Reiki Home Study Program

Permanent Attunement and Certification as a Reiki Master

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The basis of Reiki ("ray-key") is the accumulation and direction of "life force energy" (chi or ki). The existence of this kind of energy has been verified by scientists, and medical doctors are just beginning to understand the role it plays in the functioning of the immune system and the healing process. Ki can be thought of as the nonphysical energy that animates all living things. As long as something is alive, it has life force circulating through it and surrounding it; when it dies, the life force departs. If the life force is low or restricted, the person will be more vulnerable to illness. When it is high and flowing freely, the person will be less likely to get sick. Life force not only animates the body but is the primary energy of our emotions, thoughts, and spiritual life. Ki is used by martial artists in their physical training and mental development. It is used in meditative breathing exercises (pranayama), and by the shamans of all cultures for divination, psychic awareness, manifestation and healing. Ki is present all around us and can be accumulated and guided by the mind.

Reiki is a technique for bodily relaxation that allows practitioners to tap into a universal or unlimited supply of life force to improve health and enhance the quality of life. The word rei means "universal" and ki means "life force," thus reiki means "universal life force." Reiki, therefore, is the fundamental energy of life that can be accessed and used for healing and manifestation. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit and creates many beneficial effects including relaxation and feelings of peace, security, and well-being. A Reiki treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through you and surrounds you.  Many have reported miraculous results.

Course Description

In this course, you will learn the Western Reiki system and receive certification at the full Reiki Master Teacher level. You will be able to practice and teach Reiki like any other certified Reiki Master Teacher. Moreover, this course will enable you to practice Reiki as part of a complete spiritual and human potential development system that operates on all levels of existence (spiritual, mental, and physical). This is a practical course with straight-forward information, step-by-step descriptions, and detailed explanatory drawings. In addition, you receive distance attunements to initiate you into the energy and make the material come alive. The course can be completed within a minimum of 33 days of work, although there is no time limit on its completion. Included is an 80-page manual, which you can use for teaching your own classes after certification. (Adobe pdf-file version available from your instructor.) The course also comes with a four-page fold-out, laminated Reiki reference chart  (shown above).

HA211 - Reiki Level 1: Shoden (Attunement and First Teachings)

This first level is about "plugging into" the Reiki energy and experiencing it directly. The initial empowerment process is how this course begins. Before any verbal or intellectual learning commences, you will experience Reiki energy directly, so that you know exactly what it is the course is about. Once you have completed this distant empowerment process, you are qualified to begin study of the written material. You get all the information and distant attunements needed to practice and teach Reiki and will continue to receive attunements throughout the course. You will learn a few of the secret Reiki Symbols and their names, as well as, how to draw and use them for specific conditions. You will learn about the body signals that offer the practitioner information that can help in communicating with others. You will learn about Reiki Meditation and Meditative Manifestation. Topics covered: History of Reiki, Attunements, Hand Positions, Self Treatment, Principles and Ethics, Short and Full treatment of others, and Reiki for animals, plants, and inanimate objects. Methods developed: Hand Positions, Hatsuri Ho, Reiki Meditation, Ken Yoku (Brushing Off and Dry Bathing), Jyoshin Kokyu (Breathing Meditation), and Gassho Breathing.

HA212 - Reiki Level 2: Okuden (Inner Teachings)

At the second level, the student concentrates on learning to draw and meditate on the secret Reiki symbols to access the energy for attunement and transformation. The Reiki symbols bring to the practitioner certain "flavors" of the Reiki energy, tuned to specific uses. The training for Reiki Level 2 brings knowledge of Long Distance Healing, Scanning Techniques, and the Long Distance Symbols and their names, as well as how to draw and use them. You will continue to receive Reiki attunements. Topics covered: Level 2 Attunement and Ethics, Working with the Secret Symbols, Working with Representation, and Visualization Techniques. Methods developed: Cho Ku Rei (Power Symbol), Zei He Ki (Emotional Symbol), Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen (Distance and Mental Symbol), Beaming, Scanning, Byosen, Level 2 Meditation, Emotional Healing, Healing with the Eyes, and Healing with the Breath.

HA213 - Reiki Level 3: Shinpiden (Mystery Teachings)

The training for Reiki Level 3 brings you additional knowledge for Long Distance Healing, Scanning Techniques, higher Meditation Techniques, and an additional secret symbol. You will receive one more Reiki attunement at the end of the course. Topics covered: Master Attunement, Dai Ko myo (Mastery Symbol), Higher Attunements, Raku Symbol, Being a Reiki Master, Lineage, and Teaching Reiki to Others. Methods developed: Reiju (Empowerment), Attunements for Personal Presence, Self Attunements, and Distant Attunements.

HA214 - Reiki Level 4: Master Reiki Teacher Certification

This level requires the applicant to demonstrate complete skills at Reiki and the ability to teach others. The system of attunements and the secret symbols are reviewed, and new material on teaching others will be introduced. You will receive the Reiki Master's Attunement and Master/Teacher's Certificate. Your Reiki lineage will trace through three lineage Masters whose lineages go back to Mrs. Takata, Dr. Hayashi and ultimately Mikao Usui himself (see History of Reiki). The Certificate and your Reiki lineage authorizes you to practice and teach Reiki at the full Western Master level. You are also granted permission from Flamel College to use all course materials and training in giving Reiki classes yourself.

Enroll in the Reiki Master Program

To enroll in the Reiki Home Study Program by mail, fill out the Enrollment Form. Or to enroll now with a credit card online by clicking on the button below. Manual and laminated 4-page reference chart included. The tuition for the entire course (HA211, HA212, HA213, and HA214) is $125.

International students are welcome at Flamel College, and we currently have students in 26 countries. At the present time, all courses are in English. Please select your method of delivery during enrollment. To convert dollar amounts into your currency, click Universal Currency Converter. 

Once you pass this course, you are certified to teach Reiki to other in the lineage of Mikao Usui. You are given the copyright to reproduce the course manual for your students. Once a student graduates your course, you can make a certificate yourself with your lineage or you can get preprinted certificates from Flamel College. Our certificates are customized in your name and lineage but carry the Flamel seal on gold parchment stock in a clear plastic holder. You sign and date them and add the student's name. With the Flamel certificate, your student receives credit for the course in all programs at the college and it is entered into his or her records. The cost is $40 for a pack of 5 certificates including shipping.

History of Reiki

The modern system of Reiki was founded by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Buddhist monk born in 1860. Dr. Usui was a teacher at Doshisha, a Christian college in Kyoto, Japan. One day, his students asked him if he believed that Jesus could heal like the bible says, and when he replied that he did, they asked him to show them such a healing. Dr. Usui did not know how to heal in this way, so he set out on a quest to learn how. He traveled through Japan, China, and Tibet, and even studied at the University of Chicago Divinity School, before eventually returning to Japan. But in all his study, he failed to learn the actual techniques to heal as Jesus. Determined to find a way, Dr. Usui climbed Mt. Kuriyamo and began a 21-day meditation and fast. At the end of his purification, he saw a great ball of light come at him from the sky. The light struck him in the forehead and knocked him unconscious, but on awakening, he saw millions of small glowing bubbles of energy all around him. Then, he was given a series of mysterious healing symbols that are now part of Reiki instruction. On the way back down the mountain, Usui healed himself of disease and then met a young sick girl, whom he also cured.

Dr. Usui began his healing work with the beggars in the slums of Kyoto. Before long, he realized that those he healed would return again and again for treatment of the same illnesses. He believed that many of those people held onto their diseases because their illness somehow served them as useful. People preferred to live being sick because they were provided for by others, got more attention, and for other psychological reasons. So Usui altered his treatments to include not only the physical body, but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies as well. He also found that to do successful healings on the whole individual, he could not perform his treatments for free. Some form of monetary or energy exchange had to occur for the healing process to take root on all levels in the diseased person. Usui also discovered that by healing people on all levels of their being, those people suddenly gained the ability to heal others.

Usui organized what he had learned into an system of enlightenment and personal transformation he named "Reiki." It is a process of being connected to the universal life force energy through a Reiki attunement. His amazing system allows practitioners to heal themselves and others by laying on of hands and energy projection. This wonderful energy is so powerful and adaptable that you can use it for different purposes, including healing plants and animals, solving personal problems in everyday life, and achieving self-realization or divine consciousness.

In the West, Usui transmitted his teachings to Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, a naval medical officer, in 1925. One of Dr. Hayashi's students was an American woman, Mrs. Hawayo Takata. She was the thirteenth Reiki master initiated by Dr. Hayashi. Her certificate, notarized on February 21, 1938 gave her the status of a Reiki Master and authorized her to teach the system. She initiated 22 Reiki masters, most of whom are alive and still practicing and teaching Reiki today.