I was in the grocery store last week waiting in line to pay. A woman in the line next to me started talking to me and asked me what I did. This happens pretty often, and I usually respond to people, “I do Reiki.” The woman immediately replied that she knew what Reiki is, and…
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’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…
Last week I received an email from our Japanese to English translator, Dylan Luers Toda, that made my heart skip a beat. He wrote that he completed the translation of chapter 2 ahead of schedule and had attached it to his email. His translation of chapter 1 was amazing, and I’ve been waiting years to…
A Century of Reiki with Dr. Justin Stein A five-part Zoom series following Reiki’s journey from Japanese therapy to global practice. We were so pleased to host this groundbreaking 5-hour Webinar series with renowned Reiki scholar Justin Stein, PhD., who covered the history of Reiki from Usui’s time through Hawayo Takata’s teaching tours of…
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…
Last week, we bid our final farewells to Usui Shiki Ryoho Grandmaster Phyllis Lei Furumoto in Kapa’a, Kauai, Hawaii. Reiki Masters and practitioners, as well as members of Phyllis’ and her widow Joyce Winough’s families, traveled from all corners of the globe – Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the UK and beyond.…
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…
From May 6th to 14th, 2019, 15 Reiki students participated in a pilgrimage to the sites in Japan that hold historical and spiritual importance for all Reiki practitioners. Led by Christopher Tellez of the SF Reiki Center and historian Dr. Justin Stein, and accompanied by tour guide & translator Yoshie Hara, the tour was planned by…