Students have been telling me for a few years that I should be on TikTok. Maybe you’re one of those students who offered to help me get started. Now in my mid-50s, I thought I was outside the demographic, so I demurred. Still, I had to take a peek, and naturally I searched TikTok for…
Reiki has brought me many gifts over the years since I completed my first degree class in December 2012. One of the most important is my meditation practice and lineage. In April of 2022, I finished a two and half year meditation program with The 3 Doors Academy. It is affiliated with Ligmincha International, located…
On May 22, 2022, I initiated Simon John Light of New York City and Puglia, Italy as a Reiki Master in the Usui System of natural Healing, Usui Shiki Ryoho. Simon, who was already a trained and licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist, excelled during his Reiki Master training. He has returned to Italy where he…
On May 22, 2022, Brian Brunius initiated Racquel Borromeo of New York City as a Reiki Master in the system of Usui Shiki Ryoho. Racquel, or Racqui as her friends call her, is a gifted Reiki practitioner and an excellent Reiki teacher. She has established her own private practice in New York City and is…
Dear Reiki Community, In my first degree Reiki class almost 30 years ago, my teacher John Gray showed the students his most treasured possession, a copy of the “Grey Book” published in 1982 after Hawayo Takata died. It was given to the 22 Reiki Masters she initiated, and to no one else. Having a copy…
The Reiki II Masterclass is a big deal in the preparation to become a Reiki Instructor. It is the last, definitive, in-person test before receiving the final initiations of the third level of Reiki. After this, there only remains to write up the Master Project which is like the thesis you submit for your Ph.D.…
There is a certain treatment that comes from Takata sensei herself that works so well it would draw huge crowds if only more people knew about it. Hawayo Takata was a Reiki Master who worked with clients daily for more than forty years. She learned to give Reiki treatments before World War II in the…