ABOUT REIKI:

Reiki  is a safe and effective complimentary energy-healing modality, which can benefit almost any condition. from emotional stress to chronic pain.  Reiki [pronounced "Ray-Key"] is the Japanese word for Universal Life Force Energy.

     It is a noninvasive treatment that

          *can complement existing medical protocols

          *carries no side effects

          *reduces stress

          *helps boost the immune system

          * stimulates the healing process within the body,

          * brings inner peace and calm

          * flows to those places within the body where it is most needed on a physical,

                    emotional or spiritual level.

     The benefits of Reiki are often felt immediately.

Reiki is a technique which enables you to channel a type of life force energy present throughout the universe and bring it into your life to use for healing, growth and transformation.  It is a spiritually guided life force energy.  While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion.  It has no dogma and there is nothing you need to believe in order to learn or practice Reiki.

The knowledge that an unseen energy force flows through all living things and is connected directly to the quality of health has been part of the wisdom of many cultures since ancient times.

Reiki is not  taught in the usual sense but is transferred to a student by a Reiki Master.  It does not depend on one's intellectual capacity or spiritual development and therefore is available to everyone.

Reiki is a precise method for connecting this universal life force energy with the body's innate powers of healing.

A Reiki treatment is pleasant, soothing, relaxing and centering.  It can also be gently energizing, depending on the state of the recipient.  Besides immediate stress reduction and symptomatic relief, there are other subtle and profound effects that unfold over time and which accumulate with continued treatment.

WHERE DID REIKI ORIGINATE?

The technique came out of Japan before World War II.  Mikao Usui (1865-1926), the Founder of Reiki, was a practicing Buddhist. He made the decision to find a way to make available to everyone what he had studied and learned, along with the the abilities he manifested by his spiritual practices. He opened clinics and hosted workshops to spread this knowledge. His fame spread quickly, especially after his healing work in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that hit Tokyo in 1923.

HOW DID REIKI COME TO THE WEST?

Hawayo Takata (1900-1980), a first generation American living in Hawaii, was visiting her family in Japan and went to the clinic of Dr. Hayashi,who was a master student of Usui, because of serious health concerns. After four months of daily treatments she completely recovered her health.  She petitioned Hayashi to learn Reiki.

Hayashi accepted her under the condition that she study the same way other students did - i.e. learn first and second degree and practice in the clinic for a year.  This she did and she  brought Reiki back to Hawaii.  Later Dr. Hayashi made her a Reiki Master and Takata initiated 22 other Reiki masters before she died.  As a result of her work,  Reiki was spread world wide.

WHERE DID REIKI JIN KEI DO ORIGINATE?

There are different schools of Reiki but all lineages originate from Usui.  In the West most lineages came through Hayashi and Takata.  But in the Reiki Jin Kei Do lineage, Seiji Takamori (1907-1992)received his initiations from Venerable Takeuchi, a master student of Dr. Hayashi. Seiji then traveled  where he studied for over twenty years with many different monks and yogis in Nepal and the surrounding areas, deepening his spiritual practices and knowledge of healing methods. He was well known as a healer In Nepal. After this period of study, he spent many years traveling and teaching.  He met Ranga Premaratna in 1990 in the United States in Wisconsin and passed onto him the complete teachings and training he had learned, because he was convinced that Ranga was to continue his life's work in transmitting this knowledge to those who were ready.  He then left the US and went to a monastery in Sri Lanka where he died at the age of 83 in 1992.  Ranga went to live in Australia where he is today as the head of this lineage.

WHAT IS REIKI JIN KEI DO?

Ranga Premaratna gave this lineage the official name Reiki Jin Kei Do:  Rei (spiritual consciousness) Ki (Universal life force energy) Jin [Healing self, others, and the Universe with compassion) Kei (Meditation and the development of inner wisdom) Do (Integration of healing and meditation into our lives).  So Reiki Jin Kei Do is the practice of Reiki with compassion and wisdom in a balanced way.  Integrating all three aspects and applying them to one's life.  It then becomes a way of life rather than another healing method. 

WHAT MAKES REIKI JIN KEI DO DIFFERENT THAN OTHER LINEAGES?

Because of the extensive studies of Seiji, there is an incorporation of both meditation and Qigong practices as part of the Reiki training. The practitioner is a vessel through which the energy is drawn by the recipient. Meditation trains the practitioner to hold that space and  be present in the moment which allows more energy to flow. Qigong types of practices cultivate this energy and develop one's capacity to contain and channel it more.  Also beyond the first and second degree levels, there are an additional two trainings, referred to as the Buddho-Enersense - Levels 1 and 2 -  which continue to cultivate this energy to use in healing.