Takata Archives One Day Presentation   

Hawayo Takata:  How Reiki changed her life and our lives!  

Joyce Winough, a member of the Archive Team and Reiki Master who lived in Hawaii for many years, will bring a gift of a power point presentation of Hawayo Takata’s life in Hawaii, her journey to Japan, and the decades of her Reiki Journey that is seen through the letters, photos, certificates, and other important documents that the Archive contains.  Participants of this seminar will be able to discuss, ask questions, and experience the amazing life of Takata Sensei as Joyce carries the local understanding of Hawaii and its unique influence on our Reiki practice. Students of all forms of practice and initiation levels are welcome.  

Background                                                                                                                                Hawayo Takata brought Reiki to the west in the late 1930’s.  For the next forty years of her life, Takata held this practice by giving treatments and teaching thousands of students in Hawaii and the mainland US.  Hawayo Takata’s steadfastness, her ultimate trust in Reiki, and her passion to share this gift have brought Reiki students of all practices to where we are now. 

After Takata’s death in 1980, her daughter Alice Furumoto gathered her mother’s personal papers and photos in boxes and gave these to Phyllis, as her grandmother’s successor. Now, after thirty five years these artifacts have been brought to the light of day.  In 2014, on July 14, Phyllis, Paul and Susan Mitchell, Justin Stein, Robert Fueston and Joyce Winough met in Green Valley, Arizona to open the boxes!  They found newspaper articles, handwritten letters and never before seen photos that give us an experience of the many facets to Hawayo Takata. She was not only the lineage bearer of Usui Shiki Ryoho but also a recognized and respected healer, influential community member, and a successful professional woman.                                                                                                                       Over the last few years the Archive Team have been spending time cataloging, scanning, and marveling at the pieces of a puzzle that seemed to be coming together.  Reiki Master Joyce Winough, as a member of the Archive Team, will share these historical documents and expand our understanding of Reiki History, Spiritual Lineage and the amazing life of Hawayo Takata.

The day starts at 10.00am and will include a time for Reiki Share and a shared lunch of food brought by everyone attending on the day.

The fee for TRA members is £64 for non members £74

 Please let anyone who might be interested know about this special event. Thank you, we look forward to seeing you there.

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