My Reiki lineage
Each line shows who taught whom, from Mikao Usui to me.
Mikao Usui
Chujiro Hayashi
Kan'ichi Taketomi
Hawayo Takata
Chiyoko Yamaguchi
Kimiko Koyama
Barbara McCullough
John Harvey Gray
Iris Ishikura
Phyllis L. Furumoto
Hyakuten Inamoto
Hiroshi Doi
Judy Carol-Stewart
Arthur Robertson
Carol Ann Farmer
Libby Barnett
Diane McCumber
Marlene Schilke
Leah Smith
First teacher, Columbus, OH
line not recorded
line not recorded
William Lee Rand
Deborah Dixon
Tali Beesley
Japanese lines run on the right, through Chiyoko Yamaguchi and Kan'ichi Taketomi. Takata lines run on the left, through Hawayo Takata. Deborah Dixon trained with William Lee Rand, Libby Barnett, and a first teacher in Columbus, Ohio, whose line isn't recorded.
The lineage in words
Each line shows who taught whom. On a phone, the chart above is small, so here it is in words.
Japanese lines
- Mikao Usui → Chujiro Hayashi → Chiyoko Yamaguchi → Hyakuten Inamoto → William Lee Rand
- Mikao Usui → Kan'ichi Taketomi → Kimiko Koyama → Hiroshi Doi → William Lee Rand
Takata lines
- Mikao Usui → Chujiro Hayashi → Hawayo Takata → John Harvey Gray → Libby Barnett
- Libby Barnett also learned from Judy Carol-Stewart.
- William Lee Rand also learned from Diane McCumber, Marlene Schilke, and Leah Smith, along Takata lines.
To me
- William Lee Rand, Libby Barnett, and a first teacher in Columbus, Ohio (line not recorded) → Deborah Dixon → Tali Beesley
I trained in Usui Reiki through Level 2 (Okuden) with Deborah Dixon of Subtle Wellness, in a course through Duke Health. Read what a lineage is, and why it matters.