Audrey's Blog

REIKI: It was first introduced to the West by a Hawaiian born Japanese woman Mrs. Takata a Reiki disciple of Hayashi san who was a student of Usui sensei and Usui Reiki Ryoho before leaving the Gakkai after Usui sensei died to strike out on his own and continue the Research Usui sensei asked him to explore to bring back as healing experience info for the Gakkai. After Usui SENSEI died Hayashi san started his own Reiki Society separate from the original Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.

I am very grateful to Hayashi san and Takata san for bringing Hayashi Reiki to the West, but I was never comfortable with the way Mrs. Takata felt compelled to change the story of Usui sensei and the origins of Usui Reiki thereby changing Reiki's history for the earlier Pioneers of Reiki in the West that spread worldwide.

After 16 years as a Reiki Master, I looked inward and uncovered the spiritual dimension of Reiki for myself and for my students. I taught the first of all my future Reiki classes as a path to enlightenment in 2007 at the Amrit Yoga Institute in Florida It was quickly recognized as an awakening journey just as prana awakening is the awakening path for raja yogis.

In 2010 I journeyed to Japan to discover my Reiki roots and soon learned that the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai that Usui sensei founded was STILL in existence, but it was a secret Reiki society opened only to a few Japanese born advanced Usui Reiki disciples and certainly closed shut to Westerners.

After I returned home to Massachusetts I researched Japanese Reiki and was immediately drawn to Japan’s very famous Reiki sensei, Hiroshi Doi sensei, who I later discovered, IS a current member of the secret Japanese Reiki society, The Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai.

It felt natural and appropriate for me to study directly with Doi sensei and join his Gendai Reiki Energy lineage and his Japanese Gendai Reiki Association. So, James (Reiki Master, husband, and my teaching Partner) and I headed back to Japan to study directly with Doi sensei and attend the 2012 Gendai Reiki World Network Gathering where we represented the USA as one of the 13 Reiki Master Delegates from around the world.

Bringing the origins of Reiki back West is such a blessing for me.

Come and learn Reiki.

Masters, we have all tried and practiced ‘spirituality’ as it appears for us. Many of us have travelled to exotic lands and Sat before great Masters hoping, even trusting that ‘they’ will enlighten us! ‘Not possible Are you enlightened? If so, were you enlightened by anyone, ‘but yourself?

I experience enlightenment as ‘Reiki Awakening’: the Spirituality Usui Sensei realized and named Usui Reiki and passed along to seekers of truth And I experience the Self-Healing, self-purifying, self-transformational resonance with Reiki through attunement with Reiki’s humble acceptance of Life as it appears in our awareness.
I experience that Gendai Reiki is the optimum enlightenment gift to pass along via our Gakkai Lineage attunement My husband & I experienced inherent Reiki Awaken in us when we placed our self at the foot of the Gakkai’s Usui Reiki Path

Inherent in attunement to Reiki is simplicity without any effort Simply live by the Reiki Precepts, Practice Hatsurei-Ho meditation.

I also developed a Reiki Nidra based on my Practices of Yoga Nidra. I use it more to relax before sleep and self-love And in Healing Sessions.



Reiki is my Calling. Are you Called as well?

Understanding Reiki-do’s role in our Life. We are born in the image and likeness of god. Along Life’s Path we lose that knowing and the ego self-image takes over Our mission is to real-ize our divinely creative selves again

After living our life dedicated to purification of the ego self-image our many travelled Paths finally merge and we find our self on our unique ‘Spiritual Way’ We take the Return Trip to being ourselves again to real-izing the god-self that we are then the Universe rejoices And human progress and prosperity flourishes My homeward Path is called Reiki-Do Do means Way In Japan’s Shinto Spirituality the manner in which purity is restored is called oharai The acts of purification are performed by priests who act as intermediaries speaking to the Kami on behalf of the person they ceremonially purify This is not so unlike Purifying with Reiki where Kami can be seen as the creative life force in all things and Reiki as the rebalancing energizing and harmonizing power of Kami vibrating as the life force of Love and Harmony

In Reiki Practice The Reiki Practitioner takes the role of the symbolic channel for the creative living spirit force and supports the Recipient in accessing the Reiki energy for their mindbody purification

The Spirit or Kami of Reiki Life Force Energy revitalizes the Creative Forces and the Life Giving Energies bringing Balance and Harmony to the Reiki Recipient

First line of Divine Order is to Heal Yourself The more purified the Practitioner is the more pure the Reiki being channeled

This is a combined learning that came to me through both my AYI Yoga and Gendai Reiki study and Practices Practice it when ever you feel a loss of resonance with Reiki

1. Close your eyes and open up your palms to connect with Reiki
2. Take a deep breath in exhale placing the hands down palms up on your lap
3. Let your awareness scan the body for anxious type sensations start at the head through the body to the feet
4. PLACE your Reiki awareness ON the most active bodily sensation
5. Do not judge the sensations good or bad
6. You may experience your breathing deepen do not interfere or try to regulate it
7. Place your palms over the area of most minus-energy sensation until the sensations dissipate and your breathing pattern has returned to normal
8. Each time you merge your awareness on minus energy sensations in this Reiki-do Purification Practice the imbalance will be restored to resonance of reiki.

Thoughts immersed in conscious awareness of universal truth, AKA Divine consciousness manifesting as divine universal revelation, AKA the Spiritual Dimension as Reiki (Peaceful mind) and as Its other name Pranic life force (Prana Shakti), AKA acceptance of what IS as is manifests as peace-filled life.

In the alchemy of Reiki and of Prana Shakti, disturbances in the mind created by judgement of an Other’s Karmic unfolding, is replaced with understanding that One cannot ever know an-Other’s inner karmic struggles, thus criticism of the Other reveals the un- consciousness of self-judgement AKA rejection of one’s own unhealed inner struggle reflected in the behavior judged in an Other.

The Issue/Behavior rejected in the Other whether same, similar, or at the very least of the same subject is always reflected in the Judger. It is always a self-referencing generally subconscious disturbance because the unconscious-Judger is not clear about the Nature of Judge not, lest ye be judged.

To protect the unconscious ego-self the Judger will separate from the One they Judge, either Mentally, Emotionally, and or physically, thus Spiritually. Only that’s not what happens! The Judger really separates from conscious awareness.

Alchemy of Reiki. If any One of us has created confrontive relationship with an Other on the mental, emotional, and or physical planes, be it a beloved friend from the past. No need to forgive yourself! Forgive yourself for what? For actively engaging in your own Karma? Instead, restore your wounded ego to conscious-awareness again through the simplicity of Reiki's humility and truth by dropping your ego self image's Story. Re-connect with those you judge as wrong. Set an Example for the World by Practicing what you teach others first.

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