REIKI: CHUDEN

"Amazing"

Reiki Level II

Course duration 2 days (10:00-18:00)

Teaching material

Certificate

Free course repetition

Cost: €300 per person

Traditional Reiki vs. New Age Reiki

In the “deep teachings” of the Okuden, the teaching methods can vary greatly depending on the evolution of the student. In traditional teaching, some of the practices were not taught, or were subtly changed to adapt to the level, preparation and skills of the students, without considering the effect of word of mouth over almost a hundred years of Reiki practice. The same thing goes for the direct methods of accessing energy: in some schools, shirushi and jumon are not taught in the form known in the West and spread by Hawayo Takata, but instead they teach direct methods to perceive / become the different aspects of energy and the deep meditative states underlying them, one of the purposes of the path traced by Mikao Usui. In some schools, it is also common to divide the Okuden into two parts, zenki and kouki, while in others, shirushi and jumon are taught over the course of several months and not in a single seminar. as in the method once structured by Chūjirō Hayashi and then by HawayoTakata.

The Chuden level as created by Mikao Usui himself, allows the student to have tools and activations during a single seminar, being always possible (for those who really want to) to practice directly, follow the activities of the Dojo, or continue on their own the study and experience of the discipline towards increasingly deeper/higher levels, linked to the normal progression of the spiritual path.

During the first teachings of the

Level II, the following will be taught in the two-day course:

FIRST DAY

Brief recap of the contents of the First Level of Reiki

The Techniques:

• Hatsurei ho: - or Technique for the creation of spiritual energy, a complex practice composed of several techniques probably assembled after the death of Mikao Usui: 1) Gassho, 2) Gyosei, 3) Mokunen, 4) Kenyoku, 5) Joshin kokyu-ho, 6) Gassho Meiso, 7) Seishin Toitsu during which Reiju was practiced by the Masters, 8) Gokai Sansho
• Mokunen: the intent, a clear statement of the practice one is about to do.
• Seishin Toitsu deep state of meditative absorption.
• Teate Chiryo ho – emanation of Reiki through the hands, which remain still on the part to be treated, as in the “classic” Reiki treatment practiced and taught by Hayashi and Takata. But Reiki can be transmitted with the hands that move as in the techniques of:
• Nadete Chiryo ho – Hand Rubbing Technique
• Oshite Chiryo ho – Fingertip Pressing Technique
• Uchite Chiryo ho – Hand Clapping Technique

Of these last three different ways of using the hands with respect to simple touch there are reminiscences in the treatment taught by Takata in some different “closures” of the treatment that involve rubbing on the back and limbs or in the all-Western techniques of “caressing the aura”. The three techniques of Nadete, Oshite and Uchite are all used specifically in Koketsu-ho, the technique of changing the Blood.

And Reiki can be emanated not only from the hands as Mikao Usui himself states in the Hikkei "The reason is because Ki and light emanate from the healer's body, especially from the eyes, mouth and hands. So if the healer looks or breathes or touches with his hands the diseased part such as toothache, colic pain, stomach ache, neuralgia, scratches, cuts, burns or swellings, the pain will go away." And so we have the techniques of:

• Gyoshi ho – technique that allows you to emanate Reiki through your gaze
• Kokyu ho – technique that allows you to emanate Reiki through breathing
• Hara (Tanden) Chiryo ho – Hara treatment technique similar to Gedoku
• Gedoku Chiryo ho – Technique for detoxification from poisons (both physical and mental/emotional).
• Hesso Chiryo ho – treatment technique through the navel
• Genetsu ho – a technique that can reduce fever

SECOND DAY

The Techniques:

• Byosen Reikan ho – perception through a body scan of the different degrees of intensity of the imbalances in the body/mind of the treatise: 1) On-Netsu - Hot 2) Atsui On-Netsu - Intense Hot 3) Piri-Piri-Kan 4) Hibiki 5) Itami. The correct perception of the imbalances was a fundamental requirement for access to the highest stages of practice.
• Reiji ho – A very advanced technique where the treatment is based on the practitioner’s deep intuition, and the hands are guided by Reiki to the “right” points. Takata wrote in his diaries in 1936: “What was more than pleasing was that Mr Hayashi has granted to bestow upon me the secrets of Shinpi Den, Kokiyu-Ho and the Reiji-Ho, the utmost secret in the Energy Science.*
• Shirushi and Jumon: These are the traditional first three symbols (Shirushi) of Reiki taught by Hawayo Takata along with the sacred sounds (jumon) that accompany them. The Jumon could also be used independently and with techniques similar to those of the Kotodama used in Morihei Ueshiba's Aikido.
• Enkaku Chiryo ho – the so-called distance treatment, even though Mikao Usui did not believe in “distance” at all: by entering the correct state of mind the treatment could be carried out by perceiving instead the non-separateness and the instantaneous interconnection in the Unity. The use of photographs as an aid to focusing was also permitted (and in this case it was called Shashin Chiryo ho) especially if one did not directly know the person to be treated. Photography had become very widespread in Japan since the end of the 19th century, and Hayashi himself dabbled in this art.
• Ketsueki Kokan ho – The Exchange/Cleansing of Blood in Two Forms:
• Hanshin Koketsu is the part of the heart and Zenshin Koketsu is the part of the heart - the total pain
• S. Chiryo ho – it is the same technique as Nentatsu ho but this time with the addition of Shirushi and Jumon. Very similar to the mental treatment taught by Takata and with the possibility of working on mental states and negative habits to be modified.
• Jakikiri Joka ho – a technique for completely renewing the energy of inanimate objects, “cutting off” all previous energy residues.