Rumi is a Holistic Nurse Practitioner with over 30 years of professional experience as a clinician and educator. Her own path to healing from a chronic illness led her to first study Healing Touch in 1995.  As a certified practitioner and instructor, Rumi provides private sessions and has been teaching Healing Touch since 2005. Currently she serves as a Level 4/5 co-lead instructor for the Healing Touch Program. In addition, she teaches all levels of the Program in her native country of Japan (since 2010).  As founder of the Healing Touch Japan Project, Rumi continues to work with leading Japanese universities and professional nursing organizations presenting lectures, developing nursing curriculum, and conducting research. (www.healingtouchjapan.org)

In 2014, Rumi co-founded Be GenKi International to share the GenKi Concept, "when energy returns to its natural state, we are healthy, full of vitality and can be the best person we can be".  Knowing that Healing Touch is one of the most effective way to share this GenKi concept, Rumi aspires to make "Genki" part of the international language helping people to recognize their potential. (www.begenki.org)

As an extension of her life work, Rumi brings the seemingly “invisible” into physical form through her visual art.  She is humbled by the process of co-creating art with the flow of energy.  To experience this healing art, please visit her personal website. (www.rumihashimoto.com)