​Practicing and teaching Traditional Japanese Reiki since 1997

About Me

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My name is Cerise LaCore, and I am a Certified Traditional Japanese Reiki Shihan (teacher.) I'm the owner and founder of Traditional Japanese Reiki (formerly known as Auburn Reiki Center.) My Reiki journey began in the early 1990's after personal tragedy and illness.

 

There was a point in my life when everything felt like too much; illness, loss, all of it piling on at once. That’s when Reiki found me. Not in some dramatic, life-flashing-before-my-eyes kind of way, more like a quiet shift. Subtle, but steady. It gave me something to lean on when I felt like I didn’t have much else.

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Before I ever worked with people, I started working with an animal rescue foundation. And honestly, that’s what convinced me. The changes I saw in the animals were undeniable. There’s no talking an animal into relaxing, no placebo effect, no “maybe it’s in their head.” They either respond or they don’t. And they did. Every time, in ways that were hard to explain but impossible to ignore. That’s what got me hooked.

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As I kept practicing, Reiki helped me move through some really heavy stuff of my own. I started to feel more grounded, less overwhelmed. Not magically fixed or anything, but steadier. More like myself again. It brought a kind of calm I hadn’t felt in a long time.

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Eventually, I just wanted to do more of it. That’s actually what led me to become a massage therapist, so I could practice Reiki more often. That was the whole plan. Teaching wasn’t even on my radar. Not even a little. But, apparently, the Universe had other ideas.

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I began incorporating Reiki into my massage sessions, and something just clicked. People responded to it. My practice grew faster than I expected, and before long, Reiki became the center of everything I was doing.
 

Somewhere along the way, it stopped being just about my own healing. Watching other people experience that same sense of ease, that shift, that relief… that’s what stayed with me. That’s what made me want to keep going and share it more and more.

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It’s still a simple practice. But it can change a lot.

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I first studied Reiki in the early 1990's and received a very good foundation in 'western-style' Reiki. I began teaching in 1997. Several years later I met and studied with Japanese Buddhist Monk, Hyakuten Inamoto, the founder of Komyo ReikiDo, and became a Certified Komyo ReikiDo Shihan (teacher). After learning about the original teachings, practices, and spiritual emphasis of the more authentic Japanese style as instituted by the founder of Reiki Ryoho, Mikao Usui, I now practice and teach the Traditional Japanese Reiki style exclusively.

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In addition to teaching both in-person and online certified Reiki classes, and leading Reiki Circles/Shares and Reiki study groups, I also offer both in-person and distant online individual Reiki sessions.

 

I'm a state certified massage therapist as well as a practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Clayton College of Natural Health and hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Health with a Certification in Homeopathy. I also hold a Doctorate in Divinity from Universal Life Ministries. My husband and I live off-grid on 40 acres of land on a mountain-top at 3,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. I'm an avid organic gardener and herbalist, canning, drying, and preserving a lot of our food and natural medicines, while striving to live as environmentally earth-friendly a life-style as possible.