September 15, 2026
There are two answers. A person who practises a healing method is a reiyōshi. But the memorial stone of Mikao Usui describes him as someone who undertook shugyō, committed training, and a person on that path is a shugyōsha. From a Japanese perspective that is the better word for a Reiki practitioner: someone committed to daily self-practice, not someone with a certificate.






