This talk will be given by the Japanese Reiki master, Hiroshi Doi, one of the most outstanding researchers in Traditional Reiki. Doi sensei has spent many years researching and compiling documents on the life and work of Mikao Usui and can offer an enlightening insight into the true essence of the founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho.

The German Reiki Master, Olaf Bohm, will be showing in public for the first time a series of unpublished historical documents related to Reiki, which were collected during his many trips to Japan.

On stage will be some important Japanese masters who will talk about Reiki in Japan today. Among them will be Toshitaka Mochizuki, president of Vortex and of the International Reiki Diffusion Association. He is a master who has taught Reiki to more than 52,000 people over 30 years and written 37 books. Also on stage will be Fuminori Aoki and Noriko Ogawa, founders of Reido Reiki, a method that fuses traditional and Western Reiki. They have been offering treatments and seminars for 29 years at the Human & Trust Institute, the oldest Reiki therapy centre in Japan. Finally, we will have the presence of Hyakuten Inamoto, secular Buddhist monk of the Pure Land School (Jodo Shu) and international master. He is the founder of the Komyo Reiki Do system (formerly Komyo Reiki), which he structured in 1998 after extensive research into the original teachings of Usui Sensei.

The representative of the IHAN, Rumi Naka, will share with the public her vision and philosophy on human health, her objectives, her wishes, etc. They will also talk about the current situation in Japan, in terms of collaboration between medical institutions and alternative therapies, and above all, the results obtained through the application of Reiki.

Japanese Reiki Masters based in various foreign countries will be teaching some Traditional Reiki techniques to all attendees.

Reiki master Joyce Winough will talk about Hawayo Takata, the master who expanded Reiki in the West, and how this discipline of energy has spread and evolved to the present day. “I will share photos and documents of Takata’s life as well as Furumoto’s role as her successor. There is much to say as this holds the work of 80+ years”.

In addition, Justin Stein will draw on original historical and oral accounts to show the Reiki journey of the 1930s and 1940s, including Hawayo Takata’s training in Tokyo, his apprenticeship with Chūjirō Hayashi, the Hawaii branch of the Hayashi Reiki Kenkyūkai, the wartime persecution…

The American doctor and surgeon, Sheldon Marc Feldman, one of the pioneers in the application of Reiki in hospitals, will explain how he uses this energy in his daily work and will talk about the results obtained after years of research and innovation in the fight against cancer and other diseases.

Journalist and Reiki Master Javier Díaz will interview Master Rishilingam, Reiki Master and creator of the Online Reiki Congress and the Online Holistic Therapy Congress. They will talk about the current situation of Reiki in Latin America, its expansion through new technologies, the future of Reiki in a changing world and other topics of interest.