REIKI MASTER: Complete Usui Reiki Ryoho (Levels 1-Master)

Discover how Reiki existed in Japan before Usui, tracing four earlier styles, and how Usui integrated them into his practice, while examining three key Reiki masters.

Mikoa Usui, born in 1865 to a wealthy Buddhist family, studied diverse disciplines and meditated during a 21-day cave retreat, receiving inspiration for his Reiki healing system.

Highlight Chujiro Hayashi, a naval officer and medical physician, as Reiki's second grandmaster who created western hand positions and trained Mrs. Takata, expanding Reiki to Hawaii.

Hawayo Takta travels from Hawaii to Japan to receive Reiki after healing there, then becomes a Reiki master. She helps establish Reiki in Hawaii in 1938 and its rapid spread.

Reflect on how your Reiki goals have evolved after completing the course, including teaching, treating clients, self-treatment, and spiritual development, compared with the first journaling assignment.

Discover how to integrate Reiki's five precepts into daily life to foster harmony, gratitude, present-moment awareness, and compassionate action toward all life forces, even enemies.

Journal the five Reiki precepts and note how you presently honor each one, then list small, immediately actionable changes to improve your practice.

Explore the body mind connection in Reiki practice, examining conscious creation, sole creation, and subconscious creation as sources of illness and emotional imbalance.

Explore how Reiki affects the body by linking each hand position, chakra, and meridian to specific organs and the lymphatic system, with an anatomy overview in the course manual.

Journal a body mind connection by identifying physical ailments and how Reiki can help change or improve them. Expand your thinking beyond familiar areas, including yoga-related stiffness and hip openers.

Explore the chakra system in this introduction to seven energy centers for Reiki training. Learn how the front relates to feeling and the back to action, with hands-on awareness.

Explore the root chakra at the base of the spine, its red earth grounding your foundation, survival, and vitality, with the mantra I am.

Explore the sacral chakra, orange in color and water element, located between the navel and pelvic bone. Learn its link to reproduction, inner child, movement, creativity, sexuality, and emotions.

Explore the solar plexus chakra, the fiery yellow power center in the diaphragm, guiding confidence, will, and self-expression through the I do mantra and its digestive organs.

Explore the heart chakra as the healing and spiritual center in the chest, guiding compassion, love, balance, empathy, and joy through air energy and the thymus gland.

Explore the throat chakra, located between the collarbones, with the light blue color and the sound element, governing expression, speech, and vocal communication in the throat.

Explore the third eye chakra, or brow chakra, located between the eyes with indigo light and the mantra I see, connecting higher consciousness, intuition, wisdom, and visualization to self-awareness.

Focus the crown chakra at the top of the head, associated with violet and white, the element thought, and the pineal gland, to deepen spiritual understanding.

Commit to a day-by-day chakra journal, starting with the root chakra, writing and drawing; research each chakra and explore YouTube meditations for balancing.

Explore chi flowing through meridians linking body, mind, and subtle energy in Usui Reiki. Learn the 12 primary meridians, their chakra connections, and how balance and hand positions aid healing.

Explore how stomach, spleen, and pancreas meridians interact with the root chakra, and how kidney and bladder meridians connect to the sacral and solar plexus chakras, shaping overall energy flow.

Explore meridian lines through a journaling exercise, note each meridian's route through the body, identify chakra colors, and optionally sketch the path to reinforce Reiki concepts.

Balance yin and yang in the body to support health. Learn how yang meridians flow downward near the surface for receiving, while yin meridians flow upward for manufacturing.

Carry out the yin yang journal exercise by adding emotional issues—depression and lack of energy—to your list of physical ailments, and revisit previous Reiki-related entries.

Identify aura layers corresponding to physical or emotional issues, and map a treatment plan for self and clients by linking the astral layer to chakras and Reiki hand positions.

Centering and grounding create a calm, present focus that connects to earth energy and supports healing; practice meditation, visualization, breathing, or affirmations as your chosen method.

Learn how to use personal opening and closing prayers and grounding techniques to channel Reiki energy. Embrace intention over religion, honor guides, and practice simple grounding methods after sessions.

Create your own opening and closing prayers in your journal for each session, using simple online research and the book's examples to center, ground, and invoke natural, powerful phrases.

Begin Reiki self-treatment with three-minute intervals using timers or chimes. Prepare the room and journaling notes in advance, and use Reiki music or nature sounds.

Prepare a focused self treatment space, center and ground yourself, and begin an hour-long Reiki session with front and back chakra hand techniques that may evolve.

Position 1 focuses on the third eye and brow chakra, its indigo color, and its role in wisdom, intuition, and self awareness, with balanced energy enhancing courage, clarity, and perception.

Position your hands above the ears, fingertips touching the crown at the head’s top, linking violet and white energy to the pineal gland for balance.

Position 3 activates the back of the third eye chakra with hands placed on the head, balancing indigo light; cultivate wisdom, intuition, and self-awareness, aided by cedar wood and lavender.

Apply the fourth self position to balance the throat chakra by placing fingertips on the cheek bones and wrists over the throat, promoting expression, creativity, and clear communication.

Connect the throat and heart chakras by placing your right hand on the throat and left hand on the heart to speak your truth. Foster truthful self-expression and compassionate communication.

Balance the self's position 6 solar plexus chakra by placing hands over the diaphragm to connect with the yellow fire energy, the power center for confidence and self-expression.

Position 7 connects the self to the sacral chakra, balancing emotions, inner child, creativity, sexuality, and pleasure through hands placed between the navel and the pelvic belt.

Discover the root chakra position 8, grounding energy by placing fingertips over the base of the spine to balance vitality, calm anxiety, and manage too much energy.

Explore position 9 to activate the back of the throat chakra through specific hand placement, linking throat, voice, vocal cords, thyroid, lungs, neck, jaw, and meridians to expression and communication.

Position 10 trains the back of the solar plexus chakra; align fingertips behind the back, visualize yellow fire, and balance energy to boost confidence, self-expression, and calm fears of authority.

Focus on the back of the sacral chakra with gentle hand placement and visualization to balance emotions, creativity, and the inner child through the orange water element.

Explore position twelve, the root chakra at the base of the spine, using fingertip visualization and grounding to balance vitality and foundations.

End your Reiki self-treatment with a grounding routine, dispersing excess energy and placing your feet on the ground; hydrate for two days, detox symptoms may occur.

Journal self-treatment by recording room cleansing, grounding, and opening and ending prayers, then practice the 12 self positions while reviewing chakras; listen to Reiki music with bells to deepen energy.