In 1988 the Center for Spiritual Development was founded as a non-profit organization. Its purpose was to provide spiritual development classes and sessions that included the use of Reiki therapy, past life regression therapy, guided meditation and neurolinguistic programming. In 1989, Reiki training was added to the curriculum and in 1991 our name was changed to The Center for Reiki Training, as Reiki became our only focus.
In 1997, we added International to our name because of the classes being taught in foreign countries and because of the number of students who were traveling to the US to take classes from us.
The Reiki training offered by the ICRT has evolved over the years to include a number of methods. The style we teach is a combination of the Usui/Hayashi method as taught by Mrs. Takata combined with a style based on Tibetan shamanism called Raku Kai. In 1998, after reviewing the research done in Japan, we added the Japanese Reiki techniques to our training.
