William shares part of his 30 year history in Reiki, where he started, his metaphysical journey, and how that led him to where he is today. How he developed the manuals, the reiki touch kits, his decision on changing the pricing structure of Reiki classes, his journey from Hawaii, to Detroit and back to Hawaii, the history of Karuna Reiki® and Holy Fire® III Reiki, the history of the World Peace Grids, and many more stories and memories from his long Reiki career and contributions to Reiki! We will have Part 2 of the podcast on March 20th at 9:30am, this will be a live call on our Monthly Online Reiki Circle. You can email Colleen or call in and share your stories and memories or ask William your questions! Sign up for our Reiki Lifestyle Podcast newsletter for the call-in details at reikilifestyle.com/podcast. William Lee Rand can be reached at:  reiki.org facebook.com/internationalcenterforreikitraining Email: center@reiki.org Colleen Benelli can be reached at:  reikilifestyle.com email: colleen@reikilifestyle.com facebook.com/reikilifestyle Robyn Benelli can be reached at:  reikilifestyle.com email: robyn@reikilifestyle.com William Lee Rand is a Senior Reiki Master/Teacher, founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT),The Center for Reiki Research and The Reiki Membership Association. He is the publisher and editor in chief of Reiki News Magazine. He has authored many books on Reiki, William has done extensive research on the origin and nature of Reiki and produced a pioneering work titled An Evidence Based History of Reiki. He is also the founder of Reiki.Org. William has dedicated his life to Reiki and has practiced and taught full time in classes around the world for the past 29 years. He encourages all Reiki practitioners to work together in harmony to bring peace to the earth. William is the originator of the Usui/Tibetan system of Reiki which he developed in 1989. In 1995, with the help of some of his students, he developed the Karuna Reiki® system of healing. And in January, 2014, he introduced the Holy Fire system of Reiki.     ® Holy Fire and Karuna Reiki are registered service marks of William Lee Rand.