Reiki Cairns Teaching Usui Shiki Ryoho, the gentle folk healing art of Reiki

Reiki, The Usui System of Natural Healing, was introduced into the western world in the form of an oral tradition. Many people have mis-understood this, have taken it to mean that nothing gets written down.

Oral tradition refers to the way the system is taught, with a teacher and a student being together in the same physical space. What the student receives is more than what is communicated in words.

We all have tried unsuccessfully to describe an experience to someone who was not part of the experience, and ended up using the words “…well you just had to be there”.

That is what oral tradition is about. You have to be there.