Me
Artist
Gift maker
Nature lover
Bird crazy
Dreaming romantic
Child at heart
Meditation for Everyone teacher
Gendai Reiki Ho master teacher
Rei·ki means "universal life-energy," the energy flowing through all living things. This energy is called qi (chi) in China, ki in Japan, and prana in India.
Reiki is a Japanese, gentle, hands-on, energy healing technique that helps activate one’s vital energy and enhance the body’s natural, innate ability to balance and heal.
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Reiki is also considered a spiritual practice, utilizing meditation, breathwork, and hands-on self-healing to raise inner consciousness, with the purpose of attaining Anshin Ritsumei, a blissful state of profound inner peace and self-realization.
Gendai Reiki Ho
Gendai Reiki Ho is "the beautiful harmony" of Japanese traditional Reiki with Western Reiki (Hayashi to Takata lineage) founded by Hiroshi Doi.
I traveled to Ashiya, Japan to study directly with Hiroshi Doi Sensei in the fall of 2018. I was drawn to study Gendai Reiki Ho, as it combines Dento-style Reiki (Japanese traditional Reiki that encourages spiritual growth) and Western-style Reiki (the practice of healing the mind and body.) Doi Sensei originally learned Western Style Reiki. In 1993, he became a member of the Usui Reiki Ryo-ho Gakkai, the original Usui Reiki Society Usui-sensei founded before his death in 1926. Doi Sensei received his Dento Reiki training from Kimiko Koyama-sensei, the 6th president of the Usui Reiki Ryo-ho Gakkai. Through his training with Koyama-sensei, he realized the importance and "high spiritual orientation of Dento Reiki," and created Gendai Reiki Ho to both practice and support the mental-physical healing (Western Reiki) and encourage spiritual growth (Dento Reiki.)
Reiki Energy Lineage
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Mikao Usui Creator of the Reiki system in Japan and First President of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai (Reiki Japanese Association founded in 1922).
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Taketomi, Third President of the Gakkai, initiated by Usui.
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Koyama: Sixth President of the Gakkai, initiated by Taketomi.
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Hiroshi Doi: President of the Gendai Reiki Healing Association, member of Usui's Gakkai, initiated by Kimiko Koyama.
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Caroline Phillips Buttner, member of Gendai Reiki Healing Association, initiated by Hiroshi Doi.
I received my Western Usui Shiki Reiki 1, 2, Master, and Master Teacher degrees through Libby Barnett. I am grateful to Libby for her beautiful, kind teaching style.
Meditation
I have also practiced Primordial Sound Meditation, a mantra based meditation "rooted in the Vedic tradition of India...." I studied the mantra-based practice with Andrew Kelley (aka The Boston Buddha), an amazing meditation teacher in the Boston area. My meditation teacher training (100hr) was also with Andy.