This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and all energy work, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages, all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination. And on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide rather than host, as I too am traveling, learning, and supporting others on this Reiki journey as well. And with that said, I am your guide, Tracy Seawright, and this is Ready Set Reiki. Hello, everyone. Reiki blessings to one and all. Another amazing journey today. So but before we begin, I'd like to invite you to check out an amazing place. Here on Facebook, a wonderful group, Reiki Business Collective. Here you can share, support, and serve. And no matter where you are on your journey, maybe the thought of starting a business, maybe you're already within a business. So wherever you are, it is a really wonderful place to connect with those in the community. And don't let that business name fool you. No matter where you are, you can join. Reiki, be a part of our community. Also, I want to invite you to Reiki Business Summit, April 18th to the 19th. A place to learn, a place to grow. And guess what? You get to hear me. I'm one of the speakers as well. And my mentor, Karen, will also be there as well. So, and my other teacher, uh Pamela, also. So great place to learn, to grow, to expand. Check it out. It costs nothing to join the Reiki Business Collective, a fabulous Facebook group. So back to our journey. So let me tell you about my guest, Carla Cunningham. Now she has been practicing Reiki since receiving level three in 2002. Now, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and she is a proud U.S. Army veteran. She brings both grounded strength and compassion presence to her work. Now she is also a certified sound healer, somatic breathwork practitioner, and a licensed massage therapist with over 29 years of experience. She blends energy healing, sound, breath, and therapeutic touch to create supportive spaces where people can deeply relax, reconnect themselves, and restore their lives and balance. Now she owns and operates a holistic practice in summer, Washington named Peaceful Journey Studio. And it's formerly known as Peaceful Goddess Massage and Sound Therapy. So let's give a warm ready set Reiki welcome to Carla.
SPEAKER_00Hi. I swore I wasn't going to do the handshake, but I did it.
SPEAKER_02It is all good. It is all good. So welcome to Ready Sit Reiki. Let's begin this journey together. So I told our listeners just a little bit about you, but I know there is so much more, especially 29 years of experience, right? Beautiful. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Well, as you said, I um pretty much born and raised Pacific Northwest. Um spent a little bit of time away during my military experience and uh working civil service, and then just was being called back to Washington State. This is where my family is, and uh been here ever since. And then that's when my I was trying to figure out what I was going to do after being in the military, and uh I met someone who said, I'm a massage therapist. And I was like, that's what I'm going to do. And it was like literally that fast. And um uh and then that transitioned into uh realizing my my gifts that I have as an energy worker, which then went into the Reiki, and then with the sound healing and now somatic breath work, integrating everything together because I just I feel so passionate about how all of these things together can really heal, really heal people, and uh at a much uh like it's such a deep level. And I and I am a huge uh believer that in combination with talk therapy, which I don't do, um, all of these things just go together. So yeah, we don't have to walk around like kind of trying to figure it out on our own.
SPEAKER_02Beautiful. Well, Reiki surely is a wonderful modality to merge with massage, absolutely. So to bring in there. So we're here for the Reiki. When did Reiki come into your life? Did you find Reiki or did it find you?
SPEAKER_00It found me. I um I had my youngest son, who is now 25, and taken some time off of work. Um, because now I have three young children, then I had been running my own business, and I'm like, that's a bit much. And um, so then I was like, okay, I have to do some continuing education in order to renew my license. And so I stumbled across it, knowing that all of my life I had this in me, but I didn't recognize it, if that makes sense. Yeah. And so when I went, I went all in, and it was, I was like, this is exactly what I need right now, especially as a mom of three young children, having that connection with the universal energy. Oh, it's perfect, divine timing.
Beautiful, beautiful. So receiving that connection, that attunement, the training in 2002, you've been navigating through this landscape of energy work and healing work for quite some time. As you're out here, what are some of the misconceptions that you have heard about Reiki?
SPEAKER_00There are two that are really stand out in my mind. One is that um with church connections, sometimes people don't understand what it is. And so um they're I don't know the right word to use. I'm trying to, you know, I want to be respectful of everybody. Um I think they feel like it kind of goes against their church-based uh belief system. And in my belief with the Riki, understanding what it is, it's like it's the universe, like whatever you want to call this higher being, it's the universe, you know, whether it's God or whatever. And so that's that has been a barrier that I constantly try to be very kind with other people to you know to meet them and help them to understand that it's it's not anything against what they've been taught. And the other biggest thing that I've really, after all these years, kind of have just discovered is that people think it's a one and done. I'm gonna try this Reiki thing. And then, you know, and they don't realize it it is a journey, just like any other uh, you know, source of treatment. You know, you don't go to the doctor once and then you're fixed. It's it's it's a it is a journey. The journey is the the the best word to describe it as you've used, and uh, and it uh you know it's a process. And you know, first you have to experience it and then be open to it, and then receive it, and then start to to to see the the the healing and whatever it is, whether it's emotional or physical. So that's that's the big one. That's the one, and it's really kind of interesting after all these years. That's one that I or just a recent discovery for myself. I'm like, wait a minute, why do people come one time for Reiki? Yeah, and they can say, Oh, that was amazing, and then I never see them again, or they just go like, okay, that was relaxing at ever seems to be, you know.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. I mean, when you look back to uh Dr. Hitashi, his treatment plan were, you know, uh several times a week over many, many months. So that's that's an interesting thing where you know you feel like you're gonna go there and it's a magic wand that's gonna cure it, but it can take decades for them to get that wound or trauma. Now, amazing things have happened, you know, miracles have happened, but more than likely it's a cumulative practice, and that's why making it like a lifestyle it ends up changing your life when you stick with it. So coming that one time with that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00You know, it's funny you mention that because I just recently seen documentation from him that showed like the patient name, their their whatever it is that they're being treated for, and then the amount of sessions, and then I mean, you know, and it could people don't think of Reiki as physically healing them, they think it's like spiritually or emotionally, and um, it was like in so I just he, you know, looked at some of his documented yeah, he was a very big note-taker in documenting things, and it was more than one practitioner that worked on you too.
SPEAKER_02So it could be two or three with that, and he stuck with that hand, whatever you come in with. So if I came in with bronchitis, it would be that same hand placement every time, and whatever he prescribed, because he was a doctor, is you know, I don't, I'm not a doctor, so I can't prescribe or diagnose, but he could, and the people that worked in his clinic could do that, so it's just so fascinating. So that's why, also too, kind of looking at the history of it, so people can kind of understand a little bit more that his wasn't religious at all, his was diagnostic and that, and the importance of placing the hand right there on that particular place with that.
Yeah, yeah. So it was interesting that um that I just recently was presented with this proof, and then you mentioned it, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and we're both sound healers, so you probably have this experience where you know, I know here that people are curious and they come to a sound bath and they just do it once to experience, but it's kind of even though you can imbue your instruments with your with the energy and you can place intention in it, you know, Reiki that that's that cumulative practice versus that one session of a sound healing.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, yeah. Well, and with sound healing, it is also a journey too.
SPEAKER_02It is absolutely, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So actually, I call it my sound journey meditation, but you know, it it also is this same as Reiki, it's not a one and done, you know. This is you don't go to a talk therapist one time and think that you know, oh oh, thank goodness I had this realization that that would many people perceive that as I'm gonna go one time because it's a fun thing, but I mean it's you can have all the fabulous instruments in the world, right?
SPEAKER_02You can have an amazing setup, but if your intention's not pure, right? And that feeling safe, right? Making sure everyone's okay, they're grounded, right? Yes, it's so important, you know, because really anybody can just kind of take the bowl and kind of hit it and think they're sending it out with good vibes.
SPEAKER_00But it just gives us well, there is the good vibes.
SPEAKER_02There is the good vibes, right, for sure.
SPEAKER_00Yes. I I went to a training session recently and I would tell introduce myself to sound healer. Oh, so you have a bowl. Like, yes, I have more than one bowl, but yes, you're on the right path. Right, right.
Sound healer is right, right, right. You have a lot in the industry that you know, they'll watch a YouTube video, they'll take a weekend training, and they're out there and they're doing the sound maths, and then you have their set of bowls they bought from Amazon. Amazon, right? Then, you know, I had posted a question on one of the things on Facebook, and someone's like, Well, why are you asking that question? Can you look at yourself and why you're asking that question? I'm just I was just curious because if someone learns this on YouTube and then they're out there, and you and myself, you know, have probably decades of experience music theory and things like that, and it was kind of interesting. People were like, Well, they have to start somewhere. What's wrong with Amazon equipment? You know, and I'm like, okay.
SPEAKER_00And there's nothing wrong with that because as you know, when I first became a sound healer, I didn't, I mean, I I bought the high quality stuff, and then I have also bought from Facebook Marketplace and I have bought from Amazon, and some of my favorite instruments are from like Facebook Marketplace that I had no idea what I was getting. Yeah. You know, I was like, okay, sure. And um, but it's that is also a journey. And I that was another question that I I'm asked often, like, oh, so I bought some bowls. How do I become a sound healer? And you know, and the first thing I say is that you just you just have to keep doing it. And just like Reiki, like the more you do it, the more you get in tune with that energy, the the stronger your abilities become. Yeah. And so when at first you're kind of, I think, in your head a lot, am I doing it right? You know, my hands in the right place, you know, speaking about Reiki and even with sound healing, does do these sounds go together? And um, but the more you do it, the more you get out of your head and let the the universe guide you. Yeah. And then, and then, you know, and you feel you you as a practitioner have amazing experiences along with your people that are there to receive.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. You have to cultivate that relationship with your bowl and the energy.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So when it is time for you to get an energetic tune-up, what are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner?
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna say number one is um intuition. If um, and that's I think I I would I it's it's a feeling, a mutual feeling. Like, are you the right, right practitioner for me?
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00And so that I would say that's 100%. If if I present to someone, like, oh, I really need an attunement, and they kind of look at me like, uh, there's kind of like this weird and energy exchange, I go, like, okay, we'll talk about, you know, move along, go somewhere else. You know, it's just that the vibe isn't right between me and that person, and maybe they're um maybe they're just reading the manuals and not really delving deep into the practice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's a lifestyle. And usually when people come to me and say, why is it not working? And then we kind of peel back that they're not integrating it into their life. You really have to, and when you look at 24 hours in a day, maybe you're doing it for five minutes, but at least you're doing it every day. Yes. Bringing in your principals, and a lot of people forget that they just kind of show up, they do the training, and they're like, Okay, now the magic happens, but yeah, you got to keep going.
And you know, that's exactly what they tell you in massage school too. It's like you get them one hour, but there's 24 hours in a day. So, you know, part hopefully a good portion of that they're sleeping and resting, sure. But then the other, you know, however many hours a day they're doing all the things that create the situation that they need massage, they need Reiki, they need, they need, you know, just spiritual and emotional support. So I try, and you know, I'll be honest with you, I've been guilty of not practicing for myself a lot of time. You know, life can get busy. You know, I had three kids and I, you know, I worked in chiropractic offices that didn't support energy work, and so I kind of put it on the back burner, and then you know, going through my own um personal things, I kind of said I was still um practicing, but I wasn't practicing on other people, and I would refer them out to someone that I knew could be hold space for them because I knew I had to I had to work on myself at the time. Right. And uh and at the time I thought, what am I doing? I'm giving away business. And now I look back on it and I was like, that was probably the best thing. I I I'm really proud of that for myself, yeah, to say I I could say, I'm not in the right mind frame to help you right now. I'm working on me. Right. And so with all that said, you know, so that goes back to like when we do, you know, do these sessions with people, we have to encourage them. Remember to hold space for yourself. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And it's okay, but if someone has that wound for you to say no, because that's self-care for yourself. Yeah, you know, sometimes their energy, you know, it no, I I can't do this right now. I can't hold space for you, and that's okay. So that's yeah.
SPEAKER_00I even had a Reiki session not that long ago. I was really distracted because I was getting ready to go on a trip, and I just felt like kept just trying to tell myself, dial back in, dial back in. And then my brain was going somewhere else. I'm like, dial back in. And so that was that was a way, you know, a lesson for me as well. That if I know that the day before I'm gonna go on a trip isn't the best day to try to hold space for someone else, I need to recognize that and and honor their what their their needs are.
SPEAKER_02Right. Yeah, fully present.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So 29 years experience as a massage therapist, certified sound healer, somatic breath work practitioner, um, all these wonderful things. You own a business, peaceful journey studio. What advice would you give someone who's just entering spiritual work? Perhaps they're deciding I'm going to pivot in life. I want to head in this direction, I want to open a space and I want to help others.
SPEAKER_00Uh, first of all, get out of your head. Get really connected with that, that power that is calling you to do it. Take the time to do that. Uh, and just trust, trust that you're being called there, that you're being called there for a reason. And there is something much grander than what we could possibly think of in our own heads. Um, there's a purpose, there's a purpose we're being called. And it might take a little while to figure it out, yeah. But just um do the work with yourself and so that you can, you know, hold space, be present, yeah, and don't be afraid. Um, I'm I'm considering looking at a new location. I'm going today. And she said, so you do this full time for a job? I'm just like, you know, so people I think that can that could have been a barrier. Yeah. If I wasn't a hundred percent knowing, yes, that could have been a barrier to someone who's new, where they go, like, oh, is this not a real job? You know, so you know what I mean? Like, well, when I first started doing massage, you know, almost 30, well, 30 years ago, I was in massage school, it was viewed much different than it is now. Yeah, and I'm sure everyone knows what that means, like, oh, you do massage, you know, like you're a massuse, and now everyone's like, oh my gosh, I need a massage. I know, and they'll ask you, like, when can I poke you?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so completely different, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and so um, so I didn't let that stop me as a barrier. I was like, I'm a massage therapist, and I, you know, yes, this is my career. I went to school for this. It's not like I just like started rubbing shoulders and here I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
And so that would that would be the the the biggest thing I would say, just trust it, trust it, can you gotta put work into it. Um, and really once you start trusting the universe that it's going to land for you and your intentions, and you know, not everybody's wanting to make, you know, like I have I have my intention is not necessarily like, oh, I'm going to be rich, you know. Um, but it's like my intention is I want to help people, of course. And of course, with that, you know, we we do have to pay our bills.
SPEAKER_02And so absolutely especially like Nicky people kind of haggle and things like that. But I mean, you know, as a person who's holding space, you know, you have to pay for the space that you're in, you have to pay for your insurance, right? You have to pay for your website, your booking site. There's things that have to be paid too. And then if you're doing it online, you know, you're paying for your Zoom, you're paying for your education as well.
SPEAKER_00Because you're taking and with sound healing, it's like my husband, he's like, Don't you have enough? I'm like, no, I know, I know.
SPEAKER_02I think I counted, I had like 21 bowls, and I'm like, okay, this is ridiculous. And I have a sound bath I'm doing on Wednesday, and I bought another. You can't help yourself, you really can't. Like, and when you mentioned about different places, um, there was this kind of um chime that was supposedly like a tuning fork, and it was from Amazon. And I'm like, okay, I'm I'm gonna take a risk here. And I got it, it had the most beautiful sounds, and I'm like, wow, like, look at that. Like, this is like so fantastic. So that's another piece, but yeah, you just keep building on, and it's that's what happened too. Those bulls, nice quality bulls, you know. It's like, well, I don't collect China, right? Right? Like my grandparents.
SPEAKER_00I don't have shot skis.
SPEAKER_02I guess it's just like here's my goals, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00My latest, my flute. I know, right? I try to catch. Well, I I definitely took advantage of Black Friday sales. Yes. Yes. Things that I'd had my eye on for a bit. But I do feel like it every time you buy a new tool instrument, uh, it adds layers to the sound because what may hit home for one person doesn't for another. And so you may have that one they go like, oh my gosh, I I bought this really big drum from a drum store in Portland. My son lives down there. And um I was really nervous first time I'm gonna use it, and I'm like, okay, I'm going for it. You know, I'll just make it short. And someone came to me after she goes, Oh my gosh, that drum literally made me cry. She goes, it just hit me like at my roots.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And so then I was like, Yes, I'm so glad I brought the drum because I almost considered not bringing it because I was like, it's so new, I don't even know what to do with this thing yet.
SPEAKER_02Right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, have a few more drums.
SPEAKER_02I know about a year and a half ago, I went into a thrift shop. Sometimes you get lucky in a thrift shop, and someone handmade some type of shells, like seed nut shells or something, and they were you could put them on. I think it was a part of a costume, and I thought, you know, I could play with this. So I was doing ASMR and Insight Timer, and these shells have been like the biggest hit. And like people like asked Mary to play them, and um, and they're like, it puts them to sleep, and they asked me to record, and I was like, these were oh my god, I have some of those, by the way. Exactly. But this was somebody made them into cufflings or something. You can see they were sewn and things as part of a costume, and there would we are them, and I thought, well, let me see. And I just shake them up, and it was like, so you never know, you never know, you know, where you're gonna find.
SPEAKER_00I know sometimes it's like just oh, the water sound, or somebody on the opposite. Um, speaking of veterans, um, I did do the flumi on the gong, and that kind of set off his PTSD because he was a diver and he lost a friend in a diving.
Yeah, and that's what the thing too is this these weekend trainings concern me because being trauma-informed, because you know, fireworks is a big trauma, right? Certain certain sounds can trigger someone. So just to be extremely mindful, and it goes back to that. Do you feel safe? One should feel safe. One should feel that you're okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So now with that going forward, I too I do tell people. Um, one I get because I kind of I do I call it a journey, you know, song. I go to the the deeper stuff, and then I bring it down soft again. And like when I'm up here in this deeper work, this is where it may bring out sure trauma. Yeah, and there's some like I've had someone even say, like, I was he questioned, like, hey, am I in the right place right now? And so I inform them and I'd say, just so you know, yeah, you like embrace that feeling. You can question it at that time or later, think about it, journal about it, and but just know we're gonna go back to the safe space. Yeah, the nice, nice soft sounds, and that has changed. I haven't had anyone come to me with a like, oh boy, the gong made me feel like tricky.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. And I walk them all through it. And one of the things I also tell them as a trauma-informed teacher, you know, as you're laying on your back, because I have like yoga mats and blankets and everything, if that sound becomes too uncomfortable, know that you never have to force yourself through it. I'll tell them to put their hand on their chest and just raise their finger, and that'll tell me that I need to shift the sound. So I'll bring in a pushy chime or something. And I said, So when you feel it's starting, it's almost that kind of visualization of that frog and boiling water, right? You don't want to get to that point, and then like roll on your side and then be there for a moment. So those are the two signs that'll tell me, and I just kind of watch them so that they know that they're safe and they don't have to, because even like my daughter had a concussion and the sound would bother her. My husband gets triggered by, you know, and even people in the spectrum, certain sounds affect them. So I wanted them just to feel safe. So that's kind of an awful out there is like, let me know that's a way to communicate for me because I don't know how it's gonna land in your body. The intention is that it brings you calm and peace and relaxation, but it might bring some type of memory up that you know might be suppressed. So I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. And so that also um leads me to like when I began, I always tell people, like, come with no expectations, yeah, but it it and try to embrace everything and go go with the journey. Um because some someone will say, Oh, I just fell asleep. I'm like, Well, that's exactly what your body needed.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I tell people I take the highest compliment that you're snoring.
SPEAKER_00Uh some people say, Oh, I was seeing like colors, like so they have like a psychedelic response or cry or you know, and so I just say come with no expectations. Even if you've been here before, this journey may be different than the last journey. And with um, that is definitely something was talked a lot about in the somatic breathwork training. Yeah, it's like come with no expectations because you just really don't know what might be brewing down there inside of you. Could have been last week or you know, four decades ago. And it's gonna come forward and just go with the journey and accept it.
SPEAKER_02And what made me think of that is because you said just turn on your side because they coach you how to turn people onto their side because that fetal fetal position is such a safe space, and um, so then you can just feel like whatever it is I want to do, if I want to try, you want to, you know, whatever it is, then I feel safe because I and when you think about like CPR training, that's the rescue pose laying on your side. If you're by yourself and you have no one to help you, you lay that person on the side to go get help. Oh, see, I didn't even know that.
SPEAKER_00And here I have to do CPR. Maybe that's something they've missed. Yeah, I have to buy training. Yeah, yeah. CPR cervically to be a massage therapist.
SPEAKER_02So that's what yeah, yeah. So what books do you recommend?
SPEAKER_00You know, I'm not uh I'm not really a book reader, but I I hop on every single Reiki um online course I can take. Beautiful. And because of what I have learned is, and you know, it may cost$97, it may cost$14. Yeah, whatever. Um, but I have learned that every single person that teaches Reiki um has a different, I bring something new to the table. And so yeah, I'll go like, oh, that's a great way to look at it, or great way to verbalize it, or great way to, you know, um, you know, to yeah, verbalize it, explain it to other people, and like it may be something just that hits me a little bit more than the previous person. And so even though, you know, like I said, I was you know, level three 22 years ago or whatever it was, um, I just feel like I learned something new every single time. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So that's why it's there's no there.
SPEAKER_00So warrior goddess training, I could say, is I would if I was gonna recommend a book, would be one. Um, but yeah, I'm just not really like a huge book reader.
There's some people that aren't, you know, that you can always recommend like podcasts and things. So yeah, that's perfectly fine. That's that's what you what you use on your journey. So, what other uh services do you offer? Do you offer classes, trainings, events?
SPEAKER_00So events. Um I am okay with sound healing. I am a certified facilitator through life changing energy. Um but I have it, I am going to put on my first class soon, like next month. Yes, and as far as um events, um retreat is number one goal. Haven't done it yet, but it is in the works. And then locally uh do we're I actually this Sunday I'm doing a floating sound bath at a local FIFA Aquatic Center, uh local pool with a co-partner of mine. Her name is Laura Nelson, and it's gonna be wonderful. Her partner, longtime partner Josh, he's he's gonna be playing the guitar as people enter. We're gonna gently get them on their floaties, and then we're gonna do a sound bath. And she's gonna be in the water with people.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And um, and so then, and then we're gonna do another one of those next month. So it's like every month, just my Facebook or my website, I'll be posting events and the the class that I'm gonna do. I think I'm gonna start with um with the training for the sound healing, um, a Zoom, you know, online course.
SPEAKER_01Wonderful.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, because it's you know, you can reach more people from all over. Because, like I said, I when I was at this training recently, everyone kept asking about how did they become certified? How do they become certified? And so I was like, well, I guess now's the time. I've been talking about doing it for about a year. So yeah, let's do it.
SPEAKER_02All right, wonderful.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, becoming I've been doing sound healing for about five years and now finally becoming confident enough with all the trial and error that I'm ready to teach. Beautiful, beautiful.
SPEAKER_02I love that. So, where can someone find you online or in person if they're interested in a session service that you provide?
SPEAKER_00So, my website is peacefuljourneystudio.com. And that was the, as we mentioned at the beginning, formerly peaceful goddess massage and sound therapy. Well, it's peaceful goddess massage that transitioned to and sound therapy, and now it's peacefuljourney studio.com. And then, of course, Facebook. I'm still at peaceful goddess massage, and um Instagram is peaceful goddess massage with underscores in between the the words. So as I'm still in transition, I just kind of made the decision. I'd been talking about rebranding for quite a while, and I was like, I'm just gonna do it.
SPEAKER_02I mean we have the year of the fire horse like tomorrow, so it seems that a lot of people were pivoting and and switching and rebranding, so always a good thing, right? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I was yeah, I was a little hesitant about rebranding because everyone knows me as peaceful goddess massage. But I thought, well, I don't want it, I don't want to be seen as just a massage therapist anymore. Yeah, I want it to be like they know they can come and get the all of you know all of the services that I offer.
SPEAKER_02Well, that ends the first part of our journey. I'm gonna guide you through the second part, which are questions from social media and listeners. So here we go. Number one. All right, now how do you integrate Reiki into your lifestyle?
SPEAKER_00I I do self-uh guided Reiki, especially at times where I feel like I I need to be grounded. It's so easy to be like in this crazy chaotic world, and I'll I can feel myself just woo, like spiraling, and I'll just go take a moment, and then I kind of do my thing that I do when I'm doing Reiki with someone else, where I envision my crown chakra, then just being filled with this beautiful white light of the universe, and I can even do it for just a few minutes, you know, and then just until I feel good, and then I'm like, whew, I come out the other side, ready, ready to fill face the chaos.
SPEAKER_02Beautiful, beautiful. I love that. Number two, now we had talked earlier about um you know sound baths and uh practitioner practitioners. Uh so what in your experience, what are some qualities that you should look for or you look for in a sound practitioner?
SPEAKER_00That's a tough question. Uh, because you don't really know until you experience the sound bath or sound journey from them. And then, you know, if it just kind of didn't really meet my expectations, I say, well, they're learning. Yeah. You know, so they're still in their beginning journey. Um, I don't think that there's anybody that can't be a sound bath practitioner, or you know, um, it's just it's it's a process.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. And you'll find too that if it doesn't resonate, people won't come back.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And I I you know I reflected recently on my very first sound bath, and my husband helped me. He's been a great supporter, and um and then I look, I was like, oh, that was definitely a learning experience compared to what I may, you know, what I offer now, you know, whatever now. So, you know, I I I I just I give grace because it is quite a learning journey.
SPEAKER_02It is, yeah. Very good. Next one. What are the benefits of incorporating energy healing into massage?
SPEAKER_00With the it with incorporating energy healing, now you're you're healing the whole the whole person. Um, not just physically. Everyone loves a massage. I mean, well, okay, 99.9% of the people love massage. Uh, I I don't understand people that don't, but it's okay.
My husband's in the 10%. He he doesn't like the massage. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00My husband is not a fan either, which I'm like, yay, for me. He doesn't ask me to massage him when I'm at home. But um, but he's only come to me for massage when he's in real pain. So it's probably never really felt great to him.
SPEAKER_02Same thing with the Reiki. My husband has to be, and he's like, he calls it Reiki. Do that Reiki thing on me.
SPEAKER_00Work your magic. Um, but yes, with incorporating energy work with massage, I really do feel like I'm treating I am treating the whole person, not just your physical, because we can physically have pain due to our the other stuff that we're holding on to for sure.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. I love it. And also, well, I know here in Texas, um, I get a lot of um massage uh therapists as students because I offer CE credits for them because offer energy work as that. So that's I am a what's called a TDL R uh provider where I can provide the credits uh for the massage therapist towards energy work for their licensing.
SPEAKER_00Awesome. Oh yeah, sorry.
SPEAKER_02Well, that was our last question. As we've been talking, is there anything that you might have forgotten or something you want to share with the listeners? The floor is yours.
SPEAKER_00Uh, you know, I think uh we covered most everything. Um, I guess I could take a little marketing plug and say I'm offering um free somatic breath work right now because I'm working, I haven't been certified officially yet. And so I have to do so many free, and the only cost to everyone is their feedback that I have to submit. Um, but just know that it is such an amazing healing journey. I can't even describe in words. And and then along with everything else that I have to offer, it's like I feel like I feel like I'm I don't think there's anything else I have to add to my plate. I am also a forest bath, uh certified forest bathilitator, but I in which yeah, I am a hiker and stuff, but I kind of was like, you know, I think I got enough going on. So I feel like I my my uh my plate is like full, and I mean that in a very positive way. I feel like I have what I'm offering right now is so crucial, and especially with like the way the world is right now, it's like so so much uh chaos and negativity. And it's like we all we all need healing, and even if it's doesn't have to go on with currently, but it's like our lives, like everyone has trauma, whether it's minor, may have seemed minor at the time, but you've carried it your whole life, then it becomes uh you know, a form of uh what they call disease.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. Well, I even say like even carrying a glass of water for a long period of time becomes heavy. It's heavy.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes. And so I think this is the the kind I mean just what I'm doing, I just feel like it's literally there's nobody on this planet that couldn't use this this work that that we are doing, should I say?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, absolutely. So let us know your website one more time.
SPEAKER_00Peacefuljourney studio.com.
SPEAKER_02Beautiful. Well, thank you so much for joining me on this journey and taking time out of your very busy schedule. And thank you for all of the offerings that you are providing for everyone in the world. So thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. I was such an honor to be on this podcast.
Wonderful. All right, my beautiful listeners. If you want your question featured on the podcast, reach out www.ready setrey.com. Check me out on social media. I'm Tracy C. Wright, and this has been Ready Set Reiki.