Rei-ki Master Teachers
Our 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 15,000 Rei-ki graduates in Australia, Asia, the UK, and now New Zealand. Barbara commenced teaching Reiki full time in 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, teaching Rei-ki in Asia, the 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.


graphics3Sue Lake-Harris, Dip. Teach. and B. Ed. from the University of Canberra, has extensive teaching experience with both children and adults. Commencing Reiki in 1997, including professional practice from 1998, she completed 5 years Reiki teacher training with Barbara McGregor in 2007. Sue was chosen by the Council of Australian Reiki Organisations (CARO), to design and develop a professional practice training programme, which has been adopted nationally by CARO member organisations. Sue remains the Usui Rei-ki Network's representative on the Board and Council of CARO and is heavily involved in training standards development.

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 15,000 rei-ki graduates and has trained master teachers, American Keven Duff, a medical anthropologist and biochemist with an extensive background in natural therapies, and Australian, Sue Lake-Harris, a professional educator and facilitator.
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:
* Completion of the Council of Australian Reiki Organisations' Professional Practice training module, Reiki Treatment Delivery and Business Skills, and its co-requisites (first aid certification, commitment to on-going training and development etc).
* 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.

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