Reiki is a non-invasive Japanese alternative medicine called Energy Healing which restores balance in the
mind, body and spirit by channelling positive energy into your body. 

Reiki is a form of alternative medicine called energy healing. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which a "universal energy" is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing

Reiki comes from Japanese word (Rei) which means Universal and (Ki) means Energy.

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How Reiki Started

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Dr Usui was born in a district of Kyoto in Japan on 15th August, 1865. He was a Buddhist. As a young
boy, he studied Kiko, a Japanese version of TAI Chi, which focus on the movement of life energy, or
Ki, and some practitioners were able to use this energy for healing with the hands.
Throughout his life, Usui searched for knowledge, studying medicine, religion and psychology, and
travelling extensively throughout Japan, China and Europe. He was a successful businessman for
some years, but in 1914 he decided to become a Buddhist monk.

“Mikao Usui chose to undergo a three week period of fasting, prayer and meditation on Mt Koriyama
in Japan. On the 21st  morning of his quest, just before dawn, Usui saw a projectile of light coming
towards him. He accepted it’s coming as an answer to his meditations, and was struck on the Third
eye by the light, losing consciousness for a time. The Reiki symbols were shown to him as if on a
screen, and as he viewed them he was given the information about each of them, to activate the
Healing energy.
It is said that walking down the mountain, Usui experienced what is traditionally known as the “four
miracles”. Usui then named the Healing energy Reiki, which means, Universal Life Force energy, and
took the method into the slums of Kyoto, where he lived for several years.
It is following his work in the slums that Usui formulated the Reiki principles as a spiritual concept. He
also formulated the principle of energy exchange being a necessity, in order that a person would take
responsibility for their own healing, a factor which has greatly influenced the structure in
Traditional Reiki today. Mikao Usui then became a pilgrim, taking Reiki on foot through Japan. He met
Chujiro Hayashi, subsequently trained him to Mastership and named Hayashi his successor.
Following Usui’s transition in approximately 1883, Hayashi trained teams of Reiki practitioners,
including sixteen Masters in his lifetime. Hawayo Takata came to Hayasbi’s Healing clinic in 1935.
Seriously ill she undertook Reiki treatments for a period of four months, and subsequently felt she
was completely healed in Body, Mind and Spirit.
Hawayo began her Reiki training in 1936, then in 1937 returned to Hawaii, opening her first clinic.
After further training from Hayashi when he visited her in 1938, Hawayo was announced as a
Master/Teacher of Reiki and his successor,
ln 1941, Hayashi made his transition, and Hawayo Takata., now the Grand Master continued on her
path to teach Reiki, going to the USA, Canada and Europe. Hawayo Takata made her transition in 1980,
having initiated 22 Masters. The lineage was continued with Phyllis Furomoto, her grand-daughter,
who became the next Grand Master. The matter of lineage is still considered extremely important in
the Traditional method of teaching and frequently emphasis is placed on the “status” of lineage
of training”.