Your a Reiki teacher? Thats wonderful! I'm an aromatherapist. I'd be happy to put a link to your business, if you have one, on my blog site. And I'm also hoping to have some guest posters on the blog too. I have a hypnotherapist, Scott Stevenson, on my list of potential guests.
If you have a blog I'd be happy to include it in my links list. In the mean time, if you'd like to write a post for Moon Garden about Reiki, I know the readers would love to see it.
I'm sorry your having a tangle with bureacracy there. Over here (England), alternative therapies are generally recognised as legimate practices. Some medical centres have a holistic therapist in residence as part of the practice, however there's no requirement that you have a medical degree of any sort, simply that you hold a recognised certificate in the therapy you practice. Its up to the client to check a practicitioner's credentials (there are a number of non government governing bodies for the various disciplines). Although there isn't any government legislation in place to keep the charlatans out, which is something I'd like to see. There's been a few cases of rip off artists posing as therapists in the press. And you know what the media is like, focus and blow out of all proportion anything negative. But it gives the entire therapy business a bad reputation that isn't deserved.
Mind you, like Canada, where I'm from, health care in the UK isn't fee for service, like it is in the States. I wonder if that makes a difference to how you set up a practice there?