The Reiki Association's 18th Birthday Gathering
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Together with the Annual General Meeting of TRA
19th -21st March 2010, Harborne Hall, Birmingham
The Association’s Annual General Meeting in 2010 was held in a rather different way from the past. Many of our members had expressed a wish to have it more accessible than Buckland Hall in South Wales. A few years ago we sited the meeting as a one-day event in Birmingham, and many felt the lack of the strong reiki presence that is experienced when the meeting is incorporated into a full reiki weekend.
 | Our 2010 meeting was therefore held as part of a residential retreat and visioning weekend at Harborne Hall in Birmingham. Harborne Hall has a special place in the history of our Association, being the venue for our inaugural meeting 18 years ago. So we returned to our beginnings for our coming of age |
We decided on a retreat this year partly on the advice of Phyllis Furumoto, lineage bearer of Usui Shiki Ryoho, the system of reiki upon which our system of reiki was founded.
o| Phyllis has had very beneficial experiences of using a retreat format in meetings where deep mindfulness is called for as communities grow and change. We had plenty of time for treatments, creating a sacred and meditative space in which the best could be called out of each of us as we sought guidance for our next steps as an organisation and as a network of people initiated into reiki. |  |
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We successfully welcomed in a very special Spring Solstice! Thanks to all who took part, you made it a very worthwhile occasion by helping to take the Association forward to an exciting future!
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Reiki masters and students at the Reiki Alliance Retreat Weekend with Phyllis Furumoto at Harborne Hall, April 2009