Karate and Reiki
Is there any connection between karate and Reiki, besides the fact that both originated in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century? I have the intention to answer this question in a future article. For now, I will just tell you a story about how Reiki and Karate were connected for about a half an hour this past weekend.
Saturday afternoon, I had the pleasure to be again in the presence of Yamakura-shihan at the Kingsmen Recreational Complex in Leamington. For those not familiar with karate, Yamakura-shihan is an 8-dan black belt in the Goju-Ryu style and he is the Chairman of the Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Kyokai (G.K.K. is the largest Goju-Ryu karate organization in North America). Every year, he comes down to Windsor to teach and share his martial art expertise with the G.K.K. members in this area.
I arrived for the seminar 15 minutes in advance. Yamakura-shihan was engaged in conversation with Sebastian Pirrone, my teacher and the President of G.K.K. Canada. I joined them and found out Yamakura-shihan had a sore elbow. He already knew that I was a Reiki practitioner, so he asked me if I could help. I told him that a short session will not be able to go to the root of the problem, but will definitely alleviate the pain. I gave him Reiki for about 10-12 minutes. When the Reiki mini-session was over, he threw a punch to verify how that felt.
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I will not bore you with technical details about the seminar. I will tell you only that, like everybody else there, I enjoyed every minute of it. At the end of the seminar, we took a group picture with our honor guest.
When everything settled down, Yamakura-shihan asked me to continue the Reiki session. Due to his extensive training in Goju-Ryu (translated “hard and soft” in English), which is a style ranked somewhere in between the internal and external martial arts, and in Kiko (the Japanese version of Qi Gong or Chi Kung), he is highly sensitive to Energy (Ki). Coming from him, the request to continue giving him Reiki was an honor and a validation at the same time. He continued to discuss with the senior members in the organization about organizational matters, while I was standing by his side, with my hands around his elbow, for another 15 minutes. He told me that the pain had significantly subsided.
Unfortunately, our schedules did not allow us to meet again during the evening and continue the Reiki session, but I will never forget that memorable afternoon, when the two Japanese arts crossed paths in a Leamington dojo.
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