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Reiki Mikao Usui (1865-1926) is the founder of a system of spiritual discipline known as "Usui Reiki Ryoho". Usui was a Buddhist and it is believed that he originally developed the system as his own personal practice. He later began to teach others, and a formal organisation was eventually set up, known as the "Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai". The teachings contained a "palm-healing" method, but were essentially for spiritual development, with the emphasis very much on self-practice. One of the students who trained with Mikao Usui was Chujiro Hayashi. Hayashi set up his own centre, or clinic where people could go for treatment. To this clinic came an American-born Japanese woman called Hawayo Takata.
It is Hawayo Takata who trained in Reiki and first brought it back to the West. During the 1970's Mrs.Takata trained twenty-two of her Reiki students in the US to pass on these teachings. All the thousands of practitioners of the Western Reiki tradition can trace their lineage back to one of these twenty-two Reiki "Masters" and of course through them, to Hawayo Takata, Chujiro Hayashi and Mikao Usui.
Reiki in the West is understood to be both the system that Usui developed, and the spiritual energy that is used in the system.
Reiki spread rapidly throughout the West, but in so doing began to move further and further away from its original concept, that of a spiritual discipline, with the emphasis on self-treatment and practise. Many "New-age" and "channelled" forms of Reiki began to appear that belong only to the realms of fantasy.
Since the mid 1990's Western Reiki practitioners have been able to access Japanese Reiki traditions, including those of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.
Anadi Anant teaches Reiki from both Western and Japanese traditions in the Anadi Anant Reiki course. For details please see the Reiki Courses page of the website.
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