November 12, 2026
A Conversation · Kurama Onsen · October 2026 鞍馬 Hyakuten Inamoto Believes It’s Time for Some Reiki Truth-Telling After decades as ‘the quiet one’, the founder […]
November 11, 2026
Yes. People come for a first treatment with no idea what it is and still feel things happening. What I think is true is that the more open we are, the more shift and change can happen. I am not sure that is belief. It is being open to allowing yourself to change.
November 10, 2026
For me it feels like an opening. My body lets go and opens up, and I feel a joining with the world, less separate from everything. There can be sensations too: bursts of energy through the body, and in the hands during a treatment all sorts of things, sometimes a person moving under my hands though they are not consciously moving. It is energetic, but it feels physical; the physical, the energetic and the mental are connected.
That I was always interested in healing myself, and always interested in knowing more about the world than what was in front of me. The system of Reiki has given me guidelines and understanding for both. Maybe I have a better sense of what my purpose is now. I am not going to tell you what it is; you will have to find that out for yourself.
"What is Reiki?" And every time I answer it differently, because everyone who asks has a different reason for asking: some want to learn, some are sceptical, some want to explain it to their own students. It is a spiritual practice; sometimes I say a meditation practice, for someone who will understand that better. And it helps us to be more compassionate and understanding of the world.
You can certainly learn about it, and we are always learning. But taking Reiki I, II and III from videos? Probably not Level I, at least, because it is an energetic practice and you want to experience that, which is much easier in person. There are wonderful, knowledgeable teachers who mentor online and share on YouTube, so it is a bit of both.