Lineage

Jane Williams Reiki Lineage

My Lineage, shown below is something I’m extremely proud of, as the Reiki I have been taught (Zodiac Therapy Training - see links page) is without ego and is as true to the original source of Mikao Usui as possible.

Mikao Usui

Chujiro Hayashi

Hawayo Takata

Barbara Webber Ray

Arthur Caltano

Shoshana Rogers

Richard Paterson

Alan Burnett

Jane Williams

Reiki has a very unique history and although the Reiki energy itself goes back over 2500 years, as evidenced in Sanskrit Sutras and the writings of Tibetan Monks depicts, the history of Reiki as taught today is much more modern. It begins in the early 1900s. Mikao Usui, born on the 15^th August 1865, discovered Reiki and It's believed he developed this system of healing based on a formula he found in ancient Sanskrit Buddhist sutras.

Mikao Usui Sensei spent the rest of his life sharing his Reiki system and trained many others how to teach it. Before his death in 1926 he had set up a group called the Usui Shiki Ryoho in Tokyo to continue on with the practice after his death. Through this group many teachers have been trained in Japan.

Mikao Usui initiated sixteen masters, one of whom was Chujiro Hayashi. At the age of 47 Dr. Hayashi received Reiki teacher training from Usui Sensei. For about ten years he ran a Reiki clinic. During those ten years he came up with a more complicated set of hand positions and divided the Reiki training into three levels or degrees.

Hayashi initiated thirteen masters, one of whom was Mrs Hawayo Takata, who brought Reiki to the West in the 1930s. Between 1970 and her transition on December 11, 1980, Mrs. Takata initiated twenty-two Reiki Masters. Below is a list of the Reiki Masters she initiated. This is the list she gave to her sister before she passed through transition:

George Araki
Barbara McCullough
Beth Grey
Ursula Baylow (deceased)
Paul Mitchell
Iris Ishikura (deceased)
Fran Brown
Barbara Weber Ray
Ethel Lombardi
Wanja Twan
Virginia Samdahl (deceased)
Phyllis Lei Furumoto
Dorothy Baba (deceased)
Mary McFaden
John Gray
Rick Bockner
Bethel Phaigh (deceased)
Harry Kuboi
Patricia Ewing
Shinobu Saito
Kay Yamashita (Takata's Sister)
Barbara Brown

The original twenty-two teachers taught many other students. In the decade since Mrs. Takata experienced transition, Reiki has spread rapidly in the West. It is now practiced throughout North and South America, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, India and other parts of the world. There are now an estimated 1,000,000 Reiki Masters with as many as 4,000,000 people having been initiated into Reiki throughout the world.