Gianna Settin

Gianna Settin, PhD,  Founder and Director of Colorado-based Avanti Healing Arts® Reiki Studies, teaches Gendai Reiki Ho, Usui-Tibetan, and Karuna Reiki®. She is one of only a few Gendai Reiki Ho Shihans offering training in this school of Japanese Reiki in the USA. 

Avanti Healing Arts® began as a woodland retreat in Northern Maine near the ocean. Now home is Estes Park, Colorado, in the high Rocky Mountains. Gianna Settin’s Reiki and Meditation training programs and treatment promote creativity, self-discovery, emotional healing and spiritual awareness. The goal is to help you uncover the innate healing capacity within yourself, to find yourself and be true to yourself, always in accordance with your Higher Self. Realizing this through Reiki is peaceful, harmonious and joyful experience.

Dr. Settin is nationally recognized for her contributions in geriatric medicine and psychology with academic degrees from Columbia University and doctorate from SUNY Stony Brook. She is an accomplished therapist with over 25 years experience in private clinical psychology practice and hospital administration, and has presented topics in health care and holistic medicine for numerous professional conferences and workshops, and is a published author in these fields, and in Reiki including the new book Reiki: The Mystery Teachings (Kidwell & Settin).

Gianna’s Japanese Reiki Lineage from Usui Sensei comes through Kanichi Taketomi, Kimiko Koyama, Hiroshi Doi, Roberta Barnes. Her first Level I & II Usui Reiki Shiki (in the Reiki Alliance tradition) class was with Hope Pratt during a blizzard in Downeast Maine in 2000. She gratefully acknowledges William Lee Rand as her first Usui-Tibetan Master Teacher and for his mentorship during the time she taught for the International Center for Reiki Training. She has taught hundreds of Reiki students around the world since 2002.

Gianna was lead to Reiki after a month-long trek in Nepal in 1999 and having observed an amazing healing in the Himalayas near the Tibetan border, said “I have to know how that was done!” Following intuition, she found Reiki and experienced its healing power first hand. It was a “right time, right place” event. Many come to Reiki in what seems to be a coincidental way but there are no accidents when it comes to following one’s inner guidance.

Integrated into her practice and teaching is Gianna’s lifelong experience with meditation starting in her teens with the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and studies of metaphysics and continuing now with Qigong. She has studied many energy therapies, Tibetan Buddhist and Native American medicine practices, and incorporates creative elements from her background in the arts and her love of nature into her work. From a family of musicians, her first career was as a professional ballet and jazz soloist in France.

Calling upon this experience, she originated Reiki Healing Dance™ presented worldwide as a certification course. She has had a varied career, winding its way through veterinary medicine, dance, psychology, and work with plants, resulting in specialties in Animal Reiki, Moving Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Reiki for Trees. She lives in a 1938 cabin near Estes Park, where she tends Red the Reiki Dog and the Ponderosas. She offers Reiki training and treatment privately and in small classes in the greater Denver area.