Frans Stiene

Frans Stiene is the teacher the world’s reiki teachers go to. Co-founder of the International House of Reiki, he has spent decades doing something unusual in a field dominated by Western adaptations: travelling back to the Japanese roots of the system of Reiki, into the meditations, precepts, and spiritual teachings of its founder, Mikao Usui — and bringing what he found there to students across the globe. His research with co-author Bronwen Logan produced The Reiki Sourcebook, the field’s standard reference work, and The Japanese Art of Reiki, while his own trilogy — The Inner Heart of Reiki, Reiki Insights, and The Way of Reiki: The Inner Teachings of Mikao Usui — has reframed the practice for a generation: not merely a hands-on healing technique, but a complete spiritual path toward remembering our own true nature.

That depth is matched by unusual accessibility. Frans teaches on four continents and online — courses and retreats across the UK, Europe, North America, and Australia-Asia — offering everything from full practitioner training to one-to-one reiki treatments, private meditation classes, and distance healing for those who need support now; he has studied with Japanese priests and Taoist masters for over twenty-five years. Students describe a teacher of disarming warmth and humour who makes thousand-year-old Japanese concepts feel immediate and liveable — spaciousness, the inner meaning of the Reiki kanji, the great bright light of one’s own being. For seekers who sense there is more to reiki than hand positions — that beneath the healing art lies a path of awakening — Frans Stiene is its most generous living guide.