Why I Opened Hikari no Ki

Before opening Hikari no Ki, I worked in IT and startup companies. On the surface, things were going well. There were even seasons when the results were considerable. Underneath, though, there was always a small voice. “There has to be something more important than this.”

For a long time, I chose not to listen to it. If I really listened, I knew somehow, everything would have to change.

At some point, I stopped denying it. I began stepping into the world of metaphysics, healing, and meditation. I wasn’t looking for an answer, exactly. I just wanted to be honest about what was already inside me.

At first, I was the one receiving sessions. I went to healers as a client, sat in meditation circles, and slowly began to understand what was happening inside me. Nothing dramatic. It was more that, in the small details of daily life, something was genuinely shifting: how I was breathing, what I was noticing, how I was holding difficult moments. The senses I had as a child also began to return. The atmosphere of a room. The emotional weather of the person across from me.

At a certain point, a thought arrived quietly: “This isn’t something I want to keep only for myself.” I wanted to be on the other side of it too, to be able to offer what I had received. The feeling was a quiet one — a current I had finally agreed to follow.

From there, I began my training in earnest. I studied formally, completed my certification, and shaped my own way of working slowly. My time as a client still sits inside everything I do now. When I say healing isn’t really about fixing or changing, that’s where it comes from: from having received it myself first, and from having felt what it means to help someone reconnect with what is already inside them.

The name Hikari no Ki (光の樹), “Tree of Light,” came out of that understanding, naturally. Light is something that is already there, inside us. A tree roots deeply downward while reaching upward at the same time. Together, the two images said what I hoped this salon would say in my place.

The time I spend with each person who comes here is, for me, also a return — a quiet reminder of what it means to live, as the Japanese phrase has it, “as the soul wants to live.” My hope is that this is a place where we both come back to who we really are.

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