Free Reiki manuals: Levels 1, 2 and Master

The manuals are cumulative: each assumes the one before. If you are unsure where you are, start with Level 1 and work through the lesson that goes with it. Reading a later manual first is possible, but the vocabulary builds from the first degree, so it is easier the other way round.

What it covers. The first degree as this course teaches it: what Reiki is in this tradition, the five principles, a first self-practice, and the hand positions used when working on yourself. It is written as a course text rather than a lookup reference, so it is meant to be read in order.

Read or download. The panel below carries the exact file, its page count and its size, and the lesson it pairs with.

Symbols and practice. The second degree introduces the three symbols the tradition teaches at this level, distance practice, and the questions of consent and ethics that come with working for someone who is not in the room. The manual assumes the first degree is complete and that a self-practice is already established.

Teacher-study context. The third degree is the teacher level in this tradition. The manual covers the material taught at that level, but a manual is not a substitute for supervised teaching practice or for a teacher's judgement about when a student is ready to teach. If you intend to teach, read this alongside the role of a Reiki master and what is included in master training.

This page also offers a separate book, Places of Power by Ljubisa Stojanovic, Ph.D. (Novi Sad, 2004). It is not a Reiki course manual and is not part of the three-level course; it is a standalone title about places and their atmosphere. It is listed separately so you can distinguish it from the course materials.

Each manual pairs with the lesson at the same level. Watch or read the lesson first, then use the manual to revise and to practise. The pairing table below gives the exact destination for each level.

The manuals are PDFs published in 2011. They combine text and drawings, and some symbol pages are carried by the drawing rather than by text; a PDF may therefore not be usable with a screen reader throughout. The HTML course lessons are the accessible companion: they carry the same teaching in text, and they are the version to use when a PDF is difficult to read. Format, page count and file size for each manual are listed below, together with what is known about each file's origin and what the files themselves do not document.