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Because Reiki is an ability conferred via initiation, each practitioner should (theoretically at least) be able to trace their lineage back from teaching master to teaching master - right back to Usui Sensei.

In Usui Reiki Ryoho and also in some of the more recently evolved Reiki styles, considerable emphasis is placed on awareness of ones lineage and each student is provided with lineage details as a matter of course.

Unfortunately - human nature being what it is - a small number of practitioners seem to view issues of Reiki lineage as really being issues of prestige. For example, it is not unheard of for a Reiki practitioner who has fewer links (teachers) in the chain between themselves and Usui Sensei, to adopt an air of (completely unfounded) superiority in regard to those with a longer lineage chain!

Possibly due to such Reiki snobbery, many Reiki practitioners do not consider lineage to be of any importance, and frequently have no idea of their own Reiki lineage at all!

However, there are at least a couple of reasons why lineage-awareness is of importance.
Firstly, lineage-awareness is a matter of Respect.

In acknowledging their lineage a practitioner is acknowledging the teachers in that lineage - their 'Reiki forebears', as it were.

And secondly, with all the various different styles of Reiki in existence the more aware a practitioner is of their own specific lineage in the 'Reiki Family', the more they can come to understand the various influencing factors which have shaped the teachings they themselves have received and pass to others.

MY ” TRADITIONAL USUI REIKI “ WESTERN LINEAGE
(USUI SHIKI RYOHO)

MIKAO USUI - CHUJIRO HAYASHI - HAWAYO TAKATA - VIRGINIA SAMDAHL - MARY O’TOOLE - KATE HUDSON-LAW - PAULA HORAN -
DON ALEXANDER - JENNY COLBOURNE - NIKOLAS KOLOKOTRONIS -
LUMI VASILE

MY “KOMYO REIKI KAI” LINEAGE

CHUJIRO HAYASHI – CHIYOKO YAMAGUCHI – HYAKUTEN INAMOTO – LUMI VASILE

MY “ANGELIC REIKI” LINEAGE

KEVIN CORE – LUMI VASILE

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