Each year, Frans leads a Reiki retreat at the beautiful Sequoia Retreat Center in northern California. Part of our days are spent in the conference room with floor to ceiling windows looking out over the beautiful redwood trees, but every day we also spend some time doing Reiki exercises outdoors in nature.

At last year's retreat I began to realize that the trees were very conducive to the inner spiritual work we were doing, however it was at this year's retreat that I realized the trees were not only supporting us with their presence, but also actually teaching us with their energy.