About Reiki Teacher Shaun Mckeown
Reiki Instructor Professional Experience
I have over 25 years of professional experience helping people support their health and well-being. In the health and fitness, lifestyle coaching, and the last 15+ years with Reiki, both as a Reiki teacher and practitioner. I have previous experience as a martial arts instructor, fitness manager, as well as a soldier and physical training instructor in the army. My work nowadays is primarily as a Reiki teacher.
Reiki has just been a completely natural thing for me as soon as I found it, teaching Reiki being a natural extension of my background in coaching. I gained Reiki Teacher level (termed Reiki Master) and taught Usui Reiki, then trained with leading international Reiki teachers in more ‘modified’ approaches to Reiki, but something felt missing, or ‘off’ to me in such approaches. So I continued to seek out authorities in Japanese Reiki, being drawn to the authentic original Usui Reiki teachings, then I found them in Jikiden Reiki, and things just clicked for me.
I now exclusively teach Jikiden Reiki (authentic Japanese Usui Reiki) and I have been granted the level of Shihan (full teacher) from the Jikiden Reiki Institute in Japan. My Reiki teacher in Jikiden Reiki is Tadao Yamaguchi, the Representative (head) of the Jikiden Reiki Institute. In recent years I have helped to set up and serve as one of the committee members of the Jikiden Reiki UK Association (JRUKA), a membership organization that supports teachers, practitioners and students of Jikiden Reiki and promotes authentic Reiki teachings in the UK. My focus now is on teaching Reiki and supporting those I train. I’m based in Sutton Coldfield, on the north edge of Birmingham, UK.
About Reiki Teacher Shaun
In addition to my interest in Reiki, making a contribution, a positive impact at scale appeals to me. Social entrepreneurship and clever solutions to society’s challenges interest me, as well as the environment and protecting wildlife.
I have always been interested in personal growth, and high performance. Early on this took its form in sports as a competitive runner as a Kid, which then evolved into other sports as well as personal development. Later studying at university where I gained a BSc.(Hons) degree in Sport and Exercise Science. Another particular area of interest for me over recent years has been alternative education approaches. I enjoy time with my family and still have an interest in fitness - the only problem being my mind still thinks I’m in my 20s.
I am generally known as being a calm, focused person with a positive disposition. The deep and meaningful interests me, the superficial less so. I naturally think as a strategic, creative problem solver. I have both strong rational thinking and intuition. Most of the things I do will revolve around teaching, coaching, and mentoring, or projects that bring something impactful to life. I’m more stoic, introverted and calm, not described as razzamatazz- ever. I enjoy time in nature, especially trees and oceans. My teaching style is calm and supportive. Those on my Reiki training courses, or who work with me, say I’m patient and a good teacher. Rather than just take what I say, you about me, you can see what others think of me as a Reiki Teacher here with my reviews.