Reiki History and its Evolution as a Healing Modality History of Reiki Reiki is a healing technique that has been around for the last 100 years, but energy healing has been around 2,500 years, although it was long neglected. A guy named Dr. Mikao Usui rediscovered the technique in the nineteenth century. Energy healing originated in India and traveled via Tibet, China, and Japan until it was founded by Dr. Mikao Usui. He was a pastor and headmaster of Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, serving as a Christian.  One Sunday morning, a group of his pupils questioned whether or not he truly believed the accounts of Jesus' miracles , particularly his healings. In response, Usui said that he did think that Jesus worked healings and miracles. The pupils said they needed evidence since they were too young to believe. Taking his pupils seriously, Usui resigned from his position at the university to pursue the answers to these queries.  Dr. Usui traveled to the United States to learn mo