Teacher & Team
Jikiden Reiki courses with Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei in Switzerland 2027
Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei 山口忠夫先生
Daihyo 代表
Born in Kyoto in 1952, Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei is the founder and representative of the Jikiden Reiki Kenkyukai in Kyoto, Japan. He is also the Honorary Chairperson of the NPO-IJRA (NPO International Jikiden Reiki Association).
In 1999, Tadao Yamaguchi founded the Jikiden Reiki Kenkyukai together with his mother, Chiyoko Yamaguchi Sensei, and began teaching Jikiden Reiki in 2000.
To this day, Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei remains actively committed to preserving and promoting the traditional Japanese treatment method of Jikiden Reiki 直傳靈氣.
In the 1930s, Chiyoko Yamaguchi Sensei and other members of her family learnt Reiki from Dr Chujiro Hayashi Sensei, a direct student of Mikao Usui Sensei, the founder of Reiki. Today, this traditional Reiki teaching is passed on unchanged through Jikiden Reiki courses. Note: Hayashi Sensei was also the teacher of Hawayo Takata Sensei; her lineage subsequently developed into what is known as Western Reiki.
Tadao Yamaguchi is the author of Light on the Origins of Reiki, published under the German title Jikiden Reiki, traditionelles japanisches Reiki.
Yohei Yamaguchi-san
Dai Shihan 大師範
Yohei Yamaguchi-san is the son of Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei and grandson of Chiyoko Yamaguchi Sensei. He is the Chairperson of the NPO-IJRA (NPO International Jikiden Reiki Association).
Yohei Yamaguchi-san leads the NPO-IJRA, which brings together Jikiden Reiki teachers from around the world, as well as Jikiden Reiki practitioners from Japan. He also organises and leads congresses in Japan.
He regularly assists Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei at Jikiden Reiki courses, lectures and congresses in Japan and internationally.
Ikuko Hirota-san
Dai Shihan 大師範
Ikuko Hirota-san is the Vice Chairperson of the NPO-IJRA (NPO International Jikiden Reiki Association).
She attended Jikiden Reiki courses taught by Chiyoko Yamaguchi Sensei and Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei.
She works as a Japanese–English interpreter at Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei’s courses in Japan and overseas.
She is the Administrator for Jikiden Reiki teachers overseas.
Ikuko Hirota-san translated Light on the Origins of Reiki as well as parts of The Hayashi Reiki Manual from Japanese into English.
Silke Kleemann
Dai Shihan 大師範
Silke Kleemann is the English–German interpreter at Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei’s courses abroad.
She is the founder of the health studio Jiruka in Munich, Germany, and is a Jikiden Reiki practitioner and teacher.
She translated Light on the Origins of Reiki from English into German and is the co-author, with Amanda Jayne, of Women in Reiki.
Karin Birchler
Shihan 師範
Karin Birchler is the organiser of Tadao Yamaguchi Sensei’s courses in Switzerland in 2027.
She is the founder of the health studio Sawah – Jikiden Reiki, Zurich in Switzerland and is a Jikiden Reiki practitioner and teacher.
She has taught Jikiden Reiki to more than 300 participants from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Greece and Portugal.
She accompanied her students to the Jikiden Reiki Kenkyukai in Kyoto, Japan, to attend the Shihankaku course.