What is Reiki Lineage?

A lineage can be compared to your family tree. In the case of spiritual teachings and especially in the Buddhist tradition a teaching is passed from the Master to the disciple and then passed on unaltered to preserve and contain the original intention and teaching of the Master.

The purity of Lineage is dependant upon the teaching not changing as it is taught from one Master to the next.

‘The reason I have experienced and received many different attunements from different Reiki Masters was to establish, as best I could, the purity of original teaching as taught by Dr Usui.

Below you will see two of the five different Reiki lineage trees that I am connected to. This enables me to pass to you the very best representation of Dr Usui’s teaching that is possible.

I very quickly discovered that the tradition of orally transmitting the teaching without documentation was the preferred method up until recently. This very traditional method of teaching is about 3000 years old. 

The teachings shared in the west originate mainly from Hawayo Takata when she became a Reiki Master in 1938. It is now established that the teachings had been altered in their transmission from Dr Usui to Dr Hayashi who introduced a medical and Christian approach to healing losing some of the spiritual methods used by Dr Usui.

I am pleased to know that Dr Usui’s original intention and teachings are now re-emerging providing us with Reiki teachings reflecting the master’s original intention.’  A fuller history is available on the Reiki first degree course.

Robert has two Reiki lineages that go directly back to the source of Western Reiki and Reiki from Tibetan Buddhism. He trained with one of the few Masters initiated by Hawayo Takata, who introduced traditional Usui Reiki to the Western World.