Conscious Living with Lucy
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Conscious Living with Lucy
Healing Through Energy: The Transformative Power of Reiki
The transformative power of energy healing takes center stage as Lucy welcomes Reiki master teacher Gwen Allison to explore this ancient Japanese practice. With over 16 years of experience in spiritual teaching, Gwen breaks down what Reiki actually is—a gentle yet powerful technique that releases energy blockages and creates conditions for the body to heal itself.
Gwen's journey from skeptic to practitioner reveals how profoundly Reiki can shift our perspective and heal relationships. Her moving story about using Reiki to transform her connection with her teenage daughter demonstrates how energy work operates beyond physical touch, creating ripples of healing across generations. "All I had to do was love her," Gwen shares, describing the moment she realized relationship healing comes from changing ourselves rather than trying to fix others.
The conversation spans practical applications of Reiki for daily challenges—from workplace relationships to heartbreak recovery and parenting struggles. Gwen explains how our bodies respond to stress at the cellular level, and how Reiki's loving frequency helps shift us from fight-or-flight into a state where natural healing can occur. Her approach integrates complementary practices like nature connection, gratitude, and mindful nutrition to further amplify energy and vibration.
Whether you're curious about energy healing or seeking deeper tools for self-transformation, this episode offers accessible wisdom and a beautiful guided meditation experience. Gwen emphasizes that even learning basic Reiki principles can profoundly change your relationship with yourself and others. Ready to experience how energy can transform everything? Join us for this heart-opening conversation and discover the healing potential already within you.
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Welcome. I'm Lucy, host of Conscious Living with Lucy podcast. I'm delighted to be joined today by Gwen Allison. Gwen is an experienced transformational life coach and spiritual teacher with over 16 years of experience. Her journey began with teachings like the law of attraction and the secrets leading her to understand how our mindset influences reality. Gwen is a Reiki master teacher, certified in advanced life coaching, meditation, teaching, emotion code and Psyche. After overcoming challenges like divorce and redundancy as a single mom to a now 25 year old daughter, gwen transitioned from the corporate world of IT into spiritually aligned coaching and healing. Gwen is committed to guiding others on their transformative journeys and she is passionate about creating compassionate spaces where women can connect with their inner power, heal deeply and step into their authentic selves.
Speaker 1:Welcome, gwen, lovely to have you with me, so excited about this call very passionate about Reiki and life coaching myself as a practitioner, and you know I'm really impressed and admire your successful business that you have created for yourself. So it'd just be really wonderful to hear from you today, and perhaps just before we start our conversation. I know you're going to talk to us about Reiki, focusing on that a bit more today, and perhaps just before we start our conversation. I know you're going to talk to us about Reiki, focusing on that a bit more today. It would be good if we could just begin with an overview of Reiki so anyone who's not familiar with it can just learn a bit more about it and set the context. But anything else you would like to open with is fine by me. So over to you.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, lucy, and firstly thank you for inviting me onto your wonderful podcast. It's a real pleasure to be here. But, yes, more than happy to explain what Reiki is, I know some have heard of it but not many have actually experienced it or even understand what it is. So it's great to sort of start there. But yes, so Reiki is a Japanese energy healing modality. It was discovered 100 years ago and we're basically using the hands, either on or off the body, to kind of connect with a person's energy and release any energy blockages. So just to put that in context, if you're going through a lot of stress at the moment or you're going through anxiety or depression or just feeling a lot of anger or just feeling out of sorts or even any physical pain, all of these things will affect our internal energy. We all have an internal energy body called a life force. You might know it as ki or chi or prana, but's the reiki part. That's the key part in reiki ki. So it's referring to your internal energy. And when that's depleted, you know we have 50 to 100 trillion cells in our body, lucid. Those cells are just getting a completely different frequency, completely different information, which is basically saying to them you're in danger, you're not safe, freeze, you can't repair, you can't heal, you can't thrive, you can't multiply all of these things. Yeah, because your body wants to put all of that energy into getting you out of this what it perceives to be a dangerous, life-threatening situation, but nine times out of 10, it isn't life-threatening. We're just upset with our mother-in-law or you know, maybe there's money problems or whatever it might be, or our boss at work, but we're producing this huge response in the body. It goes into this fight or flight, which really is a bit maladaptive today. And so when we're in that state, as I said, the body can't heal itself.
Speaker 2:And so, with Reiki, what a Reiki practitioner will typically be doing is they're just bringing in this energy from above, and the energy is the same high frequency as love. It's a beautiful energy. There are no side effects with that energy and it's suitable for anyone children, babies, pregnant women but they're just kind of connecting and being this vessel for this energy to come through. They're also getting a healing as it's coming through them, and then they're placing their hands on or above certain points on the body, usually the chakra points, but it can be placed anywhere that it's needed and they're placing their hands there for a few minutes at a time and they're just kind of listening I would describe it as with their hands, and when they feel any kind of sensation in their hands it might be heat or tingling, may even be pain or coldness that's basically telling them that there's an imbalance there and they need to spend some more time there so the Reiki can kind of do what it needs to do. You may also feel those sensations, so heat, tingling, you might feel really floaty, you might feel really heavy, you might have visions that mean something to you, you may even see colors, which is really beautiful. Everybody's experience is different and you may even fall asleep and feel nothing at all, which is absolutely fine.
Speaker 2:But that Reiki energy is bringing new information to every cell in your body. Now it's changing that internal environment to something which is now conducive to healing. Your body's naturally going to be releasing some beautiful hormones serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin all these lovely hormones that make us feel good and move us out of fight or flight into the rest and digest the relaxation response, and it's in that state that the body can heal itself. So that's key to understand where, as regular practitioners, we're not doing the healing. Your own body is doing the healing, but the conditions have to be right for that to happen, you know. So it's like planting a sunflower seed in some sand and thinking it's going to grow. It needs the right, it needs water, it needs light, it needs the right soil, and it's the same with your cells. So we have the ability to heal ourselves. But just sometimes we need a little bit of help to move us out of that state where we can't heal ourselves, into a completely different sort of high vibrational state. So yeah, that's kind of what Reiki is.
Speaker 1:It's a long explanation there, but that was a beautiful explanation and you explained it so eloquently and I really loved how you described really connecting with this energy of light and how it's really beneficial and it's not harmful in any way, and that really is key as well about the Reiki practitioner stepping out of the way, letting the Reiki do the work, and I feel that the energy comes through much more when you let go of your ego as a practitioner, and also it helps to preserve your own energy as well.
Speaker 1:But a beautiful description, thank you. That's really helpful. I wish I could communicate it in that way. So really, your journey has been quite remarkable. You've used Reiki to support your own life journey. You've been on your own healing and transformational journey through the experience of working with Reiki, and I know you've said how beneficial it's been to you in relationships with yourself, others and the world. So it'd be lovely to hear a bit more about your journey and how Reiki has really helped you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, thank you, yeah, so when I, to be honest, when I first discovered Reiki, it was probably like 16 years ago and I was going through a divorce and I was just discovering things like the law of attraction and the secret, and I remember trying Reiki because it was a difficult time. It was me, I instigated it, but it was still really painful and difficult for everyone around me and I tried some Reiki and I remember not liking it. I was like this is just, I didn't feel anything, so I just thought it was a bit of a con, if I'm honest, lucy, I was like I was like what is this? I'm lying there, she's not doing anything, placing her hands above me, and then I go and I pay her some money. What is that? But what I didn't understand back then is that I was very much in my logical mind, my left brain side of things. I was in IT and although I was touching on things like the law of attraction and the secret it, things like the law of attraction and the secret, it was still very kind of methodical and process driven, if that makes sense, the way I was thinking about that, and I was still kind of maybe doing my prayers, wanting to meditate but not being able to meditate. So, yeah, when I first tried Reiki, I didn't connect with it at all.
Speaker 2:And then it wasn't until seven years later going for another relationship breakup. I'd been with this person for probably about a year and a half and initially it was great because I was a single mom, I was working in IT as a manager, I was very much I think I mentioned to you before I was very much in my masculine energy of land in a relationship where, hey, this guy's taking care of things and booking things and you know I don't need to really think very much, he's sorting everything out. But then it got a little bit too controlling and I decided to kind of call it a day. But even though, again, it was my decision, it was still, as I said, difficult to kind of go through that breakup and so I was wanting something. Just to say back in 2008, I also started my life coaching after my divorce to help other women kind of maneuver through divorce in a more sort of empowering way. Rather than looking back all the time, I wanted them to start looking forward and start planning their new life. But I wanted to add something to that, to add a bit of depth, I guess a bit of healing, to that journey, that life coaching journey, as well as healing myself after this breakup.
Speaker 2:And so, as I said, reiki kept coming up. I was googling and I was like, no, it's rubbish. Been there, tried that. And then I thought, you know what, I succumbed to it and I thought, let me try it. But rather than have a session, I'm going to learn it for myself and see what was going on and what should be happening, because in my mind that that therapist was doing it all wrong. I didn't feel anything. I didn't know what she should be doing, but because I didn't feel anything, I thought it wasn't right.
Speaker 2:And so I went to learn Reiki and I did my Reiki level one and initially couldn't feel a lot. Initially I could feel some energy in my hands and I thought, wow, and I had this feeling of love and I can see this white light. And I just remember thinking, oh, this just feels so good. But I'm not like these other people. There was like 30 people, 30, 40 people in the class, all kind of sharing their reflections and what they could feel and sense, and they were really empathetic and really some of them really psychic, really psychic. And I'm like, oh, I'm not like these people. And I love Reiki, I love doing it, but I'm not going to be able to give my clients a good service. And so I was ready to kind of hand in the towel, move on, look at another modality.
Speaker 2:And basically I did my Reiki training with Torsten Lahn, and he used to do it with his little little. His mother used to help him, but she's a little lady, that's why I say that and she literally came up to me in the break you know, I was eating my biscuit, feeling sorry for myself I tell my students this story, and you know and she came up to me and she was like, oh, you know, you have the brightest light than anybody else in the room. And I was like, really, really. And whether that was true or not, lucy, I don't know, but whatever, she was guided to say it to me and that changed everything for me, because if she hadn't said that, I wouldn't be here today, I won't be doing Reiki, I won't be living the life I'm living today.
Speaker 2:But I was quite diligent after that in practicing my Reiki every day on myself. I did my Reiki too, and I was already seeing my friends and family and was starting to add it in to my clients coaching clients, but also individually seeing people as well. But I quite quickly noticed the difference in me. I noticed that it gave me a space every morning because I was never able to sit and meditate, as I said. I'd do it, you know, maybe for a week, and then lose track of it and not do it anymore. But I was consistently sitting down for, like you know, 30 minutes or more, doing myself Reiki and so really feeling more connected to myself.
Speaker 2:I was doing a lot of self-healing, opening up my heart a lot, because you're in this state, you're getting things come up for you, emotions come up, you're getting epiphanies, new ideas. Just by just by just teasing the question, just by asking the question a little bit or having an intention, I was getting all these answers coming through. So it was shifting me personally and I was noticing in my real world that things weren't triggering me so much. I was able to pause a little bit in certain situations and have a different perspective on things and I was getting up feeling excited of that. I started to see work differently, my colleagues differently, but having that space to connect with me, connect with my higher self, connect with the divine.
Speaker 2:It was just what I've been looking for and seeking for many, many years, kind of having been brought up a Catholic and having some questions around that unanswered, just seeking answers to who I was, why am I here, and all of that. And Reiki kind of allowed all of that to kind of come through. I found as well with my daughter who, when I was going through my divorce, I tried to protect her a lot. She was really young then, she was like six, seven, eight around that time and after the divorce I didn't share with her what I was feeling. I wasn't showing my emotions in terms of any negative emotions because I was just wrapping her up in cotton wool. I just wanted her to be happy and I felt inadequate, just on my own, and I felt like there should be two of us. So I wanted to do the best I could do for my daughter.
Speaker 2:But in doing that, what I did is I taught her how to hide her feelings and her emotions and push everything down, and so that sort of manifested later on, when she became a teenager, into anxiety and depression. And even when she was like 14 before I discovered Reiki we were clashing a little bit. She's going through that teenage phase that they kind of go through where they're no longer like taking your every word of gospel, they're like challenging you now my three-year-old does that now?
Speaker 1:oh, you're joking, okay, but yeah.
Speaker 2:So you know how difficult it is and so, um, but Reiki gave me a way of. I just had this epiphany during my Reiki session for myself that it wasn't about changing her. You know, she needs to change, she needs to be different, which leaves me powerless. So it was about me changing how I saw her and it just hit me, just came to me. All I have to do is love her. That's all I have to do. Blame her for anything, try to change her, try to fix her. I just had to love her and that. And it also gave me a way to, because she didn't like in-person healing, because it was coming from me and she blamed me for all her problems. But she didn't mind remote healing and when you do your Reiki level two, you learn how to heal remotely and she didn't mind that. She kind of gave me carte blanche on that. So every morning I would do my Reiki and then I would spend 15 minutes giving my daughter Reiki and then I would spend 15 minutes giving my daughter Reiki and again I could see the shift in her and her kind of world opening up a little bit, her energy calming down and her manifestations were growing and it was just really lovely to kind of have that. But again it was coming from the premise of look, just love rather than try to fix this. My intention is to fix my daughter. It's just to love my daughter and open my heart even more to her, because we cause ourselves to suffer when we expect that person to be a certain way and then they're not. So there was a lot of acceptance that had to come from me and Reiki kind of really poured that into me. So that was, you know, just a beautiful thing there with my daughter, with the relationship going back to that in terms of the breakup, it helped me move through that super fast.
Speaker 2:I traditionally would be the sort of person I'd wear my heart on my sleeve when I fell. I fell in love deeply, it was all in. There was no compromises. No, I think I like it. It was like whoosh straight in there. And so it would take if I had a breakup beforehand. It would take me a while to get over the person. Months, sometimes, even a year, take me a long time to get over the person, and with this it was super fast with Reiki. The healing was fast, it was just like a couple of months, just a few weeks and I was just getting better and better and better.
Speaker 2:But it also made me realize that relationship, that I'd lost myself in that relationship, which is why I said because I wear my heart on my sleeve, I go all in I'd lost my goals, I'd lost the things that I wanted to strive for and my passions and things like that, and I was just living my life through this other person. And so when I started my self Reiki in order to heal my heart chakra, it was opening itself up to me more. But I was also seeing that I'd done that. I was facing that fact that I'd just given everything up, all my hopes and dreams, and even my life coaching had kind of almost stopped a little bit. And so it made me reconnect with that again what I wanted to do, and I poured my passion, my whole self, into setting up my business and starting my business.
Speaker 2:And I think that's one of the things as well in relationships when we don't have other interests, that person becomes our interest, that person becomes our passion, they become our source of light, and it shouldn't be like that. We should still have that balance in our lives and still nurture our own interests and our own passions, when the person that you're calling in you then become more three-dimensional to them, but then you're not so reliant on them to fulfill your every need and to move you out of your boredom and to give you the excitement in life. We should be creating that for ourselves outside of the relationship. So it made me focus on that too. That was definitely one of the big epiphanies that came up during my Reiki sessions, but also gave me the courage to do that and move forward with that. And every time I felt any kind of anxieties about the business, just placing my hands on my heart, on my solar plexus, my upper abdomen, and just breathing through that and bringing the energy in and just connecting again to why I was doing it to help other people, to fulfill my own kind of I guess, my own potential as well to serve. All of those reasons were pushing me as opposed to my fears. Allowing me to kind of hold back a little bit were pushing me as opposed to my fears allowing me to kind of hold back a little bit. So, yeah, reiki definitely helped me in terms of moving through that relationship so much faster than I would have done without it, 100%.
Speaker 2:And now, when you know what it's like I don't know. But when you break up with someone and you're like, oh, and you're just in tears and you're really like broken. And a few years later you're like, oh my god, he was such an idiot, why was I carrying on like that? You can't believe it. But at the you're like, oh my God, he was such an idiot, why was I carrying on like that? You can't believe it. But at the time you're going through it feels intense, but that I got to that part really really quickly. Just putting things into perspective, so yeah, that was really brilliant there with that relationship.
Speaker 1:Sorry, but ask me something, no wonderful, Beautiful, and I love the story with your daughter and how you were really able to just step back and let go and love and it gave you all of those tools for reflection and also in your relationships. It's very. Yeah, I can see how it's been beautifully aligned with you and really drawing you into a different space which has been quite transformative, and I really loved hearing about that. I could really feel the energy coming through with how that worked for you as well.
Speaker 2:Wonderful, I mean even just to say, even in my current relationship now. We've been together for two and a half years and that is filled with Reiki, that relationship in terms of affirming what I want for my relationship every day, even when I've got it. I think we need to keep the energy alive of the relationship because it's understanding that everything is energy, including the relationship energy. So being able to use we have I don't know if you're attuned to Reiki too, but we have a beautiful symbol for harmony which I bring in every time I'm feeling my gratitude for going through my gratitude list and feeling my gratitude for the relationship. I bring that in to strengthen it. So even today it still helps me. 100 still helps me yeah, I am attuned.
Speaker 2:I um, I've done reiki master level training as well and interestingly, I did my level one with torsten too oh, so I met him and his mom was in the room.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, she's lovely, I met her yeah, no, that's lovely and I really loved you sharing that too how she said that, and it's just these little messages we get from people which can be catalysts. So she was obviously there. You're in the right training to lead you on this wonderful path Absolutely. Thank you for sharing that too. You're welcome your kind of self Reiki, working on the chakras. Are there any other tools or techniques that you use to kind of deepen your connection with Reiki, or are those the main ones?
Speaker 2:I think that that's the main one right now. At one point I was I love Dr Joe Dispenza. At one point I was doing his meditations, which are 40 minute meditations. Then I was doing my Reiki, so I was literally doing my self workwork for over an hour. Now I've pared that down. So I always do my self-Reiki, which is 20-30 minutes if I can, and it's not just the chakras, it's wherever I feel I need it most on that day. But you can feel the energy on yourself as well. Might be the throat chakra if I've got to do something around that, but for me now it's more that the self-Re.
Speaker 2:There are times when I feel I need to maybe journal something just to kind of process an emotion too. But more I use journaling, more for my goals, setting my intentions. At the start of the month, start of the year are key times for me for that, and also I find a strong desire now, particularly lately in life, that I need to be in nature. So that's something that I try and do. Even if I'm going out walking, even if I'm walking to the gym or just going out in the park or taking a few days away to be by the coast, be by the sea. I notice a difference that makes in me so that's another big part of my practice. Difference that makes in me so that's another big part of my practice but also really strongly lately is noticing how I feel when I eat certain foods Definitely changes the vibration and your energy levels.
Speaker 2:Absolutely absolutely For me it's. You know I became vegan about. I think I've been vegan for four years now but I feel the difference in my Reiki and my own energy and when I'm eating really cleanly, which I'm trying to do lately since this year prior to that, I think I was a lot of processed meat, substitutes and things like that. Unless I was teaching, I would actually just eat fruit and nuts when I'm teaching and I noticed how much my vibration was higher. I wasn't tired, I had the stamina, but also I could feel so much more, and so I just decided to bring that into everyday life rather than just when I'm teaching.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of where I am now as well in terms of my self-practice, those things, but gratitude as well, yeah definitely um changes the vibration it's amazing um, I loved as well I didn't mention it earlier but how you also were very honest about your journey with Reiki, when you first kind of had it and you know you didn't feel anything and you kind of thought what is this and I think that's really helpful for people who are especially starting out and wanting to experience Reiki that you don't need to have high expectations or maybe the first few times you won't feel as much, especially when you are more in the logical side.
Speaker 1:And yeah, you know you've got that doubting, kind of questioning. But once you can kind of maybe surrender to it and trust it a bit more, that more will come.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. It's helpful sharing that. Yeah, yeah, you're welcome. That's why I share it with my students.
Speaker 1:So they know, but I really love you know you're really. I love your light. Anyway you do shine. I can definitely see what torson's mom said you do kind of embody and this light does what's the word I'm looking for? Gleam out of you. Almost I can definitely see and feel that presence and that light is beautiful thank you so Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to say, and I can see, yeah, you've used it in all elements like business relationships for yourself, everything. You also use it, I understand, in your coaching sessions. Do you use that as a kind? How do you use that? Is it as a standalone kind of Reiki?
Speaker 2:session, as part of it, or how do you kind of bringing that energy in?
Speaker 2:So, even if the person isn't attuned to Reiki, I'm holding space for them, I'm bringing that light in and guiding them to see the light coming in to the top of their head and just then doing the meditation in that higher frequency. And sometimes meditation might be to guide them to meet their inner child, or it might be to meet their future self, if we're first talking about their goals or just releasing some energy in their body and how that might feel. So I always bring Reiki energy in. I'm setting my intentions that that's what's happening and just setting that space.
Speaker 2:So, as I said, regardless of whether they're attuned to Reiki or not, they can feel that and a lot of people, a lot of my clients who maybe aren't attuned, they can feel the energy, they can feel tingling, they might see colors during that whole process which affirms to them and I guess me that that is a Reiki energy that's coming in. So that's that's a wonderful way to do it. And if I'm doing group coaching, it's a nice way in a group to kind of bring it in via meditation as opposed to trying to do something one-to-one. But yeah, that's traditionally how I do it.
Speaker 1:It's a lovely way of bringing it in.
Speaker 2:That's really nice it's very powerful sharing you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is there anything else you wish to share about your experience of working with Reiki that we might not have touched on yet?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think with I guess it does feed into relationships but the world of work, as when I had discovered Reiki and started my business in 2015, I was still working in the corporate world. I mean, I was there for like five years, and so there's different characters, as you know, in and that light ahead and surrounding your workplace in light, or even your boss in light so you have some compassion and just seeing the difference that that made, because nobody is.
Speaker 2:This is all free energy. It's just free form there and nobody is managing that energy and nobody is managing that energy. So rather than us joining in in the pain and suffering and the moaning and the complaining about our job when we go into work, we can do a little bit of work to actually shift that energy for ourselves and for everybody's highest good. You know, I've always said if we're doing something for the many, the universe gets behind that even more powerfully. So that's something that people can try.
Speaker 2:If they're in their jobs right now and they're really not happy, just to see that the building, the people, everything's surrounded in love and light you're walking into, that it just shifts everything for you but allows you to make peace of where you are. Doesn't mean you're not going to want to move away or find another job, but and this is something I'd learned from law of attraction as well that we take ourselves with us. So if we're not happy where we are and we find another job, we will find the same scenario playing out Just different faces, but it'll be the same scenario playing out. We go for this cycle. Jobs and relationships are like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally agree with that. I see that often. Or it's, yeah, the things that you need to overcome and grow. If you don't do it in that current situation, you'll have it in the next one yeah, and where you are continues to get worse.
Speaker 2:You know if you're not, if you're meant to be going and you're not going because you're scared. Where you are gets more and more difficult sometimes too. So it can be for two reasons when you encounter people who are triggering you in some way, they could be your teachers to move you on, or they could be your teachers to teach you just to make peace of where you are, in which case you may move on, or your job can transform in situ, which is what happened to me. So, yeah, reiki can help with all of these situations and all of these challenges of life, basically. But you soon realize that the growth in us comes through our interpersonal relationships, whether it's friends, family, love relationships or colleagues. That's really where the growth is.
Speaker 2:And so, even during my time when I was on my own before I met my current partner and I did a lot of work on self, a lot of work with Reiki I thought, right, I'm ready for my relationship. When you enter that relationship, things will come up to trigger you, to test you like have you really changed? But a lot of the work carries on in those relationships and gets better and better from there. Highlight that you can actually help yourself in terms of work or anything that's difficult, that we perpetuate. If we keep focusing on the problem and talking about how bad it is and everything else, we're keeping it alive. There's a saying, isn't there? What you resist persists.
Speaker 2:So when we release that and try a different perspective. Even just that slight turn, that new view shifts everything for us, but that, where our power is absolutely, reiki can help with that for sure it helps too?
Speaker 1:yeah, definitely, it's a good tool to utilize, and even if people don't want to offer reiki as a practitioner, just taking even a level one course can really, yeah, help with opening them up to that. Yeah, absolutely, so that they can utilize it in their lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, people's lives change, so much with that, with Reiki, Reiki One and the Reiki principles, the guidance for life, just for today, do not worry, do not be angry. Repeating those things daily and doing yourself Reiki, even from Reiki One, you'll find phenomenal changes in you and, as I said, other people don't have to change by you changing. That radiates out from you and naturally your whole environment will shift.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, beautiful, yes, absolutely conscious of time. So I know you're going to, when we close the session, you're going to just guide us through a practice or meditation, but before we do that, it would just be good to hear about your current offerings and how people can connect with you. I'll also share your web address or your email yeah, for sure podcast, but you might just want to use this opportunity to share.
Speaker 2:Thank, you so much. Yeah, so if they, if anyone wants to learn Reiki, then they can go to my website, myspiritualbutterflycom. Forward slash Reiki and they will see the courses that I offer Reikiiritualbutterflycom. Forward slash Reiki and they will see the courses that I offer Reiki 1, reiki 2. I offer Reiki workshops. You can also go to the events page slash events and then again you'll see the courses. You'll see the workshops that I run and any Reiki shares that are kind of happening as well are there.
Speaker 2:I'm just about to start a women's circle as well, the Chrysalis Circle, which is basically focusing on each. We're meeting once a month on the second Tuesday of the month. So the first time we meet is 11th of February, on Tuesday 2025. But basically I'm going to be just kind of highlighting specific female archetypes and goddesses, so a different one each month that we can focus on, learn from, maybe even see what triggers us about that archetype. There'll be some journaling prompts around that so we can start to integrate what we want to integrate from that teaching and then we'll be finishing off with some Reiki meditation, reiki healing, around that to embody that more. So that's there.
Speaker 2:It's there again in the events page. If people want to join that then they can join. But yeah, definitely, if they go to the events page, they'll see a lot in terms of learning Reiki and workshops that they don't even need to be attuned to Reiki. If they want to join, they can come along and spend a day with me and other like-minded souls to learn more about reiki wonderful sounds like a great offering.
Speaker 1:I always as I'm talking to you. There's so much alignment in what we're doing with you. Know, I'm also doing the same coaching reiki and also about to start a women's circle in march fabulous, yeah, slightly different to your one, but yeah it's lovely and I definitely need to come along to some of your things as well.
Speaker 2:I keep meaning to More than welcome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've got some wonderful offerings that I definitely want to sign up to. Thank you. Thank you for sharing more information about those. You're welcome. Okay, well, it's been lovely having a conversation with you, but so before we go it, would be great to for our listeners as well, to just have an experience of you guiding us through something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely yeah, just wanting to guide everyone through just a short Reiki meditation, but we'll kind of focus on the heart space a little bit. Focus on the heart space a little bit. So, yeah, if you're open to joining us, then just getting yourself really comfortable, wherever you're sitting or lying down right now, and I'm just going to invite you to take three deep breaths. So, first of all, breathing into your lower belly, just a light breath in, and then, when you feel ready, releasing that breath. And then, when you feel ready, releasing that breath, and in your own time, we're doing that again a gentle, light, but deep breath into the lower belly and, as you breathe out, just starting to relax your body, feel the heaviness in your body, starting to relax your body, feel the heaviness in your body. And then one last time breathing in, inhaling in and then, when you're ready, exhaling out and expanding your energy outwards as you release any resistance you can feel right now and just breathing normally for you now, in your own way, in your own time, as we just set an intention to connect to Reiki, to connect to this loving energy, to have this energy go where it needs to go for our highest good. And, if you can, I'd like you to visualize a beautiful column of light coming down from the universe above and entering the top of your head, your crown chakra, and just become aware of any sensations you can feel there right now. And as you breathe in, you're just breathing that energy deeper into your body, towards your heart space, breathing in that light into your heart. And as you breathe out, just see it circulating your entire chest from front to back, just glowing within that space.
Speaker 2:As we do this, we invite in our guides and guardian angels to be with us to reveal to us what we need to know heart chakra and seeing that light gently swirling around, touching all parts of us that need healing right now, releasing any hurt, any heartbreak, any sadness held in the lungs and just releasing that back to the light, this beautiful energy as we breathe that in deeper into our body, bringing with it forgiveness of self and others, bringing with it true compassion and a strong knowing that we are loved, we are held, we are not separate from the universe, but part of it, breathing and relaxing as we connect with that energy, as we integrate this love.
Speaker 2:And I just invite you to move into gratitude now. And I just invite you to move into gratitude. Now. That feeling of gratitude has the same high vibration as love. So focusing on things we're grateful for, people we're grateful for, even places we appreciate, will fill us up and rise us up and now, just inviting you to become more aware of your surroundings, of where you are in the room, perhaps taking one deep breath to reconnect with this physical world again, become aware of the seat underneath you, become more aware of my voice and any sounds you can hear in the room and, when you feel ready, you're welcome to open your eyes beautiful.
Speaker 1:That was so nice. Thank you, it was wonderful. Thank you very much you're welcome.
Speaker 2:You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it okay well.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for being with us today and having a conversation, sharing your wisdom, knowledge and experience about reiki and how it supported you in your life, in your relationships, in your business, your work, and continues to do so.
Speaker 2:That's really appreciated thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you so much for inviting me, lucy. Uh, we're definitely doing a beautiful job here with this offering. So, yeah, it's a pleasure to be here, an honor to be here with you, thank you. Thank you so much.