About Us
Trauma-informed Reiki and holistic care
Who we are
Blooming Rose Reiki is a holistic practice offering Reiki, energy work, sound baths, divination and spiritual coaching located in Toronto, offering in person sessions on Sundays at 691 Bloor St W Suite 202 in Koreatown and virtual during the week.
To learn more about Bridgette's background, lived experience, training, credentials and the journey that led to Blooming Rose Reiki, visit the Bridgette page.
Our ethos
Blooming Rose Reiki was founded on the principle that healing is rarely linear. Progress is often circular, iterative, and layered. Like a rose, each petal represents a step closer to the core of what requires attention. Our name reflects this process. Healing unfolds in stages. With each session, clients move incrementally deeper into their own system.
The work is deliberate and responsive, focused on supporting the nervous system, resolving tension, and restoring clarity over time. Each healing modality seeks to reinforce the others, allowing clients to experience cumulative change rather than abrupt shifts.
Mission
To offer spiritual care that is as thoughtful about who it serves as it is about how it serves them. Where clarity, consent and genuine inclusion are not afterthoughts but the foundation of every session.
Respecting Reiki’s Roots
Our work is rooted in deep respect for the cultural and spiritual traditions that inform our services.
Bridgette is trained in Usui Reiki, a Japanese energy system working with Life Force Energy to bring the body back into balance developed by Mikao Usui in the early twentieth century. This training included not only technique and attunement, but the study of Reiki’s historical and cultural context. The work is approached with care and responsibility, with a clear commitment to honoring its Japanese origins and avoiding misrepresentation, adaptation, appropriation or ownership.
Working to ensure that the communities this practice came from are respected and benefit from its growth in the West rather than simply being extracted from, a portion of monthly service revenue is donated on an ongoing basis to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto. Donation amounts increase in step with growth.
Bridgette’s Heritage
Bridgette's practice is informed by her own ancestral lineage. Through her Euro-Celtic maternal line she draws on five generations of intuitive energy work, cartomancy and mediumship passed down through family practice rather than formal study alone. Through her Persian paternal heritage she draws on mysticism and contemplative traditions shared through ritual and everyday life.
This lineage isn’t something she lists as a credential. It is the invisible layer that informs her unique approach to spiritual support. And it is also the positionality that she is mindful of in her commitments to an equitable practice, understanding that her access to power and privilege inform the experiences she facilitates and who can access them.
More Cultural Influences
Depending on the client, Bridgette draws on a range of modalities she has trained in and studied over the years. These can include chakra balancing and the energy bodies from the Hindu yogic tradition, meditation practices with roots in Buddhist, Hindu and other contemplative traditions, and Buddhist thought encountered through personal study and time spent at temples during her formative years, including academic study in Hong Kong.
None of these are claimed as her own. Where they are incorporated she acknowledges their origins, approaches them with respect and only draws on them where they are resonant and chosen by the client. All sessions are catered entirely to the individual and their own belief system.
Vision
A world where wellbeing is layered, deliberate and integrated into daily life. Where progress is measured by depth rather than speed, and care is something people can access without having to perform, explain or simplify themselves to receive it.
Values
Transparency
We communicate clearly about what to expect, how sessions work and what is and is not within our scope.
Respect
We honour each client's pace and the integrity of the cultural roots our practices originate from.
All bodies, backgrounds, beliefs, identities and abilities are equitably welcomed here.
Inclusion
Honouring the Land & its Stewards
Blooming Rose Reiki acknowledges that our practice operates on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, within Treaty 13 territory. These Nations have cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to live, work and steward these lands today.
We recognize that land acknowledgements are only meaningful when paired with reflection, learning and action. We encourage engagement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action as part of that ongoing responsibility. You can learn more about the Indigenous lands where you live, work and gather through Native Land Digital. If you would like to support Indigenous communities directly, we encourage supporting Native Child and Family Services of Toronto. Our own commitments are outlined below and include ongoing financial contributions that grow alongside our practice.
My Commitments to an Ethical, Respectful & Inclusive Practice
Wellness spaces have historically been shaped by privilege, in who accesses them, who feels welcome in them and whose traditions they draw from. I am not outside of that history. I benefit from it and I want to be honest about that. In response, I commit to the following:
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To use my platform to raise awareness of how power and privilege show up in wellness spaces, on the land we practice on and in who gets access to training, marketing and building a practice of their own. In practice this means speaking openly about these dynamics with clients, writing about them through my blog and social platforms and drawing on my DEI consulting expertise to name and address systemic barriers in the wellness industry.
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To offer sliding scale pricing for equity deserving communities and in the future as I may consider offering courses, 100% scholarships to support Indigenous, Black, Asian, Racialized and Equity Deserving practitioners entering this space without repackaging any cultural practices as my own or profiting off training folx in practices derived from their own lands.
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To draw from practices passed to me through my ancestral lineage and expand the depth of understanding of them. Through my Persian heritage: mysticism, poetry writing, dance, and divination through Falnama in particular through Fal-e Hafez (فال حافظ) and Tasseography through Fāl-e Chāy (فال چای). Through my European heritage - cartomancy using Tarot, scrying, trance, and many more I am still reconnecting with all via Akashic Daughter.
For modalities that originate in and from other cultural heritages; to acknowledge their roots, not remix or re-appropriate them as my own, or strip them of their traditional context.
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To share my earnings with the communities and land I benefit from, growing that contribution in step with my practice. A portion of monthly revenue is donated to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto in honour of Reiki's origins and to Native Child and Family Services of Toronto in recognition of the Indigenous land and communities this practice operates within. Any smoke based cleansing products I work with are purchased directly from the communities they originated, sustainably sourced from Canada, with it’s originating practices acknowledged.
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To keep learning, evolve these commitments and practices as I do, as well as welcome feedback and take accountability for any missteps.