Pamela Miles

Pamela Miles is the woman who carried reiki through the doors of Harvard, Yale, and the National Institutes of Health. An international Reiki master practising since 1986 in the direct lineage of Hawayo Takata — the teacher who first brought reiki to the West — she became the foremost pioneer of Medical Reiki: creating reiki programs in New York’s most prominent hospitals, publishing in peer-reviewed medical journals, collaborating in NIH-funded research, and proving, patiently and rigorously, that this gentle Japanese practice could stand respectfully alongside conventional medicine. Her award-winning book, REIKI: A Comprehensive Guide, remains the standard text handed to skeptics, physicians, and serious students alike.

Her teaching is as traditional as her credibility is modern. From her New York City practice and her live, small-group online trainings, Pamela teaches First Degree Reiki as Takata taught it — anchored in daily self-practice, spiritual grounding, and a credible, science-respecting sensibility that never oversells and never waters down. She is famously exacting (“many who consider themselves Reiki masters have less training than my beginning students”) and that exactness is precisely her gift: in a field that can drift into vagueness, Pamela Miles is reiki’s clearest, most trustworthy voice — the teacher for anyone who wants their healing practice to hold up in both the sanctuary and the clinic.