Ana Davis Unfiltered

What exactly is Reiki—and why does it make so many people immediately think it's "woo"?

In this episode of Connecticut Unfiltered, Ellie sits down with Ana Davis of Lighthouse Reiki Studio to break down what Reiki actually is, how energy healing works, and why so many people use it as part of their self-care routine.

From stress and burnout to intuition, mindfulness, and feeling more connected to yourself, Ana shares her approach to Reiki in a way that's practical, approachable, and free of the stereotypes that often surround it.

Whether you're a longtime believer, a total skeptic, or just Reiki-curious, this conversation explores the growing interest in energy healing and why so many people are turning to it as another tool for wellness.

No crystals required.

Transcript

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If Connecticut's been showing up on your feed lately, that's not an accident. The version your grandparents remember is long gone. This isn't a drive-thru state anymore. It's a destination. And on this podcast, we talk to the people making that happen. This is Connecticut Unfiltered. Today's guest is Anna Davis, a communications professional turned Reiki master who took a leap into a completely different life path. She's proof that it's never too late to start over, and sometimes the thing you're meant to do is the one you never saw coming, even for yourself. I never had Reiki done before, Anna, and it she was the one who opened my eyes to this whole new woo-woo world. And I didn't even realize this existed. So now she is the founder of The Lighthouse, a Reiki studio. She's created a space where people can experience that same shift for themselves. Welcome to the podcast, Anna. Thank you for having me. Have you seen other episodes? I have. So you know you get a gift. Yeah. I'm excited. So your gift comes from a local candle witchy maker called Good Candle Co. Oh, exciting. So or Good Witch Candle Co. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't put tissue or anything. I was in a rush, but Goddess of inspiration. You got the goddess of inspiration because you are inspiring women that they can always start over if they're unhappy in their position, and you inspire me, so. Oh well, guess what? I got you a gift. What? I know. No.

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And I got it in a bag that you can reuse. Amazing. Um, stop.

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Wait, should I open it now? Open it now. Okay, this is a podcast first where I'm gonna get a gift.

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Can you just run a gift?

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No.

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Well, I'm honored. I'm gonna read the card. You can read the card later. Okay.

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So there's two sizes because I wasn't sure you're so funny. Stop! I'm putting this on right now. I wanted you to open it right now. So it literally says if you're listening to the podcast, it says, I'm in my woo era. And that literally, you didn't even know that that was part of my intro. No, but you've been talking about it. So I am. I'm filling it in my woo- I feel like that's like a kid's size.

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So the gray might be. I don't know, but whatever.

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Um, I love the shirt's debate. This is perfect for you. This is my favorite shirt. I need to retake the picture of us with my new woo.

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I was texting with my mom because I was like, I really want to get Ellie something that says in my woo-woo era. And I was like, and she loves to look for stuff for me too. So we were both like on Etsy.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

This is amazing. Thank you so much. This is my new favorite shirt. Because I am. I'm happy to do them. Yeah, right. Um so this is really sweet. This is cool. Um we'll get into like my woo-woo journey as well. Yeah. Um, but I want to talk a little bit more about you because I think what is so fascinating about you, besides that you're this badass mom Reiki master, is that this was not always your line of work. Like you essentially started in the corporate world. Yeah. And then just talk to me about that. Like, what was the shift?

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Yeah. Well, um, so I made my professional career in communications and marketing in at first in higher education. Um, and I had what I thought was like I had reached the pinnacle of my career, I thought I had a job at Harvard doing communications. Badass. Um, it was badass. It was great. I'm just gonna move this. Yeah. Um, and my husband um got a job, well, got a promotion to come back to Connecticut to um be a VP at his company, which meant we had to move, and which meant that I likely have to leave my job. Where were you? I was in Massachusetts, where I'm from. Um, so I was upset because I had to leave my parents and I had a three-month-old baby, and they were right down the street. And I felt a lot of resentment towards him because I'm like, I have this job that I love, and he gets this promotion, and we have to move. And I just had a hard time with it as a woman, just because I was like, of course, he's the man and he's getting the promotion. So um, so we moved to Connecticut, and um, at the time, Harvard actually let me work remotely, which was like a huge deal because it was before COVID and nobody was doing it. So um, so I actually kept my job for a while and worked remotely, but with two young kids kind of going back and forth and traveling there and being here was really hard. Um, so I left and I actually started to work for myself doing communications um out of my house. Like I started my own company, but I wasn't really fulfilled. I was lonely. I was like working from a home office, I had some clients, but I wasn't loving it. Um so I was like, okay, the answer is to go back to the office. Now that I'm connected in Connecticut, this is no longer the land of higher ed, it's the land of independent schools. So I got a job in an independent school as chief communications officer, and I was like, okay, I'm back, I'm back in an office. Like, this is me. Um, and then the pandemic hit. Oh my gosh, we're like, and I was like, Can't catch a break. It hit, and I it just like turned everything in my life upside down for many people. It was that way. Um, but my job started to become a 24-hour-a-day job because doing communications at a boarding school around COVID meant I was always on, I was always working. Um, and my kids were in fifth grade and second grade at the time, and they were home and I didn't know for how long, and they were, you know, homeschooling. Yeah. And I just had like the most anxiety I'd ever had in my life. And I actually resigned from my job, which I never thought I would do because my job in my life at that time, my work defined me because I didn't know who I was aside from my output. Like I was just a worker in my mind. I was just a mother, like I didn't know who I was inside. Um, so when I left my job and resigned because everything felt overwhelming, it kind of set me off on like this journey to find who I was. Um and also it coincided with with being home at home because of COVID and also having a lot of like I was really anxious and I was having insomnia and I had like the hardest time I would say I'd ever had. Were you having like panic attacks? Mental health-wise. No, just severe anxiety and couldn't sleep because I was so my my body was on fight or flight. I was just so keyed up because of being home for COVID, being home with my kids, not being at my job, not knowing who I was. Really, I had kind of like a crisis of who am I? Because since I was, since I can remember, I identified myself with who other people thought I was. Like, did teachers like me? Did my bosses like me? Did my parents think I was doing a good job? Like I never once thought about who I was. And so this first was the first time ever that I was like, who, holy shit, like who am I? And like what's going on and why am I so anxious? And so I started to do all the things people do. Like I went to therapy, um, I tried to like take walks, I tried to do all, you know, I tried to meditate, but for me, meditating in a corner, I'll say this honestly, as a Reiki master, I have a hard time with it. Sitting in a corner and meditating, I'm just like, It's a practice, like it's very, very good. I tried all the things, and every day I would wake up with this thought in my head, what is my purpose? Every day I would just wake up with this thought. And my best friend um in West Hartford was going to Reiki for some health challenges, and she kept saying to me, try Reiki. It's gonna help your anxiety. Like I think it's gonna be great for you. And I just, I don't know, I just didn't do it. So six months later, I finally made my first appointment, and that session just changed my life and my life's path. Little did I know at the time. Um, but my first session, I just started kind of crying without without knowing why. And I said, I popped up off the table and I was like, why am I crying? And the Reiki master was like, It's you're releasing, you're releasing, you're releasing stuff that's been inside of you. So I realized that Reiki was a great modality for me. Um, I didn't talk about this at first, but I've always felt sensitive to energy, but I never really knew what that was. Um, I would kind of walk into spaces and always be picking up cues and feelings, and but not necessarily from what someone was saying. Um and I know now that that was me reading their energy, but I didn't know it at the time. And for most of my life I saw it as a bad thing because I'd walk into a grocery store and I'd feel overwhelmed. Even when I'm driving, sometimes I can feel the person's stress in like the next car, and I'm just like, ugh. So I always always not loved to drive, I think partially because of that. I've also not loved to talk on the telephone because I think without the seeing the person and reading that energy, like all I I like realize now all the things that that that make sense to me. That's really interesting. Yeah. So so anyway, so I had my first session and I kept going back every few weeks, and it really helped me sort of get recentered within myself and you know, helped some of that anxiety along with all the other things I was doing. Um, but I kept having the what is my purpose, what is my purpose in my head every day. And randomly one day I saw an advertisement for Hartford Hospital has the oldest Reiki volunteer program in the country. Um, and I saw it come across my computer and I saw, you know, looking for volunteers to give Reiki to cancer patients and caregivers at Hartford Hospital. And I was like, oh wow, like I love getting Reiki. It's helped me so much. I would love to get trained in Reiki to do this program. So that was the start of my Reiki training. It was specifically to do this volunteer program. Um, so I got my level, there's various trainings of Reiki we can talk about. And I got my level one, and then I started to volunteer giving Reiki, and I had been, I've I did that for for a few years, and people kept asking me, where is your studio? Where do you practice? And I said, I don't, you know, this is what I do with Reiki. I loved doing it, um, but I'd never thought about it being my passion or my path or my business. It just all sort of unfolded without a plan for the first time in my life. And so about a year ago, it kind of just came to me. I was like, I I want to start my own business. I want to start a Reiki studio, I want to give others the experience that I had that was life-changing for me. And so that's why I started the Lighthouse.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

Very long-winded way. No, it's very cool. So, but bef so before this, when you were working, becoming a mom, were there had like people approached you about Reiki and you were just like, not for me, I'm not into it.

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No, I had just literally had heard the word maybe, but I didn't even really know what it was.

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You didn't like grow up in a house that was like more spiritual, more um no.

SPEAKER_04 10:42

I mean, my parents were hippies from the 60s. Okay. And so yeah, like I it was maybe that's where you get like your energy reading, empath. Yeah, yeah. I definitely like, you know, it was there, but it was never something that I even really knew about until I had that sort of challenging time during COVID. And that's when I think I was looking for anything that would help. And when my friends said try Reiki, I was like, okay. And you know, it was just never even something that was in my mind. Yeah. I really didn't know about it.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

So uh for people who have maybe never even really heard of Reiki, what do you feel like is an easy, easy, consumable way to understand like what Reiki is?

SPEAKER_04 11:26

Yeah, yeah. I think what what's hard for people to understand about Reiki is it's it's it's it's it's working with something we can't see. So when we can't see something, it's it's hard to always believe that it's real. So I get I get that. Um even I was not sure what to expect. Um, but the easiest way that I like to describe it is, you know, when you walk into a room or at a party and you you feel someone's energy, like you feel you don't, it's not like you know them. Yeah. You're just sometimes you're like, whoa, like I really feel like I want to go talk to that person. Yeah, it's not necessarily just because of what they're wearing or the way they look, it's just something you can't explain. Right. Or when you're in, you know, say you're in like at six flags and you're around somebody that you're like, ooh, I just don't like their energy. And again, and not necessarily the way they look, it's just something you can't explain. Because that's when people are like, oh yeah, I can relate to that. Like I get that I get that energy exists because I've felt that before.

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I've walked into a room and I've felt like skeptics would say that, oh no, you just it's body language, it's whatever.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Yeah. But right, and it and it is, it's all of those things. You know, it's it's not just one size fits all. Um but we humans are all we're all made up of energy. Um everything in the world is actually made up of energy. And so our cells at the cellular level store energy, and we are made up of kinetic energy, which is energy that is made up of vibrations and motion. And um our you know, that's actually what we're made up of, and scientifically there's there's proof of that. And so, what Reiki does, if anybody has ever gotten um acupuncture on the show, um that works with the energy system as well, except it works with needles where you put it into a certain part of your body and it makes the energy system move in a way that releases pain. Um, a Reiki is non-invasive. So the Reiki master is what the Reiki practitioners call who's gone through training, is uh attuned. So they've gone through training, they are attuned to channel. Again, this is a little woo-woo, but channel all the energy that's around us all the time. We're walking through the world, there's always energy. And so that person uh basically places their hands lightly on your energy meridians, your energy centers in your body so that your energy flows more freely. Because what happens is during the course of our life, because of stress, health, anxiety, our energy actually can get stuck in our bodies and not flow so well. And when our energy at the cellular level is not flowing so well, we're not sleeping as well, we're not feeling as good. And so the Reiki Master actually works to uh very lightly uh touch you. And uh amazingly I I'm not giving you my energy, and you're not giving we're not doing an energy exchange. I'm just channeling the energy that's out there in the world. And amazingly, it goes in in there, and it actually, I mean, you have to try it to realize it because it sounds like, oh, really? But really, people will feel heat or tingling or sensations, and you'll feel that energy is actually and you're like, whoa, it's real. Energy is actually moving and flowing better. So that that is what it is a hard thing to explain, and that's why I try so hard to get people to just try it. Yeah. Because I'm like, once you try it, you get it. And you're always like, oh my God, yes.

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It's so true. I went in my first time a complete skeptic because I am someone who had heard about Reiki. Yeah. Um, I have a girlfriend who lives and breathes Reiki. When I was in Nicaragua and I was having like really bad headaches and stomach aches, they I was like trying to find medicine. They were like, Oh, we have a Reiki. I was like, No, I need I need my meds. But I I went in with an open mind and was just astounded with the somatic reaction that my body had from the first time. Yeah. Like, and I was trying to dispute it in my head. I'm like, no, I feel warmth because of like body heat. Right. Or I see this because of I'm I wanna see it. Right. But at a certain point, when you just let go and you just let it happen, yeah, you're like, okay. I I mean, you can make up so many excuses for what's happening, or you can just give into what's happening and let your body release the energy it needs to. Yeah. And once I gave into it, it was just like such a powerful experience. I did I cried at our first session. Yep. It was it was really powerful. And then the second session, I was like fully having crazy visuals. And I knew that you were feeling something too, because our first session, you weren't staying up at like my head for a long time. But the second session, you were, and that's where I was seeing everything crazy visuals. And then I literally saw a purple wave go over like my face and my body and like my eyes, which you later told me is like deep healing. Yes. And then once I saw that purple, it's as if I vocalized it to you because you moved on to another part.

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Yeah, yeah. That's what's so amazing is that the practitioner and the client get in this in sync in a way that you really can't explain it's not explainable. That's why when you suspend that needing to know it all and and prove it and just let it happen, that's when all the magic happens.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Yeah, it's something that you definitely have to give into. Like let it take you. Exactly. When I was in high school, so it's not not for kids' show, but I would take mushrooms every now and then because it was just like super fun to do. Just to just let yourself go. And the smartest advice someone ever told me was don't try to fight the trip, let the trip take you. Because I would have if I ever started like bad tripping, it was because I was like trying to control it, because I'm somebody who very much likes to be in control of things. Right. But when you give in and let it take you was when you had the most profound experiences. And I similarly, without you know, taking anything, feel that way about Wiki.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

Well, that's funny. I had a client say to me that she felt like she was high. Yeah, you do.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

You can right after, both times right after I felt like I was high. Yeah. And she's like, it was the most amazing feeling. Maybe you're pumping stuff into the vents. Yeah, maybe it's not. Actually, you're on top of Dom's cream creamery and avonto. Maybe they're pumping in like endorphins and like from the ice cream waffle cone smell.

SPEAKER_04 18:06

But um yeah, I think you know what what's so interesting is that all of this is actually based on science and that um, you know, the there's this principle of entrainment, which is when two oscillating bodies are near each other, they actually oscillate together. In the 1600s, a physicist put two clocks with pendulums on a wall and they started to oscillate together. So that's another way to understand Reiki is that by the you know, the energy that is being placed near near you from from the Reiki master, that's that's good energy, right? Coming from the world. It's going in you, and that starts to vibrate with your energy so that your energy actually becomes higher in some ways so that you can release some of that the negative energy. It's it's like we begin to oscillate our energies that in m in tandem. And that's why I think a lot of times you have those experiences with your practitioner where it's like I'll know the area to go to, and then I'll move on at the same time that that person is like, oh, I just had that vision and I'm done now. Yeah. It's a yeah, it's like you it's almost like time and space is suspended, really, for that hour.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

I fully have no idea how long I've been in it. So when you go to a session with Anna, um, you're on like this warm, comfortable bed with like um ambient sounds and you have a weighted sleep mask, there's like aromas of lavender, and so you're fully just in this trance where you don't necessarily have clocks around you. You don't know what time it is. She's not like checking you with time. Like there's really no talking.

SPEAKER_04 19:45

Right. It's really one of the few times that I mean I have mo I would say most of my clients are women just self-selecting, um, which is an interesting topic in and of itself. Um, but most of the women who come in say that they don't have there's no time in their lives where they get to lie somewhere for an hour and actually reconnect with themselves in a deep way. Like, do we have that in our lives? No. So that's why I love creating that space for people, because we don't really have it in our society.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

It's really true, especially in like a society that we're always told, like, do more. You need to be doing more. Right. You need to be working more, you need to be having more babies, you need to be making more money. Yes. It's like nice to give yourself time to actually take care of pent-up energy that might not be serving you anymore. Right. Because it actually in turn makes you work better and be happier. Yes. Yeah. Um, so that oscillating you were talking about, is that quantum physics? Um yes. Yes. Because I remember when I was in your office, you were showing me some of your training books. Yeah. And it literally is like quantum physics. And I'm like, this is way above my pay grade. Like, I don't understand this. But it is something to be said about how it is deeply rooted in science, and it's not just like oh, I felt this and decided this was a thing. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 21:03

Exactly. Because I understand why people would be skeptical, because again, it isn't something we see. We we don't it's our energy field, we're it's not something we see in our lives. Yeah. So I get when people are like, oh, it's not real. But I even still, I have to admit, when I go for my own Reiki sessions, I'm still in awe of the power of it, even though I do it. I I had one last week and I felt so much tingling, and I was like, oh my God, like this is why, this is why this is so amazing. Even for me, it's a reminder.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

As somebody who practices Reiki but also gets it to themselves, are you able to perform Reiki on yourself?

SPEAKER_04 21:43

You can. Yes. You actually there are there when you're doing your training, they talk about self Reiki. Um, which is, I mean, basically, you know, when you you know when you hurt yourself, your first instinct is often to place your hands on that area. Yeah, sure. Which is like the basis for Reiki at the very basic level. Like When you're hurt or something's wrong, you you go to touch it. So simple, right? And that's sort of a very simple basis for understanding well, why you think Reiki would work? It's an instinct of like, you want to touch that area that hurts. And so yes, you can give yourself Reiki. Um, it's a whole there's a whole self-Reiki thing that people do. I personally, I I know, I know doing it is a good thing. I have more, I find it more impactful to actually receive it from someone else. Yeah. Um, just because for me, I have I still to this day have the challenge of getting out of my head in just my life. So for me, when I'm receiving it from someone else, I don't know. I just was I'm able to get into that space easier. But yes, you can definitely give yourself freaky.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

It's interesting how you're talking about that because not only when, at least for me, not only when I get hurt do I go to grab that, but like if I'm having anxiety, I'll like put like where the areas are. You know the actor Pedro Pascal? Yes. So he was on a red carpet one time and he was holding his hand on his stomach with his co-star, and he like whispered to her, and I think like the lip reader girl on on Instagram like quoted, saw what he said and like let people know that he was like, you know, I hold my anxiety here. And he literally was on the red carpet, like holding down on it.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that's that's what again for people who want to understand it in in a simple way, that's such an easy way to understand, like, yes, we like if our chest is heavy, we all you know go like this.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

Yeah. Because it feels good and it helps. Absolutely. Yeah. Um so have you ever performed Reiki on someone that you were just like, oh, they're just not receiving this? Like they Yes.

SPEAKER_04 23:40

I would say um I in when I was a volunteer at the hospital, um, I had a few instances where people's families wanted them to try Reiki because they were healing um from cancer, but they didn't necessarily want to. So um Reiki works no matter if you believe it or not. Um, one of the gifts for me in my life about Reiki is that it's not ego driven. And because I told you at the beginning, so much of my life was defined by like, was I good enough? You know, was I was I performing well enough? But because Reiki works whether or not I want it to, it's very freeing because it's like, okay, I'm not gonna do anything to make this happen. So it's not on me. Um, but if you walk into it as a as a client and you're like, this isn't gonna work for me, it it's not gonna really take so well. I mean it still works in theory, but if you're if you're not feeling open, it's not uh you know, and I felt that from a few people where they just really didn't want to receive it, but they felt like they should because their family wanted them to try it. Now in my business, I don't have that because somebody who walks in the door is already willing to try it. Even if they don't believe it, they're willing to to see. Um whereas when I was a volunteer at the hospital, there were definitely a few times where I was like, this person just really isn't feeling like they want it, and I could get that that sense.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Alternatively, have you had some like profound moments with people when you were volunteering who were going through treatments? Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 25:07

Um I had this really cool experience with one of uh one of the the the patients who um when I was giving her Reiki, actually sometimes you see things. I I don't see I'm I don't see the future. I'm not a medium, I don't have any of the balls I don't have any of those powers. I wish I did, but I don't. But sometimes I see things just in my mind when I'm giving Reiki, kind of like you said, like you'll see things in your mind. And I saw a porch swing. I kept seeing a porch swing during this this session. And so afterwards I was like, I felt comfortable enough to say to the woman, does a porch swing mean anything to you? She's like, Oh my gosh, yes. My husband has had a porch swing from his, you know, grandmother or great grandmother. And we were just talking about where to hang it the other day because we moved into a new house, and our house is never feels like a home without hanging that porch swing. And she's like, That's really profound that you, you know, got that sense during the session. And we both kind of teared up because it was just a very kind of it was it had a lot of meaning to her. Yeah. Um, so you know, that was very impactful. Also, all the time I would say so many of my sess sessions feel impactful because I always debrief with people afterwards. That's one of my favorite parts. Not every Reiki master does that, but I love to do that. And so many times people are like, I'm like, well, I felt it the most here. And they're like, so did I. And like when you were at this place, I felt like, you know, tingling. And then you knew exactly when to move to the next place. Yeah. Um, so there was a lot of that sort of like symbiotic connection that I get with clients through the Reiki session. And then I also have had lately these amazing experiences with I always pull a card at the end of the sessions.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Yeah, I think that's cool.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

Do all Reiki? No, not all Reiki practitioners do that. Um it's really fun and it's not tarot. Um, so it's no, then there's no prediction of the future. It's just kind of a message from the universe about like what you need to hear in that moment. And so many of them have been completely on point. Um, last week I had a woman, I always ask people to think about their intentions in their mind for their session as they start the Reiki session. So I never know what their intentions are, it's just for them. And then after we talked, I we pulled the card and the card said, Have you you want to have more joy in your life? And the woman stood up. She's like, Oh my gosh, that was my intention that I had in my head. She's like, This is crazy. That is crazy. So there's a lot of um just really kind of impactful experience. I've had I had one client who who started um sort of moaning during the session, and I was worried. Um and I was like, oh no, like, is she okay? Um and then after we chatted, and she was like, I felt like I was basically going around and around in a tornado while the energy was releasing. She's like, so that's why I was, you know, making those sounds. She's like, but it was the most amazing feeling afterwards because it basically released. So I've had a lot, I mean, there's been a lot of um, you know, amazing moments uh in the work.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Well, my second session with you, I my eyes started going into rapid eye movement. And so just natural, I've done um EMDR before, and it triggers the same thing in your in your eyes where you're in rapid eye movement, but that's because you're hearing different sounds. It's like forcing you to. This is literally just with your hands and just getting into Reiki. Um and so my eyes went into rapid eye movement, and so my immediate fight fight fight or flight reaction is to to panic because that's a scary thing to feel at first. Of course. But then I kind of gave into it and I was literally seeing this like blue ball of energy being attacked by different lightning bolts, and it was making my eyes go into rapid eye movement. And then once that was over, then it was the purple waves. Right. And then my eyes stopped.

SPEAKER_03 29:11

Yeah, you would go released.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Yeah. Yeah. So it was so crazy, the actual visuals. And that was one thing that I was just like, after the first session, I'm like, this is interesting. I want to do it again. Yeah. Yeah. After the second session, I was like, fight me on it. Reiki is real. I will die on this hill. Yeah. And that also, I feel like is what opened me up to being more open about other things that I might have dismissed in the past. Yeah. And maybe to your point about how you're like, I saw this porch swing, but I'm not a medium, nor do I have these. Maybe it may somewhere. Yeah. Exactly. Maybe it's somewhere. I feel like it's one of those things that what do you whether you want to call it your third eye, whether you want to call it just being in tune with the with the universe, that once people are more open to it, they'll find more things coming to them and happening to them. Yes. There's also that that book, it's like the secret. Like what you put out there comes back. You know, there all of that is about intention. Yes. It's like the the laughing when you are sick, like really sick, to help healing. Right.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

It's it's it's amazing because we um we want I think we want to dismiss a lot of this this this stuff. I don't have a good word for it. The woo-woo. The woo-woo. We want to dismiss the woo-woo because I think many people feel like they're not in control if they believe or experience the woo-woo. Yeah. And I I do you think that's why you were were a little skeptical? Because you felt like if I saw some evidence of this, then I would know that I'm not fully in control.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

Yeah. There I think there's an element of control for sure. I think I've always been somebody who I need to tangibly see something to believe it. Yeah. Like I am not refuting ghosts or angels, but I also can't emphatically say that I believe in it because I need to have an experience. Of course. Yeah. So I think yeah. I don't know if that's about control or if it's just no, no proof.

SPEAKER_04 31:22

Right. Yeah. And I think once, yes. And I think once you you've opened the door, like you said, to the experience and you've felt something you had proof, because you had that experience that you couldn't refute. Yeah. Um, then you're you're much more willing, like you said, to step into that next door. Yeah. See what else is there. And me too. Um, like you said, um, I'm gonna continue to develop my intuition and um, you know, through my your own journey as being a Reiki practitioner. Yeah. Um I started practicing tarot after. I love it. I'm actually gonna get trained in tarot soon. Yeah. Wait, I want to go to a training. Where's the thing? That would be so fun.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

So fun. Um the Did you have your tarot read by um Indigo LLC, who was at my podcast launch party? Oh.

SPEAKER_04 32:10

I was um I w my son was sick. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Oh, yeah. She was the best tarot reader I've ever experienced. To a point that when I first met her, it was for a brand collaboration. And at one point I had to turn off the cameras because it was getting pretty intense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Um, and she's also the only person I've ever met that when she's shuffling the cards, the cards that get displayed, jump out of the deck. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

It is those are those are the ones that are meant to be yours. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

It's amazing. Got into tarot after Hey, see, it's a whole world.

SPEAKER_04 32:45

I mean, I'm a whole world. My first Reiki session when I said I cried and had that release, and I was feeling what the Reiki practitioner was feeling like I said, like she would go somewhere and I would feel like spirals of energy releasing. Yeah. That's when I I would say that's when I developed sp some spirituality and believed that there's more out there. Like I never really felt like I was deep down spiritual, but I never really tapped into it. So Reiki definitely opened that door for me. Sure. And I think some people what's great about Reiki is people come to it for lots of different reasons. Some people just want to relax. Some people want to really heal some traumas. Yeah. Some people want to get in touch with spirituality. So I think there's such a range, and that's why it's such a great modality because you can step into it for so many reasons, but it'll always give you what you need at that time.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

Yeah. Do you feel like like you were saying, self-proclaimed, that you still are really in your head sometimes? Do you feel like people who have trouble getting out of their head or maybe who have ADHD or OCD, do you feel like they are harder to break through in a session and release that energy?

SPEAKER_04 33:58

I think um it, you know, what I've found, um, since I've I've been open for I think six months now. So I am sort of learning and growing as the uh practice is evolving. I'm finding that, you know, you people used to say to me, you know, how often should I get Reiki? And I would say, whenever you're called to come back, right? Like as I, I, you know. Now I I sort of changed my thinking on that. Um I do think it's most impactful when people return. When people return, if you know, budget-wise, it's one thing, it's not covered by insurance, which I really wish it was. Maybe one day. Maybe one day. Um, but uh when people can come on a regular basis, we have more kind of um breakthroughs in terms of it often takes people when they've never had Reiki before, it often takes a whole session to relax. Because you're like, what am I doing? What I mean, real literally, you're just lying there, so there's nothing to do, but you don't know what it's gonna be like for you.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

So And like maybe someone like me, the first half of it, you're trying to like refute anything that you might be feeling or thinking.

SPEAKER_04 35:07

And you're thinking about your to-do list.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

Like it's hard to just shut things off. Right.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

So when you ask about like people with ADHD or OCD or, you know, honestly, anyone who walks in the first time who's never had Reiki, it it takes a session for them to really know, like, yeah, okay, I get it now. I'm comfortable, I get it, I see it. Like, so it does take some time, and I do think it's why it's important to, if people can, to return over time because you're more comfortable. You can let things release more easily because you're more like at your baseline, you're more like, okay, I know what I'm doing, I get it. Yeah, I'm gonna let things happen. So it does sometimes take time, and sometimes it takes a whole session for people who are like the last minute, they're like, oh, it's just relaxing. Yeah. Um, and I get that. And people are walking in from, you know, meetings and stress. And so um to answer your question, yes, sometimes it takes people longer than others, depending on what's going on in their life.

SPEAKER_02 36:02

Yeah. Um, and speaking of pricing, because yeah, unfortunately it's not covered by insurance. You do something cool that new member or new sessions, first-time clients get $20 off. Yes, which is really cool.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

Have always which I believe in because as I've said from the beginning, I want people to experience it because you can do as much marketing as you want, but until you have your own experience with Reiki, it's really hard to understand. Yeah. So I always offer that $20 off just to kind of get people to see. And and and I've had a ton of people from your video that you did with me who've come and who have come back after even after that. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

And then they probably are telling their friends about. I mean, that's what Reiki really is like the best way to market it is for people to get in there experience it and then tell others about their experience. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 36:53

Because each person's experience is so unique to them, but it's so unique. Yes. Nobody walks out of their I mean, yeah, I I wouldn't say that. I mean, there are definitely some people walk out who are like, okay, bye. But 99% of people walk out and are like, oh my gosh, this is awesome.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Like I'm not sure. And I think it is really cool that you sit down and debrief with everyone. I mean, you go so far as to like send me emails like breaking down like more in depth, especially like I'm always on a rush. Right. Right, right. And sometimes I pull your card after you leave. Yeah. And then you'll send me full emails like explaining exactly what you saw, what I felt, what I said that I felt, what that could mean. Because what's really interesting about coming to a Reiki master as well is you are so aware of like the different chakras and the different parts of our bodies and like the left side and the right side and the masculine and the feminine energy. Like I didn't know anything about that before coming into you. And it's very fascinating.

SPEAKER_04 37:48

It is. And then you see it in your life, how it shows up. You're like, oh, I get why my left side is holding all this stuff. I'm stressed about my kids, and my mama brain is kicking in exactly.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

And people aren't here refuting left brain versus right brain. Right. So why are we refuting energy at different parts of our body? Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 38:08

Exactly. And so I always feel it's important to talk about what you ex and process what you experience in a session. So not every Reiki master does this, but I find it important. So I always chat with people at the beginning and talk about sort of like what's going on with them, you know, plant the seed of intention for the session. Not that you have to have an intention and force anything. Yeah. But I like people to have, you know, if there's something they're kind of working on, um, I like people to think about that because that often gives them a sense of um kind of seeing some results afterwards. Because they're like, yeah. I had a friend actually come in on Friday um for her first session, and she had been wanting to let go of some things because she felt like she was overextended. And after the session, actually this morning she texted me, I just said no to two things because we had our session, because you told me to set an intention, and that was my intention. So I feel like it's helpful for people to have some framing. Yeah. So I always do a little chat beforehand and then afterwards always love to debrief because I I say that I read energy like a language. Um, you know how when you're little, you always wanted to have like something you were really good at. But I never had that. Like I was not a good athlete, I was not a good artist, I couldn't sing, and I was always like looking for like what is like what am I really good at? Like what's because we all have like that thing that that we're our our gift, right? Yeah. I am just grateful that I've actually figured out what that is because I think I could have gone through my life not knowing, but reading energy like a language is my gift. Um, and I'm able to, in a session, intuitively know like what part of your body needs that healing. And so I think it's important to talk to people about that afterwards so that I can tell them like what I was reading. And so then oftentimes they're like, oh my God, those that's where I felt it, you know, and that's where less synergy happens. But I just think it would be hard to have that experience than just like walk out the door. So for me, it's important to talk through it and process it. Because so much of our lives we're taught to think in our minds, and Reiki gets us into our body, but I think it's important to kind of go back to the mind and remind it of like what just happened. Yeah. Um, I always say that Reiki is the best complement to therapy.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Yeah. They go hand in hand.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

They go hand in hand because therapy works on your mind, right? You're processing through your brain. But we we do that and that's great. But all those emotions and experiences are still left and stuck in. You gotta get it out. They're stuck. Get it out. And we don't really have a way to do that. I mean, yes, we exercise and we feel better after that, but we have no like targeted way. That's why I love- you hear my tummy. Yeah, see, we're talking it, we're talking about the body. Um, we don't really have a targeted way to actually release what's going on in our body, and that's why I love Reiki. Yeah. I say it's a great compliment to so many things.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

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SPEAKER_04 43:18

Oh, that's such I'm laughing because so my daughter is 17 and she has also gone to Reiki because when I found it so impactful, I had her start to go. Okay. And so I I always offer to give her Reiki, and she's like, Mom, you're not a real Reiki monster. And I'm like, yes, I am. They're like, excuse me, ma'am. Um, I think my kids think that I lead a double life. That's so funny. Which is really funny. They're like, you're you're like this Reiki person, but you're also like mom and just like normal mom. So I think they think it's I think they think it's funny because they're old enough now, they're both teenagers to kind of see my evolution. And I think they like whenever I'm posting on social media, because I'm you know almost 50 and I'm old to them, they're like, Mom, I can't believe you posted that. You know, I think they think it's just kind of comical, actually. But so have have you ever given them Reiki? No, they don't they don't want me to. So You should say for a Mother's Day, I want you to let me give you Reiki. I know. So, um, and I've never given my husband Reiki. Well, and he he's open to it. Um, but I think I I think it's better if he goes to someone else. Um in our training, we were taught that sometimes if you give Reiki to your immediate family, it can be a little difficult as a practitioner because you know so much about them and to just like not try to attach yourself to an outcome. Okay. So I'm gonna probably send everyone to to someone else. Okay. But my kids, I do, I do want to give them Reiki because I think when they get stressed, it's such a good tool and technique. I actually offer kid and teen sessions for that reason. So what does that look like when you do a kid session? Is it similar to a kid session is shorter, so it's 45 minutes, and it's for like, you know, kids who are under the teenage years. Um and they come with their parent or guardian, and that person stays in the room the whole time. Um and it looks similar, just abbreviated. We talk at the beginning, they have the session, and then um we do sometimes do a I need to give your stomach reiki. I know, I need to eat something. Um and then we do we do a card pull, though. I'm still on the search for a good Oracle card deck for kids if anyone out there knows. Oh, I'll keep an eye out. I've been going to all these witchy shops, so I'll see. I'm still on the hunt. Okay. Um and then a teen session is the same as my hour-long session because teens are, you know, they're older, so they can't.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

I feel like kids, you know, I mean, hopefully they have not been jaded by the world yet. You know, it's it's hard now, especially with social media being so ever present in our kids' lives. But do you find that the energy and like the chakras and the places that you're feeling and energy flow from kids is very different from adults? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:05

Um sadly, no. I think kids are st they're they're still taking in all the stuff that's out there, and so it's similar in in a lot of ways. I think self-selecting though, a lot of the kids who come to me come um because they're having stress and anxiety. And so they've they've usually taken that stress and anxiety into the body. Um so I'm feeling it there. Um so no, they're not necessarily lighter than adults. Actually, there's so much heaviness that they're dealing with.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Um they probably don't know how to articulate it because it's like these.

SPEAKER_04 46:38

Yes. I had a 10-year-old in a few weeks ago, and after the session, I always walk out and let the child and the parent talk before I walk back in. Because sometimes they'll tell the parents something that they won't tell me. So I walked in and the mom said, Tell Anna what you just told me. She and she pops up, she goes, I feel 10 pounds lighter. And so for kids, it's a lot of kind of um that feeling of lightness, which often that they're looking for.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

I want to take my daughter Maisie. Yeah. Because she suffers with really deep fears of things. Um, and I do know because growing up with my sister and my mom, they were educators and in Florida um for a while, I think it actually changed, but we're out of that school system. But yeah, there used to be a pretty good gifted program. And so my sister and my mom both taught um gifted program, and we learned that children who feel intense fears are typically pretty intelligent on that like gifted spectrum. I hate referring to kids as like gifted or not, like every kid is gifted. That was just what the program was called. Um and Maisie's so smart. So I do know that she she imagines things and they're so real to her. Yeah. And so she'll get afraid for me to like go driving because she'll tell me that I'm gonna get in a car crash or the building's gonna collapse on me. Or she'll like hear things and think that there's people on the walls. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:02

Or like so well, she ha she might have some gifts in within that that she wouldn't know that they're gifts because right now they might be showing up as fears.

SPEAKER_02 48:12

But yeah, exactly. And she she's definitely an empath. She feels things really deeply and she feels things from people around her pretty deeply.

SPEAKER_04 48:19

So like she should definitely try it.

SPEAKER_02 48:22

And she can pick up on like she could always, even at like three years old, could pick up on sarcasm. Uh huh. Which, like most kids, that's a hard thing to explain. It is. Like what I'm saying is not what I really mean. She picks up on those nuances. Yes, yeah, very well. Which makes it easy for her to manipulate.

SPEAKER_04 48:39

But I would love to see how she feels. Yeah, I would say I'll ask her if she's interested in that. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 48:46

But I think she would be. I mean anything to like come on one of mommy's like cool adventures. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 48:53

Oh, that's great. Yeah. But no, my family is really happy for me that they see that I feel like I'm doing what I'm meant to be doing. Yeah. And whenever somebody steps into that, that space, I think others around them are just happy for them.

SPEAKER_02 49:07

So have you found that alternatively there are people in your life that have been like distanced themselves from you kind of turning this new chapter?

SPEAKER_04 49:17

What I found, not so much distancing themselves from, but not knowing, not everybody knows how to talk to me about it. Um, I think, like you said, um people who haven't necessarily tried it or don't believe in it, I think are uncomfortable. They're like, oh, I think they they want to just talk to me about other things because they don't really know like what to make of it for sure. They're like, oh, I don't, you know, I don't really know this new person here. So we'll just talk about all the old stuff we used to talk about. That's fair. Um, which which I get. Um, but luckily nobody's kind of left my life. I've heard of a lot of Reiki practitioners who that happens to. So um, it's sad. Um, but that hasn't happened to me, thank gosh. Um actually, I've been so pleasantly uh surprised to see how excited people are about it and you know willing to try it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

It's like an exciting, fun thing to do, to try. I mean, um you know those shirts or costumes that's like ask me about my wiener, whatever. We gotta get you one that's like ask me about my ranking.

SPEAKER_04 50:19

Exactly. And I think people are more intrigued. If they're open to it, they're more intrigued than anything. Um and I think that I think that I just now finally feel like I can be myself. And I think that helps me at to attract the right people in my world. Absolutely. Um because what I love, another thing I love about Reiki is that it helps us, as I say, come back to ourselves, come home to ourselves, like really kind of find who we are at our authentic core. I feel like in the process of growing up and being in this world, we start to lose sort of like our authenticity because of the stresses of the world and because of expectations on us at school and in the world.

SPEAKER_02 51:04

I mean, the world can be so heavy. Yeah, it's hard to keep like your whimsy and your joy. Right. And I I constantly feel about this. Like I my my feed will literally be flooded with like mass shootings and horrific things happening. Right. And then I'm there posting a video of like a new restaurant I tried, and I'm like at there's the one side that's like I have this profound guilt for being so privileged where I am in my life and in a safe place with food on our tables and you know. And then the other side, I'm like, should I be posting this? Should I be like, am I not more involved? Am I not doing enough? Right. It's just hard in this world that we live in to give yourself permission to heal and to feel your best self.

SPEAKER_04 51:54

Yeah, and but I think that's what the world needs right now. Those of us who can show up at our most authentic, um, at our most healed states are the ones that are helping the world um just by being like the best versions of ourselves and giving giving that to the world in return. Yeah, but we feel guilty. Like that's yeah, that's the thing. We feel like, oh my gosh, we're we're you know, we're able to do this for ourselves and why should we? Um, especially, you know, moms feel so much guilt on so many levels because we're like, well, we we should be doing this for our kids and not ourselves. We should be making the world a better place, not ourselves. Right. Um, we don't have time for ourselves. And I think that's all these messages we get sort of at from from girlhood to motherhood is about everyone else is the most important. Yeah. And be selfless. Be selfless. Be a good girl, yeah, you know, and smile more. Exactly. Uh be nice, be, you know, I always wanted to please. I just wanted people to like people pleasers. And I get it. When we don't uh take that uh space to kind of, like I said, come back to ourselves and really find ourselves of who we are at our core, then we don't show up for everybody else in the best way. Um but it took me almost 50 years to understand that.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

Um you know how they say hurt people, hurt people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:21

I think healed people heal people. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 53:24

Oh, I love that. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Maybe that should be a shirt.

SPEAKER_04 53:27

That should be a shirt. Okay. In my woo-woo where I heal people, and then the back will say heal people, heal people. Okay. Um, yes, I think that the best gift we can give ourselves and the world is is that that healing. But there are so many excuses in our minds about why it's not important. So I'm here to say, put yourself first.

SPEAKER_02 53:46

It is important. And like honestly, by putting yourself first and healing things that might be pent up or you don't even realize have been repressed. Right. You are showing up as a better person for your kids, for the world, at your job, for your husband, for your wife. Exactly. How come more men aren't doing Reiki?

SPEAKER_04 54:05

It's so interesting. So I think I have one male client out of My husband's gonna come do it.

SPEAKER_02 54:11

Oh my god. We're gonna have a whole family affair. We'll do me, my husband, Maisie, get the twins in there.

SPEAKER_04 54:17

I would love to learn more about this because I think men feel that it's not maybe masculine enough. I could see that. Yeah. Because it's you said if we're gonna call something woo-woo, it feels a little bit feminine. Feminine or like out there. Silly. Whimsy. Yes. Yes, yes. And I think a lot of But like men do massages. I know. I know. So we have to figure this out. Yeah. Like I don't have the answer other than maybe it feels emasculating. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 54:51

I feel like maybe men are taught like things need to be tangible. Like we need to go to work, we need to take this hammer to the wall. We have to take action. Yeah. Yes. And so maybe the idea of something a little more spiritual, they're more reluctant to. Exactly. Now I'm curious too if there is any ties from like religious men, if they would be more open to it. Or maybe not, because religion sometimes is like witchcraft. Right. Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 55:22

Sometimes people ask if rakier is a religion. It is not a religion. No. Um but I think men okay, I don't want to stereotype, but maybe, maybe, maybe m more men feel like it makes them vulnerable. Um, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 55:39

And the vulnerability is scary. Yeah. Um, because men are also historically taught to not cry. Right. Don't show your emotions. Right.

SPEAKER_04 55:47

And maybe that vulnerability, because our society says that's quote, bad for men, which I don't know why. Yeah. Um maybe they're fe they feel a little nervous to be in that situation. Because Reiki does. Some people do cry during Reiki, like I did, you did. Um, you know, you do feel like, you know, you're you are releasing, and so you are more vulnerable. But that's what helps you feel.

SPEAKER_02 56:13

Right. You can't heal without addressing the problem. Right. And to address the problem, it's gonna get uncomfying for a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 56:20

So I think if um, you know, I I am open, I I have men and women can come to my studio, kids, so any men that want to come, try it.

SPEAKER_02 56:31

Yeah. And if you're a man and you're listening to this, what is stopping you? Yeah. We'd love to know. Yeah, we want to take a poll. Do people write in anyone? Can you type a comment? Do people type something? Send your carrier pigeon to my people. We'll put it through the mailroom. I know. I'm like, write in. It makes me sound like I'm 80 years old. Um my God, I went to a derby, like I guess it wasn't a party. We were just watching the Kentucky Derby, and I was dressed like what I felt like was an 80-year-old outfit. I was like, I have never felt less attractive than right now.

SPEAKER_04 57:08

But I feel like you need that, like that glimmer's hat look.

SPEAKER_02 57:12

Yeah, I did like a fascinator and I don't know. It wasn't for me. Um so when you have people who come in and they're getting reiki about how many sessions will you take on in a day. Ah, good question.

SPEAKER_04 57:26

My maximum is three sessions per day, I've I've learned is the max for me. Two is ideal, but I mean, business-wise, three is great. Sure. Um, but three is is is it for the amount of even though I'm not giving my own energy to people, it takes, you know, it takes it takes energy, it takes intention, I would say to, you know, I I I spend a lot of time. What you don't see behind the scenes is preparing the space before a session. So I'm I'm clearing any bad energy that might be in the space. I'm meditating, I'm saying um some intentions around what I want the session to be like. So I actually take time and I set set up the space, I set intentions. I always want it to be for the client's best and highest good. Um so I spend a lot of time on that, and then there's the actual session, um, and then there's the debrief, and then there's the like kind of catching up with myself afterwards because, like we talked about, I kind of also go into this another world, like of of where time and space doesn't exist during the sessions, and then I have to kind of come back to reality and regroup for the next person. So three is my three is my max.

SPEAKER_02 58:37

And do you ever feel like completely drained, like energy zapped by the end of the day?

SPEAKER_04 58:43

I I had one week where I had the my most clients I'd ever had. I think I had like 15 clients in a week, which for me was a lot. And it's a lot. That whole weekend I was just on the couch. I felt zapped. So I had to also look at what I'd done that week to make sure, because Reiki practitioners have to really make sure they're not absorbing all the stuff that people are releasing. We actually are taught um things called grounding techniques, um where actually it's something I've I I t I teach all my clients. I think I sent you my grounding technique where you actually um, you know, picture roots growing from your feet into the earth so that you feel very grounded to the earth. Because if you're not grounded, oftentimes as a practitioner, I could take on people's stuff. So I think I might have not grounded so well that week because I had so many sessions and I think I had taken on too much. So I do sometimes feel tired afterwards um and and and drained, and I also know that's because I have to keep up all that work.

SPEAKER_02 59:49

Absolutely. I can't imagine like because I get I I call people sometimes like energy vampires. Like if they like are exuding like a lot of negativity, yes. I take I take that on. Exactly. And maybe I need to be more grounded to not exact that in and have some intentions.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:06

We can talk about that. Yeah, yeah, I I find that, you know, it's actually, and because the work is physical, like it's not hard work. But I'm I I actually like to stand almost the whole session, even though they teach you in Reiki school to be on a stool. And you know, I don't know. I find that standing is more effective. Um it can be actually physically tiring as well. Um, so it's it's amazing work, but you have to pace yourself. And I'm learning that now as well. Have you ever given Reiki to a pregnant person?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:35

Um no. That'd be cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:39

I feel like pregnant women come see me.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:41

Yeah, I feel like that would be really cool. Because like there's also like the energy of another body in there. I know. I would say wild. I would want to hear afterwards what that was like. Yes. Whatever you're allowed or given permission to say. Because you also have people sign something that shows that what happens in your own.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:59

What happens in my room stays in my room.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:00

What happens in Reiki stays in Reiki.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:02

Because like similar to um finding a therapist that you click with, you have to find a Reiki practitioner that you connect with. Because I think so much about the session, it's a very personal experience that you have with this other person. And so um, in terms of like finding the right fit, there are a lot of Reiki practitioners, even in Connecticut, um, and every person is different. And so you have to find that person that you feel like you click with. I'm so lucky that I found one on my first try. I know. And I have to say, all of your um f followers, listeners who have come in have been the exact right fits. Like you have the best followers. Oh, that's amazing. I love the my clients. I've had I love my followers. I've had the best. I have to say, a lot of times when you start your Reiki business, um, your Reiki teachers will tell you that sometimes it takes a while to find the right clients. Because I am so blessed that it's been the right people like from day one, and I hope it continues because and thank you to you because so many of them heard, saw your video and were like, wait, I'm intrigued. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:11

And then they just they love it. Yeah. Um so speaking of like followers, subscribers, whatever, um, another woman I'm gonna have on the podcast, uh, her name's Chris, she r owns arugula bistro. Um, we were kind of like workshopping what to call people who listen to the podcast and are like big because you know, like, you know, like call her daddy, they call them like daddy gang. Daddy gang, yeah. And then like armchair expert, they call them like armcherries, I think. Oh what did you come up with? So because it is uh Reheated Coffee Club is my social platform, and even though it's not really about coffee, it's just because moms never have a hot cup of coffee. Right. Right. And then we have Connecticut Unfiltered, where the coffee may be filtered, but the conversation's not. We thought it would be cute to call people my little cortaditos. A cortado is like a a coffee, like a smaller coffee, and then like like a cute little cortadito.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:06

Oh my gosh. Can we all get t-shirts?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:09

Yes, my little cortaditos. Oh, that's such a good idea. So many business ideas. We know cooking up here. Yeah, just women in business over here. Oh, all right. We got a couple t-shirts going. I love that. Um so yeah, I gotta start putting that out there, manifesting my cortaditos.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:25

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:26

Good energy will come back to you in return. So when did you go through the training process? Yeah. And like, what if someone's listening to this and they're like, I want to get trained? Like, how do people go about that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:37

So one of the interesting things about Reiki is that, and I would love this to change eventually, is there's not an accreditation body like there is for massage therapists. Okay. I feel like there should be. I just feel like that would help legitimize it because for people who are skeptical, um, it would help legitimize the field. Yeah. Um, there are, but the field has its own set of requirements and trainings. You have to go through three levels of training to become a quote Reiki master. There's Reiki level one, Reiki level two, and Reiki level three. Okay. So I did my first training um a few years ago, now I can't remember the date, um, in order to volunteer at the hospital. You have to be at least Reiki level one to do that. So if anybody out there is interested in learning Reiki, um, you know, to volunteer or, you know, to start this path in their lives, I know a lot of great teachers out there. So you actually have to find um somebody who's who's been trained as a Reiki master teacher, which I am gonna be trained in over the summer. So that I'll be able to do that. So that's exciting. Yes, I'll be able to officially teach others uh the art of Reiki. Are you gonna hold classes in your studio? That's my hope. Yeah. So hard. I'll hold trainings there. Amazing. Um so you wanna find somebody that's a Reiki master teacher because sometimes people advertise and they're not. Um, but I would look for Reiki master teacher. If people want to contact me offline, I can give them names of people that I, you know, know and trust. Um, but there's three levels of training. Um, and then you have to have a certain number of practice hours before you can be a Reiki master in practice. I think it's like 50 practice hours. I got the right.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:25

So, what does the training like look like?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:27

So it looks like usually it's like for me, it was um a three-day intensive weekend long training for level one. So it's um a weekend long intensive. Um, it was with a few other people and a wonderful teacher in Massachusetts. Um, and there was practice time as well. And then I did Reiki two and three with her as well. So it was the same thing. It was an intense intensive weekends, weekend long trainings, um, and then 50 hours of practice.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:59

And are they teaching? You about like the different chakras in your body? Are they teaching you about energy?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:04

I actually brought one of my manuals. I can show you. Yeah. Um, just to show you kind of an example. Um, everybody has different there are sort of some standard manuals, but then my teacher created a whole sort of this is her binder for level one. Um, and they teach you about the history of Reiki, they teach you about the science of Reiki, how does it work, the chakra system, our auric body, our auric field. Um, we learn about how to um what does the Reiki feel like to a person giving it, sometimes things that um people will feel during a session, um, how to open and close a session, things to never do. Oh, what are some things to never do? Never touch genitalia.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:49

I mean, you know, you got a lot of steaming hot energy down in this groin ring.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:55

You never provide a diagnosis to a client, so a medical diagnosis. Sometimes I'll have thoughts pop into my head that have no basis in I don't know where they come from. Um, but I'm not a medical doctor, and it is not my job to give a diagnosis. So like you never provide a diagnosis.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:12

I should tell that to the Facebook moms and the groups.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:16

We shouldn't have a guideline book for them of what not to, you know, you can't state that Reiki will heal a person or or their problems. Like I can't guarantee what will happen. I mean my goal is that you know it will heal and and most times it does. But I, you know, you can't I don't want people to come back and say, I need a I need a refund. I'm not you know, you don't know. You can't guarantee what will happen. Um I mean it's the same thing with therapy, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:44

If someone's going in, they're not like I you get your money back if you're not healed after our sessions. Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:50

And then there's some legal considerations, you have to be familiar with laws. Um so you know, things like that. Um so yeah, I mean it it gives it gives a bunch of really inter interesting information and and we we learn by what I loved about my teacher is we learned by actually also practicing on and there are some teachers who you just go over the manual and then they're like, okay, you're l level one certified without placing hands on someone. And I feel like you really need to practice on somebody. So we did a lot of practice sessions as well. Um and then you learn about protecting yourself, and you know, like you talked about, like grounding yourself, making sure you're not taking things on.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:31

Did you find like your first times practicing when you were in training that you were like, whoa, like did you immediately start like getting it or did it take you a little bit?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:39

It took me a while. I was nervous, and when you're nervous, it can like we talked about, like, or nervous or skeptical or any of those things, it can hold you back. It wasn't until I had a few kind of under my belt at the hospital where I like let go and then yeah, it started, then it started to all come. And like I would feel the the things they would feel the yeah. That's great. It took, it took, it took me some time so that people are realistic in terms of like it's not like I was like, Oh, now I'm a Reiki level one, and I can, you know, I can do it all. Like it it's all like any other thing that you do, like it takes it takes time.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:15

It does practice. Do you feel like there are some people who go through the trainings and they're just like, I don't have this gift, like it's not for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:22

So that's in an interesting question. I think you had asked me that when we first met, like, can anyone do Reiki? Are there some people that you think just can't do it? Um, and I I thought about that for a long time because I was like, hmm, that's an interesting question. I think that anybody can be trained in Reiki. I I feel like it would be a disservice of me and not true to say like only special people can. Because then it's like then I would then it would be something that like how can you believe in what I'm saying if I'm telling you that only certain people can access energy? Because I I believe anybody can. Anybody can get trained and anyone can practice. Do I think like athletes, some people are more gifted in feeling and understanding energy? Yes, that's where I've landed. I think um kind of like anyone can play soccer, but like I could go out and play soccer. Will I be good at it? No, but I can do it. Right. But the professional soccer player has that extra gift and that talent.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:21

Yeah. And they've been trained and that's their life and they've got to do it. It's a good comparison.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:26

So I think it's similar to that, that anyone can get trained, anyone can do the work. Are some people more adept? I think yes. I think naturally they might be born with that extra special kind of skill.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:38

Yeah. I think I mean I think you could say that about most professions too. There are people who are doing the job because they've just like been indoctrinated into it, or it's a family business, or they felt like I have to get a job and stick with it. Exactly. And then there's some people who are in their like calling. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I think I think it can be that's fair. I booked for another session. I think it's like next week. Is it this week? Yeah. I don't even know. I gotta look at my calendar. Man, let me know if it's still good. Yeah, no, no, I'm sure it is. It's in my calendar. If it's in my calendar, then it's happening.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:08

Sometimes, like after I had my first session that I said was so impactful for me, I went back two weeks later because I was like, I gotta go back. And like it was such a quiet session. Yeah. And I was like, oh, like I then I realized that it it changes.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:21

Yeah, I mean if you think about it, like your energy's changing like big weeks. Like maybe the first week you went in, there was like something that was there was a lifetime of stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:29

You know, sometimes people's first sessions, not everybody's, are very intense because they've had so much built up. But like I said, oftentimes people are a little more reserved that first session and not as open. So like you had the second session even more because you were like, okay, I know what's happening.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:45

I'm gonna be open. And even with the second session, when I first went in, I was still trying to like refute the things that I was seeing. So now with my third session, when I'm like completely open, I'm interested. Watch it be like a super quiet session. Okay, now again it can be quiet. Yeah. Um, so I want to play a little game. Okay. But I'm gonna play it with you. Okay. So uh I made it up. It's called Too Woo for You.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:07

I love it.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:08

And so I'm gonna ask you, but I'll also answer too because I I did this kind of quickly, so I don't even remember what I wrote. I'm gonna ask you certain things, and then you say whether you're like, Yeah, I'll buy into that, or you'll be like, it's too woo-woo for me. Okay. Oh, okay. Love it. All right. Yeah. So charging crystals under a full moon. Oh, I got that. I love that. I do that. Oh, really? Not too woo-woo for me. So for me, at this point in my life, I'm not there. That's a little too woo-woo. Although my bestie in St. Augustine definitely does that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:39

I have to say I don't do it on every full moon, but I have I have done it. I do. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:43

Um Mercury being in retrograde actually affecting your life. Yes, for sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:48

Not too woo-woo for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:49

I'm I'm medium woo-woo with that. Like I because I believe in astrology, so I do think that there is validity to it, but I don't know enough to make a full Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:57

So the next time it's in retrograde, see if like weird things happen even with like your computer and you're like, Okay, like stuff, weird stuff happens. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:05

Okay. Not too woo-woo for me. Okay. I have a feeling none of these are gonna be too woo for you. Okay. Um astrology making, but specifically people deciding if relationships are compatible based on astrology.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:20

Um that's too woo-woo for me. I think that you could take it into consideration, but to fully base it on that, I would say no.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:29

Yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah. I feel like usually it's good information. Yeah. I can like spot spot a Sagittarius.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:35

I mean, I'll tell you this, which you are probably gonna think is very woo-woo, but I do work with um an astrologer who's amazing. And she is a Chinese astrologer, and she will we will go through the year, and she will actually tell me the best dates for me to do certain things based on my is she Connecticut based? No, she's she's virtual. She's Massachusetts based on my I'll give you her name. Based on my chart and my, you know, all my whatever it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:10

I'm I'm very into astrology right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:12

Like I want to dive more into it, but I'm I think that there are certain days when I'll like send out my E E newsletters based on like because she says it's a good day to do it. I know. That's woo-woo, but that's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:22

But look, you are less than a year in your business and it's thriving, and you're your best version of yourself. So I mean maybe everybody needs to be a little more woo-woo. Yeah. Um, what about past life regression? Which I looked that up. That's when you go into like a deep meditation where you can access memories from a past life.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:40

Yeah, I have not done that yet. Um I don't know. I'm not I guess I would say it's not. I I'm I'd be open to doing it for sure. Okay. Um I just haven't done it. Um I don't know why. I think sometimes I still get a little nervous around predicting the future and the past. I don't know. There's something there that I gotta kind of uncover why.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:05

Um maybe like something that we are not supposed to have control over. Right. Right. So I I I would be open to it, but I haven't done it yet.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:13

And I have to unravel the layers of why.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:16

I would say that that is not too woo-woo for me. Yeah. Because purely for like scientific research purposes, like I don't know if I believe in past lives. And this would, similarly to my first Reiki session, might help me believe or not. Yeah, see, I believe in past lives.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:31

I just don't know if I want to be revealed all of the info.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:34

Does that make sense? That's fair. Do you want to hear something crazy? Yeah. Um, and it's funny because like before a couple of years ago, like the only person I'd ever told was my husband. Yeah. And then we were at a dinner party and he like told everybody. And so I was like, okay, well, I guess it's not really a secret anymore. But it's not even like a secret, it's just like a weird thing. He didn't know he wasn't supposed to tell. I mean, he probably did, but he didn't know. Um I can almost remember and feel and hear the sound, it's kind of dark, of a hammer cracking into this side of my head. And so I feel if I did have a past life, I died by somebody like bludgeting me with a hammer.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:17

It'll happen randomly where I can literally like hear the sound and it like makes me like I get like a little shiver from it. Yeah. And it's this side, it's always the same place. Yeah. And it's like I can almost picture it happening. Yes. Um that was probably I believe that that was something from a past life. So that's like my only connection to that.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:33

So would you be would you do one?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:35

I don't know, because if it is gonna come up like that, that might be traumatizing. Like maybe I don't better, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:41

Right. That's super interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:43

Because like, why would I continually like hear, almost be able to feel like man, like always the same place, always like I know no one's hit me in the head with a hammer in this life. No, I I believe in past lives.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:53

I had um, so during the Reiki trainings, uh, they do something called attunements where they like you're like attuned to the energy, and you usually have like this meditation session during it, and during one of the sessions, I like saw myself living during the crusades. Whoa. And I was like, this is so weird, and it felt so real. I was a woman living like in the garb or whatever, and I was like with a soldier, and it was so weird that I was like, I think in their past life It's crazy. I believe in them. I'm just not sure. I'm like a little scared of opening the door to knowing everything. Yeah. Yeah. I get that. Yeah. Would you go to oh who's gonna I was gonna start playing your game? Would you go to a fortune teller?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:35

Yes. Have you gone to one? Yes. Yeah. Um, in fact, I'm going back to Florida for a bit this summer, and I really want to go to Casadega, which is the psychic capital of the world. Yeah. And then go there. You gone? No, I want to go there. Oh my God, come with me. You want to go down to Florida in July sometime? Let's do it. My girlfriend went after she lost both of her parents, and she really just wanted to have like a healing experience. Um and there's one hotel there, one restaurant. People live there. You there's like a big vetting process to get like your situation there. You do research on who you want to see beforehand. Yeah. And they had like a really profound experience, and they have like pictures after of like orbs around them. And they got like their aura red and colors, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:17

I've had my aura red, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:18

I love stuff like that. Like that I would do. Um, okay, what about essential oils as medicine?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:26

I don't do it. I believe in it. I just okay, the reason why is a long story. So I have this weird like stomach issue that the naturopath says like to take herbs for. And the herbs in such large quantities made me feel worse. So because I'm like short and I think she was giving me like the adult, you know. So anyway, this is a very bizarre story. I am a little so I don't love the idea of taking, even though like I believe in it all, I just personally don't do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:05

Yeah. It's too woo-woo for me. I'm like pry my Tylenol on my cold dead hands.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:09

I I'm open to any of it. I just haven't done it because of that random experience.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:15

Okay. Um I saw this. I've never heard of anyone doing this. Maybe you know, but putting crystals in your bra. Something. I don't know if that's a thing. Apparently, that's very common. That's too woo-woo for me. I just feel like that'd be uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:30

I actually know if that's a thing. But I did send you a video yesterday about crystals. Yes, I saw that. That was funny. Um I don't think I would. Um, I I I don't uh it's there's there it just no. I I already have enough going on up here. I don't need to add more weight.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:49

Fair. Um what about if you break a mirror? Is that seven years bad luck? Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:53

And I believe in, I also believe in, my whole family believes in umbrellas open inside is bad luck. I do believe in those things. Yeah. Superstitious. Superstitious.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:03

Do you like knock on wood when you're but as we learned in your do nots, we don't knock on men's wood during No no no. Um what about saging? I know you do saging, so I guess that's not too woo. I do that as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:22

Palo Santo. Okay. Yeah. That's the one that I like to do between sessions.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:27

Clear the clear the air. And what about using runes for guidance? Wait, runes or runes? Runes. I don't even know what a runes are. I'm outed. Am I not real? No, I guess it's it might just be too woo-woo at this moment. But no, I think runes are like these. I've seen them at like witchy conferences where they have like markings on them and like they are used in practices. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:53

So I guess maybe I'm learning about that. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:55

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:56

I need to I need to learn more.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:58

I don't know too much about it, but they're like symbols that are used sometimes in their um like altar where they practice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:05

Ooh. Yeah. Let's learn more. I've that's I'm curious. I know. So no, I don't use those because I I hadn't heard of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:11

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's my game. I feel like you're still a little more woo woo than me, but I'm getting there.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:16

Yes. And also I think that's what um makes me a little unique, is that I am like this normal person who's also this Reiki master. So I'm so I'm woo-woo, but like to I'm still evolving on my own.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:30

Yeah. You're not like making your own kombucha, doing yoga every morning, like self-proclaimed, you're like meditating's hard for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:36

Yeah. That's why I always tell my clients to do walking meditations because you're moving, you're getting out of your head. I still have trouble sitting in the corner.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:44

The one time I was ever able to like fully meditate, besides I would consider Reiki like meditating, is um floating. Like the sensory deprivation, the float 41. Yes. I go there and it I'm I'm I am able to check out. Yes. So that's pretty cool and relaxing.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:00

Exactly. And I think um when you're on the Reiki table, a lot of people are like, oh, I'm able to check out there because you're there too as a guide. Exactly. And that's the other thing I'd love to say before we finish is that I'm I'm not healing you. You're healing yourself. Yeah. I am I am a guide. Um, and I think so oftentimes people think like, oh, a Reiki healer, like you're healing me. No, your body, your your your your soul, your body, you're doing the work, and I'm I'm the guide there to to to to set the stage. So I think that's really important for people to understand.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:34

We have the tools in us to get rid of it. We just need the coaching to get it out.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:39

And that's why I think like can personality, fit, and connection is so important. Because I see myself as that guide role. And I think that's that's when people are like, oh, I feel comfortable with you, and you're like just like very similar to me. And um, I can like I can let go.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:54

Yeah, exactly. It's not intimidating to walk into your your office. Exactly. So you're the healer, you guys are the healers. Yeah. That's very cool. Yeah. Well said. Um, so let people know how they can find you, how to book.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:08

Yes, yes. Please come try it. Um so to book, I have easy booking right on my website, thelighthousereiki studio.com. You can book from there. Follow me on Instagram at the Lighthouse Reiki Studio, and um come and find me. Yeah. I'm on the second floor of Dom's Creamery, which is an ice cream shop in Avon, Connecticut.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:30

Um is that where you live in Avon? I guess you're not. I live in West Hartford. Oh, yeah, that's right. Okay. We're both West Hartferians.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:36

Exactly. What do you call us? West Hartfordites? No. What we what are we called? We are I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:45

I don't know. We're corteitos.

unknown 1:23:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:47

Um and then at the end of every episode, I like to ask my guests to shout out to a local nonprofit if you have one and how people can get involved if they want to. Yeah. So I would love to shout out Healing Meals.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:58

Have you heard of Healing Meals? I have not. Oh. So my daughter volunteers there every week. It's an amazing organization that provides um homemade healthy meals for people who are um undergoing health challenges. Um whether that means cancer or mental health challenges, um, you can sign up to get um free healthy meals delivered um within um Connecticut.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:25

So are the volunteers actually cooking this?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:27

So, and they have a huge teen component, and that's why my daughter volunteers there. So they have youth volunteers and adult volunteers, and they they prep all the meals, they cook all the meals, they pack all the meals, and then there are um adult delivery angels, they're called delivering the meals. So check them out. That's amazing. I absolutely will. I love that nonprofit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:46

Highlight them. Yeah. Well, that was so great. Thank you so much for coming in and kind of debunking some of the things that people don't know about Reiki.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:54

And I love I love having the opportunity to tell people about it and get people just interested to try it.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:00

I mean, I think that it is profoundly interesting, and a lot of people don't really know what it is and don't know how to like ask or what to do or how to seek it. So um I think it's really cool, and I think that you do an incredible job and your studio is so calming and peaceful and lovely. And thank you. I can't wait for my next session.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:20

I know, I can't wait. I can't wait to see you soon.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:23

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