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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Ready Set Reiki
Episode #140 VOD with Kema Grace Embracing Energy Work: From Spiritual Healing to Death Doula Practice
this was a live episode of Ready Set Reiki What happens when we apply Reiki energy to life's most sacred transition? Kema Grace, an Usui Reiki Master, animal Reiki practitioner, and trained death doula working in Santa Fe, opens a profound conversation about energy healing at the threshold between worlds.
The journey begins with Kema's personal path through darkness toward light—from childhood homeschooling that fostered perpetual curiosity to finding healing through yoga, sound work, and eventually Reiki. Rather than seeing mastery as a destination, Kema spent seven years as a Level Two practitioner, embracing the philosophy that Reiki mastery represents commitment to a lifelong journey of embodying universal energy every day.
Most moving is Kema's work with animals transitioning at end of life. Through beautiful stories of connecting with pets in their final moments, we discover how Reiki shifts from attempting to cure to creating sacred space for peaceful passage. One particularly touching account involves facilitating a "life review" for a dying Chihuahua, guiding her through memories while easing her transition. This represents energy healing at its most profound—not fighting against natural cycles but accompanying beings through them with compassion and presence.
Looking ahead, Kema is developing a groundbreaking "Reiki for Dying" training that combines death doula principles with energy work. The course will address our relationships with mortality while teaching practical applications for supporting both the dying and their caretakers during transitions. In a culture that often dismisses grief—particularly around animal companions—this work fills a crucial gap in our collective healing.
Whether you're just beginning your Reiki journey or deepening an established practice, Kema offers wisdom applicable to practitioners at all levels: follow your heart's resonance rather than societal expectations, embrace the spiral nature of growth, and remember that true healing encompasses all beings—from humans to animals to the microscopic life within our bodies.
Ready to explore how Reiki can transform your relationship with life's most profound transitions? Visit www.unwavering-grace.com to connect with Kema's workshops, coaching services, and upcoming trainings.
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Speaker 1: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.
Speaker 2: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.
Speaker 2:Hello, beautiful listeners. Welcome, tracy Seawright from Ready Set Reiki. Well, today I have a wonderful guest who's not too far away from me, kema Grace. Now he is an Azui Reiki master, an animal Reiki practitioner, which I love close to my heart here, and a trained death doula, and among many, many other things. He is based in Santa Fe, new Mexico Now. He currently works with animals at end of life and uses Reiki regularly to help guide them into their transition. They are also absorbing as much experience as they can to one day begin to build a Reiki for Dying course and training so that others can learn these wonderful modalities as well and how the gorgeous universal energy can assist those who are going through the dying process. So let's welcome to this wonderful podcast of ours here, Kema Grace. Welcome to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 3:Hi, thank you, Good to see you All right well let's start our wonderful journey together.
Speaker 2:So a little bit of a bio here, but it comes so beautifully from you. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3:So, as far as about myself goes, I am that's a really good question. I know I was expecting it too. You said it in words. Um, a little bit about myself.
Speaker 3:I am a uh, a seeker of knowledge. I think that's the first and foremost. I think one thing that drives me the most in the world is having things I don't know and learning about them. Um, I was homeschooled as a kid, before I went to public school, and so I think that helped me realize that learning doesn't end every day, and so there's been a lot of kind of darkness and stuff in my life that I went through.
Speaker 3:I feel like I myself became immersed in my healing practice through the initiation of fire for lack of a better term and through going through darkness and experiencing the urge to numb the experience, experiencing feeling like I don't fit into this reality, in this world, which was probably true, because now, the world that we're creating, I'm like, okay, this makes more sense to me.
Speaker 3:The world that we're creating, I'm like, okay, this makes more sense to me. And so this long journey of exploration, being in tune with my imagination, and all that kind of stuff, led me through my darkness, into these healing practices, and so it was from yoga. I did Kundalini yoga at first and that introduced me to sound healing, which I'm a musician, so that resonated with me and that entered into the Reiki practice about a decade ago, which one of my fellow sound healers was my Reiki teacher, and that led me to breath work. That led me to death my death, doula certification, because I have this kind of interesting relationship with death my whole life, and so that so it was following these breadcrumbs along my path and I think that being homeschooled for the initial part of my life just opened the door to oh, there's, there's gems, there's nourishment here in the world, in every moment and every day that I can absorb as far as knowledge, wisdom, experience goes. Yeah, I wasn't sure what to say about myself. There's so many things.
Speaker 2:There is so many things, and your journey is similar to mine. I started in yoga, right, and it's amazing how the practice of yoga opens you up. Right, you go through those eight limbs and moving on to other modalities that led you to where you are. I love it. I love it. So we're here talking about Reiki. So when did Reiki come into your life? Did you find Reiki or did it find you?
Speaker 3:Reiki definitely found me, I think so. I'm a Leo sun and I have a Capricorn stellium, which, for anyone that doesn't really know about that stuff, I have Capricorn in four placements in my chart.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:And so yeah, but good thing, because as a Leo, it keeps me a little bit grounded.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:But as much as Capricorn does, and through my sound healing practice is definitely I found my Reiki teacher through that. I am a very skeptical person. That may be the Capricorn as well, that where I'm like, okay, I'm not 100% sure until I prove it to myself. Sure, one of my friends had mentioned that he started learning Reiki and so my my competitive side kicked in and so I was like, oh, you're learning Reiki, I want to learn Reiki too, and so I dove in in. So it kind of found me through my friend Yusef.
Speaker 3:But, um, yeah, we found each other. I I'd say we found each other through that. And and when I started learning Reiki, it was very much something where the symbols I memorized immediately. Everything was very familiar to me and so I was, and so it felt like it definitely passed life experience. Um, so that was uh, very good, because my teacher was saying she's like well, it wasn't like that for me and so because you have your own journey and so you're like me, one of the biggest pitfalls is you take your journey and you expect everyone else to have the same journey.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:So for that, when you open your door and you're like, oh okay, this is a completely different journey that helps you to relate that and to share um from the fun foundations, as opposed to expecting people to have the same foundations as you.
Speaker 2:Right, right, and as you go through it and all your learning and training, and you're like probably coming across things that you've probably been doing your whole life, or symbols that, hey, this is familiar to me and you expect others to be like that, and they have like no clue what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and with a few students that I've taught it, it has been like, okay, you know certain symbols. It's like none of the symbols. I'm like you don't have to memorize any of the symbols or use them, but some of them are the harder for other. You know there's harder symbols that are more intricate than others, and I'm just like don't learn it on your own pace when it calls to you it calls to you, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there's probably a couple that you use more than others.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely, and that's funny that you mentioned that too, because now that I'm thinking about it, when I was a child, I was in the mountains of New Mexico and all of my imagination and playing fantasy world. I was always a cleric. I was always someone that wanted to use my energy for healing. So I think that as a child, it was always resonating within me that this was a path I wanted to take yeah and the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as a little kid and even like when my children were born, but I did it with prayer, like I was laying hands on them or I go lay hands on a carpet. It was with prayer. And so, as I learned the Reiki, I'm like, oh my goodness, this is things I've been doing my whole life and I would doodle as a child. And then I would see the symbol, like, oh my goodness, this is like I used to doodle this as a child. I I'm like, oh my goodness, this is like I used to doodle this as a child, I love that Interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So a zooey master teacher animal Reiki practitioner, as you're out navigating, as you're teaching students, as you're learning and growing, as you're working with animals. What is the misconception that you have found that people think about Reiki? Well, one thing that's coming through again is in your introduction, you mentioned how Reiki is not a destination, it's, it's a journey or something like that. I'm not sure if those are the words you used, but for me, that's the. That's really. When I did, I spent seven years as a level two practitioner before I went into my mastery, and so when I stepped into my mastery, the my master, the teacher that attuned me and trained me as a master, is is local here, and one of the biggest emphasis, emphasis, emphasis is was that master in Reiki doesn't mean you've made it and you're this master and you own this power, and, above everyone else, it's that you're willing to accept Reiki as a life path, as a journey that you take in life, as something that you embody every day, as something that you bring in and learn from every day, and that just resonates with me as well.
Speaker 3:It can almost get to this place of like inadequacy. That's where I used to come from in my life, where I'm learning, learning, learning. I want to know more to be enough. But now it's in this place of this growth consciousness where it's just like it feels so good to take this path and open in this way and then open in that way and to be able to share that with people as well, because my healing journey as I coach people now it's all the stuff that I've learned. Now we can compartment, we can put it into a condensed form, and so I think that's really beneficial and that's seems to be what happens with Reiki and with anything else in the world. When someone gets a skill level, then that can be the foundational level, kind of like the plateau that people take it from and elevate it from their own perspective. And that's what seems to happen.
Speaker 2:Right and kudos for taking the time. I mean seven years. We're in a time now where many people fly through it. I know in my experience it was like boom, boom, boom. It was this fire energy, go, go, go. Couldn't get enough. But to take that time to really marinate on it right and take your time with it. You don't hear that as much right now versus years ago where there was that?
Speaker 2:No, you had to wait a certain amount of time. No, people waited years for it, and everybody wants that. You know, take a class in five days, right, or?
Speaker 1:you know.
Speaker 2:Watch it online and you can be it in a couple hours yeah, and I mean, part of that was also my skepticism.
Speaker 3:Part of that was I was still proving to myself that it was, that it was real to me, because I I'm not. I'm more of a clear cognizant, so I'm more of a claircognizant, so I'm more of a knowing energy and not as much fine-tuned in the feeling, and so it's this faith that I've had to build throughout. Reiki is an act of faith to me. To stand and to do this and to trust that, even if someone doesn't feel something or they don't trust it or they don't know what it is or they are already coming in with the perception that they're not going to believe in it, to trust that they received what they needed from it. It's really a powerful, faithful lifestyle, in a way.
Speaker 2:Right, right. So, in addition to helping others with Reiki and being a teacher, you help animals as well through their pain and suffering. So helping individuals with their challenges and struggles humans and for our babies what has been a struggle or challenge you faced in your own healing journey.
Speaker 3:So there's been plenty of those. I think that there's so growing up. I was very different from the community I grew up in, and so one of the biggest things I do and that's where I focus my coaching practice is helping people who are I use the term mold breakers but misfits outcasts I like to use more empowering terms for that Helping people like me, because through my healing journey and through the practices meditation, yoga, sound healing, breathwork especially breathwork and Reiki it's been the challenge of allowing myself to land here on earth. In a way if that makes sense, it's. It's this disembodied feeling, walking on this planet in a society that tells you that you're wrong for being who you are Right, and to reconcile that and heal that within yourself is kind of like being an alien that's coming and deciding to truly move move to the move to earth, for lack of a better way.
Speaker 3:So the healing has been to to become that mold breaker and to own that and to learn about the spiritual laws and kind of be like well, it is up to me how I experience and perceive this planet. So I'm going to come from love. That's one of the biggest things is how do you embody love in a in a planet where fear is trending, and that's a really bold, I think. That's that is activism to me, to be to love. That's the activism, the kind of warriors that we're seeing in the world right now. It's not about fighting with weapons, it's about owning our love and our light in the face of darkness and fear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it seems, more than ever, so many people are coming to find modalities and those of us with modalities, we're getting multiple ones. You know you have like five or 10 or 15 different things that you're using. So you know we have yoga, right, you and I have sound bowls, we have animal Reiki, azui, and we're just collecting all this and then you're moving into, you know you're into, like coaching, and now you're moving into, you know, creating a course. So all of these things, as you said, that foundation that you know you're into, like coaching, and now you're moving into, you know, creating a course. So all of these things, as you said, that foundation that you hit, that you can propel yourself to your true purpose. So this is all parts of the puzzle that's going to create this really wonderful uh, you know, um, offerings that you're going to give to the world. So it's wonderful, wonderful. So, when it's time for you to get an energetic tune up, what qualities do you look for in a Reiki practitioner?
Speaker 3:So my Reiki teacher here is pretty much embodies, all of it. She owns the metaphysical shop that I do sound baths at, and she is just so down to earth, grounded, real. You know, she's straightforward. I look for someone that is grounded on this planet because throughout the yoga, especially in the Kundalini yoga not speaking anything against or for anyone everyone has their own journey. But back when I was taking seven years ago, it was this what they call spiritual Novocaine, and I see that in different yoga communities here, where people are emphasizing the separation from the body, emphasizing the spirit and the etherical, but not realizing that this material world is part of the spiritual experience. And so what I look for is someone that's really grounded in the material world, that's practical and she's really powerful too. She was the first person I took Reiki from. That doesn't do touch Reiki.
Speaker 3:I do hands-on Reiki and so going to her. It was just this different experience that also kept me moving along the line of trusting Reiki, because you know you have to be in this whole other realm of being able to feel and experience and open to that level.
Speaker 2:Sure Did she give Reiki to the aura um, well, she gave reiki to.
Speaker 3:I know that she was in the akashic records, okay, she said she was seeing a lot of um contracts that I had being signed, completed and filed by my a guardian angel or something. So I guess that was a quantum akashic field kind of and it was around the aura, but it was also very physical.
Speaker 3:She said that she felt on this side, which is really interesting because I'm working on a lot of masculine healing in my life in the world, and so she was saying she was taking off armor on this side and um, so now it's been like this soft and exposed but vulnerable, and and allowed to be that experience Beautiful.
Speaker 2:Is she also a Zui?
Speaker 1:She's also a Zui.
Speaker 2:Okay, does she do any other type of systems of Reiki? As you, as you know, as you go out there, there's so many different systems.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that's the funny thing is, that's where she and I differ, is she keeps it with Usui and I'm very much like, oh, I, oh, what is this Reiki, what is this one Like? I like to look at them, but she's she and it's very practical as well. She's a Virgo, and so it's very like this is effective, it works and it's really all I need, and that's really great too. She deepens her practice with Usui too, and it's really cool.
Speaker 2:Beautiful beautiful.
Speaker 3:So what advice would you give someone who's just entering this spiritual work? Advice, let's see what advice would I have given myself if I was just entering my spiritual work. I think that one of the most important things you can do is learn how to follow your heart resonance. Okay. So what does that mean? Follow what feels right to you or what kind of sparks that passion, whether or not everyone else is doing it. One good example of that for me is I don't resonate with I know I've talked about astrology, but I don't resonate with studying astrology to its bones, and a lot of people kind of take that as, oh, if you're spiritual, you have to know astrology.
Speaker 3:So one of those big things is when you learn to follow your heart resonance, follow the things that resonate with you, so the things that feel good in your body or that spark that passion.
Speaker 3:The other thing is it's always going to be seem like two steps forward, one step back.
Speaker 3:Sometimes it's going to feel like one step forward, two steps back, and so when we cycle through, it's going to feel maybe like a circle, but it's.
Speaker 3:It's this spiral motion that you're taking as you go along your journey. So when you cycle through, if you're on your healing or spiritual journey and you're in your meditations or whatever, and something comes up that reminds you like you were five years ago, trust that you're still releasing some of that, that you're not returning to it, that you're progressing through more of it because it has to be revealed if it's to be healed, and so if there's still more within you, you're going to see more of it and face it and move through it. So if you were relying on say, for me it was drugs and alcohol do your best not to drop back into your old habits of numbing. When you face those times, dive into your practice, dive into your meditation, your rake reiki, your breath work and call on that energy to help you move through it, to face it and without bypassing it right, right, and you made an interesting point.
Speaker 2:You know, as a yogi, there's always that, oh, you have to do astrology and I've had students ask me, like about the moon and stars, and I'm like I, I've not gone that deep like I, you know, so they automatically assume that that you know all of this and so, yeah, go with what resonates with you. And it's something I just kind of I glanced at a little bit, but I didn't go down the rabbit hole as much as, say, sound bowls or, um, you know other systems of reiki, so, yeah, yeah, and they're more fun.
Speaker 3:they're just more fun to me, and some people find astrology more fun, and that's really what it is. Oh yeah, there's some are fantastic at it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they light up when they talk about it and you know, and it's like I'm having trouble, you know, keeping track of what moon it is.
Speaker 3:But the thing is, we feel it still, and that's the thing too, if someone asks about the stars and the cosmic cycles, when we're clearing ourselves out on the regular it's like what am I feeling? And I can explain what I'm feeling Like right now it's really a big Phoenix moment and that's what I'm feeling in the world that we're going through, yeah, yeah, and the whole teaching this week has been like shedding your skin.
Speaker 2:You know that you're a snake right, shedding, letting go. So a lot of things are happening, and it's in my personal, but then in my teaching as well. So, yeah, so you can feel it. You can definitely feel it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, I so someone starting their spiritual journey, especially people who, if you're like me and you grew up kind of taught that all of religion is evil, like I did, which was funny because now I've expanded into like angels and please kind of like that kind of thing or if you were within the religious scene and you're broke free from it or you were, have a taste in your mouth.
Speaker 3:The conversations with God series by Neil Donald walsh is one of my favorite series for really jump-starting your spiritual journey, especially home with god. That one's close to my heart because I work with death and that one's all about death and and the afterlife and all that stuff. Um the eckhart tolle. I've always loved A New Earth from him. It's kind of in the foundational stuff as well. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was my first step into kind of exploring the way the brain works after you read a book of genius in a way. So that's been one of my favorites. I read a lot. I have a huge list down there. I've been reading a lot of Peter Carroll stuff these days because I like to know more about the chaos, magic ideas and whether or not I resonate with them.
Speaker 3:It is. It's funny because it speaks to a lot of things that I hold true in my heart. And then, like, all these people that write these books are opinionated, and so I find these opinions and I'm like, okay, I don't really resonate with that. And that's the thing about reading these spiritual books is you take what resonates and then you leave what doesn't resonate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and then you can turn around and you'll create your own book, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So what services do you offer? Do you offer classes, trainings, events? Yeah, so I do single sessions and package deals with my life coaching. So I do spiritual life coaching with what I call integrated energy healing, which is an intuitive energy healing practice that just pulls from all modalities.
Speaker 3:And, as I said before, my clarifying focus within my coaching is for mold breakers or people who suffer from trauma within the outcast wound, so anyone that was outcast in their life and deals with trauma relating to that. That's what I focus on. I am also launching on beginning on the 30th of this month, I will be launching what I'm calling my revive workshop and I'm hoping to do it every year, and this is specifically four weeks focus on regulating our nervous system and, again, specifically for people who feel like they're being attacked in the world right now, yeah, how can we get out of survival mode and back into creative mode and to be the divine creators that we are? And so it's practical. It's going to be group coaching, integrated energy work and breath work as well the powerful breath work practice I teach, which I also teach on Saturdays still, my breath work practice I train sound healers, mostly in person, but I can do online, and I do my Reiki trainings as well.
Speaker 2:So yeah, a bunch of stuff do you um do Reiki with your music? Do you like play and record things and make those available to listen to? That's imbued with the Reiki energy you know I haven't yet.
Speaker 3:I've just actually been getting back into my music practice after the long journey. I had to heal a lot about myself and realizing but that's a good reminder to do that I've always been interested in writing songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I know individuals that, like they sell Reiki infused pens and Reiki infused. You know and I know someone that plays the guitar and imbues it with energy and records it and you can buy her little recordings oh that's good, yeah, yeah, so when we do meditations you can buy her recordings and they're really reasonable too and then you have it and then you can play it during your meditation session.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so maybe some ideas there, so you're available online and in person.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so in person here in Santa Fe I do offer a bunch of events. I hold also a weekly death cafe, which is a free event, and people come and have coffee and just talk about death. Okay, which people are like, oh, that's so morose, but it's like the best experience, it's healing for people that have a fear of death, which is yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, how can people get in touch with you? Do you have a website, social?
Speaker 1:media.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm on social media. I don't think that there's any other chema graces on social media, so you can just type in my name. I'm sure you'll find me on Instagram threads and Facebook, and then my website as well, which is wwwunwavering-gracecom.
Speaker 2:So Unwavering Grace, beautiful name.
Speaker 3:And so on the website too. The thing is that people can sign up, uh, with their email and I send regular, semi-regular right now, um, what I call oasis emails. So it's going to be a lot of stuff that is more inspiring and thoughts, food for thought, as well as discounts. So anyone who's in my email tribe, um, I'm going to send first first sign like discounts to my workshops. Like this workshop that's upcoming, someone can get one of the sessions on me for being a part of that emailing list.
Speaker 2:So yeah, all right, beautiful. Well, that ends the first part of our journey together and I'm going to continue on as your guide through the second part. That are questions that are sent in by listeners and by reiki students. So, number one, you have studied a variety of modalities. Which modality is your go-to to replenish your soul?
Speaker 3:Oh man, you know, the thing is that with Reiki it's just always available.
Speaker 3:And so just all throughout my day I'm sitting there and I'll place my hands on myself. So Reiki is one of the big ones. I think my number one and it's the number one thing that I coach all of my clients is silent meditation. I think silent meditation is the foundational life experience, tuning into the soul. One of the best things too is when I wake up and I may be affected by some vibrational frequency who knows if it's cosmic or within my body and I'm able to tune into where I feel it in my body or my energy body, and just sitting in silence and breathing and bringing my attention to that and it just it's like massaging a. As you know, it's like massaging a knot out of your body. Just after a while you just sit with it and breathe and it alleviates yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker 2:You mentioned the word knot because I was reading something yesterday because I also teach yin and yin was talking about the chi. You know the energy in the body and how it these. You have these energetic knots in the body. You know and how to get the energetic knots?
Speaker 3:out Interesting. Maybe that's a theme that I got to think of, so, cause it happened yesterday and now it is again today, so interesting, and what's what's coming through right now, too, is how many of us are are tying ourselves up by tying ourselves, shackling ourselves to our systems that are broken or the old thought patterns that we used to believe in, that we never believed in. It was someone else's beliefs and we just agreed to them yeah interesting number two what inspired you to become a death doula?
Speaker 3:yeah, so, um, I think that the first real I maybe as a kid I had a real relationship and uh kind of understanding of death when I was younger. But, as I said, I went through this initiation of fire and in my dark times in my teen years I had a gone through a suicide attempt and through that experience it was, you know, part of the healing journey and I wouldn't I wouldn't replace that that time for anything.
Speaker 3:But, yeah, through that I also gained more of a relationship, I think, with death, lifting the veil and understanding the illusion of ending that we go through and so later on, during my healing journey, I was meditating one day and it came to me to use my comfort and relationship with death to help others.
Speaker 2:Beautiful, beautiful and you know. Thank you for holding space for others. You know, and you're helping them guide them through their own pain. So thank you for that yeah, so so. But you know I'm glad that didn't happen for you, and look where you are now and how you're helping others, so you know you're finding beauty in the mess, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, here's our next question Tell us about your Reiki for Dying course and training that you are creating.
Speaker 3:Yeah so, and by creating it's the very foundational, early, early stages. It's just a gem in my mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But my thing is so a lot of times when people who are in healing practices or work go into working with people at end of life or animals at the end of life, we go in with this perspective that healing equals curing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And when you're working with death, with hospice which I work at an animal hospice, so it's a similar thing You're not going in doing Reiki and expecting someone to be cured from their terminal illness. You're doing Reiki to assist them through that process. You're doing Reiki to help with nausea or pain If they're suffering from that there's one experience I'll always talk about with this Chihuahua that I was doing.
Speaker 3:She had this breathing thing come up and I didn't really consciously know that she was going to die, but I sat with her and did Reiki with her and I was showing her, you know, I was reminding her that we loved her and we're happy to have her if she wants to stay with us, but also if she's done suffering, if she's at the end of her journey. I was showing her how to relax her body, like just relax into it, just to let go. And then through my mind it flashed this series of memories that she had with us. And so I was sitting with her and I was like, oh, we're doing a life review. And so I sat with her and went through all this kind of stuff that I remembered with her life review. And so the Reiki with end of life would also be how do we connect with someone that can't communicate?
Speaker 3:There was another one that we had to sedate and help euthanize, which she was just at the.
Speaker 3:she was 18 years old, and just that was the most humane thing to do, and so she was just at the, she was 18 years old, and just that was the most humane thing to do, and so she was sedated and I was sitting there and tuning in with Reiki, just energetically, to her energy body, just to let her know that we were going to let her go and that this was the time, and to have her say goodbye to the little, you know old dogs that were around licking her yeah. Yeah, so it's going to be a lot of that.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a lot of the comfort how do we get comfortable with our own mortality? Oh yeah, face that with other people. So it's going to be a little bit of the death doula work and a little bit of the Reiki energy work as well to help get smooth transition, hospice or in sanctuaries or alone. You know you're holding space and being with them. I mean, you know I myself have six and every time I've lost one, you know it's losing a family member.
Speaker 2:I mean it really is, and you know you have caretaker fatigue and that Reiki can help with that as well, and I mean even you holding space, you know being able to give Reiki to yourself after that experience.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:My daughter works at a zoo and, um you know, when there is a loss of the animal, it it affects everybody. They bring grief counselors in you know to help people sit with them. It's it's devastating that they're they're really invested. So I don't think people realize what the vets go through. Right, zookeepers go through people that take care of animals. It's so hard to witness that and hold space and they can't talk back.
Speaker 3:And yeah, it really is. And it's just so under the rug in our society right now how affected we are, like there should be bereavement leave for people who lose their animals but they just have to go back to work, and so they don't face their grief and do that healing work, or or they feel ashamed of it because society expects them. It's just an animal, and I love that we're switching that perspective in this world and we're seeing animals as, and plants too. I mean we don't get a sound about plants.
Speaker 3:But some people do really grieve. When a big tree is, I really grieve with it. But, like a lot of the animal, reiki is also for for plants and land and that kind of stuff. That, um, we don't.
Speaker 2:We're moving back into a perspective of of oh yeah, symbiotic relationship with all of our creation I mean, you think about it like children, they grieve when they lose their goldfish, right or or their hamster. So it's an emotional thing.
Speaker 2:I mean one of my dogs. It was right on Valentine's day he had this pancreatitis attack and it was like I dropped everything. I'm like, I'm sorry I had to cancel and it would have been a few years ago. The stigma of like, well, I don't want to tell them I can't come because my dog's sick. But I thought at this point no, this is like a child to me. So I got to take them to the vet. Sorry, I got to reschedule. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, even that in like another funny thing and yeah, and we should have that space. I'm grateful that to have a self-built business so I can give myself a space for that.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 3:But another thing that I was reminded of is that's funny is I even Reiki and communicate with the bacteria in my gut, you know, or the parasites? Like when something comes in, I'm like, okay, you want to set up house, set up camp in my body? For now, that's okay, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1:And then I give them like an ultimatum, you have to be out by a certain amount of time, that kind of stuff I think that's an interesting thing for people to think about.
Speaker 3:How do we talk to like? There's billions of bacteria that live on us and that are, like animals, life forms that we can communicate with? And how do we build a healthy relationship with that?
Speaker 2:yeah, that would make a fantastic article. You should write an article oh yeah, that's so like you know, when I read different, there's a magazine that ricky news and I read through and it's just so fascinating. Um, what people use reiki for, and I've not heard anybody mention that. So how, that shows you the endless possibilities. You're only limited by your imagination, so I would never think of like, oh, let's talk to that. So how interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, is it the IACRT newsletter? Yeah, yeah, I get those too.
Speaker 2:Yes, reiki news yeah. So yeah that would make a great article. Always good ideas coming from this I know right, I know right, I love it, I love it. Well, that is our last question, but I have a bonus question for you, so I wanted to ask you had mentioned that you grew up in a home that wasn't very religious. How does your family feel about the yoga and the Reiki?
Speaker 3:Now they understand it. My mom has been on a spiritual journey as well. That is sort of paralleling mine especially. They joined my breathwork class just to support me. They joined my sound baths, my breathwork class. Um, I've done reiki for both of my parents. Um, my brother is a little bit less. They're just what.
Speaker 3:Maybe they consider themselves practical, which is completely impractical sometimes yeah but they're, they're um, see it to believe it, people, and that's, that's a great place to come from, um, but they understand where I'm at and my journey and, you know, as long as we're not harming each other or imposing ourselves in anyone else's will, like that's the whole key, isn't it To be able to accept and embrace each other for our beliefs and um? And I think that I, you know how inner healing resonates throughout the collective and throughout the entire world, and we're healing the family tree and the generations and the ancestors. So I know that if I continue on my path, it's, it's opening the doors for other people too.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. Well, that is our last question, and, as we were talking, is there something you may have forgotten or something that you want to share with the listeners? The floor is yours.
Speaker 3:I believe that I feel like I've covered everything. Yeah, I don't think there's anything else coming up. Yeah.
Speaker 2:All right. Wonderful wonderful and I might add that you know I've shared that I have dogs and before we started I had mentioned about. I can always tell when someone has really good energy because of the dogs come in and they're all out cold, they are snoring, they're in a deep sleep, so they very feel very at home with your energy. So if you want someone who works with your animals, check out Kama. Here. The Cavalier King Charles approved with your animals.
Speaker 3:Check out Kama here, the your cavalier King Charles approved. I love that and, yeah, the animal Reiki too it's it's um in person or or distance as well, so you don't have to be in Santa Fe for that. And one thing also that I've been putting my information out there for is doing Reiki for missing pets as well missing missing animal companions, and so if you know or see of anyone that has a missing pet, sign up.
Speaker 3:I can always call on the name and kind of try to give them the energy of guiding them home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if it's the same way where you are, even though we're pretty close. There's so many dogs roaming here.
Speaker 2:I've never seen anything in my life, just so many. And I have a yoga studio and there's four out there that are just and I'm sure someone owns them, but day and night it's so heartbreaking driving, and you know I keep treats in my Jeep so that I can get them out of the road. I just it's just. I don't know if I'll ever get used to it and when I came here, that's what inspired me to do the animal Reiki to help be of service for them. So all right, well, thank you so much for taking time out of your very busy schedule for taking this journey with me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:All right, my wonderful listeners, If you want to reach out wwwreadysetreikicom, If you have a question that you'd like featured on the podcast, maybe it'll be on. So I'm Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set Reiki © transcript Emily Beynon.
