Dragonfly Reiki

01/05/2026

Without seeing sunlight
The winter camellia
Blooms.

— Kobayashi Issa

01/03/2026

This is YOUR year to shine bright! ✨️

As Reiki practitioners, we believe that everyone innately carries the bright light of Reiki within. Learning the spiritual healing practice of Reiki enables you to access and cultivate this bright light in a deeper, more intentional way.

When you learn a traditional Reiki practice like Komyo ReikiDo, you receive the spiritual concepts, meditations, energetic practices, and teachings to help you polish your own mirror so that you can finally see your True Self reflected back. 🪞

Your True Self is loving and wise, and moves through each day attuned to the qualities of gratitude, devotion, and compassion. Your True Self can’t wait to greet you again! 💜

When you learn Komyo ReikiDo with me, you will be initiated into a beautiful spiritual practice that offers you the guidance, education, and community to support your healing and personal growth. 🙌

Our Reiki practice is ancestor-led, meaning we recognize and honor all of the Reiki Teachers (Shihans) in our lineage going all the way back to the founder, Mikao Usui, because we know their loving energy and presence accompanies and inspires us every step of the way. ⛩️

2026 marks 20 years since my first initiations into Reiki practice. I can’t wait to share Reiki with you and see your light shine bright!

My next beginner-level Komyo ReikiDo training is the weekend of January 17-18th, at
in Stone Mountain Village from 12pm - 4:30pm both days. 📅

Space is limited, so claim your spot today! Details in the bio to register!

12/26/2025

I hope you're all enjoying a wonderful and meaningful holiday season, however you celebrate!

I've been blessed to spend a low-key and lovely Christmas with my family and dear friends, with good food, the "Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack on repeat, and a midday nap.

As we look ahead to 2026, I wanted to let y'all know that I'll be making some changes to my schedule and availability. I will be devoting more time to travel, teaching, writing, and other creative/spiritual practices. Stay tuned for more information!

2026 is also my 20 year anniversary of receiving my first initiations into Reiki practice, and some of my activities will be aligned with this meaningful milestone. Reiki has been a life-changing practice and gift that I am committed to sharing with my communities, and part of what makes that possible is when I can take good care of myself and my energy.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me, and I can't wait to see where we go next with Reiki!

12/24/2025

Happy 125th birthday to Hawayo Takata! 🎂

This photo was taken at the Trinity Metaphysical Center, Redwood City, California, in December 1979 to celebrate Takata's 79th birthday. About two weeks earlier, she had recorded a series of tapes meant to be the basis of her autobiography. They begin:

"Well, I was born in Hanamaulu, Hawaii, on December 24, 1900. And when I was born, there were no doctors, so all these immigrants who came from Japan in the [1800s] had midwives. [...] [My mother] asked the midwife, 'What time is it?' and the midwife said, 'The sun is just coming out over the hills.' And my mother asked the midwife, 'Is it a boy or a girl?' and the midwife said, 'It is a little baby girl, black hair, and very, very strong child.'

So my mother said, 'Please give her a bath, wrap her in a new blanket, and face her [towards] the sun. And I want you to initiate her by putting your hand on top of her head and say, 'I name you Hawayo.' And say it three times.' And after that she said, 'Success, success, and success.' So the midwife did exactly as she was told."

12/23/2025

Dream a little dream with me...
..imagine for a moment what would it feel like to have greater freedom to live with more joy and experience less fear?
..imagine learning a daily practice that softens the hard edges of life and opens up more space for ease and clarity?

Reiki can help awaken this deep transformation within you. ✨️

The spiritual self-care that Reiki offers goes all the way down to the soul level and amplifies your inner light.

Reiki healing opens your eyes and heart so you can see and experience your life as sacred, even when times are difficult, uncertain, or even when you are grieving a loss.

When I first learned Reiki, I just wanted to feel better. I wanted to be in less physical pain. I wanted to experience less stress from work and life.

Learning to practice did all of those things.

And it offered me so much more than that.

Reiki practice helped me live with more gratitude, intention, and purpose.

Reiki deepened my intuition, discernment, and compassion.

Life isn't always easy, but I'm so much happier. I know who I am.

It's changed my life for the better.

I've seen how learning Reiki changed the lives of many of my clients and students. After nearly 20 years of dedicated Reiki practice, all that goodness really adds up!

My next beginner-level Komyo ReikiDo class is on January 17-18, 2026 at in Stone Mountain Village. You will learn all the spiritual and energetic fundamentals of a Japanese-style Reiki healing practice in a wonderfully cozy setting.

More information is available at the link in my bio or on my website: www.dragonflyreiki.net

12/21/2025

Come see me today in beautiful Pine Lake for the Procrastinator's Pop-up Market in the Beach House until 6pm! I'm selling my seasonal candles, meditation candles, room sprays, and gift sets, which are perfect for your home, altar, or gifts for your favorite people!

12/21/2025

I'm grateful to my friend Maureen for reminding me that this is Mōdraniht, or Mother's Night, on the eve of the Winter Solstice and the Yuletide season. With darkness functioning as the "cosmic womb", this is the time to celebrate and anchor ourselves in matrilineal energy and tradition. I honored all of the women ancestors in my physical and spiritual families with the lighting of my Winter Solstice candle. On the altar, the Advent promises of Love and Hope will sustain me during this time of introspection, rest, and spiritual gestation. 💜✨️

12/20/2025

My favorite holiday market of the season is tomorrow and I can't wait to see you! Come on over to beautiful Pine Lake, where we will be set up inside up inside the Beach House for the Procrastinator's Pop-up! Grab some handmade gifts from local artisans and makers in a festive, yet relaxed space. ❄️ In addition to my holiday candles and gift sets, I will also have my line of prayer and meditation candles to support you through the Winter Solstice and beyond.

12/11/2025

On this day in 1980, Reiki Master Hawayo Takata made her transition after a long and venerable life of service. Mrs. Takata was responsible for bringing the spiritual healing art of Reiki from Japan to the West, first in her her home of Hawai'i, and later to the mainland United States and Canada. During her lifetime, Mrs. Takata taught Reiki healing to thousands of people, and initiated 22 Masters, including her granddaughter, Phyllis Furumoto, who carried her legacy forward.

One of the things Mrs. Takata admonished her students was: "Let Reiki teach you." It can be hard to trust the innate wisdom and guidance of something we cannot see. Our rational mind wants to make sense of it, categorize and put it in a context we can understand.

But Reiki is more than just what we might define as a sacred energy. Certainly, this "God Power" as Mrs. Takata called it can always teach us a thing or two. However, as transmitted by Chujiro Hayashi and later brought to the West, Mrs. Takata gave us the gift of a spiritual practice that is simple, elegant, and deeply profound. The practice teaches us everything we need to know about being more loving, grateful people who show up for our lives with honesty and integrity. Our Reiki practice is what sustains us and restores wholeness to our body, mind, and heart.

Without Mrs. Takata's dedication, devotion, and vision, the healing art and practice of Reiki would not have spread throughout the world as it has in the 40+ years since her death. May her great bright light always continue to shine for eternity. Arigato gozaimasu, Takata Sensei. I am forever grateful. 🙌🙏❤.....

12/11/2025

Forever grateful to Hawayo Takata and the gift of Reiki practice that she brought to the West and nurtured so that it continues to flourish. 🙏 (And thank you Justin for finding this beautiful photo of her!)

Hawayo Hiromi Kawamura Takata (24 December 1900 – 11 December 1980)

45 years ago today, Hawayo Takata passed through the veil separating this world and that of the ancestors, less than two weeks before her eightieth birthday.

45 years earlier (11 December 1935), Takata was attending her second day of Reiki training at the Hayashi Reiki Kenkyūkai, learning the spiritual therapy to which she would then dedicate her life.

Her 45 years of devotion to Reiki transformed the practice from an obscure Japanese healing art to one poised to become a truly global phenomenon with millions of practitioners worldwide.

If Reiki has touched your life or the life of someone you love, take a moment to remember this remarkable woman and express gratitude for her hard work that made this all possible 🙏

photo taken July 2, 1974, Palo Alto, CA

12/10/2025

I'm so excited about the Procrastinator's Pop-up in beautiful Pine Lake on Sunday, December 21! This will be my 4th year selling my candles, room sprays, and gift sets at this wonderful community market. I look forward to it all season long, and I can't wait to see lots of your friendly faces!

08/18/2025

Wishing , my teacher and the founder of Komyo ReikiDo, best wishes for his 85th birthday! May you continue to enjoy good health and happiness every day.

誕生日おめでとうございます to our beloved Sensei. 🙏✨️💜