About Us
Trauma-informed Reiki and holistic care
Who we are
Blooming Rose Reiki is a Reiki, sound bath meditation and coaching practice located in Toronto, offering in person sessions on Sundays at Collective Care Co., 691 Bloor St W Suite 202 in Koreatown and virtual during the week.
Bridgette is a Usui Reiki Practitioner trained across all three levels and recognized by the Canadian Reiki Association, a Meditation Teacher on Insight Timer and a DEI consultant with nearly a decade of experience building inclusive, accessible spaces. As a queer, neurodivergent person she brings her lived and professional experience into every session — the understanding that we do not all arrive at care the same way, and that a practice built around genuine inclusion has to account for that from the very first interaction. However you arrive and whatever you are carrying, there is room for all of it here.
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 inspire our services.
Bridgette is trained in Usui Reiki, a Japanese energy healing system 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 the growth.
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 at the University of 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.
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 is not something she lists as a credential. It is the invisible layer underneath every session — the reason her energy work carries a depth and precision that is difficult to articulate and easier to simply experience.
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 sacred, unceded, and ancestral territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, who have cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to live and work here today, within Treaty 13 territory. We recognize that land acknowledgements are only meaningful when paired with reflection, learning, and action. Please find my commitments below. We hold this awareness as an ongoing responsibility and encourage engagement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action as part of that work. You can find the lands you live work and play on at native-land.ca. If you would like to support NCFST directly, you can donate through their website at nativechild.org or through the Indigenous Spirit Fund on CanadaHelps.
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.