What is 5 Element Dragon Fire Reiki?

Sacral Steve
6 days ago
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5 Element Dragon Fire Reiki (5EDFR) 101

5 Element Dragon Fire Reiki is an advanced form of traditional Reiki that combines Reiki with the alchemical energy of dragon fire, and works with the Meridian System and the 5 elements of Chinese Medicine. 5EDFR was brought into the world in 2022 by my spiritual mentor and Reiki Master, Erin Ryan.

To understand 5EDFR, you need a basic understanding of the meridians and elements of Chinese medicine.

The meridian system is a network of “energy highways” in Chinese Medicine. All acupuncture points exist on specific meridians. Twelve of the twenty meridians are Elemental Meridians, meaning they correspond with one of the five elements in Chinese Medicine (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood/Air).

Each of these elements also corresponds with one of the five seasons in Chinese Medicine:

Fire – Early Summer

Earth – Late Summer

Metal – Fall / Autumn

Water – Winter

Wood – Spring

On top of that, each of these elements and seasons corresponds with specific organs in the body, each of which has its own meridian:

Fire – Heart, Pericardium, Small Intestine

Earth – Spleen and Stomach

Metal – Lung and Large Intestine

Water – Kidney and Urinary Bladder

Wood – Liver and Gallbladder

In addition to all of this, each of the seasons, elements, and organs also corresponds with specific emotional states:

Fire (Heart, Pericardium, and Small Intestine meridians) – anxiety, defensiveness, mania

Earth (Spleen and Stomach meridians) – worry and overthinking

Metal (Lung and Large Intestine meridians) – grief, sadness, and discouragement

Water (Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians) – fear, terror, dread, blame, conflict, and
isolation

Wood (Liver and Gallbladder meridians) – depression, anger, frustration, resentment, indecisiveness, and guilt

Elemental Levels

In 5 Element Dragon Fire Reiki, there is a level for each of these elements. Each level activates the student’s capacity to channel Dragon Fire Reiki through the corresponding element. Each class is taught during its corresponding season.

We’re in Water season as I’m writing this, which means this is the season you would take the Water Dragon Level of 5EDFR. This class gives you the activation to use Dragon Fire Reiki on your Water meridians, giving you direct energetic access to work with the Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians—and therefore the ability to do energy work on these organs and clear and transmute the emotions of fear, terror, dread, blame, and isolation.

An Overview of the Levels of 5EDFR

There are technically nine levels of 5EDFR, but I like to say there are six if you’ve already completed Reiki Levels 1–3 in any other Reiki lineage (which are the prerequisites for 5EDFR).

Levels 1–3 are the beginner levels and are not associated with any elements. These can be substituted with Reiki Levels 1–3 from another lineage.

Levels 4–8: Elemental Levels

(Can be taken in any order, during the corresponding season)

Level 4 – Fire Dragon (Early Summer)

Level 5 – Earth Dragon (Late Summer)

Level 6 – Metal Dragon (Autumn)

Level 7 – Water Dragon (Winter)

Level 8 – Wood Dragon (Spring)

Level 9 – Teacher Training (no corresponding season)

Why Dragons?

To quote the founder of 5EDFR, Erin Ryan:

“Usui Reiki already utilizes the very powerful frequency of unconditional love…

But dragons were literally created to break down, destroy, and de-calcify the blocked, stagnant gunk that clogs our bodies and prevents them from functioning at their highest capacity. This is what they’re here for—and they love helping us using their advanced technology, which is designed for these purposes.”

Dragon Technology

In addition to the capacity to channel Dragon Fire Reiki through the corresponding meridians, each level also installs a specific piece of Dragon Technology into your energetic system.

Think of these as pieces of energetic hardware that get installed into your system—upgrades that assist you in specific ways.

Fire Dragon – Dragon Breath

Assists you in burning through obstacles and moving through challenges more quickly and with greater ease.

Earth Dragon – Dragon Tail

Helps you become more anchored and grounded, even amidst the chaos of life around you.

Metal / Gold Dragon – Impenetrable Scales

Supports resilience, confidence, and energetic boundaries, allowing you to stand in your power less phased by the energies and projections of others.

Water Dragon – Ruby Red Heart

Supports the clearing of ancestral trauma and density from the blood and bloodline, helping to release emotional and energetic heaviness.

Wood / Air Dragon – Dragon Wings

Supports expansion and forward movement, helping you reach new heights of personal and spiritual growth with more ease and playfulness.

Working with Your Channel

5EDFR is a powerful modality to bring into any client work you may be doing. I bring Dragon Fire Reiki into most of my client sessions, and I love being able to offer a more refined, potent, and specific form of energy work.

For me personally, the greatest gift of this modality has been the ability to upgrade my energetic system and work directly with my channel to bring more of my gifts online.

Erin taught me that our “channel” as spiritual beings is made up of our meridians. I see my channel as the energetic structure—the vehicle—through which my unique medicine, codes, and insights come into the world.

Because of this, the biggest contribution 5EDFR has offered me is the ability to work directly with my channel, clear it of density, and allow my magic to come through more cleanly.

I do very high-level, deep, and advanced energy work with my bodywork clients. I firmly believe I was able to access these gifts and bring them online so rapidly because of the devotional relationship I formed with 5EDFR for myself.

Who This Is For

5 Element Dragon Fire Reiki is not for beginners looking for a quick certification or a light energetic experience. This work is for practitioners who already understand what it means to be in relationship with energy—and are ready to deepen that relationship in a more precise, embodied, and disciplined way.

This path is for:

Reiki Masters and experienced energy workers who completed Levels 1–3 and felt a quiet (or loud) sense of “there has to be more than this.”
Practitioners who want to work with the body’s energetic architecture, not just broad or generalized “healing energy.”
Those eager to bring more of their gifts online faster and with greater ease. 5EDFR isn’t about stacking techniques—it’s about clearing, strengthening, and upgrading the energetic pathways through which your medicine comes through.
Energy workers who notice recurring emotional patterns in themselves or their clients—fear, grief, anger, overthinking, or ancestral heaviness—and want a more refined, targeted, and energetically precise way to work with those states.
Practitioners who are devoted to their own evolution, not just client outcomes.This system asks you to work on yourself season by season, element by element, allowing your nervous system, emotions, and energy body to reorganize over time.
Those drawn to Dragon Medicine. Whether you’ve already been working with dragons and are ready to deepen that relationship, or have simply always felt called to them, 5EDFR offers a portal into a more direct and devoted connection.