Learn Reiki & Energy Healing in Kyoto / Mount Kurama

The sacred mountain near Kyoto where Mikao Usui's 21-day fast birthed Reiki, the authenticity pilgrimage for any practitioner who wants the Japanese roots.

★ Best place to go
Birthplace of the discipline

Kyoto / Mount Kurama, Japan

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The sacred mountain near Kyoto where Mikao Usui's 21-day fast birthed Reiki, the authenticity pilgrimage for any practitioner who wants the Japanese roots.

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Honest level: Beginner -> Master-Teacher — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

★ Best course for this craft

Jikiden Reiki Shoden & Okuden seminar (with Shihan-kaku teacher training)

Jikiden Reiki Institute (Jikiden Reiki Kenkyukai) — Kyoto, Japan

Training in the original Japanese form of Reiki taught at the Jikiden Reiki Institute in Kyoto, the form preserved unchanged from the Usui-Hayashi lineage. The seminars cover Shoden (first degree) and Okuden (advanced), teaching the historical hands-on healing methods and reiju attunements as they were practiced in Japan, followed by a separate teacher-training (Shihan-kaku) course for those continuing. Held at the institute's Kyoto base near where the tradition is rooted.

Shoden + Okuden over ~3 days; teacher-training course additional days In-person seminar at the Kyoto institute; small group Jikiden Reiki Shoden/Okuden certificates; Shihan-kaku (teacher) qualification on the training course

Next sessions: 2026-07-03 · 2026-07-06

Learning Reiki in its authentic Japanese form directly at the Kyoto institute that preserves the original lineage, in a small in-person cohort with formal certification.

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The lineage

Masters & lineage

Why this school — real and cited, not my opinion dressed up

Why Jikiden Reiki Institute (Jikiden Reiki Kenkyukai)

It is the world head office and lineage origin of Jikiden Reiki, founded in Kyoto by Chiyoko Yamaguchi and her son Tadao Yamaguchi to teach Reiki in the unadapted Japanese form Chiyoko learned directly from Dr. Chujiro Hayashi in 1938.

Where it is taught — hand-verified

Schools in Kyoto / Mount Kurama

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

What you walk away with

The credential

Reiki Master / Master-Teacher (Shinpiden / Level III) attunement and lineage placement · Certifying body: Usui lineage attunement system; standards via ICRT, UK Reiki Federation, Shibumi International Reiki Association

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

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Why you can trust this map

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

Before you trust any school — mine or anyone else's — ask these five things
  1. Who actually teaches it? Can you find them by name, with a track record you can check yourself?
  2. Is the craft alive in that place, or is the school the only thing there? A real scene has more than one good option.
  3. What exactly do you walk away with — a recognised qualification, or a certificate they printed themselves? Ask which.
  4. Can you speak to someone who did the course? A real person, not a testimonial on their own page.
  5. What happens on a bad day — weather, an injury, a teacher who doesn't show? A serious place has an honest answer.

If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.

This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.