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Join Us For The 2nd Annual International Reiki Research Conference!

The International Reiki Research Conference (RRC) is the only conference focused solely on Reiki research. Hosted by the Center for Reiki Research, the conference features keynote speakers, panel discussions on current topics in Reiki research, oral research presentations, and experiential sessions over two days. Topics include Reiki research in hospitals, Reiki and mental health, distance Reiki research, Reiki with nonhumans, physiological and psychological mechanisms of Reiki, and more. You will also be able to connect with other researchers and those interested in Reiki research in our social and networking event at the conclusion of the conference.

The conference will be virtual, with subsequent conferences being held either in-person or a hybrid combination of virtual and in-person.

All registrants will receive a recording of the conference via email.

Dates: June 1-2, 2024

Register here.

CRR Associate Members will receive 25% discounted registration and Professional Members will receive 50% discounted registration.

Keynote Speakers

Justin Stein

Justin Stein, an historian of religion and author of Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific, which analyzes the development of the Reiki healing system as an “alternate current” circulating between Japan, Hawai’i, and North America.

Helané Wahbeh

Helané Wahbeh, the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University, will address Energy Medicine and How We See It: Explorations into the Mechanism of Biofield Therapies.

Conference Organizing Committee

Conference Chair: Natalie Dyer, PhD

Abstract Review Board: Ann Baldwin, PhD; Elise Brownell, PhD; Patricia DeLeon, PhD; Jennifer DiBenedetto, PhD; Natalie Dyer, PhD; and Karuna Spiegelman, MD

Administrative and Web Support: Ruth McKlusky

For more information, please email admin@centerforreikiresearch.com