Archive Shows
- 8 Jan 2009 - Phyllis Furumoto
- A New Year for us all – Special Encore Presentation!
In the next weeks, cultures all over the world will be celebrating or marking the New Year. In our usual human fashion, sometimes this beginning has within it our own feelings of wanting to be better, wanting to have done something else in our last year, hoping that this year will be different, or celebrating the finish of a good year and looking forward to the next! Whatever the case maybe, join Phyllis in a guided treatment for the New ... More
- 1 Jan 2009 - Phyllis Furumoto
- In the next weeks, cultures all over the world will be celebrating or marking the New Year. In our usual human fashion, sometimes this beginning has within it our own feelings of wanting to be better, wanting to have done something else in our last year, hoping that this year will be different, or celebrating the finish of a good year and looking forward to the next! Whatever the case maybe, join Phyllis in a guided treatment for the New Year. Imagine that there are thousands of others listen... More
- 18 Dec 2008 - Paul Mitchell
- Hawayo Takata was born on December 24, 1900, on Kauai, Hawaii. Her life started on a sugar cane plantation camp and blossomed into a life that has touched thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world. Through her destiny and hard work, she accepted the gift of Reiki for herself and then devoted her life to holding this practice for the people who were interested. During the 1970's, the social questions of health care, spiritual seeking, and a desire to build healthy relationships f... More
- 11 Dec 2008 - Wanja Twan
- Wanja has been mentioned many times in these radio interviews by people who were initiated by her or as a master who was initiated by Hawayo Takata. The classes that were held in Cherryville are famous in the Canadian Reiki stories. Wanja is from Sweden originally and still has the lilt in her voice and the twinkle in her eye that I attribute to the Scandanavian affinity to nature spirits, good humor in the darkest of nights, and a sense that the veil between worlds is very thin in those nort... More
- 4 Dec 2008 - Inger Droog
- In this series of "Stories of Masters" I hope to give a sense of Hawayo Takata, her teachings, and her person. The area of southeast British Columbia was fertile ground for Takata Sensei and her teachings of Reiki. The people there absorbed the philosophy of Reiki, the energy and Reiki, the practice and immediately applied it. As many of them lived with the land, raising their own food and children, there were many applications. Inger was a part of this community and became one of the first m... More
- 27 Nov 2008 - Rick Bockner
- Today is Thanksgiving Day for those of us in the United States. As Reiki touches the essence of our lives, this is a time to remember the tremendous gift of Hawayo Takata, her way of being with her students, and the masters that she touched. Rick met Hawayo Takata through a series of personal connections at a significant time in his life. Rick brought to Reiki his song writing and musicianship, his love of wood, and his commitment to local communities. His story is captured in this interview ... More
- 20 Nov 2008 - Bobbe Free
- In 1980 Bobbe Free was introduced to Reiki and so ended her long search for a way to use her hands to heal. She was initiated into the First and Second degrees of the Usui System of Natural Healing, as we called it back then, by Virginia Samdahl and Patricia Ewing, both students of Takata Sensei. In 1984 she was initiated as a Reiki Master by Phylis Furumoto. Bobbe, originally from New Zealand and who had lived in the U.S.A. for 25 years, was able to take Reiki back to her home country where ... More
- 13 Nov 2008 - Lalita (Liora) Claff
- I met Lalita in 1992 when she was known as Lesley and lived in Sydney, Australia. As a student of Wanja Twan, a master initiated by Hawayo Takata, we had a natural connection in our Reiki lives. Through our many inner and outer journeys, we met again and I had the pleasure of interviewing Lalita for this show. She and I have been given many lessons and guidance by Wanja in the time we have known her. This is a sweet time of remembering our beginnings in Reiki as well as a master who touches u... More
- 6 Nov 2008 - Jan Pritchard and Scott Howlett
- Jan Pritchard and Scott Howlett, both students of Beth Gray from 1986, tell stories of her classes, the manner of her teaching, and their recollections of her way to be with people. Beth came to Reiki through her long search and path of spiritual healing and teaching. She founded the Trinity Metaphysical Center in Redwood City, California. It was there that Hawayo Takata came to teach Reiki. Beth and her husband, at the time, John became avid students of Hawayo Takata and were recognized as m... More
- 30 Oct 2008 - Ned Wolf
- Ned found Reiki in his spiritual healing class and took each step one by one. His initiating Master, Helen Haberly, is well known for authoring a thin blue book about the teaching and stories of Hawayo Takata. Helen was a long time organizer and friend for Hawayo Takata on Orcas Island, near Seattle. In this theme of
honoring masters and their stories, part of the focus is to bring back to the current Reiki community, the presence of those masters who have had a great influence in the commun... More
- 23 Oct 2008 - Frank and Lorraine Mitchell
- When Beth Gray came to Australia in the early 1980's, she did not know that she had touched another "gold mine." This is not a reference to money as gold.....but a reference to the people she touched with her passion for the practice of Reiki. Frank and Lorraine are two of hundreds of people that came into contact with her during the years of teaching Beth had in Australia. These two are an example of the "gold" that Beth found. The "gold" has grown into a wealth of stories, commitment to Rei... More
- 16 Oct 2008 - Illya Chentsov (Anand)
- In my traveling throughout the world, the former Soviet Union countries and Russia have provided me with another view of the world as I grew up and as I hold it now. The contrast and the familiar are both present as I listen and live for a few weeks in these countries. Anand was a student of what we say is the "first
Reiki class" in Moscow (taught by a young German master) though he comes from the Ukraine and heard of Reiki in India! A true traveler, Anand has many stories to tell. Here are ... More
- 9 Oct 2008 - John and Lourdes Grey
- This interview is a gift that came to me and now to you, the listeners. John Gray was in the first group of masters that Hawayo Takata initiated in the mid-1970's. John tells the story of his meeting Hawayo Takata and his memories of her at that time. At 91, John retains his sharp wit and his beautiful way of expressing himself. 15 years ago, he met Lourdes who came up to Boston from the Washington DC area to take his Reiki Class. One thing followed another and they were married! Now they liv... More
- 2 Oct 2008 - Maggie Hall
- Maggie Hall is a "country girl" raised on the Swan River of Western Australia. If you look at Western Australia in your world atlas, you will see lots of open space and very few townships outside of Perth, the capital city of WA. Maggie is a consummate story teller, using the great idioms of Australian English to describe people, feelings, places, and ideas. These are a few of her stories of being a master who is passionate about the kind of wisdom that one finds in kitchens all over the worl... More
- 25 Sep 2008 - Phyllis Furumoto
- Marta's show on the 18th of September was the last in the series of Mystical Order: Fantasy or a Quality of Being? Phyllis comes to the show, live from Australia to summarize the series for herself and leads into another series of shows titled: Stories of Masters. In following with the oral tradition, the next 3 months of interviews are presented to honor the masters who came before us, those ancestors of this practice, and the stories of life teaching that masters collect in their journey wi... More
- 18 Sep 2008 - Marta Getty
- Initiated as a master in 1981, Marta found her way to Australia in 1983. She went through contacts in the rebirthing community to teach Reiki. This started her love affair with Australia. Through the years she has consistently visited Australia renewing her connection to the land and to the community that is there for her. She tells her sacred stories of her initial journeys into the outback, which are mysterious and mystical. She holds these experiences without interpretation feeling that th... More
- 11 Sep 2008 - Margaret Pauffley
- Many years ago Margaret and I went on a journey with our partners to trace a ley line across the southwestern part of England. This was the first of many journeys that brought me to the edge of my understanding of the earth and its energies. Later Margaret, to her surprise, was drawn to train as a Minister and spiritual counselor with a Seminary whose motto was "Many Paths to the Truth." This took her into the essence of different religions and spiritual practices. Some of her stories of her ... More
- 4 Sep 2008 - Boudewijn Lutgerink
- A long time student of Reiki in the Netherlands, Boudewijn has walked a fiery path of Reiki. His life has been turned upside down several times, bringing the pain of despair and the joy of bliss. Throughout this time, he has maintained a strong tendency to look at the mystery of life and has carried the openness to the next step with grace. Because of our connection, Boudewijn has shared some of his questions and his thought processes writing me emails titled "Walking the Dog." We will start ... More
- 28 Aug 2008 - Vicki Allen
- A mystic experience can come through in a spontaneous manner, as many Reiki students have learned. In some cultures, mystic experiences are a way into the spirit world and are induced in different ways. When the experiences that are often called mystical occur within an induced state of being, are these truly mystical? Is spontaneity a characteristic of a mystic experience? A long time Reiki practitioner and master, Vicki shares with us her courageous journeys into a mystical and mysterious j... More
- 21 Aug 2008 - Sadhu Veronica Kravtsova (Ma Prem Sadhu)
- As a person seeking to nourish her spirit, Sadhu disvovered a group of underground seekers in Moscow, Russia, in her early 20’s and eventually found her way to India and the ashram of Osho. Here she met with Reiki but it was not untill several months later that she was able to fulfill her destiny of taking the First Degree class from Fokke Brink. From this time on, Reiki became her guiding light and she holds this light together with her time in the ashram of Sai Baba. Sadhu has been involved... More
