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A podcast about Reiki and Energy work. From the curious beginning to the seasoned Master Teacher. Welcoming all those who work with energy.
Join Reiki Master Tracy Searight as she guides you on a journey through this landscape of energy work. Each guest offers an in-depth unique perspective sharing their journey, which had 'a profound effect on their healing and development as a person. Come along on this journey and explore all the possibilities of working with energy.
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Episode #123 LaTanya L. Hill's Healing Journey: From Rheumatic Fever Survivor to Reiki Visionary – Embracing Energy Work, Spiritual Callings, and Integrative Healing Practices
Discover the world of Reiki with our special guest, LaTanya L. Hill, JD, the visionary behind KaReiki, as she shares her transformative journey from battling rheumatic fever to becoming a beacon of healing. Uncover the origins of her profound connection to energy work and how her spiritual upbringing guided her back to Reiki. LaTanya is redefining how this ancient practice can integrate with modern medicine to empower healing through her innovative Reiki clinician course designed for healthcare professionals.
Join us as we explore the intriguing spiritual callings that Reiki practitioners often experience and learn how to discern genuine intuition from fleeting thoughts. Reflecting on historical figures like Usui Sensei, LaTanya discusses the balance of doubt and faith in developing new Reiki systems, such as KaReiki and Holy Fire Reiki. By trusting in one’s spiritual contract, practitioners can fulfill their calling and harness the transformative power of energy work, clearing up common misconceptions that overshadow this healing art.
For budding practitioners, LaTanya offers essential advice on navigating the Reiki journey with integrity and purpose. From understanding the value of trademarking your practice to embracing positive and challenging experiences, she shares insights that protect and enhance your Reiki brand. Explore her plans for the Reiki Oasis Center, an online haven for spiritual growth and education designed to spread knowledge and healing far and wide. This episode is filled with inspiration, wisdom, and practical tips to guide you on your Reiki path.
REIKI BIO: LaTanya L. Hill, JD, KA ® Reiki Master Teacher and Chakra Healing Master
LaTanya L. Hill, JD is the creator of KA® Reiki, a spiritual healing technique that taps into ancestral energies while strengthening a person’s inner spirit and healing abilities, the sole proprietor of IMREIKINOW®, an energy healing company based in Los Angeles, California, and a writer. LaTanya has developed a Reiki Clinician Course for those persons in the medical field who want to integrate Reiki in patient care and self-care. As such, her company, IMREIKINOW®, is an Approved Provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing. The training manuals Reiki As a Complementary Therapy For Patient Care: Teacher's Edition and Reiki As a Complementary Therapy For Patient Care: Trainee Edition are available for purchase online.
She is also a certified Reiki Master Teacher in the styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho, Holy Fire® III, and Karuna Reiki® and a Chakra Healing Master. Her Reiki handbook, “Reiki Vibrations with 33 Meditations and Affirmations,” is available online and offers healers and lay persons Reiki advice, meditations, and affirmations that may be used in both daily and work life. As someone who meditates regularly, LaTanya is an expert teacher on the Insight Timer App with Reiki meditations and courses published internationally. She has been featured in and written for multiple Reiki and business organizations and has been interviewed about Reiki on various podcasts.
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Ready Set Reiki is a journey
From the curious beginner to the Season Master Teacher
All Energy workers of all systems and all levels.
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all levels, all lineages. Now, reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide rather than a host, as I, too, am traveling, supporting others and learning on this Reiki journey as well, and, with that said, I am your guide, tracy C Wright. Joining me on my journey today is LaTanya L Hill JD, and she is the creator of KaReiki, now a spiritual healing technique that taps into ancestral energies while strengthening a person's inner spirit and healing abilities. The sole proprietor of I'm Reiki, now an energy healing company based in Los Angeles, california, and a writer. Now she has developed a Reiki clinician course for those persons in the medical field who want to integrate Reiki into patient care and self-care, as her company is an approved provider of the California Board of Registered Nursing. The training manuals Reiki as a Complementary Therapy for Patient Care Teacher's Edition and Reiki as a Complementary Therapy for Patient Care Training Edition are available for purchase online.
Speaker 1:She is also a certified Reiki master teacher in the cells of Azui Reiki, rahiho, holy Fire 3, corona Reiki and a chakra healing master. Her Reiki handbook, reiki Vibrations, with 33 Meditations and Affirmations, is available online and offers healers and laypersons Reiki advice, meditations and affirmations that may be used in both daily and work life. As someone who meditates regularly, she's an expert on a Insight Timer app with Reiki meditations and courses published internationally. She has been featured and written on multiple Reiki and business organizations and has been interviewed about Reiki on various podcasts. So welcome LaTanya to Ready Set Reiki and business organizations and has been interviewed about Reiki on various podcasts. So welcome LaTanya to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 2:Thank, you, thank you, and it's LaTanya, by the way.
Speaker 1:No problem, welcome, welcome. So let's begin our journey together. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:So well, I am, as you said, a Reiki master teacher, but I have been doing healing my entire life. I come from a family of spiritual people, so we have gone to church on Sunday and then, you know, gone to our psychic friends and our healers on Saturday or Friday, so to speak. So it's been in my family for a long, long time and I sort of, you know, moved away from that for a minute and then I came back to it when I got sick and that's really how my journey with Reiki started. And that's really how my journey with Reiki started. I have rheumatic fever and I was misdiagnosed for the longest time and then I finally found the right, you know, specialist and I was in this horrible painful treatment and stuff and I was just like I have to figure out how to release this, because I can't see my life being this way and how to deal with this pain. And I, you know, I just went back to my teachings when I was a kid, my grandmother and my aunts and friends and stuff about you know your body being able to heal itself. You know your body being able to heal itself. And so I just like did a prayer and was like, hey, you know, help me figure out how to use this gift that you gave me. That I put to the side, but I want to reestablish, and, you know, went to sleep.
Speaker 2:And then the next morning I heard like someone like really talking to my ear, saying like you need to learn Reiki, and I was like, what is Reiki? So I went online, I looked it up and, amazingly, it was something that we were practicing down south, like the laying on hands. I was just like, wait a minute. We used to go to revivals. I did this when I was a kid. I used to be like, hey, it was like I could feel the heat versus a cool part of the person's body. It was like an imbalance of energy, almost pulsating. I would just pull it out and balance. I'm like, oh, it's balanced now, it's all one temperature, it's all cool or it's all hot or whatever. Your body's all in balance.
Speaker 2:No one would know what I was doing. I didn't even know what I was doing. I was doing and I didn't even know what I was doing. I was just like instinctually doing it. And so I was like, oh, I can do this, I can do this. So I like went online, signed up for the course and there goes my Reiki journey.
Speaker 2:I immediately started that like I was already off sick anyway. So I immediately like started learning and it just clicked, so quick and easy for me and I said, okay, I'm just going to do it to heal myself. And within three like I think it was like, uh, like within three months, I think, or I was already like starting to see results from me having to go get treatment. It took like longer and longer and then all of a sudden, like I didn't have to go anymore. You know, the recovery was really fast. My doctor even said at one point in time my specialist was like I'm looking at your results and by the numbers, you should be on the floor, but you're sitting here, happy, healthy, laughing, having a good time and I'm a little confused.
Speaker 2:But I was like hey it's the Reiki doctor and stuff it's so it basically like taught my body how to accept the pain and how to deal with it and how to minimize it to the point where, yeah, I still get relapses and it still happens, but I can feel like the Reiki coming over and just like calming everything down and moving everything out, which actually sort of started the journey to the Reiki clinician course, because I started all of a sudden getting a lot of people in the medical field asking me to certify them as Reiki healers so they can integrate it into their practice or they can use it at home with their kid or a family member who was sick. And it wasn't like Western medicine wasn't working for them because, like I said, it helped me both, combining them together. It was just that they wanted more because they didn't see the progress as quickly as they wanted. And then it was everyone from therapists, psychologists, social workers to, you know, neurosurgeons.
Speaker 2:I was just like wow, you know, this is really interesting. I mean, one was even a scientist saying I don't know how she was like I don't know how I'm going to reconcile this with my peers because we are so scientific and this is so opposite of what we're doing. But she's like. I heard your stuff on Insight Timer and I kept feeling this energy come over me whenever I did your meditations and my son was like mom, you can heal me, you can help me, it's in your hands. And that's when I knew I had to call you and I was like wow.
Speaker 2:And so I was just like wow, and that was like she's like anything you need, let me know and stuff. And I, you know, I was like ah, later, later, maybe I don't know. But then I would also get people from other states calling me saying that you know, I had a I. They're like I heard your again Insight Timer I mean kudos to Insight Timer, right, insight Tim timer. And they said I went through your meditations and I kept going and I kept feeling stuff and I'm a doctor and I was just like I don't understand this, but I just had this urge to call you or email you and I don't know what we're going to do in the future, but I just feel like I need to give you my information. And I was just like okay. And then, next thing, you know, I was like okay, I understand what you're saying, universe, I kept seeing this class and I kept hearing like you have to do this. So I was just like okay, okay, I'll do it. I'll do it and I did. It took me a few years to like listen, really, cause you know it takes a while. We're sort of hard. You want to test it? You don't believe? Like is this really happening? Can this really be for me? It's the same thing with, like with the Kabreiki.
Speaker 2:When it came about, I was just like you know, I didn't understand, like, what was happening with me, because, you know, I learned Holy Fire 3. I learned Karuna three. I learned karuna. I was very happy with those. I love them. They were well. I still use them, um, when needed in my sessions with people.
Speaker 2:But, uh, kareki, like all of a sudden, this energy just started coming to me and like it was it's like a blanket, like a heavy blanket. I was, was just like this is different, what is this, what is this? And I, it was like you know, the, the um connections were different, like I really felt a connection to everyone, like more, more than normal, more than anything else. Um, the healing was like so deep, it was like, literally, I couldn't physically move because of the blanket feel of it all, like a heavy blanket, and I could feel things like just pulling out of me and and then I just had, like this really strong connection with nature and and and like my like people, like ancestors, started like coming to visit. Okay, we're going really spiritual here. What is happening? Right, right, right what is going on.
Speaker 2:Like what is going on? I mean I've always had this spiritual gifts of dreams and stuff, like, but this got really like intense and then I kept hearing, like in my meditation, it's Ka, ka. And I was like what the heck? Okay, let me go. Okay, spirit, you're talking again. Let's do this again. Go online. What is Ka? What is this mess? Sure, it was like Tracy, it was like the spiritual double of the person, 100%, how I was always practicing from a kid all the way up.
Speaker 2:And even with Holy Fire. I was still adding in that type of teachings and stuff with my clients and I was like, okay, I get it, so we're doing Kareiki.
Speaker 1:Well, it's so interesting. So would you say that with Reiki, that you found Reiki or it found?
Speaker 2:you. It absolutely found me. I did not find it, I wasn't looking for it, I didn't know about it, and I tell people that too, I'm like Reiki finds you, it finds the people it wants to work with and it will bring you there, whether you want to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so interesting. Yeah, I mean you kind of invoked a memory as you were speaking. You know, I lived for about 14 years in Mount Pleasant, south Carolina, so that was known as the Lowcountry, and right behind my house and I mean you can walk on a path in my backyard there was a Baptist church and that's where I went for a number of years. I brought my children and we did do the hands. You know, hands on, that was part of that. You know putting your hand up in the air and you know, and so it's just made that connection.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, many of us have been doing this our whole lives. And then when we connect with that word Reiki and we dig a little further, we're finding, wow, I've been doing this all along and I have a name for it. Yeah, yeah, interesting. And insight timers amazing. Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. And Insight Timer is amazing. I'm on Insight Timer as well and, you know, doing the lives and having the recordings and it was a beautiful thing during COVID, for sure. I mean, what a lifeline to be able to Love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Everybody. I'm like everyone. I have all my clients, my get on inside timer, get on inside timer and, by the way, not paid by inside timer to say this.
Speaker 1:Sure, yeah sure.
Speaker 2:No, no one's paying me. I, I use inside timer. Before I was a teacher on inside timer, I did too yeah no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm sold. I can stalk you from a distance, of course, and I don't have to talk to you. Okay, and it's free that's the kicker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's free. It is nice that that has been like um, yeah, I love inside time. It's been a lifeline, someone told me, you need to put more stuff up. Yeah, it's time to put some more stuff up.
Speaker 1:I'm like okay, okay yeah yeah well, they don't realize too. When you do record things and they take their time with it as they edit, you know, listen to it and if there's any flaw then they send it back, and it can be the littlest thing and you have to re-record. So yeah, it's a process. They think we can just record it on Audacity and kick it right up, but it's a little bit more detailed than that. So, exactly so you have studied various systems of Reiki and then you felt called to create your own healing system and spiritual healing techniques. What was it that inspired you to create?
Speaker 2:this Again, it was definitely spiritually derived. I'm like like so, and I know a lot of people are, but I'm really, really connected in the spiritual realm. I eat, sleep, breathe, reiki and spirit. I, like I said, I grew up in that type of environment where the church and spiritual, the spiritual side, was just like combined, so I don't even know any difference, was just like combined, so I don't even know any difference. Um, and I just kept my, my spirit just kept saying, like you, you know you have to do this. And I kept dreaming about it. I literally had dreams about it. Yeah, I it kept, like I would be walking through my day doing my own work and I would hear like kareki, and I'm like dude, like can I get a break? And I know, and I tell people, like, when they ask me, like how do you know when your premonitions are are real, versus you, just really, you know, thinking it or saying it, I'm like, again and again in my head it won't go away.
Speaker 2:It's like a diff. It's not my voice and it's a different voice saying the phrase or word again and again. And that's really what happened. Whenever I would meditate, I would see myself training people with kawariki and I'm like, okay, you're just going to bring that to me, okay. So, and I was like okay until I started writing and delving into it. The voice didn't go away Only when I started actually saying okay, and then I started teaching both. I was teaching still holy fire and I was teaching kawariki and I was just like, okay, do both. You started teaching both. I was teaching still Holy Fire and I was teaching Kairiki. And I was just like, okay, do both, you can do both. And let me know what happens.
Speaker 2:Because I like the practice, that's the. I think that's the, that's the like, the teacher, the attorney kind of person. I want to see the process and I want to see if it's really going to happen and really going to work and and so I was like, okay, so you, you know, holy fire, now you know, do both on your clients. And then let me know how it goes. Sure, sure, yeah. And they did, and they, I was like you know, and I would ask her like okay, how did, how did you know? And what was the difference? What'd your client say? And they were like, oh, they said it was like a blanket, like they felt the heavy energy like on their body.
Speaker 1:And I was like, okay, so I'm not crazy what's interesting, as you're telling your story, this sounds very similar to kind of the path William Rand had, because he was always taught that that was one way. And then, you know, using the Azui Tibetan symbols and he had that calling too, the mind was, no, it's supposed to be this way, but you still had that pull to know this is necessary, this is needed. And so you know, I've been fortunate enough to interview practitioners, master teachers, who were called to create their own system, and it was that thing, that resistance as well. Like, I'm not sure this is already done, but I'm being pulled. So it's just fascinating the connections.
Speaker 1:And then, as us, as human beings, we have that doubt where we're not stepping into faith and say, okay, this is the unknown, where are you guiding me? I mean, when Azui Sensei went up to that mountain, there was already four, I think three or four different Reiki systems in place already. So he already probably knew he was educated. You know, he was a doctor, an academic, and so he probably was already aware of this when he rediscovered this energy, and he probably felt the same thing as well, that doubt. So it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean, it took me I'm going to be honest like it took me a year. It took a year for me to like 100%, step into it, Like, okay, this is Kareki, this is what I'm going to do, this is me. I, you know, this is what I'm putting forward from here on out and this is what I'm going to teach and this is what I'm putting into the world and stuff. A year, a whole year, and I, you know, again, like I practice and I'm telling people, I'm like what happened when you got what happened and everyone's always says it's a heavy energy, it's a heavy blanket and I felt like like something just like pulled out, but it was like something was holding blanket. And I felt like like something just like pulled out, but it was like something was holding me and I was like okay, okay, and different parts of the body. So I'm like okay, okay, okay. You know, because, again you're right, there's still like that little like, especially in styles of Reiki.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's so many, and I recently had a class with Reiki clinicians and they were all Reiki master teachers, so they were being taught, you know how to teach and everything else. One was a nurse and they all said the same thing. I was like, oh, this is really going to be the. You know, they all have various styles of training and Reiki and they all have different paths. They all have like really special gifts, so this is really going to be. And they, every single one, was like. They felt they like, yeah, I felt the heavy energy, I felt the energy come over me, or I felt it on my shoulder, I felt it on my hand, I felt it on my legs and their and their, their, their homework was to practice that night on someone. And they were just like, yeah, I practiced. And they said they felt like the difference. They felt like a heavy energy like enveloped them.
Speaker 2:And was like go, Karin, go. It's not me, it's like the universe.
Speaker 1:Of course, of course, yeah, I'm just doing what I'm being told.
Speaker 2:I'm really following my spiritual contract.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I mean you have that ability as a Reiki master teacher If you feel that calling. So if our listeners are that seasoned master teacher and you have that calling and pull and many of them never imagined when kind of catalyst for change in their life that they needed help with. And those are all necessary in your journey, you know, taking the zoo, taking the holy fire, help, that healing within you, right To help bring apart that culturally created self that you can say you know what? Here it is, welcome world.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that is 100% true. That's why I tell people. I'm very clear when I tell them.
Speaker 2:I said I will still use Holy Fire and Karuna if that's what's needed, because that system may help to like, give me my roots Like I love the tree, I love the tree symbol, I go hug my trees. I love the tree, I love the tree symbol, I go hug my trees. That helped give me my roots to create and blossom into what I feel like I am right now, to really really connect with that spiritual part again, because I put it to the a very nice clean, linear way instead of chaotic, it's very peaceful. So that's how and honestly, that's how I used to describe Holy Fire 3 and Corona. It is such a gentle, peaceful energy. It's just like cleansed, it's like feather brushing. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's one of compassion.
Speaker 2:Like beautiful. And then I I say what's caught? I said, oh cause, like a heavy blanket, you're just going to be like secure. It's like a almost like a shield on you sure, sure, wonderful, wonderful you're putting on that heavy shield and it's just going to pull everything out.
Speaker 2:You know that's, that's how that is, and and um. And you're right that my journey was like again, I didn't want to do this. It wasn't in my plan. My plan was just to help myself overcome my own issues, my own personal illness, and get to a point where I can, like, get through a whole month without being in excruciating pain or having to go. And next thing, you know I didn't want to teach and I kept seeing myself teaching. I kept, you know I didn't want to teach and I kept seeing myself teaching. I kept hearing like you're gonna teach. I'm like no, I'm not. Yes, you are like I.
Speaker 2:I really have arguments with my spirit sure yeah, and then here I am teaching and then I love it, I'm like and it was like I told you you're gonna like, I'm like whatever, so, so, so, yeah, I mean, everything is spiritually derived. I just follow what I'm told to do. Now I say, okay, I'm not going to question it anymore, I'm just going to follow it, I'm just going to do it and let's see what happens, which is how I ended up. Also, you know, I just heard like you need to get approved by the California board.
Speaker 1:And that's perfect, cause that was just in my thoughts, so you must be reading them. So we're connected. We're already connected spiritually so, with your company and kudos as being a provider for the California board of registered nursing. So working with those in the medical profession and going out out serving, teaching, educating, helping level those up as you are out in this field. What do you find is a common misconception about Reiki?
Speaker 2:That it is one, that it's a religion, and I have to like remind people that, like it's not, a religion, no, it's a spiritual practice, and, and, and that it is like, um, witchcraft, it's not witchcraft.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's not witchcraft. You guys, you know no offense to the witches out there, but it's not witchcraft. Um and uh, and that like, basically, that it just won't work, like no, it's not going to work, there's no. And I'm just like, well, ok, let's talk about and then I have to break it down Like, let's talk about energy. Do you believe that there's energy around you? Yeah. Do you believe that you are composed of energy? Yes. Do you believe that people, that energy can be manipulated and utilized? Yes, okay. Now let's think about this when you were a kid and your mom or your dad or someone in your family you got hurt, and then they touched you to make you feel better. Did it feel better? Yeah, okay. So that was your mom or whoever, putting that energy, that good energy, into your body, into that pain, to alleviate it. So let's magnify that now. And it just opened and that's it. I can start teaching them Reiki, we can start. We have a foundation, we have something that they can relate to, really, truly.
Speaker 1:Now, when you think of back, like in my childhood, of the things that I believed in that actually weren't real, like Tooth Fairy right, Easter Bunny right, and like, with all this faith, yes, I'm going to get that money under my pillow, right? That's that same energy, but you know you're connecting, you know, to a higher source. You know, and we go back through our religious roots of prayer. You know, take it to the cross, ask God for anything, and it's not that God's a genie in the sky, but you know that he wants our highest good.
Speaker 2:Right, absolutely, and that's like, oh, let's talk about, like this, definitely the highest good, right that energy is 100% God energy, pure cosmic God energy, highest good and people. I think that people and oh, should I even say this? I'm going to say it because my fear is telling me to I'm going to say it Especially coming from the background. I come from very Bible thumping religious background down South. You know they ask your name and then what church you go to you know, and sometimes what church you go to before your name.
Speaker 2:So so, so the thing I'm going to say is that a lot of people, I feel like they've gotten so into the dogma, the of the church that they forget that they are spiritual creatures and beings too. They've taken the spirit out of the church and put just straight dogma in and follow, follow, follow, and I'm the church leader, I'm the hand of God, follow me. But guess what? That person is still a man. And the same way that person connects, they have just more information than you do when it comes to the Bible. But if you read the Bible and you really go into it and you really focus on your spiritual self, you're going to have that same information.
Speaker 2:And it's an interpretation and it is oh, but God, people are going to come at me. It is an interpretation and it is oh, god, people are going to come at me. It is an interpretation and it is basically, I feel like people forget that they are just as powerful spiritually as that person standing up there that they're listening to, and they forget their power, because God has given us all power. We're just not utilizing it. Some of us.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, we all have the Holy Spirit within us. Yes, that's the thing. When he ascended back, it's within us. And you know my mother's very Bible based my mother's not for any of this the yoga, the Reiki, you know she is the Bible and she will slay you. You're not doing this right, you're not doing this right, you're not doing this right. You're not going to church every Sunday, things like that. And so, instead of stepping back and saying, well, isn't this what Jesus and the disciples were doing, they were going out laying hands. And it's not me, I'm not taking the credit for it, you know, but it's another. And you know my mother is a nurse, you know.
Speaker 1:So touch therapy, touching someone right, the benefits of touch right, the power of positive thinking, right, it's your attitude. I had a couple of guests, you know, reiki practitioners, that survived stage four breast cancer and it was attributed to, you know, listening to their doctor. It's never a replacement for medical care, but it was a wonderful modality to walk alongside of it and then remaining that positive attitude that they weren't the statistic, they were one in the positive, they were the survivor on it. So a lot of different things come into play with that. But yeah, just kind of keeping an open mind, you know, and observing and experiencing it. You're absolutely right, and that's another thing.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love you said that it's not a replacement for it, because that's definitely one of the things that Reiki is a complementary therapy, yes, yes, and I always I tell people and even in our class it came about like what if someone says, oh, because you did Reiki, the treatment didn't work and whatever, and I was like you know if that happened to me, if someone actually said that, you know cause? You have a care team, right, you all have to work together. And so I was like you you would remind that person and remind the team that Reiki does not take the place of medical care. You still need to have your care. It is a compliment to it. It's simply allowing that patient to open up their body, to open up their reception to the medicine, to the treatment, to the surgery.
Speaker 2:Reiki doesn't control the surgeon's hand. It doesn't control the medicine. It doesn't control the surgeon's hand. It doesn't control the medicine. It just allows that person to be more receptive to it, to get rid of that anxiety, that fear, that anger that you have for your body betraying you. It gets rid of all of those negative emotions so that your body can do what it naturally does, which is heal, so it can do any harm. It's not going to stop anything from happening. What is going to happen is going to happen, it's destined. It just allows you to be more receptive to it. And I can say that definitely from experience, because I used to be anxious, I used to be fearful, I was angry.
Speaker 2:I was like upset that my body betrayed. I felt like betrayed, like I'm like how dare you start breaking down at a young age and I can't even like? I used to be like gym lady. I was like people used to think I was a professional athlete. I was so like great shape and then I couldn't even lift like 20 pounds because it robs you of your strength and everything and I was just like I couldn't even walk a block anymore At the worst. I was just like I couldn't even get out of bed sometimes.
Speaker 2:So I was just, you know, you have all that and I kept thinking like, wow, if I had at that time a Reiki healer with me, if I had someone in that hospital, if I had someone in the doctor's office who could, like help me get through all these emotions that I had, it probably wouldn't have taken as long. But I mean, but again, reiki found me. It made you know. I feel like everything happened for a reason. So now that when I go and talk to someone, when I'm training someone, when I'm working with people, I come from a place of experience. I know exactly what they're feeling. I know exactly how, how they see things, yeah, I, I can literally say I know I've been there, yeah, I get it. Yeah, it's a matter of just finding it right.
Speaker 1:Just right too. There's many different systems out there. If that one doesn't resonate, perhaps there's a different system. But, like, I had a situation where my blood pressure was getting unsteady and I never had that experience before and we tried different medications. So that's an example right there of like, well, this one should have worked, but it didn't. So let's try something different. And so the Reiki just give that opportunity to work within you and be open to it, and it's cumulative.
Speaker 1:Many people think you're going to pull out a magic wand, tap you on the head, bippity, boppity, boo, and you're going to turn into this healthy person. Right, and sometimes it does take the work. This could be an ailment that was five years in the making and it's not going to wash away immediately. So you're looking at like painting something, and you have layers of paint and you want to get down to that original layer. So we're, you know, moving that away and also to the power of this energy.
Speaker 1:When my son was four years old, he had gotten sick and he was in the hospital and my husband at the time was in Bahrain and I was in Charleston, south Carolina. Nearest family was 11, 12 hours away in Pittsburgh, and the preacher from my church came and we prayed, we prayed over my son and I didn't know Reiki then, right, so that power of prayer. And he had said, you know, lord, raise him up. And I just was holding hands and you know, and we were praying over him and I asked, you know God, for a sign and I heard this crash right into the door and I turned and, of all the nurses, on the nurse, I knew her. Her son was in my daughter's class and I'm like, oh my goodness, and she crashed right into the door with what she was having and that was a sign. You know what he's going to be. Okay, that's my sign.
Speaker 1:But that shows you the power of this in believing in a higher source, whether it's prayer, the Reiki energy coming from you know God's loving light or a God of your own understanding, because there's something so much bigger than us. We don't know the answers. And whatever you can use as this energetic tool to help us get through life, to get through these challenges, give it a try. It does no harm. What's the worst thing? You're like put your hand on your heart, do your just for today. What happened? I didn't hear music. Right, fairies aren't flying around. You take your time and it'll be cumulative. And it took a while before I realized and it was when a crisis happened that I stopped and I said this is working, because I wasn't as reactionary, I wasn't as nervous, I was like I'm calm because I would be chicken. Little right, the sky's falling and in that, there it lies, in the work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that you said it and you reminded everybody, all of us, that it does, it takes, it takes more than just one session. I used to tell people I'm like, if you, I'm going to be honest like a very, I'm very particular with who I take as clients, because because of that yeah, Even with people I teach, because of that, because I don't want, I'm like, if you just want to have like one little quick, like session of just relaxing and whatever, then let me refer you to someone I've trained or someone else, because for me, this is like life, this is, this is life changing. I you're going to need more than just one session. You're going to like, you're going to need like one to two session.
Speaker 2:I mean like three to five sessions. I tell people because, based on what you're trying to do, I'm like do you want to change your life? Do you want to really actually make a change in your life or do you just need a moment to relax? Yeah, I just asked them point blank, you know, and they're like, oh, I just, you know, I just I just heard about it, I just want to try it. I said, okay, well, if you're exploring and you want to try it, then great.
Speaker 1:Okay, we can come in, we can talk about it whatever. But if you, the clinic and you had a care plan, like you're going to come in, this is your ailment. We're going to have the same hand placements each time over a course of months. So even Madam Takada, you know how many months did she have to go, how many times a week, before that healing happened.
Speaker 2:Exactly Like I said, it took me a while for my to heal my own self, to get get it to clean me out and get my own.
Speaker 1:So many people's healing journeys overcome their struggles. What's been the biggest challenge or struggle you faced in your healing journey?
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, For my healing journey. Honestly it has been. It was the emotions, it was like the anger. It was the betrayal of my body from being someone who has been like working out with my military uncles and cousins from the time I was like eight and 10 years old, Like I'm out there with them lifting weights and doing stuff you know someone who's always been athletic and in the gym and then all of a sudden, my body just shut down completely.
Speaker 2:My whole life changed, Like I. I didn't even know, I didn't know how to live at that moment in time. I didn't know what to do. I was in excruciating pain. I, I, I had to let, I honestly had to let that person go. Yeah, Like let them pass away and say, okay, that has, that part of my life is over. So I'm going to start from scratch and um and and work with this new part. This is who I am right now. But, body, you betrayed me. I can't. I'm so upset with you. It was emotional, yeah, but Reiki helped me to release all that anger, the disappointment, the sadness the depression that I didn't even know.
Speaker 2:I mean it got it got really dark. It got dark because I was like I don't see myself living the rest of my life like this. Like I was like at the point where I was just like you know, I can go right now, I don't want to be in this much pain forever. And oh my God, I can't believe. I said that. I never said that before, but it it really got that dark. Yeah, because that's how much pain I was in. I could not move, yeah, even putting in clothes.
Speaker 2:I, I didn't understand, like I was like this is not life, this is not living. If I can't do yeah and here you are helping others.
Speaker 1:Look at that. So you got through it and you're an example to show to others that you can do it. You did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well done. That's what I know. Like there's no way. If you really really are wanting to change, you can do it. You can do it.
Speaker 1:It didn't happen you did it.
Speaker 2:It can happen so when it's time for you to get an energetic tune-up. What are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner? What are in a for to?
Speaker 1:train. I'm sorry. I um well, if you were getting a tune-up for yourself. So, uh, as you're looking around and if you don't get any of your Reiki tune-ups, what are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner?
Speaker 2:Oh, I do, I do get tune-ups. I need them. So I look for someone who really they understand what Reiki is. I'm going to be really honest that they are very comfortable in their Reiki healing. I look for someone who has a gift and I who understands the spiritual part of it, because my spirit always walks into the room whenever someone's giving me Reiki. So I don't want people to freak out when they like sense something or feel something because it's very like a strong energy, or they see something because it's a very strong energy. So, yeah, I really look for someone like that. I look, I really do.
Speaker 2:I want someone who isn't afraid to explore and be very open to whatever happens in a session. That's, that's the person and I usually go to. I'm going to be really honest, I usually go to the very first person I taught and they're certified as a Reiki healer. I pretty much go to her. I, I yeah, she's very gifted and and she really understands the spiritual part and everything and I saw that in her before she even saw it in herself. So I go to her. Most amazing things from your wonderful Reiki that you have created your business.
Speaker 1:I'm Reiki. Now you have developed these wonderful training manuals that are being used by the California Board of Registered Nurses. You have a handbook, reiki Vibrations with 33 Meditations and Affirmations. So, in your own insight, timer, and I'm sure there's many, many more things to come. So what advice would you give to someone who is just entering this profession?
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, be open. Be open to all the experiences. Know that there is going to be good ones and there's going to be some challenging ones, but definitely be open to all the experiences. Know that there is going to be good ones and there's going to be some challenging ones, but definitely be open to it and understand that it's a process. And when I say it's a process, meaning like one minute you're like full of all this energy and then the next minute it may be like nothing.
Speaker 2:You may feel like whoa. I don't know if it's still working, but it is. It is. It's just you growing and elevating and moving up to higher vibrations and just remain connected and open to your spirit. You really have to do those. I'm a big fan of meditations. Please, please, I make everyone meditate. You have to be connected to your spirit and the best way to do it is to meditate and do your Reiki meditations. And you know just like, talk to people, practice on everyone, test everything. I tell people like I tested the theory of whether or not you can practice Reiki while having alcohol in your system. I literally got drunk. Your system, I literally got drunk. I did. I got drunk just to test the theory and, by the way, you can't do Reiki with it. I literally I got nauseous. I got so sick I almost passed out and I was like, wow, it really won't. Let you do anything negative it really is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, a good energy. But I'm not telling people to do that, I'm just saying Sure Sure and even if you go through, like you know, Kyle Gray does do Reiki, but he offers different trainings for his crystal and cards and things. You sign something that says that you won't ethically treat someone who is intoxicated or high. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just an ethical thing that, like you know. You know you say you're at a Christmas party and someone finds out oh you're Reiki, give me a. You know, let's try it out. And they're intoxicated. You just say let's do it another time. You know it's not right.
Speaker 2:That's right. I tell people that. I say if you do any drinking, whatever, stop before we do the session. Sure, by the way, people, people just starting out. Make sure you tell them no drugs. That includes the marijuana.
Speaker 1:That includes the biscuits and stuff. People nowadays don't think that counts. It counts Sure, sure, sure, right. And another thing too, you know, with those starting out in the business I don't know if our listeners made the connection as you're looking at Reiki systems, so we have Holy Fire, which is a registered trademark system. Corona is trademark and both of yours your system, car is trademarked and your business as well. So is do you think that's important as well, as a business owner to trademark has ready set Reiki I have trademarked as well. So it owner to trademark, because Ready Set Reiki I have trademarked as well. So it's not a topic we've brought up on the podcast before, but I thought it was kind of a good thing to mention, since I saw in your bio that you have registered both of those.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad you brought that up and you're the first one. And, yes, absolutely, if you're starting out with your business, you want to trademark, you want to do that name search, you want to make sure that it's original and then, as soon as possible, you want to go ahead and trademark it with the USPTO. Do not hesitate, pay the fee, do it yourself, don't pay like an exorbitant attorney, whatever. Try and do it yourself. They have, like you know, youtube trainings that you can look and see how to fill it out. And, by the way, if you make a mistake, the reviewing attorney will send it back to you and let you know the mistake you made and tell you how to correct it. And then you just do that and send it back and get it done.
Speaker 2:You really want to trademark your stuff because I've noticed that since I have put Kareki out all of a sudden on social media, it's a lot of imitation kareki, this kareki, something, something, something else, and and I'm just like no. And then I even saw on social like, just on google search, someone else had all of a sudden moved, put kareki as some a system that they did, and I'm just like, no, honey, that's mine, that's mine, so don't, you know, don't start like doing stuff like that. But, yeah, you want to trademark, you want to trademark your name, you want to trademark your business name, you want to trademark anything that you can. That because you don't want someone to. You just don't want other people to take it and use it for something not quite great.
Speaker 2:Let's put it like that yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's what I thought I'm like, if I, you know, I need to. Well, first of all, I have a legal background as an attorney. You know, even though I'm not, I don't, I don't practice on my license anymore, sure, but I, so I know the benefits of like covering yourself legally, and and you, and it's just that you really just want to cover yourself legally, you don't want to. All of a sudden, someone else is out there saying oh.
Speaker 2:I did this and I'm this and it's yours, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I've heard stories of people that have had a podcast up and then you have like something that's called like a pod fade, where you pause it for a while, they take a break. And then you have like something that's called like a pod fade where you pause it for a while, they take a break and then someone thinks, oh, that means it's no more, I can use that name and take it, because that person didn't register the name. So I found that out very early that in my journey that I need to make number one, make sure no one has this name. And I'm surprised, Ready Set Reiki no one had that yet. And yeah, and they've had different versions. Like I had someone on the show, hers was Ready Reiki.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, but registering it. So that way, how would you feel if you put all this work in and then you see someone and I even see this with Holy Fire too. I see it offered for $14.99 or $9.99 and it doesn't have that R, it doesn't have the Holy Fire, three after it. So be very mindful as you're going out there, making sure that it is that particular system and not a knockoff of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because William Rand is very clear and very specific about how he wants Holy Fire to be taught. And't blame him. You know that that's his system and he knows how it should be done. So, yeah, they definitely want to anyone who wants to learn that system. You definitely make sure that you go to icrt and you you do it the right way because I did.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, I did, I did it the right way, and if you want to learn kawariki, come to me and make sure you do it the right way, All right.
Speaker 1:So our next question is what books do you recommend? Oh, mine.
Speaker 2:I recommend every single one of my books.
Speaker 1:It's the call library.
Speaker 2:Reiki vibrations, the handbook for you guys. You want to take the course, you got to buy the other book. But if you want to do some sci-fi, my doll head corporation, but outside of me, seriously, like outside of me I love, believe it or not, I there's this book that I keep forever buying again and because every time I at least lend it out, like people don't return it. It's called the Doubt of Health, sex and Longevity by Daniel Reed. Okay, and it was like a starter for me on how to balance your body, how it gives you exercises, it teaches you how to eat basically eat correctly and it gives you the system, like the history and the philosophy of Taoism, and how to integrate it into modern world life. So I always lend that book out. It teaches you how to cleanse your body and I feel like you have to physically be right. You know, obviously for Reiki too, you want to maintain your body physically because we are here in this world and it is the house of the spirit. So that's a great book.
Speaker 2:I love that book. I still have it now, I still open it up, I read it all the time. I, you know, remind myself of the things I need to do, especially when it comes to the stretches and how to eat your food, and I mean like it'll teach you food combinations that are good for different parts of your body and for, like healing stuff. So that's like one of my favorite books. So that's like one of my favorite books. I am actually a sci-fi buff, so I'm an Octavia Butler. I read a bunch of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:All right, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2:All good, all good, so that wouldn't help you.
Speaker 1:It might, it could, it could, yeah, it could Anything. That's a part of your journey. There you go. Very good, it could, it could. Yeah, it could it's anything that's a part of your journey. There you go, very good, very good. So what other services do you offer? Classes, trainings, events.
Speaker 2:I do I have. Well, obviously I'm doing the certifications for the Reiki clinician. I'm really focused on that one right now. I also certify people for Kai Reiki levels, one all the way up to Reiki master teacher. And for the Reiki clinician it's a really special because it's for the medical but there's also the Reiki master teacher part of it. That's for that level, for people who want to train and utilize it. Yes, you would only be able to give the contact hours if you go under. I'm Reiki now like as a contract employee, but you can still use the method and the book for whatever. You know what I mean. I specifically wrote the book in a way that I said you know, maybe other people, maybe not everyone wants to learn Katreiki, even though I want them to but maybe not's where
Speaker 2:you want it to learn. So let me write it so that if you know a different system of style, you can still use the format to teach in that way and stuff, and so that's how. That's what I'm offering. So those courses are always open. You just contact me.
Speaker 2:I like to keep small classes, to be quite quite honest, because I like to really we get into it like it's a really intense course. It gets really intense especially with the, you know, opening up and the homework that people have to do. I have this really wonderful baby and me like session that I do where, like the mothers expectant mothers get to have like a meet and greet with their child in the womb. Yeah, yeah, that one is like really nice, that's special, or at least for the mother and for me we get to do it. So those, those are the things like I'm doing like right now. I'm really just like certifying people and having those sessions, but I really am working towards getting more, more people in the medical field into that Reiki clinician course and and in the nursing field, yeah, yeah, Wonderful.
Speaker 1:So where can we find you online in person?
Speaker 2:nursing field. Yeah, yeah, wonderful. So where can we find you online in person? Oh, so, online is always a great way to start, right, so you can go to, um, I'm raking nowcom and it has all my information. Um, where you can find me? I'm on, I'm on insight timer Of course, we had a whole segment and I'm on Tik TOK and I'm on, you know, instagram, and I just really actually started putting more of my Reiki meditations on YouTube. So, yeah, I decided, like you know, I want to make sure they can get out there to everybody. Very good.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, that ends the first part of our journey, latanya and Tanya, and we are going to move on to the second part, which is our social media and questions from our Reiki students. So, number one. Here we go. You created a Reiki handbook, reiki Vibrations and 33 Meditations and Affirmations. What inspired you to create this?
Speaker 2:and where can we buy it? I had so many questions when I first started out Like too many questions, like so many questions that people stopped responding to me Because I was experiencing so many different things. I found that Reiki works so different with each and every single person and I was having dreams. I was feeling I was having like like physical symptoms from Reiki. I was hearing things I mean it was a lot. If I could, just if I just had like a little cheat sheet, all the possible things that can happen with Reiki, that would be so great. And then I thought, like, wait a minute, I'm a writer, I'll just write one. Yeah, I'll just write a little handbook that you can carry in your purse or your bag and for people who just, who are just starting out, but also for those people who learn Reiki, who are Reiki master teachers and just stop doing it for whatever reason but want to get back to it Because I started.
Speaker 2:At that time I was meeting a lot of people like that too. I was like, well, I'm a Reiki master teacher, but I haven't practiced in like 10 years. What, how, what, okay. And so I was like, let me, let me write, write, I'm gonna write a little handbook that just covers exactly what you need, the different things and how Reiki presents itself with different people, as I was finding in my Reiki sessions with with folks and with my trainings, like three students can go in a room with the same person and Reiki presented differently each time, but that person still had this same issues. It was so weird but so beautiful at the same time. So I you know that's what inspired me.
Speaker 2:I said I wanted something that anyone can just pick up and use and understand, and just simple, basic, to the point. I always write simple, basic, to the point. I don't add any flowery stuff. I'm sorry, if you're one of those people who wants, like a whole detail, flowery things, then I'm probably not going to be that author for you. I like to get in, get what I need to know from something so that I can work and do what I want to do and then move on. So that's it.
Speaker 1:Number two can you tell me about Ka Reiki and can it be used with other systems of Reiki?
Speaker 2:Yes, ka Reiki can be used with other systems of Reiki, because I used to teach it with Holy Fire and I still do. If someone wants to know Holy Fire, I'll teach the Holy Fire and I'll teach Ka Reiki. But you know, ka Reiki is what I'm teaching now really mainly, and um kareiki is. Kareiki is basically. It is a system that really draws onto your ancestral and your spiritual part. It ka meaning double, your spiritual double. So it is really going to connect you with that spiritual part of you, because I found also I hate to say this, but it's true that a few Reiki healers aren't really connected spiritually, but they're definitely healing, but they're not connected spiritually. So Kai Reiki will basically connect you spiritually. So that that's one of the reasons why we don't you don't really honestly need symbols. You don't need the symbols and you don't have to do the hand positions.
Speaker 2:It's 100% intuitive, because you are so connected with your spirit, with kairiki, that it's already there. You are that symbol, you are. Whatever it is, whatever healing needs to be done or taken place, your spirit knows because hello, cosmic spirit, it's already there. So that's really what khariki is. It's your spiritual double, it's you connecting, it's you and your spirit becoming so intertwined. There is no difference. You're literally leaving this physical plane of existence and allowing your spirit to take over. Beautiful.
Speaker 2:So are there no symbols in the no symbols needed, like literally no symbols, no symbols used, no symbols needed, no it's, you're connected, like 100%.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. So number three, your company I'm Reiki Now is an improved provider for the California Board of Registered Nursing. Tell us a little bit about your company.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, my company is basically like me, working like a dog. Really.
Speaker 2:I'm doing. Everything I am writing, I am creating. It is it's me doing working remotely with people online, working in person with those people who are in LA or in close vicinity to LA. Um, it is me getting out there and working and doing presentations and and and figuring out how, what new meditation I want to put online to help people. Today I am my company.
Speaker 2:When you want to know about my company, you're like basically learning about me. Because I am someone who wants to really help. I want to leave a footprint. I'm working on a like online learning center right now that is going to be like called the Reiki Oasis Center. That I'm literally going to just put it on access on my website so that people can sign up and get, do online courses and certify and also have access to meditations and stuff there and conversations and courses, and and and I when I say courses, not just certification courses, but like any type of stuff like we were talking about earlier, you know, copywriting and stuff. Like those kinds of stuff, like from the very basics all the way up. I'm.
Speaker 2:I I'm Ricky now is basically going to put my teaching, legal, nonprofit government work, background and healing all rolled into one. All rolled into one for for everyone. My, my goal in my spiritual contract with I'm Raking Out is basically to leave something. So when I pass on, there's something left that's good, that someone can go to, that helps to benefit mankind and society, that they can utilize. And I hope that when I do leave that there's someone else who picks up the mantle and keeps it going. I mean, I'm even working on getting approved through the American Association for Nurse Anesthesiologists.
Speaker 2:And then I'm going to go for the American Holistic Nursing Association so the company can get certified through them. So I'm hoping that whoever takes over continues that so that we can. Really I want Reiki to be open to everybody. I don't think you need to. I think insurance should pay. I really believe it should pay. So I'm Reiki now is really trying to get and I hope other people jump on board who are bigger than me, who have more money than I am that insurance should really pay for this. You know Medi-Cal should pay. People who are poor shouldn't have to or who don't have a lot of money shouldn't have to not have the option of having alternative medicine. Sure, yeah, it's a. It's a passion of mine. It's a long-term goal. I hope I live to see it happen, but if not, I'm I'm doing my best to start the path. I hope I live to see it happen, but if not, I'm I'm doing my best to start the path. So that's how I'm Reiki now. That's how I'm.
Speaker 1:Reiki now, very good. Well, that was our last question and, as we were talking, is there anything you might have forgotten about or something you'd like to share with the listeners? The floor is yours.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, don't give me the floor. I can't talk forever. What are you talking about? Well, floor to the ceiling. I just want to say that you know, if you're really, like, passionate about helping people, if you're interested in doing Reiki and learning Reiki and experiencing it, then and if you want to learn about your gifts because I am really great at that that is one of my, that's one of my gifts, that's one of my gifts to be able to figure out your gift and help you, yeah. So then definitely I want you to like contact me and if I also want to let you know that, even if we like if I'm not like a perfect fit with someone, then I've trained so many other people that there's someone who might be a fit for you. So I really want a lot of people practicing and doing it, and you don't have to be a Reiki healer like for for your profession, but just for everyday life, just doing it and putting it out there. Can you imagine if everyone practiced Reiki?
Speaker 2:how and if it was in the schools, right in the preschools, the kindergartners yeah, someone asked me someone the actual, actually the scientist was the one who's like you know you should do this in our schools my kids school and I was just like well, I just you know you should do this in our schools, my kids' school and I was just like well, I just trained you, why don't you do it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, for sure, yeah, you know, and yeah, and, by the way, they have in the I forgot which country it was but there is a country where they are already doing that, yeah, yeah, so we need to do it too. So, um, yeah, I mean, that's really my, my, my big hurrah is like everyone should practice please.
Speaker 1:Very good, Very good, All right. Well, thank you so much, uh Latanya uh, for joining me on this Reiki journey. I really appreciate it. You have a lot going on which is wonderful and magical and amazing, and you just took a little bit of your time to take this journey with me.
Speaker 2:Thank you for inviting me and thank you for sharing your space with me. Thank you so much All right, wonderful.
Speaker 1:All right, my wonderful listeners. If you would like your question featured on the podcast, reach out to Ready Set Reiki at wwwreadysetreikicom. If you're interested in yoga or Reiki training, reach out to Feather Sister at wwwfeathersistercom. I'm Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki © transcript Emily Beynon.
