On May 10, 2019, Diane Domondon of Queens, New York, was initiated by Brian Brunius as a Reiki Master. Diane was in Reiki training for more than four years and underwent several years of Master preparation before her Master initiation. Her training culminated during a sacred pilgrimage to the historic Reiki sites of Japan, led…
Edited from a transcript of a tape recording of Mrs. Hawayo Takata. The recording was made in 1979 when Takata was 78 years old. Mrs. Hawayo Takata asked her teacher, “Dr. Hayashi, will you permit and consent that I have one class free for all the people that have helped me through this year of…
This past weekend, the NYC Reiki Center launched our first Certified Reiki Practitioner training program for second-degree students seriously considering establishing a Reiki business, and for those seeking guidance and mentoring in their professional practice. I’m grateful to participate in this class, and excited to see these students develop into highest-standard Reiki professionals and find their own…
A Pilgrimage to Japan for SF Reiki Center & NYC Reiki Center Students – May 6-14, 2019. We’ll start in Kyoto on May 6th to connect to the spirit of Japan, spend time on and around Mt. Kurama with time & space to exchange Reiki, take a tour of Usui Sensei’s birth town Taniai, and finish with a mindful visit to the Usui memorial and other sites in Tokyo.
On Friday, November 2, Phyllis Furumoto spoke to members of John Harvey Gray’s lineage at an event sponsored by Brian Brunius of Reiki Centers of America. Though I’d long anticipated all three days of her visit, this day intrigued me the most because lineage is so often referenced in Reiki, and I’ve taken for granted…
On October 31, 2018, Clara Diebold of Cambridge, Massachusetts, completed her 2-year Reiki Master Apprenticeship. Clara is the founder of Reiki Boston, holds a Masters degree in counseling, and is also a certified practitioner of Eden Energy Medicine. She studied and practiced Reiki for years with John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray.
Phyllis Lei Furumoto, Grandmaster of Usui Shiki Ryoho, and successor to Hawayo Takata, will visit New York City for three days in the fall of 2018. Each day of Phyllis’ visit is designed so that different audiences have time to interact with her and to meet each other. Friday, November 2nd, 2018 (9 am to…
Many students have asked how to do Reiki on someone sitting in a chair. Brian Brunius demonstrates this great technique for delivering Reiki to a seated person when you do not have a massage table for your treatment. Using this method you will not strain your back, as so often happens when doing Reiki on…
In this video, the practitioner walks us through how she approaches dogs and cats with Reiki.
On June 26, 2017, after opening the Long Island Reiki Center, and more than two years after beginning her full-time Reiki Master Apprenticeship, Anu Butani received the final Master initiation from Brian Brunius and received her Reiki Master Certificate.
