

The session might begin with a brief meditation, and then the practitioner uses various hand movements to lightly touch or hover over various parts of the client’s body while they are face up and face down. They might briefly discuss their ailment or situation they hope to heal. In a typical treatment room setting with a reiki practitioner and a client, the client begins face up and fully clothed. Meanwhile, many reiki practitioners do remote healing where they aren’t even in the same building as the client. Newton holds some of her reiki sessions in well-ventilated outdoor spaces. While reiki can easily be done in just about any setting, a typical reiki session takes place in a relaxing environment or treatment room, akin to massage therapy. Today, thousands of people worldwide are trained in Usui and similar reiki methods. “Takata modified some of the teachings for her English-speaking students and ended up training 22 students in reiki as we know it today,” says Newton. However, due to the abundance of anti-Japanese and anti-Asian sentiments in the United States around World War II, Takata shied away from using the name “reiki” and instead referred to her establishment on the island of Kauai as a “healing studio,” according to researcher Nat Newton, Ph.D., a Usui reiki master in Orange County, California. Her healing experience was so profound that Takata returned to Hawaii and became the first person to teach reiki in the West. She traveled back to her native Japan to seek healing for her own physical and mental ailments, including a lung condition, asthma and a nervous breakdown after the death of her husband. Usui reiki came to the West via Hawaii in the 1930s thanks to a Japanese-American woman named Hawayo Takata. Usui is the method practiced and taught in Japan as early as the 1900s by Makao Usui, who is credited as the founder of modern reiki. There are at least 30 slightly different branches of reiki, but Usui is by far the most popular form. While we work hard to provide accurate and up-to-date information that we think you will find relevant, Forbes Health does not and cannot guarantee that any information provided is complete and makes no representations or warranties in connection thereto, nor to the accuracy or applicability thereof. The compensation we receive from advertisers does not influence the recommendations or advice our editorial team provides in our articles or otherwise impact any of the editorial content on Forbes Health. Second, we also include links to advertisers’ offers in some of our articles these “affiliate links” may generate income for our site when you click on them.

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