Rei-ki Master TeachersOur teachers have been extensively trained to impart the wisdom of Rei-ki in a memorable and uplifting way. They are each uniquely qualified in advanced techniques of communication, healing and spirituality, to bring authority and conviction to the teachings.
Barbara McGregor is based in Australia and is the founder of WellBeing magazine. She is a member of ATMS and the Orthomolecular Medicine Assoc. Director of the Usui Rei-ki Network Internationally, she has trained over 12,000 Rei-ki graduates on three continents since 1990, following her apprenticeship from 1984-90 with Beth Gray (who introduced Rei-ki to Australia.
Keven Duff, BA, studied Biomedical Anthropology and Biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and is now resident in Hong Kong and teaching Rei-ki in Asia, USA and Australia. She specialises in advanced forms of bodywork and is a certified NLP therapist. Ms Duff has been practising Rei-ki since 1991 and completed a five year Rei-ki teaching apprenticeship in Asia and Australia with Barbara McGregor in 1996.
How do you find your teacher?
Training to teach rei-ki is not a question of gaining more healing power or psychic giftedness, but rather a preparation by many life challenges and metaphysical insights under the guidance of the master by whom one is selected and trained over several years.Rei-ki was brought to the western world in the 1970s via Hawaii by Dr Hayashi's number one apprentice, Mrs Hawayo Takata. The first Caucasian rei-ki master teacher was Rev Beth Gray from California, who introduced the ancient art to Australia in 1983. Barbara McGregor accompanied Beth Gray during her seminar tours of Australia for many years and has been teaching Rei-ki full time since 1990 in Australia, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. During that time she has taught over 10,000 rei-ki graduates and has trained master teacher, American Keven Duff, a medical anthropologist and biochemist with an extensive background in natural therapies.
Free lectures with demonstrations
In advance of each seminar program, a two hour introductory talk with demonstrations of Rei-ki by practitioners is given, so prospective students can determine for themselves how Rei-ki works for them.
Rei-ki Master Practitioner Program
There appears a need to create a clear distinction between the specialised vocation that is called upon to teach rei-ki and the professional accreditation to practice rei-ki.We are presently developing a Master Practitioner accreditation that involves:
* Credits in anatomy, physiology, diagnostics, counselling and ethics from a key training college in each capital city of Australia
* A 500-hour practical made up of 300 hours hands-on rei-ki treatments and 200 hours seminar review (a minimum of five Rei-ki I and five Rei-ki II seminars in their entirety in addition to the original classes)
* A minimum of 10 case histories
* 3,000 word treatise on the history, philosophy and application of Rei-ki* Personal interview with a teacher and renewable accreditation thereafter.
Thus, anyone claiming to be a 'Rei-ki Master' would need to distinguish whether they had been trained as a master practitioner (with the above qualifications) or as a teacher. Training to be a teacher will only be offered to those who have qualified as a master practitioner.Hopefully, this will eliminate the misuse of the title by those who have invested a very short amount of time - a weekend or a week in many cases - with the payment of large sums of money and claim to the title of 'master'. In other disciplines that use this title, be it training in Zen, any martial art, yoga, meditation and the Masonic tradition, 'master' is a term of deference earned after many years of trials and practical experience. This is true even of master craftsmen who have completed apprenticeships of many years or teachers in the school system.
