Usui Shiki Ryoho Lineage Bearer and Grandmaster Johannes was born in Austria in 1977. At 17 he learned first degree Reiki and felt what many of us feel: “I am home.” He continued to practice and a year later took second degree. A few years later he got in touch with the global Reiki…
On November 25, 2023, Brian Brunius initiated Amilyo Escobar of New Jersey as a Reiki Master in the system of Usui Shiki Ryoho after completing a 2.5 year Reiki Master apprenticeship. Amilyo attended The US Air Force Security Forces Academy, and holds a BS in Managerial Finance from New Jersey City University. Amilyo is also…
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…
Those of you who have studied Reiki with me know that I absolutely love telling the stories of the Reiki Masters in our lineage. My teacher, John Harvey Gray, passed down a rich trove of stories in the form of giant reel-to-reel audio tapes he recorded of Hawayo Takata teaching Reiki classes and “talking story,”…
I say in every first degree class, “Reiki flows through the lineage.” Literally, I connect to the energy of Reiki through the teachers who came before me. I accomplish this by teaching and initiating my students precisely as I was taught by my teachers, and as I teach all of my Master students. Face to…
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…
On Friday, November 2, 2018, Phyllis Furumoto, Grandmaster and Lineage Bearer of Usui Shiki Ryoho, spoke to members of John Harvey Gray’s lineage at an event sponsored by Brian Brunius and Reiki Centers of America. The three-day event was something I’d long anticipated, but Friday, devoted to the “Initiating Lineage” of John Gray, was the…
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…
On January 25, 2016, five years after opening the San Francisco Reiki Center, and more than two years after beginning his full-time Reiki Master Apprenticeship, Christopher Tellez received the final Master initiation from Brian Brunius and received his Reiki Master Certificate.