9 Lessons From Six Years of Running My Own Reiki Business

I’m doing a postmortem on my in-person Reiki business, which I ran in Wichita for six years from the White Dove metaphysical bookstore and yoga studio.

Here’s what I learned from working on my side-hustle part-time for years!

I closed up shop due to the pandemic and have been working to get found for Distance Reiki sessions online since 2020. Ultimately, I rolled “You Deserve Reiki” into being a part of my online offering at Destiny Architecture, my coaching business.

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If you don’t learn from your mistakes, you’re doomed to repeat them.

So I’m writing this to help you learn from my mistakes (or what I perceive them to be).

I started a small, local business called “You Deserve Reiki” in 2014 in Wichita, Kansas. I named it this because all my early test clients were women who confided in me that they felt like they didn’t “deserve” time for themselves. This was before #SelfCare became a thing on Instagram.

I rented a space at White Dove and created a relaxing Reiki therapy room. The following is a postmortem on that Reiki business, but I think anyone can take some of these lessons away to use them for any kind of business.