The contact is light. Only the surface of the hands touch the body when doing Reiki hands on healing. What I do is a combination of massage therapy and Reiki. Mr. Oakley states he combines methods. Reiki is not massage, he is using Reiki in conjunction with massage.
Massage is a wonderful therapy.
Many have enjoyed and benefitted from profound healing while receiving massage, but this does not mean that only massage therapists should be able to monopolize Reiki in restraint of trade. It does not mean that spiritual laying on of hands healing is the exclusive province of massage therapists. Mr. Oakley has exhibited a distinct bias in how he portrays and defines Reiki. The information he has given is incorrect, regarding Reiki as manipulating the movement of bones, reading pulses or being the same as Cranial Sacral therapy, which it is not. This is a disservice to the entire, diverse Reiki community.