What is Plant Spirit Reiki?
A Living, Heart-Led Path of Healing with Plants & Energy
Plant Spirit Reiki is a beautiful blend of Reiki energy healing and conscious connection with the green world. It invites us to engage with plants not simply as tools, but as intelligent, living allies — teachers, guides and friends in our healing journey.
For many energy practitioners, inviting plants into their energy work deepens the experience — bringing more clarity, grounding, connection and guidance. It takes Reiki into another realm and reminds us that we are in relationship with nature.
Why work with Plant Spirit Reiki?
Plants are incredibly versatile as allies in our spiritual practice and healing journey which enriches our healing work in ways few other allies can. They provide:
🌿 Physical presence and beauty — a plant in a treatment room, in a vase, on an altar, or alongside your space invites connection, beauty, presence, colour, texture and fragrance.
🌿 Energetic essence — the spirit or vibration of a plant can be sensed, felt and collaborated to bring about balance and healing.
🌿 Versatility — physical form, essential oils, herbal teas, flower essences, room sprays and space-clearing herbs, as well as prayer and invocation all carry plant wisdom into your energy practice.
The fusion of these plant energies boosts a treatment, adding a new dimension to healing and growth, and reconnects us to the source of health and what it means to feel whole.
If you are a plant lover, you may already use reiki to send healing to your plants and watch them grow healthy and strong. As well as working with plants at home and further afield, the practice of Plant Spirit Reiki encourages you to energetically connect with plants and ask for guidance about how to use plants in your healing practice.
What does Plant Spirit Reiki involve?
Plant Spirit Reiki is not primarily about herbal remedies or the chemical properties of plants — though those may be part of your practice. Instead, it is about:
Working in Partnership With Plants
• Giving healing to balance and uplift the energy of gardens, green spaces and wild places to support both Earth and ourselves.
• Using Plant Spirit Reiki for self-healing to reconnect with our own true power and sense of who we are
• Integrating plant-based wisdom into healing sessions for clients, community and the land that holds us.
A Heart-Led, Intuitive Practice
Plant Spirit Reiki asks you to drop out of intellectual mind based knowing and feel with your heart. That is where plant wisdom truly lives — in your senses, intuition, and open awareness.
What Can This Look Like in Practice?
Plant Spirit Reiki might be expressed as:
🌿 Sending healing energy to a favourite tree outside your window.
🌿 Working with a flower essence or herbal tea as part of a healing session.
🌿 Placing a plant on your altar or holding it as you send healing to a client.
🌿 Using fragrance, mandalas, drawings or writing as part of intuitive exploration.
🌿 Spending quiet time with a plant you feel called to — sensing its presence, listening, and receiving guidance.
Through Plant Spirit Reiki, you enter into conversation with these green beings — not by controlling them, but by meeting them respectfully and openly in their own realm. In this way we intuitively come back home to ourselves, remembering our innate relationship with the natural world as part of nature.
Why Does This Matter Today?
We live in a time when many of us feel disconnected — from nature, from our own bodies, and from the deep wisdom that lives therein. Plant Spirit Reiki meets this longing. It bridges the inside world of our heart with the outside world of the green kingdom, offering:
✨ Deeper sense of self-awareness and presence to what is
✨ A sense of belonging and purpose
✨ A grounded, embodied spiritual path and sense of connection
✨ Contribution to healing the Earth, not just the self
Starting the Plant Spirit Reiki path
What calls you to work with plants and reiki? Perhaps you love gardening, or work with herbs, grow your own vegetables or campaign for our fragile environment? Or maybe you simply feel alive when you are out in nature and know that somehow this natural world wants to reach out and help you?
To rediscover your innate bond with nature I recommend you allow yourself to be guided by the plants. Wherever the green world finds you (and later takes you) with your reiki hands is the perfect pathway. It’s my wish that my work, books and courses inspire you to rekindle your relationship with nature and bring the outside inside to your working environment and most specifically into your reiki practice with yourself and others.
Inviting the outside in helps to bridge the ever-increasing gap that exists between our cosy lives and the wild green world outside our window. For too long our society has pushed the green world further and further into the margins. Let this be your invitation to feel your wild edges and allow the green whispers in through your reiki practice. I believe that co-creating with nature in this way is a step forward, not only in healing ourselves but also in raising the vibration of our planet, which in these times of environmental uncertainty cannot be ignored.
Fay Johnstone’s book Plant Spirit Reiki is astounding. It brings many magical healings and teachings in one sacred book. It inspires me to keep going and know that there is even more inspiration and magic out there to experience!
This book has been my safe haven and sacred space to rest in.
K Turner, Reiki Practitioner
Where to Begin Your Plant Spirit Reiki Journey
Are you drawn to this work? Here are meaningful ways to deepen your connection:
- Start with my book and foundational guide Plant Spirit Reiki here
- Join the Community at the Shaman in the Garden to stay updated with trainings and workshop
- Train as a practitioner of Plant Spirit Reiki by coming in-person to Plant Spirit Summer School
- Follow videos and guided practice on my Youtube Channel here
- Invite me to teach a workshop at your Reiki practice!