On January 25, 2016, five years after opening the San Francisco Reiki Center, and more than two years after beginning his full-time Reiki Master Apprenticeship, Christopher Tellez received the final Master initiation from Brian Brunius and received his Reiki Master Certificate. Brunius is the founder of New York City Reiki Center, and studied Reiki under John Harvey Gray and one of his students, Elaine Abrams.