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.
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Episode #144 The Crystal Within: Jemmita's Journey of Energy Transformation
Jemmita, a renowned medicine woman and founder of Anchoring the Light, bridges Ancient wisdom with modern Spiritual practices. From a young age, she perceived the unseen world, developing her empathic abilities & sensitivities into her Superpower. She now guides others to do the same.
Jemmita's transformative journey led her to the Sacred lands of Peru and Bolivia, where she immersed herself in indigenous traditions and received initiations from her Andean Maestros and Elders into the Shamanic healing arts & Ancestral Medicines.
She has led groups to the magical mountains of Peruvian Andes since 2013, reconnecting people from around the Globe to the Ancient Magic, Wisdom & Mystery that lay like treasure waiting to be re-discovered in a time where it is most needed.
Through Anchoring the Light, Jemmita offers transformative experiences globally, including online and digital in person Ceremonial work, the Wilka Suyu Shamanic Cacao Ceremonialist Apprenticeship, and the Hampiq Ñust'a Modern Medicine Woman apprenticeship co-taught with Andean Maestro Puma Fredi Quispe Singona. Here, she shares powerful Shamanic techniques, ritual and energy practices, helping people around the world to awaken their highest potential and contribute to global consciousness shift.
Jemmita's mission is to empower others to remember their true divine nature, reclaim their vitality and joy, become Creators of their own reality, and serve as luminous leaders in their communities, all while honoring the principle of Ayni - sacred reciprocity in Communion with our Earth, ourselves and each other.
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 rather than 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. Today joining me is Gemma Godd.
Speaker 1:Now she is a modern medicine woman, a retreat leader, healer and ceremonialist specializing in energy healing and spiritual guidance, offering deep, transformational work globally from Australia, bali, peru and more. Now her approach is anchoring the light, emphasizing the connection between mind, body and spirit, aiming to facilitate deep healing and inner harmony for her clients and empowering others to remember their true divine nature. Her mission is to assist others to become creators of their own reality and transform their own lives. In that way, she has profoundly transformed her own. Her story is a testament to the potential for the personal growth and healing through connection to oneself and the world around. Welcome, gemma, to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me, Tracy. I am delighted to be here with you.
Speaker 1:Wonderful. Well, I can tell that you're probably going to be a big guest on here, because you know we had a little bit of trouble connecting today, but it's all good, we're here and we're going to start this journey together. So I can't wait. So I'm just knowing that there's going to be a very powerful connection today. So, as we begin our journey, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I have a very, very colorful history. I often say that I've already lived about 50 lifetimes just in this one. I think that's probably because you know, if you're watching this, you have some level of awareness that this is our lifetime of mastery. So I feel that the rapid speed at which we are reinventing ourselves continuously and moving through our experiences as we grow is kind of happening on light speed at the moment. So, yeah, I was just reflecting on my journey with actually with Reiki.
Speaker 2:That was in my early 20s. I studied Reiki with my teacher back at the time and that was kind of the beginning of my journey, I guess, into this shamanic path. As a kid I experienced tons of stuff, you know, as I'm sure a lot of children do, but I didn't really have the. I had very well-meaning parents, but I definitely didn't have an environment around me that could explain to me what was happening or help me to manage what I was experiencing. So I started to teach myself rituals and ceremonies back then and when I look back now I'm like, wow, this makes so much sense as to why I have this innate love of ceremony and ritual. That is really, you know, sort of punctuates all of the work that I do now. Even as a kid I remember badgering the Catholic priest in the school that I went to because there was only allowed to be altar boys and I
Speaker 2:knew that ceremony inside out, back to front, and I was like I want to be an altar girl. You know, it wasn't so much, it was just like I loved the bell ringing and the thing and all of the you know, all of that ritual that went along with it. And so, yeah, fast forward. I guess, um, into my 20s and um, when things really began to open up for me, when I began to meditate a lot, I was doing a method called transcendental Vedic meditation twice a day, which is a very beautiful I'm sure people are aware of it if you're not check it out. It's a beautiful meditation for really just emptying yourself out and being in your stillness and coming back to Center. But what I didn't realize would happen is that the flood gates would open and boy did they open, you know, and all of the psychic stuff started coming through and that was a massive journey to learn how to navigate that.
Speaker 2:I had a year and a half of what people would, I guess, nowadays call a spiritual awakening for me. I didn't even realize that was what was happening. It was just huge and intense and people started dropping away out of my life and you know, this is something that I think a lot of us go through as we start moving through this process and you start to navigate your way in this new reality and I feel that right now, in this time and space that we're in now, it's happening to people much faster, much more spontaneously. And this is where I think you know podcasts like yours is so helpful because it helps people to navigate what's happening and to know that they're not alone. So then, all the way throughout my 30s, I had a really acute and innate awareness of there being something more in my work really began on myself, in, you know, sort of like my early to mid-20s continued and then I ended up.
Speaker 2:I had a raw food business and this was really beautiful because this was a way of me bringing medicine through food.
Speaker 2:So the sort of our tagline, I guess you would say, was living food, loving vibration, and all of the food was made with crystals. It was all charged with energy and prayer and that really, I say, was my beginning of my journey with plant medicine, because food is where plants, we're working with plants, and I started working with the Andean superfoods back then, like cacao and maca, or mesquites from Mexico, but lucumo and you know these, these amazing foods that ancient people had worked with for many years, that held a vibrational quality as well as being incredible for the body. And actually the message that I got back then, because I didn't want it to be a business. I had no interest in making this my business, it was my passion, but I had a a galactic being appear to me and this is back in 2007 and tell me that there was a time coming where even people that were doing the work on the level of energy, that were awakening that their physical bodies wouldn't be able to integrate the high level of frequencies, yeah, were to come, and so I.
Speaker 2:It wasn't really a choice to do this, it was a yes or yes, because what they wanted me to do was make this way of being available to the masses, to crystalline the body as much as possible to allow those frequencies to be more easily assimilated and integrated. And, of course, at the time you're just like, okay, you know, and you kind of go along with it. You're just like, okay, you know, and you kind of go along with it, and and it was, it was booming, you know. And then later, in retrospect, you're like, ah, that's what it was all about. So then from there, during that phase, during that time that I was doing that, had that business and was doing that work, in 2011, I headed over to South America and in January 2012, I found myself in Peru. I hadn't planned to go there, but my ex-partner, he, really wanted to go, so I went and as soon as my feet hit the ground in Cusco, I was flooded like a tsunami of memory and emotion. You know, and I know people experience that at places that we go to. When you connect to your soul ancestry, you know your soul lineage beyond the blood and the bones. And that's what happened for me and it was very fast.
Speaker 2:And not long after that, after a pretty harrowing experience with some plant medicine there, I had that's, a pretty harrowing experience with, uh, some, some plant medicine there.
Speaker 2:Uh, I had um, that's a whole other subject, I don't know if we'll get into that today, but that was a very, very difficult and it's relevant because there's so much of that going on now. Yes, people are being blown apart and finding it so hard to come back, and this was 13 years ago for me now, and that was massive and it was six months of really being on the edge of psychosis, you know. And the way that I found my way back was through an elder that I met from the Andes, called Don Basilio, who saw what was going on and in 20 minutes did what nobody else I'd seen so many people, healers, to try and help me to come back into the, and no one could help. And then he came along with his messer medicine bundle with a little bell, some mapacho, some agua florida, flower water, and in a simple, humble, no frills lie down ceremony. In 20 minutes he called me back into my body.
Speaker 2:I landed with a thud like the journey was so still so clear in my mind today and from that minute forward I knew that was my path. I knew that this was I don't know. It just resonated with me on every level, on every cell, and just the humility, yet the power, just through this communion and connection to these very powerful guardians, that these people, particularly the Apus, the mountains and Pachamama, the earth and the cosmic guardians as well, you know from the stars, but it's very grounded, it's a very grounded tradition and I needed that. So that became the beginning of my path and my journey into the shamanic work that I've done ever since, and it took me four years to unravel myself out of my business.
Speaker 2:I ended up giving it away In January of 2017. I walked away from it and then from there on my work that I do now, even though I was doing it the whole time while I was in. That business was kind of I use the analogy it was like being on the freeway in a Ferrari and dropping the handbrake, you know and it just, everything just went and you know, from there on it's just been exponential.
Speaker 2:So, yes, my work is with ancestral medicine, but it's only less and less I serve the medicine these days. It's more about quality than quantity for me. But what I learn from the medicine, what I've learned from that experience, what that opens, translates through everything that I do and really my mission is just to empower and uplift in the best way that I can and help people remember the truth of who they really are and their innate wisdom that everything is to self-source. You know it's in here, we don't need to always be looking to the outside.
Speaker 1:Very good, yeah. So you've always been someone who's been empathetic ability, sensitivities. You've turned these things into a beautiful superpower. So when you talk about your experiences of being this modern medicine, woman and energy healing, would you say that this found you or you found it? How did how did this come about? Was it just something that you just felt that pulling, or you know something that you were chasing?
Speaker 2:It is such a good question and a hundred percent it found me. There's not even a question about that. I think before that there was a natural. Uh, I wouldn't even, I guess there was a seeking. Yes, you know, I think there's so much out there was a natural. I wouldn't even I guess there was a seeking. Yes, you know, I think there's so much out there for us to try on for size and to see how it resonates with us. And you know, I've often, for a long time, I've lived in conscious communities. I say that because, you know, it's just these hubs around the world where there is so much on offer. Oh, my goodness, that it's a wonderful place to practice discernment, because not all of it's awesome. You know, there's all the shiny things, but when this came through, what actually happened and how I was initiated onto this path is I had a coca leaf reading with my dearest teacher still now, and he and I now teach together, side by side, but amazing, maestro Puma.
Speaker 2:And back in 2013 he threw the coca leaves, which is what they work with as an oracle, yes, and he looks in the leaves and he's like, oh, hang on a second, let's check this again. And then he throws it again. He's like oof. He said my princess. He said don't let that blonde hair and blue eyes fool you. He said these are your arpus, meaning the mountains, and you're a medicine woman and you need to come back here as soon as you can and train so against all logical reason.
Speaker 2:You know, I had 40 staff, I had a business. That was not an easy business. It looked great from the outside, but try running uh organic, uh wild crafted. You know it's just. The system is not set up to support that financially at all. So I'm, you know I'm dealing with all of that and here I'm like I have to go to peru and so and I served a really traditional apprenticeship. It's very, very different to what the western mind thinks an apprenticeship is or what we want. It's not kind of like. I show you, you do it. It's I send you to the mountains for 10 or 12 hours at a time.
Speaker 2:You sit there until the mountains start speaking to you, and then they'll start to teach you, and then you come back and you tell us what you heard, and then we confirm it to be true, right?
Speaker 2:So you start to learn to listen. You know, how we teach is different now. We kind of make it so that it's accessible for people, but it was tough, yeah, and there was not many well-dones or good job. You know they don't work like that. It was more about stripping the ego back. Actually, um and you know, having this I always say it's like learning to walk this fine line between, uh, confidence and humility yeah you know, there's a real mastery in that.
Speaker 2:It's kind of being humble but at the same time knowing when to act and knowing when to step forward. So it definitely chose me. It's's a path, it's a calling, and one that doesn't actually make sense. Like I look at myself, I look in the mirror, I'm like huh, like what is why? Why can't I put this down? Like I'm getting into my 14th year of working deeply with this and there's no part of me that thinks I mean I just got married and even my ring is my messer, my altar, and it has a band of 12 chakanas around it. I mean it's just, it feels like it's in my blood and my bones.
Speaker 1:Hard to explain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the DNA right. Orphanogenic field, yep.
Speaker 1:Very good, Very good. So you know, you told us a little bit about some of the work that you had to do to become this shamanic. So what are some of the misconceptions about being a shamanic? Healing arts and ancestral medicine I mean, there's so many things out there, but as you're out there doing the work, what are you finding that people are misunderstanding about it?
Speaker 2:That's really interesting. That's a great question. Actually, one of the things I feel pretty yeah, I'd say passionate about is busting the myth that because you work in a shamanic tradition and you work with you know that kind of lineage or those healing energies, that you have to look a certain way or dress a certain way or you know, there's a whole kind of fashion.
Speaker 2:Even that comes with what people think it is to be a shamanic practitioner and it's not. It's got nothing to do with that at all. And one of the things for me that I've had to move through a lot and I see it as a part of my path and what makes me stronger is judgment. People come and and they see me and they're like what? Like you don't look like. You know you look like a Barbie. We even laugh and call me Shaman Barbie, like it's a joke and we love it. And you know that has a whole story in itself. And so what? We're multidimensional, especially women. You know we are so multifaceted. We can have all the things. I love having nice nails and I love dirt under them.
Speaker 2:I like having good hair and I love it best when there's twigs and sticks in it. You know it's like it can be everything. So this thing that you have to be one way, uh, or you have to be this, it's like just feel the frequency of who it is you're working with, rather than get hoodwinked by, all of the right jewelry and the right things on the. You know all of the things, so that I think there's definitely a misconception there with that Right.
Speaker 1:That's the same way in yoga as well. There's a traditional look for yoga and then you try to go into that and but trying to get that diversity in it, so just embracing the diversity of it, do you um have any kind of uh, like you learned from your teacher and you learned from the mountains and having those experiences? Do you know like of other shamans who go to like a shaman school or get other different types of training?
Speaker 2:Not traditionally, traditionally that I know of anyway. Traditionally you are adopted into a lineage and that family's lineage will be different to the family that lives in the community down the street. The essence of it will be the same, like, for example, we work with the Mesa, which is the medicine bundle. These traditions come from Keros, which is right up high in the mountain. There's about seven communities in Kairos. Each one of those families has their own way of working with the Mesa, although it's similar.
Speaker 2:And then my lineage is from a place called Chinchero, which is like the high mountain pass between Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and the way that they work with the Mesa from this lineage of the seven rays is different again. So, but I know that everybody, all of the Andean medicine men and medicine women that I know have all passed through the same process, and the most important process of that is continuous self-growth. It is continuously being willing to go beyond your own personal limitations, because you can't facilitate for anybody else if you're not able to hold that space for yourself. So that has to be number one, and I think there needs to be a lot of that work happening before you're even really ready to step into facilitating that depth or level of space for somebody else it's not something that can be taught or learned overnight.
Speaker 2:I'm talking like in regards to serving ancestral medicine. It's delicate. Your opening fails. You are working with different levels of energy, with different levels of different realms, and you really need to understand and know what's happening on all of those levels and how to navigate with that person in that process. You know, especially if they shoot out, like I did, and you need to be able to bring them back.
Speaker 2:Yes, so that takes some skill and that takes some experience and understanding of how to do that. And then we have tools and practices that are very easily, you know, learnable if you like. You know it's we call it yet J, so we can give you the knowledge, like we can teach you how. Like I've got a free master class just coming up and it's on soul retrieval, right, so we can give you tools, how to, how to practice and perform a soul retrieval for yourself or for others. But that wisdom, that that knowledge doesn't become wisdom until you practice it and you embody it. That's what we call yatchai.
Speaker 2:So, yes, for sure we can give you, you know and you know um, yeah, I'm sure there are techniques passed down, but ultimately it's like done quickly, it's like you do this, you do this, you do this. Yes, you know it's not like I'm going to show you and now we're going to sit in a workshop and we're all going to practice it until you get it right. Like for me when I learned to make a despacho, which is a the, the offering, the higher wikiri. We call it traditional offering offering. It's very elaborate and very intricate and I was literally given the despacho kit with the bits and pieces in it, put down in front of me, and said do it. And I'm like but what do I do? There's like a hundred things in here and they're like listen listen and follow what you hear, wow, you know.
Speaker 2:so then, and then, when you embody it to a certain level and it's seen that, ah, yep, she's, she's got it then they'll give you a little bit more instruction, okay, so, now that you've got that, now try it with this, that programs for this, this is for that, that one that's to do more with the north, this, this one's to do with the South. Okay, so then you go again. You just keep, you know, like this. So I, you know it's, it's something that is, it's a lifetime's work, and that's the exciting and fun thing about it is that you know the better it gets, the better it gets, and you're always learning more. Wonderful.
Speaker 1:And that's what's wonderful to have you on as a shaman In my work. You learned Reiki in the beginning of your journey and sometimes you have that client that you can only help them to a certain point and you need to refer them to a shaman. And I had a particular client like that, just what was coming that way, and I just hit that end of the road Like I've helped you this much but I need to refer you to someone who can be a little bit more in that path with you. So that's what's important for our listeners. You know the same kind of idea that we're continuously working on ourselves but yet, placing our ego aside, what's best for the client.
Speaker 1:You may have that point where you know what I have to refer you to someone else, and so having this beautiful variety of wonderful shaman out there that can help and assist for your clients. So that's why I feel it's important to be a part of the Ready Set Reiki journey is because you know you're a helper. You're a helper with the clients, with the people, and you know someone who's learning Reiki may just feel. You know what I feel, the calling for that. I've had some students I've trained and I could see that you know you're. I think, if you want to, you're on that route to be a shaman and they're just so surprised by it. But you could just feel their energy that like, ah yeah, I think you're in that direction if you choose to.
Speaker 2:So I think and that's such an important thing that you touch on, it's really and that's it's getting yourself out of the way, which is also the key to not to not burning out.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, Well, you think it's you, and you think it's your energy, and you think that you're doing it and you're, you're in control of it without realizing that what you are, you know, I always say like holding space, for example, has nothing to do with holding anything, and this is where the mistake is made. It's like holding. What is that holding? I'm holding it down, right, you are the space. When you've done your work, when you've done your training, when you're showing up as being the vessel for that healing and all the energy is moving and arriving to you, like for me.
Speaker 2:I work a lot with what we call the su. Use all the four directions, yes, cross of energy that's arriving to you and then the space holds itself from what comes through you. Right, the frequency doesn't, and it's the frequency that takes care of the work. That's what's doing the healing, your vessel or the crystal for that frequency. You receive the energy and then you emanate. And for me it's like such a beautiful, too understanding, because it helps us in our personal journey to close the gap on the formal ceremonial session that you're in with your client and life, because when you're in that session session, you don't take on heavy energy, it's effortless. And why? Because you're present, because you know why you're there, who you are, you've opened that space correctly. The energy is arriving to you, it's emanating from you. It's taking care of it. But the only reason we get taken out in life is because we're not being conscious. If we could show up in life in the way that we did in a session the way that we did in a ceremony, then life would be much more.
Speaker 2:Also, much more would be much lighter and more effortless too, I believe. Yeah, so that's where I use my work to always be ah, okay, so if I'm like this over here, then I want to be this over here and closing the gap. Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1:So your mission is to assist others to become creators of their own reality and transform their lives. But has there been a time in your life where you've had a struggle or a challenge that you faced on your own healing journey?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, yes, many, I put my hand up for mastery big time in this lifetime. That's all I can tell you. If an astrologer looks at my chart, they're like oh, they're like that's not so great. And I'm like, yeah, I know, I think I'm, I feel like I'm pretty much done with the big stuff now, to be honest. To be honest, I had the first 42 years of my life was intense. I've been through two major liquidations or bankruptcies. I lost everything, but I actually gained everything through that process. I mean huge.
Speaker 2:one of them was on the front page of the newspaper and was really public and at the same time the person that I was seeing who was in that industry. We broke up, so that was a part of the headline, and my dad was diagnosed with a terminal illness, so that was a part of the headline. Oh my goodness, so I literally went overnight just from, and I bounced, you know I came right back up again and went, but there was still clearly something to learn.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So it's been a massive, massive journey. But wow, you know, it doesn't only build resilience, it builds absolute knowing it's beyond trust, Right. It's beyond trust. It's knowing that when you are on your path in your service, in your dharma, then you are supported in a way that you can't wrap your head in the 3D around.
Speaker 2:And for me, you know, because I train a lot of people now to facilitate sacred spaces and they want to just step straight into it understandably, right, they want to Most of the people that come through go on to really receive abundantly for themselves. But the key to it is and I I'm super grateful that I had some income coming in when I was first stepping into all of this, because I I took the need for anything financial out of it. Um, it just wasn't there. I was first offering because I just loved it. I just just loved it and so, naturally, the word started to spread and people started to come and then I was able to charge for it. And then, you know, slowly, over time, it changes and now I've gone.
Speaker 2:You know, I've just managed to build a couple of little places in Bali and for someone that in 2017, was like with nothing, yes, to then get to that place without having borrowed any money, without you know, I'm just like I'm scratching my head because on paper it doesn't make any sense. Sure, on paper it's like huh, but it's not about being on paper, you've got to get. We have to kind of let go of that the how and just stay open like you have your vision, you feel what it is, you want to move towards on your spiritual path or whatever it is, and then you've just got to be like Alice in Wonderland and follow the white rabbit, watch for the signs and move in that direction and always say thank you. I mean for, for me, my relationship with my guardians, with my apples, my mountains, with bachamama, the earth and the elements. They're what get me through every single time.
Speaker 2:So, um, it's really a beautiful thing because it's just a feedback loop. You know, it's not even about anything material. It's just a feedback loop of, oh, okay, I'm, I'm on path, I'm on purpose, I'm serving and I'm in the reciprocal flow. Right, what, in the end, is we call Aini, which means that nothing goes one way, right? So the more you give, the more you're going to receive. Right, and it's it has. You have to, it's law, but you have to receive. Yeah, that's the thing you could. It's the big program that we've just got to blast out of the water here, because, especially women, we have this tendency to give and give even when it comes empty.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, yeah, you got to give some, take some, yeah, and take those risks. It's easy to sit there and just come up with all these different possible problems that are going to arise, and sometimes you just have to take that leap of faith and move forward. But kudos for everything that you've been through and look where you are today and how you're helping so many people. It's wonderful. It feels good and letting go of exactly that.
Speaker 2:Just say yes. I say to my students just say yes. Like even at the beginning, when we first start our training, I get them to book in their first ceremony, even when they just know nothing, they're green, and they're like what? And I'm like just say yes, just do it, Because one thing is, you're going to get more confidence, feel more comfortable. Just got to take the steps in the direction you want to go, don't you?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I mean after I had heard I think it was Madonna who had said that she was so nervous singing at the Superbowl. And I'm like Madonna, you know, like everything she's been through. So everybody's nervous, Everybody gets scared, but you just have to try to push through that and look what amazing things happen in your life when you take that leap of faith. So wonderful.
Speaker 2:We're nervous because we care. If you didn't care, you wouldn't be nervous, and I also really feel that the line between nervousness and excitement is so tiny. It's exactly the same sensation in the body, sure. Yeah, and the only difference is breath. When you're excited, you've got that you know in the stomach but you're like. But when you're nervous you're like, you know. So if we can lean into the sensation that's there when we feel the nervousness and relax the solar plexus and breathe, then the nervousness can very quickly flip and become.
Speaker 1:Right. I tell my students, if you can get yourself all worked up, we would call it like riled, riled up, right, worked up, you're able to get yourself excited. You know, turn some music on and just get yourself so excited and shift the energy. This is how you can do it. So change the way you look at things, right? I?
Speaker 2:love that Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:So, when it is time for you to get an energetic tune up, what are some qualities that you look for in a shamanic healer?
Speaker 2:for me. Um, okay, so I'm a bit of a strange one because I don't go to healers at all. Um, I don't know well, I just don't ever feel to. I feel that I am I for whatever reason. The way I'm made up, like even in that six month period that I was telling you about, after that harrowing journey for me to go and find people to assist me, that in itself was unusual. I needed to because I was at that point where I was just like someone's got to help me do something here.
Speaker 2:But I think what I learned from that journey and over and over in time, is that my practice is I've I've really kind of taught myself by flexing that muscle and going deeper and understanding the power that I have as an alchemist, that we all have as an alchemist, that we are able to transmute and transform that energy within ourself. And the healers that I work with are my mountains, it's the earth, it's the element. So that's who I call on when I need healing. And what happens for me personally is often that happens in a liminal state. They'll come in while I'm either sleeping or in the in-between and lucidly I can see and know exactly what's going on and that's where I receive my tune-ups and my healing.
Speaker 2:So for me personally and I'm not saying that people shouldn't go to healers, I think it's people need it. It's just for me personally, that seems to be the way that I work. But yeah, if I was looking for a practitioner of any kind, there's the cicadas coming confirmation. If I was looking for a practitioner of any kind, my question would cicadas coming confirmation. If I was looking for a practitioner of any kind, my question would be do they walk their talk Like? Are they practicing what they preach? Because that, for me, is of the utmost integrity and impeccability, beautiful.
Speaker 1:So what advice would you give someone who's just entering this profession?
Speaker 2:Into energy work? Absolutely, yeah, I would say. The biggest advice would be actually, what I said before is remembering that you, that we, are crystals. That is the power of the truth, of who we really are. Even our physical body, when you break it down, is made up of the same stuff as a crystal would be.
Speaker 2:So when you think about a crystal, what does a crystal do? It takes the energy in. It doesn't judge the energy. It doesn't say good, bad, right or wrong. It understands that the energy is neutral.
Speaker 2:And as soon as the energy touches the surface of that crystal, regardless of whether it's heavy energy or light energy, the crystal, by nature, because it knows who it is, transforms that energy into the highest frequencies of light, of love, and then sends that out as a blessing. And when we really remember that we are that and we start to become conscious of what we're taking in with every breath in and what we're giving out with every breath out, then we are setting ourselves up to receive the higher frequency of energies because we're becoming vigilant and aware, and that's through presence. So if you're moving into any profession where you're working in the realms of energy, it's really imperative to understand that, that you know, as we said before, you're a conduit for this energy to, and when you, when you know yourself as the crystal and you're conscious of how you're transforming the energy, then you don't even. You know. I think in the old, in the old school, we used to give the energy, the heavy energy, to the earth. You know from her too.
Speaker 2:we don't need to do that anymore. We transform the energy right. Rather than giving it to her or to the ocean or whatever to transform, we breathe in the energy from the earth or from the ocean, that, that high-frequency energy, and that alchemizes the heavy energy, the heavy process or whatever you might have taken on from somebody in a session, and then, as we let it go, we send it as blessings, as high-frequency energy to be received back, and that sets up a positive flow of what we call Sami Aini, a positive flow of you give out your blessings and that's what you receive back. So I think that nuance and understanding how energy moves is most important, because then you don't take stuff on and if you do, you know how to clear it. Like that, Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1:I love that. That's a really great description to tell people that's what we learn in Reiki too. You know how to clear it like that. Beautiful, beautiful. I love that. It's a really great description to tell people that's what we learn in Reiki too. You know, you send it to the earth, you send it to your higher self. So, yeah, another wonderful technique. I love it. I love it. So what books do you recommend?
Speaker 2:Ooh, that's a good question. Okay, one of my favorite books is called Brotherhood of the Magi and the author's name is just leaving my, but if you look at Brotherhood of the Magi you'll find it. I was given that book and the person that gave it to me said I think you're going to find this fascinating, it's you. And I was like really. And then I read it, I was like, oh, that's a bit, but it's just a really good because it's a book that's fiction, but it's really fact. Another one is Return of the Inca, I think Joan Parsi Wilcox, and another one that was written by one of my maestros called Don Sebastian, is the Andean Codex.
Speaker 2:Just amazing, how, yeah, I mean, some of the things that I've experienced and seen would really make your toes curl. I mean, we know of these things happening in the etheric realms and we know that they're true etheric realms, and we know that they're true. But when you actually see it in front of you, you're just like you know even me, who's been working in these realms for years I'm like, oh, what's going on? You know like beings materializing in front of you. You're like huh. You know like solid. You know, yeah, and this is.
Speaker 1:You know we see this in the yogic traditions too, because they're masters of living energy right, yes.
Speaker 2:They know how to make time this way.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. So what other services do you offer? Retreats, ceremonies, online offerings yes all of the above.
Speaker 2:I take people to Peru every year. So this year 2025, there's a few journeys that we're doing. I've been doing that again since 2013. So we really see and work in the Andes like locals, you know, in beautiful surroundings. I've learned over time that it's important for people to have nice places to land, sure, so it's very nourishing and nurturing. But we're working a lot in the mountains and we travel around a lot to very powerful sacred sites, because I really believe that these sacred sites hold the keys to what we're meant to know now, like I really really believe that those ancient masters you know in the Andes, they were largely the Lemurian masters and they coded these temples and these sacred sites with codes of remembering for us to receive and when we enter those frequencies, you can't help but get the downloads you know, for your own path and for everything. So, yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:And then I do online trainings as well. So I've got a 12-month apprenticeship just about to start, called humpy canoester, which means the healer priestess. It's for medicine women and that's um, taught alongside of my maestro puma, so he's direct from the andes and we also have um, our brothers and sisters there in the andes medicine, men medicine women that teach on that also. So that's a beautiful, immersive container. And then Wilkasuyu, which is the art of ceremonial space, working with the medicine of cacao. So if you feel a calling to be in service in that way to serve medicine, but a medicine that is safe yet profound and can be woven in with any other modality, then that's a three month apprenticeship, which is brilliant. And then there's yeah, there's ceremonies and and retreats also. I've got one just on next weekend actually, so you can check it out on my website.
Speaker 2:It tells you what's where, where, where is happening and what's happening Wonderful.
Speaker 1:And on your. You have a really wonderful website. I encourage listeners to check it out. You have a little shop, you have free tools like the art of the altar and setting sacred space, and you have, like this library as well, on there of information. So yeah, so check that out. So where can we find you online, in in person, if they're interested in connecting with you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd say that Instagram is probably the best way. It's anchoring the light on Instagram, same as my website, and I'd love to offer your listeners a. Actually there's a beautiful course that I have called Be the Crystal and it's phenomenal for this, talking about everything we've been talking about. It's very deep. It goes right into all of the shamanic perspectives and understandings of working with energy and building resilience. So I would love to offer that to your listeners. If they send, let's say, the code can be resilience, or say resilience, and if they send that to the Instagram DM, then we will send them the link for Be the Crystal Beautiful.
Speaker 1:So this ends the first part of our journey and I'm going to continue with you on to the second part, which are questions from listeners and energy workers. So here we go. Number one you offer the art of ceremonial space. How can your apprenticeship program assist me in diving deeper into my practice?
Speaker 2:That's a great question.
Speaker 2:So we it's incredible with with Wilka Suyu, the art of ceremonial space, the people that join that, because we have everything from people that are just beginning to very, very experienced. I had one lady come who has actually been serving ayahuasca for 15 years and she was like, oh my gosh, I got more out of this than I did from my shapibo lineage and I'm like wow, it's really really rich. So the whole purpose of Wilkasuyu is to get you so clear in your container that you are, you know how the energy is moving, you know who you're working with and why, that the container becomes self-sourcing, so that, as I said before, know you're not having to do so much. Rather, you know how to be and direct the energy from the centre of that container and then when we marry, that you know the whole thing about that is that includes everything we do before the formal ceremony that people don't see you know, everything before, everything in the set-up of it, everything when you're with the people, and how to facilitate that space and work with the medicine.
Speaker 2:We are working with cacao in that ceremony to open those portals and those doorways so that transformation can happen while they're in your space, in your ceremony, and then how we work with the journey to facilitate that. So in Wilkasuyu we do a month of breath work. We have somatic movement, we have medicine songs for a month, learning how to to use song and instruments to, you know, facilitate the space, shamanic journeying and shamanic drumming. So when people leave that they're really loaded up with um, feeling super confident that, whatever modality they want to work with because, trust me, I've been in for example, I had some people come into a retreat and do a breath work for me that had trained with somebody who was an amazing breath worker and I know she's incredible but all hell broke loose in the space because somebody went into a big process and they froze, yeah, and they didn't know what to do.
Speaker 2:They panicked. They're like looking, and I was like I was down because I was just feeling the energy and I just jumped up because I felt it and I felt that there was a panic. They didn't know what to do because they hadn't been trained. So I guess the question is, is what kind of space do you just want to have, like I call them hokey pokey spaces, where you just dip your toe in and you dip your toe out, like yeah, that really.
Speaker 2:I mean it's nice and people are yeah, you know like get a fluffy little experience, but do you want to facilitate something? That's like, yeah, bring it, whatever it is, we're going to move it, you know, and that takes some skills. So yeah, I hope that answers the question it'll help, and in your personal practice too, because it's like it's a dieta with the medicine as well. So we're working. You know when you're in that container for three months.
Speaker 2:We've got 22 calls in three months yeah and so you're like being accountable, you're showing up, you're there and and the feedback that we get from people's also their personal growth on is just, is just phenomenal, as well as what it gives them for their facilitation.
Speaker 1:Right, right, I like that. It's the three months and then the 12 months. It just in my observation, ever since COVID happened, it brought forth opportunities of learning through YouTube, other different schools, where you can say, oh, I'm going to get this program for $9.99, and I'll have myself a little certification. And then it began, you know, popping up really in the last two years, people doing, you know, I spent a week, they spent a weekend learning the sound bowls or they took a couple hours and now they're doing the cat cow ceremonies and so I really love that.
Speaker 1:Now things are starting to shift, that we're seeing that we have these people that really just only did a few hours of training and now we're stepping back and saying, okay, the apprenticeships are very important, you need to go a little bit deeper with this.
Speaker 1:So I'm glad you know you're here to offer that, you know, opportunity for people to go a little bit deeper, because they do get caught up in, oh, but I can do this for $10. I've had people say, well, why should I do your training for X amount of dollars when I can take it over here for 20 bucks? And it's just the quality and I don't think they get it when they get in, where you know. I had my experience with the student where, okay, there's just a certain point where you need to refer it. I mean, when you're starting to deal with demonic energy, things like that, that's out there, beyond your area of expertise, when people are doing black magic or glam magic and they're not understanding that you can bring harm into your home and your family, and it's not something to mess with that to take this time to learn this, get the skill and do what you did go to the mountains, listen, take the advice, learn and grow and work on yourself. So I like seeing that the apprenticeships are coming forward to help.
Speaker 2:I cannot agree more. I've got goosebumps, as you're sharing, and it's about the embodiment. This is the thing An embodiment doesn't happen over a weekend.
Speaker 2:It's a process that takes a lifetime. And for me, why I won't compromise on this, like you know, by offering these little things, is because that how I had to learn, as I shared with you. Now I know that most people don't have or, you know, for whatever reason, won't have the opportunity, may not have the opportunity to do it in the way that I did, and, honestly, it's not that easy to do it like that anymore, because things have changed so much. Sure, sure. What I'm interested in doing is kind of curating a space where you get that same feeling, that same experience. And this is what's so amazing about the online is because if I was to try and condense that three months into a two-week in-person, yeah, you're going to get the stuff, but you've got no time to put it into practice in your life and your body.
Speaker 2:When you've got to show up for one, you know, on one week, and you're going right into something, and then for the next week you observe how you work with that during the week, how you're working with that thing and moving that energy, and then, oh, you know, you've still got a long way to go. Remember, you know, even when Maestro Puma was a kid, you know, even when Maestro Puma was a kid, they still, back then, were spending a minimum of solar return to solar return. So that's like a three-month equinox to solstice minimum on one mountain or on one. Usually it was a year on just one mountain, and we start with a minimum of four and eventually you work up to 16, right, but you've got four. That's one year they used to do, and one year per element, one year per direction. And now we're like because and normal too, because we're in the quickening and and your mom was like, wake up, wake up, wake up.
Speaker 2:So, everything's happening fast, but we want to hurry slowly.
Speaker 1:Yes, it sure is. Everybody wants to move at this lightning fast pace, and they really have to take the time for this. This is serious, deep work here. So, number two, tell me about your approach to anchoring the light.
Speaker 2:Okay, so anchoring the light. I think that, really, this changes over time. It's the same thing. It never changes, and then it's constantly changing as well, which is the nature of light, by the way. If you think about it, we're always moving from day and tonight, but actually the light always remains. It's the sun is always shining somewhere on the earth. So I guess, as I'm saying it, that's anchoring the light as well, and the way that it came about was probably about 10 years ago. I was facilitating at a big festival and they asked me to sum up what I did in three words, and I'm like whoa, because I never know what to say when people ask me.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh, you know, know, I'm always at a loss, and so it was like anchoring the light. So what does that mean? It's really, as I've put there on my website, to to remember the truth of who we really are, that we are seeds of love that have come here to be conduits for the earth. So in that same, you know, in that remembering of who we are, then we are able to alchemize and transform whatever is happening around us, and this is what the earth needs, this is what humanity needs. And the more anchored we can be in our light, the more resilient we are, the more we become the lighthouse for others, not by doing anything, but simply by being. We can help to, not by forcing and saying, hey, you come over here, but just by being anchored in your light you naturally switch on. Ah, you know, people can feel that frequency, they can feel that energy, and so it's really our, our service to Pachamama is to anchor the light, to anchor our light, to remember the truth of who we really are.
Speaker 2:I always say that Pachamama doesn't need saving. That's something that us, in our arrogance, have decided that she needs. What she needs is for us to wake up and remember the truth of who we really are. Once we do that, once we realize that we are the highest frequencies of light, we are the highest frequencies of love. That's not loving lighting things, I'm not saying it from a woo-woo perspective of, just you know, bypass the shadow. We go into the shadow, like Luke Skywalker with his lightsaber, like you know, knowing that we've got the source at our back. We are the light and we can go into those processes and those heavier frequencies as light. We don't have to bypass it, we alchemize. So anchoring the light is a process of, yeah, remembering who we really are, as divine alchemists, as crystals that can transform any energy into the highest frequencies of light and anchor it into the earth and our service.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. I love that. Number three you offer a variety of resources on your website. Out of all the services, trainings, modalities that you offer, what is the one tool that you practice consistently or modality in your own personal life or practice?
Speaker 2:All of them. I don't teach anything that I don't do myself. And this is one of the reasons that I I laugh about this I have recorded content on, especially on, my Wilkasuyu training. And the reason that I have recorded content? Because if I didn't, then you would not understand what I was talking about, because I'm always I'm sure you're like this too, tracy I'm always up, leveling and moving and there's new things and there's new information coming and you can forget that you've got there because you've been doing this for years and you've done the work and and it's you know.
Speaker 2:But if you try and share that with people that are just starting, they're like what? So having everything that I'm sharing is stuff I've embodied. Once I've embodied it, you know, then I share it and I and if I haven embodied it yet, then I practice more and I practice more until I'm like oh yeah, this is how it goes. So with the Wilkasuyu training, for example, that's not something I was taught, that was something that I've embodied through my years of work as a ceremonialist, and now I am sharing it with people in a way that, in as 3D way as I can, gives you a template that kind of makes sense that you can then put it into practice, but everything that I share is what I do.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. I love it. I love it. So that was our last question and, as we've been talking, is there something that you may have forgotten or something you'd like to share?
Speaker 2:the floor is yours oh, thank you so much. No, I I feel complete. I feel like we've covered a lot. There's always more, you know, that's the thing. There is always more and, uh, I'm just very, very grateful to be, to have the opportunity to be here. I actually there is one little thing, because before we got on the call today, we had some trickster energies at play.
Speaker 2:That were really trying their darndest for this conversation not to happen, and you and I were both on our other sides of the world, having not met each other yet, and we're both tuning in Because there's a discernment isn't there. It's like there's a push that comes from the the ego of this has to happen, and then there's a like hang on a second is this, is this some? You know, this obstacle is something that is there, that we need to move through right yes, yes so I was sharing with Tracy that, um, you know we're doing all the logistical things.
Speaker 2:And then I was like I heard my mountains come in and say, hey, remember us, oh my god, and I put everything down, I get my mess up and I'm like, okay, whatever this interference is, I need you to go in, I need you to clear it, I need you to talk to the mountains that are in Tracy's area. Fix this technological issue. I even had we even have stones in our messer for technology, yes, and so as soon as I remembered to work on the level of energy, we got online.
Speaker 2:Yes so remember that even if you can't see it, it doesn't mean it's not happening. Sure, you connect your phone to your Bluetooth speaker and the sound comes out, right happening. You connect your phone to your Bluetooth speaker and the sound comes out, and I think, for our healing to be effective and sorry, I just have to say this because I think it's really important. As a healer, all you can ever do is offer your best with all your heart, in your integrity and your impeccability. But it is not up to you whether the person receives that healing or not. That is entirely free will and that is up to them. So we can't be attached to when we've, you know, given and you know, bless someone with our healing and if it doesn't work, then that's not up to you to make it work.
Speaker 2:That's for the person to receive it. We can only ever offer it. So I think that's a really important one to know. But to remember that for our healing to be effective whether the person realizes it or not, because yes or yes, they're receiving it You've got to go beyond trusting it.
Speaker 1:You got to know that it's happening without any doubt, right right, right, and what happened to us just before this was really skill and action, because you had no idea what the landscape here I'm in El Paso, texas, which has the mountains, right, and there's one particular mountain that has a star on it. So if you Google El Paso, you'll see that. And I had a student who now has become a really good friend and she's from Germany and she said she would just drive and she'd see the mountains here and she'd ask every day, what story do you want to tell me? What's the story? And as you were talking and you had said I went to the mountains, right, I would think of that story. What's the story you want to tell me today? So that's just showing you how connected we were in that moment of trying to get past whatever that was that was preventing us from connecting today. I mean, we had to redo things and reset things, but it was a reset right, starting over, so that we could connect.
Speaker 2:Yes, I've got the truth bumps. I love it.
Speaker 1:How cute truth bumps. Well, thank you, gemma, for joining me on this journey. I really appreciated taking time out of your really busy schedule. I know you have a lot going on. You have your big apprenticeship coming up and looking at your calendar online. You have an amazing website with so much resource. So thank you for putting all that together and being a source of support and encouragement and loving light to the world. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me, Tracy Wonderful.
Speaker 1:You too Well. Thank you, my wonderful listeners. If you'd like your question featured on Ready Set Reiki, reach out wwwreadysetreikicom. I'm Tracy C Wright and this has been Ready Set Reiki. Thank you.
