Chakra Counseling with Mikinzie Schilling

What is chakra counseling? Well, we are going to find out in this interview with Mikinzie Schilling, owner and CEO of Kindred Heart in Superior Wisconsin. In my personal opinion, the highlight of this time together is a heart chakra exercise. I can't wait for you to experience that. For those of you familiar with my flight deck oracle cards, you'll be interested in hearing how Mikinzie incorporates my cards into her healing sessions. Mikinzie is an astrologer, tarot reader, Holistic Therapist, Healing Touch practitioner, business owner and chakra counselor. Her business motto is “to reach and find the Kindred connection within”!  This was inspired by the “Creation of Adam”, an art piece by Michelangelo that you might be familiar with.  Let's give a warm welcome to Mikinzie as she arrives here in “Call IT in With Dar “! 

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What is chakra counseling? Well, today we are going to find out in this interview with Mikinzie Schilling, owner and CEO of Kindred Heart in Superior Wisconsin, in my personal opinion, the highlight of this time together is a heart chakra exercise. I can't wait for you to experience that. For those of you familiar with my flight deck oracle cards, you'll be interested in hearing how Mikinzie incorporates my cards into her healing sessions. Mikinzie is an astrologer, tarot reader, Holistic Therapist, Healing Touch practitioner, business owner and chakra counselor. Her business motto is “ to reach and find the Kindred connection within”!  This was inspired by the “Creation of Adam”, an art piece by Michelangelo that you might be familiar with.  Let's give a warm welcome to Mikinzie as she arrives here in “Call IT in With Dar “! 

Speaker Dar 

Hello, Mikinzie. I am so excited to have you with me today and our topic of chakra counseling. 

Speaker Mikinzie  

I am so excited to be here as well and kind of lead us through what all of that looks like. 

Speaker Dar 

Well, just for our audience information, the two of us did meet at an expo, so I got a chance to talk to you already a little bit about what it is you do and how we both have healing touch in common. So would you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got to where you're at today? 

Speaker Mikinzie  

Absolutely. So I started out mainly focusing on astrology, and then I slowly got into pendulum use, which then got me into healing touch. And that has just been such a fantastic journey of trying, trial and error, really, of figuring out what I want to do and how I want to do things regarding Healing Touch, regarding energy work, because I knew I really had something in my heart regarding energy work. And when I went to get Healing Touch certified level one, I remember the instructor asking me, so how are you going to use this? And I told her that I really wasn't sure, and I was the only one in the room that said that. And so leading up to where I am at now, and I just got chakra counseling certified last spring. Actually, it's been such an amazing road throughout this whole process, really, just meeting new clients, meeting new people, having new connections with other people that do healing touch, that do Reiki, that do other forms of energy work, and just seeing what I can do as a facilitator to help my clients. And so the chakra counseling has just been phenomenal, and being able to incorporate healing touch and the things that I've learned through that as well has made it so much better. 

 Speaker Dar  

Would you define chakra counseling for our audience, and maybe lead us through what that might look like, 

 Speaker Mikinzie   

Absolutely So chakra counseling brings you, depending on which chakra we're working on, it brings you deep into that chakra, of the first wound, of the first feeling that you've ever had with that chakra. And so, I'm going to actually do a heart chakra counseling session, just a little little bit and piece of that that everyone that is listening can actually do on their own. And I'm really just the mediator, and they're the facilitator of their own body, of their own chakra. And so we begin with putting our hands to our heart as you chant yam, which is the mantra of the heart chakra. And you say that three times, yum, yum, yum. And as you close your eyes and focus on that heart chakra, you can imagine a green light at the heart and then once you kind of get deep into that, you can start picturing a home of what your heart is, what it looks like. I've had people say that it's a cave, that it is a house, that it's Times Square, and so however that looks to you, what shape is it? Is there color? Is it sparsely or lavishly decorated?  And then once you can find that peace, you can start looking around to see if there's anyone with you. And if you can't find anyone there with you. I usually invite that person to bring their inner child into that space and to greet them with a full and open heart.  

Offer gratitude openly with the affirmation of I am grateful, courageous and willing to open my heart to unconditional love. And then we slowly end that exercise by taking three deep breaths.  

And then once that is all completed, we will chant, young, young, young while wiping away. A at our heart space three times, 123, and then, once you are ready, you can start opening your eyes, feeling that love, feeling that forgiveness, feeling that warmth within your heart, and keeping that green light there shining through as bright as ever.  And if you have any candles during this session, you could snuff the candle out as an ending, you know, a new beginning for your heart and ending for the session.  So this ritual really can help with forgiveness, with letting go, deepening relationships, developing compassion, courage, sending healings to others or yourself. So it's a beautiful way to start sessions, and it's a beautiful way to end them, depending on each person individually. 

Speaker Dar   

That was beautiful. Would you talk us through the other chakras? For those who are totally familiar with the main chakra system,  

Speaker Mikinzie 

Absolutely so we have the root chakra, which is the first chakra, and that is located lower back or front. It kind of goes straight through there. If we look at that, we're looking a lot about family lines, how we stay grounded, and then we have the sacral chakra, which is all about letting yourself feel joy. It helps with new relationships, creative projects, writer's block, doing these sessions. And then we have the solar plexus, which is located around the rib cage stomach area, which is why, when that's out, we typically see a lot of stomach issues in those clients, and that is typically where our worthiness and our confidence lies. 

And so going through that, we're really looking at assisting that person's confidence levels and diving deep into why there are issues in that space. And then after that, of course, there's the heart, and then we have the throat, which is one that I do find. You know, we did speak about that before, and I found we both found a lot of issues with that a lot of people have a hard time expressing, because the throat is how we express. It's how we voice our problems. And so looking at that, I typically love to add candles to this even more so than the heart chakra, just because it's the act of blowing at the end, it's pushing all of that air out of our throat. 

And so, you know, the colors that you'd really want to add to something like this, I typically do bring stones, which is something I had forgotten to mention, if you can bring stones or certain colors that represent the chakras, and the throat is blue. And so I really like to add turquoise or Blue Lace egg, it or Celestite to especially a throat chakra. I just feel like the visual is just another form of expressiveness. You know, just like the throat expresses how we feel. And so I really like to light a candle. And we always start by beginning the chant, which for the throat chakra is ham. And so you'd say hum three times, ham, and you'd sit and like to sit quietly with your hands placed on your throat.  And with this one, we start chanting each mantra that we have already worked on or haven't worked on, And so we'll start by going through all of the chakras, which start at the root, which is long, sacral is vom, solar is wrong, heart is Yum, and then ending with that throat three times once again, and you're almost imagining each color lighting up, which the. Roots would be that red, sacral would be that orange, and then solar would be that yellow, heart would be green, and then throat would be that blue. And you're imagining it all coming up your body as you go through it, and you just continue going, and it's almost like, after a while, you're going to start imagining a white light pouring up your body, covering all of those chakras, going through the throat chakra, opening it up, like it's a floodgate. And then at that point, we're going to imagine, again, what that would look like if you were in your vocal cords, if you were in the things that you never got to express. Is it a place? Do you get a visual? Do you see a color? Do you hear a sound? And at that point, you know, we'd go through it, and then we would say the affirmation of, I am able to clearly express myself and speak up about the truth that is important to me. And then we chant calm three times yet again. And then snuff the candle when we're ready, and clear the space to honor the access you've created to your throat chakra. The rest of them are honestly quite a bit easier, like the third eye is om, just as the crown chakra, you would chant Om. But the third eye is different because it's seeing in the crown is what our connection to our higher self, or higher power, however you want to see that. And so with that, you're going to imagine that rainbow of color each time. It just starts at the throat. And so it's pretty similar through the rest of them. It's just the colors change, of course, and the stones would change them too. 

Speaker Mikinzie  

Did that answer your question? Or would you like more detail on that?  

Speaker Dar 

Oh, that was a great overview. And I'm glad you included that you do use crystals or representative of the color, because so many people are visual or need that visual stimulation 

Speaker Mikinzie 

Exactly, you know, and I and I even have colors for my candles that I use too, and I do create my own candles as well, specifically for this, because I think it is so important for the smell, the touch, the know, it's all a form of expression, And it's all a part of getting us into that chakra that we're working on 

Speaker Dar  

Beautiful So respecting client confidentiality. Could you tell us a few of your favorite stories? 

Speaker Mikinzie 

Sure, so I know I had shared this one with you previously, but I just think it is such a fantastic story of when I had worked on this client, and this was before I became certified in the counseling practice. But it just shows how well energy works. You know, she was really working on her masculine side, which is her right side. Right side is masculine. Left is feminine. And, you know, if we're off balanced on one of those sides where masculine is constantly go, go, go, and the feminine is the constant giving versus receiving typically, or the resting often, or, you know, it's just the very different energies that she was really overworking her right side, and it was affecting her hip super badly. And so I had done some healing touch that I had known at the time to do, and she ended up that evening with a whole bunch of bruises, and I didn't have to touch her. I didn't touch her at all. Actually, I had just noticed that her hip was really off, so I started working on it. And the day after, she actually went to the doctor and they did an x-ray, because she's had issues with that hip before, and they found that it was more in place than it had ever been before, which was just incredible. I had felt so bad that I had potentially given her bruises on her hip that, you know, I didn't even think that, you know, sometimes we have to fall so hard or, you know, get bent up a little bit in order for the thing internally to become fixed. And so that happened to be the case for her, and at that point she was just like, wow, that's just so incredible. And it was an incredible experience for me as a facilitator to have that happen with a client, 

 Speaker Mikinzie 

Okay, so my second story would be when I was practicing in my healing touch class a few years ago, and I had this, one of the other people that were taking the class. She had these, I had never experienced it before. I was working around her head, and she had these horns coming out at each side. And it was, I was a little nervous, because I went up to the teacher of the class and I said, I've never experienced this before, and I had been using pendulums and energy work before this and everything, and I'm like, she has two horns on her head. And she told me, Well, sometimes those horns or those sharp edges can come from pain. And so I asked her at that point. I was like, Have you ever had a headache? And then it got into the topic of she has had so many concussions in her life, and those concussions had left such a   Those concussions had left such a deep-rooted thing on her, it would just remain there. And so she said, I have had a lot of issues with my head throughout the years, and so we worked on it, and it was just such a, you know, they went down. And they went down fairly easy, honestly, but it, you know, you see, you think you feel horns, and you don't think of pain, but you think, Oh, my goodness. What could this be? And as a very young and new and beginner to healing touch, this was such a great way of learning that that's how those types of things can affect clients and can affect people in general. And that just a concussion or a headache can cause horns around one's head, you know. And that can be the whole body, of course, but that one in particular just left such a memory that it's just kind of a funny story to mention, because you don't think horns on someone's head could be that. But anyways, 

 Speaker Dar  

Thank you. That was a fun one because, and like you said, the instructor said sharp edges can appear like that, you know. And then our, our mental mind says, horns.

Speaker Mikinzie 

Yep, yep. And just a fun one, yes, it really Yeah. It was a great experience for me. You know, I think I was, I was only 19, and so experiencing that at a young age, that's what that can look like on someone's body, was just fantastic, absolutely. 

Speaker Dar  

So let's get down to what a session with you will look like because I'm sure someone in this audience is very curious about getting hold of you and having a session. And I know your sessions have started to evolve all the different things, all your different backgrounds. They're not just going through the chakra anymore. So what would a session with you look like? 

Speaker Mikinzie 

Sure. So as I had mentioned to you, I'm astrologer certified. So I am a as an astrologer, and then also I am a certified tarot reader, and then the chakra counselor, of course. And I am also a member of the Holistic Therapist Corporation, which you can find all on my Facebook page. I do have those posts on there, of that, of my certifications, but each session can look so different depending on what you're wanting to work on so if you're really wanting to work on yourself or your generational trauma, I always tell people to start with astrology, because I can dive down deep and see exactly why certain physical things are affecting you, what chakra that's messing with, and then we can just dive. 

Deep we can get to the root. And that's actually my motto, is to reach and find the Kindred connection within oneself. And so I really love to reach in and be able to help people that way. Because I think so often people focus on the physical that they don't think about. What's happening in my cells, what's happening in my mind, what's happening emotionally. And so getting through those trapped emotions, getting through that generational trauma of the body even, can be so fantastic. And then once we've done some astrology readings, I  do recommend doing more chakra work at that point. However, I can, depending on how people feel comfortable. I can go vice versa as well. I have several times done chakra work before being able to look at a chart. I've also done tarot readings before being able to do either. But I always, I always feel that tarot readings are best as the last thing to do, because it's great for the temporary. You know, tarot readings, card readings in general. I think it can get to those base layers. But if you really want to dive down deep, the chakra work and the astrology work are just the best basis that you can start off with with any client, really. 

Speaker Dar 

Thank you. So I just want to assert that we'll have your information in the show notes on the podcast, so that everyone can go to your website or email you about having a session, and then you pretty much tailor made that session for them, which I really appreciate. I think that's so important.

Speaker Mikinzie 

I, I do want to include how I've been using your flight deck in my sessions. And I do that for any session, actually, whether it's Tarot astrology or or chakra readings. I love to end it with that. And sometimes, you know my depending on the client, because, again, I I come from, before I ever started doing this, I was doing child care for so many years, so I've been so about being individualized for each of my clients, and so coming from that background and trying to be as gentle as I possibly can with each client that comes my way, I think your deck has been such an incredible factor to add to my sessions, because things you know, it'll be right on par with what we're talking about. Like I had mentioned to you, I had a client that had been praying to Archangel Michael on her every night before she went to sleep, and that was the card that came up for her at the end of her session, showing her that she's on the right path. That's exactly what she should be doing, and she should know that she is being divinely protected and guided in those moments. 

Speaker Dar 

Well, thank you for including that. You're using my flight deck, Oracle Card, a deck that's really fun for everyone to hear and will make it easy for them to order their own as well. It has so many parts to it that I think it can complement, like you said, compliment your work because it has a mantra, it has a symbol, it has numerology, it has light codes embedded, and it has some color therapy. So as you were going through your process, I see why the card deck kind of is one of those visual things you can add at the end of your session. So thank you. Thank you for including that. So as we wrap up, I was going to say, is there anything else that you're called to talk to our audience about today? 

Speaker Mikinzie 

Just that, no matter what one is going through, no matter how hard it is, that there are ways to reach within yourself to unlock those pieces that you don't think could ever be unlocked, and that there are so many different resources and so many different spiritual leaders that can guide you through what maybe you feel like you can't and that moment, and you know just that there's always a way out, and that you can always find the Kindred connection within yourself 

 Speaker Dar  

That's beautiful, the Kindred connection within yourself. We'll leave the audience with those words. And I would 

Like to leave you with a big Virtual hug. Thank you for being with me today. I appreciate the time we've had together…. Applause. 

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