Please Allow me to introduce myself,  my name is Erik Sorensen.  I am a Reiki Practitioner living in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  My passion is to be actively affecting people’s lives with positive assistance, support, empathy and honesty. Reiki represents more than a therapeutic healing technique. Reiki, its principles, and its practice is a way of life. By taking time from the hustle and bustle of our fast paced lives - allowing ourselves to stop, recognize our needs, listen to our own breathing, live according to Reiki Principles, and accept the healing provided through Reiki - we can restore balance, and recharge ourselves and each other.

I am fortunate to have developed an open-minded approach to learning and living from an early age. As a child I grew up on a few acres of property with forest, fields and a pond. My "playtime" was spent building forts, planting seeds and spying on birds, beetles and rabbits. Backpacking through Southeast Asia for 5 months at the age of 16 with my father, I since have made a point to never stop traveling (in any sense of the word). In 2007 I backpacked through Europe and North Africa with my life partner, Claudia.  I am a Philosophy graduate from the University of Ottawa and have worked in a wide variety of disciplines. From this I now better understand and empathize with so many of the frustrations and realities that exist in our workplaces. For example, I have worked as a private at the Fort Henry Guard in Kingston, as a member of a production crew in Ottawa, slugged in the trenches as a line cook, assisted guests and artists within a few high profile art galleries and provided services as a  group facilitator and personal support worker for adults with Cerebral Palsy.  

My fascination with Reiki began over a decade ago, and has been one reliable source of stability and affirmation throughout all of the ebbs and flows of life. To begin, I benefited from spiritual and emotional mentoring and healing Reiki treatments I received through a good friend and old soul. I always enjoy receiving Reiki. It provides me with an influx of much needed intuitive, healing energy and helps me to strengthen my abilities and work on my weaknesses during the course of my life. Over the past few years I have had the blessing of being a student of Reiki Master, Milena Dimitrova here in Toronto and in September of 2009 became certified as a Level 2 Reiki Practitioner according to the Usui System of Natural Healing. I have had the great fortune and pleasure of learning from, working with and finding great inspiration from Dee Dussault, Owner/Operator of Follow Your Bliss; "an open space where people come to vibe with others in super chill sessions, raise their consciousness, eat, and play, and love."  

Over the coming weeks, months and years my intention is to creatively explore all the ways for Positive Channels to expand and positively affect our lives, our dreams and our realities. The goal is for this to become as interactive, inclusive and empowering as possible, and only limited by the visions and ideas we can create and manifest. If you are like minded, want to work together in some way, are seeking further information on Reiki, or would like to book treatments for yourself or for loved ones, please email me or post a note in "The Positive Post."