Reiki is an art of spiritual growth and healing. The real name of it is: the Usui System of Reiki Healing. It was born in Japan in the end of 19 century, due to the search of the man called Mikao Usui. This search brought him to the necessity to look deep inside of himself and find there an ability to relate to the life energy, which he was desperately looking for in the outside world.

This discovery changed his life and lives of other people, who became then his students and the students of the System he had founded. As a result, thousands and thousands of people in all over the world now have an access to the very simple, available and powerful method of exploration themselves and the Universe.

The System consists of three levels. Each of them takes a special learning and initiation. The first degree allows the practitioner to work using the physical hands-on treatment on himself or others. The second degree gives the possibility to connect with more subtle levels of the human being; therefore, the physical contact is not necessary. The third, or master degree, is given to those, who have a certain attraction to teaching others, went through a special training and initiation, gained some knowledge, skills and experience necessary for teaching.

In the beginning the art of Reiki was developing only in Japan, but just before the World War 2 it happened to be taken out of Japan, to the United States by the woman called Hawayo Takata. After the death of her teacher, Chujiro Hayashi, she became the Bearer of the Lineage and had been teaching and treating people in the States and Canada until her death in 1980. Her granddaughter then became her successor. Her name is Phyllis Lei Furumoto, and right now she lives in the US. You may contact her via internet: http://www.usuireiki.com/usuireiki

Reiki came to Russia in 1990. I received my first degree initiation in 1991 and was initiated as a Reiki master in 1994 by Phyllis Furumoto.