Reiki
A healing art developed in early-twentieth-century Japan by Mikao Usui, who drew on older Buddhist, Taoist, and folk traditions, and carried to the West by Hawayo Takata in the 1930s. At its foundation, Reiki works with universal life force energy — the same animating current recognized across cultures as prana, chi, lungta, or arutum. Through attunement, practitioners become channels, directing this energy toward themselves and others so the body can return to its own balance. Whether you frame it as life force, the energy of the sun, or the molten core warming the ground beneath us, the invitation is the same: to trust the capacity for healing we already carry, individually and in community. Reiki does not ask us to turn away from Western medicine — it offers a complementary reminder that wellness integrates the personal and the collective.




