On June 26, 2017, after opening the Long Island Reiki Center, and more than two years after beginning her full-time Reiki Master Apprenticeship, Anu Butani received the final Master initiation from Brian Brunius and received her 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.