We haven't had an official reiki class for a few years now, but you're right: Reiki was not a specifically "otherkin" workshop... The exceptions to that were the mutations that people like Railenne, Rialian, Eyovah, etc., applied to Reiki, making it into another form altogether. I think the same applies to "permaculture". I wouldn't even use that term really, since what we're doing is taking what works from all kinds of nature paths available, morphing what works so it fits together, and making something new for otherkin that involves a sort of magic.
This takes sustainability one step further and morphs it so it is no longer a chore, it's a magical path, including benefits to the practitioner such as increased vital energy. This is pertinent to the a strangely high percentage of Otherkin which have fibro, lyme, or similar ailments.
Magic that increases the interaction/exchange with the environment (rather than wholesale exploitation of the environment) will, in turn increase the vitality of the environment. This will increase the vitality and health of the practitioner probably more so than just a mundane application of sustainability would because there will be energetic intent behind it. Amplifying such with Jarin's matrix may even make the effects stronger.
Making the magical workings specifically elven (by focusing on things like spaces between, interactions, the dance between elements) would make the whole thing less "pagan" in flavor and more otherkin and possibly even alchemical.
Now this is not to say that I do not like just plain pagan or plain sustainability - but I'm trying to morph it so it will be more otherkin related.
One relatively mundane example happened when a group of us went to one of the last remaining meadows in the middle of some suburban sprawl to rescue some blackberry vines that we wanted to plant in the yard. Having taken the vines, we noted that there was a boatload of trash everywhere - people had been tossing their trash over the railing of the nearby parking area of the strip mall adjacent to the lot, instead of actually walking to the available trashcans. The dumpsters were marked "not for personal use", further discouraging people from cleaning up. We found bags among the trash and filled them up with the trash and took them to the forbidden dumpster until the damn thing was full, as it well should be (so there). The place wasn't perfect when we left, but it was a lot better. Thus an energy exchange happened rather than just a taking, focusing on the interactions and spaces between things (a forgotten lot between strip malls). This is probably a bad example, but it's similar to the kinds of energetic exchanges that happen during a magical working.
You probably have better ideas than these and already have a direction worked out, but thought I'd put this out here just in case it might be useful.
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This takes sustainability one step further and morphs it so it is no longer a chore, it's a magical path, including benefits to the practitioner such as increased vital energy. This is pertinent to the a strangely high percentage of Otherkin which have fibro, lyme, or similar ailments.
Magic that increases the interaction/exchange with the environment (rather than wholesale exploitation of the environment) will, in turn increase the vitality of the environment. This will increase the vitality and health of the practitioner probably more so than just a mundane application of sustainability would because there will be energetic intent behind it. Amplifying such with Jarin's matrix may even make the effects stronger.
Making the magical workings specifically elven (by focusing on things like spaces between, interactions, the dance between elements) would make the whole thing less "pagan" in flavor and more otherkin and possibly even alchemical.
Now this is not to say that I do not like just plain pagan or plain sustainability - but I'm trying to morph it so it will be more otherkin related.
One relatively mundane example happened when a group of us went to one of the last remaining meadows in the middle of some suburban sprawl to rescue some blackberry vines that we wanted to plant in the yard. Having taken the vines, we noted that there was a boatload of trash everywhere - people had been tossing their trash over the railing of the nearby parking area of the strip mall adjacent to the lot, instead of actually walking to the available trashcans. The dumpsters were marked "not for personal use", further discouraging people from cleaning up. We found bags among the trash and filled them up with the trash and took them to the forbidden dumpster until the damn thing was full, as it well should be (so there). The place wasn't perfect when we left, but it was a lot better. Thus an energy exchange happened rather than just a taking, focusing on the interactions and spaces between things (a forgotten lot between strip malls). This is probably a bad example, but it's similar to the kinds of energetic exchanges that happen during a magical working.
You probably have better ideas than these and already have a direction worked out, but thought I'd put this out here just in case it might be useful.