Reiki share – Japanese style
The Gendai Reiki Network International Conference 2012 in Kyoto began with a get together for the international delegates. We were joined by Doi Sensei, Mrs Doi, the GRN Board members and about 20 Japanese practitioners. We began by sitting in circle, on zabuton cushions, and sharing a little about ourselves.
Opening meeting for international delegates at the Gendai Reiki Network International Conference 2012 in Kyoto
Doi Sensei welcomed us all to Kyoto, saying that he was particularly glad to meet us in Kyoto, which is a special place for Reiki practitioners because Usui Reiki Ryoho began at Mt. Kurama, which is very near to Kyoto.
Doi Sensei, Mrs Doi, Trille Palsgaard and Jean Jones at the Gendai Reiki Network International Conference 2012 in Kyoto
The room for our meeting was in our hotel, which was a couple of hundred metres from a most beautiful Tori gate and shrine call the Heian Jingu (jingu means shrine).
Heian jingu tori gate, Kyoto
The deity of Heian Jingu is the 50th emperor Kammu 桓武天皇 (737-806), who transferred the capital of Japan to Kyoto. This is shrine is particularly relevant to Reiki practitioners because Usui Sensei’s family is the offspring of this emperor’s great-grand son. If I remember correctly what Doi Sensei explained to us, descendants ceased to be royalty after the third generation, so Usui Sensei was not regarded as royalty, but the family were allowed to take one of the royal names.
The Heian Jingu was their ancestral home. Our meeting together as Usui Reiki Ryoho practitioners so close to this shrine that is so meaningful in Usui Sensei’s history touched me very deeply. Full marks to the Board of the Gendai Reiki Network for finding us a hotel in such a special location.
Heian jingu, Kyoto, ancestral home of Mikao Usui – founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho
Doi Sensei proposed that we begin by sharing Reiki together. We paired up and put our zabuton cushions on the floor for our partner to lie on whilst we knelt beside them to give Reiki. We followed a sequence of hand positions, each moving to the next position simultaneously. It was an incredible mix of informality and intention. The energy in the room was incredible, there was such love for these people who had been strangers just an hour earlier. Doi Sensei moved silently around the room, giving each of us Reiju as we laid our Reiki hands on our partner.
Reiki share Japanese style
After which we were all starving! We put up low tables, gathered our zabuton cushions and laid them on cleverly designed little chairs with no legs, so that our backs could be supported as we sat cross legged to enjoy our first meal together.
Our first meal at the Gendai Reiki Network International Conference 2012, in Kyoto
At the end of the meal we had another very special treat. Trille Palsgaard, a Gendai Reiki Master from Denmark whom I had met at the Gendai Reiki Europe Conference in 2011, sang for us. Trille is a professional singer, and she has written a song just for us as Reiki practitioners. She invited us all to join in on the chorus, ‘I go where Reiki takes me’. Well, we were all living proof of that!
Trille Palsgaard Olsen sings her song about Reiki
Here are the words of Trille’s Reiki song:
Finally times are changing
Finally we shine anew
Finally times are changing
A new today – has come to stay
And so we claim – A brand new dayFinally love is rising
So are we shining anew
Finally love is rising
The new today – has come to stay
And so we claim – a brighter dayI go where Reiki takes me – I go where Reiki takes me
I flow where Reiki takes me – I flow where Reiki takes meThe old today – has gone away
And now we claim – to walk a lighter wayI go where Reiki takes me – I go where Reiki takes me
I flow where Reiki takes me – I flow where Reiki takes me
Trille tells me that she intends to upload the song, I will give you a link once she has done that.
If you would like more information about Trille Palsgaard, or would like to hear her sing, please see: http://www.trillepalsgaard.dk/#
If you would like more information about Emperor Kammu, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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