Hawayo Takata’s Recipes

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Hawayo Takata’s Recipes

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 | Comments Off

I was recently reading Brigitte Müller and Horst H. Günther’s 1995 “A Complete Book of Reiki Healing.” In it the authors give two recipes they attribute to Hawayo Takata. I have seen similar versions of these recipes in others books, and thought it might be worth repeating them here. As many know, Takata believed that [...]

Reiki Is for the Dogs

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Friday, March 22nd, 2013 | Comments Off

Wanja Twan was a Canadian student of Hawayo Takata who in just a few short years became a Reiki Master. I have below extracted several passages from her book, “In the Light of a Distant Star,” that relate to Hawayo Takata, Reiki, and some of Wanja’s experiences that may inform our understanding and practice of [...]

A Chance Meeting with Mrs. Hawayo Takata

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Monday, March 4th, 2013 | Comments Off

Book Overview: We are all Healers by Sally Hammond The following passages, excerpted from Sally Hammond’s classic 1974 book (Ballantine Books, New York) about spiritual healing, We are all Healers, documents a brief encounter she had with Mrs. Hawayo Takata at a conference on spiritual healing in 1971. The excerpt starts on page 283, and [...]

A New Life: Reiki Healer in Northern Thailand

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Saturday, February 16th, 2013 | Comments Off

During a break from a career in human rights work, Mark Allison made the spontaneous decision to buy a restaurant in Pai, a small town in the mountains in northern Thailand, with his partner. That decision led him to Reiki healing, a greater sense of fulfillment and and a new career as a personal coach. [...]

New Reiki Center offers Buddhist healing

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Friday, February 8th, 2013 | Comments Off

Local enthusiasts of the Japanese healing practice of Reiki will be glad to know that the new Los Altos Reiki Center has opened. Reiki masters Linda Alderman and Larisa Vladimirova, who have practiced in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties for several years, have scheduled a grand-opening celebration 1-3 p.m. Feb. 16 at their new [...]

¿El reiki cura el cáncer? la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha cree que sí

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 | Comments Off

La Unviersidad de Castilla-La Mancha ha incluído dentro de las VI Jornadas Regionales sobre Cáncer Infantil y Juvenil, un espacio dedicado al reiki como tratamiento alternativo para tratar esta enfermedad. La polémica no ha tardado en llegar ya que el reiki se trata de una pseudociencia de eficacia sin demostrar. Bajo el título de ‘Terapias [...]

‘Bringing healing to Manchester’s high street’

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 | Comments Off

By Ben Ireland As 2012 draws to a close, mankind is supposed to being following sit as the b’ak’tun period of the Mayan calendar ends. December 21 is the end of the 26,000 year spell, and many fear an apocalypse. But not Martha Brophy, a Manchester Reiki master, who instead sees the beginning of a [...]

Dittrich’s journey leads to founding Reiki school

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 | Comments Off

Journeys come in all kinds of forms; for the past year contributors have been writing stories for these pages, inviting readers to places as far-flung as Liberia, Indonesia and Corsica. Joni Dittrich, however, has been on a different kind of journey — a study of the spirit and healing, which has guided her since her [...]

Using the force — Reiki’s hands-off approach to spiritual energy – Las Cruces Sun

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Monday, September 3rd, 2012 | Comments Off

In the world of alternative medicine, Reiki, a Japanese technique, is rising in popularity, especially in the Southwest. “Everybody receives something different from Reiki,” said Barb Szabrowicz, Reiki practitioner with The Reiki Shack. “It depends on what people want from it.” Reiki (pronounced, “ray-key”) means “universal life force energy.” It is used for stress reduction [...]

An Energetic Discussion of Healing

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Saturday, September 1st, 2012 | Comments Off

by Sydney L. Murray Sara Burns is an amazing woman, and our meeting was one that surprised me due to her incredible knowledge and compassion. As I told her, she is the “real deal!” There are so many people that offer help and healing, but for some reason I am attracted to the work of [...]

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