My Personal Reiki Story

November, 2012,  Treechild

It is my 30 year anniversary of taking Reiki! {And now in 2022, I had my 40 year anniversary of receiving Reiki🎉}

I learned Reiki when I was 22 years old. I was at a gathering and a friend told me about Reiki Healing and the minute I heard the word Reiki, I knew I wanted it.

A few months later, I was travelling and found out about a woman giving a Reiki introduction. I found myself in the area where she was teaching and after the introduction, I asked if she would teach me right away since I was not going to be there when her next class was scheduled. She was willing and we started the next day.

After receiving the Level One attunements , I spent several days alone in a cabin in the woods, doing Reiki on myself and marvelling at the energy. I had a medical condition that I had been suffering from for 6 years that did not respond to any type of treatment, conventional or alternative. Within a month of self-healing, giving myself Reiki everyday, it was gone. I had a medical test 2 weeks after I took Reiki which showed I was clear and 2 weeks after that the symptoms were gone. This was my first Reiki miracle!

Within 3 months I was ready to go on to Level II and learn distance healing techniques, after which I began my Reiki practice. As my clients became ready to receive the Reiki attunements, I set up classes for Reiki Masters under whom I apprenticed. I soon realized I wanted to be a Reiki Master and, for me, this was a life commitment. It was my calling and I pursued it with all my heart.

In 1984, I went to Japan and visited the sacred mountain, Kuriyama, where Mikao Usui did his 21 day fast and received the visions that brought Reiki to us in this time. I followed his spirit guidance and directions as I travelled throughout Japan spending time in introspection in celebrated places in nature, monasteries, and temples.

By apprenticing with my Reiki Master and then going to workshops with Phyllis Lei Furumoto, the current lineage bearer in 1985, and Granddaughter to Hawayo Takata, I opened myself up to the Reiki and learned from it in ways that transformed me. On December 11, 1985, on the anniversary of Takata’s death, I was initiated as a Reiki Master at the age of 25. I feel honoured to have this direct connection with the spiritual lineage of Reiki.

In 1988, Phyllis Furumoto announced, at a Reiki Masters’ conference, that we were all empowered to initiate Reiki Masters, a gift that had previously been in the hands of the current lineage bearer. This change has allowed Reiki to expand exponentially in the last few decades. When I came to Reiki, I was number 56 of all the masters initiated in the west at that time. I took this initiation as a monk might take vows in a monastery, knowing that it was a lifetime commitment.

I spent several years travelling and teaching and then spent a long period of time in in retreat, teaching only those who found their way to me. I am now teaching you from a deeper understanding of Reiki, having delved deeply into my own personal healing process and having practiced Reiki for 40 years.