The Initiation

Shingon Reiki Level 1

There is a point in this work where reading stops being useful.

You can study the symbols. You can learn what every character means, where it came from, which sutra it appears in. I have spent thirty years doing exactly that, and I still do.

But the ability to send this energy through your hands is not something you can read your way into. In this tradition it is not learned — it is transmitted. Someone who carries it opens it in you. That is what an initiation is, and it is the one thing that cannot be put into a classroom.

Shingon Reiki Level 1 is that initiation. I hold it live and online, in small groups, because I work with each person in the room.

The next opening

10–11 October 2026
Live online · small group · both days
Take my place
Places are limited because the group stays small.

The next date is not set yet

I open Level 1 only a few times a year. The people on this list hear the date first — and the groups fill from that list.
No date, no payment, nothing to decide today.

Dr. Mark Hosak
Japanologist · Shingon practitioner and researcher · founder of Shingon Reiki