Licensed Reiki Master Teacher Jill Thiel
Meet Jill Thiel, Director and Senior Licensed Reiki Master Teacher for the International Center for Reiki Training, and owner of both the Minnesota Reiki Center and Minnesota Sound Healing. Jill specializes in helping individuals heal and promotes overall wellness and self-care through Reiki, sound healing, and massage therapy.
Qualifications and Lineage
Jill has trained with honorable Reiki teachers like William Lee Rand, Colleen Benelli, Pam Allen LeBlanc, and Patricia Naffky. As a Licensed Reiki Master Teacher with The International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), she has completed over a thousand hours of advanced Reiki teacher training. Impressively, Jill is one of only 40 licensed Reiki teachers worldwide. Jill has been offering Reiki for over 20 years.
Jill offers sound healing sessions and practitioner training, teaching students how to use singing bowls and other instruments. As a Crystal Tones® Partner, she also sells alchemy singing bowls.
Jill’s Reiki certifications include Usui Reiki Ryōhō, Usui Holy Fire® III Reiki, Holy Fire® III Karuna Reiki®, and ICRT Animal Reiki. She serves as Director of Social Media and Assistant Director of the Licensed Reiki Master Teacher Training Program for the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT). She has contributed to Reiki News Magazine and is a certified massage therapist and an NCTMB-approved continuing education provider.
Curriculum Vitae
Jill’s dedication to spiritual growth and compassion spans her entire adult life. A devoted practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, she has studied under Lama Tsering, Chagdud Khadro, Lama Padma of Chagdud Gongpa, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Sakya Trizin. She has received numerous Vajrayana empowerments, including Red Tara, Chenrezig, Vajrakilaya, and Medicine Buddha.
Jill received her massage therapy certification in 2006 and later worked as a massage educator at The Aveda Institute from 2011 to 2017. Through this work, she developed deep expertise in chakras, aromatherapy, reflexology, energy work, sound healing, meridians, massage therapy, and Ayurveda.
Passionate about sustainability and organic gardening, Jill and her husband David built the first deep winter greenhouse in Minneapolis.
Media and Publications
- Presenter “Midwest Reiki Retreat,” Sound Healing, Dodgeville, WI, Sept 12th-16th, 2027
- Interview with Canvas Rebel, 2026
- Presenter at the International Center for Reiki Training Retreat, Sedona, AZ, 2026
- Featured in the 2025 Voyage Minnesota Magazine
- Featured in the 2025 Reiki From the Farm® Podcast with Pam Allen LeBlanc
- Featured in the 2025 Ready Set Reiki Podcast with Tracey Searight
- Published “Integrating Solfeggio Frequencies with Reiki” in the winter 2024 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Presenter at the International Center for Reiki Training Retreat, Sedona, AZ, 2024
- Featured on the 2024 Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast with Colleen Benelli & Robyn Benelli
- Promoted to director of social media & assistant director of the Licensed Teacher training program for the ICRT in 2023.
- Published “Reiki & Massage” in the fall 2023 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Published “Reiki & Social Media” in the fall 2022 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Featured in the 2022 Reiki From the Farm® Podcast with Pam Allen LeBlanc
- Presenter at the International Center for Reiki Training retreat, Sedona, Az, 2021
- Published “Peace Love and Reiki” in the summer 2021 issue of Reiki News Magazine.
- Featured in the 2020 Reiki From the Farm® Podcast with Pam Allen LeBlanc
- Published “Holy Fire Reiki Brings Gifts of Light” in the winter 2020 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Published “The Reiki Running Meditation” featured in the spring 2020 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Presenter at the International Center for Reiki Training Retreat 2020
- Featured on the 2020 Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast with Colleen Benelli & Robyn Benelli
- Published “Better Body Mechanics In Reiki” in the winter 2019 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Speaker at the 2019 ICRT Secrets of Successful Reiki Master Summit
- Published “Reiki For Your Garden” in the spring 2019 issue of Reiki News Magazine
- Interviewed in the 2018 Reiki Currents alongside William Lee Rand
- Featured on the 2018 Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast with Colleen Benelli & Robyn Benelli
