{"id":700,"date":"2021-05-12T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/?page_id=700"},"modified":"2023-01-25T05:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:10:46","slug":"the-grey-book-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/en\/about-us\/the-grey-book-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Book Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Photo-of-Brian-Brunius.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-599 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Brian Brunius<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian is a practitioner of Usui Shiki Ryoho in the lineage of John Harvey Gray. He is the founder of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nycreikicenter.com\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Reiki Center<\/a> where he works full-time, and President of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reikicentersofamerica.org\" target=\"_blank\">Reiki Centers of America<\/a>. Brian is a member of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reikialliance.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Reiki Alliance<\/a>, and currently serves as its Finance Administrator. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/diane-domondon-150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Diane Domondon<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diane is a Reiki Master Instructor in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition. She sees clients and teaches Reiki classes full time. While participating in the <em>Grey Book<\/em> project, she served on the Board of Directors for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reikicentersofamerica.org\" target=\"_blank\">Reiki Centers of America<\/a>, and is a member of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reikialliance.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Reiki Alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/paul-mitchell.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1769 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/paul-mitchell.png 377w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/paul-mitchell-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Paul Mitchell<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Mitchell learned Reiki from Hawayo Takata in 1978 and was one of the twenty-two Masters she acknowledged. Paul was a founding member of The Reiki Alliance and in 1993 joined Phyllis Furumoto as Head of the Discipline of Usui Shiki Ryoho. Together they formed the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usuishikiryohoreiki.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usuishikiryohoreiki.com\" target=\"_blank\">Office of the Grandmaster<\/a>. Now working with Johannes Reindl and Joyce Winough, he is committed to the life-long inquiry into the healing, growth, and spiritual development which is the promise of Reiki practice. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Susan-turkish-coffee.png\" alt=\"Photo of Susan Mitchell\" class=\"wp-image-895 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Susan-turkish-coffee.png 480w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Susan-turkish-coffee-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Susan-turkish-coffee-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Susan-turkish-coffee-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Susan-turkish-coffee-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Susan Mitchell<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Susan learned Reiki from Hawayo Takata. She was the first director of The Reiki Alliance from 1988-1998 and an editor of the Dutch <em>Reiki Magazine International<\/em>. She helped curate the Hawayo Takata archives now housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2019 Susan had the honor of editing&nbsp;<em>In Her Own Voice, A Tribute to Phyllis Lei Furumoto, 1948-2019.<\/em> Susan is one of the founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reikiunified.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reikiunified.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reiki Unified,<\/a> a nationwide effort to oppose regulation of Reiki practice in the United States. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Johannes Reindl\" class=\"wp-image-2163 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square.jpg 314w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Johannes-Reindl-square-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Johannes Reindl<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johannes Reindl has practiced Reiki since 1995 when he took his first degree class in his home country of Austria, aged 17. He has traveled the world since then taking part and assisting in Reiki and Aikido workshops offered by Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki masters and the Office of the Grandmaster (OGM). &nbsp;Johannes trained for mastery with Phyllis Furumoto and was initiated by her as a master in Japan. &nbsp;In 2019 he was recognized by Phyllis as her successor in the spiritual lineage of Usui Shiki Ryoho. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/justin-stein-horizontal-300x224-1-e1620779649281.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-593 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dr. Justin Stein, PhD<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin B. Stein, PhD (University of Toronto, Study of Religion, 2017), is an historian of spiritual practices at sites of connection between Japan, Hawaii, and North America. His work on Reiki, including original translations of historical Japanese-language materials, has been published in peer-reviewed journals (including <em>Asian Medicine<\/em> and <em>Japanese Religions<\/em>) and has been translated into German, Japanese, and Romanian. Stein completed a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellowship under \u014ctani Eiichi at Bukky\u014d University in Kyoto, Japan (2017\u20132019) and currently serves as Instructor in the Asian Studies Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. You can read some of his scholarship at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/justinstein.academia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/justinstein.academia.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close.png\" alt=\"Photo of Joyce Winough - Reiki Master\" class=\"wp-image-3227 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close.png 334w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/reikigreybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joyce-Winough-close-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Joyce Winough<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joyce Winough has been practicing Reiki for 32 years. Trained in First Degree by Helen Haberly and Second degree by Jean Ferris, a master of Helen\u2019s, and initiated as a Master by Phyllis Furumoto in 2002. Joyce started a professional treatment practice in 1993 and has taught Reiki since her master initiation. She traveled with her wife Phyllis Furumoto as an event coordinator for Reiki events, classes, retreats, and tours to Japan until her spouse passed away in 2019. Joyce continues her Reiki journey and commitment to Usui Shiki Ryoho as a member of the Reiki Alliance and UK Reiki Association, presenting the Takata Archive Project, and working with Johannes Reindl and Paul Mitchell as a member of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usuishikiryohoreiki.com\" target=\"_blank\">Office of the Grandmaster<\/a> since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Brunius Brian is a practitioner of Usui Shiki Ryoho in the lineage of John Harvey Gray. He is the founder of the NYC Reiki Center where he works full-time, and President of Reiki Centers of America. Brian is a member of The Reiki Alliance, and currently serves as its Finance Administrator. 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