What is Komyo Reiki Kai?

Inamoto-sensei studied with Yamaguchi-sensei in 1997 for over a year in informal weekly classes she held with a small number of students in her son's stationary store. At the time her son, Tadao, was not involved and preferred Joh-rei to his mothers training.  When Yamaguchi-sensei began to teach classes formally in 2000, Inamoto-sensei acted as translator when English speaking students arrived, although Tadao now seemed to show interest and control everything. 

In 1999 when my friend Yukio Miura told me of his meeting with Yamaguchi-sensei through Inamoto-sensei, he said she had lost all her Hayashi material in a fire while living in Manchuria during the war.  I offered him a copy of the Japanese version of the Hayashi Healing Guide that Takata-sensei used to share with her students.  He passed this onto Yamaguchi-sensei and said she was extremely grateful. 

When she attended part of the URRI 2000 conference in Kyoto, Yukio wanted to introduce me to her so she could thank me.  As I approached her sitting outside the conference room, from about 8 feet away I began to feel I had moved into a very powerful Reiki field of energy, unlike any I had felt before.  I am not sure if this was her intention and since then I have been able to retain this energy and pass it on to others.  I had a brief pleasant talk with Yamaguchi-sensei through Yukio and told her how honoured I was to meet a person who had spent almost all her life with Reiki.  Later in the seminar, she and her son explained her experiences with Hayashi-sensei and had some photos to share.  One of the attendees shared this with me on video and I may be including this with my Komyo Reiki classes.
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Yamaguchi-sensei speaking at URRI 2000, Kyoto

Yamaguchi-sensei passed away in the summer of 2003 and it seems that her son now runs the school.  He is very strict on making students adhere to his exact methods and the training is expensive. When he learned of my invitation to sponsor Inamoto-sensei at my URRI 2002 conference in Toronto, he sent a very negative letter to me and other well known masters, including Doi-sensei and William Rand, denouncing Inamoto-sensei's right to teach, even though when I met the 2 of them (Hyakuten and Tadao) in 2000 they were both introduced to me as the 2 master level students of Yamaguchi-sensei.  In fact Inamoto-sensei was already teaching at this time.  Since all of us had met Inamoto-sensei and Yamaguchi-sensei in person and knew of their personal character and attitudes, we simply ignored this very un-Reiki tactic.  However, in order to step away from the Jikiden system, Inamoto-sensei renamed his school to Komyo Reiki Kai, and made a few changes.
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Rev. Hyakuten Inamoto-sensei teaching

Komyo Reiki Kai uses the original 4 Hayashi levels of Shoden, Chuuden (Chûden), Okuden and Shinpiden.  While each class may be taught in a short period of time, in Japan Inamoto-sensei also retains the process he experienced with Yamaguchi-sensei and teaches some students weekly over a much longer space of time.

My Komyo Reiki Master class is presented much as I learned it in October 2002 in it's intensive format from Inamoto-sensei and is intended mainly for experienced Reiki Masters, although it is also suitable for the first time master.  The class is taught over 2 days with 3 attunements being given and a review of the first 3 levels as taught in the Komyo Kai Reiki style.

As Inamoto-sensei has changed some aspects of his material and his attunement method, I also share some of his original ideas and attunement method. My material also includes additions added by Inamoto-sensei since 2002.

In order to better give my students a good idea of how Inamoto-sensei teaches, the class includes a modified manual (with photos and comments), a video showing attunements and a CD with the class files in pdf format.  The video shows original footage of Inamoto-sensei in class, and the manual has many photos demonstrating attunements and techniques.  This helps the distant student to get a sense of what the original live class with Inamoto-sensei is like, and allows for on-going review and reference.

Since Inamoto-sensei's material may be modified, I keep my own students up to date on this at my internet Komyo Reiki class pages, as I become aware of it. 

All students receive a certificate of completion. 

Note that enrollment in my Komyo Reiki Shihan class is limited to those who have already received certification in at least a Reiki 3 class with me or another Reiki teacher. The class is available only in a live format with me. 

In the past I have been asked to teach this and other Reiki classes outside of Vancouver in Canada, and also in Spain, the UK, The Netherlands, The USA and in Japan.  If you have an interest in a class in your area, please contact me to discuss this.

Please Note: This a Japanese Reiki Master level upgrade class containing certain aspects of original Hayashi Reiki Kenkyukai training.   By upgrade,  I mean that the class assumes you already are a practicing Reiki Master and have the ongoing support of a previous teacher in the areas of class content, teaching Reiki classes, giving attunements, and the ethics and practices of a Reiki Master.  The way this class is presented by Inamoto-sensei outside of Japan assumes all this and he offers no ongoing support after class.  Inside Japan, a new master would usually be expected to repeat the class and assist the teacher in his other classes and meetings.

If a student chooses to study this program at home and not in a live class, then the transmission of the Komyo Reiki energy will be achieved via distant attunements, arranged at a suitable time with me, and performed as if you and I are in the same room, at the same time.  Please see my explanation on Distant Attunements if you are interested. 

When I began to teach Komyo Reiki I was unaware that Inamoto-sensei had some concerns about the teaching of his system in a distant format, mainly the distant attunement.  He knew that I taught other forms of Reiki as distant classes but he had never expressed his concerns to me.  I discovered early in 2004 that he was leaning towards not allowing this.  However, he has now expressed the following position on distant Komyo Reiki classes.

"In Komyo Reiki system the Reiju rituals are designed or intended to be given or performed on a one to one basis (in person and live). Thus, there is (has been) NO DISTANT Reiju method in the Komyo system."

 "I am very aware that a distant Reiju (attunement) is technically possible, for we have the method to do a distant healing."

"Personally I make no objection to anyone giving a distant attunement as their Reiki system. If, for instance, you'd like to do it in your system and you'd like to use Komyo Reiki, it is fine with me so long as you mention that the distant Reiju method itself is not part of Komyo Reiki system, but what you teach is Komyo Reiki or based on Komyo Reiki."

Thus in deference to Inamoto-sensei, I have decided to rename my distant Komyo Reiki class for experienced Reiki Masters to Komyo-Ki Reiki.  The class content will be exactly as what I was taught by Inamoto-sensei, but the certification will be for Komyo-Ki Reiki Shihan.  As above, my intended audience for this class will be experienced Reiki Masters only, just as I received the teaching from Inamoto-sensei.  My live classes will continue to be certified as Komyo Reiki.

Aside from the distant attunement, the rest of the class is the same and may actually involve more detail and interaction than the live class.  I have found that distant students tend to spend more time with the material (this is not possible in a live class) and they ask more questions and share much more feedback. In this way, the distant class tends to be superior to the live class, even when compared to the original classes I took.  Often students find the distant attunements to be more intense as well.

A Komyo-Ki Shihan will be allowed to teach this material in a live or distant process, but until he or she receives in-person Komyo Reiki attunements (from either me or one of my certified students), they best not use the term  Komyo Reiki for their live or distant training.