We understand that one of the characteristics that distinguishes Reiki from other hands-on-healing methods is the attunement or initiation process passed along from a Reiki Master/Practitioner who has been attuned and studied Reiki before. The attunement offers not only a way to clear energetic channels within the body, but also links one to a particular Reiki lineage. What is Reiki lineage? A Reiki lineage is much like a family tree that links through an energetic connection. Just as we are linked back to our forebears and ultimately to the beginning of humankind, so attuned Reiki practitioners are linked back through lineage to the Founder of Reiki, Mikao Usui. Each lineage is different and is distinguished by each one's interpretation of Reiki itself.
I am linked to four Reiki lineages, but practice and teach the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage as delivered by Frans and Brownen Stiene of the International House of Reiki. I am influenced by the teachings of one of my former Reiki Masters, the late Christopher Humble. This coming weekend I am taking part in a workshop being offered by Frans in San Francisco, giving me an opportunity to strengthen my lineage with him. This system makes sense to me, it is practical and foundational, it seeks to teach the practices as taught by Usui in his lifetime in Japan and offers a path to awakening and higher consciousness.