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Just made this fun little text ready gokai today. Just made this fun little text ready gokai today. It’s a silly fun way to contemplate the 5 principals. What would your text emoji message look like?
Today. Do not Anger. Do not worry. Be grateful. Work and practice diligently. Be kind to others.
#gokai #reikiprinciples #reikiideals
Super excited to be teaching my first reiki class Super excited to be teaching my first reiki class in Carmel by the Sea this evening! A special thanks thanks to @lawrence.hecht.7 for baking cookies for class.💞🩷💗ありがとう
It can be ugly out there. Stay grounded. Create so It can be ugly out there. Stay grounded. Create some balance.
Flowers from #elroysfinefoods 
Vase from Goodwill made in Japan
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stressed and unbalan Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stressed and unbalanced . Reiki can help. I’ve been practicing reiki for over ten years and teaching since 2020 and I know how reiki can ease the spirit and facilitate healing on all levels. DM me with any questions 🙌🩷
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Class starts in two weeks. Can’t wait to see you t Class starts in two weeks. Can’t wait to see you there!
#reiki #reikipractitioner #reikiclass #reikihealing #reikiryoho #reikiforstress #reikiforanxiety # #japanesehealing #reiki #shoden #kyodakewa
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from the Empty space reiki reading room -this mont from the Empty space reiki reading room -this month re-reading the excellent “The Inner Heart of Reiki” by Frans Steine and the fascinating “ Reiki and Japan” by Masaki Nishina edited by Amanda Jayne and a new book has arrived “A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms 5th edition Hisao iganaki -very helpful! #reiki #reikipractitioner @stienefrans @amandacjayne
Had the opportunity to visit UCSB Special Research Had the opportunity to visit UCSB Special Research Collections to visit the archived papers of HAWAYO TAKATA. Not the most exciting photos I’ve posted but due to reproduction terms I’m not allowed to publish some of the wonderful things available for anyone to view. There are over twenty boxes of archived material stored at the University that anyone can make an appointment to see including Hayashi’s hand written scroll of the precepts and beautiful photos of Hawayo Takata not published! I highly recommend you visit if you are in the area. DM me if you need help figuring out how to make an appointment. Happy to help #reiki #hawayotakata #reikiresearch #reikiprecepts #chujirohayashi #ucsblibrary
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“Do not mistake the finger pointing to the moon as “Do not mistake the finger pointing to the moon as the moon”

It took me a year to learn to ride the pretty pink bike I was given for my 7th birthday because I could not understand why you would take the training wheels off when it worked perfectly fine with them on! My child’s mind couldn’t comprehend why the powers that be didn’t simply design bikes like this in the first place. I was a cautious and practical child and I couldn’t gather enough speed on just two wheels without invariably falling, so my parents graciously allowed me to pedal about the neighborhood on my four wheels for a year. It was only when Kasey McDougal of the McDougal twins said I was “baby biking” that I got up the gumption to take the training wheels off and balance myself on that bike. I will never forget the first long stretch of riding that bike without the training wheels. Such pleasure and joy, freedom… and comprehension. Ahhhhh! Namaste Kasey!
This is what we are ultimately aiming for in our reiki pratice. The symbols, the  mantras, the precepts are our training wheels, and oh how we cling to them. However, they are the proverbial “finger pointing to the moon”. The ultimate aim is to release them, to find the balance you create with them and fly. 

Original photo by Florian Klauer at Unsplash
This little snail slowly making its way up our bal This little snail slowly making its way up our balcony Buddha early this morning struck my heart with so many things. Compassion, patience, focus, equanimity.
Gratitude to the small teacher snail🥰
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! On the left is a photo MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!
On the left is a photo I took when I was on Mount Kurama, said to be the birthplace of reiki, in Japan. I believe it is It is Zennishi Dōji 善膩師童子 son of Bishamonten (毘沙門天)!!!!
From the reiki reading room this week -Justin B St From the reiki reading room this week -Justin B Stein’s excellent “Alternate Currents: Reiki’s circulation in 20th Century North Pacific” Kyoto Ko’s delightful 
“Folk Tales of Japan: 28 Japanese folk tales with cultural commentary” @themetroclassic and the fascinating “Living Icons:Japanese Buddhist Icons in context.”
#japanesereiki #japanese culture #Hawayotakata #japanesebuddistart Japanesefolktales #reikipractice #reikihistory
So thrilled to be holding this workshop on the Jap So thrilled to be holding this workshop on the Japanese art of reiki for actors and educators. There are still some spots left . Go to link in my bio or the DCPA website to enroll.  #japanesereiki #reikiforactor #actortoolbox #actorlife #denveractor #reikicreativity  artwork by @temple_sisters and @emptyspacereiki
Helping me with my Japanese writing practice! Next Helping me with my Japanese writing practice! Next class starts in two weeks @japansociety_sf . Even though still very much a beginner - I’ve found it amazing how studying Japanese will enhance one’s reiki practice. #reikipractitioner #catsandkanji #neko #japanesewriting #kyodakewa #japanesereiki
So excited for this!Hope to see you there! #japane So excited for this!Hope to see you there!
#japanesereiki #actorslife #denveractor #denverreiki #actortools #daikomyo
Can you see the elements of a reiki symbol in my i Can you see the elements of a reiki symbol in my impromptu arrangement?
#everydayreiki #reikisymbols #chokurei #grounded #groundedreiki #verticalhorizontalspiral #beheadedbuds
THE STUMBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN “Truly, my favorite s THE STUMBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN

“Truly, my favorite story that is told about Mikao Usui’s discovery of reiki on Mount Kurama is the story of his stumble as he descended the mountain. It is said that after three weeks of intense fasting and meditation, Usui Sensei received “one great reiki”  In this telling he was so excited that he jumped up with joy and in his eagerness to share this experience with the world began running down the mountain. (If you’ve ever been to Mount Kurama you will realize how very difficult this would be as the roots from the cedar trees protrude out of the earth in sculpture maze like knots- not to mention how the sandals he most likely was wearing would have impeded such a sprint ). However, in his rush, Usui quickly tripped and stubbed his toe! Of course this paused his descent and he sat there on the ground and placed his hands over his slightly bloody toe as instinct and common sense would warrant. His toe instantly stopped bleeding! And the wound closed over! This is the moment  that he discovered he now had the power to heal! 

I love this story for two reasons. Firstly I just love this image of Usui! How human he seems, grounded there by the mountain by  a simple stubbed toe. How quickly we can be brought down by the earth now matter how enlightened we are. And how humbling is a stubbed toe. It is not a heroic wound. It is the small wound of a child. And like a child we are reminded both how precarious and essential our connection to earth is.

I also love this story because often what we think of reiki today is only hands on healing but Usui was excited to share his experience before he realized he had the ability of hands on healing. There is much more to the system of reiki and the deeper we go the more profound it becomes.”

From “Reiki for the Actor” by Ashlee Temple’ Forthcoming

Photo: MT. Kurama, Kyoto Japan. A. TEMPLE
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