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…
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…
I’ve received a number of questions recently about Usui Shiki Ryoho, the system of Reiki I teach. People have asked what it is exactly, how it differs from other forms of Reiki, and how to choose a Reiki teacher. In the world today there are a dizzying array of practices with the name Reiki. The…
Many prospective students ask why our first degree Reiki class at NYC Reiki Center is so long – 16 Hours, over 2 days. Why spend a weekend in our Midtown Manhattan office when there are 1-hour Reiki workshops and online Reiki training elsewhere? We can’t answer that for you, but we can tell you what…
Today on my 50th birthday I signed the contract for an academic English language translation of the 1933 Reiki book by Kaiji Tomita. Tomita was a student of Reiki founder Mikao Usui, and as such, this book offers perhaps the best chance at understanding some of what Usui was teaching almost 100 years ago. Many…
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…
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…
Book Overview: We are all Healers, by Sally Hammond The following passages, excerpted from Sally Hammond’s classic 1974 book (Ballantine Books, New York) about spiritual healing, We are all Healers, document a brief encounter she had with Mrs. Hawayo Takata at a conference on spiritual healing in 1971. The excerpt starts on page 283, and…