My memory often brings me back to a specific moment during my treatment. I will never forget the day I stood by the windows of the chemo suite, looking out into a misty London morning, listening to the wind howling around the tall building. I dragged myself and “Mr Baxter” (the long metal companion on wheels that helped infuse the drugs into my veins) to the toilet. God did I feel weird and nauseous! I didn’t really need the toilet, I just needed a place for myself. I stared back at the reflection of a thin, grey and exhausted body. And I felt so sorry that I hadn’t ever appreciated my body before. It was time for some love! It was time to own up to what I had learnt from Reiki.

I clutched my right hand around the tube coming from a bag Mr Baxter kindly held for me. I really wanted this to work. I had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma 8 months earlier, we had tried two types of chemos, both of which didn’t seem to work. Why was I not healing? Why was this so painful? Why was this happening to me? Cancer broke me. It slammed me down with a force that I can’t describe. And as I surrendered, out of exhaustion, cancer cracked me open. And through the cracks, the light of Reiki flooded its way into my heart and slowly wandered along my emotional and physical wounds. Reiki expanded through me and changed my life in a way that I could have only dreamt of.

I closed my eyes and slowed my breathing. I summoned all the love and positivity I had left in me and set my intention on letting the all-encompassing life force flood through me, around me and into the bag holding the chemotherapy drugs that would help save my life. I knew that if conventional medicine could do its part, I was going to double that effort with my inner work. I was going to show up. For every drop that entered my body, I said a little prayer and imagined the liquid flowing through a stream of sparkly, healing light before it disappeared into my body. This moment was pivotal for me because I managed, even if only for a short moment, to turn the “why me?” mentality into an empowered and fearless moment of strength. I knew that either way, everything was going to fall into place. I think I left the toilet a little different than when I went it.

And so my cancer story ended four months later. I now feel like this was only the beginning of a whole other journey and so I continue to walking further along my inner spiritual path. I feel infinitely blessed that Reiki has helped me find my way home and I am truly honoured that I am able to share Reiki with my fellow humans.

LINEAGE

A Reiki lineage is another way of showing where the Reiki teachings came from, going all the way back to Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki. My lineage starts with the wonderful Brighitta Moser-Clark who taught be from both, the Western and Japanese lineage.

USUI SHIKI RYOHO
(WESTERN REIKI LINEAGE - USUI SYSTEM OF NATURAL HEALING)

1. Mikao Usui
2. Chujiro Hayashi
3. Hawayo Takata
4. Phyllis Lei Furumoto
5. Carrel Ann Farmer
6. Leah Smith
7. William Lee Rand
8. Penelope Quest
9. Torsten Lange
10. Brighitta Moser-Clark
11. Ariane Moser

USUI REIKI RYOHO
(JAPANESE REIKI LINEAGE - USUI SPIRITUAL ENERGY METHOD)

1. Mikao Usui
2. Taketomi Kanichi
3. Kimiko Koyama
4. Hiroshi Doi
5. Frans Stiene
6. Torsten Lange
7. Brighitta Moser-Clark
8. Ariane Moser