I have fallen asleep. Again. It is my second energy healing session with reiki master and multi-disciplinary “joyraiser” Sama Trinder, and it is the second time that I have spent the hour succumbing, repeatedly, to the irresistible land of nod.
“Did you feel anything?” Trinder asks me afterwards as I peel myself off the massage table. We are in a cosy treatment room overlooking the Thames at Bingham Riverhouse in Richmond, a boutique hotel and private members’ club that Trinder took over from her parents in 2001, and that since 2023 has also been the base for Bhuti, her “eco wellbeing escape”. “Or maybe you saw something? Some people see colours, some people have visions…”
“Er, I’m not sure,” I reply, a little guilty that I’m unable to give her more. After confessing to being out for the count for most of it, Trinder tells me not to worry. “The mind doesn’t need to ‘know’ the story in order for the healing to take place,” she explains.
Sama Trinder with a client © Flow Visual Studio
Trinder says she had spent the session hovering her hands above my body and allowing herself to be guided to various chakras, or “energy centres”. She was drawn to my heart and throat chakras in particular. “It’s not really me doing the healing, but energy coming through me,” says Trinder, who describes herself as a “conduit” more than anything else. “You can feel energy and it’s like a magnetic force… I stay in a position until that force begins to soften, then move on to another area. It’s very intuitive and quite difficult to explain.”
