I am a teacher

I am a teacher. I learned all the levels of Usui Reiki in South Africa from an independent Reiki teacher. She was an amazing healer, teacher but I felt that being back in the USA where there is much more red tape, I needed to be ‘legitimate,’ so to speak.  So when I got here in September 2017, I learned Jikiden Reiki. This particular Reiki lineage states that it is a pure lineage due to only one woman doing it for many years, Chiyoko Yamaguchi. She only started passing the knowledge of this lineage to students in 1999.  Additionally, it is very well regulated on who can teach it and therefore the lineage stays in it’s purest form.  Chiyoko’s  son, Tadao Yamaguchi, now runs the Institute from Japan and there are multiple teachers around the world. Usui Reiki was brought over in the 50’s from a woman, Hawayo Takata, who started teaching it many years after she learned Reiki.  Because of this, it is believed that she forgot a lot of information as well as the actual symbols and therefore, quite possibly, passed on Reiki incorrectly. Furthermore, there are so many teachers now of Usui Reiki doing their own styles (Reiki is not regulated) that it has become diluted.  I heard all this in the Jikiden Reiki classes I took, which I did not know before.  It was disturbing to me and I felt that maybe I should not be teaching or performing Usui Reiki treatments if I’m doing it wrong or it’s not a pure lineage. The Jikiden Reiki courses also stated that when you perform Reiki it must be Jikiden. In other words, you cannot perform treatments with Usui Reiki if that’s what you trained in prior to learning Jikiden Reiki.  So when I joined World of Wellness with Dr. Tina Edwards, I announced myself as a Jikiden Reiki practitioner.  I’ve done the first 2 levels of the Jikiden lineage but I cannot teach it as I haven’t completed all the levels.  At the time, I thought that would be ok but it created a battle in me for almost 2 years. The battle was; I want to teach Reiki as I have done for years but I can’t because I can only work with Jikiden Reiki now and i haven’t done the teacher level of that lineage. But I wanted to teach. I can teach Usui Reiki and I am a good teacher. The battle continued for 2 years until a friend asked me to teach her Reiki.

I am a teacher. I can’t run from this. I can’t push it aside. It continuously yells at me from the depths of my soul to be it. I ignored it thinking that I can’t teach a Reiki that was passed on incorrectly but I did it for a long time and it was fine.   Back in South Africa, I ran a practice where I performed Reiki treatments on people and I taught it for many years. When I moved to Canada, I also taught it and performed treatments.  I stopped teaching because of the Jikiden Reiki rules so I lost confidence in myself and what I should be doing with my life. But then, my friend, Kathy, asked me for an attunement.  

I am a teacher. When giving an attunement (the passing of Reiki from teacher to student), there is a ritual that must be followed for the passing of Reiki to happen. To be honest, every time I do the attunement; wave my hands around, put symbols in, etc., I am amazed that it works.  The Usui tradition of passing Reiki from student to teacher works! It has always worked!! It starts working before the client even arrives. It starts working because the intention to do the attunement at a particular time is set.  The whole day before the attunement, I feel my energy amplified. I feel my crown chakra is already open ready to receive the Reiki from the universe, cosmos, God…whatever you want to call it. I am not intentionally asking for these things to happen…..they just do! So people can say whatever they want about Usui Reiki, I don’t care anymore. I know it works. I know it’s powerful. I know it can heal and shift one’s inherent frequency to a higher level. I know that it can help people at the level of their soul and therefore I will be teaching it again. I can’t believe I actually allowed myself to accept that the Usui Reiki is tainted and weak. It is not and never has been.  

My intention is not to dismiss or discredit Jikiden Reiki. It is a fantastic modality and I would encourage people to take those courses if they are drawn to it.  I learned a lot from this style of Reiki.  I only wanted to share my internal struggle with loosing confidence and not believing in myself of what I know to be true.  If you are drawn to Usui Reiki and either want to learn it or just get a treatment, I can help you. Why? Because I am a teacher.