelling, pushing through fatigue and asking your body to perform at a high level, recovery can’t only mean “take a day off.”
Sometimes the body needs an opportunity to downshift.
This session was with a professional MMA fighter preparing for an upcoming UFC qualifier. I won’t share details that aren’t mine to share, but she was also navigating some physical discomfort.
And this is where I believe the whole body approach matters.
Reiki isn’t a replacement for physiotherapy, medical treatment or rehabilitation and I don’t use it to diagnose or treat injuries.
Instead, Reiki used as a complementary practice creates space for deep relaxation, stillness and body awareness.
🤔 Your physical load affects your nervous system.
🤔 Your stress affects how you experience your body.
🤔 Your ability to rest affects how you recover.
🤔 And your emotional state can influence how safe or settled you feel in your body.
Pain and recovery don’t happen in isolation. Everything is connected.
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do for your body is stop asking it to perform.
Just breathe.
Receive.
Let go.
Save this for the next time you need the reminder:
You don’t have to earn rest.
And if you’re curious about how Reiki could complement your own recovery, wellbeing or movement practice, follow me and send me a DM.
Strength • Mobility • Reiki • Healing