Join Us For The 2nd Annual International Reiki Research Conference!
The virtual 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 for patients with cancer, 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 online, 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
Registration is closed.
CRR Basic Members will receive a 15% discount on registration fees, Associate Members will receive a 25% discount on registration fees, and Professional Members will a receive 50% discount on registration fees.
Keynote Speakers
Justin Stein
Justin Stein is a 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.
In his keynote address The Uncertain Status of Spiritual Therapies: Efforts to Resist Regulating Reiki in the US, Justin will lay out some of the legal challenges faced by Reiki and other spiritual therapies in the United States and look at historic and contemporary attempts to position Reiki in an exceptional category that enjoys maximal protection and minimal burden.
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.
Panel Discussions
Four healthcare professionals — nursing school professor Yea-Jyh Chen, board-certified holistic nurse Kae Fink, Reiki provider Sandy Priester, and integrative oncologist Santosh Rao – will discuss their research, insights, and passion for incorporating Reiki into cancer care during the Reiki for Patients with Cancer panel discussion on June 1st.
Hearing their real-life experiences will leave you upbeat about the therapeutic value of Reiki.
Reiki researchers – Clinical Psychologist and Somatic Psychotherapist Sonia Zadro, Center for Reiki Research President Natalie Dyer, and Reiki Healthcare Research Trust Director Rosemary Pharo – will discuss their research and peer-reviewed studies that identify the benefits of Reiki in mental health care during the Reiki Research for Mental Health panel discussion on June 2nd.
Experiential Sessions
One of the not-to-be-missed conference highlights are the experiential sessions where you will receive beautiful healing Reiki energy from three renowned practitioners:
- Reiki Lifestyle’s Colleen Benelli will open the conference with the healing power of Reiki energy to awaken your inner light, higher mind, and pure heart for healing and empowerment for all.
- Also on day one, Helene Williams will guide you through the moving Connecting The Three Diamonds of Ki Meditation, which helps us connect and align the three Japanese energetic centers of the body: Earth Ki, Heart Ki, and Heavenly Ki.
- The Reiki Lighthouse’s Akleema Ali will close the conference with a Reiki Drumming Journey that facilitates “Working with the Spirit of an Organization” to bring harmony and oneness to our work relationships and environment.
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
