Usui System of REIKI Healing

The original Usui Reiki is a system created by Mikao Usui in the late 1800's based on knowledge he rediscovered the energy after many years of study and research. That knowledge came to the West through the lineage of Chujiro Hayashi (initiated by Usui) and Hawayo Takata (initiated by Hayashi). Dr. Usui and Dr. Hayashi initiated only about a dozen Masters and Ms. Takata, in over 40 years as a Master, initiated only 22 Masters. After Ms. Takata’s death in 1980, some of the 22 Masters she had initiated began to initiate Masters themselves. These Masters then initiated others, and so on. 

Lineage is all about keeping the knowledge pure and true to the original teachings. In any spiritual or mystic practice, it is essential that the teachings at each generation be held true to the original. This does not restrict the practitioner or the student. It only restricts the Master-Teacher in the way the knowledge is passed on. Each recipient of the knowledge must make it his or her own; but each time one becomes a Master-Teacher there must be a return to original teachings. If this does not happen, then after only a few generations the knowledge becomes corrupted and lost. This is also the rationale for the secrecy in most traditions — to protect the knowledge from being misunderstood or misused, rather than maintaining some sort of elitism. 

Once attuned into the 1st Degree, you become part of this incredible lineage. Many Master-Teachers have a different Lineage. A Usui Reiki Lineage is given with every training Manual so that the student is fully aware of how the information and energy has been passed down directly from Dr. Usui. To this day, you can still find books and teachings from the names that are included in her Lineage. There are also a number of nurses who have set up Reiki clinics in hospitals right here in the State of Rhode Island.