Hawayo Takata

Hawayo Takata (born December 24, 1900 in Hanamaulu on Kauai , Hawaii , † December 12, 1980 ) was an American and the first Reiki master outside of Japan. It was through them that Reiki was spread in the West.

Life

Hawayo Takata was born as Hawayo Kawamura (often also Kawamuru) on Christmas Eve 1900 on the flower island of Kauai in Hawaii as the third child of Japanese immigrants in Hanamaulu . She later lived and worked in Kealia . On March 10, 1917, she married the Japanese accountant Saichi Takata, who later became the first Asian to be appointed head of the social affairs office in Kealia.

According to oral tradition, her husband died of lung cancer in 1930 . Hawayo Takata remained behind as a widow with two children. She worked very hard to support her family financially. Before the age of 35, her health was alarming. She claims to have had a nervous breakdown and a very painful tumor in the uterus that should have been operated on. Because of emphysema , however, she was not allowed to receive an anesthetic.

She traveled to Japan in 1935 to personally convey the news of her sister's death to her parents who were there. She also had the ashes of her late husband with her to bury him in the temple of Ōtani .

On this occasion, she also visited the Maeda Clinic in Tokyo , where her deceased husband was also treated. There - according to the legend - a tumor , gallstones and appendicitis were diagnosed . Already lying on the operating table, she decided against the planned operation at short notice, guided by a voice.

Act

Through the surgeon's sister, who is said to have been treated with Reiki herself in Hayashi's clinic , she found Hayashi's Reiki clinic, Shina No Machi . Takata then received daily Reiki treatments from Chujiro Hayashi in the Reiki clinic . Four months later she was completely healed and wanted to be able to give Reiki herself.

Although it was extremely unusual for a foreigner to be initiated into Reiki, she received her first Reiki initiation from Chujiro Hayashi. She studied and worked for a year in Hayashi's Reiki clinic. In 1936, shortly before her return to Hawaii, she received the Reiki initiation in the second degree.

In October 1936, Hawayo Takata opened her Reiki practice in Kapaʻa . In 1938 Hayashi initiated Takata as a Reiki master. Hayashi visited her for several months and supported her in spreading Reiki in Hawaii by giving lectures and teaching together in Honolulu . Shortly before his return to Japan in February 1938, he publicly announced Hawayo Takata as his successor.

After Takata broadened her knowledge at the College of Non-Drug Medicine in Chicago , she opened a practice in Honolulu in 1939. Due to a misunderstanding, she was offered a suitable home in Hilo . There she opened her Reiki center.

After World War II , Hawayo Takata continued to practice Reiki in Hawaii and occasionally traveled to neighboring islands and mainland America to teach Reiki and give lectures.

Hawayo Takata died on December 12, 1980. Her grave is in a Buddhist church in Hilo .

Your Reiki Master

According to her statements, Hawayo Takata was initiated as a Reiki master in 1938. By her death in 1980 she is said to have trained 22 Reiki masters. These inaugurated other masters in the following time and thus ensured further dissemination.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Klatt: Reiki Systems of the World: One Heart - Many Beats . Lotus Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-914955-79-5 , pp. 56–57, 322 ( limited preview in Google book search - testimony from Takata's granddaughter).
2. ↑ Fran Brown: Reiki Life Grand Master Takata's teachings. Synthesis Verlag, Essen, 2003, ISBN 3-922026-71-0 , pp. 35-37.

literature

• Fran Brown: Reiki Life Grandmaster Takata's teachings. Synthesis Verlag, Essen, 2003, ISBN 3-922026-71-0 .
• Mary McFadyen: The Healing Power of Reiki - Healing with Hands - Rapid Treatment. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 5th edition 2003, ISBN 3-499-61400-6 .