until now, been the single greatest, defining

influence on the practice of Reiki

in the world at large.

She was named in honor of Hawai.i. She was

born on the island of Kaua.i (where I now

write this) on Christmas day, 1900. Her

family name was Kawamuru; she married Saichi

Takata in 1917. They had 2 daughters. In

1930 Saichi became very ill, went to Japan

for treatment, and died there.

Five years later Hawayo went to Japan, quite ill herself. Her

intent was to have surgery; then she received an intuition that

it was not necessary, and was directed to Dr. Hayashi.s Reiki

clinic for treatment. After recovering her health, she became a

student of Reiki. She was eventually certified by Dr. Hayashi,

in 1938 in Hawai.i, as a .Master of Dr. Usui.s Reiki system of

healing..

In 1940 she was present at her teacher.s home in Japan, to

witness his ritual suicide, brought on by the impending start of

World War II.

She began teaching Reiki herself in the 1970s. During that

decade, she traveled and taught* throughout the U.S.A., producing

22 Reiki Masters. It was through them and their students that

Reiki began to spread throughout the world.

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* Another Reiki mystery: Ms. Takata was recorded, in 1979, saying that

Hayashi had taught her exactly what he learned from Usui, and that she

taught exactly what she had learned from Hayashi, with no changes. This

mirrors precisely what Dave King and Melissa Riggall were told by

exactly what Usui taught Hayashi . and yet the teachings of Tatsumi and

Takata were remarkably different, even down to the naming of the system

(.Usui-Do. and .Usui Reiki Ryoho. or .Usui Shiki Ryoho.).