Ready Set Reiki
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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 #135 VOD Kathy Milanowski's Healing Journey: From Overcoming Dyslexia to Reiki Master – Embracing Intuition, Community Building, and Transformative Self-Healing Practices
Join us for an insightful episode with Kathy, a remarkable Reiki practitioner from the Wisconsin Reiki Center, as she shares her transformative journey into the world of energy healing. Discover how Kathy overcame dyslexia and other learning challenges, guided by her natural connection with nature and psychic abilities, to embrace Reiki at the age of 42. Her story is a testament to the power of intuition and perseverance, backed by a supportive family and a scientist husband who appreciates her unique path.
Kathy opens up about overcoming personal health struggles like migraines and agoraphobia through Reiki, leading to life-changing decisions like moving from Seattle to Wisconsin based on intuitive visions. Listen as she discusses the challenges and triumphs of bringing Reiki to a new community, highlighting the importance of trust and personal growth. Kathy also shares valuable insights into what makes an effective Reiki practitioner, emphasizing emotional intuition and the commitment to daily self-practice.
Explore the joys and empowerment of self-administered Reiki as Kathy recounts her journey of integrating this healing energy into everyday life. Learn about the unique offerings at the Wisconsin Wellness Center, from themed retreats to online classes, and how Reiki has guided Kathy to create a nurturing community for all. Whether you're new to Reiki or a seasoned practitioner, this episode is filled with wisdom on using Reiki to manifest a desired life and enhance your personal and spiritual journey.
eet Kathy Milanowski, LRMT – ICRT Mentor Teacher, the visionary behind the Wisconsin Reiki Center, Healing Arts & Wellness. Kathy focuses on Reiki Training and Wellness Retreats. Her skill spans various energy healing modalities. She is also a teacher and practitioner.
Kathy conducts in-person workshops across several states. These include WI, MN, IL, MI, WV, VA, MD, and PA. She also extends her teachings globally through online platforms. Kathy is situated at the serene Carriage House/Wisconsin Reiki Center in Deerfield, Wisconsin. She is committed to sharing knowledge. Kathy also fosters continuous personal growth.
Kathy is a certified Reiki practitioner in multiple lineages, a Master Teacher, and an Animal Communicator. She holds the prestigious title of Licensed Master Mentor Teacher (LRMT) with the International Center for Reiki Training. Her skill extends beyond Reiki. It includes Holographic Sound, Heart Intelligence, and Wellness Retreats. She is skilled in Crystal Gridworks and various psychic and intuitive abilities. These abilities include being a Psychic, Medium, and Akashic Records Reader, and works diligently with her Heart Light.
Kathy’s contributions to the field have earned her recognition in Reiki News Magazine, where she shares her insights and skills. She’s also authored courses and manuals, including the acclaimed “Heart Intelligence: Understanding the Power Within You.” Collaborating with peers on notable Reiki projects is a testament to Kathy’s dedication to advancing the practice.
Residing in Wisconsin with her husband, sons, and cherished feline companions, Kathy warmly welcomes students and clients alike. She empowers them through education, personal growth, and the transformative power of Reiki.
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 and all energy work, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, I refer to myself as a guide. So I'm Tracy Seawright and this is Ready Set Reiki. Hello, beautiful friends, welcome. It's Ready Set Reiki. Live Wonderful here. Now get ready, buckle up. What an amazing guest that I have today.
Speaker 1:Lrmt, icrt, mentor teacher, visionary behind the Wisconsin Reiki Center, healing Arts and Wellness. Her name is Kathy and she focuses on Reiki trainings and wellness retreats. Her skill spans various energy healing modalities. She is also a teacher and practitioner. She conducts in-person workshops across several states and she also extends her teaching globally through online platforms. She is Serene Carriage House in the Wisconsin Retreat Center Reiki Center in Deerfield, wisconsin, and she is committed to sharing knowledge, and she also fosters continuous personal growth and an animal communicator. She holds this prestigious title of a licensed master mentor teacher, lrmt, with the International Center of Reiki Training. Her skills extend beyond Reiki to include holographic, sound, heart intelligence and wellness retreats. She is skilled in crystal grid work and various psychic and intuitive abilities. These abilities include being a psychic medium, akashic records reader, and works diligently with her heart light. Residing in Wisconsin with her husband's sons, cherished feline companions, she works with students and clients alike and she empowers them through educational, personal growth and transformation power of Reiki. Welcome Kathy to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 2:Thank you so very much, Tracy. It's great to be here.
Speaker 1:Wonderful, I cannot tell you listeners. You know her and I have tried to connect, but the stars have aligned, the planets, all good things, and here we are finally coming together. So let's begin this journey together. Ready to rock and roll or ready rakey? Here we go, I'm ready, I'm ready. So we gave our listeners just a little taste of who you are, so tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'm right now. I live in Deerfield, wisconsin, and a wellness center that's only about 16 steps from my house, and I'll explain that little story in a little bit. I have three sons, ages from 35 to 15, and two grandkids, so, and yeah, and you know about my, my cats, and I do have a loving husband too. Know about my, my cats and, and I do have a loving husband too, he's very patient. A little interesting note about my husband is that he is a scientist, so we have kind of different, different spectrums here in our family and it's very harmonious, it's harmony, you know. Yeah, he's also a reiki practitioner too. I love him, I love it, I love it. Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Sorry. So we've gathered here today to discover Reiki. So when did Reiki come into your life? Did you find Reiki or did it find you?
Speaker 2:Okay, so it. It kind of found me I was. I've always been so. Just to back up a little bit since a child we're all healers, we're all manifestors, we're all creators, we're all psychics, right, we're all emotional beings and sometimes we lose that right. It gets a little like a dusting over us. So we're not in tune to all those beautiful special gifts that we have through our senses to tell us navigate us through life. As a child I kind of never lost that and I'll explain why. So as a child I've always had a really deep trust within myself to navigate through life. Why Is? Because I had to listen to nature. I had to listen to the plants and the animals and humans too, and everything around me.
Speaker 2:Because I have some disabilities that kind of was shunned me into the world and I wouldn't be able to be productive. One of those well, I'm dyslexic, I have a reading and the main one is I have a reading comprehension disability. That means I'll tell this to people and people are like oh, you got to read this book. I'm dyslexic, I have a reading and the main one is I have a reading comprehension disability. That means I'll tell this to people and people are like oh, you got to read this book. I'm like you don't get it. Then Word the written word. I comprehend some of it but not all of it. I never know what I comprehend and what I don't. Now, through Reiki and other things, has helped me through that process. But through growing up I never worked on the written word. So in school they kind of like said you didn't have to do that as long as I was able to work with the teacher or anything like that to get the information going and do the tests and whatever. So never really writing any books or anything like that and whatever. So never really read any books or anything like that. So everything I learned prior to Reiki when I turned 42, I kind of learned on my own, like the animals taught me or environment taught me, or even the plants, the bugs, you know, I see patterns, I see energetic patterns, so that kind of never left me as a child, because of that, I think. And so through my high school time I became a pretty good psychic and I made a lot of friends, even being in learning disability classes. People really liked me because I gave them a good day, I gave them a little psychic greeting and it usually happened and it was usually a positive way of me putting it out there, presenting it.
Speaker 2:So I went through college, I learned in college. I learned through osmosis. A professor says you know, you're an organic chemistry and you're getting a B and you have this disability. I hear, I see in the paperwork, I'm like right, I do, and he goes. But you sit in the front row and I feel you absorbing everything I say. He goes. Do you know what that's called? And I was like no, but I get what you're saying, cause if I don't come to class I'm going to fail, you know. So I learned through my own, without knowing the words right Go meanings of how I started learning and so after I got that information, that was the most important thing in college I learned is that I was able to absorb my information. So throughout life I just kind of worked with that and flowed with society and things like that.
Speaker 2:And in my 30s I got really I got unhealthy. I started having problems and we were talking just a little bit about migraines. I started getting migraines and all these different kinds of ailments and I didn't know what was going on. I was getting out of tune to my senses and my surroundings and things like that environment. I was getting sick and I met this lady that was a nurse. I told you a little bit my husband's a scientist, so I kind of believe in the system a little bit. But I also understand there's an energetic system completely, cause I see that I see the pattern. And so this lady was a nurse and I didn't even know about the international center Reiki training Cause I didn't ever read a Reiki book. I didn't even know what Reiki was. You know, it wasn't out there in the world like it is now.
Speaker 2:And so I went to her little shindig that she had a little free, little welcome thing for her new center. And I went there and I laid on the table and she touched me and she goes, whoa, what do you do for a living? I said, oh, I am an antique dealer. I was in Seattle, washington, at the time and I was like I'm an antique dealer and she goes, wow, are you a little sensitive for that? And I was like no, it's one of my abilities, I do a little wish and they go into the light and they don't get attached to anything. And I was thinking, okay, whatever, and she's like okay, and in that point in time I told you I wasn't really doing well, so I was agoraphobic, so I didn't leave the house.
Speaker 2:I had a panic attack thing going on with me through about 20 years of it that I didn't really work in society so well, you know, and I had a lot of issues going on and I didn't talk, I couldn't express myself at all. You know, after years and years, you know. And so through that this lady touches my throat chakra with reiki and I'm laying there and I felt really good with the rest of it, but I felt pain, but I didn't feel her fingertips. So I think she was hoovering over my throat. And I tell you, tracy, I felt this pain and I was like whoa, what's going's going on with this Reiki? What's this Reiki? And I felt it was a bubble coming out and all of a sudden, right when I was ready to tell her no more, it burst and she goes, I'm done. I was like whoa, what's just going on?
Speaker 2:And my jaw felt relaxed at TMJ and after that day I started being able to talk to people, expressing myself the way I want to express myself, and that was an aha moment. I was like what is this Reiki stuff, still didn't go get the book. But two weeks later she asked me if I would learn Reiki and take a class and I was like, of course, let's try that. But I was an antique dealer and I did estate sales so I would have. I have about 15 employees, I would have four or five sales a week and all of a sudden, all the sales, for some reason, my partner calls me up and says there's no sales this week. Something happened. I was like, ok, so I take Reiki.
Speaker 2:And so when I took Reiki it completely, completely changed my life. It completely. It just started full fast. It went on. I went on a very fast pace and when I first got connected to Reiki it was Tibetan Reiki from the International Center, reiki Training Before Holy Fire and we would have to do an attunement process and I'll never forget again painful. I had carpal tunnel syndrome, really bad. It healed it, completely healed it, but I would go into gossip and then they would do this. I call it a cosmic dance and through that process it kind of like dusted my third eye off and all of a sudden I started seeing flashes. I started seeing flashes of my house in Wisconsin. Said you're going to teach Reiki in Wisconsin. I was like, oh no, I'm not. I live in Seattle Washington and I'm here getting connected to Reiki, so leave me alone. And then it shot another picture and showed my house inside. I have like a Victorian house, and in Seattle it's not older there, so there's no Victorian home, so I thought it was a dollhouse that.
Speaker 1:I have.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's a dollhouse. And they showed me aqua walls, all these different color walls. And then they showed me the wellness center right beside it and showed me all these colors and I'm thinking I'm losing my marbles. And I went on and I learned Reiki. The next I show my husband honey, can I touch you? I want to show you Reiki. And he was like, wow, I feel that that's, that's really hot. And you know, time went through and I went to do my master's Again, the flash came up and says you're going to teach Reiki and you're going to move to Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh no, I'm not At this, you know. I tell my husband that again he's like don't worry, we got it good here. Yeah, no worries, we've been here for 10 years. Yeah, two days later he comes home and says Kathy, we have to talk. And I said what he goes, my whole company went under and I have to go get another job somewhere else. I'm thinking, oh, oh, boy, okay, for Fastford in a year, in one day, we moved to Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:I had a talk about Reiki to the little village that I live in. To get it approved Took three hours, like through the thing. It was pretty intense, I got to tell you how to explain Reiki. That's the hardest thing for a practitioner to do, you know. Through that time I started developing a trust with Reiki, connection with me. A lot of different things happened and it wasn't easy, you know, a little tight and not kind of a little constrictive. And I gave myself Reiki and I started working with my trust with Reiki, with my intuition, and I started just going, okay, I'm going to do this, and it was a little tough for me, but I started feeling better and better and better.
Speaker 2:And a year and one day I was moved to Wisconsin, to the house that I told my husband, the colors and everything, to the carriage house where it is in Wisconsin Reiki, right there. And it was only so many steps away from the house. And I started teaching. Reiki was my first class and it showed me the trust and the development that I came back to my original self. You know my authentic self and so, after that original self, you know my authentic self, and so after that, every month after that, I've, for it's been. That was in 2013. So 2014 is when I taught Reiki for the first time and I've been teaching every month, maybe twice a month or once a month or whatever that is, and I started teaching it and I've learned that the most important thing about teaching Reiki is that you're a teacher and you're a student, and I say that too.
Speaker 2:You learn something from everybody, and that's how I am too.
Speaker 2:As a student.
Speaker 2:I heard that from you. I was like, oh yeah, we agree on that one. You're a teacher-student and it works right back to you. You know, reiki is an intelligent source. It will help you. It bridges to you who you are, what you are, your best vibration, you know, and it helps you get that knowledge. And so I was very open to it with the trust within myself, because I realized that I was building the trust, that trusting bridge to myself, who I really am, my vibration that really wants to speak, and that is prior.
Speaker 2:I did not know Reiki was going to do that, but I would say that would be the number one thing that, as even a teacher or as a student or anything for me personally, reiki has helped me open that up and been okay with that and learning to give myself grace through the times that I might not be okay with it or a little bit too stressed out or something's going on. You know I've learned that through that process of those times. Maybe it got a little tough in that whole year to move and sell things and do this and and move to a hunting village with Reiki that doesn't even have a grocery store. We have under 2000 people and they're okay with the Reiki stuff. You know, and it's, it's, it's just, you know, it's. It's wonderful how Reiki allows, brightens you up. So you are going with your flow for what you really need to do with Reiki and you don't have to be a Reiki teacher. You know you just be with Reiki and you could be, you could do anything you want.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what an inspiring story. And you went all the way through and those that are maybe hearing this for the first time, there's the International Center of Reiki. Right that has a wonderful program. There's not too many of you in that group there, so it is the LOMT, so you can get a licensed master, you know teacher with that. And so what inspired you to take that next step?
Speaker 2:Reiki. So I was a Tibetan Reiki master, I hear here I'm in Wisconsin and and William does have a home in Michigan and Hawaii. Well, I'm not going to travel Hawaii at that time, but Michigan. I was like I could do that. Maybe I never traveled by myself. I had this panic disorder, it was like, but I feel like I need to do it, so I did it. I drove all the way there and drove all the way back and I loved it and I met William and I decided that I was going to want to be a professional member first, and so I wanted to see here I've been teaching Reiki for a year, really love it, really changed my life.
Speaker 2:One, you know, I sat with when Holy Fire came out for about a half a year to see if I wanted to go to that way, and so I signed up for class. And so I signed up for class and it started changing right away. I mean the frequency was very different, really impactful, holy fire. You know I was like whoa, what's this stuff? You know what I mean. So I decided that, okay, this guy got something going on here. You know, I mean he is definitely something's going on with William that just he makes me cry all the time. It's great, I love it and it's a, you know, emotional release kind of thing and I was like, what's his licensed teacher program and the licensed teacher program? What I love about it so much is that you got other people that love to teach Reiki. Now they might have another side job somewhere, okay, or something like that, whatever that is, but they love to teach Reiki.
Speaker 2:So when all these things happen, like COVID came, we were right on the money, getting the slideshows ready to get things to still teach Reiki online. We all stood up and said, hey, you can use my slideshow, hey, you could use this, you could use that. And some people that were not really on online you know the older population. You know it's a little harder for me to do all this stuff, but I could create different things, and so we all got together and we were able to produce some stuff, you know, and that, to me, is awesome.
Speaker 2:That is a great group because you've got people of all different, all different personalities, you know. So it's kind of, you know, it's kind of neat to see that and work with all those type of people because they love to teach Reiki. That's one thing they have we all have in common Right, and that's special to me, because all the different things, how many tech, there's so many techniques, there's so many things that we do and Reiki chimes in with us says, oh yeah, you could do that and it works, you know. So it's just wonderful. It's wonderful and that's why I went to the LMRTs for community for community Reiki, community for Reiki teachers, and for me that was huge, you know.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. So been teaching since 2014,. Part of this amazing, you know program of licensed teachers here. What is a common misconception that you find about Reiki?
Speaker 2:Well, this is what I get all the time. You give me a Reiki session or I give you a little blessing and it's going to heal it. And you know what? We get that sometimes and that and I get it, I get it, I completely get it. But what I tell my students application, application, application, give Reiki, give Reiki, give Reiki, give Reiki, reiki to yourself. You know it doesn't it's many layers to healing. Sometimes you got to give yourself grace, it doesn't just happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know and I think that's the one message things that people want things a little bit faster than it it's reality will give it and that's right, that fast, you know bippity, boppity, boo right and you know, and sometimes it works that way and so you have the confidence saying it's going to happen, but not all the time. But if you continuously give reiki, you know, apply reiki to whatever it is, it does start to work and soften and start to open things up.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. So what has been the biggest challenge or struggle you have faced in your healing journey? You shared a little bit of it, one particular thing that stands out for you.
Speaker 2:The human healing journey. I would say it is my anxiety. You know, I tell people it's like I started getting my anxiety. I was married prior to my husband. Another man and I was 19 years old and I was abused, heavily abused, for a pretty long time and when I left that society like psychologists and things like that really didn't help me. Medicine really didn't help me. It gave me, got me very heavy and just different things and it just really wasn't working on my energetic level. That I needed, you know. And so Reiki started helping me with that, but it took time. It took a lot of time and it's still I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm here, I'll get anxious, but now it's more. Will something trigger me, will something make me get anxious? I don't want that, you know. I want to control that part right. And so anybody that has anxiety deeply, if they start healing, they don't want that to happen, you know, because they're good. Anxiety too, you know, the lift our senses up so we're aware of things and we're able to keep focus and do what we need to do and like talk on a podcast, you know kind of deal right, but but it takes, you know.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of like. And also, reiki helps you with techniques. It doesn't just start clearing things up, it starts changing your life so you're able to harmonize and do what you need to do to fulfill whatever you need Right, and so that those lessons, through those times and I know I'm healing People are like, well, how do you know you're healing if you still get anxious a little bit? Well, I'm not as anxious as I used to be, I can talk and you know, you notice that, like certain things like I'll think about, like my first husband, his name, and before I would get a whole body would sink into a little core. You know, really scared, now it doesn't bother me. Core. You know, really scared, now it doesn't bother me. That's when I knew I was human and that happened about two years ago and that was, you know, that's almost. You know, eight years of Reiki every day. Yeah, and I won't give up because you know what it's softening.
Speaker 1:It's softening. Yeah, it takes a while. You know, just like someone who you know they get a notification. Their blood sugars are dropping right, they go and get just like someone who you know they get a notification, their blood sugars are dropping right, they go and get a Snickers bar. You know when you're triggered and, so to speak, you can have those tools, like my sister had passed and I saw something in the store that reminded me of her. And then, ok, wait, here's it starting. I thought like I healed from this, but I had the tools. Ok, I'm going to just go out to the car, take a moment, breathe, do the Reiki. So that's and the important thing is too is that you're improving on yourself. Each day you get a little bit better. Just for today, you know, and even that's a teacher like okay, I, I still have some work to do, right, but I wasn't as reactionary as I was, say, say, five years ago when it first happened.
Speaker 2:Work in progress. Reiki doesn't just start healing. It gives you these techniques. That's the awesomest part of thing, you know. It gives you things that you need to do. Maybe I need to go to do yoga, or maybe I need to do this or that, or maybe I need to take a quantum physics class, who knows? But you know, reiki will guide you into those things that you feel the flow like okay, I'll try this. And then all of a sudden it changed. It changes you.
Speaker 1:You know it's beautiful 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?
Speaker 2:I would say that they are. I would say I like the intuitive part, the emotional tuition, you know. So they are connected to themselves, they feel comfortable with themselves that they're able to allow the information to come through them. You know, they don't have to tell, they actually don't even have to tell me anything. You know, I don't want a psychic review, but I want them to be guided through what part? If I have a headache, if they have to touch my knee, they feel good about touching my knee. You know that they're not going to be like, oh, but it's her head. You know, I want them to be drived by that intuition, that, that emotional intelligence, you know, through their heart center, to guide them through that. And if that they could be level one, they could be level 20, whatever it is, it doesn't bother me, as long as they're open for that.
Speaker 1:Beautiful, yeah. So what advice would you give someone who's just starting out in Reiki?
Speaker 2:Give yourself Reiki every day. Any student will hear me say this over and over and over over. A nine-hour class every day, two days you know how many days we have it straining but give yourself Reiki. I don't care if you're watching TV and Reiki doesn't judge you. You'll make judgments. I've never had Reiki judge me and if Reiki does make a judge, it just turns off. There's no emotional thing to it, you know.
Speaker 2:So it doesn't matter where you do Reiki, how you do Reiki. Give it to yourself every day. If it's a quiet place, it's a little bit nicer as a practitioner to think about your practitioner work, you know. But when you give yourself Reiki, you are communicating with Reiki and you're developing a relationship of that energy vibration with yourself and through that you could do anything. I mean seriously, yeah, and you know, and honestly, it took me a year and a half.
Speaker 2:My teacher would tell me all the time, do Reiki, do Reiki on yourself. And I never do it. And I go to her and she says you're not doing Reiki to yourself. You can still come to me, but you're not doing Reiki to yourself. I'm like, no, I'm not. And then I moved to Wisconsin and no Reiki friends, you know around me at the time and I have a digestive disorder and diverticulitis and I had a flare up and I was in the hospital and I came home and I was in pain and I didn't know what else to do. So I started giving Reiki to myself. I wasn't feeling it very well because I wasn't practicing it that way and I was in pain and that kind of shuts it off the flow a little bit, but I kept at it and kept at it and after that day, a year and a half later, I could honestly say I could give myself Reiki better than anybody else has ever touched me Beautiful.
Speaker 1:Because of my relationship. Yeah, yeah anybody else has ever touched me. Beautiful Because of my relationship, yeah, yeah. When you invite the Reiki in, is there a particular system you use Because you had the Tibetan? You know you and I are very similar as we have a lot of different that we have studied. So is there a particular one that you go to, or you just open it up to everything and all I?
Speaker 2:got to tell you. So it up to everything and all. So I gotta tell you so as a practitioner, not a teacher, because if I have to teach that, whatever modality it is, I go what they say right, you know, I'll, honestly, I put my hands to my heart and I just do a jolly good time in kathy. I bring in joy, I bring in love, I bring in, bring in Reiki, of course, and all my guides. But in all honesty, I'm like this and I'm set and I'll start doing my stuff. You know, I kind of like the three pillars, but I kind of like check in and just do what Kathy needs.
Speaker 2:You know, now, if I need to amplify it, yes, I will go to my book work and do what I call the three pillars. You know the gospel, you know Rajiho and Cheerio. You know, do those stats, because what they, what do they do? They bring focus, they bring your intention out and then you do the treatment, right, you know. So it's kind of like the same metrics that a human being needs. But yeah, I'll, I'll do whatever. I'll put Reiki through my eyes, my breath, my whole body, every chakra is. You know, we have them all through our pores. So you know we just pump out the Reiki, so there's not anything technically that I do like on a regular basis.
Speaker 1:So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 2:I don't read any books, do I know? So you're not gonna get any books from me, but I will tell you there's audio books, but I'm add.
Speaker 2:So I don't like audio books so I am serious, I'm osmosis lady, but I will tell you, tell people, here's this lady that doesn't read that many books, right? I love our java petter. I love his, I love his books with reiki. He has really good books with reiki. He does them with william brand too. But, um, I gotta tell you, with the work of reiki I produced a book. I'm an author, if you can believe that I can and and.
Speaker 2:I couldn't. At the time I'm thinking I'm not doing this, this is like horrible, why would I do this? And it's all about your heart, intelligence, and I've worked with that since a little girl, like I told you. So I'm very good at it, but I didn't know how to speak it, especially write about it, let alone, you know. So I wrote the book in three and a half hours, wow. I prayed, I connected with myself and I did it through audio and then I and then it took me about three months to, you know, fix the book and stuff like that, of course.
Speaker 2:But I did this book and I never had anybody look over it, had Grammarly I'm that Thank God for Grammarly, right, yes, and people love it and they understand it. It's a workbook and it kicked off my, my workshop, but anybody can do this, you know. Give them empowerment, whatever it is if it's Reiki or something else, you know. I mean, feel that empowerment and be able to be your own author, be able to speak your own story, however you want to say it, because everybody's important and everybody's different. Yeah, you know. So I'm sorry, I can't tell you too many books.
Speaker 1:Tracy, that's okay. Well, your manuals, manuals, right? I love the.
Speaker 2:Reiki manuals yeah, no, manuals manuals right, I love the reiki manuals. Yeah, no, I may have read them, but it's sitting very good.
Speaker 1:So your healing center, what other services modalities do you offer? Classes, events, trainings, retreats oh my oh my right.
Speaker 2:So you know, after the years things get, you start getting accumulation of things that you start learning and trusting about yourself. You're able to produce it out there to the public and offer it and see if they want it. You know, and Reiki's helped me, so it eased me, it relaxed me, so I was able to start developing different classes. So one is psychic, I'm a very much of a psychic. It was natural. No-transcript center supports so many different avenues that people don't really work with, you know. So it's a little bit of that. So it's explaining and bringing that out. Reiki oh, I love teaching Reiki. I do it all the time. I love it. I'm a holy. You know the holy. I usually teach holy fire. That's my discipline. That I do teach throughout the other, the other modalities I just use as a practitioner. I also teach a modality called all love. It's sikkim, sikkim and it's all, but it's not sikkim reiki so it started out that way with patrick.
Speaker 2:He's the, he's the, the founder of it, and how it got connected. But you know how holy fire evolved. You know around this, like you know around that time, um, all love evolved. So there's no symbols, it's not reiki, it's seven dimensional energy and higher, and how it comes through it's very different from reiki class. So I usually have to warn people that I'm not going to talk as much. Three parts of your body and you might release a little bit and that's how that. You know that modality is. So that's a little different. I always call it like it's a lot more than just emotional releasing. But your body will go into Kriyas and start Shiva Shakti energy and you start shivering and things like that and goes through.
Speaker 2:Patrick's actually coming next month to the second time. He's coming. Yeah, he's coming. Yeah, it's coming down to my center. So you know I let other teachers come through too. You know, let me do that and that's how I learned um my holographic sound. So a man from Texas came through, kind of like Taun Canyon's stuff, holographic stuff. So it's it's um bringing holograms with sound healing. So I'm able to, but I use that as a practitioner, so not everything I do, I teach you know what I mean. It's just so much do right, oh yeah. But you want to offer that light and that space right for people to get their own harmony.
Speaker 1:So they start of course and every system you study is, you know, now a part of you that has made you you right and you're teaching. So, as you're teaching, you know it may come up. So, yeah, yes, I, completely different. Yeah, different system is as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and it makes you, and it helps you be the light worker you are beautiful I call it the healing warrior, because you're healing yourself and then you brighten up, you know a little bit more for your own healing journey. But through my process and with my anxiety with this is another great little story about the licensed teachers program. So the licensed teacher program, when you're a student teacher or a licensed teacher you you're a student teacher or a licensed teacher, you William offers usually once a year to go to Hawaii, to his house in Hawaii, and we all get to jam and, you know, get to get to know each other a little bit more in a different area. And so through that, the first time I went, the first year I helped. My background in college is dietetics, so I know how to feed people and different people with different little issues and all that special little stuff, and I love food, I'm a foodie, and so everybody had like a job and so mine was doing the dinners, putting out the menu, and people would cook and you know I put out the menu and so that was the first year and I felt a little bit more like, ok, I could do this, I'll go another year.
Speaker 2:So I went another year and they asked me to help do the retreat. You know what I mean To to to put it out there and stuff. And so I did and I've been told, asked eight years prior, first when I first learned Reiki, to do retreats and I found a retreat center. That's the hardest part is to find a retreat center that you want like a stay over retreat center. You know rooms and stuff like that. I don't have that function. And I found it right away Like after they. I was told guided I was eight years ago and let it still. Yeah, so I go and ignored it. And finally I got the confidence where you can help me do that, the licensed teacher program. They didn't realize they were helping me do it. Give me the confidence to do.
Speaker 2:I was like if I could have everybody happy with their food and everybody has all these different kind of little specialities, I could do this. And so I asked I still was a little nervous and I asked my another licensed teacher again. You know you got this group and it's like, hey, karenaren cag, so she's a friend of mine, yeah, I know you had a thing and I asked her. I said, hey, will you help me do a retreat? I'll go call this place that I was eight years ago. Sure, we'll do that, she's such an extrovert. I was like, okay, so call up the place. I didn't realize they don't let anybody in, it's it's, it's a, it's a. It's a big pottery place. They have other places, but this place is so nice, everybody has their own bedroom. Oh, you know what I mean. Own bathroom in their bedroom is very, very nice. I was like, oh, oh, okay, so I get there.
Speaker 2:In three months I had 15 participants. Okay, that flowed pretty good. So when I say like extended retreats on my website is those places, places that have your own bedroom, your own things, you know your shower and stuff like that. And so I started doing wellness retreats. So Reiki actually told me, not make it just Reiki, make it for everybody.
Speaker 2:So if you have your husband and your husband wants to come, he could go walk while we do. All of you know he could go do this or do that. You know what I mean and we have that, you know, because, like, three steps from this place is a forest. It is beautiful. So it's kind of like came to my flow, you know. Now it's been asking me to um venture out of the country. I am not ready for that, so there might be puerto rico. So it was like they were like I get guided to puerto rico. I'm like, yeah, oh, I could I. Yeah, I don't need this or that, okay, I could do that with everybody. Because, yeah, and so it's slowly, my own self is slowly getting myself to do things. Yeah, produce these things, you know, and offer them. And it makes us feel so good when we are able to offer what we really need to offer right I always feel so satisfied.
Speaker 2:you, you know like wow, look at the light in their eyes. They glimmered, they do. They're happy, they have joy in their heart.
Speaker 1:you, know, and that's what I'm here for Beautiful. So where can we find you?
Speaker 2:You can find me in WisconsinReikicom. So Wisconsin, like the state Reiki R-E-I-K K Icom, and that's the easiest way. My retreats are there. My classes I teach online and in person, all my classes that I offer. If you're interested in a class and you're like that's what happened with my psychic classes, like I do it a couple of times a year and if my students ask, then I'll put it back out there. You know what I mean. And then it gets filled up and it's not fun. You know it's whatever you need and whatever you're called, right.
Speaker 1:And we can also find you on Reikiorg right and on social media, because I found that's how I found you on Facebook.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So I'm on Facebook. I have there's a Reiki group. It also is for any lineage or any modality, it's not just for Reiki, but it's called Reiki Studio, and so Reiki Studio is just a place for people to be and to ask questions, explore, you know, all these different things kind of deal. So that's been an empowering thing. And also on Facebook there's a group called Wisconsin Wellness Retreats and if you want to see updates on those retreats and little things that I'm buying, like this retreat coming up in June 26th to the 29th and it's four days, three nights and we're doing a theme.
Speaker 2:So we have a ball. We have people that you know over the years I've been doing this for five years so there's a lady that has a whole DJ set up. She comes every year. You know. We got the DJ, we got this, we got a choreographer that's going to do a line dance with us and we're celebrating this time. Usually it's the whimsy ball. Everybody dresses up however kind of metaphysically they want. This year is going to be be your witch, so whatever kind of witch you want to be. And so I got wands and we're going to make wands and broomsticks for craft projects and we're going to do Sukkim Reiki every I mean Sukkim, and all up every morning. So different things, you know what I mean. Like to inspire you, to bring you know, give you that little bit of love.
Speaker 1:All right, well, very good. Well, that ends the first part of our journey together. I'm going to continue on to those three questions. So here we go, and you answered some of them, but we'll circle back around. So, number one what inspired you to open the Wisconsin Wellness Center, reiki?
Speaker 2:Reiki told me. It said here's your visions, you're going to do this. And when I said, no, it still, let me do it.
Speaker 1:That's what I love.
Speaker 2:Like you, you know you had free will to continue to say no, but you know, but the flow would be so much better if you go to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1:I'm like, okay, yeah, right, beautiful number two. You just uh explained a little bit, but we can review it again. On your website you offer the extended stay retreats. Tell us a little bit about that one. That's just coming up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's June 26th through the 29th, all right, so it's Thursday through Sunday and a lot of times some people, a lot of people, fly down. You know they fly down into Madison Wisconsin, they drive up there and stuff, so they stay overnight. We always stay at night on somewhere else, you know, right beside there if they wanted to do that. But what's going on is so we have one bedroom rooms, we have two bedroom rooms and we have three bedroom rooms and so we have. We could go on the website wisconsinreikicom, go on to the retreat section, to the June one, and you'll see it will always give you a schedule of what's going on. You know you could join them or not, you know kind of deal.
Speaker 2:So with these retreats the meals are given to you. You know we have a meal, we have a chef, they come and give us beautiful, delicious meals and so all the entertainment and the events we have. We have a curtain group that comes in and sings and shows us, explains what curtain music is, and we go with that. You know we do a lot of different kind of little little events and exercises to get to know each other. You know a little ordinary, so you get all these people and typically they it's usually the top amounts between 15 to 25 individuals, you know. So it's not horribly large, but you still want to get to know somebody. You know what I mean. Some people and stuff like that and trade things and stuff. So we always have little interaction things.
Speaker 2:We also have a healing share that we do and so a lot of them are Reiki practitioners not everybody, you know, not everybody is and so they, you know, and then I'll give empower them to do what they need to do. You know they might play a musical instrument or they were all healers. Give some hands on love, you know, make them feel comfortable, kind of deal. So the extended retreats is just more days, you know from the day retreats that I have. I offer day retreats at my center in Deerfield, so there you'll see those. I offer two a year of those and so there's different little things. It's a little cheaper but you have to have your own accommodations through that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and lots and lots of resources on your website so fabulous, yeah, all right, this is our last one, and this goes back to that beautiful website of yours, our website, reiki universe, our university. What is Reiki university?
Speaker 2:Gotta love LMRT. So you make friends with them. And a man named Jay Jackson is a very good friend of mine and he messages me right when Reiki was saying you need, when COVID happened, you need to make you know classes online. And I'm really good with crystal grids, really really good with them, and I decided I will do a crystal grid class and I was like, what am I going to do? And so here we go.
Speaker 2:My friend the next day after Reiki, kind of pushed me there. He calls me up and goes listen, I bought a couple sites and I want you to help build them for me and then you could put classes on those. You know, do it yourself, pace kind of classes. I was like, oh OK, do I have to read anything? Because I don't want to read anything. You can do whatever you want, kathy, and that's what I did. So I basically built the whole site. So I built my website without reading and I built that and what it is is.
Speaker 2:You'll see different things. So it's do it self-paced kind of classes. So there's crystal grid works, there's crystal things, there's chakra healing kind of stuff. But what I what you won't see. If you're my student, you will see this.
Speaker 2:I give them a special code. This is what I really like it for. I gave them a code. They get to go in and they get to review all my my class that I taught them. So any class that I teach, I give them a code and now they have a refresher. They have a refresher of my slideshow. They have a refresher of some of my stories. Maybe they have a refresher or my music, you know. Just all these different things to help them, to support them, because that's important to me.
Speaker 2:So I love reiki university as a business sense, but I love it as a teacher, because as a teacher I could give them that information again. Because how many times you hear somebody like I went through Reiki class and boy, it was so, so much. You know it's nice to do a refresher class. You know things like that with the energy, but it's kind of nice to have that. Yeah, so that's that's what Reiki University is to me, you know, and it is Jay Jackson owns it and he has some stuff on there too, some crystal stuff. Yeah, it's really nice what he does, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, that was our last question, as we've been talking. Is there something you may have forgotten or something you'd like to share with us? The floor is yours.
Speaker 2:Nothing about myself. What I want is that I want people to start bringing more joy into their lives. Just saying little things, like I gave myself some iced tea, that makes me joyful. It doesn't have to be horribly strenuous. It's just that I gave myself Reiki. Or I like to see the color yellow, so I'm allowing myself right now to see the color yellow.
Speaker 2:You know it's allow yourself that grace and that, and for that flow to come out and for people to feel anxious about letting people really know who they are and opening up their heart space for that. You know that's a tricky situation. Open up for yourself. Go in a room by yourself. You know I. You know that's a tricky situation. So open up for yourself. Go in a room by yourself, you know I. You know. So a lot of people say, oh, meditate and do this way, sit still. When I meditate, I have to dance. Yeah, I'm wired. And so when I send out my man, people like how do you manifest all this stuff? I'm like every you'll see me dance and I'll manifest my day out. Yeah, you know, I give myself Reiki and intuition, like my, my future self. I'll give Reiki to them. Right, and it helps with the flow. It supports you, so figure out how to support yourself. Allow yourself to shine Very good Well.
Speaker 1:Thank you, kathy, for taking time out of your very busy schedule and thank you for sharing this gift. You're sprinkling Reiki all through the world here. I love it all through the States internationally.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it. Thank you very much, you are too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:All right, my wonderful listeners, if you have a question you'd like featured on the podcast, reach out wwwreadysetreikicom. I'm Tracy Seawright and this is Ready Set Reiki Cool.
