Copyright & Trademark Information

The articles and artwork within this website are the copyrighted and trademarked property of Vision Publications, the ICRT and others. No part of the articles or artwork may be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission, except for brief quotations embodied in literary articles or reviews. Permission is ususally not difficult to receive to use part of an article, but we require that you ask for and get permission first. We also ask that you give credit by listing www.reiki.org as the source. Note that on our free download page there are some articles that can be reproduced in whole. Concerning use of our articles on other web sites, we don't usually give permission for entire articles to be placed on other web sites, but instead recommend that you write a short summery of the article on your site and then link directly to the article on our site.

Trademarks

"Logo"

"The Logo" is the registered trademark of The International Center for Reiki Training. "The Logo" may not be reproduced by any means or in any form whatsoever without written permission. "The Logo" represents The International Center for Reiki Training and therefore we rarely give permission to anyone to reproduce it. The Logo was designed by William L. Rand in 1989.

Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki®

The words Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki® are registered trademarks and require that the trademark symbol be used with them any time they are used – website, advertising, class materials, brochures, etc.

It is important to understand that it is not the energy that is trademarked but our system of Reiki that we use in our classes. The trademark for Holy Fire® applies to our work with Reiki only, maintaining the integrity of the energy and what we teach in our classes.

Note that the ® symbol can be found in the symbol section of most word processing programs.

Here are the guidelines on how to use them properly.

Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki
(Then include either sentence below at the bottom of the page)
® Holy Fire is the registered service mark of William Lee Rand.
OR
Holy Fire® is the registered service mark of William Lee Rand.
(In some instances it may not be appropriate to use either statement at the bottom of the page, i.e., certificates, business cards)

Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki®
(Then include either sentence below at the bottom of the page)
® Holy Fire and Karuna Reiki are registered service marks of William Lee Rand.
OR
Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki® are registered service marks of William Lee Rand.
(In some instances it may not be appropriate to use either statement at the bottom of the page, ie. certificates, business cards)

Class Titles
Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki I/II Training
Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki Master Training
Holy Fire® III Karuna Reiki® Master Training

Also see: The Trademarking of Karuna Reiki®

Disclaimer

The ideas and techniques described in this website are for the Reiki student. They are not meant to be an independent guide for self-healing. If you have a health condition and intend to use Reiki, please do so under the supervision of an enlightened medical doctor or other health care professional.

Holy Fire® and Karuna Reiki® are registered service marks of William Lee Rand.