(Japanese) Society of the Usui Spiritual Energy Healing Method.

The Usui Reiki Ryôhô Gakkai claims to have been created by Mikao Usui in 1922. The society still exists today, and has its seventh president.

It includes no foreigners in its ranks and members are asked not to discuss the details of the society with non-members. When this society was first started, members of the Japanese navy largely attended it. There were once 80 divisions of the Usui Reiki Ryôhô Gakkai throughout Japan but today there are, at the most, five, with the teachings taking place in Tôkyô. The society does not advertise and has not actively made contact with Westerners apart from one member, Hiroshi Doi.

Hiroshi Doi has told about his experience of the meetings, kenkyû kai, held by former president Kimiko Koyama in the 1990s when she visited Kyôto once a month. The members would sit in a circle (on chairs rather than in seiza). Kimiko Koyama would talk about various topics based on her life experiences. The gyosei were recited followed by kenyoku hô, jôshin kokyû hô and gasshô. This was followed by seishin toitsu as all members received reiju. Kimiko Koyama and one of the shihans performed reiju. There was then a three time recitation of the five precepts, answers to questions, Reiki mawashi and shûchû Reiki.

There are three major levels in the Usui Reiki Ryôhô Gakkai. These are shoden, okuden and shinpiden (the teacher level). Within these levels there are six grades of proficiency. Each member is supplied with the Reiki Ryôhô Hikkei and shiori.

Here is a list of presidents from Mikao Usui to modern day:

• Mikao Usui (1865–1926)
• Jûzaburô Ushida (Rear Admiral, 1865–1935)
• Kanichi Taketomi (Rear Admiral, 1878–1960)
• Yoshiharu Watanabe (Schoolteacher, ? ? –1960)
• Hôichi Wanami (Vice Admiral, 1883–1975)
• Kimiko Koyama (1906–1999)
• Kondô Masaki (University Professor)