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Episode #168 Sarah May Energy Healing Beyond Boundaries

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Tracy Searight welcomes yoga instructor, Reiki healer, and intuitive guide Sarah May for a powerful conversation about energy healing and personal transformation. Sarah shares her unexpected journey into Reiki through sessions with a shaman that left her feeling "gooey" and profoundly changed. With candor and warmth, she describes navigating the challenges of pursuing energy healing while coming from a conservative Christian background, emphasizing the importance of following what feels authentic despite external judgment.

The heart of this episode explores Sarah's forthcoming memoir "She Journeys," chronicling her first marriage, divorce, and subsequent ten-year healing odyssey. What began as personal healing through various modalities – from traditional therapy to energy work and plant medicine ceremonies – has evolved into Sarah's professional calling to support others on similar paths.

Perhaps most compelling is Sarah's innovative divorce ritual practice. Recognizing that our culture provides elaborate ceremonies for marriages but little closure when relationships end, Sarah returned to her wedding beach seven years after her divorce to burn her wedding vows and reclaim her power. This ritual provided the energetic closure that signing divorce papers alone could never offer – a practice she now shares with others seeking similar release.

For those beginning their Reiki journey, Sarah offers valuable guidance on developing a personal practice before working with clients, building a deep relationship with the energy that forms the foundation of healing work. She addresses misconceptions about energy healing while highlighting its growing acceptance in medical settings.

The conversation concludes with Sarah's beautiful reminder that practitioners are channels rather than the source of healing energy – a humble perspective that positions the healer as being "in service of" rather than controlling the healing process. Connect with Sarah's nomadic healing practice through her website shejourneys.us or join her monthly women's circles for intuitive readings and community support.

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Speaker 2:

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 a host, as I, too, am traveling, helping, supporting others and learning on this Reiki journey as well, and, with that said, I am your guide, tracy C Wright. And this is Ready Set Reiki. Hello, beautiful listeners, tracy C Wright, ready Set Reiki. And on to another wonderful adventure.

Speaker 2:

But before we begin, I'd like to just share with all of you out there is I have mentioned that I am a guide, so, as a guide, I have been out in this landscape for a little while and there are lots of amazing and wonderful resources out there. So if you are that curious beginner or that seasoned master teacher and you're looking for a community, maybe you feel like, oh, I haven't found my people. Yet there is a beautiful and wonderful community called the Reiki Business Collective, christian Standing Stone, and September 13th September 14th he is doing a Reiki summit with a fantastic selection of Reiki practitioners and master teachers out there to help guide and support you along the journey. So I hope that when you're out here and you're learning and you're cultivating a relationship with the energy, that you know that you are never alone. There are fantastic individuals out there who are more than happy to help, mentor you and guide you. So know again that you are never alone. Well, today, on this journey, I am so excited.

Speaker 2:

This is my type of person here Reiki yoga, sarah May. Now she is a yoga instructor, reiki healer, intuitive, and she provides her clients with powerful practices and healing insights, from studios to private lessons, sessions and retreats and women's circle. Now she received her master of Science in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and previously managed a non-profit. Now she journeys. That is her debut memoir in 2020. She and her husband, fellow author Andrew Singer, converted a cargo van and hit the road. They spend their time exploring and riding across America through America's public lands. When not on wheels, her home base is Houston and San Diego. So let's give a nice ready set Reiki. Welcome to Sarah May, hello.

Speaker 3:

Hi Tracy, Hello listeners, so good to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2:

Wonderful, so, so excited to start this journey with you. What wonderful modalities you know, bringing together Reiki and yoga. A lot of people don't realize that you can blend the two and have an amazing yoga session, bringing in that Reiki energy.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely yes, yeah, yoga and the intuitive work that I do. It really all ties together because everything is energy, right, beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 2:

So I gave our listeners just a little taste of who you are. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so thank you for the introduction. I also call myself a healing guide, because there's this idea that you know we're also figuring it out, we're also walking a path, and how beautiful that the tools and the resources that helped us can become ways we can support others on this journey, because life is a journey, it's not the destination. And so, yeah, I'm a writer, I'm a teacher and I'm a healing guide. I received my yoga certification way, way back in 2014, but I didn't start teaching until 2019. And from 2019 onwards, I've been on a pretty radical spiritual journey, working with a shaman, and that's how I got introduced to Reiki, and so that's become a part of my life and a part of my practice as well as intuitive work. So I took a year long intuitive development course. So now I work one on one with clients doing Reiki intuitive readings.

Speaker 3:

And, yeah, my book comes out September 9, 2025. I'm so excited for that. It's a memoir about healing, so we can get into that later, absolutely. But yeah, and I'm a nomad, I live on the road. Right now I'm coming to you from my camper van, so very exposed to the elements. But I love it the freedom, the minimalism, the adventure. It's just suited me to have this alternative lifestyle for the last five years now. So it's an adventure and I'm loving it.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful. I have a friend that does that too on the road and it's her first experience at Burning man. So I don't know if you know everything that's going on. Yeah, I hope she's okay. Burning man, right, I'm like, oh my goodness, and she was so proud of herself with her little cargo van and everything and she's like it is a white out here. Wow, I hope she's okay. Oh yeah, yeah she's, she's fine. Well, you know, in true spirit of the Burning man, she's down now off social media, so she's all she's all in.

Speaker 2:

So back to our journey here with the energy. So you connected with the Reiki energy. So tell us, did you find Reiki or did it find you?

Speaker 3:

energy. So tell us, did you find Reiki or did it find you? I love this question. Reiki absolutely found me and it was something that I wasn't really looking for right and didn't know I was looking for it. I started working with a shaman and part of her practice was incorporating Reiki into her sessions, and so it would be maybe 15 to 20 minutes about talking and coaching and back and forth, and then she would give me a Reiki treatment, and the first time I laid on her table I had no idea what to expect.

Speaker 3:

I'd never done anything like that in my life. I was a little weirded out, a little uncomfortable, and then the most amazing things happened in my body, in my space. I was getting these mental pictures that were just like gorgeous, and I felt hot and then cold and different burning at parts of my body and I was like what is this? I was so intrigued and just knew that I had to find out more about Reiki and I left her office just feeling so like gooey, like so soft, so relaxed, so open. I couldn't even drive Tracy. I had to sit in my car for like 15 minutes and just come back and, you know, have a firm landing here on earth, because it was so subtle and gentle but profound and I just knew like, okay, there's something really powerful about this modality.

Speaker 2:

Right. What style of Reiki did you study?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, the Yasui Sensei and Mistress Takayama. I'm not sure exactly what lineage that would be called. That's a great question. Yeah, yeah, I don't know exactly.

Speaker 2:

Very good, very good. So, as you are out, you've experienced the Reiki, this experience where it felt gooey and warm and lovely. As you're out, working, having this experience, what are some common misconceptions you find about Reiki?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think this is a great question because I had misconceptions about Reiki Especially.

Speaker 3:

I grew up very conservative Christian and so this whole spiritual world and energy world, like it just wasn't something that was talked about.

Speaker 3:

And if it was, it was kind of more occult, like um, not really open to it, and so I had a lot of unpacking to do and limiting stories or limiting beliefs and judgments that came up when I kind of discovered this world and stepped into a more spiritual path, um, and so I think, just being open and asking why not, and let's just try and see, you know, who knows what could resonate with us or who knows what could be the right medicine for us, and so I think some of the misconceptions are that it's it's kind of woo, woo but actually like this is being used in hospice, this has been used in hospitals. My mom got a severe burn and was submitted to the ER and someone came in and gave her Reiki and that's when she's like oh, wow, like I didn't know that you, you know you do this, like I didn't realize this is a legitimate thing. And so kind of getting past some of the myths or the stereotypes, to be open enough to ask why not.

Speaker 3:

Let's see what it has to offer Right.

Speaker 2:

And I love how it's progressing. Social media is really instrumental in mainstreaming this and like my kids, like I'll ask them, oh, yeah, so, and so does this on TikTok and I know this and that. So it's wonderful that many people wouldn't even connect a burn right Because they're thinking like, oh, emotional right, and to think, wow, it's being sent in an emergency room for a burn and that's how the beauty of this it's really. You're only limited by your imagination, but you can use it for.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely.

Speaker 2:

So, as you're out helping others through yoga, through Reiki, through your intuitive work, what have been some of the biggest challenges you have faced in your own journey?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, this is a great question. When I first started out, I mentioned I was raised pretty conservative Christian and I just faced, internally and externally, quite a bit of judgment. And I just faced internally and externally quite a bit of judgment around this work, around this path, and so it really had to become something that I was so passionate about it that it didn't matter what other people said or thought. It really had to come from my own sense of like this feels right and true for me, and honoring that, despite what anybody else said or thought or the opinions, and when we get to that place of acceptance about knowing and following what feels true for us, that's really powerful and I would say it was kind of an initiation into trusting myself and following the right path for me.

Speaker 3:

And everybody's path looks different, right, and that's beautiful. We all are here to have different journeys and experience different things. But when we finally get that feeling of walking our path and being on our path I mean, tracy, I'm sure you know there's nothing like it Like you just have this peace and this this knowing, even with there's challenges which of course there will be it still feels right, it still feels worth it, because you just know that this is what you came here for.

Speaker 2:

Right and I'm you know, in my experience with yoga and with Reiki I've encountered individuals just the hearing the name yoga, hearing the name Reiki, causes and stirs emotion. Like you don't get this reaction when you get, say, the word massage or going to a hairdresser. And I grew up in a very Christian home and it was frowned upon for Reiki and for yoga especially, and my mother is just, she never approved of it and I even tweaked my yoga practice so that I wouldn't do certain asanas that would have been part of, say, a ritual, and it still wasn't good enough. I even went so far as to do like Christian yoga and my mother's reaction was well, I don't see how you saying some Bible verses, doing a sun salutation, makes this Christian. So I completely understand just the word and it just invokes in people these reactions you know from OK, well, that's Hindu or it's this or it's not a part of my religion and it's so much different than that. I mean we want to honor the lineage but at the same time it's bringing meaning to what it means for you. So kudos for that.

Speaker 2:

That was a struggle in my beginning as well, because I had the family that said no, that's not what we do. You sit and you pray and you're not doing these things. But I knew that there was something more and a connection and a deeper connection. And who was anybody else to say that when I'm in these asanas, that I'm having that spiritual time right? That connection?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, absolutely. I love that. You shared that and it's so interesting because, like Reiki, for example, this hands-on energy healing, like they do that in church, they heal with their hands, right, like who's to say it's different. And like yoga, for me, I felt safer in a yoga studio than I ever did in a church, and so that for me was like what is this about? You know why? Why do I feel that way?

Speaker 2:

And so finding those places where you Very good, so you had mentioned that you had connected with a shaman. So, from a shaman to a Reiki master or Reiki practitioner, what are some qualities that you look for when it's time for you, you know, to get, say, a tune up or to connect with someone?

Speaker 3:

no-transcript intuitively like, okay, there's something this feels like a green light, right, or there's some red flags here. So really using my intention to decipher as well, um, and I do that like if they have videos of themselves, you know, just watching the video and seeing how I feel, seeing if there's anything in me that says, oh yeah, I love that, I love what she said or they said. And so, paying attention to my intuition, looking for integrity, those are kind of the cornerstones for me.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and it makes me think of prior to social media, internet and things. I remember, and this is way back, when you just had the phone book right, and I had to find a doctor and there was listings of all these doctors and there was a particular doctor and it just her name. Just sounded great to me, like this is my doctor, like I just knew, without even seeing her face, that connection. And then finally, when I met her, it was like, yeah, this is my doctor and you know she was able to be my doctor through, you know, four pregnancies and you know just was a great, amazing doctor. So that feeling is, is everything that connection with it?

Speaker 2:

So make sure, as you go out and you know you're finding the teachers and you're finding that practitioners, that it also feels right as well. I mean, they can have lots and lots of credentials and frames on their wall, but if you don't have that connection, you know it's just so and so important. So what advice would you give someone who is just entering this profession, whether it's Reiki or even yoga?

Speaker 3:

Yeah. So I think one of the things that was most helpful for me was when I did my Reiki training program after getting the level one attunement. It wasn't about going out and giving other people sessions, it's really about developing the relationship with myself with the Reiki. And so, you know, we had a Reiki log and developed a personal daily practice of giving ourselves Reiki. And so, you know, we had a Reiki log in and developed a personal daily practice of giving ourselves Reiki, and that was really helpful because it helped me just develop a deep personal relationship with it.

Speaker 3:

What did it feel like? How did I experience it on my own? And I really believe that that's so important because that becomes the foundation of of your practice to share it with others. It wasn't until the level two that I actually began experimenting, you know, with channeling and sessions for other people, but developing that really solid relationship, first on my own. And so taking your time with any new skill or tool that you're learning or coming into and, you know, developing your own yoga practice, developing your own Reiki, practicing what feels good, you know learning the different, you know hand signals and and working, practicing the symbols. So just taking your time with it and really developing that one-on-one, because it is a different type of energy, right, and so connecting with it in that way and building that foundation. Right.

Speaker 2:

I know when I began it was kind of this fire energy. Everything was coming and happening so fast and five years into that it was like it just kept coming, coming and coming and it got to. And you may have experienced this where your own personal yoga practice starts to suffer because you're teaching way more than you know. You're practicing in yourself and as you go along, if you find yourself with this abundance, you know, maybe, perhaps you know intuitive, you're a master manifester and you're finding, wow, the clients are coming, the students are coming, the classes, the opportunities it's okay to pause and just reset.

Speaker 2:

And I have found before we began our journey today we talked about like my great upheaval, and part of that is pausing a little bit, pausing and redirecting things and taking and going back to the basics, like bringing in the precepts and taking time to let's reconnect with the energy again and slow it down, because I was connecting so much to others that it was time to kind of bring it back again and circle around. So those bold decisions to say you know what I'm, I really need to care for myself is so important and instrumental. It's not always about putting that Reiki cape on and saving the world. Right, you got to get yourself together as well, so what books do you recommend?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, great question. So there's quite a few about Reiki and energy healing. If people are curious, that offer like just a great introduction. You know, healing hands, Reiki, introduction to Reiki, Reiki for beginners. But I also really love pairing that with learning about energy and especially energy and how it affects the body and the system overall. So Carolyn Miss has some great works. She's a medical medium and her books are really really helpful, especially for me, just in terms of energetically, how different things impact our bodies and where they sit in our bodies, and so that's been especially helpful because I just feel more like aware, you know, of what the energy could be doing, and so that's been really helpful. Those two books, and I would say that those are the main things. I wanted to share something else, but it slipped my mind, so we'll move on.

Speaker 2:

Perfect, so do you offer classes, trainings, events.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I do so. I offer one on one sessions with people either doing Reiki or an intuitive reading or a combination of both. I also do monthly women's circles, so this is where a group of women can come together, come into community, get an intuitive reading and have the space just to connect and have a safe space to be seen and be witnessed and talk about things that might be going on in their lives. And then I'm creating a divorce ritual. So this is going live on my website soon. I'm so excited about this on my website soon. I'm so excited about this.

Speaker 3:

It's something that I write about in my book how, when I got divorced, I needed so much more than a piece of paper saying that I was separated. That didn't feel like closure to me, especially energetically or in my body or in my heart. And so many years after my divorce, I created this ritual where I went to the same beach that I was married at, I burned the vows that my ex-husband and I had exchanged. I read new vows out loud to myself, I burned the ashes, I released to the ocean, and it was really powerful in terms of finding that closure that I needed and calling my power back. In a sense, it was almost like there was a version of me that was still on that beach waiting and waiting for a promise that was never going to come true, and so I really believe in the power of ritual to help us find peace, clarity, closure, to move on from something. So I'm really excited about this divorce ritual that I'll be releasing soon to hopefully help support others in their own journey of healing after a divorce.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful. So where can we find you online and in person?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so you can find me at she journeysus. I'm also on Instagram under that same handle at she double underscore journeys, and you can find everything on my website about my upcoming book, about my offerings. If you join my mailing list you'll get notified about those monthly women's circles. I also post about that on social media and because I'm a full time nomad, it's pretty hard to pin me down in person, but I will have some events in San Diego in September that I'm really full-time nomad, it's pretty hard to pin me down in person, but I will have some events in San Diego in September that I'm really excited about at the Soul of Yoga, and so, depending on where I am, I would love to do local events. But you know, this lifestyle is not great for being rooted somewhere.

Speaker 2:

All right. Well, that ends our first part of our journey together and I'm going to guide you into the second part, which are questions from social media and Reiki students. So number one you touched on in a little bit, but we're circling back around. Tell us a little bit about your women's circles.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so I primarily put this out on social media, my newsletter. It's a free space, so anyone can join and what you can expect is coming together on zoom. So this is a virtual gathering and everyone has the opportunity to bring a question, something that they're curious about, something that's going on in their life. And it's really sweet to be in community, because what happens when I channel an intuitive reading is that usually something comes through that's for other people in the group as well, right, and so I channel maybe 10 minutes per person of whatever is coming through, whatever information is coming through, and then there's an opportunity to discuss, to share, to ask follow-up questions and just connect.

Speaker 3:

I think creating these spaces is really important, because it's not so often that women can come together and like soften in into those spaces and have that intuitive channeling and connect. Even if it's just a stranger, with intuitive readings you're really kind of tapping into the heart and soul of something. There's no surface level conversation, there's no shallow conversation. It's really like oh, I see you're really struggling with self-worth and who can't relate to that? Right? So it really helps to have these universal things that we're all working on, we're all moving through, witnessing them and one another and then being able to say, oh yeah, me too. It was really really helpful.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful. Well, thank you for holding space like that and giving individuals an opportunity to come together in a community. So, as we began the journey talking about you, know how important community is to never feel that you are alone. Yeah absolutely Number two your book. What inspired you to write?

Speaker 3:

She Journeys. Yes, thank you. I'm so excited to talk about this. It's been a huge labor of love.

Speaker 3:

I spent four years writing this book and it's a memoir about my first marriage, the way it imploded, and my divorce and a long healing journey that I embarked on, and so I always knew that I would write a book. I know that sounds funny, but I've kept a daily journal since I was a teenager. Writing has just always been my way of processing and grounding down and making meaning, and so when my divorce happened, I knew one day I would write about it, if only just for my own healing, if only just for my own process, if only just for my own process. However, it took many, many years to get to a time and space in my life where I actually could begin the writing. So van life has been amazing, because this has been the time and space that I needed to be able to write my book.

Speaker 3:

So the book chronicles my marriage, a lot of marital trauma and abuse that occurred, the divorce and a 10-year long healing journey. There was traveling across the country alone, backpacking, camping, trying to bury the pain for a little while, pretending that it didn't exist until it bubbled up in a way that showed me we can never just bury the past right. It always comes up to be dealt with. And so I started the healing work. I went to traditional things like talk therapy and EMDR and then we got into the alternative because I figured why not? Anything that helps me heal and find peace can be medicine.

Speaker 3:

So that's when I started working with a shaman and I found Reiki and I started sitting in plant medicine ceremonies. Yoga was a huge part of that. So it's really beautiful that all of the things that helped me heal along the way I've now incorporated in my offerings to share with others, because I know that they worked for me. I know how powerful they can be. So my book she Journeys chronicles all of this and it ends with moving into a van and where I currently am in life, which is happily remarried and gosh, living a dream that I didn't know I would ever get to live- Wow, Isn't that wonderful.

Speaker 2:

I mean, I'm sure you never imagined 10 or 15 years ago you'd be here today and doing the work that you're doing and traveling. I mean how different that looks. But you kept on the journey, you kept moving forward, you kept trying different modalities to find that one that worked for you. And you took it a step further by being of service for others as well. So that's where the deep healing happens, there. So kudos for that and everything that you're doing to help individuals out there. Thank you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much. Number three, you touched on this a little bit, but can you share a little bit about the divorce ritual and how it has helped you and how it might help others?

Speaker 3:

how it might help others, yeah, yeah. So I think this idea of having a ritual, especially after something so significant, right. When we get married, there's some type of ceremony, whether that's your traditional big ceremony, you know, hundreds of friends and family and an officiant and all the vows and the exchanging of rings these are all rituals, right, and we're making a commitment that we believe will be forever, for the rest of our life. So, energetically, there's really big things happening when we do that, when we make that kind of commitment, and then when we get divorced, there's nothing. So that doesn't really, for me, feel like okay, energetically, I had all of that and now I'm just done. So I really didn't feel any type of closure and I'm the kind of person where I need something solid, I need something to cement. That was that chapter, and now I can move forward fully. Otherwise, energetically, I'm still carrying things. I'm still somewhere in my body carrying that promise, that commitment, or just the memories of grief or pain or, you know, the sadness of what I thought was going to be the rest of my life, and then this person who turned out to break our wedding vows in every way possible, so buried in our bodies, is memory right, and so it took a long time for me to realize that I needed more.

Speaker 3:

I didn't do my divorce ritual until seven years later, and that was only because I had put off healing for so long. But every time I drove past the beach where I was buried, I felt sick to my stomach, it was like a kick in my gut and I would have this visceral reaction. We would call that a trigger. And so I realized, oh, there's a place to revisit, there's still a place to call back my power from and to integrate more. And so designing this ritual and I was very intentional about how I approached it and I just asked my parents to join me, which felt very fitting and very close with my parents join me, which felt very fitting and very close with my parents. They were there on my wedding day and so, and they were so supportive and helpful to me in the healing process, so it felt so sweet to go back to the same beach with them, have them serve as witnesses for this new vow right that I was offering up to myself and to my journey and just speaking out loud that I let go that part of my life with forgiveness and I start this new chapter, that part of my journey is now finished and complete, really like naming these things out loud and intending them and meaning them, wow, it felt so powerful.

Speaker 3:

I felt this shift shift and it was just so beautiful. I didn't expect to feel like so different afterwards but I did, and so that kind of cued me in like, oh, there's something really powerful here about bringing in a ritual to help close a chapter of our lives and to create space for the rest of our lives. Right, anytime we burn or release something or let something go, space is created. So what are we calling in, what are we welcoming in? And this ritual really felt like doing that in a big way. So I'm so excited to hopefully support others as they design a divorce ritual that feels right for them. But rituals like this can be used for anything for grief, for a full moon for them. But you know, rituals like this can be used for anything for for grief, for a full moon, you know, for transitions in life, just to help us get intentional and maybe release something or welcome something. And so I'm a big believer in the power of ritual.

Speaker 2:

Right. I mean, as you look back, you know the whole process. I mean as women, you know, even from a young age it was like okay, well, you'll go to school, you'll get married and you have this kind of almost cultural way of having your life set up and all of the experiences that lead up to the actual ceremony of the wedding, from the showers, right the events and the bachelorette party and then having that ceremony. And then when things don't work out, I remember when I had gotten a divorce, you go into the lawyer's office, you sign the paper and that was it and you're just like what do I do with this now? And how different it would have been for me years ago if there was some kind of closure in that way, you know, and for you taking to that exact moment on the beach and having your parents there to have that closure, it wasn't even a thought of what should I burn, what should I do here and there.

Speaker 2:

And over the years, you know, I would see pictures from our wedding and get upset and triggered and things like that. But how differently that could have gone if I had that option, you know. And you hear people about having their little divorce party or, like you know, mess the dress or burn the dress or something, something in a way to kind of release and let that go. So thank you for putting that out there as an option for individuals when they go to that attorney, sign the papers and it's like, well, what do I do with this? How do I handle this? How do I?

Speaker 2:

move forward. Right, you know you may not have those resources. You know, at the time it was like my husband, my ex-husband he was the first person in his family to get divorced. You know, what do you do with that? You know so, yeah, so thank you for putting that out there. Well, that was our third question, our last question as we've been talking. Is there anything else you've forgotten about or something you'd like to share with the listeners? The floor is yours.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, thank you, tracy. Something came up that I wanted to mention too. When we're talking about Reiki or intuitive readings and working with this, this world is that and, tracy, I'm sure you talk about this a lot but is that we are? It's not us necessarily doing it right, we're channeling something, we open ourselves up to channel this beautiful healing, reiki energy and same.

Speaker 3:

When I do intuitive readings, it's not Sarah doing this, it's that I'm opening myself up and allowing this to come through in service of, on behalf of, and so, I think, also looking for a healer that, like ego, you know, can get in the way, like ego, you know, can get in the way, and it's so not about who, who I am, you know, sarah as a healer. It's really about, like, in service of, and handing over this space, and before every single session, you know, I'm setting the space and preparing a space and and saying prayers and, um, getting ready, and then I hand over the session because it's not mine, right? Like I really believe that the universe has brought this person to me and me to them and we've agreed to work together, and so I'm not in control of that, like that's the universe, and so, just at some point handing it over and saying, okay, here we go, and also that's taught me so much about how to show up in life, right, like we do our work and we go about our days and we do the best we can, we show up and then at some point there's so much that we just have to hand over, you know, and so there's so many beautiful lessons in Reiki about that we can take for living life and living life well. So I just think this idea of it's not us. You know we're in service on behalf of and I take that as a serious responsibility and also like what an honor you know that someone is coming to us, that we're, you know, entering this space with them. So being a healer is a big responsibility, and and being a healer comes from working ourselves right, from going through this ourselves.

Speaker 3:

So, chazie, I know you've done that and and done all that work so, and you've written a book, so that's an incredible resource to share with people. Uh, I'm so excited for my book as a resource for people and a divorce ritual and just taking advantage of all the amazing offerings out there. So, tracy, thank you so much for creating this space. It's so fun to talk about Reiki and things I love yoga, writing all of it. I love this world and really appreciate you creating this space for Reiki practitioners and for the listeners to come here and learn more about this world. So thank you.

Speaker 2:

Wonderful, and thank you, sarah, for all that you do, for the community as well, in your work. So I really appreciate you taking time out of your very busy schedule to be on Ready Set Reiki on this journey with me, thank you. All right, my wonderful listeners, if you'd like your question featured on the podcast, reach out wwwreadysetreikiorg or dot com not org, oh my goodness and check me out in social media. Send me an email and perhaps your question can be featured on the show. So I'm tracy seaw and this has been Ready Set Rake.

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