病腺
Byōsen
The sensation in the practitioner’s hands where the body has accumulated something it needs to clear. It is graded — five degrees, each distinct. This is the diagnostic heart of the method, and it is learned by repetition, not intuition.
Jikiden Reiki · New York City
Reiki as it was
first taught.
The original Japanese method, kept whole: the 1930s Kyoto curriculum, passed from hand to hand and taught today exactly as it was received. Simple, precise, and complete on its own.
Experience the Original Method
In studio in Manhattan, or by distance — anywhere.
Lineage
Jikiden means “directly passed down.”
Experience the simplicity and power of the original 1930s curriculum. Whether in my studio or via distance, I facilitate the body’s ability to heal itself — without the noise of modern interpretation.
Reiki travelled the world and flourished. By way of Hawaii and California it reached millions of people, and the many forms it grew into have brought real comfort to a great many of them. Jikiden Reiki simply took a quieter road. It stayed in Japan, in one family, and is taught in Kyoto today exactly as it was received in the 1930s.
Both roads lead somewhere good. This one happens to lead straight back to the source — four people, one unbroken hand-to-hand transmission, still intact.
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Usui Mikao 臼井甕男 1865–1926
Originated the practice in Japan and taught it as te-ate — hand healing. Plain method, plain language, no borrowed cosmology.
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Hayashi Chūjirō 林忠次郎 1880–1940
Usui’s student; a naval officer who ran a treatment clinic in Tokyo and refined the teaching into the curriculum still used today.
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Yamaguchi Chiyoko 山口千代子 1921–2003
Learned directly from Hayashi in 1938, at seventeen. Practised quietly for sixty years without altering a thing — which is the only reason the original survives.
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Yamaguchi Tadao 山口忠夫 b. 1952
Chiyoko’s son. Founded the Jikiden Reiki Institute in Kyoto in 1999 to teach his mother’s method as she received it, and no other way.
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Yukiko Miyawaki [名前・漢字] [YEAR CERTIFIED]
[Shihan / Shihankaku — level held], certified through the Jikiden Reiki Institute, Kyoto. Practising in New York City. [Add: years in practice, where you trained, who you trained under.]
Why Jikiden
What the original method gives you.
The curriculum is short by design: a few techniques, each practised until it is second nature. Here is what that focus means once you are on the table.
- Simplicity you can feel Fewer moving parts means more attention on you. Nothing to arrange, nothing to interpret — just hands, and an unhurried hour.
- Hands that follow you, not a routine Byōsen is a real sensation in the practitioner’s hands, graded in five degrees. It means I stay where your body asks for time, rather than working through a fixed choreography.
- A lineage you can trace 1930s Japan, four teachers, documented names and dates. You are welcome to check every one of them — and I hope you do.
- Distance treatment, original to the method Enkaku chiryō has been taught at Okuden level since the 1930s. The same technique and the same care, wherever you happen to be.
- Nothing asked of your beliefs Come curious, sceptical, or entirely undecided. The method doesn’t require you to adopt a worldview in order to receive it.
- Good company for whatever else you do If you’ve had reiki elsewhere and loved it, nothing here contradicts that. Many of my clients practise other forms, and are very welcome.
The Method
Four things, taught in Japanese, for a reason.
The vocabulary stays in Japanese because these four words carry a precision that English hasn’t quite found a way to hold.
手当て
Te-ate
Literally “to place the hands.” In ordinary Japanese it simply means “treatment” — the same word a parent uses for a scraped knee. The oldest medicine there is, and the entirety of what I do.
遠隔治療
Enkaku Chiryō
Distance treatment, original to the method. It has been taught at Okuden level since the 1930s — the same curriculum and the same technique as hands-on work, simply across a distance.
血液交換法
Ketsueki Kōkan Hō
The blood-exchange technique that closes a full treatment. Specific, sequenced, and taught the same way to every student since the 1930s — a complete finish rather than a fading out.
Sessions
Two ways to sit with it.
The treatment is the same either way. Only the distance between us changes.
対面
In the studio
A quiet room in [NEIGHBORHOOD], Manhattan. You stay fully clothed on a treatment table. I work through the standard placements, following byōsen where it leads, and finish with ketsueki kōkan hō. We talk briefly before and after. The room stays quiet — the quiet is part of the treatment.
遠隔
By distance
Enkaku chiryō, exactly as it appears in the original Okuden curriculum. We agree a time; you rest somewhere undisturbed; I work at the appointed hour. You receive written notes afterward on what the byōsen showed. No video call needed — you simply rest, wherever you are.
Portrait of Yukiko
[black & white, 4:5]
hands, or the room
The Practitioner
Yukiko Miyawaki
[Two or three sentences: how you came to Jikiden, who you trained with, what you were doing before. Concrete and unadorned — the tone of this whole site is “I will not oversell you,” and this paragraph is where that gets proven. Name the years. Name the teacher.]
[Second paragraph: what drew you to keep the method whole, and what you love about its simplicity. If you arrived at this sceptical yourself, say so — it is the single most persuasive thing on the page for the people this practice is for.]
“[A short line in your own voice. Something you actually say to clients on the table — not a mission statement.]”
Straight Answers
Ask me anything.
Not in the least. You lie on a table with your shoes off and your clothes on. I place my hands on you, mostly on your head and torso, and leave them there a while. It’s a quiet, unhurried hour — if you fall asleep, that’s a perfectly normal outcome. You won’t be asked to believe anything, before or after. Sceptics tend to make very good clients.
Honestly? I don’t know the mechanism, and I’d rather say so than invent one. What I can tell you is what’s documented: enkaku chiryō has been part of the Okuden curriculum since the 1930s, taught the same way, long before anyone had a commercial reason to offer sessions remotely. I practise it as I received it, and I’m glad to let you be the judge of the result.
If reiki has helped you before, that’s wonderful, and none of this is in competition with it. What you’d notice here is mostly a narrower focus: a smaller vocabulary, fewer elements, and a concrete diagnostic — byōsen — that tells my hands where to stay rather than moving through a set sequence. Other lineages grew and added as they travelled; this one stayed in Kyoto and kept to what it started with. Different roads, and you’re welcome on both.
Not at all — and there’s no need to arrive convinced. Come with your scepticism intact, notice what you notice, and draw your own conclusion. That’s a sturdier foundation than enthusiasm, and it’s how most of my long-standing clients started.
No. Reiki is a complementary practice. It is not medical care, it does not diagnose or cure disease, and it is never a reason to delay or stop anything your doctor has told you to do. I don’t make claims about outcomes. Please keep seeing your physician — this sits alongside that care, and is happiest there.
Because a few of these words are simply more precise than anything English offers. Byōsen names a specific sensation with five graded degrees; “sensing energy” is a lovely phrase but it doesn’t carry that detail. Keeping the original words is the simplest way to keep the original method — and there are only four of them to learn.
Booking
Experience the original method.
Tell me what brings you, and whether you’d rather come to the studio or work by distance. If you’re not sure which, say so and we’ll work it out together. I answer every enquiry myself, usually within [two days].