Roberta R. Barnes most commonly teaches Gendai Reiki-ho, which integrates the essence from Mikao Usui’s original Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai (learning society) with other styles of Usui Reiki that Hiroshi Doi studied so the awesome spiritual practice Mikao Usui founded can be blended into all areas of your life. Gendai ReikiHo is not a new school of Reiki, but a new way to practice Reiki by bringing Mikao Usui’s teachings into daily life.  It translates into English as, Modern Reiki method for healing.

Roberta's way of life and teachings reflect not only Gendai Reiki-ho, Komyo Reiki Kai but pieces of other Reiki styles that honor the essence of Mikao Usui's original/traditional teachings. She completed the highest level directly under Hiroshi Doi-Sensei, Rev, Hyakuten Inamoto-Sensei, and other Reiki teachers commonly called masters. One of her teachers, Richard Rivard focuses on clarity, which is essential when opening up to tune into a greater awareness or enlightenment that can bring to light the true universal you. This awareness happens in the space created once your pathway to universal energy is opened and you have spent hours in study and practice.  In this space you learn how to return any disharmony in mind, body or spirit back to its natural state of well being, which is commonly called healing.

 A man once said that all he needed was an attunement and then he could heal anyone. Vis medicatrix naturae (the healing power of life) is naturally inside all of us being affected by all that is around us; this like ki it is stronger in  some  then in others.   This natural ability is enhanced through the study of Reiki.  However, what has become known as an attunement is just the beginning.   

 One way to visualize the form of universal energy called Usui Reiki is the engine to the train of the healer within. This powerful engine pulls the train ahead in the way best for each life form at that time, and keeps it on track.

 Through Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki you can learn how to connect and weave that endless supply of universal energy into your every day life. Japanese styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho do not compete with any healing modality, but support and enhance them.  What Roberta teaches is a wonderful complementary healing that blends all other positive healing modalities.   In the hours of study you will find that the spiritual practice Mikao Usui founded goes beyond what is commonly thought of as hands-on-healing.

Many things can be learned from a book or in a one-day class, but the spiritual practice of Usui Reiki Ryoho is not one of these things. Each level in Usui Reiki requires time for the whole you to blend with that which is new to you. Children that begin at a very young age blend easily with the feel of universal energy. None of the cells in your mind, body or spirit instantly accept and resonate with anything new, regardless of your desire, finances, ethnic background, or formal education.

Having a copy of Takata-Sensei’s original transcript, Roberta has an awareness of the original teachings through which many Western styles of Reiki have developed.  Because she began studying styles of Reiki developed in North America she can answer many of your questions about other styles of Reiki.   Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki both help you to learn to look beyond the everyday chaos and bench your ego unless needed for survival.  Roberta allows each person the time needed to assimilate what he or she experiences as he or she looks more closely into the universe.

Whether you are in the public school area of your life, mid-life, or retired from a profession, learning Gendai Reiki-ho or Komyo Reiki  brings balance and harmony into your life and  benefits everything you do. Once your pathway has actually been opened, Reiki will immediately begin to flow; but how pure Reiki flows depends upon many things, which Roberta explains in her classes. Classes cover breathing exercises, meditation, self-cleansing, chakra cleansing & activating, visualization, energy boosting, and more.

Reiki is a journey on which you constantly learn and grow. Everything in our world gives off its own vibration. Reiki is a form of universal energy that contains the vibrations of unconditional love and harmony the most powerful of vibrations.

Consequently, Reiki can enhance everything and requires nothing to increase its strength. This leaves the Reiki practitioner and Shihan (teacher) in a wonderful space of freedom, never having to depend upon material objects, charts in books, or anything other then trust in universal wisdom.  

The powerful backbone of Usui Reiki Ryoho teachings is the three concepts from which the Gokai (five concepts or five principles) sprouted. The Gokai reflects the Dalai Lama’s wisdom as he wrote, “confidence arising automatically and worry and anxiety diminish”. Letting go of the negative, accepting, and living in the present moment are some of the things you can learn through Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki.

A common reaction when feeling stuck is to back up, which most often results staying in one place with wheels spinning. Mikao Usui’s first awakening gave the foundation for learning how to accept where you are, and from that place move forward in the way best for you at that moment in time. Some factual history of this gentle yet powerful energy commonly called Reiki appears on the What is Reiki page.

If your personal experience tells you that the saying, “another door opens when one closes” is not true, perhaps you were so focused on the door that closed that you did not even notice the one that opened. Learning this spiritual practice that Mikao Usui founded helps you to focus on now, so that you are aware of the opening doors.

Reiki has helped many people overcome some very difficult physical and emotional challenges. Reiki does not replace crisis professional medical care.  Reiki is complementary medicine, supporting other healing modalities as it promotes and speeds the healing process in the way that is best for the person/animal/bird/other life form receiving, at that junction in time.  Reiki can reduce the need for pain medication.

Usui Reiki Ryoho is a natural process as opposed to a cure that masks or eliminates symptoms. Reiki practitioners and Shihans (teachers) follow a different path than conventional healing modalities. Even so, all Reiki practitioners and Reiki Shihans (teachers) have one or more certificate(s) from a qualified Reiki Shihan (teacher), and can show you his or her energy and technique lineage back to Mikao Usui.  You can view some of Roberta’s certificates and energy lineages on her bio page.   Reiki Shihans are honored to tell you their lineage back to the founder, Mikao Usui; no lineage makes anyone better then anyone else, but in Reiki there is a connection between student and teacher.  

Universal energy flowing through you does not depend on movements, tones, colors, or additions of any kind. It requires a body to flow through who has been initiated (empowerment/attunement) and guided by a qualified Reiki Shihan. Once your pathway/channel has been opened you are the vessel through which universal love and harmony will always flow.

Nevertheless, like your drinking glasses that you are constantly washing, your pathway/channel must be kept clear or the universal energy flowing through can resemble pure spring water drunk from a dirty glass. Reiki unaltered and allowed to flow purely will not cause any harm of any kind.

Gendai Reiki-ho is fast becoming one of the preferred methods of Reiki coming out of Japan. Doi Hiroshi (Hiroshi Doi in English and Doi-Sensei to his students) created this style.  Being a member of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, Doi-Sensei's practice is seeded from the roots instilled by Mikao Usui who created that society. Gendai Reiki-ho focuses on living in a balanced harmonic way (health and happiness).

Doi-Sensei says about Gendai Reiki-ho, “Ayashiku-nai, Okashiku-nai, Muzukashiku-nai.” The English translation of this is nothing fishy, nothing odd, and nothing difficult.

Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki focus on the core or the source of both disharmony and harmony. Each time your pathway to universal energy is opened wider (empowerment/attunement) you are able to connect with more cords within the vibrations of universal unconditional love and harmony. Once your channel has been opened, Roberta focuses on helping you to resonate with the vibrations you have been opened to through numerous exercises. She teaches in a way  that frees from having to depend upon any training wheels.  Reiki symbols can be the greatest obstacle to truly knowing in your heart the form of universal energy that flows through you once your channel has been opened. You may  forget what you have memorized in your mind, but what you know in your heart stays with you.

Komyo Reiki Kai is style created by Rev. Hyakuten Inamoto; like Doi-Sensei, Hyakuten-Sensei has only two Reiki Shihans between himself and Mikao Usui. Mikao Usui only raised three out of 2000 students to the level where they could teach and open others to the form of universal energy called Reiki.

Komyo Reiki Kai's purpose is believing that underlying true happiness is physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual good health, and

	To promote a wider spread of Reiki Hands
	To encourage the use of Reiki hands – healing art in a family or at work as an effective and/or supplementary medicine (in an office where I was employed about eight years ago I would let Reiki flow to co-workers at break times; Reiki is a wonderful addition to any work place).
	To improve the mind and body and maintain optimal health by means of Reiki Ryoho practice.
	To strive on, through Reiki practice, to uplift humanity and spirituality as a Reiki practitioner so as to attain the ultimate objective of Reiki Ryoho, i.e. “the absolute INNER PEACE” or “Anshin Ritsumei” in terms of Usui-Sensei. (I explain all these terms in class.)
	To live a healthy and peaceful daily life being benefited from Reiki.

 Reflecting back on books/movies the hero/heroine often finds personal growth through the energy of love. In many cases, the hero/heroine thinks about walking away from the gift offered to him or her because the true strength/power of the energy is not recognized. Sometimes a person is too busy with modern technology to recognize the true power of universal energy. The study of Reiki over a few weeks or months gives each person the time and support to assimilate the experience so that the strength/power of universal energy can be recognized. If you face the palms of your hands toward each other and slowly move them back and forward, you can feel your own life force energy. When you walk barefoot or lie on the earth, and quiet your mind you can feel the earth’s form of energy. Now imagine being able to blend cords from the universal vibrations of love and harmony with those forms of energy.

If you have decided you would like to study either Gendai Reiki-ho or Komyo Reiki with Roberta go directly to, Pre-Shoden for Children -- Shoden Level I -- Okuden Level II -- Shinpiden Level III --Gokuikaiden (teaching level) Level IV. Natural Healing & Learning Center, certified by Gendai Reiki Kyokai, is located in Windsor Maine, US. Roberta will however travel to various locations to teach classes; please contact her for details. Please note that every level is honorable, and every level helps you to personally grow in the way that is best for you.

If you decide to complete more than one level, you will feel a gradual yet steady rise in the potency of what flows through your body, as long as you continue to practice and  your channel is kept clear. Once you can feel that pure white light flowing within and through you, you can blend it into any area of your life. This blending does not make the universal energy that flows through you any stronger/better, but it can make your life take on a positive glow. When you are emitting positive vibrations all that is around you is touched in a positive way, and positive is attracted to you. The sculptures that Roberta Barnes allows Reiki to flow into while she is taking from the block allowing them to reveal themselves, are an example of a pleasant addition to have in a home emanating positive energy. You can learn how to allow Reiki to flow into everything positive that you do, giving yourself rewarding results in ways more powerful then money.

Each person should practice the style of Usui Reiki Ryoho that feels most comfortable to him or her. When I think of Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki, I think of the trite saying, “comes from good breeding”. Back to Learning Reiki page.