January 21, 2023 • 24 mins
Reiki came to North America through Mrs. Takata. In this week’s podcast, we visit her Reiki studio, discuss Mrs. Takata’s contribution to Reiki and bring you through a guided meditation to connect with the energy of Reiki.
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Pam (00:56):
Hey everyone.
Welcome on this week's podcast.
I am taking you to a visit toMrs.
Tata's Reiki studio.
So I hope that you enjoy thatwe're here on the big island of
Hawaii.
And we took a trip with some ofthe other licensed teachers over
to Hilo, where we were able tovisit Mrs.
(01:19):
Tata's original Reiki studio andvisit her shrine.
And I'm even able to lead you ina little meditation so that you
can really feel the energy ofMrs.
Teca.
Today.
Before we begin, I just wannalet you know that I have some
fantastic news.
There is space in all of myJanuary classes.
(01:41):
So whether you are consideringtaking a Reiki class, either
Reiki, level one and two MastersAnimal, Reiki, one and two,
masters, Reiki or animalcommunication.
For the first time, or if you'vealready studied with me and
you'd like to review the classto raise your vibration and just
start 2023 outright go ahead andhead on over to my website.
(02:05):
There's a link in the podcastnotes and register for those
classes if you are consideringdoing a masterclass.
But the price tag is a littletricky.
I've actually set up asubscription plan so that you.
Pay 325 us over four months andcover the class.
(02:25):
And that's gonna be availablefor all of my 2023 masterclass.
You just click a link.
It's super simple to sign up forthe subscription and pay for
your masterclass that way.
And I also wanted to let thoseof you.
Are interested and that's goingto be, sorry January classes are
online in the Eastern time zone.
(02:47):
So hopefully you can join us.
And I also wanted to let youknow that I'll be in Australia
in March and I have somefantastic news.
The Australian classes are goingto be available both online.
And in person.
And so they are in person justoutside of Canberra, about 20
(03:09):
minutes outside of Canberra inRoyal.
At my friend Mary's beautifulhorse farm.
And there are animals there.
We've got peanut, the.
Dalian who's just gorgeous.
He'll be joining us in class.
There are horses outside.
There are tons of gorgeous birdsthat join us in class.
But we are also going to be ableto offer that online if you live
(03:32):
in Australia or Asia, and wantto attend in that time zone.
And Aren't able to travel.
So please join us.
Go ahead and register for thoseclasses.
And then in April I'll be backat the farm offering a full
range of classes at the farm.
So hopefully you can join us forsome of those.
(03:52):
Well guys, I also in thispodcast and in this YouTube,
because I'm taking you to theactual studio, I'm going to put
a link in the podcast to theYouTube video for those of you
who might wanna see the, theshrine and, and the.
The studio where Mrs.
Tata originally taught, and Ialso am including links to some
(04:17):
of the articles that the I C R Thas published about Mrs.
Takota and how she practicedReiki.
In case you are interested inlearning a little bit more of
the history.
But just to tell you a littlebit about Mrs.
Toccata before I take you toher.
She learned Reiki on in Japanfrom Dr.
(04:39):
Hayashi, and she's probably oneof the most influential people
for spreading the gift of Reikito us in North America today.
In fact, I would say thatwithout Mrs.
Teca, Reiki probably would'vebeen lost because after the war,
even though Yasui Sensei'soriginal GK school still.
(05:02):
There after the war, they becathey went underground and became
kind of a secret society so thatthey wouldn't need to be
governed by the US government.
And Dr.
Hayashi passed on he committedritualistic suicide after he
refused to assist the JapaneseNavy in the planning of Pearl
(05:26):
Harbor in order to bring.
Honor back to his family.
And so without Mrs.
Takota bringing Reiki to NorthAmerica, most of us would not be
practicing.
Now, most of us would never haveheard about it.
So Mrs.
Takota is a really, reallyimportant person in the history
(05:46):
of Reiki.
Now, she was born on the island.
Cow Cow in Hawaii, December24th, 1900 to immigrant parents
from Japan.
She married the bookkeeper ofthe plantation.
They had two children and shewas widowed very young with
(06:06):
these two children, and the workitself was very hard.
Physical labor on the sugar caneplantation.
She was a tiny woman.
Took its toll.
She developed severe abdominalpains, possibly appendicitis a
lung condition, and she alsoeventually had a nervous
breakdown.
But when her sister passed away,she needed to travel to Japan
(06:30):
and settle her sister's affairsand let her parents know.
And when she did that, she wasdiagnosed with tumor, with
appendicitis, with the severeconditions, the nervous
breakdown, and they were goingto do exploratory abdominal
surgery, which at that timethere was no penicillin.
This was in the late.
(06:51):
Thirties and so the surgery mayhave let them know what was
going on, but there was a verysmall likelihood that she
would've survived the surgery.
And at the very last minute,Mrs.
Takota asked one of the nurseswho was taking her in for the
surgery, Is there another waythe nurse told Mrs.
Stata about Dr.
(07:11):
Haas's clinic?
Dr.
Hayashi was one of the 20 shinor mystery teaching Reiki
masters that Yasui taught and.
Mrs.
Takota went to Dr.
Hashi's clinic.
She received treatments morningand evening for four months, and
after that she reports that shewas healed.
(07:34):
She, it really awakened aninterest in.
Reiki for Mrs.
Takota.
At one point, she grabbed thearms of one of the people
treating her, and she, shepushed up the sleeves of his
kimono because she wanted toknow what were the devices in
his hands that were creating theintense heat as she received.
(07:56):
Reiki treatments and he smiledand explained that, you know,
that wasn't how Reiki worked,and explained a little bit of
how it worked and intrigued.
Mrs.
Takota spent an additional fewmonths there and was trained to
Okin or Level two Reiki with Dr.
Hayashi.
Now, Dr.
Hayashi had brought someinnovations to Reiki.
(08:19):
He had developed a standardizedattunement, which Yasui sensei
had many different styles ofattunement.
He usually did what he wasguided to do in any particular
situation.
Dr.
Hayashi had developed astandardized treatment.
He started treating people lyingdown instead of sitting in a
chair, as you see had and.
(08:42):
He also would treat people withmore than one practitioner.
Now, Mrs.
Takado went back, came back toHawaii as a level two Reiki
practitioner, but she wanted tolearn more, so she invited HIAs,
she's daughter, to visit her inHawaii and hayashi himself.
Came to escort his daughter.
(09:03):
You didn't send a young womanoff on her own, but you did send
them to travel and he came asher escort.
And so in 1938 he was here onthe big island of Hawaii with
Mrs.
Takota and he trained her toReiki master.
They traveled around the bigisland and he gave talk.
They gave talks together andexplained what Reiki.
(09:26):
And that really established Mrs.
Takota as a Reiki master here.
Now that being said, shortlyafter 1938, of course we had the
attack of Pearl Harbor fromJapan on on Hawaii, on the
island of Oahu.
And so there became someresistance or some reluctance to
(09:50):
do anything Japanese.
And so for a while, Mrs.
Takota changed the name fromReiki training to shortwave
therapy or shortwave treatment,and you'll be able to see that
on her original sign.
Mrs.
Takota wound up going to themainland and training and
(10:11):
teaching people in Reiki.
She even taught at a distanceover the phone as we have been
guided to do with our onlineclasses.
Recently, she established theReiki Alliance and she trained
22 Reiki Masters in her time.
and it was a really difficulttime for her to be bringing this
(10:32):
Japanese technique to the us andyet I really am so impressed
with Mrs.
Tata's perseverance.
She complied with really strictlicensing requirements for her
Hawaiian clinic.
And so therefore, with all ofher, Tenaciousness, her
perseverance, her dedication toReiki, even changing the name
(10:57):
when the name wasn't acceptable.
Mrs.
Takota preserved the knowledgeof Reiki and she passed it on.
She also brought severalinnovations to Reiki, the hand
positions that a lot of peopleuse.
Those were not used by Hayashi.
The master symbol that we getwith Yasui Reiki was an
innovation of Mrs.
Tata and these innovations made,it made the, the process simpler
(11:23):
and made it easier for NorthAmericans to practice Reiki.
So it was really reallyinteresting the innovations that
she brought.
And so, I think that shetransitioned, although she was
born on December 24th, 1900, shetransitioned, just transitioned
at just shy of 80 years of age,December 11th in 1980, but she
(11:45):
really left a large legacy.
To Reiki.
She's the reason most of us areaware of it, and most of us
practice Reiki today.
And I think that as we thinkabout how much Reiki means to
us, I think that we can reallyappreciate her for all that
she's done.
(12:06):
I'd just like to thank Mrs.
Takota for bringing Reiki to mepersonally, and I'm sure that
you'd like to do the same.
Really appreciate you.
So without further ado, I amgoing to bring you to Hilo so
that you can actually experiencethe very first Reiki clinic in
(12:26):
North America.
Thank you for joining me forthat today.
I just wanted to bring you on atour with me to Mrs.
Tata's Clinic.
It's now the home of KleinNatural Health and Wellness
Center, and they were graciousenough to allow us to visit Mrs.
Ta kata's Shrine and have sometime there with you.
(12:47):
So I'm going to take you inside,and as we go inside, we're going
to go up and do a nicemeditation at Mrs.
Takata's Shrine.
And feel the energy of thisoriginal healing space, this
original Reiki healing space,this is the first place that
Reiki was practiced in NorthAmerica.
(13:11):
Mrs.
Takata taught and treated peopleon the bottom floor, and she
lived on the top floor of thisbuilding.
And you can really feel Mrs.
Takata here today.
I'm here on the porch of Mrs.
Tata's Healing Center.
I wonder how many people waitedon this porch for their
(13:32):
treatments or their sessions, oreven after their sessions, or
how many people gathered hereduring classes.
It's really amazing to me.
Mrs.
Takata was born in the 19hundreds and in the late
thirties went to Japan to settleher sister's affairs.
(13:53):
She was a tiny woman.
She worked in the sugar canefields, and she was widowed with
two small children.
And she went to Japan to settleher sister's affairs.
And while she was in Japan shehad some health issues that led
her to meeting Dr.
Hayashi, who became her Reikiinstructor.
(14:16):
Mrs.
Takata stayed six months withDr.
Hyashi working and volunteeringat his clinics and taking Reiki
sessions each day until she hadhealed herself and was well.
And when she returned here tothe big island of Hawaii shortly
after she had invited Dr.
Hyashi's daughter to come andvisit her, and Dr.
(14:38):
Hayashi accompanied her as herchaperone.
While he was here on the bigisland, he gave Mrs.
Takata her Reiki masters.
And the two of them touredaround the island giving talks
and explaining what Reiki is.
And as you'll see on the signinside, she, Mrs.
(14:58):
Takota actually originallycalled this a Reiki studio in
Reiki healing.
But after the war, there was alot of difficulty where people
didn't want to know.
Anything to do with anythingJapanese.
And so she renamed Reiki shortwave healing and in order to
(15:19):
westernize it, and make it alittle bit more acceptable to
the Western mind.
And she went on and it'sincredible to me that this tiny
woman was able to persevere inthe face of what must have been
tremendous difficulties as we'vebeen here, we.
Been able to feel Mrs.
(15:39):
Takata here with us today.
She seems really happy thatwe're here.
It's become a very busy center.
I know it wasn't as busy as thiswhen she was here with her
healing Center.
It's actually quite a large homeand a beautiful space and it has
a very serene and lovely feelingto it.
(16:01):
The people who work here alsoseem, Lovely And it's wonderful
that they allow us to come andvisit this home and see the
shrine that they have set up toher in the hallway here, that
you can feel Mrs.
Tata's gentleness and herbeautiful energy.
(16:21):
And despite that gentleness anddespite her diminutive size, I
understand she was a powerfulhealer.
Many of you know that she taught22 Reiki Masters in her
lifetime.
She also started the ReikiAlliance, which is still going
today.
I feel often just a debt ofgratitude to Mrs.
(16:45):
To Kata.
So thankful to her forpersevering at what must have
been a very difficult time inorder to bring Reiki to us here
in the west.
I hope you'll enjoy seeing hershrine.
We're going to go inside in afew minutes and I hope you enjoy
the meditation.
(17:06):
And in the meantime, I am justsending you some Reiki from Mrs.
Tatas and just.
Been to share with you thisbeautiful feeling that comes
through us.
I'm here with other waki masterteachers and we're just all
feeling her beautiful energyhere, and she feels happy and
(17:29):
proud and honored.
That we're here and to have beenable to have brought Reiki to so
many.
And when we think about how muchReiki has impacted our lives,
(17:51):
and I think about this oftenthroughout the day, and I often
say, thank you, Mrs.
Takata, thank you.
So guys, we're in the originalReiki studio of Mrs.
Takata.
Here's a little shrine that theyhave to Mrs.
(18:11):
Takata with her photo.
The precepts, an anti grid peacegrid.
Here are the original Reikimanuals that William Lee Rand
created along with Takata'sstory by Helen Haber.
Some of the ICRT things and theReiki friends teddy bear, and
(18:33):
here's a little explanationabout her original Reiki clinic
sign that Dr.
Klein purchased the home in 1986to convert it to a chiropractic
center, but the sign was foundneglected in the basement.
When he looked at it, the olderversion said, Reiki massage.
(18:55):
Swedish Massage Cabinet bath andJapanese characters at the
bottom.
And this is the original sign.
And then over top, of course,she took out the word Reiki
because after Pearl Harbor,anything Japanese wasn't
(19:18):
appreciated.
There's a guest book here.
the licensed teachers that arewith me all signed, and a little
bit of information.
One of the really interestingthings though, is the feeling of
this place.
(19:38):
Now this is the upper floorwhere Mrs.
Takata lived.
And so I think I'm just gonnafocus in on the sign and I'm
gonna invite you to close your.
Take a deep breath and bringyour hands into Gassho,
activating the Reiki symbols andbreathe.
(20:02):
And as you do that, and takingyourself back several decades to
a time when.
Reiki was new to North America,and it was here on the big
island of Hawaii that Mrs.
Takada introduced it to us.
(20:30):
I'm just imagining how difficultit would've been for a Japanese
woman who was born in Hawaii in1900 and who grew up.
Worked in the sugar cane fields,and she was a tiny woman.
The work was very difficult forher.
(20:50):
She was widowed young and hadtwo small children, and just
thinking about how much faithshe must have had in Reiki in
order to persevere.
(21:12):
Through very difficult times.
I'm just thinking about yourfaith in Reiki and inviting the
strength of Mrs.
Takata's conviction, this tinyJapanese woman who brought this
(21:38):
entirely new healing.
System to the Western world whocreated the Reiki Alliance,
which still exists today.
You can place your handscomfortably on your body, and
quite often as I do Reiki, I cansee an image of Mrs.
(22:01):
Toccata in the room with mesmiling.
Just imagine that she's in thecorner of your room now.
Smiling.
Thanking you for spreading thelight of this healing modality
in the world, and you may wishto open your heart and receive
(22:28):
the blessings and the feeling ofthe energy from Mrs.
Toccata today.
(23:47):
And what a blessing that this isnow a busy.
Chiropractic clinic and it'sstill healing.
People invite you to remain hereas long as you feel guided and
whenever you're ready you canreturn bringing with you that
(24:16):
connection.
And her beautiful, peacefulenergy, enhancing your
connection with Reiki, bringingwith you a renewed faith in
(24:39):
Reiki healing.
Thank you so much for joining ushere today, Namaste.
Hey everyone.
Welcome on this week's podcast.
I am taking you to a visit toMrs.
Tata's Reiki studio.
So I hope that you enjoy thatwe're here on the big island of
Hawaii.
And we took a trip with some ofthe other licensed teachers over
to Hilo, where we were able tovisit Mrs.
(01:19):
Tata's original Reiki studio andvisit her shrine.
And I'm even able to lead you ina little meditation so that you
can really feel the energy ofMrs.
Teca.
Today.
Before we begin, I just wannalet you know that I have some
fantastic news.
There is space in all of myJanuary classes.
(01:41):
So whether you are consideringtaking a Reiki class, either
Reiki, level one and two MastersAnimal, Reiki, one and two,
masters, Reiki or animalcommunication.
For the first time, or if you'vealready studied with me and
you'd like to review the classto raise your vibration and just
start 2023 outright go ahead andhead on over to my website.
(02:05):
There's a link in the podcastnotes and register for those
classes if you are consideringdoing a masterclass.
But the price tag is a littletricky.
I've actually set up asubscription plan so that you.
Pay 325 us over four months andcover the class.
(02:25):
And that's gonna be availablefor all of my 2023 masterclass.
You just click a link.
It's super simple to sign up forthe subscription and pay for
your masterclass that way.
And I also wanted to let thoseof you.
Are interested and that's goingto be, sorry January classes are
online in the Eastern time zone.
(02:47):
So hopefully you can join us.
And I also wanted to let youknow that I'll be in Australia
in March and I have somefantastic news.
The Australian classes are goingto be available both online.
And in person.
And so they are in person justoutside of Canberra, about 20
(03:09):
minutes outside of Canberra inRoyal.
At my friend Mary's beautifulhorse farm.
And there are animals there.
We've got peanut, the.
Dalian who's just gorgeous.
He'll be joining us in class.
There are horses outside.
There are tons of gorgeous birdsthat join us in class.
But we are also going to be ableto offer that online if you live
(03:32):
in Australia or Asia, and wantto attend in that time zone.
And Aren't able to travel.
So please join us.
Go ahead and register for thoseclasses.
And then in April I'll be backat the farm offering a full
range of classes at the farm.
So hopefully you can join us forsome of those.
(03:52):
Well guys, I also in thispodcast and in this YouTube,
because I'm taking you to theactual studio, I'm going to put
a link in the podcast to theYouTube video for those of you
who might wanna see the, theshrine and, and the.
The studio where Mrs.
Tata originally taught, and Ialso am including links to some
(04:17):
of the articles that the I C R Thas published about Mrs.
Takota and how she practicedReiki.
In case you are interested inlearning a little bit more of
the history.
But just to tell you a littlebit about Mrs.
Toccata before I take you toher.
She learned Reiki on in Japanfrom Dr.
(04:39):
Hayashi, and she's probably oneof the most influential people
for spreading the gift of Reikito us in North America today.
In fact, I would say thatwithout Mrs.
Teca, Reiki probably would'vebeen lost because after the war,
even though Yasui Sensei'soriginal GK school still.
(05:02):
There after the war, they becathey went underground and became
kind of a secret society so thatthey wouldn't need to be
governed by the US government.
And Dr.
Hayashi passed on he committedritualistic suicide after he
refused to assist the JapaneseNavy in the planning of Pearl
(05:26):
Harbor in order to bring.
Honor back to his family.
And so without Mrs.
Takota bringing Reiki to NorthAmerica, most of us would not be
practicing.
Now, most of us would never haveheard about it.
So Mrs.
Takota is a really, reallyimportant person in the history
(05:46):
of Reiki.
Now, she was born on the island.
Cow Cow in Hawaii, December24th, 1900 to immigrant parents
from Japan.
She married the bookkeeper ofthe plantation.
They had two children and shewas widowed very young with
(06:06):
these two children, and the workitself was very hard.
Physical labor on the sugar caneplantation.
She was a tiny woman.
Took its toll.
She developed severe abdominalpains, possibly appendicitis a
lung condition, and she alsoeventually had a nervous
breakdown.
But when her sister passed away,she needed to travel to Japan
(06:30):
and settle her sister's affairsand let her parents know.
And when she did that, she wasdiagnosed with tumor, with
appendicitis, with the severeconditions, the nervous
breakdown, and they were goingto do exploratory abdominal
surgery, which at that timethere was no penicillin.
This was in the late.
(06:51):
Thirties and so the surgery mayhave let them know what was
going on, but there was a verysmall likelihood that she
would've survived the surgery.
And at the very last minute,Mrs.
Takota asked one of the nurseswho was taking her in for the
surgery, Is there another waythe nurse told Mrs.
Stata about Dr.
(07:11):
Haas's clinic?
Dr.
Hayashi was one of the 20 shinor mystery teaching Reiki
masters that Yasui taught and.
Mrs.
Takota went to Dr.
Hashi's clinic.
She received treatments morningand evening for four months, and
after that she reports that shewas healed.
(07:34):
She, it really awakened aninterest in.
Reiki for Mrs.
Takota.
At one point, she grabbed thearms of one of the people
treating her, and she, shepushed up the sleeves of his
kimono because she wanted toknow what were the devices in
his hands that were creating theintense heat as she received.
(07:56):
Reiki treatments and he smiledand explained that, you know,
that wasn't how Reiki worked,and explained a little bit of
how it worked and intrigued.
Mrs.
Takota spent an additional fewmonths there and was trained to
Okin or Level two Reiki with Dr.
Hayashi.
Now, Dr.
Hayashi had brought someinnovations to Reiki.
(08:19):
He had developed a standardizedattunement, which Yasui sensei
had many different styles ofattunement.
He usually did what he wasguided to do in any particular
situation.
Dr.
Hayashi had developed astandardized treatment.
He started treating people lyingdown instead of sitting in a
chair, as you see had and.
(08:42):
He also would treat people withmore than one practitioner.
Now, Mrs.
Takado went back, came back toHawaii as a level two Reiki
practitioner, but she wanted tolearn more, so she invited HIAs,
she's daughter, to visit her inHawaii and hayashi himself.
Came to escort his daughter.
(09:03):
You didn't send a young womanoff on her own, but you did send
them to travel and he came asher escort.
And so in 1938 he was here onthe big island of Hawaii with
Mrs.
Takota and he trained her toReiki master.
They traveled around the bigisland and he gave talk.
They gave talks together andexplained what Reiki.
(09:26):
And that really established Mrs.
Takota as a Reiki master here.
Now that being said, shortlyafter 1938, of course we had the
attack of Pearl Harbor fromJapan on on Hawaii, on the
island of Oahu.
And so there became someresistance or some reluctance to
(09:50):
do anything Japanese.
And so for a while, Mrs.
Takota changed the name fromReiki training to shortwave
therapy or shortwave treatment,and you'll be able to see that
on her original sign.
Mrs.
Takota wound up going to themainland and training and
(10:11):
teaching people in Reiki.
She even taught at a distanceover the phone as we have been
guided to do with our onlineclasses.
Recently, she established theReiki Alliance and she trained
22 Reiki Masters in her time.
and it was a really difficulttime for her to be bringing this
(10:32):
Japanese technique to the us andyet I really am so impressed
with Mrs.
Tata's perseverance.
She complied with really strictlicensing requirements for her
Hawaiian clinic.
And so therefore, with all ofher, Tenaciousness, her
perseverance, her dedication toReiki, even changing the name
(10:57):
when the name wasn't acceptable.
Mrs.
Takota preserved the knowledgeof Reiki and she passed it on.
She also brought severalinnovations to Reiki, the hand
positions that a lot of peopleuse.
Those were not used by Hayashi.
The master symbol that we getwith Yasui Reiki was an
innovation of Mrs.
Tata and these innovations made,it made the, the process simpler
(11:23):
and made it easier for NorthAmericans to practice Reiki.
So it was really reallyinteresting the innovations that
she brought.
And so, I think that shetransitioned, although she was
born on December 24th, 1900, shetransitioned, just transitioned
at just shy of 80 years of age,December 11th in 1980, but she
(11:45):
really left a large legacy.
To Reiki.
She's the reason most of us areaware of it, and most of us
practice Reiki today.
And I think that as we thinkabout how much Reiki means to
us, I think that we can reallyappreciate her for all that
she's done.
(12:06):
I'd just like to thank Mrs.
Takota for bringing Reiki to mepersonally, and I'm sure that
you'd like to do the same.
Really appreciate you.
So without further ado, I amgoing to bring you to Hilo so
that you can actually experiencethe very first Reiki clinic in
(12:26):
North America.
Thank you for joining me forthat today.
I just wanted to bring you on atour with me to Mrs.
Tata's Clinic.
It's now the home of KleinNatural Health and Wellness
Center, and they were graciousenough to allow us to visit Mrs.
Ta kata's Shrine and have sometime there with you.
(12:47):
So I'm going to take you inside,and as we go inside, we're going
to go up and do a nicemeditation at Mrs.
Takata's Shrine.
And feel the energy of thisoriginal healing space, this
original Reiki healing space,this is the first place that
Reiki was practiced in NorthAmerica.
(13:11):
Mrs.
Takata taught and treated peopleon the bottom floor, and she
lived on the top floor of thisbuilding.
And you can really feel Mrs.
Takata here today.
I'm here on the porch of Mrs.
Tata's Healing Center.
I wonder how many people waitedon this porch for their
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treatments or their sessions, oreven after their sessions, or
how many people gathered hereduring classes.
It's really amazing to me.
Mrs.
Takata was born in the 19hundreds and in the late
thirties went to Japan to settleher sister's affairs.
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She was a tiny woman.
She worked in the sugar canefields, and she was widowed with
two small children.
And she went to Japan to settleher sister's affairs.
And while she was in Japan shehad some health issues that led
her to meeting Dr.
Hayashi, who became her Reikiinstructor.
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Mrs.
Takata stayed six months withDr.
Hyashi working and volunteeringat his clinics and taking Reiki
sessions each day until she hadhealed herself and was well.
And when she returned here tothe big island of Hawaii shortly
after she had invited Dr.
Hyashi's daughter to come andvisit her, and Dr.
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Hayashi accompanied her as herchaperone.
While he was here on the bigisland, he gave Mrs.
Takata her Reiki masters.
And the two of them touredaround the island giving talks
and explaining what Reiki is.
And as you'll see on the signinside, she, Mrs.
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Takota actually originallycalled this a Reiki studio in
Reiki healing.
But after the war, there was alot of difficulty where people
didn't want to know.
Anything to do with anythingJapanese.
And so she renamed Reiki shortwave healing and in order to
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westernize it, and make it alittle bit more acceptable to
the Western mind.
And she went on and it'sincredible to me that this tiny
woman was able to persevere inthe face of what must have been
tremendous difficulties as we'vebeen here, we.
Been able to feel Mrs.
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Takata here with us today.
She seems really happy thatwe're here.
It's become a very busy center.
I know it wasn't as busy as thiswhen she was here with her
healing Center.
It's actually quite a large homeand a beautiful space and it has
a very serene and lovely feelingto it.
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The people who work here alsoseem, Lovely And it's wonderful
that they allow us to come andvisit this home and see the
shrine that they have set up toher in the hallway here, that
you can feel Mrs.
Tata's gentleness and herbeautiful energy.
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And despite that gentleness anddespite her diminutive size, I
understand she was a powerfulhealer.
Many of you know that she taught22 Reiki Masters in her
lifetime.
She also started the ReikiAlliance, which is still going
today.
I feel often just a debt ofgratitude to Mrs.
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To Kata.
So thankful to her forpersevering at what must have
been a very difficult time inorder to bring Reiki to us here
in the west.
I hope you'll enjoy seeing hershrine.
We're going to go inside in afew minutes and I hope you enjoy
the meditation.
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And in the meantime, I am justsending you some Reiki from Mrs.
Tatas and just.
Been to share with you thisbeautiful feeling that comes
through us.
I'm here with other waki masterteachers and we're just all
feeling her beautiful energyhere, and she feels happy and
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proud and honored.
That we're here and to have beenable to have brought Reiki to so
many.
And when we think about how muchReiki has impacted our lives,
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and I think about this oftenthroughout the day, and I often
say, thank you, Mrs.
Takata, thank you.
So guys, we're in the originalReiki studio of Mrs.
Takata.
Here's a little shrine that theyhave to Mrs.
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Takata with her photo.
The precepts, an anti grid peacegrid.
Here are the original Reikimanuals that William Lee Rand
created along with Takata'sstory by Helen Haber.
Some of the ICRT things and theReiki friends teddy bear, and
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here's a little explanationabout her original Reiki clinic
sign that Dr.
Klein purchased the home in 1986to convert it to a chiropractic
center, but the sign was foundneglected in the basement.
When he looked at it, the olderversion said, Reiki massage.
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Swedish Massage Cabinet bath andJapanese characters at the
bottom.
And this is the original sign.
And then over top, of course,she took out the word Reiki
because after Pearl Harbor,anything Japanese wasn't
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appreciated.
There's a guest book here.
the licensed teachers that arewith me all signed, and a little
bit of information.
One of the really interestingthings though, is the feeling of
this place.
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Now this is the upper floorwhere Mrs.
Takata lived.
And so I think I'm just gonnafocus in on the sign and I'm
gonna invite you to close your.
Take a deep breath and bringyour hands into Gassho,
activating the Reiki symbols andbreathe.
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And as you do that, and takingyourself back several decades to
a time when.
Reiki was new to North America,and it was here on the big
island of Hawaii that Mrs.
Takada introduced it to us.
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I'm just imagining how difficultit would've been for a Japanese
woman who was born in Hawaii in1900 and who grew up.
Worked in the sugar cane fields,and she was a tiny woman.
The work was very difficult forher.
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She was widowed young and hadtwo small children, and just
thinking about how much faithshe must have had in Reiki in
order to persevere.
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Through very difficult times.
I'm just thinking about yourfaith in Reiki and inviting the
strength of Mrs.
Takata's conviction, this tinyJapanese woman who brought this
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entirely new healing.
System to the Western world whocreated the Reiki Alliance,
which still exists today.
You can place your handscomfortably on your body, and
quite often as I do Reiki, I cansee an image of Mrs.
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Toccata in the room with mesmiling.
Just imagine that she's in thecorner of your room now.
Smiling.
Thanking you for spreading thelight of this healing modality
in the world, and you may wishto open your heart and receive
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the blessings and the feeling ofthe energy from Mrs.
Toccata today.
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And what a blessing that this isnow a busy.
Chiropractic clinic and it'sstill healing.
People invite you to remain hereas long as you feel guided and
whenever you're ready you canreturn bringing with you that
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connection.
And her beautiful, peacefulenergy, enhancing your
connection with Reiki, bringingwith you a renewed faith in
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Reiki healing.
Thank you so much for joining ushere today, Namaste.
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