Heidi Lerner Rearden

Heidi Lerner Rearden was raised on the Southside of Chicago. Her parents were both paediatricians and active in the Civil Rights and Peace Movements of the 1960s and 70s. Their devotion to helping others shaped her early sense of what a life of service could look like.

In her early twenties she moved to London and trained as a Management Accountant, working with companies from independent businesses to Xerox. She moved to Bath in 1999 with her husband Nick and two young children, and it was in Bath that her healing journey began. Meditation and holistic health drew her in first, and Reiki soon followed.

She first encountered Reiki during a course at the College of Psychic Studies in London. Paired with another student for the first practice, she took the first turn. At the end of that twenty-minute session the woman sat up, tears streaming down her face, and said, "I have never felt so loved in my life." In that moment, Heidi realised that Reiki was more than a healing technique. It was a way to share unconditional love and help others reconnect with their inner peace.

She has been a Reiki Master and Teacher since 2008, holding a private practice in Bath and London, and teaching Reiki at Bath College. A few years later she began studying the ThetaHealing Technique with certified teacher Shanti Faiia, whose sessions Heidi found deeply transformative. She now holds ThetaHealing certification alongside her Reiki practice, and uses the two together.

Meditation has run alongside her healing work throughout. Certified by the British School of Meditation and Mindfulness with over two decades of teaching experience, she guides individuals, groups and businesses towards calm, clarity and steadiness. She is on the UK Meditation Teachers Register and registered with the UK Reiki Federation.

Alongside Reiki and meditation, she is a Feng Shui Consultant and energy clearing practitioner, helping people and places find balance. Space clearings and energy makeovers are held in person or remotely.

At Well Bath she holds one-to-one Reiki sessions in the therapy room, hosts the monthly Reiki and Meditation workshop, and offers the full Traditional Usui Reiki training path from Level 1 through to Master Teacher. Enquiries about the training path go direct to Heidi rather than through Well Bath's usual booking system.

Clients who see Heidi regularly describe the sessions as the quietest hour of their month. She has a natural, unhurried presence in the treatment room, and her repeat rate is one of the highest at Well Bath. First-time visitors, whether curious sceptics or long-time Reiki practitioners, seem to leave saying it exceeded what they had been expecting.