Amy, I also have small chunk of rose quartz on my desk. And some amethysts. I've always liked stones.
I also think that Reiki should be available to all. And I think charging too much with it is not right. But as someone mentioned, people have to make their living. My course was quite cheap (30EUR) compared to some other courses in this area.
The most amazing thing happened just now. When I started to read this thread and look through the new posts. I got to the 1st unread one where PollySis said that the Reiki 2 course for me will happen.
Well, the same moment I recieved an e-mail from my Reiki Master and she invited me to catch up with Reiki. We are going to go through everything we learned on level 1 course and do some treatments.
I believe that will be one step foward for me to find the level 2 teacher. Reiki just works. It simply does. This was again one great experience.