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The Usui Reiki Center is a volunteer California organization comprised of Reiki practitioners dedicated to healing using the modality known as Reiki. We are committed to honoring the original teachings of Reiki and upholding its integrity. It is our intent to do this by providing Reiki and comprehensive courses to enhance healing universally.
Born in the August 15, 1865 in Japan, Dr Usui became a monk, a teacher and a seeker of truth. A student, in his innocence asked him “How did great men like the Buddha and the Christ heal?” Usui, challenged by the simplicity of this question began his search for the truth about healing. His search was wide and varied, including studies of the ancient sutras in which he found the formula for healing, but didn’t know how to use them. This finally led him to seek the truth within his own being. He journeyed to the holy mountain Kurama 10 km out of Kyoto to meditate and began a retreat for 21 days. It is said that on the 21st day, just prior to the sun rising, a light struck him in the 3rd eye, rendering him to a state of awareness that today we might call a trance. In his awakened state, he was gifted with the frequency and the knowledge of how the symbols that he had rediscovered would become the gateway to a healing modality which he called Reiki (Universal Life/ Love Energy).
He began his ministry in the beggar colony of Kyoto and some years later when the beggars were returning, realized healing without teaching… no change! He brought forth the five principles of Reiki, ideals to live a more fulfilling life.
Dr Usui began teaching, traveling and healing throughout Japan in the early 1920’s. Over a period of 6 years, until his death March 9, 1926, Dr. Usui gathered around him many healers and it was to one of these, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi that Dr. Usui passed the Light of Reiki to continue in his name.
Dr. Usui was a genius; he glimpsed a future dream that would see a deceptively simple healing modality spread its magical ways around the world. |
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Dr Mikao Usui (1865-1926) |
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Dr. Hayashi a retired Naval Officer, took Reiki to Tokyo and set up a clinic in 1925, with his wife Chie, to offer Reiki to a larger community encompassing the affluent and educated. It was to this clinic that a young woman Hawayo Takata came in the fall of 1935.
Dr. Hayashi foresaw that it was inevitable that war would break out between Japan and America, and that he would be called to active duty. Being a devout student of Spiritual Teachings and a Reiki Master, he could not destroy life; so rather than go to war, he chose to make a peaceful transition. He passed the Light of Reiki to Mrs. Takata and then he gathered his family, went into meditation, and made his transition. |
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Dr. Chujiro Hayashi (1880-1940) |
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Hawayo Takata (1900-1980) |
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Hawayo Takata was born on the island of Kauai, Hawaii to Japanese immigrant parents. She grew up in a simple Hawaiian village, married and had two daughters. Her husband died in 1930 at the young age of 34. By 1935, five years after the death of her husband, Hawayo Takata’s health had declined, and she decided to go to Tokyo to undergo surgery.
Lying on the operating table she heard her inner voice which told her the operation was unnecessary and to seek an alternative. She asked the surgeon if an alternative was available and she was directed to Dr. Hayashi’s Reiki Clinic. For 6 months, Hawayo Takata received treatment and during that time she was allowed to study and practice Dr. Hayashi’s teachings.
On her recovery, she became a full time practitioner at the clinic and took her first and second levels of training. She completed her Teacher training in 1937 and returned to Hawaii. |
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Dr Hayashi passed the Light of Reiki to Takata and traveled with her to Hawaii and stayed with her for 6 months assisting her to establish a Reiki practice. On his departure Dr. Hayashi announced publicly that Mrs. Takata had become a Master and Teacher of the Usui System of Natural Healing.
After the war, Mrs. Takata resumed her practice and became a well known healer, with many clients traveling from the mainland United States. In 1970 she was invited to California where she practiced and taught until her death in 1980. Hawayo Takata initiated 22 Reiki Masters. |
