What is Reiki?
Something is not right and you know it. Not in a way that shows up clearly. In the way that you feel it in the body before you have the language for it. The exhaustion that sleep does not fix. The anxiety that arrives before the day has given it a reason. The sense that you have been carrying something for so long that you have started to mistake the weight for simply how life feels.
You are not imagining it. And you are not broken. You are energetically out of balance. And that is something that can be addressed at the root.
Reiki, pronounced ray-key, is a gentle and effective Japanese energy healing practice that works not at the level of the symptom but at the level of the source. The word itself comes from two Japanese words: Rei, meaning higher power, and Ki, meaning life force energy. Together they describe something that every healing tradition in human history has understood in its own language: that an invisible but ever-present energy animates all living things, and that the quality of that energy directly determines the quality of our health, our emotional wellbeing, and our capacity to live fully.
This life force energy moves through the body via energy centers and pathways, responding to everything we think, feel, experience, and carry. Over time, through the accumulated weight of stress and unresolved emotion and the particular challenges of being a human being in a demanding world, this energy becomes blocked or stagnant. And when it does, the body speaks. In the language of chronic tension and persistent fatigue and the quiet but insistent feeling that something is fundamentally out of alignment.
Reiki gently and intelligently clears those blocks. Not by force. Not by bypassing what the body is trying to communicate. By creating the energetic conditions in which the body's own profound capacity for healing can finally do what it has always known how to do.
Reiki is not religious. It requires no particular belief system and carries no dogma. It is as welcome to someone with a deeply held faith as it is to someone with none at all.
Reiki is not a substitute for medical care. It works beautifully alongside conventional treatment, easing side effects, supporting recovery, and addressing the energetic dimensions of healing that medicine alone cannot reach. It does not diagnose and it does not replace your doctor.
Red Sands Reiki is aspace where you arrive exactly as you are, carrying exactly what you are carrying, without explanation or apology. People often say after their first session that they did not know how much they had been carrying until they felt what it was like to set some of it down. That is Reiki. That is what it does when it is done at the depth it is designed to reach.
You are safe here. You are heard here. And whatever you have been carrying, you do not have to carry it alone any longer.
Reiki with Krista
From the moment you reach out to Krista, something begins to shift. It is not unusual for people to notice it before they even arrive. A burst of clarity. A dream that feels significant. A synchronicity that makes them look twice. The energy begins to move the moment the intention is set and the booking is made.
Your session at Red Sands Reiki runs approximately 75 minutes and takes place in a warm and private space created entirely for your healing and comfort. You remain fully clothed throughout and recline on a Reiki table, though seated sessions are always available if needed.
Working intuitively and drawing on over a decade of practice, Krista places her hands in various positions on the body, listening to what the energy field is communicating and responding to what she finds rather than following a fixed protocol. Because no two people carry the same thing and no two sessions are ever the same.
You may notice warmth or tingling or a pleasant heaviness moving through the body. Emotions may surface that have been waiting for exactly this quality of space to arise safely. Most people experience a profound and deeply unfamiliar sense of rest, as though something that has been held in tension for a very long time has finally been given permission to release.
To deepen the experience further, complementary modalities including NLP, tuning forks, crystals, and carefully crafted hypnotic suggestions may be woven intuitively into your session. Nothing is added for effect. Everything that enters the session is there because it serves your healing.
Time is set aside after the session to ensure you feel grounded, clear, and ready before you return to the world. You will not be rushed. You will not leave until you are ready.
Distant Reiki is available for those who cannot be here in person. The energy is not diminished by distance. Reach out to discuss this option.
Please mention any scent sensitivities when booking as scent may be used to enhance your experience.
Reiki Certification Courses
You have been feeling the pull toward this for a while. Not just curiosity about Reiki. Something deeper. The sense that you are meant to work with energy in a more intentional and deliberate way than you currently are. That there is a path here with your name on it and you have been circling the entrance long enough. This is the entrance.
Reiki certification at Red Sands Reiki is rooted in the lineage and practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho, the Usui System of Natural Healing. A time-honored tradition that spans generations and connects you not just to a skill but to a living lineage of healers reaching back further than most modern wellness modalities can claim. When you are attuned at Red Sands Reiki you are not simply learning a technique. You are stepping into something ancient and continuous and genuinely alive.
First Degree Reiki Certification: Offered throughout the year in an intimate small group setting, this is one of the most personal and immersive Reiki training experiences available on Prince Edward Island.
Over three transformative days you will move through the history, theory, and foundational principles of Reiki while developing the hands-on techniques to work with this energy for yourself and for others. Guided by Reiki Master Teacher Krista Costa, the course combines the rigorous clinical understanding of someone trained in healthcare with the deep energetic wisdom of someone who has been doing this work in sacred practice for over a decade.
You will not leave with a certificate and a vague sense of having learned something. You will leave feeling confident, grounded, and genuinely empowered to bring Reiki into your everyday life in ways that are immediately real and immediately useful.
Course schedule: Friday 6:00 to 9:00 PM and Saturday & Sunday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
All three days must be attended to receive certification. A deposit is required to reserve your space as spots are intentionally limited.
Completing your First Degree is the beginning of the relationship, not the end of it. After certification you are warmly welcomed into the Red Sands Reiki graduate community, including Reiki Reunion gatherings throughout the year and the private Red Sands Reiki Graduates Facebook group where ongoing support, connection, and growth continue long after the course has ended. Because Reiki is about more than a certificate. It is about connection. To the energy, to your fellow students, and to a teacher who genuinely stays invested in your continued growth.
Second Degree Reiki Certification: For those who have completed First Degree training with Krista and feel the pull to go deeper. Second Degree introduces the sacred symbols, distance healing techniques, and the profound expansion of energetic awareness and spiritual practice that takes the foundation of First Degree and transforms it into something significantly more powerful and more precise.
Speak with Krista directly to discuss upcoming course dates, deposit requirements, and whether this is the right next step for where you are on your path.
Just for today, do not worry.
Just for today, do not anger.
Honor parents, teachers, and elders.
Earn your living with honesty.
Show gratitude to every living thing.
— Reiki Precepts of Daily Living