The treatment released blockages in my body, leaving me feeling a tremendous sense of well-being, as well as lighter and freer. I tried Reiki because I have trouble sleeping and calming my mind down. When I visit Georgiana she explained the treatment would help clear any negative energy or negative thoughts one might have and can help heal emotional pain too. This worked for me and my stress levels have significantly reduced with regular sessions.
Book Now. The History of Reiki Reiki is a method of healing that dates back to about years, but was forgotten about for a long time. In the nineteenth century the system was rediscovered by a man called Dr Mikao Usui. Contact Georgiana. Marilyn, London. Does Reiki help chronic pain? Can Reiki help back pain? What is Distance Healing? Does Distance Healing work? Penny, London. Gerry, London. Kate, London. To achieve high positions in the social and political hierarchy, young men needed to study modern Western science and were revered for it.
Usui's father, Uzaemon, was a supporter of this Westernising spirit and influenced his son, also to support the developments. Usui married Sadako Suzuki with whom he had two children: his son, Fuji and his daughter, Toshiko. They lived in Kyoto where Usui continued his spiritual studies. As the old capital of Japan and a religious centre, Kurama has been a centre of spiritual pilgrimage for many centuries.
Usui's interests led him to become involved with a group named "Rei Jyutsu Ka". The group had a centre at the base of the holy mountain, Kurama Yama, which is just north of Kyoto where there is an ancient Buddhist temple there dating back to AD, called Kurama-dera. The temple and its surrounding areas are kept in their natural state and there are places of meditation on the mountain, including one with a waterfall where Usui reportedly went frequently to meditate. His interest in meditation deepened.
He spent time and money pursuing his studies and collecting Buddhist scriptures and old medical texts using his political and academic connections in various countries. Based in Kyoto meant he could access, study and practise using the texts in the ancient collections held in its libraries and monasteries.
Usui became a respected and learned Buddhist teacher with a following of devoted students. The forcus of his teachings was on healing and benefiting humankind by healing practices.
They practised elaborate rituals for averting newly created diseases that were ravaging Japan, as well as esoteric practices for healing every type of illness. While the Usui memorial states that he did not begin teaching his system until , other sources suggest he was teaching before this.
Mariko Suzuki, the cousin of Usui's wife was said to have begun spiritual training with Usui in However, it was in the early s that the simplified system he devised began to be taught following his experience on Mount Kurama.
Usui'a memorial also tells how he undertook an intensive meditation retreat which includes fasting called "shyu gyo" on Mount Kurama. At the end of this discipline, he had a huge realisation into the nature of healing. According to several sources, including his memorial stone, a great energy appeared over his head and he received an empowerment of Universal healing energy.
Usui first practised on his family and friends. Then he began to offer the healing method to the lower class district of Kyoto. Usui opened his home to many and with boundless compassion brought Reiki to them.
This gave him the opportunity to perfect and refine the healing method. Meanwhile, he continued to hold regular classes for his growing circle of followers and further developed and refined the system.. He opened a Reiki clinic in Harajuki, Aoyama, outside Tokyo and began to set up classes and teach his system of Reiki.
Mikao Usui's system proved to be very successful and demonstrated tremendous results for healing illness and enhancing spiritual awareness. Usui's Students On 1st September , the devasting Kanto earthquake stuck Tokyo and surrounding areas.
Most of the central part of Tokyo was levelled and totally destroyed by fire. Over , people were killed. In one instance, 40, people were incinerated when a fire tornado swept across the open area where they had sought safety. I feel it is important to look at how reiki evolved through the reiki lineage and how it was adapted to the needs of the students rather than a one fits all system.
There is a depth to reiki and we can cultivate a relationship with our reiki practice which can keep teaching and guiding us. Mikao Usui. While teaching in a college, Dr.
Usui was asked by a student how Jesus facilitated the healing miracles that he performed. The question had planted a seed and set Dr. Usui was determined to learn the secret healing so that he may help others and his journey took him to many countries. During his journey Dr Usui travelled to the holy mountains of Kori Yama where he fasted and meditated for 21 days in order to attain a high altered state of consciousness which he believed would empower him with the healing energy.
On the morning of the 21st day, Dr. And in the same way anyone would do, he placed his hands over the toe, which was in pain. As he did this, healing energy began flowing from his hands all by itself.
The pain in his toe went away and the toe was healed. Usui Sensei was amazed by this. He realized that in addition to the illuminating experience he had undergone, he had also received the gift of healing. He also understood that this was his life purpose; to be a healer and to train others.
He also opened a Reiki clinic in Harajuku, Aoyama, Tokyo. There he taught classes and gave treatments. At first, all Usui Sensei had was the healing energy. Over time he developed his system of Reiki practice. Most of these developments came in after the Great Kanto earthquake and tsunami that did extensive damage in Tokyo and killed and injured many thousands of people.
Because there were so many people in need of healing, Usui Sensei decided he needed to do something to speed up his ability to train teachers. It was at this time that he developed many of his practitioner techniques such as Gassho, Byosen scanning, Reiji-ho, Gyoshi ho, Seishin-to-itsu and so forth. He also developed a formal attunement method or Reiju kai, making it easier for others to learn Reiki and to become teachers. Prior to this, the method he used to pass on the Reiki ability was to simply hold the students hands, but this took a long time.
The Reiju kai made transferring the Reiki ability much faster. Also, he had many different ways he performed the Reiju Kai, not just one. These are the three symbols that we currently receive in Reiki II, which he called Okuden. He did not have a Master symbol. This important point was confirmed by Hiroshi Doi Sensei, a member of the Gakkai, and in discussions he had with several of the Gakkai presidents and many of the Shinpiden members.
These same sources also indicate that Usui Sensei also gave many attunements to each student, not just one or one set. The philosophy of Usui Sensei was that there is no limit to the quality and effectiveness of the Reiki energy available in the universe and an important purpose for all students was to continually seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of the Reiki energy one is able to channel. Note that when Takata Sensei taught this level, which in the West we refer to as Reiki Level I, she combined all four levels into one.
This is most likely why she did four attunements for Level I. The Shinpiden level includes, Shihan-Kaku assistant teacher and Shihan venerable teacher. Demand for Reiki became so great that Usui Sensei outgrew his clinic, so in he built a bigger one in Nakano, Tokyo.
Because of this, his reputation as a healer spread all over Japan. He began to travel so he could teach and treat more people. During his travels across Japan he directly taught more than 2, students and initiated twenty Shihan, 19 each being given the same understanding of Reiki and approved to teach and give Reiju in the same way that he did.
The Japanese government issued him a Kun San To award for doing honorable work to help others. After Usui Sensei died, his students erected a memorial stone next to his gravestone. Ushida, a Shihan trained by Usui Sensei, took over as president of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai and was responsible for creating and erecting the Usui Memorial stone and ensuring that the gravesite would be maintained.
Ushida was followed by Mr. Ilichi Taketomi, Mr. Yoshiharu Watanabe, Mr. Toyoichi Wanami and Ms. Kimiko Koyama. The current successor to Usui Sensei is Mr. Mahayoshi Kondo, who became president in Ushida, and Chujiro Hayashi. It is also important to note that the first four presidents of the Gakkai who followed Usui Sensei were Shihan who had been trained directly by Usui Sensei, and the last of these was president of the Gakkai through , thus assuring that the Gakkai understanding, practice and teaching methods were the same as that of Usui Sensei.
Chujiro Hayashi. Before his passing, Usui Sensei had asked Chujiro Hayashi Sensei to open his own Reiki clinic and to expand and develop Reiki Ryoho based on his previous experience as a medical doctor in the Navy. At his clinic, which was located in Tokyo, he kept careful records of all the illnesses and conditions of his Reiki patients.
He also kept records of which Reiki hand positions worked best to treat each illness and condition. The handbook was to be used only if the practitioner was not able to use Byosen scanning to find the best hand positions to use. Many of his students received their Reiki training in return for working in his clinic. Hayashi Sensei also changed the way Reiki sessions were given. Rather than have the client seated in a chair and treated by one practitioner as Usui Sensei had done, Hayashi Sensei had the client lie on a treatment table and receive treatment from several practitioners at a time.
He also created a new, more effective system for giving Reiju attunements. Each day included two to three hours of instruction and one Reiju. Current photo of where Hayashi Sensei's Reiki clinic was located in Toyko. Because of his trip to Hawaii in —38 prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was asked by the Japanese military to provide information about the location of warehouses and other military targets in Honolulu.
He refused to do so and was declared a traitor. The only solution was seppuku ritual suicide , which he carried out. He died honorably on May 11, In it was discovered that Chiyoko Yamaguchi Sensei, a Shinpiden or Master student of Hayashi Sensei, was still alive and practicing. She was encouraged to teach and began doing so. Chiyoko Yamaguchi passed on in Hawayo Takata. She stated that she was born on December 24th, , on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Her parents were Japanese immigrants and her father worked in the sugar cane fields.
She eventually married the bookkeeper of the plantation where she was employed. His name was Saichi Takata and they had two daughters.
In October , Saichi died at the age of 34, leaving Mrs. Takata to raise their two children. In order to provide for her family, she had to work very hard with little rest.
After five years she developed severe abdominal pain and a lung condition, and she had a nervous breakdown. She also felt she could receive help for her health issues in Japan. After informing her parents and attending the funeral, she entered a hospital and stated that she was diagnosed with a tumor, gallstones, appendicitis and asthma.
She began receiving treatments. Two Reiki practitioners would treat her each day. The heat from their hands was so strong, she said, that she thought they were secretly using some kind of equipment. Seeing the large sleeves of the Japanese kimono worn by one, she thought she had found the secret place of concealment. Grabbing his sleeves one day she startled the practitioner, but, of course, found nothing.
When she explained what she was doing, he began to laugh and then told her about Reiki and how it worked. Takata got progressively better and in four months was completely healed.
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