First Degree Reiki — Usui Shoden Weekend Intensive

This weekend gives you direct experience of what energy healing is, how it works, and how to incorporate it in your own life and with others.

Reiki is one of the most practical healing tools available and one of the most misunderstood. Nearly three decades of working with Reiki clients and over 15 years of teaching this course in Finland have shown just how deeply the practice can shift lives; from corporate professionals and students to seniors and families. Reiki belongs to every lifestyle.

It also belongs in every practice. Massage therapists, counsellors, teachers, and therapists find that Reiki helps deepen and support their practice.

What the weekend covers:

• What Reiki is and how to align with its practice

• Self healing and healing with others

• Ancient tools and techniques for understanding energy and healing

• Self care and tools for continued growth

• First Degree attunement and hands-on practice

Course details:

Date: Saturday–Sunday, September 5–6, 2026
Time: 10:00–17:00 both days Location: Helsinki Healing Arts Center, Ullanlinna, Helsinki Tuition: €325
Certification: Digital certificate upon completion

Teacher: Kuldip Ian Quinterno, LMT, NMT

Kuldip has been practicing Reiki for nearly three decades and teaching it in Finland for over 15 years. He works daily as a practitioner and is a Somatic Unwinding specialist, Kundalini Yoga teacher, and 6th degree black belt in internal martial arts. Healing is not a subject he studies from a distance. He has sat with thousands of clients, trained students across Europe, the US, and South America, and has built a school in Helsinki around one conviction: that the body knows how to heal, and the practitioner's job is to get out of the way. That is what this weekend is about.

At Helsinki Healing Arts Center, we believe it's every person's right to know they're safe, and to feel that safety in their own body.

This fall we're offering an introduction to self-defense course for women, led by Sensei Annu Kiiski, a longtime student of the internal martial arts.

The course covers ways to stay calm under pressure, ways to build real confidence, and basic techniques for getting out of dangerous situations. It's also a space, a fun and safe one, for young women to come together, work through fear, and move through experiences that have stayed with them longer than they should have.

Sensei Kiiski is compassionate, steady, and deeply devoted to this practice. She has a real gift for making people feel welcome and safe, something that matters here in particular.

Helsinki Healing Arts Centerissä uskomme, että jokaisella on oikeus tuntea olonsa turvalliseksi omassa kehossaan.
Tänä syksynä tarjoamme itsepuolustuskurssin nuorille naisille Helsingissä. Kurssin vetäjänä toimii sensei Annu Kiiski, pitkäaikainen sisäisten kamppailulajien opiskelija.

Kurssin aikana opettelemme miten pysyä rauhallisena paineen alla ja miten on mahdollista löytää yhteys todelliseen itseluottamukseen sekä opitaan perustekniikoita vaarallisten tilanteiden varalle. Kurssin aikana luodaan turvallinen tila, jossa nuoret naiset voivat kokoontua yhteen, käsitellä pelkoja ja kokemuksia, jotka ovat jääneet vaivaamaan mieltä tai ovat kehon muistissa. Tarkoitus on oppia hauskalla ja innostavalla tavalla oman kokemuksen ja omien oivallusten kautta.

Sensei Kiiski on myötätuntoinen, vakaa ja syvästi omistautunut tälle harjoitukselle. Hänellä on todellinen lahja saada ihmiset tuntemaan olonsa tervetulleiksi ja turvallisiksi, mikä on erityisen tärkeää kyseisen lajin harjoituksissa.

DATE & TIME: Mondays 18:00-19:30
September 14th- October 12th (5 classes)

TEACHER: Annu Kiiski, Sensei

Annu is a student of the Internal Martial Arts with 10 years of training, a teacher of social and emotional skills in schools, and a professional Somatic Therapist, a graduate of the Helsinki Healing Arts School. 

PRICE: 155€

Second Degree Reiki — Usui Okuden Weekend Intensive | Helsinki Healing Arts Center

First Degree opens the door. Second Degree is what's behind it.

Okuden, the inner teachings, is where the practice deepens. Sacred symbols, distant healing, working across time and space. This is not more of the same. It is a different level of working with energy, and once you have it, you cannot go back.

Continuing the studies matters because the knowledge is layered by design. Each level reveals what the previous one was preparing you for. Most students arrive at Second Degree thinking they understood Reiki. By Sunday they know they were just getting started.

Massage therapists, counsellors, teachers, and therapists find that Okuden doesn't just add tools. It reorients how they see their work.

What the weekend covers:

• The Reiki symbols and how to work with them

• Distant healing, sending Reiki across time and space

• Mental and emotional healing techniques

• Energetic programming and intentional practice

• Deepening your sensitivity and precision as a practitioner

• Integrating Second Degree into professional work

Course details:

Date: Saturday and Sunday, November 21 and 22, 2026
Time: 10:00 to 17:30 both days
Location: Helsinki Healing Arts Center, Ullanlinna, Helsinki
Tuition: €275
Certification: Digital certificate upon completion Prerequisite: First Degree Reiki

Teacher: Kuldip Ian Quinterno

Kuldip has been practicing Reiki for nearly three decades and teaching it in Finland for over 15 years. He works daily as a practitioner and is a Somatic Unwinding specialist, Kundalini Yoga teacher, and 6th degree black belt in internal martial arts. Healing is not a subject he studies from a distance. He has sat with thousands of clients, trained students across Europe, the US, and South America, and has built a school in Helsinki around one conviction: that the body knows how to heal, and the practitioner's job is to get out of the way. That is what this weekend is about.

This is a two-day training for anyone who wants to learn to work with the body, whether to deepen your own practice or because you're thinking about doing this for a living.

Over the two days I'll share the fundamentals as I work with them: how to approach the body, how to ready it, how to make contact with another person, and how to trust what you feel under your hands. We'll cover simple touch techniques, reading the body, the emotion held in the tissue, and how to stay present and steady while someone is on the table.

This course is a prerequisite for the professional training program, which begins each September. If you continue, what you pay here goes toward your full tuition.

DATE & TIME: March 6-7th 10.00–16.00
TUITION: 299€
TEACHER: Kuldip Ian Quinterno, NMT, LMT
Kuldip has spent almost thirty years working with the body and teaching practitioners across Europe, US and South America. He founded Helsinki Healing Arts Center in 2016 and teaches the method he developed as Somatic Unwinding. A longtime Kundalini Yoga teacher and internal martial artist, he teaches from one conviction: the body knows how to heal, and the practitioner's work is to listen, not to impose.