Reiki Healing & Training in Kathmandu, Nepal

Maa Nisha Kabir

Founder & Spiritual Healer

Reviewed and updated June 2026

Reiki is a gentle, hands-on energy healing practice that originated in Japan and reached Nepal through the Himalayan teaching networks of the last century. At Jivan Parivartan in Tarkeshwor, Kathmandu, you can either receive a one-to-one Reiki healing session or learn to practise Reiki yourself, all the way from Level 1 (Shoden) through Level 2 (Okuden) to Master level (Shinpiden), in the Usui lineage that Maa Nisha Kabir has carried for more than twelve years.

Most people meet Reiki for the first time in a healing session: you stay fully clothed, lie down comfortably on a treatment couch, and the practitioner places their hands lightly on or just above the body in a sequence that follows the major energy centres. A session at our centre runs 60 minutes and is $50. There is nothing you need to do, and nothing you need to believe. The body knows how to rest when it is invited to, and Reiki simply creates the invitation.

Reiki works on the level of the nervous system before it works on anything else. Heart rate slows, breathing deepens, and the body shifts out of fight or flight. That is why Reiki helps with the things that fight-or-flight keeps us stuck in: chronic stress, insomnia, low-grade anxiety, persistent muscular tension, and the kind of emotional reactivity that we cannot think our way out of. People also come to Reiki for grief, for recovery after illness or surgery (alongside medical care), and for the simple human need to be cared for in a quiet room.

Maa Nisha Kabir, the founder of Jivan Parivartan, became a Reiki Master after more than a decade of continuous sadhana, including a two-year silent retreat in the caves of the Nepalese Himalayas. She has supported more than eight thousand individuals through one-to-one Reiki, sound healing, meditation and counselling, with a focus on chronic stress, anxiety and emotional trauma. Co-founder Swami Anish, a meditation teacher, Reiki Master and certified clinical hypnotherapist, brings the additional dimension of trauma-informed Western therapeutic work to the centre. Sessions can be booked with either of them.

If you have already experienced Reiki and want to learn it for yourself, the path through Jivan Parivartan is straightforward. Level 1 is two days and gives you self-healing, a working introduction to the energy and your first attunement. Level 2 is two days and adds the sacred symbols and distance-healing technique that lets you offer Reiki to clients who are not in the room with you. Master level is three to four days and includes the Master symbol, attunement-giving, ethics, and the teaching skills you need to certify your own students. Level 1 and Level 2 are $300 each, and Master level is $350. There is no rush between levels; most students sit with each level for at least three months of personal practice before moving on.

Reiki sits naturally alongside the other healing modalities we offer. Many students pair Reiki training with our singing bowl training to graduate as full energy healers, and many session clients book a singing bowl session for body-and-sound and a Reiki session for energy-body work in the same week. If you are also working with emotional or trauma material, Swami Anish can combine Reiki with clinical hypnotherapy, which is a particular speciality of the centre. None of this is a replacement for medical or psychological care, but it complements it well.

For international clients, we offer distance Reiki healing sessions delivered live from Kathmandu by video or phone, using the Level 2 distance-healing protocol. These are common for students who have begun their work here and want to continue at home, and for clients in regions where authentic Reiki is harder to find. Sessions are the same 60-minute length and same price as in-person work.

Your first step is simple. If you are unsure whether to come for a session or for training, tell us a little about what you are working with and we will guide you. Most people start with a single session, then decide whether to continue with regular sessions, with training, or both. There is no pressure to choose in advance.

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