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The movements you make out of habit, day after day, rest on something like a map that the mind draws without your noticing. Before I try to organize this idea of a map, which has […]

This article brings together five pieces written in August and September 2015, combined into one in September 2026. It covers the three kinds of ordering — belongings, work, and body — along with narrowing down information when listening, self-acceptance, […]

This article was written in August 2015 and added to in September 2026. The explanation of the virtual midline has been moved here from a […]

Over three columns I have touched briefly on how Reiki spread to the West and on its history in Japan (see “The Background, and How […]

Over two blog posts I have touched briefly on how Reiki spread to the West and on its history in Japan (see “The Background, and […]

When thinking about Reiki as something that originated in Japan, history matters. The seminar, too, began with history. Its formal name is Usui Reiki Ryōhō […]

While taking the Rolfing training in Germany, I heard the word Reiki often. It was born in Japan in the Meiji era and was once […]

This article brings together two pieces written in July and August 2015, combined into one in September 2026. It covers exchange sessions with Akinori Ito […]

Looking at the history of Rolfing, it overlaps with the history of the rise and fall of alternative therapy. According to Rolfing and Physical Reality, written by […]

I have now written three times about how Shinichi Yoshifuku thought about the work of a therapist (see The Four Levels of the Mind, Context, […]