One of Hawayo Takata’s 22 Reiki teacher students. Robert Fueston states that he was told that Virginia Samdahl introduced Barbara Weber to Hawayo Takata. This may account for the fact that after Hawayo Takata’s death, Virginia Samdahl was a member of two of the groups that claimed to carry on Hawayo Takata’s teachings. One was The Reiki Alliance, and the other was Barbara Weber’s The Radiance Technique®.