What is Reiki?

Reiki is a Japanese hands-on healing practice realized by Mikao Usui in the early 1900s. The word Reiki can be translated as “universal life force energy.” In a Reiki treatment, the practitioner acts as a conduit for this energy, allowing it to flow through the hands and into the client’s body and energetic field.

Sessions help quiet the mind, ease tension in the body, and support the body’s natural capacity for healing and balance.

Reasons People Seek Reiki

  • physical recovery and pain management

  • trauma healing and emotional release

  • anxiety, fear, stress, and depression

  • grief and major life transitions

  • shifting longstanding patterns, habits, and ways of thinking

  • pre- and post-surgery support

  • support during cancer treatment

  • autoimmune conditions and related symptoms

  • deep rest, relaxation, and nervous system care

  • energetic clearing and grounding

  • end-of-life transition and support

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Edmund Langdell

I trained as a Reiki Master Practitioner under Brian Brunius at the NYC Reiki Center. 

I was drawn to Reiki through a personal vow within my spiritual practice: to live this life as a conduit for love, healing, and clarity in the world. Through Reiki, I found a direct expression of that vow, as the practitioner becomes a conduit for Reiki energy. 

I am also a student of Hojin Sensei in the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism. I lived and trained at the Zen Center of New York City during a three-year residency with Hojin Sensei and sangha.

I was raised on a homestead in Vermont where my family grew and raised most of our own food year-round. That upbringing gave me a deep connection to the land, the cycles of life, and the interconnectedness of all living things.

My Reiki practice is grounded in compassion, and I strive to meet each person with presence, openness, and care.

My Lineage

  • Portrait of Mikao Usui, founder of the Reiki healing practice.

    Mikao Usui

    Mikao Usui founded the Reiki system of healing in Japan in the early 1900s. Through spiritual practice, meditation, and energetic healing work, he developed the system now known as Usui Reiki Ryoho.

  • Portrait of Chujiro Hayashi, Reiki Master and student of Mikao Usui.

    Chujiro Hayashi

    Chujiro Hayashi was a student of Mikao Usui and played a major role in organizing and expanding Reiki practice in Japan. A former naval physician, he helped develop many of the treatment approaches still used in Reiki today.

  • Portrait of Hawayo Takata, the Reiki Master who brought Reiki from Japan to Hawai‘i and the Western world.

    Hawayo Takata

    Hawayo Takata brought Reiki from Japan to Hawai‘i and helped introduce the practice to the Western world. Through her teaching, Reiki spread throughout North America and beyond.

  • Portrait of John Harvey Gray, Reiki Master Teacher and student of Hawayo Takata.

    John Harvey Gray

    John Harvey Gray was one of the original Reiki Masters initiated by Hawayo Takata. He dedicated his life to teaching Reiki and helping preserve Takata’s teachings and lineage.

  • Portrait of Brian Brunius, founder of NYC Reiki Center and Koshin Reiki.

    Brian Brunius

    Brian Brunius is a Reiki Master Teacher and founder of the NYC Reiki Center and Koshin Reiki. His work is devoted to the preservation, practice, and transmission of the original Usui Shiki Ryoho teachings.

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