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(#57) Connecting With Your Angels, The Akashic Records, and Manifestation with Erin Bishop Pedone

• Rae The Somatic Coach • Episode 57

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In today's episode we have our next guest expert Erin Bishop Pedone, owner of Reiki Shores.

Erin is the visionary behind Reiki Shores, stands at the forefront of holistic healing as a certified Reiki Master Teacher, Integrated Energy Therapy Master, and Akashic Records Practitioner. With a profound belief in the innate wisdom of the soul, Erin guides individuals towards unlocking their healing potential, advocating a life of love, joy, and purposeful health.

Tune in to today's episode to receive: 

  • Erin's journey of creating her own business and in-person wellness studio in Island Park, NY
  • Insight into how to connect to your own spirit guides, angels, and spirit team
  • Gain an understanding of the akashic records and how this information is helpful in navigating today's challenges
  • When things are tough, learn the one tool you can lean on to to feel universal support
  • Learn how to amplify your manifestations and become an energetic match for your desires! 


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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Radiant Life Podcast. I'm your host, rae, the Somatic Coach, and I'm here to support you in healing your past, living in the present and creating your future so that you can become the most centered, embodied and happiest version of yourself. Each week, I'll be bringing you episodes to help you navigate life's challenges, ease stress and tension and learn more about holistic healing, spirituality and wellness. If you're interested in becoming the best version of yourself so that you can live the life of your dreams, then you're in the right place. Subscribe to the podcast and the monthly newsletter and follow me on Instagram and TikTok to know when new episodes are released each week. I am so happy that you've landed here. Let's dive in. Welcome back to the podcast. If you are new here, I'm Rae. I'm a somatic coach and breathwork facilitator, and if you aren't new here, welcome back. I'm so glad that you're tuning in for today's episode.

Speaker 1:

For today's episode, we have our next guest expert and before we dive in to what you can expect from today's episode, I wanted to share with you a few life updates. So two weeks ago, I got to go to Niagara Falls with my mom and my husband. It was awesome, highly recommend. If you're looking for like a quick, easy trip. We just went Friday to Sunday and it was such a great time. And then this past weekend I went to Pennsylvania to teach a class at Jamie's Studio Empowered Alignment, and while I was there I also got to make my own drum. So I made a drum out of deer skin and it was considered like a drum birthing ceremony. So the facilitator, chris, he was awesome. He told us all about his culture and the Native American culture and the healing qualities of the drum and how to activate it. So tomorrow night, which is Wednesday, a few days after I've made the drum, that is when you play the drum for the first time and it comes to life.

Speaker 1:

So the idea is that the deer that was used for this drum, it's all animals that were this is kind of gross, I guess but all animals that were killed naturally. And so the idea is that the heart of the animal, the essence of the animal, lives on through this drum, and so I serve as a channel based on the intentions that I wrote inside of the drum, and I'll share with you a little bit about those intentions. So on the outside of the drum you write all of the things that are more personal to myself, so things that I might be releasing or letting go of. And then, on the inside, you're able to see what I wrote and this is the intention of the drum. So I wrote we are always being divinely guided. Let go to make space for love, joy and receiving abundance. It is safe to release with ease and it is safe to open your heart. And then the words that I chose, that kind of summarize this intention, was trust, compassion, inner peace, radiant heart and courage. So the idea of the deer is that the deer skin, I should say, because there's a few different options you can choose is that it's really focused on healing the heart, and I think that's a lot of the work that I do. So I started with this one. I was drawn to the other ones options as well, but, um, the heart healing just really felt good for me. So I'm excited to activate my drum tomorrow and then we'll see where this takes me. And if you are also a facilitator or a coach or a healer or anything of that nature and you also would like to make your own drum, like if you think this is pretty cool, definitely reach out to me and let me know, because if there is enough interest, I would love to put together a group. Chris the facilitator is absolutely wonderful, really knowledgeable, and he makes the whole experience a lot of fun. So if it interests you, send me a DM and we'll take it from there.

Speaker 1:

There's also an upcoming event that I would love to share with you. So the Sunday after this episode comes out so this episode comes out on November 13th this Sunday coming up, so November 17th at 9.30 am, courtney and I are hosting an in-person event at Fire and Ice Wellness Studio, which is located on Long Island in Wanta, and it's called Exhale and Unwind and it includes breathwork, meditation, sound healing. Courtney's going to speak with us about hormone health. There's a goodie bag of all these different sponsors and it's going to be a really, really wonderful event. So the first part is our facilitation and then the second part, you get to use the wellness studios. So that includes infrared sauna, a salt cave, an ice room. It's really, really cool. So I'm really excited for this event on Sunday. Check out the show notes for all the information.

Speaker 1:

And then, lastly, before we dive into today's episode, I want to share with you that I will be hosting a sale for Black Friday coming up, which is exciting. So at the end of this month of November, I will probably not be sending out an email about it, but maybe I'll post it on Instagram or my stories or something. But you are the first to know. And the sale is going to be on the single sessions. So the one-on-one breathwork and somatic healing sessions if that's something that you've been eyeing, this is going to be the best sale that I've offered this year and will be offering this year. So if that's something you've been eyeing, definitely keep an eye out, and I won't be changing any of the links, so there's no special link. It's just my 60 minute session and my 90 minute sessions. That are all in there in the show notes. Those are the links, so you'll just see the new price reflected. I'm not going to tell you what it is, so there is a little bit of a surprise and if that's something that interests you, definitely check it out. I would love to work with you. I've been loving offering these sessions and it's absolutely amazing what can happen in 60 or 90 minutes, all right.

Speaker 1:

So for today's episode, we have our next next guest expert, erin bishop padone, and I'm excited to share with you, uh, today's episode. So erin is the visionary behind reiki shores and stands at the forefront of holistic healing. As a certified Reiki master teacher, integrated energy therapy master and Akashic Records practitioner, with a profound belief in the innate wisdom of the soul, erin guides individuals towards unlocking their healing potential, advocating a life of love, joy and health. So I'm excited to share with you today's episode. I hope that you enjoy it. Definitely check out the show notes for all of erin's information, and there is a discount code for you as well. So I hope you enjoy. I hope you have an incredible rest of your day, an incredible rest of your week, an incredible rest of your week, and I will talk to you soon.

Speaker 1:

Welcome back to the Radiant Life Podcast. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I'm really excited to bring you our next guest expert, erin, owner of Reiki Shores. And before I pass over to Erin to introduce herself, I will share that. I met Erin in the wellness community in Long Beach so many of you if you're a Long Beach listener, you might know her as well. She's absolutely lovely and she owns her own studio right in Oceanside and Island Park. Oh, it's right over the bridge.

Speaker 1:

Yes, it's over the bridge and um, we've been able to connect and collaborate over really the past few years maybe the past one to two years and it's just been like a beautiful friendship and professional relationship and I'm really excited to chat with you today and bring you here. So, erin, could you please just introduce yourself, share with us a little bit about who you are and what you do.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely so. Yeah, so we met a couple of years ago and have collaborated, and I am a Reiki master teacher, I am an integrated energy therapy master and a Kashuk records practitioner and I do Oracle cards and things like that. I am owner of Reiki Shores. We're on Austin Boulevard in Island Park and we have massage therapy here, sound therapy all the things that I just mentioned. We hold classes, we hold private sessions. We do a lot of fun things help you feel self-empowered and recognize how much, um, how much, you are in charge of your journey here on earth.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love that and just being um, I can speak for myself, just being a part of you know, the classes that you offer and the services that you offer as an attendee. That is so spot on Like it's always just so you know nourishing and eye-opening and grounding and expansive, so I think that's a really accurate definition.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you. Yeah, that's what we really want people to understand. We're not here to heal you. We're here to just guide you, to open up to the answers that you already have inside of your soul.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, integrative energy. Um oracle cards there's, there's so much there. Can you share with us a little bit maybe about how you went down that specific path?

Speaker 2:

yeah, um, so I mean, my healing journey really began, I think, as a. As a kid, you know, I was always like into all of these things. Um, I was always very connected with the angelic realm as a child. I was raised Roman Catholic and angels are everywhere in Catholicism and I was very, very intrigued. I always felt connected to loved ones that had passed. I would talk to them, I just like had conversations, and I think you know, as you get older, into your teenage years, you kind of forget all of those things and I probably chalked it up to like imagination and you know your imaginary friends that you like just spoke to, and then, through my early adulthood, got married, didn't work out, didn't end well, and I really needed to kind of find myself again.

Speaker 2:

I found I got into a company that was very much, very much big on personal development and so I got into all of this like self-help stuff and found my way to meditation and really took a liking to more of the self-help stuff than the actual company and I kind of just went on my own road to healing that way. And then when I moved here and I got into, I was in health and wellness, so I really did care about being the best that you can be when I moved here in 2016,. You know, long Beach has a very large spiritual community and I kind of found people in that arena. And then I met people and got into Reiki and I got certified and I just kind of moved on and on from there. And then COVID happened and I lost my corporate gig in Manhattan and I said, okay, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this full time and, over COVID and over the lockdowns, I just got into integrated energy therapy and the Akashic records, and and here we are.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, oh, my gosh, that's amazing. Yeah, so amazing, yeah, yeah. So connecting with angels, that's so interesting that you were, you found that really through, I guess, religion originally, yeah, um, and then now, as an adult, that's, you've incorporated into what you do like speaking with angels, having them as a kind of part of your spirit team connecting with your divine team. Um, can you tell us, like a little bit more about how to connect with our angels or what that relationship could look like?

Speaker 2:

yeah. So you know, you know we all, we all, we all have the ability to do this Um and really all what you're, all you're doing is getting yourself to a place where you're raising your vibration. You raise it and the highest vibration is love. So you're trying to just go into a meditative state where you're just leaving this very 3D, slow, sluggish energy that we have here on earth and let go of your ego and just start to trust. However, you're connecting with the energy. So we all do that differently.

Speaker 2:

Some people speak, they hear very clearly, they have these conversations, um. Some people are more visual. Some people get a feeling, some people get just a knowing Um. For me, it's more of a feeling that I get um from somebody. Like when I, when I connect, especially especially like I'm doing an Akashic records reading, I get a different guide every time that I go into someone's records and I'll get you know.

Speaker 2:

One time I had a guide and it was just like this grandpa who, like, just thought that we were so cute and adorable and wanted to keep giving us.

Speaker 2:

He's like I just want to give you cookies, like he was just so sweet and loving. And then there was another time I went into the records and this guide was like I said, I can only describe this guide as like Maleficent, like Angelina Jolie from Maleficent the movie, and she, like she meant business and she was not warm and fuzzy, you know, she was for good, but it was just like this energy that I was picking up on. So I tend to feel energy and then I hear something and then I can relate. I always tell people it's like a game of charades and the more that I lean into what I'm feeling, I'll say, okay, is this what I'm feeling? Are you like a grandpa? And the more it comes on to me I don't know how else to explain it They'll just kind of like bring their energy into my auric field a little bit stronger, like warmer, warmer, colder, colder, kind of like that. I love that.

Speaker 1:

That's amazing, amazing, yeah, um, yeah. So what is the Akashic Records?

Speaker 2:

so the Akashic Records, it's, um, basically a big library, uh, galactic library, and every soul has a record of all your past lives, your present life and future lives and what we do with the records. It's not like a medium, like sitting down with a medium or sitting down with a psychic. It's literally asking a question and then a guide from the Akashic Records will give me an answer and I translate that answer to you. So that's what I mean by like it's a big game of charades that I'm playing.

Speaker 2:

When you go into the Akashic records, I have to have permission from this person. Like I could never go in and say can I please have Rachel's records and access them. That's crossing a boundary. They're also not going to give you that information and you have to be very specific on your questions. I have found that I'm not going to get an answer if it's going to interrupt your evolution. So there is a workaround. Sometimes you have to just ask the question a little bit differently in order to get an answer, or sometimes they're like no, she doesn't need to know that we're not going to answer that because it's going to disrupt something. There's a lesson in there for you to learn and you just got to find out on your own, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh, that's so cool. Yeah, that's so interesting. That is something that interests me, like the Akashic records and just being able to connect with different parts of people's lives and soul journeys, and that's something that's definitely interesting. I don't know if I actually have done specifically an Akashic records reading before I don't. I don't know the Akashic.

Speaker 2:

Records reading before I don't know. The Akashic Records are really great because you can draw on past lives to help you understand certain lessons that you're going through now, with information as to how it relates to now in this lifetime and we've had so many, like thousands of lifetimes, but there's only going to be a handful of lives like maybe like five lifetimes in, but there's only going to be a handful of lives like maybe like five lifetimes in your past that are going to relate to this specific one.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's so interesting.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's really cool. That's so cool. So they're not going to show you all your lives, just as it relates to this one now.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I could understand why that would be really helpful to have and know and it would be be, um yeah, like a lot of insight to bring into your current experience that would be really interesting, yes, and when it comes to connecting with your angels and doing akashic record readings, is there any kind of like tips or tricks? Maybe you would give someone if they wanted to like strengthen that relationship or maybe even start it Like maybe people don't even have a relationship with, like their personal guides.

Speaker 2:

Well, I think the biggest clue is like, if you start seeing repeated numbers, if you're seeing feathers, coins, if you're seeing like repeated things and something just jumps out at you, like randomly jumps out at you, this is a sign that your guides are really trying to connect with you. And I think most people, if you're listening to that podcast, like you, definitely are aware of that right. So I'm probably not seeing anything new right now. The best way to do that is just to go into a meditation and it's a practice like you have to start to. I call it, like you have this little love language with your guides and it's my guides are going to connect with me differently than your guides are going to connect with you. So you have to just practice raising your vibration, getting your ego out of the way and really clearing your head, focusing on the feeling of love in your entire body, and then ask and just say can my spirit guides please come into my auric field?

Speaker 2:

And sometimes I feel like a little bit of like a pressure. I feel three of them around me all the time, so I always feel two in the front, one on each side of me and then one in the back, and I just kind of feel like they're always walking around me like this, like kind of like how a toddler is starting to learn to walk, and then you're going to catch the baby, right. I always feel like they're walking around with me like that and just start to see. You have to just see what happens, like I always. I have a class called Celestial Connections where I help people get to this point, but then I say but then you guys, it's up to you to connect. So if you're feeling something, if you're seeing a color, if you're smelling something, if you're hearing something, whatever it is, you have to then go in and trust whatever it is that they're showing you and cause. That's how they're connecting. So it's really just a matter of trust.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. So what I'm hearing and I think it's just so such like helpful information is you have to have the time and space, you have to have the awareness. There's like a presence, a mindfulness to the practice, and then you also have to invite them, you have to give them the permit, you have to like make them.

Speaker 2:

You have to ask them for help. Yeah, they can't that's a boundary that they have with you. If you're not asking for their help, they're not going to cross that line. So it's really important to you've got to be the one to start the conversation.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I love also this idea of dropping the ego and really connecting with your highest vibration and connecting with love. This past weekend I just did a breathwork advanced training in California and it was amazing because I was one like learning and developing my skills, but I also got to breathe, which is like so great so cool and so I was also being held and in um, I had two sessions where I was the breather and in my first breathwork, uh, I mean, that's exactly what happened.

Speaker 1:

Like you're, just when you do breathwork for long enough amount of time, you're just so connected. Your heart is so open, you're so connected to your heart. It's like you're just in a different plane and I was able to connect with my grandma and my dad and it was just like the most beautiful experience. I could cry just thinking about it. And as you were describing what that experience is like of just like there's nothing else there and making the invitation, I was like, oh, this is making so much more sense, like I was like, okay, this is making more sense of like it put into good words what my experience was like, yeah, um, in the in the breathwork session. So it's, it's really comforting to feel supported by something when, even when things are great for like validation, but also like when things aren't going great- Things aren't rough.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, when you're going through a rough time, to know that there's like a whole, you know, like we have our people here on earth and I always call them the earth angels, your soul, tribe, your, you know, your, your family and your friends that become your family, but to know that there's such a huge team on the other side of the veil that can see down the road, see things that you can't see, hear things that you can't hear, things that you know and also like some of the stuff that we're going through in life, really it's always coming through the lens of love from the divine.

Speaker 2:

We don't have to like the experience, but the divine doesn't see it that way. They just see it. This is for your highest and greatest good. So please just trust us, even if you don't like this experience. Right now it's all like things are just shifting. It's not necessarily falling apart, it's really it's all falling into place for you and it doesn't always feel good on this side of it, all of the experience, but there's. You just have to have trust and feed that you're being led on this path.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm hearing a lot of trust, a lot. I'm just like I trust um a big part, I know for, like my personal journey of developing this connection and having that trust, actually came from Gabby Bernstein. I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Are you familiar?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so I'm still like in her world, I have her app, like I still do her stuff. But she was kind of like my entry into like a whole world of things, yeah, but ultimately I think her slogan is kind of like the universe has your back. That's like her thing.

Speaker 2:

Totally. The universe has your back.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the universe has your back, and that's something that I feel like, for me personally, is so helpful.

Speaker 1:

It feels really good to just you know, ask for signs, ask for support, ask for guidance when you need it. Trust in the answers. One of the things that I enjoy doing in my personal practice is Wednesday mornings. I make time in my week to do like a longer practice and I give myself like an hour and a half and I just like whatever comes through on that day. But I usually pull cards at the end of it and it's every single time because I've worked on, I've been doing it for so long and in the practice at that point I've already done breathwork, I've done the meditation, I'm having cacao, I'm journaling, so I'm just open.

Speaker 2:

And then to pull the cards. It's like and the messages you get are like you're almost like are you messing with me? Because it's so spot on. But then you go nope, I trust it. Yeah, it's so funny.

Speaker 2:

It's so crazy. Yeah, I think that's the best thing to do if you're starting out. New is like just play it like it's a game, Like just have fun with it. Just start asking to see some kind of crazy sign that you know, like it's a great sign to see a butterfly, like that's a very common thing, or a cardinal or fit, but think of something so ridiculous that you normally wouldn't see and just let it go, Say I want to see this sign. Let it go Like a, you know, like a purple octopus.

Speaker 2:

I don't know, Like that's not a normal thing that you would see Right and then see where that takes you. You have to forget, like you can't look for it either. You can't look for the sign. The sign is just going to come to you and you can see like a sticker of a purple octopus somewhere.

Speaker 1:

Like that's that counts. You know? Yeah, you can. Yeah, absolutely yeah, I love um, just in general, connecting with animals. The other day I was driving home in my car and there was this massive bird. I thought it was an eagle. Like this bird was so huge and it's driving just right above my car for like I'm talking at least 20 seconds and I'm like all right, I need to get under the bird, so I can find out what bird it is.

Speaker 1:

Like I need to know. And it ended up being a stork no way A massive stork, just like it looked so huge when it was flying. Oh, my gosh, just like it's. It looked so huge when it was flying and I was just like, okay, well, that was interesting, a stork, okay. And then same day I'm still driving. It's a very long drive. Um, right on the side of the road there's this pond and there's just this like bright white stork, just kind of sitting there like staring in my direction. I'm like okay, that's, that's, that's not something you see twice every day.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm like, okay, that's that's. That's not something you see twice every day. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I'm like, okay, a stork's following my car. Then I see one just like maybe 20 minutes later. Um so I I looked into like the symbol of yeah symbolism of a stork and it's fertility, which I thought was interesting. I'm not pregnant, but I know I was gonna say oh yeah, but it's also a symbol of like new beginnings and you know we are when we're recording this episode and yeah, in harvest season lots of letting go, lots of things coming in.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, that whole life cycle life, death, rebirth.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, really interesting that's so cool.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you got to pay attention to those things. When you, when they start coming at you randomly, especially randomly like that, like you never look for a sign because then that wasn't a sign, it's got to just show up and it will. I promise it will, and don't I always feel like if you can just forget that you even asked your best off. Oh, I love that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

If you can. I can't always forget.

Speaker 1:

And one other topic that I wanted to chat with you about, just to shift gears a little bit, is manifestation. I know this is something that maybe not necessarily goes hand in hand with angels and guides.

Speaker 2:

Oh sure, yeah, I think in my world it does yeah.

Speaker 1:

Because you can ask for help. Yes, because you can ask for help with your manifestation.

Speaker 2:

Sure.

Speaker 1:

That definitely makes sense. Yeah, so I guess if someone was trying to manifest something, right now like what would be some steps that they could take.

Speaker 2:

So first of all, you need to you, you energetically need to match whatever it is that you're calling in. So it's even if you just go back to like the whole. You know statistics of like someone winning the lottery and they win a million dollars and then a year later they're back to being broke because they weren't an energetic match to that money. You can receive a blessing, but can you keep a blessing? But can you keep a blessing If you're not raising your vibration to match that? If you're not leveling yourself up, you're not going to hold that manifestation in your life.

Speaker 2:

So sometimes things take a while. Like I manifested something. It took me 15 years to reach that and looking now that it's in my life, looking back like I could have used this a long time ago, but looking back, I really wasn't able to handle what it was that I was at. If you're asking for a tall order, you've got to. You've got to match it right, because otherwise it's because manifesting is really just being imaginative to what it is that you want, right. So you've got to be an equal match. It's a give and take. What was your original question? Honestly, I don't remember.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so tips and tricks I think you were just asking for, Exactly when it comes to manifestation, depending on where people are on their journey, they could either maybe not be manifesting at all, or they could either.

Speaker 2:

You know, maybe not be manifesting at all, or they?

Speaker 1:

could be like manic manifesting or they can be like right in the middle. So just like any kind of tips and tricks.

Speaker 2:

I think the biggest thing, the best tip that I can give you is don't settle for less than what you're asking for. Does that make sense? Like what?

Speaker 2:

I'm hearing is like say no sometimes you say no most of the time because you're being you're so specific on what you're asking for that it's going to be a very particular thing. It's not going to be a dime, a dozen thing, right, like especially a tall order. So if it does not match what it is, so it's okay. So A you have to be specific, b you have to, you have to be patient and you have to be willing, like there were times in this 15 years you think I thought this thing showed up a couple of times.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I did, and you have to kind of test it out and then be honest with yourself and say, okay, this wasn't it, thank you for coming into my life. I'm going to let you go, because if that thing that you accepted, that isn't exactly what it is that you wanted is in your life, there's no room for the real deal to come in. And the only way and it's okay to take something for a little while, because the only way you're going to know is if you test drive a car, if you want it. Right, you got to like test drive this a little bit, but you'd be willing to let it go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, really being a stand for what it is that you truly want, really being honest with yourself and holding yourself to that standard and saying no when it's needed and letting go of things when that's needed.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you're just. It's like a boundary thing you have to have with yourself. And and and again it goes back to trust. Like, okay, this isn't it. I'm one step closer. You can be disappointed. You don't have to like that, it wasn't it. You know, that's okay. Like it's not. The road to manifestation isn't all rainbows and butterflies. It can be. It can be, you know, heartbreak. It can be disappointment, it can be like these tower moments in your life and you just have to to. You have to just trust and accept it all, because that's we're here to experience it all we really are yeah, yeah, yeah, earth school, earth school includes everything, everything.

Speaker 2:

You're here to feel it. All the sucky parts too, yeah, but they lead to the bliss and the beauty and the joy and the magic that you're.

Speaker 1:

You know we're all magicians you know, and I know you mentioned meditation earlier. Is that one of your favorite tools for manifestation?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, meditation, going into a meditation and really connecting. And going into a meditation and really connecting and visualizing, calling it in. And meditation doesn't have to look like sitting there quietly with your eyes closed. Some people cannot do that. They just have monkeys in their brain and they just can't quiet it, and that's okay. All you're really doing is trying to just get in flow and recognize. Okay, I'm not in charge of most of this, so I'm going to get in flow with the universe, and a great way to do that is through creativity.

Speaker 2:

If you're an artist, if you like to cook, if you like to sing, if you like to craft, if you like to garden, you're just doing something that you are in love and something is happening through you Getting into nature, connecting with nature. We're Long Beachers. So, like walking on the boardwalk, like just doing something where you're just in a zone and you've blocked out all the noise, right, the white noise, the outside noise. You're just in this zone, zone in this moment, and you're not thinking about the past, you're not projecting down into the future, you're just thinking. You're just in the moment. Yeah, so you can do that. You don't have to have your eyes closed.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know, and.

Speaker 2:

I'm like you too. I like to do that hour and a half, and you know, when I have the time to like really just sit and do, I mean we kind of have to. We're in this.

Speaker 1:

Right, it's like part of our energy maintenance. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2:

We got to walk the talk, but that's not realistic for us every single day. Oh yeah, no, no. So when you can get into some kind of flow in your life, like I like to do it, you know, creatively I have an art background, I also like to cook, so like if I'm like just in the kitchen and I'm just really like playing around with spices and doing stuff, like I'm in flow, I'm putting my energy into something. It's this creative energy that you want to engage in, something that you love to do, because that's the energy that you're matching.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, so well said, I know for myself, when I was, like, growing up as a kid, whatever, into college, I played soccer and lacrosse. I was an athlete and that was my meditation, like when I was on the field I was not thinking about anything else, I was just so in the zone, in the game. And after, when I graduated college, and I decided that, you know, I didn't want to continue to compete for various reasons that's a different podcast episode but it was that state, it was that flow state that led me to go deeper into like meditation, go deeper into all these practices that are out there that get you into that state. And I, yeah, I mean, I couldn't agree more. Like, there's so many things. I love cooking as well. Um, I love going for walks.

Speaker 2:

I love, you know, going to the beach or like doing things that are not necessarily just sitting down and closing your eyes. So there's definitely some space there to connect with creativity kids, if you have kids, and just like being in the moment with your kids, where you're not focusing on the laundry and all the other you know stuff, the adulting that we have to do, like things like that. I do it with my dog when he like comes over to snuggle with me on the couch and you're like you just do, like you're just connecting with something. Yeah, it's love, it's connecting with love.

Speaker 1:

And I'm hearing like presence too, just being in the moment.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you know, I tell people like the moment is this one breath, this inhale and this exhale, and then the moment's over and you just let it go and you focus on the next moment and you let it go and that's it, and with breathwork I'm sure like that makes all kinds of sense. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely Amazing, yeah. So I guess, for our last topic just to transition into, there's two different initiatives that you're, you know, a part of two different things that you lead, and I'd love to touch on both of them. The first is the Wellness Collective.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it's the Wellness Collaboration that's okay.

Speaker 2:

We actually played around with that. The Wellness Collaboration yes, so I partnered up with three other women in the wellness industry. Laura Muller is a Reiki master and the sound healer, um. Then there's Margie Holland, who is a in the culinary arts and she has a company called chronic and um. She does uh, nutritional, healthy, uh, juices and and bites and and um just organic. Everything's organic and fresh and delicious. And then there is Ryan Porter, who is um company called uh, uh, essentially grounded, and we have come together to create these beautiful wellness initiative, initiatives for corporate offices and come in and work with employees, using all of our talents and loves and helping people just get really healthy and centered and grounded and get them into taking care of themselves. And this is great for not only them but also for the corporate companies as well, because now you have a community of healthy people, productive people and happier employees when they feel that they're taken care of. Yes, so that's what we do and our focus is on Long Island, but we are happy to go into Manhattan, new Jersey, connecticut.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that sounds amazing and so needed and would be such a fun day for anyone attending that.

Speaker 2:

That would be the best work break Going down to walk around the wellness event yeah, that's awesome, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And then the second is the Long. Island Healers Connection yes.

Speaker 2:

So that I started with my friend Sharon and I met Sharon she actually was my teacher for Reiki master and Reiki master teacher and I also got all of my certifications for integrated energy therapy with Sharon and we became close friends through all of this as well, and I had said to her I think it was maybe last fall, so 2023, I was like I really feel like we need to create an organization of support for people in the healing industry and what we wanted to do is make this more mainstream. To go to some sort of energy therapy, you know like, whether it's Reiki or you know, sound healing, breath work, things like that. Like you would go to acupuncture or a chiropractor or a massage therapist. Um, and you know, with my background in corporate wellness events prior to COVID, I was, uh, the senior event coordinator for a wellness company in Manhattan. Um, when I started that and I think I started that in 2009, it was like kind of woo-woo for acupuncture and chiropractic. Um, most companies didn't take. At least when I was doing it, they didn't cover that for insurance, and now it's like it is covered through insurance and stuff.

Speaker 2:

So I'm like, you know, I really feel that it can become more mainstream and I want to have healers come to this so we can support each other in our businesses, because a lot of people do think we're a little nuts and like it's a little weird and strange. And I mean, I've been literally like someone looked me straight in the face and said, oh you're crazy because you do all of these things and you know, perhaps we're all a little crazy, I don't know, but this really does work in your life and anybody can do it and you can do it anywhere. You don't need anything but your own intentions to heal yourself and to open up to these things and it really has these very profound effects in life and help each other build a strong, solid, ethical business to get it to this place where it is a normal thing to come to a healer, for, like you would any other practitioner, that you would take care of your physical body, you need to take care of your energetic body too.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and so that was the mission behind LIHC was to bring people together and make it more accessible and mainstream. Yeah, I mean, I think it'd be pretty incredible if breathwork could be covered under insurance. Really nice what we do with the.

Speaker 2:

LAHC is. Every other month we meet and we have a. We meet virtually for an hour and we have a business discussion. The last meeting was literally how to create an LLC. The one before that was having boundaries with your clients. Boundaries with your clients. I think our first one ever we had a guest speaker come on who was helped with social marketing and things like that, and she's helped a lot of us in the group to get our websites going and get our social media going and things like that.

Speaker 2:

This is all business stuff like you're not trained in. We didn't go to business school. So the other thing, like Sharon and I always say like listen, we don't have the answers, we're just sharing our experiences. Sometimes people offer their experiences and what you know. This is what we did. And then in between those months we try and have a social gathering that is spiritually based. So we're recording this in October. Our next, you know so, october 20,. We're all getting together and we're meeting with a Reiki master and she is. We're meeting at a barn with horses and we're doing a horse meditation. So we try and do like some fun things like that and make it, you know, so that we can connect and collaborate with each other as well.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's pretty amazing. The reason why I had joined LIHC was to be part of community really, because being an entrepreneur and having your own business and just the challenges that you go through, you're going through it Usually until you build a team. You're going through it on your own and, like, if you don't have a community or a support system, it can be pretty challenging. So it's really nice to have other people that I've connected with through LIHC and really over this past year. Just like, for example, you're an example of someone that is also running their own business and it's really nice to just know that you're not alone in it because you don't really have co-workers.

Speaker 2:

You don't have someone that you can like run this by. You can't. You know, I always say I'm like you know, I'm the janitor and I'm the CEO, everything in between too, you know, and it's a lot. And we didn't, we didn't go to business school, you know. So like you're kind of like just you're learning as you go and it's nice to have people to bounce ideas off of. And I have to say I think everybody in the group is really very supportive of each other. I've seen people collaborate together and like that's really cool. It's just so cool. It's opening up like a whole new audience to you and it's it's fantastic. I love the group.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, it's definitely an a great, great you know opportunity. So just to, I guess, close things out here, if someone wanted to work with you, stay connected with you. How do they go about doing that?

Speaker 2:

So they can go to my website, which is reikishorescom. They can find me on Instagram at Reiki Shores, and my Facebook page is also called Reiki Shores. You can also email me, which is reikishoresenergyhealing at gmailcom.

Speaker 1:

Amazing and I'll put all that information in the show notes with some coupon codes that erin puts together for everyone that's listening. Uh yeah, and thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

Speaker 2:

This was so much I loved doing this with you. I always love collaborating with you, so we have to do it again really soon yes, definitely yeah, we'll get something in the works absolutely all right thank you for having me, Rachel, Of course, Thank you.

Speaker 1:

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