There is a small parable near the front of Tomita Kaiji’s 1933 book on Reiki, Reiki and the Benevolent Art of Healing (Reiki to jinjutsu: Tomita-ryū teate ryōhō), and it is a story about why books don’t work. A king walks into a shop looking for texts on how to become a better ruler. An…
How Amilcar Escobar followed a question about Reiki into the water and found the work that was waiting for him there. There is a tradition in our Reiki lineage that every Master Candidate undertakes a Master Project near the end of training. The subject is not assigned by the teacher. It grows out of a…
You hear it a lot now — that hand placement doesn’t really matter in Reiki, that the energy goes where it’s needed, so you can put your hands wherever feels right. I understand why people say it. But it doesn’t line up with how the practice was actually taught. Not long ago I heard a…
If you have watched the news recently, you have probably experienced a familiar feeling. War continues in one part of the world while political division deepens in another. Communities become increasingly polarized, families find themselves separated by ideology, and environmental concerns seem to grow larger each year. The problems are so numerous and so interconnected…
We live in a culture that constantly pulls our attention outward. Notifications, noise, urgency, overstimulation — many people move through daily life without ever fully settling into themselves. Over time, this can create a feeling of internal distance. It’s not necessarily a dramatic disconnection, but a subtle one. A feeling of being constantly “on,” mentally…
One of the strange things about Mount Kurama is that almost nothing on the mountain mentions Reiki. People arrive expecting otherwise. After all, this is the mountain associated with Mikao Usui’s retreat in 1922. Reiki practitioners come from all over the world imagining there will be giant monuments, museums, sacred markers, or at least signs…
There is a quiet problem in modern Reiki practice. Most people learn techniques. They learn hand positions, symbols, and ways of treating others. But the foundation of the system is often unclear. Practice becomes inconsistent. Understanding remains partial. Over time, many practitioners feel that something is missing, even if they cannot name it. What is…
Most Reiki practitioners have never trained the way Usui intended. They place their hands. They learn techniques. They may even teach. But the disciplined structure that shaped perception, conduct, and stability in early Reiki training is largely absent from modern practice. In Usui’s system, training was not built around a single method, but around a…
As Koshin Reiki began to take form and the website came together, it became clear that something essential was missing. It wasn’t a logo or branding. What was needed was a seal, a hanko to represent Koshin no Michi, the path of Koshin Reiki. At the same time, I knew I needed a personal seal as…
A New Book A new book has been published today: Koshin Reiki: A Complete System of Reiki Practice & Training. This text presents the system of Reiki as it was taught to me by my teacher, John Harvey Gray, and as it has been practiced and carried forward within this lineage. Koshin Reiki is a form…