The Mayumi Method: How Energy Healers Can Build Six-Figure Businesses

Imagine transforming your energy healing practice from a passion project into a thriving six-figure business. That's exactly what Mayumi Pachikoski helps spiritual practitioners achieve through her proven methodology that combines Eastern wisdom with Western business strategy.

Mayumi's journey began unexpectedly when clients receiving her facials reported profound healing experiences that went far beyond skincare. Despite initial skepticism about Reiki (despite being Japanese herself!), she eventually embraced energy healing and built a successful salon business by combining holistic skincare with energy work.

What makes Mayumi's approach unique is her deep understanding of the specific challenges energy healers face in business. Many practitioners feel guilty about charging appropriately for spiritual work, struggle to articulate their value, or try to serve everyone rather than identifying their strongest niche. Through her coaching program, she addresses these obstacles with remarkable results – some clients triple their income after just three sessions.

The wellness industry, including energy healing, is projected to reach a staggering $395 billion globally by 2030. This expanding market means abundant opportunities for practitioners who position themselves effectively. Contrary to the scarcity mindset many healers operate from, there are plenty of clients seeking healing services who are willing to pay for transformative results.

A powerful mindset shift Mayumi teaches is reframing how healers view money: "Money is just one form of energy, and there needs to be a healthy exchange with your value." This perspective helps practitioners overcome guilt while recognizing that greater financial abundance allows them to help more people, including offering free workshops to those who can't afford their services.

From website development to niche clarification to technology integration that reduces administrative overwhelm, Mayumi's comprehensive approach helps energy healers build sustainable businesses without sacrificing the quality of their work. Her success stories include practitioners who have purchased property, created location-independent lifestyles, and found genuine fulfillment in their work.

Whether you're an established energy healer looking to scale your practice or just beginning your journey, this episode offers invaluable insights on combining spiritual gifts with business acumen. Subscribe to the podcast for more conversations that nourish your soul and expand your practice!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing Mayumi Pachikoski
• 6:53 From Skeptical Esthetician to Energy Healer
• 10:45 The Mayumi Method Explained
• 15:05 Pricing Challenges for Spiritual Workers
• 19:08 Billion-Dollar Market for Energy Healing
• 25:31 Transforming Healers Into Successful Entrepreneurs
• 32:14 Daily Practices and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:30

so welcome everybody to another episode of barn to the soul, and today I've got a lovely new guest with me and I am determined to get her name right, but she's going to correct me if I'm wrong. So her name is mayumi pachikoski. Did I get that correct? Yes, so mayumi is a holistic skincare expert and energy healer and she's got 20 years of experience in the US beauty industry. She combines Eastern and Western techniques and she's built a successful six-figure salon and now empowers fellow energy healers to grow thriving, sustainable businesses, and her mission is to help healers amplify their impact, attract aligned clients and turn their passion into lasting success. So welcome to the podcast and thank you so much for supporting Balm to the Soul.

Speaker 2: 3:25

Thank you, natasha. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1: 3:28

Oh no, it's a pleasure, lovely, lovely to meet you. Now, tell me, how did you get started really? How did you, you know, think about combining skincare and energy healing, because that's quite unique.

Speaker 2: 3:43

This was not my planning In the beginning. I was just focusing on the skincare, but my skincare philosophy is as a holistic esthetician I wanted to balance the body, mind, spirit, so healing component was very important to me. However, I wasn't really into learning energy healing or anything like that In the beginning. When I start, what happened was when I start doing the facial, my client start to telling me that Mayumi, this is more than facial, you are healing people. So I was like what do you mean? Or they're like, oh, this is a cleanse and my soul has been cleansed. And then ABB started recommending me to you should name your menu like Reiki facial and sell it. And I was like what is Reiki Around that time? I am Japanese. I was born and raised and graduated from college there. I never even heard of the Reiki even one time. I am Japanese. I was born and raised and graduated from college there. I never even heard of the Reiki even one time. So I was like what is it? It's a Japanese method of energy healing. I'm like, oh no, this is something scaring me, it's not legitimate. I was like, oh, okay. But everybody was keep encouraging me mayumi, this is more than facial, you need to accept and so forth.

Speaker 2: 5:16

So I decided to take a first energy healing workshop. That was reiki, because I specifically, uh, very skeptical. I wasn't believer. I, I was a believer of energy healing. It's really, um, widely accepted in the asian culture. Yeah, we have a science and intangible area is always coexisting, uh, thousands of years. So energy healing was. I was open and accepted, but I never heard of reiki. So I was like these people are scammers. I'm gonna just discover how they are teaching and then I'm going to tell my colleagues that no, this is not right. You are just kind of how do you say those scammers are trying to brainwash you. But when I attended the workshop I was like, oh, okay, sounds legitimate and it does make sense.

Speaker 2: 6:17

I started doing my own research around. That time was over 20 years, closer to 20 years ago, so there was no AI. I had to manually more, you know, researching. It took a little time, but I found out the truth that oh, that's actually the Japanese style of energy healing. So from then I started to learn more, and not only for me, but mainly I went to connect with other wellness practitioners to know where is another way of healing, because I knew that my facial itself is not going to be complete everything. So there are different specialities of people exist. So what are they? What's the mechanism? So I started to become a client and experience different type of healing modalities and then I start learning more and then that really start to become the new way of facial salon in my area and then that salon has been became a certain level of success.

Speaker 2: 7:32

As an immigrant I didn't have any followers or any friends grow up in the area, but if I can do it, anybody can. So I now started to focus on mainly empowering fellow energy healers, energy workers, how to develop the business sense and a more practical approach, because I tried almost everything that I can think of and I was taught by the other business consultant. But not everything can work. Not everything can work. So I found a certain way that can produce a certain result almost anyone if they work the advice and take action to it. So I developed my own methodology and then doing the coaching now yeah, and that is called the my you, me method, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 8:31

Yes, yes, that's correct, okay, so there's a few things about that, isn't there? So you work on mindset and you work on strategy and you work on client engagement, basically. So you take already energy healers that perhaps have businesses that aren't doing so well, or they're not quite happy, or they don't it doesn't feel like it's gelling properly and you work them through three sort of strategies yes, pathways, basically yes.

Speaker 2: 9:04

So, um, this is a very fluid um program. It's a 12-week course of the program, one-hour Zoom meeting, and then I have to assess everybody where they are, because everybody is different. So you know, I have a vague kind of things that I may do this, this, this, but it really depends on the people. So some of the people may have already all the good areas but something may holding them back and they are very shy to address and then say that, oh, this is my full-time career. Yeah, and why is that? Sometimes I have to engage with the energy healing to release that blockage. Some of the people need a really practical advice as a business sense and pricing, and many of the people I have noticed they just state what they do I do Reiki, I do this and that, but there is no conclusion. So, okay, that's the methodology you use, but what kind of outcome you can generate and then tell your clients if you're suffering or having a problem with this, then I'm very good at it, I'm the person, so everybody can find them. So those type of things really depends on the people. This program is after taking this 12-week three-month course, within 12 months your revenue will double. That's my yes, but I have much more people that are doing much better.

Speaker 2: 10:51

My current coaching client her name is Whitney. I just did the first month, three sessions, and after three sessions she tripled. Wow. Yes, because she had everything but she didn't know how to tell what she really do. She had lots of credentials to tell that what she really do. She had a lot of credential. I have. I learned so many like many other. You know he does like a 20 certifications, but okay, I know this is what you learn, but what you really can do, yeah, and then creating that more easy to understand menu and then pricing also, she was valuing herself really, really low. So I had to work with her mentality that no, your worth is not there, so let's you know, figure it out. And then she's really happy. And what we are really happy about is that she knows that this is not a fluke. She can consistently now, creating this, triple the revenue. So I'm really happy about that.

Speaker 1: 12:01

Excellent. So you were talking about pricing. Do you find that a common thing? Because I think a lot of energy healers. Because people don't really understand, like you say. That's another thing. People don't understand the benefits that they're going to get. Why do I need to do that? Because people don't really understand, like you say. That's another thing. People don't understand the benefit that they're going to get. Why do I need to do that? They don't understand that. So that's a really good point. And because they don't understand that, people energy healers themselves think well, people won't really pay more than that, right?

Speaker 1: 12:30

yes when actually we should all be going. Actually, this is amazing and we're amazing and you need to pay, you know make it enough.

Speaker 2: 12:41

Yes, that's the truth. You know? That's a great point. I find that many people have these tendencies. First of all, this type of work is more spiritual work, so I have noticed that people feel guilty about receiving money. Yeah, so I teach.

Speaker 2: 13:03

You know my client, money is just one form of energy and always there needs to be the healthy exchange with your value. And then just that comes back with the monetary fashion, Because money is the best energy form, can be transformed to many things purchasing a house, paying mortgages or food or anything. It's going to change into the different form, so it's nothing bad about it. And then I had recently one client she has been devoted to this work really. She's working on her spirituality too and then she said Mayumi, but with that price we serve Some of my clients may not be able to pay. And I said well, are you a non-profit or profit? This is the business means it needs to have a profit.

Speaker 2: 14:05

And if you make the pricing according with your value, how about this? You have so much abundance that now you can do the free webinar or workshop for those people once a year for free. Yeah, that's much faster. And then you will be happier, Everybody will be happier. And at that time I don't know, Natasha, if English people say the same expression In America. People say, oh, you look like a deer with the headlight.

Speaker 1: 14:43

Yes, a rabbit with the headlight. They just froze and don't know what it is.

Speaker 2: 14:47

Her face was like oh, I said, yes, that's much easier, you can do this, and people trying to avoid it and come up with the excuse not to receive money and actually that is making them unhappier. There is nothing wrong to accept your value. Yes, so that's one of the education I go through with other people, because you really can do a lot when you are in more, because you have an extra, so you can do many things that you thought you couldn't do before yeah, I often think that if all the money in the world was, uh, given to spiritual people, we would be in a very fabulous place, because, you know, if they earned a lot, they would do a lot with it.

Speaker 1: 15:43

They would give, yes, and they would build things. They would. You know that. So that's what I always think. You know, and you have to have that flow of money, don't you? You have to receive, you have to spend it. If you receive it, you have to spend it. Yes, yes.

Speaker 2: 16:01

That's true and you know. Another thing is that, oh, you know, there is somehow some of the people think that there is not enough market for this type of work. It's completely wrong, natasha. It's completely wrong, natasha. By 2030, the world size of this wellness, complementary wellness service, including energy heating, will be almost 395 billion US dollars. Wow, yeah, yes, so it, yeah, yes, so it's really expanding. And in the United States itself, 2023 was around 78 billion, but that will become by 2020. So, only five years later will be, it's considered by market research projecting as $124 billion. Wow, there is a lot of people waiting and willing to pay for you.

Speaker 2: 18:07

So you just need to start to pedal. You know paddle. I said you need to prepare. You need to prepare your business as a business for now, because five years later, I'm telling to everybody that energy healing gonna be recognized as if. Oh, like people saying I'm gonna go to the yoga class today, yes, like everybody will be stuck talking about, oh, I'm gonna go to the session and receiving, uh, energy healing as a you know, my wellness, uh, my self-care day, or something like that. So there is nothing. Uh, how do you say that? Um, strange about it. I haven't noticed that in western history there was a witch hunt, so people still have a kind of hesitancy. What I do is not really accepted, but it's totally wrong. Many people are really open and I live in a smaller town, but people are looking for I was looking for somebody like you. People are really searching for it, yeah. So this is the time that you know you're gonna really start to saying what you do and you can make this a full-time career yeah, I've really seen it increase.

Speaker 1: 19:28

I think I've been doing it 22 years and I've really seen it increase. Absolutely, yeah, more and more people. I think there are pockets of industries that haven't got a clue what you're talking about, but it will filter out there, I'm sure. So a lot of your work is really you're. It's almost like you're sort of just sorting out a few hiccups that the actual healer themselves has got. Yes, you're looking at the healer themselves and saying, no, your mindset's wrong there, or no, that's not right.

Speaker 1: 20:06

You need to think like this, or you know, before you even start looking at like sort of getting clients or your website or whatever, you as a person themselves have got to be in the right place.

Speaker 2: 20:22

Yes, and then we will really discuss and I will make sure for mainly the three things in this 12-week cycle coaching first, we will create the website. If they have already have a website, then I will check. You know. It's that really reason. You know coherent what they are, you know trying to offer. And then another thing is that their niche. I try to figure out what their strengths and then take that to the forefront. And then people think like, oh, but if I have only this small niche, then I will be illuminating other potential clients.

Speaker 2: 21:09

No, no, no, you are too vague, so people don't really think that. Oh, she or he is for me. Yes, yeah, they can address my problem. So having a niche as almost like a core and then growing the other area of the branch is much easier. Everybody's trying to grow each different branch and then wait for something going to become big, each different branch and then wait for something going to become big. That is really wasting time and majority of the people doing that way. So, no, no, just focus on one thing. And then, if you know, as an expert in this area, what happened with that, what happened is that, wow, she does, or he does, this great level of success rate with this problem. So maybe I'm gonna ask her do you know anyone can do this type? You know work with this problem? Then you can say, oh, I can do that too. That's how you get the kind of branch you will grow.

Speaker 2: 22:16

Yes, so there is no real illumination. You don't say, oh, I don't do that, unless you are not really, don't think capable, and then you can refer to someone. So the niche and a website. And another thing is easier one. But I'm already including the technology, ai and making their overwhelm task of work easier so people don't get overwhelmed. And then it's not that just creating something and copy and paste into the social network, but I'm teaching them how to utilize their time effectively and they can cut back the time. So much for the individual. More customer service, personalized service, so actually customer satisfaction and a more trusting level going to go up, and then you will get more referrals. So, yeah, those three main. These three main thing is definitely I will check with anyone.

Speaker 1: 23:26

Yeah, yes wow so, and you did. Do you do it all by zoom, do you, is it? Do you have clients all over the world that, uh?

Speaker 2: 23:35

yes, uh-huh. So, um, yeah, I have done japan, canada, um, you know, america, yes, yeah, excellent in europe, yes, I have a one person in london. She's an osteopath, she's doing so great, yes, she's, she's japanese, she's like an immigrant and living, living in London, and she was doing really good already, but while lockdown she couldn't work. So she was like, okay, I'm going to maybe take her class, and then she took my course and then three months, after three months, I think she didn't work that year, maybe half of the year, but actually the sales has exceeded more than the past year, meaning that she worked only almost half of the year but her sales revenue has, you know, actually above the year before. So she was like, oh my gosh. And then this person, she's already booked and she even still don't have her website, but she's very successful, wow, yes.

Speaker 2: 24:47

And then I said, oh, makiko, you are so doing so great. And I said why are you renting it? I said I know in London that real estate is probably very, very expensive. Yeah, but you know, she already did above the, you know, exceeded the six-figure level at that point. So I said you can buy even the studio or smaller thing, I don't, you know, I don't care, you should be able to afford to purchase it. And then she did so. I was like, oh my god, I bought a flat. She called me in America we call condominium but that, yeah, a lot of people go flat. So she got, she purchased a flat. Oh my god, she's a single person and she's an immigrant and she purchased that. And then she's in london, yes, so she's so happy. And last time when I checked with her, uh, she was like, oh, I want to now start living, you know, half of the time maybe London, another time it could be Japan. I'm going to start going back and forth. You know two locations. I was like, wow, that's really lovely.

Speaker 1: 26:10

Yes, yeah, it really does. It shifts people's lives, doesn't it?

Speaker 2: 26:15

Yes, and I love this, this, uh, because, see, natasha, like you, there are so many talented energy healers and instructors already exist. Yeah, a lot of them. And but that what my experience was just going through myself, uh, regular business coaches I went through in the United States, two of them and then one. I attended the really crash course of almost the MBA course, so I had to study more like papers, but I realized that people don't know our industry and even don't know how the energy healing works, so their advice is somewhere always kind of missing a mark.

Speaker 2: 27:07

Yes, and I couldn't engage fully. Something was missing. And then I thought, like you know what? Okay, now I have a certain success and I can guide everybody in this direction. Then everybody starts getting you know, having abundance, and then the healing you know all over the world, this is really going to jump up. So this is why I am more focusing on coaching now. And then many of my colleagues who are instructors I'm a quantum touch instructor, too Many of the instructors told me Mayumi, I love what you're doing because I teach people, they become practitioner and then they're like now what? Yes, yeah, but but many of the instructors are focusing on how they become more seasoned energy healers.

Speaker 2: 28:03

So practicing the skills right, but they don't have time to teach how to develop the business, because that's another painstaking teaching you have to do so not many people are doing it Like I want to empower, because this is a special kind of work and you have to know the industry and what you really do as an energy work, an energy healer. Otherwise your advice will be somewhat missing and people doesn't engage.

Speaker 1: 28:37

Yes, so what you're doing is helping all the spiritual work to just ripple out basically yes, which is lovely. That's incredibly powerful.

Speaker 1: 28:46

Actually yes, Another thing, that just occurred to me when you were talking. I think a lot of people, probably taking your course, will discover things about themselves that they didn't even realize, like you saying what's your niche? And they're probably thinking I'm not sure what my niche is, but actually just asking themselves that question what do I feel passionate about, what excites me the most? They can really hone their skills and their business really. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 29:19

Yes, so that way everybody feels confident and comfortable. Even that, you know, I take the new people that like, oh I'm just started so I don't have much, even client yet I don't know what I'm getting you know good at, and I tell them how, why you chose this as a career. You should have your story, what was your struggling and you got them better and that gonna be a very empowering story. You can empower the people.

Speaker 2: 29:56

same problem they are suffering before you know, so then they're like, oh yeah, that's I can do, and then they become very empowered and then start to moving forward. Yeah, my mother, you know more you know with the confidence, and then more I can. I can see their joy. Yeah, I can do the same thing to others.

Speaker 1: 30:17

That would be great yeah, and you built, you've built, you've built such a lovely community, all these, all these spiritual healers and energy healers. You know that's lovely, presumably that are they all in contact with each other, do they? Or are you just the center pin so that you oh?

Speaker 2: 30:36

I haven't really connect them. You know, together that's a great, I think a great idea. Maybe I should have that, but some of them are already. May know each other yeah in a different community or local area. Uh, because um many cases is that you know the people who got the success, will refer somebody yeah, knows this person and then kind of connect it together.

Speaker 1: 31:03

Yeah, but it's lovely to have that support, isn't it? Yes you know, many problems will be the same similar, won't they? So it's nice to talk things through. Brilliant, it sounds amazing, is that? What you're doing is lovely? And before you go, let me just ask you one thing what do you do? What's one thing that you do every day, one spiritual thing that you do every day that really helps you keep balanced and centered, oh, okay.

Speaker 2: 31:32

This is from the Quantum Touch. In the Quantum Touch, the chakra is we have a. In the Quantum Touch touch teachings chakra is we work with the 12 chakras, not only the main of the inside but the outside. So I do every single day this chakra meditation that grounds me and then I'm in center so really I can speak my truth.

Speaker 1: 32:03

Yes, I think that's lovely. Thank you, well, that's fabulous. Well, thank you for coming on, mayumi, it's lovely to meet you. I think what you're doing is amazing helping all those spiritual workers get the knowledge out there as well as the actual energy.

Speaker 2: 32:22

Yes, because there is no competition, because, like I said, worldwide, the 2030 395 billion us dollars, that's the market in the world. So you cannot say, oh, there is no clients, no, there are lots of people just waiting, waiting to you know it's like oh, I want a book with you and pay you know. No problem paying to you. You just have to articulate what you do, what you can solve, or maybe you can make you know tours to that resolution yeah people oh, I need that.

Speaker 2: 33:02

You know that's yeah. That's what we just got to do. Yes, yeah excellent.

Speaker 1: 33:09

Well, thank you so much. I'm going to put all your details and your website underneath the episode, so thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for being thank you so? Much. No, it's been a pleasure talking to you, so if you enjoyed listening to my me and me talking, then please like and share the episode, and you can always subscribe to the podcast as well, and I will speak to you all again soon.