18 December 2008 - Paul Mitchell Listen to this showHawayo Takata was born on December 24, 1900, on Kauai, Hawaii. Her life started on a sugar cane plantation camp and blossomed into a life that has touched thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world. Through her destiny and hard work, she accepted the gift of Reiki for herself and then devoted her life to holding this practice for the people who were interested. During the 1970's, the social questions of health care, spiritual seeking, and a desire to build healthy relationships found the treatment and practice of Reiki to be a dynamic partnership. Her teaching on the mainland was centered in the San Francisco Bay area, southern British Columbia, Canada, and the Chicago area. Many students became passionate about the practice as she realized that her life was coming to a close. She began to train and initiate masters in 1974 and continued until a few weeks before her death in December, 1980. These 22 masters have taken her teachings and spread it throughout the world.
11 December 2008 - Wanja Twan Listen to this showWanja has been mentioned many times in these radio interviews by people who were initiated by her or as a master who was initiated by Hawayo Takata. The classes that were held in Cherryville are famous in the Canadian Reiki stories. Wanja is from Sweden originally and still has the lilt in her voice and the twinkle in her eye that I attribute to the Scandanavian affinity to nature spirits, good humor in the darkest of nights, and a sense that the veil between worlds is very thin in those northern climes. My time with Wanja, now almost 30 years, has been never dull and always a great learning experience. Ever practical, she comes to her latter years with the wisdom of being a mother, a grandmother, writer, and a Reiki Master to many thousands of people. It is a joy to have her on the show, to share her memories and experiences of her master, Hawayo Takata.
4 December 2008 - Inger Droog Listen to this showIn this series of "Stories of Masters" I hope to give a sense of Hawayo Takata, her teachings, and her person. The area of southeast British Columbia was fertile ground for Takata Sensei and her teachings of Reiki. The people there absorbed the philosophy of Reiki, the energy and Reiki, the practice and immediately applied it. As many of them lived with the land, raising their own food and children, there were many applications. Inger was a part of this community and became one of the first masters initiated by Wanja Twan, a master initiated by Takata Sensei. "I will merely have to close my eyes and put myself into Grey Creek Hall and Ainsworth Hot Springs in 1980 to remember your Grandmother! I remember how terrified I was then... so scared of her to barely be able to ask for a photo with her! and the photo taken was so dark it was hardly visible! Thankfully that changed over the weekend.. and the time I had with her and Wanja in Ainsworth!" from Inger.
6 November 2008 - Jan Pritchard and Scott Howlett Listen to this showJan Pritchard and Scott Howlett, both students of Beth Gray from 1986, tell stories of her classes, the manner of her teaching, and their recollections of her way to be with people. Beth came to Reiki through her long search and path of spiritual healing and teaching. She founded the Trinity Metaphysical Center in Redwood City, California. It was there that Hawayo Takata came to teach Reiki. Beth and her husband, at the time, John became avid students of Hawayo Takata and were recognized as masters by her. Beth had a stroke in 1993 which ended her vibrant teaching of Reiki. She survived for another 15 years, receiving her students in her usual open and passionate way. In May of 2008, Beth died at the age of 90! The photo is Beth at the age of 70. She lives on in the memories and stories of her students.
30 October 2008 - Ned Wolf Listen to this showNed found Reiki in his spiritual healing class and took each step one by one. His initiating Master, Helen Haberly, is well known for authoring a thin blue book about the teaching and stories of Hawayo Takata. Helen was a long time organizer and friend for Hawayo Takata on Orcas Island, near Seattle. In this theme of honoring masters and their stories, part of the focus is to bring back to the current Reiki community, the presence of those masters who have had a great influence in the community. And Ned has a few stories of his own! Listen in to the adventures of a master who has moved from Seattle to Western Australia four years ago.
23 October 2008 - Frank and Lorraine Mitchell Listen to this showWhen Beth Gray came to Australia in the early 1980's, she did not know that she had touched another "gold mine." This is not a reference to money as gold.....but a reference to the people she touched with her passion for the practice of Reiki. Frank and Lorraine are two of hundreds of people that came into contact with her during the years of teaching Beth had in Australia. These two are an example of the "gold" that Beth found. The "gold" has grown into a wealth of stories, commitment to Reiki, and a deep and abiding gratitude for the magic that brought Beth to these shores over and over. In their stories, Lorraine and Frank exemplify the path that they followed through personal challenges and service. We all had tears in our eyes throughout the interview. Join us for this beautiful and personal sharing of a life full of spiritual companionship and the practice of Reiki.
9 October 2008 - John and Lourdes Grey Listen to this showThis interview is a gift that came to me and now to you, the listeners. John Gray was in the first group of masters that Hawayo Takata initiated in the mid-1970's. John tells the story of his meeting Hawayo Takata and his memories of her at that time. At 91, John retains his sharp wit and his beautiful way of expressing himself. 15 years ago, he met Lourdes who came up to Boston from the Washington DC area to take his Reiki Class. One thing followed another and they were married! Now they live in a quiet place in southern New Hampshire, teaching Reiki and giving treatments at the John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing. Together they live a Reiki lifestyle that is simple, profound, and fulfilling.
2 October 2008 - Maggie Hall Listen to this showMaggie Hall is a "country girl" raised on the Swan River of Western Australia. If you look at Western Australia in your world atlas, you will see lots of open space and very few townships outside of Perth, the capital city of WA. Maggie is a consummate story teller, using the great idioms of Australian English to describe people, feelings, places, and ideas. These are a few of her stories of being a master who is passionate about the kind of wisdom that one finds in kitchens all over the world including the aboriginal people who live and nurture the land of Australia.
25 September 2008 - Phyllis Furumoto Listen to this showMarta's show on the 18th of September was the last in the series of Mystical Order: Fantasy or a Quality of Being? Phyllis comes to the show, live from Australia to summarize the series for herself and leads into another series of shows titled: Stories of Masters. In following with the oral tradition, the next 3 months of interviews are presented to honor the masters who came before us, those ancestors of this practice, and the stories of life teaching that masters collect in their journey with Reiki.
18 September 2008 - Marta Getty Listen to this showInitiated as a master in 1981, Marta found her way to Australia in 1983. She went through contacts in the rebirthing community to teach Reiki. This started her love affair with Australia. Through the years she has consistently visited Australia renewing her connection to the land and to the community that is there for her. She tells her sacred stories of her initial journeys into the outback, which are mysterious and mystical. She holds these experiences without interpretation feeling that this is one way of honoring the ease of how the journey unfolded and the life changing connections that were given to her. These experiences have shifted the inner framework of her life. Come, join her, as she shares sacred stories.
11 September 2008 - Margaret Pauffley Listen to this showMany years ago Margaret and I went on a journey with our partners to trace a ley line across the southwestern part of England. This was the first of many journeys that brought me to the edge of my understanding of the earth and its energies. Later Margaret, to her surprise, was drawn to train as a Minister and spiritual counselor with a Seminary whose motto was "Many Paths to the Truth." This took her into the essence of different religions and spiritual practices. Some of her stories of her experiences in this program reminded me of our earlier journey. I consider the British Isles to be the source of many of my ideas of mystic order that is not about the religions as we know them now, but go to the natural world to view the normally unseen and unacknowledged energies. I am looking forward to my conversation with Margaret and the exploration of mystic order that is in store.
28 August 2008 - Vicki Allen Listen to this showA mystic experience can come through in a spontaneous manner, as many Reiki students have learned. In some cultures, mystic experiences are a way into the spirit world and are induced in different ways. When the experiences that are often called mystical occur within an induced state of being, are these truly mystical? Is spontaneity a characteristic of a mystic experience? A long time Reiki practitioner and master, Vicki shares with us her courageous journeys into a mystical and mysterious journeys accompanied by Shamans in Peru. Her foundation of Gestalt Therapy training and practice, along with a long time passion for self exploration, has lead Vicki to other realms. In our practice do we unknowingly create the possibility for mystical experiences? What other influences can support this part of our human expression?
4 September 2008 - Boudewijn Lutgerink Listen to this showA long time student of Reiki in the Netherlands, Boudewijn has walked a fiery path of Reiki. His life has been turned upside down several times, bringing the pain of despair and the joy of bliss. Throughout this time, he has maintained a strong tendency to look at the mystery of life and has carried the openness to the next step with grace. Because of our connection, Boudewijn has shared some of his questions and his thought processes writing me emails titled "Walking the Dog." We will start with one of these readings and go on to exploring the mystic path of Reiki that Boudewijn sees in his daily life.
21 August 2008 - Sadhu Veronica Kravtsova (Ma Prem Sadhu) Listen to this showAs a person seeking to nourish her spirit, Sadhu disvovered a group of underground seekers in Moscow, Russia, in her early 20’s and eventually found her way to India and the ashram of Osho. Here she met with Reiki but it was not untill several months later that she was able to fulfill her destiny of taking the First Degree class from Fokke Brink. From this time on, Reiki became her guiding light and she holds this light together with her time in the ashram of Sai Baba. Sadhu has been involved with Jungian psychotherapy and explodes into the discussion of mystic experience and mystic order through this doorway. We could have gone on and on... and this is what we have! Thank you, Sadhu!
16 October 2008 - Illya Chentsov (Anand) Listen to this showIn my traveling throughout the world, the former Soviet Union countries and Russia have provided me with another view of the world as I grew up and as I hold it now. The contrast and the familiar are both present as I listen and live for a few weeks in these countries. Anand was a student of what we say is the "first Reiki class" in Moscow (taught by a young German master) though he comes from the Ukraine and heard of Reiki in India! A true traveler, Anand has many stories to tell. Here are some of them. He and his Reiki partner, Chandira, have taught together, held a large community of students together, and have continued their exploration of Reiki with their students. We recorded this interview at the end of an intensive seminar in July of this year in Moscow.
14 August 2008 - Timothy Cunninghamm Listen to this showPsychology began with a desire to be an empirical science. The trend has moved to humanistic psychology, acknowledging that we are human, to transpersonal psychology which included the possibility of a human soul. Now the movement is that we have not only a soul but that we are connected at some elemental level....we are one. As family, we have an energetic unit that has the dimension of time; the past, the present, and future. As individuals we are the next step in the generational evolution of our family. Timothy Cunninghamm has studied this way of seeing and being with our family entity and has experienced without a doubt, healing in the family as patterns are shifted in one member, so the whole entity shifts. Is this mystic or simply the obvious result of the law of "for every action there is a reaction?"
27 November 2008 - Rick Bockner Listen to this showToday is Thanksgiving Day for those of us in the United States. As Reiki touches the essence of our lives, this is a time to remember the tremendous gift of Hawayo Takata, her way of being with her students, and the masters that she touched. Rick met Hawayo Takata through a series of personal connections at a significant time in his life. Rick brought to Reiki his song writing and musicianship, his love of wood, and his commitment to local communities. His story is captured in this interview and is a truly magically one. His recollections of the days with his master and his own Reiki stories are a journey down memory lane and a way to touch the innocent and mystical days of Reiki; days when we all knew each other, when the practice was held by a few people, when there were no books, magazine articles about Reiki and there was no Internet! Step into a time when the foundation of this Reiki community was being formed.
20 November 2008 - Bobbe Free Listen to this showIn 1980 Bobbe Free was introduced to Reiki and so ended her long search for a way to use her hands to heal. She was initiated into the First and Second degrees of the Usui System of Natural Healing, as we called it back then, by Virginia Samdahl and Patricia Ewing, both students of Takata Sensei. In 1984 she was initiated as a Reiki Master by Phylis Furumoto. Bobbe, originally from New Zealand and who had lived in the U.S.A. for 25 years, was able to take Reiki back to her home country where she eventually returned to live in 1986. The story of Bobbes journey is one that inspires the notion that there are no accidents and there are only pieces of a puzzle that find their way home, given the right timing.
13 November 2008 - Lalita (Liora) Claff Listen to this showI met Lalita in 1992 when she was known as Lesley and lived in Sydney, Australia. As a student of Wanja Twan, a master initiated by Hawayo Takata, we had a natural connection in our Reiki lives. Through our many inner and outer journeys, we met again and I had the pleasure of interviewing Lalita for this show. She and I have been given many lessons and guidance by Wanja in the time we have known her. This is a sweet time of remembering our beginnings in Reiki as well as a master who touches us both deeply. This is what Lalita says of her relationship with Wanja: Whenever I would ask Wanja a question about Reiki or ask her to clarify something, she would simply say: 'That's what Takata said' or 'That's how Takata did it' or 'I just do what my teacher taught me.' This is why I trust her so much, because she is true to her teacher and encouraged me to find my answers through practice. As I see it now, she taught me to be a devoted student of Reiki, a great gift for a person such as
18 December 2008 - Paul Mitchell Listen to this showHawayo Takata was born on December 24, 1900, on Kauai, Hawaii. Her life started on a sugar cane plantation camp and blossomed into a life that has touched thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world. Through her destiny and hard work, she accepted the gift of Reiki for herself and then devoted her life to holding this practice for the people who were interested. During the 1970's, the social questions of health care, spiritual seeking, and a desire to build healthy relationships found the treatment and practice of Reiki to be a dynamic partnership. Her teaching on the mainland was centered in the San Francisco Bay area, southern British Columbia, Canada, and the Chicago area. Many students became passionate about the practice as she realized that her life was coming to a close. She began to train and initiate masters in 1974 and continued until a few weeks before her death in December, 1980. These 22 masters have taken her teachings and spread it throughout the world.
11 December 2008 - Wanja Twan Listen to this showWanja has been mentioned many times in these radio interviews by people who were initiated by her or as a master who was initiated by Hawayo Takata. The classes that were held in Cherryville are famous in the Canadian Reiki stories. Wanja is from Sweden originally and still has the lilt in her voice and the twinkle in her eye that I attribute to the Scandanavian affinity to nature spirits, good humor in the darkest of nights, and a sense that the veil between worlds is very thin in those northern climes. My time with Wanja, now almost 30 years, has been never dull and always a great learning experience. Ever practical, she comes to her latter years with the wisdom of being a mother, a grandmother, writer, and a Reiki Master to many thousands of people. It is a joy to have her on the show, to share her memories and experiences of her master, Hawayo Takata.
4 December 2008 - Inger Droog Listen to this showIn this series of "Stories of Masters" I hope to give a sense of Hawayo Takata, her teachings, and her person. The area of southeast British Columbia was fertile ground for Takata Sensei and her teachings of Reiki. The people there absorbed the philosophy of Reiki, the energy and Reiki, the practice and immediately applied it. As many of them lived with the land, raising their own food and children, there were many applications. Inger was a part of this community and became one of the first masters initiated by Wanja Twan, a master initiated by Takata Sensei. "I will merely have to close my eyes and put myself into Grey Creek Hall and Ainsworth Hot Springs in 1980 to remember your Grandmother! I remember how terrified I was then... so scared of her to barely be able to ask for a photo with her! and the photo taken was so dark it was hardly visible! Thankfully that changed over the weekend.. and the time I had with her and Wanja in Ainsworth!" from Inger.
6 November 2008 - Jan Pritchard and Scott Howlett Listen to this showJan Pritchard and Scott Howlett, both students of Beth Gray from 1986, tell stories of her classes, the manner of her teaching, and their recollections of her way to be with people. Beth came to Reiki through her long search and path of spiritual healing and teaching. She founded the Trinity Metaphysical Center in Redwood City, California. It was there that Hawayo Takata came to teach Reiki. Beth and her husband, at the time, John became avid students of Hawayo Takata and were recognized as masters by her. Beth had a stroke in 1993 which ended her vibrant teaching of Reiki. She survived for another 15 years, receiving her students in her usual open and passionate way. In May of 2008, Beth died at the age of 90! The photo is Beth at the age of 70. She lives on in the memories and stories of her students.
30 October 2008 - Ned Wolf Listen to this showNed found Reiki in his spiritual healing class and took each step one by one. His initiating Master, Helen Haberly, is well known for authoring a thin blue book about the teaching and stories of Hawayo Takata. Helen was a long time organizer and friend for Hawayo Takata on Orcas Island, near Seattle. In this theme of honoring masters and their stories, part of the focus is to bring back to the current Reiki community, the presence of those masters who have had a great influence in the community. And Ned has a few stories of his own! Listen in to the adventures of a master who has moved from Seattle to Western Australia four years ago.
23 October 2008 - Frank and Lorraine Mitchell Listen to this showWhen Beth Gray came to Australia in the early 1980's, she did not know that she had touched another "gold mine." This is not a reference to money as gold.....but a reference to the people she touched with her passion for the practice of Reiki. Frank and Lorraine are two of hundreds of people that came into contact with her during the years of teaching Beth had in Australia. These two are an example of the "gold" that Beth found. The "gold" has grown into a wealth of stories, commitment to Reiki, and a deep and abiding gratitude for the magic that brought Beth to these shores over and over. In their stories, Lorraine and Frank exemplify the path that they followed through personal challenges and service. We all had tears in our eyes throughout the interview. Join us for this beautiful and personal sharing of a life full of spiritual companionship and the practice of Reiki.
9 October 2008 - John and Lourdes Grey Listen to this showThis interview is a gift that came to me and now to you, the listeners. John Gray was in the first group of masters that Hawayo Takata initiated in the mid-1970's. John tells the story of his meeting Hawayo Takata and his memories of her at that time. At 91, John retains his sharp wit and his beautiful way of expressing himself. 15 years ago, he met Lourdes who came up to Boston from the Washington DC area to take his Reiki Class. One thing followed another and they were married! Now they live in a quiet place in southern New Hampshire, teaching Reiki and giving treatments at the John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing. Together they live a Reiki lifestyle that is simple, profound, and fulfilling.
2 October 2008 - Maggie Hall Listen to this showMaggie Hall is a "country girl" raised on the Swan River of Western Australia. If you look at Western Australia in your world atlas, you will see lots of open space and very few townships outside of Perth, the capital city of WA. Maggie is a consummate story teller, using the great idioms of Australian English to describe people, feelings, places, and ideas. These are a few of her stories of being a master who is passionate about the kind of wisdom that one finds in kitchens all over the world including the aboriginal people who live and nurture the land of Australia.
25 September 2008 - Phyllis Furumoto Listen to this showMarta's show on the 18th of September was the last in the series of Mystical Order: Fantasy or a Quality of Being? Phyllis comes to the show, live from Australia to summarize the series for herself and leads into another series of shows titled: Stories of Masters. In following with the oral tradition, the next 3 months of interviews are presented to honor the masters who came before us, those ancestors of this practice, and the stories of life teaching that masters collect in their journey with Reiki.
18 September 2008 - Marta Getty Listen to this showInitiated as a master in 1981, Marta found her way to Australia in 1983. She went through contacts in the rebirthing community to teach Reiki. This started her love affair with Australia. Through the years she has consistently visited Australia renewing her connection to the land and to the community that is there for her. She tells her sacred stories of her initial journeys into the outback, which are mysterious and mystical. She holds these experiences without interpretation feeling that this is one way of honoring the ease of how the journey unfolded and the life changing connections that were given to her. These experiences have shifted the inner framework of her life. Come, join her, as she shares sacred stories.
11 September 2008 - Margaret Pauffley Listen to this showMany years ago Margaret and I went on a journey with our partners to trace a ley line across the southwestern part of England. This was the first of many journeys that brought me to the edge of my understanding of the earth and its energies. Later Margaret, to her surprise, was drawn to train as a Minister and spiritual counselor with a Seminary whose motto was "Many Paths to the Truth." This took her into the essence of different religions and spiritual practices. Some of her stories of her experiences in this program reminded me of our earlier journey. I consider the British Isles to be the source of many of my ideas of mystic order that is not about the religions as we know them now, but go to the natural world to view the normally unseen and unacknowledged energies. I am looking forward to my conversation with Margaret and the exploration of mystic order that is in store.
28 August 2008 - Vicki Allen Listen to this showA mystic experience can come through in a spontaneous manner, as many Reiki students have learned. In some cultures, mystic experiences are a way into the spirit world and are induced in different ways. When the experiences that are often called mystical occur within an induced state of being, are these truly mystical? Is spontaneity a characteristic of a mystic experience? A long time Reiki practitioner and master, Vicki shares with us her courageous journeys into a mystical and mysterious journeys accompanied by Shamans in Peru. Her foundation of Gestalt Therapy training and practice, along with a long time passion for self exploration, has lead Vicki to other realms. In our practice do we unknowingly create the possibility for mystical experiences? What other influences can support this part of our human expression?
4 September 2008 - Boudewijn Lutgerink Listen to this showA long time student of Reiki in the Netherlands, Boudewijn has walked a fiery path of Reiki. His life has been turned upside down several times, bringing the pain of despair and the joy of bliss. Throughout this time, he has maintained a strong tendency to look at the mystery of life and has carried the openness to the next step with grace. Because of our connection, Boudewijn has shared some of his questions and his thought processes writing me emails titled "Walking the Dog." We will start with one of these readings and go on to exploring the mystic path of Reiki that Boudewijn sees in his daily life.
21 August 2008 - Sadhu Veronica Kravtsova (Ma Prem Sadhu) Listen to this showAs a person seeking to nourish her spirit, Sadhu disvovered a group of underground seekers in Moscow, Russia, in her early 20’s and eventually found her way to India and the ashram of Osho. Here she met with Reiki but it was not untill several months later that she was able to fulfill her destiny of taking the First Degree class from Fokke Brink. From this time on, Reiki became her guiding light and she holds this light together with her time in the ashram of Sai Baba. Sadhu has been involved with Jungian psychotherapy and explodes into the discussion of mystic experience and mystic order through this doorway. We could have gone on and on... and this is what we have! Thank you, Sadhu!
16 October 2008 - Illya Chentsov (Anand) Listen to this showIn my traveling throughout the world, the former Soviet Union countries and Russia have provided me with another view of the world as I grew up and as I hold it now. The contrast and the familiar are both present as I listen and live for a few weeks in these countries. Anand was a student of what we say is the "first Reiki class" in Moscow (taught by a young German master) though he comes from the Ukraine and heard of Reiki in India! A true traveler, Anand has many stories to tell. Here are some of them. He and his Reiki partner, Chandira, have taught together, held a large community of students together, and have continued their exploration of Reiki with their students. We recorded this interview at the end of an intensive seminar in July of this year in Moscow.
14 August 2008 - Timothy Cunninghamm Listen to this showPsychology began with a desire to be an empirical science. The trend has moved to humanistic psychology, acknowledging that we are human, to transpersonal psychology which included the possibility of a human soul. Now the movement is that we have not only a soul but that we are connected at some elemental level....we are one. As family, we have an energetic unit that has the dimension of time; the past, the present, and future. As individuals we are the next step in the generational evolution of our family. Timothy Cunninghamm has studied this way of seeing and being with our family entity and has experienced without a doubt, healing in the family as patterns are shifted in one member, so the whole entity shifts. Is this mystic or simply the obvious result of the law of "for every action there is a reaction?"
27 November 2008 - Rick Bockner Listen to this showToday is Thanksgiving Day for those of us in the United States. As Reiki touches the essence of our lives, this is a time to remember the tremendous gift of Hawayo Takata, her way of being with her students, and the masters that she touched. Rick met Hawayo Takata through a series of personal connections at a significant time in his life. Rick brought to Reiki his song writing and musicianship, his love of wood, and his commitment to local communities. His story is captured in this interview and is a truly magically one. His recollections of the days with his master and his own Reiki stories are a journey down memory lane and a way to touch the innocent and mystical days of Reiki; days when we all knew each other, when the practice was held by a few people, when there were no books, magazine articles about Reiki and there was no Internet! Step into a time when the foundation of this Reiki community was being formed.
20 November 2008 - Bobbe Free Listen to this showIn 1980 Bobbe Free was introduced to Reiki and so ended her long search for a way to use her hands to heal. She was initiated into the First and Second degrees of the Usui System of Natural Healing, as we called it back then, by Virginia Samdahl and Patricia Ewing, both students of Takata Sensei. In 1984 she was initiated as a Reiki Master by Phylis Furumoto. Bobbe, originally from New Zealand and who had lived in the U.S.A. for 25 years, was able to take Reiki back to her home country where she eventually returned to live in 1986. The story of Bobbes journey is one that inspires the notion that there are no accidents and there are only pieces of a puzzle that find their way home, given the right timing.
13 November 2008 - Lalita (Liora) Claff Listen to this showI met Lalita in 1992 when she was known as Lesley and lived in Sydney, Australia. As a student of Wanja Twan, a master initiated by Hawayo Takata, we had a natural connection in our Reiki lives. Through our many inner and outer journeys, we met again and I had the pleasure of interviewing Lalita for this show. She and I have been given many lessons and guidance by Wanja in the time we have known her. This is a sweet time of remembering our beginnings in Reiki as well as a master who touches us both deeply. This is what Lalita says of her relationship with Wanja: Whenever I would ask Wanja a question about Reiki or ask her to clarify something, she would simply say: 'That's what Takata said' or 'That's how Takata did it' or 'I just do what my teacher taught me.' This is why I trust her so much, because she is true to her teacher and encouraged me to find my answers through practice. As I see it now, she taught me to be a devoted student of Reiki, a great gift for a person such as
