Reiki First Degree Manual (Shoden): One of the most helpful Reiki healing books available, Comprehensive, detailed and easy to read, Contains the original Japanese method
"We were delighted with the manuals, because they provided us with so much more information on the history of Reiki than we received in our Reiki1 and 2 courses or through other books.You have a wonderful way to de-mystify Reiki by looking at it in an objective, neutral way and your explanations and exercises have made us much more confident with our new ability." --Steffi Satchell, Buckinghamshire"The manuals are excellent! well set out, easy to read with lots of energy exercises to help develop skills and energy connection. So far it has been a deep and profoundly moving experience for me." --Marilyn Lacey, Worcestershire"I have seen a number of Reiki manuals and yours is excellent, informative and detailed. It is just what I need to help deepen my Reiki practice and included some really useful hints, ideas and techniques. It seems like a lot of people are moving in the direction of a more pure, simple and traditional Japanese Reiki practice and, with this in mind, your manual is first class and I can highly recommend it to others on the path to self-discovery!" --Tim Matthews, UK"Your excellent book 'Shoden' was a pleasure to read and re-read. What I like in particular about your course book is the fact that it's taking Reiki back to its very basics. The book is well written, easy to read and understand, very comprehensive and talking about nothing else but the original Usui Reiki. It's a very good book for learning as well as for further use as reference. I'm absolutely satisfied!!"I've found out that it is difficult to get a good course book. There are plenty of books about Reiki, but there are hardly any good professional course books for sale. Home made cut-and-paste patchwork course books, of which there are plenty available as well, aren't of course satisfactory. What bothers me furthermore with a lot of Reiki courses are all these add-ons that actually don't belong to Reiki, like Bach-blossom therapy, Crystals, 1001 different symbols (you can't see the wood for the trees...), Colour reading, etc., etc. All these extras are nice to know of course, but I think you should leave it to your students if they want to study this or not. So, I was actually looking for a course book that is stripped of all these add-ons and concentrates on Usui Reiki only. Back to basics. To quote Reiki-master Vincent Amador: "Keep Reiki plain and simple!"."The problem was to find a good course book in the Dutch language that meets these requirements. Nothing found. However, as luck would have it, my very first student happens to be English, and looking on the Internet for English course books, I came across your website and there I found exactly what I was looking for." --Eduard Baaij, Netherlands"Over the last seven or so years I have bought many books on Reiki (about two dozen) and almost always found them lacking. I have received more from your manuals than all the books put together."  --Roy Stanworth, UK