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Episode #161 Jayanti Woods :The Goddess of Flame: Jyanti Woods on Reiki and Soul Connection
Jayanti Woods, known as "the goddess of flame," ignites our understanding of Reiki healing and soul connection in this illuminating conversation. With over three decades of experience as an intuitive healer, Reiki master, and spiritual guide, Jyanti shares her transformative journey that began during a spiritual tour to India in 1995.
What does it truly mean to heal? Jyanti candidly reveals her biggest challenge wasn't mastering techniques but moving from head to heart—learning that transformation happens incrementally rather than overnight. "I thought I was going to finish training two weeks later and be completely clear of all my trauma, all my wounds," she reflects, "and it doesn't happen like that." This honest admission offers profound reassurance for anyone feeling impatient with their own healing journey.
Discover what qualities make an effective Reiki practitioner (confidence, self-awareness, and integrity top the list) and why Jyanti believes practitioners should have at least Level 2 certification before working with others. Her perspective on the time between training levels provides a thoughtful counterbalance to today's often-accelerated certification paths. Having waited eight years between her initial training and Reiki mastery, she emphasizes that readiness varies individually and should be honored accordingly.
Beyond Reiki, Jyanti introduces us to her diverse healing practices including munaki rites from Andean elders, shamanic journey work, and full moon meditations focused on planetary healing. Her sacred tours to India and Bali create transformative experiences in high-energy places where participants engage in ceremony, meditation, and deep personal work—far from the "cocktails and yoga" retreats that have become common.
As we navigate what Jyanti calls "the time of great upheaval," her parting wisdom resonates deeply: connect to your heart, anchor your light into the planet, and maintain inner peace amidst external chaos. "Most people interested in healing arts are here because their souls are here to help this planet shift," she explains. This conversation isn't just about energy healing—it's about remembering why we're here and how we might best serve during transformative times.
Connect with Jyanti at www.jayanti.com or follow her on Facebook and Instagram to learn more about her offerings and upcoming events.
Jayanti Woods is an internationally known Intuitive Healer and Inspirational Teacher, who uses both ancient and progressive techniques to assist and empower others on their healing journey.
Jayanti is a Reiki Master & teacher who loves to initiate others and mentor them to develop their own skills as healers and as conscious human beings.
“The name Jayanti was gifted to me by my Indian spiritual master, Shri Muniraj, in the early 90’s. He told Jayanti it translates to the 'Goddess of Flame’.”
It’s Jayanti’s passion to inspire and guide others to ignite the Soul Flame from within themselves and create the life they desire.
“My background is in Conscious Breathwork or Rebirthing, Shamanism, Quantum Dynamics, Reiki Master-Teacher, Theta Healing, Yoga & meditation teacher and other spiritual purification practices.”
“For 30+ years I have led regular meditation & chant groups on the Gold Coast. This has expanded to include shamanic gatherings, individual healing sessions and spiritual counselling and teaching others Reiki healing.”
1994 saw Jayanti offering the first of many tours to India and other spiritual lands. Now oper
Ready Set Reiki is a journey
From the curious beginner to the Season Master Teacher
All Energy workers of all systems and all levels.
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all litigations 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 a host. So I'm Tracy Seawright, and this is Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone, my wonderful listeners, ready Set, reiki, tracy C Wright. So a few things before we begin our journey today. So if you are ever interested in a yin trading, you're in luck. I have one coming up online. So if you're interested, reach out. Wwwreadysetreikicom, wwwthefeathersistercom. I'm coming to you live today in this episode from my new abode here in El Paso, texas. So we recently moved and so I'm in a new space. But today we are meeting together to have a beautiful journey with a lovely guest, jionti Woods.
Speaker 3:Now she is an internationally known intuitive healer, inspirational teacher, who uses both ancient progressive techniques to assist and empower others in their healing journey. Now she is a Reiki master and teacher who loves to initiate others and mentor them to develop their own skills as healers. As a conscious human being, the name Jyanti was gifted to her by an Indian spiritual master in the early 90s and he told her this translates into the goddess of flame. It's Shianti's passion to inspire and guide others to ignite the soul flame from within themselves and create the life they desire. Her background is in conscious breath work and rebirthing, shamanism, quantum dynamics, reiki master, teacher, theta healing, yoga and meditation teacher and other spiritual purification practices. Now, for over 30 years she has led regular meditations and chant groups on the golden coast or gold coast. This has basically expanded to include shamanic gatherings, individual healing sessions and spiritual counseling and teaching others Reiki healing.
Speaker 3:Now, in 1994, she saw offerings as the first of many tours to India and other spiritual lands and now, operating as Jyanti's sacred tours, jyanti leads regular tours to India and retreats in Bali and other high energy places. So let's take a moment to welcome Jyay to Ready Set Reiki. So welcome Welcome to Ready Set Reiki. And thank you, tracy, lovely to be here, wonderful. So let's begin our journey together. I told our listeners a little bit about you, but we would love to hear in your very own own words Tell us about yourself.
Speaker 4:Well, I grew up here on the Gold Coast and lived. The Gold Coast, by the way, if no one knows, is one of the top tourist attractions of Australia and we have a coastline of beautiful beaches and you know surfing beaches very big surfing here and it's grown enormously in the time I've been here. I went from here and lived in Melbourne, lived in Sydney and Darwin and then I went overseas and lived in the Middle East for eight years, then came back to Australia years then came back to Australia and that was the time when I knew that was what 35, longer than that, 40 years ago say, and I knew that. You know, my soul was telling me I had to come back home to start working on everything that I hadn't worked on myself. Yeah, and so here I am.
Speaker 3:Yes, so your background, you know breathwork, rebirthing, shamanism, quantum dynamics, but our journey is talking about the Reiki. So when did Reiki come into your life? Did Reiki find you or did you find Reiki?
Speaker 4:A little bit of both really. It was on one of my India tours, I think it was 1995. And in the group that I had there were eight Reiki practitioners, and of those eight practitioners there were one Reiki master who was a very good friend of mine, and I saw her come through in absolute peace and calm the entire time we were there and it can get very intense in ashrams when you're going through a lot of spiritual purification. And so I asked her after the group finished, we were going off to do our own spiritual tour and I asked her what were you doing to keep yourself so centered and so calm and peaceful? And she said I'd go to the room every afternoon and give myself a Reiki session. And that was it, because I just said okay, because I don't have. I was doing spiritual healing before that, but I didn't have my own calming, my own ability to put my hands on.
Speaker 3:So when we came back I did Reiki one and Reiki two with her well, the landscape of Reiki certainly has changed since you were first introduced to it into the 90s right oh yes it is so much mainstream.
Speaker 3:Now, like my children know about it from TikTok, they're able to say, oh yeah, this person and that. And they're able to say, oh yeah, this person and that, and they're able to name all these people. So for them there's no stigma to it. It's like just another thing to scroll on by with. So, as you've been on this journey for how many years, what are some of the misconceptions you find that people think about Reiki?
Speaker 4:you find that people think about Reiki. Well, to be honest with you, in my world that I create, I don't hear of any misconceptions, to be perfectly honest, because most people in Australia are so used to Reiki now you know that, you know it's gone, but years ago I guess people used to think it was a bit of a cult. So that was you know. That in itself was very challenging, thinking that you know this was a cult, and so people would go, oh, can't do this, you know, and. But these days it's more and more, you know people are really open to it. So I don't know about america fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 3:So all of your background, the breath work, rebirthing, shamanism, quantum dynamics, your Reiki master teacher, theta healing yoga, meditation and these other wonderful beautiful spiritual purification practices. You're out being of service to so many people, but what has you found in your own journey, the biggest challenge for you?
Speaker 4:ah, the biggest challenge for me was getting out of my head and being able to come to the heart, live it in the heart, and that was definitely my biggest challenge. Once I could do that, then the next biggest challenge was working on the core belief that was holding me back. Yeah, I walked into my first training in 1990. It was a rebirthing practitioner training and I was the only one there out of 90 people. We had American teachers and I was the only one out of 90 people who stood up and said I'm doing it for myself. Everyone else said, oh, I want to heal, I to heal, you know. I want to be a practitioner.
Speaker 4:I was going what you're all babies? But I said, no, I I wanted to do the healing for myself, you know. But I guess that that in itself was one of the biggest lessons, was that I thought I was going to walk into that training, finish it two weeks later and be completely clear of all my stuff, all the trauma, all the wounds, you know, all the wounding, and it doesn't happen like that. And it took me some time to actually discover that it doesn't happen like that. You know it's incrementally, as we move ourselves, as we, you know, elevate our consciousness and you know there's still another layer there to come up, sure Yep.
Speaker 3:People don't realize, like when you begin this journey it is cumulative. You may not see it right away and I've been on this journey for a few years now and you know you have to get out of your mind, like you had mentioned, you know, to just trust the process with it. But you'll have a moment where you find yourself that it does work. And I was talking to my friend about this yesterday. We had moved into a new home and I went to warm something up in the stove in the new house I'm at and all of a sudden I smell something and the previous owner had left plastic in the stove and there was a fire. And you know, I handled it and, you know, took care of it.
Speaker 3:And my friend's like, how did you remain so calm? And then I'm like, hmm, probably because you have a consistent practice. Now, if I would have been able to do that 10 years ago, I probably would have been like, ah right, but it was just like, oh, a fire. Here we go and my husband comes to work and he's like do you need the fire extinguisher?
Speaker 3:No, I got it there was no panic, there was no urgency, it was just like it is handled. And that comes from that consistent you know doing your Reiki principles. That consistent, you know doing your Reiki principles. When things come up, as the emotions come up, lay those hands on you and and breathe. And when I took my very first Reiki training, when I stepped forward, it was to bring, you know, healing to my family. We had had loss. And healing to my family, we had had loss. And uh, and I never, have ever expected the journey that I laid ahead of me. But I originally came just because I was trying to help my dad, help my children through grief. So you never know. But I was surrounded by individuals that, like, I'm going to teach, I'm going to do this, so it's just just oh yeah, it's just interesting that the group of people that that come together when you begin your journey.
Speaker 3:So, as you're out in this field, as you are teaching and you're mentoring others, what are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner?
Speaker 4:Confidence would be probably one of the first things, and their own self-awareness or their own self-worth around themselves as a practitioner would be you know some of the highest aspects. I would prefer to be seeing a practitioner who's Reiki master, but at least level two. At least level two, just because that denotes normally that they have had a lot of practice themselves with their own self-healing. Because I do notice a lot of people do a level one and go out there and want to be a practitioner straight away without any you know experience, sure, um yeah, and they forget that you know to go and have, you know friends come and family come and that to give, to give practice sessions, to build their own energy and to build their experience of working with someone Right. So self-confidence, longer time and, I think, a level of integrity and you can normally feel that with someone whether we can get fooled sometimes, but normally self-integrity is really important so what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3:you had said longer time. There are some lineages out there that you can get your master's fairly quickly, and what I mean by that is like within five days or within six months or within a year. Do you see that as an issue or do you take it kind of as an individual, case by case, like someone like me think that fire energy. My teachers always had this type of guideline, like you need to do this for six months or do this for a year. And when I came into the picture, they had to reevaluate things and they felt like, well, maybe your energy is ready for this. So how do you look at that, as you have a student in front of you and you know well, you need to have this for six months, but you clearly see that this student may be ready at least six weeks between level one and level two and then a minimum of six months to do master, but maybe longer.
Speaker 4:And I have found that most of my students who have done the Reiki master with me, they've waited at least a year, if not more so some up to two years or three years if it's anything like me. I did my reiki level one, level two, in 1995 and then I didn't do my reiki mastery until 2003, I think it was, and that's when spirit was giving me the call. You know a world, a few years before that, they started saying it's time you have to become a master, you know. And I looked around for the master who I wanted to do a training with, and it took me two and a half years to find the right master. And when I found her it was like, oh my God.
Speaker 4:I was sitting in a yoga teacher training and I was just looking around this group and they were all much younger than me and I was thinking, oh my goodness, look at them all. They're all learning what I've been doing for years and years of chanting and meditation and all of this. And here they are, they're just learning it and they're gobbling it up. And Spirit said she's a Reiki master and it was my yoga teacher. And I went oh.
Speaker 4:And so I went straight to her when we had a break and I said will you make me a Reiki master, Will you be my master? And she said oh, yes, I think I might have been one of her first students, but I knew that she was the right energy for me. And yeah, so I think it depends. You know, it really does depend on the person. I've had someone pull out because they knew they just weren't ready for it. I've had others who have done the Reiki mastery and then just used the energy of it to go on and do other things in their life.
Speaker 3:Beautiful energy of it to go on and do other things in their life beautiful, and I like how they mentioned that it was the connection of the energy. It wasn't anything about price right, it was the energy beautiful. It's definitely the energy so what advice do you have for someone who's just entering spiritual work?
Speaker 4:ah um practice, grounding your energy, grounding yourself um and connect and soul connection. That would be number one major major thing for me is just focus on meditations that will take you into connecting with your soul and connecting into your heart so you can start living from your heart centre.
Speaker 3:What books do you recommend?
Speaker 4:Oh, okay, I recommend there's one by an Australian author called the Secret Language of your Body and that's by Ina Segal Brilliant book, for if you're working more with Reiki on the physical, that's brilliant. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and the Power Versus Force by Dr David Hawkins, which is pretty heavy duty by Dr David Hawkins, which is pretty heavy duty, and I also think the Life that you Were Born to Live by Dan Millman, is another really fabulous one. To get to know yourself a lot more. That one, the language, the secret language of your body, helps enormously when you you or someone has family or or clients have problems going on on the physical level and it'll help you sort of pull, you know, give the client information about where it's coming from, why it's there, you know what, what emotional energy can they work with. And a new earth too is because so many people these days still do not know about that. It's emotions and wounding from childhood and all that. So I think the new earth really does help help in that regard thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 3:So what other services do you offer? Do you offer any classes, events, trainings?
Speaker 4:I just did a Reiki. It just held a Reiki one on Sunday actually. So, yes, I offer reiki one, reiki two and reiki mastery. Um, I also do, um, what's known as the munaki rites, the nine um munaki rites, sacred munaki rites, and and they're from the andes, from the andean elders, and they're just absolutely amazing rites to experience and you can become a teacher of them as well. However, you know, just to do the workshop and all the different rites that come through change so much for people. It really is life-changing.
Speaker 4:I still do occasionally the shamanic journey work. I hold full moon meditations these days and do some Divine Mother or Divine Feminine workshops as well and womb healing workshop. And in my practice I do a lot of spiritual mentoring and spiritual counselling and using the QD as well, breath work, which is a very powerful technique to release old energies, because people just really don't realise how much energy they stuff into the body, and so it's really powerful to be able to get that and shift it out for people. And then I work with them on the table doing chakra balancing and energy clearing and then hands on, using reiki energy. So my, my sessions are a big combination really and they they seem to be the most in demand, particularly these days you offer online and in person yes, yes, definitely online as well so where can we find you if someone's listening to this and like, yeah, this is my person?
Speaker 4:yay um wwwjayanti j-a-y-a-n-t-i j-a-y dot com, or they can find me on facebook and instagram as well, perfect, perfect.
Speaker 3:So you are on social media as well.
Speaker 4:Yes, not not a huge um, but I'm on there beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3:So that ends the first part of our journey and I'm going to continue as your guide to the next part, which is questions from social media and from Reiki students. So here we go. Number one how do you ignite the soul flame from within and create the life you desire?
Speaker 4:Meditation and also clearing your energy. It's a constant journey these days because there's so much different energy around um, particularly the state that our world is going through at this time the maha sankranti, the time of the great upheaval and everyone, everyone around the planet, is feeling that. So a lot of cleansing, definitely a lot of cleansing, if definitely a lot of cleansing. If you are a Reiki channel, lots of Reiki, self-healing and the meditation to really come into your heart that's so important is the soul connection coming through, coming through into the heart space. And the more that you can do that, the more you're connecting into the higher energy, then the more your heart soul flame is going to start igniting, because we are here to soul embody Really, that's the bottom line of why we're here in a body is to soul embody. And, yeah, to do that we must embody and you know meditation is the pathway to that.
Speaker 4:And then in your day, all the time, come to your heart, come to your heart. You know We've been taught, we have it all around us. We've got to live hectic lives. Even if you try and live a quiet life, it's a hectic life, um, and more often than not we're traveling all around here, all around our head space and it's like no, no, no, no, no in your no, no In your body, in your body. You can't ignite the soul flame when you're living outside of your body or in your head space.
Speaker 3:Right, right, I like how you said it's the great upheaval, because this has been my whole life for months now and I was even mentioning to my friend yesterday. It's like man spirit must have something big for me, because it's been one big thing A lot of like goodbyes, a lot of closure, a lot of letting go, like letting go of big things.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, so it's been this upheaval and big change for sure, my goodness, I tell you what I mean the Reiki prayer, taking that time, resetting, journaling, doing. Do what you need to do, right, yes, right, resetting, journaling, doing, do what you need to do, right, yes, right, um, and I mean it's just so, so important with that self-care number two. Now, all the other amazing things that you do. You also have a meditation and chant group.
Speaker 4:Tell us a little bit about those um, when I first went to india in, I came away from there just absolutely loving the chanting and it was just amazing. And a friend was churning with me and we came back to the Gold Coast after traveling around for a few months. And we came back to the Gold Coast and it was like let's start a chant crew. So we just put the banner out and started and initially we were just all chanting to recorded chants because none of us really knew them that well, so we had to start learning. At one point, about 94 or 95, we were having, you know, groups up to 30 and 40 people every week. It was just amazing. I loved it, yeah.
Speaker 4:But journeying along from there now where I live, there's events, there's so much going on all the time.
Speaker 4:So I decided to.
Speaker 4:In 94, I started leading meditation groups and, yeah, again, I hadn't done anything like that beforehand but I had been meditating for four years and so a friend and I said, okay, let's start up a meditation group.
Speaker 4:So we did, and then to today, I run a full moon meditation. So once a month, full moon meditation, because I find that the energies are just so important then and we only do a couple of chants now instead of a whole chant session, and then I lead a guided meditation, and in the guided meditation it's always soul alignment, and then wherever the guides lead us, you know wherever the um guides lead us, um, and a lot of time it is to go right out to the grid around the earth to do planetary healing, um, but you know the healing for the self first. You know the soul alignment of chakra work first, and then either out or somewhere very special. You know, like last month, the month before it was the Weesak, the full moon of the Weesak, the Buddha's birthday celebration, and so we sort of journeyed off into Tibet and then came back again.
Speaker 3:It was just wonderful, yeah so our next question I always feel like with you, but wait, there's more right. Next question is you operate Yanti sacred tours. Can you tell me about your tour in India and retreats in Bali and other high-energy places?
Speaker 4:All right. So they've slowed down just a little bit over the COVID time, of course, and they will come back again next year. I've chosen to get much more fit and healthy before doing the next one, because India's grown a lot since my previous one. I started after coming back from India in 1992. I was thinking, oh, and I went back again and then I came back and then it was like how can I keep doing this, how can I keep doing this? And I got the soul message going take groups. And it was like really what? And remember I had lived overseas for a number of years, so I was quite used to traveling and organizing travel and that. So I went. Well, that's a good idea. I know quite a few people who would love to go to Babaji's ashram and experience that. So that's how I started out.
Speaker 4:These days, sometimes we don't go to Babaji's ashram. It'll be, you know, to visit Taj Mahal. You always have to go to Taj Mahal, it's such a beautiful place, um, and to Jaipur, because it's like one of the most creative centers in India. And then we, um, we'll go up to Rishikesh, which is one of the main yoga places on planet, and then up to Dharamsala, which is Little Tibet in India and that is just stepping at a time. Going there is just amazing because India is so chaotic. There's so much going on all the time, so many people everywhere, and you go up to Tibet and you've stepped into Dharamsala and you've stepped into a whole new world. Actually it's called McLeod Ganj, but people know it more as Dharamsala and it is. It's like being in Tibet. I remember from when I went to Nepal it was like being in Nepal Just all the Buddhas and the stupas and the Dalai Lama's presence there yeah, it's really wonderful. So that's been the main journey of the India tours in recent years.
Speaker 4:And as for Bali, well, I've done a Reiki mastery training, a live-in Reiki mastery training, in Bali. That was very awesome, that was fantastic. But mostly I do a combination of things. So, depending on what the theme of the retreat is, there will be a lot of processing work, a lot of ceremony ritual and I don't know about what people understand about a lot of Reiki retreats. But there's a lot of people who go there and they drink cocktails at night and get up and do yoga in the morning and that. But that's not my purpose when I'm doing a retreat, so it has to be really good.
Speaker 4:Food and yoga normally, and meditation always. Yoga and meditation every day. We go and visit beautiful temples, water temples and other temples, and get ceremony, get cleansed, et cetera, by Balinese priest or priestess. And depends on what area the retreat is, whether we get to go near the ocean and there's a bat cave there, which is this ancient cave. Yeah, they're just wonderful, because I love Bali. The energy there is just so beautiful and the people themselves are just divine. You know, they're so special, they really are.
Speaker 3:Thank you for sharing that Well that was the last question, as we've been talking, is there anything that you may have forgotten or something you'd like to share with the listeners? The floor is yours, oh thank you.
Speaker 4:So I think the most important thing for people at this time, for all of us at this time, is to really get earthed and grounded and to you, to think clearly about what's going on on the planet and stepping out of time with that, because it can get so messy and all it brings up so much stuff for people that I think that we really have to step away from a lot of that and it will be as it will be.
Speaker 4:And the more that we can connect into our hearts, bring in our own life and anchor that light into the planet, then we're doing more service for the greater good, for the planet herself, who is on her ascension journey, and for all of us who are here to do the same, because most people now who are interested in the healing arts and spirituality etc. Are here because their souls are here to help this planet shift. So that would be my biggest message out to people is to, yeah, not buy into it. And things are getting pretty messy with the talk of World War III and that, and I just say you know, leave it alone, don't go there. Just yeah, you need to remain peaceful and calm within yourself and it's so important, um in many ways, for your families, for your partners and for all those around you, and for yourself very good and our listeners can find you online, right?
Speaker 3:Yes, yes. Sorry, what was your site again?
Speaker 4:Jayanti J. Wwwjayanticom dot j-a-y-a-n-c-i. J-a-y dot com. Perfect well.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much, yonti, for joining me on this ready set reiki journey, taking time out of your very busy schedule thank you very much, tracy.
Speaker 4:Well, it's about what? Is it quarter to midnight or something? Very good all right two minutes to midnight. So thank you very much for inviting me.
Speaker 3:It's been lovely thank you so much. All right, my wonderful listeners, if you'd like your question featured on the podcast, reach out wwwreadysetrickycom and check out social media as well. I'm tracy seawright and this has been Ready Set.
