Wisdom Rising

Transforming Pain into Power: Ren's Shamanic Reiki Journey

September 06, 2024 • Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Shantel Ochoa • Season 1 • Episode 9

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Can Shamanic Reiki transform your life in the face of profound trauma? Join us as we uncover Ren's extraordinary journey from tragedy and traumas to spiritual awakening and empowerment through the Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki Training. Ren shares her heartfelt story of overcoming personal and family tragedies, revealing how Shamanic Reiki practices provided the tools and support she needed to heal, release limiting beliefs, and step into her highest self. This episode is a testament to the power of spiritual practices in fostering hope and renewal.

We dive into Ren's serendipitous discovery of Reiki during a simple massage appointment, which led to her deep involvement with the Reiki community. Through a candid conversation, Ren reflects on her life before Reiki, filled with uncertainty and a search for spiritual direction.

With unwavering support from ReikiCafe University (now Moon Rising Shamanic Institute), she navigated through a family tragedy and an armed robbery at her workplace. Listen as Ren discusses how Shamanic Reiki training not only changed her perspective but also empowered her to view her experiences in a new, transformative light.

Explore the broader journey of spiritual growth within a nurturing community, where personal anecdotes underscore the importance of feeling supported. We discuss the seamless integration of spiritual practices into daily life, emphasizing visualization, manifestation, and community engagement as pathways to healing.

This episode highlights the advanced shamanic Reiki techniques that elevate both personal and communal healing, and the crucial role of ongoing connections and mutual encouragement in sustaining spiritual alignment and growth. Join us for an inspiring conversation that celebrates the miracles of spiritual transformation and community support.

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Speaker 1:

It's time to remember your divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine Rene, isabel Wells and Chantel Ochoa as we guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week, we'll dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy, healing and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners. We are here to help you acknowledge, reconcile and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising from within. Welcome back to another amazing episode of the Wisdom Rising podcast. Have you ever wondered how shamanic Reiki and spiritual tools can help you move through tragedy process and release traumas and fully step into your highest self? Then today's episode is for you. You'll join Moon Rising visionary Christine Rene as she interviews one of our amazing graduates, laurencia, also known as Ren, as she shares her story of joining what was then the shamanic Reiki practitioner training and how it helped her heal on multiple levels and in many different ways. She shares her story of the profound tragedies and traumas that she experienced just before joining the course and explains how joining the course was an act of divine inspiration and timing that transformed her life in ways she couldn't imagine.

Speaker 1:

You'll notice throughout the episode that Ren refers to Reiki Cafe University and the Shamanic Reiki Practitioner Training. Know that before Moon Rising Shamanic Institute was Moon Rising Shamanic Institute, we were known as Reiki Cafe University and the course that we now call Soul Rising was our Shamanic Reiki Practitioner Training. So everything that Ren shares today is absolutely applicable to our current brand, but know that the names have shifted. In addition, I'd like to put a bit of a trigger warning at the beginning of this episode, as Ren shares some very deep and profound traumas that impacted her very early on in the episode. However, this episode is absolutely worth watching as Ren shares her profound story of hope, healing and transformation. It was an honor to be able to witness Wren throughout the class and she continues to inspire me to show up as my highest self every day. Here's a snippet of what you're going to hear in today's episode.

Speaker 2:

It's like I almost don't remember my life before Reiki Cafe University, you know's, because now I look at everything through a different perspective. It's like, oh so I had to go through this tragedy so that, you know, during my time with Reiki Cafe I could receive that nurturing, support and healing that I needed. You know for myself, and also be able to take that out and share that with the world.

Speaker 1:

And, before we dive in, know that we are in our final days of open enrollment for our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki course.

Speaker 1:

If you listened to Ren's transformation throughout this episode and would love to experience this for yourself, know that Soul Rising is a four-month online shamanic reiki course that teaches you how to shamanic journey, how to do shadow work, how to heal, connect with and develop a working relationship with your inner child.

Speaker 1:

We take you through things like cord cutting, chakra spinning, balancing and healing your energy field and learning how to read and understand the symbology of our spirit, our physical body and our mental and emotional health to really step into our highest self as we release limiting beliefs, process and move through trauma and become exactly who we were meant to be. Throughout this course, you'll learn how to develop your clairvoyance, strengthen your intuition, work with your spirit team, deepen and enhance your understanding of the shamanic roots of Reiki, activate and balance your chakras and so much more. Classes start on Monday, september 8th, but if you're interested in joining us, enrollment is still open for a few more days. If you're curious and you have questions, or you're just not sure, feel free to book a free call with us to talk about where you're at in your journey and see if Soul Rising is the next best step for you. We only have a few spots available and a few days left to register, so if you're interested, click the link in the show notes. And for now let's dive in to today's episode.

Speaker 3:

Welcome to the show. I'm Christine Rene, your host for today, and today I am joined with one of our graduates, laurentia. She goes by Ren and she is one of our star students who has been a part of the Reiki Cafe University programs for how it's been like over a year. It's been over a year, almost a year, yeah almost a year, september 16.

Speaker 2:

We had our first call.

Speaker 3:

Yes, so we're just about ready to hit that year mark, and so Ren has been a part of the team. I'm sorry, yeah, the shamanic Reiki practitioner training program. She's, yeah, the shamanic Reiki practitioner training program. She's been in the advanced shamanic Reiki practitioner training program and she just keeps moving through all of the spaces.

Speaker 3:

And so as we talk about shamanic Reiki training program, or what we might call SRPT, know that that was the previous version of soul rising, so what it is now is Soul Rising and Soul Rising Practitioner. So it's moved from a six-month beginner training to two four-month program. So, although Ren took a slightly different program, it covered the same material and just a slightly different way. But we wanted to bring her on because I want her to share with the world her healing journey, because it's profound, it's inspirational, and I just want to say thank you so much for being a part of all of this. Like you really witnessed the growth and expansion of how we teach and what we teach, and so I just want to say thanks for coming on the call and sharing your story with us.

Speaker 2:

Yes, absolutely. It's definitely been a pleasure and honor being able to take the SRPT course as well as the advanced course, like it's definitely been a major involvement in my transition.

Speaker 3:

Yes, so then that's what we want to start off with. I would love to know where did your healing journey and at what point did the shamanic Reiki training enter into the into that? Okay?

Speaker 2:

So, um, how I landed into, uh, Reiki was I was searching for a masseuse, like I'm looking for a massage somehow I used to say somehow but the universe's divine timing and nudge sent me to a Reiki master. So, you know, I go on for my appointment and I'm like, oh, the massage is over, but you never like, but I mean I do feel good, so what did?

Speaker 2:

I just come in here Like what just happened. So that was literally how I was introduced to Reiki. And I went back and had another appointment and she's just like I don't know, there's something about your energy, your spirit, like I think you should join our community. So I went they were doing like meditations, community sessions, and it was there when I fell in love with the drum and I'm like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So it's like once I felt like I was becoming in tune with this drum. I'm like so can you talk to me a little more about this? And she was like oh, that's shamanic Reiki. You know we use our drum, but we don't really. So I ended up being on Facebook or Google or something I guess my algorithm. I'm looking for shamanic Reiki. And here we are.

Speaker 3:

Here we are. So that's where Reiki Cafe University showed up, and and then I think you reached out to us and we had you jumped on a call Because I started.

Speaker 2:

I first found Reiki Cafe University on Facebook and I hopped on and started listening to a couple of the coffee conversations and I was like, okay, and then I think you may have been talking about it and I reached out like I'm interested in that shamanic Reiki course.

Speaker 3:

Yes. So I want you to give us a little snapshot of what your life was like a year ago, before you started. What did your life look like, spiritually and otherwise?

Speaker 2:

So spiritually it was like, hmm, I kind of know what to do, but not really. I think I'm supposed to meditate like this or, you know, I think things are supposed to go like this. Um, but, like I said, coming across Reiki cafe was just divine timing, because the reason I remember our first call was on Sunday the 17th is because I had a family tragedy that happened on the 16th and I remember reaching out to you and Izzy, and it was from that moment because I was kind of like I don't even think I can take this course Like this one hurt deep. But the understanding and the compassion that you all had was like, well, actually, you know what? No, I am going to jump on that call. And once you gave me the go, like it's okay, we understand, you don't have to cut your camera on, but you know we're here If you want to join, still join this space.

Speaker 2:

And so it was through that tragedy that occurred in my life. It was like just divine timing because we started in the shamanic Reiki course, you know, grounding with our root chakra, and it was like so much, it's like okay, going through all of this and, plus, I was already on leave from a situation and being involved with an armed robbery just a few months prior to that with my job. So I'm just very grateful for the way that Reiki Cafe University showed up and just how the course was laid out Like. It's like I almost don't remember my life before Reiki Cafe University, you know, because now I look at everything through a different perspective. It's like, oh, so I had to go through this tragedy so that, you know, during my time with Reiki Cafe I could receive that nurturing, support and healing that I needed, you know, for myself and also be able to take that out and share that with the world.

Speaker 3:

Yes, would you be willing to share with us a little bit about the tragedies you experienced before entering into the courses?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I was currently out on leave because back on June 25th of last year 2023, I was at work at a jewelry store and I literally, you know, I felt it. I was in tune with my intuition. I just didn't know exactly what was going to happen. But we had, you know, a robber come in mask and hat and everything, and you know he, he attempted to rob us and later on I found out that he wasn't successful because of the spirit guides that were behind me that I couldn't see at the moment. I ended up having a reading and the lady told me she said something happened at your job. And this lady's in Canada and she's like something happened at your job and the guy with the gun, he left because there was a big shield of angels and protectors behind you that he recognized that was way bigger than him. So you know, that was one tragedy. I was out, still out, dealing with the PTSD and anxiety of that.

Speaker 2:

But again, going back to Reiki Cafe, we've learned different, you know, activating actions, different breath work.

Speaker 2:

To just kind of pull me back into balance in that moment I'm like I don't really want to take a whole bunch of medicine. We're going to do this the holistic way. So then the other trauma was on September 16th, my brother was murdered. So you know, having to deal with that, it's like you know I'm crying all day and all night and I'm like Christine, like I apologize, I really I want to take this course, but I'm definitely not going to be able to cut my cameras on today, like the way I look. I mean, y'all probably start sending Reiki to me before we introduce ourselves. But you know that's just been a beautiful alignment because of course, grief hits you in so many different ways. You know it could be a smell, a song, a thought. But going through this course outline, you know we get into heart shock with knowing that we store a lot of grief in our lungs and stuff. So I learned different exercises to let go of that, to get it out of my body, and I don't know. I just divine talent.

Speaker 3:

I remember when you started the program and witnessing all of this heaviness that had just occurred right before you joined us, and going and just knowing and having the faith like she's going to process all of it and we're going to hold such solid space for her to be able to be vulnerable, to move through the emotions, to do this deeper healing work, to see the deeper meaning of all of the things that happened, and just providing that for you and you responding so well to like there's not many spaces out in the world where you can come in with that level of tragedy and be like and you were ready, like let's do the healing work. And be like, and you were ready, like, let's do the healing work. So I felt like it really came together in such a divine timing. We met you where you were at and you were able to see us in that so that you could start saying yes to healing, yes to healing, yes to healing.

Speaker 2:

Yes, absolutely, and I even remember there was one time in the Shamanic Reiki course just holding space. I think like I was trying to keep it together on the call and it was like we're here, you know we're here, and I think I started crying and Chantel was like you know, she talked to me. She's like the wind chimes your brother is present when you hear the wind chimes. So you know, it's like it's just been a beautiful part of this journey, knowing to like, trust the universe in every single aspect, via animals, via instruments. It's like just having that. Knowing that you're in a sacred space of nurturing love and support is unmatched.

Speaker 3:

Yes, yeah. So for our listeners out there, chantel is one of our teachers and she is totally a mystic and has a lot of experience herself and deep grief, and so she provides that nurturing, supportive space for any of our students who are going through levels of grief. And so our whole team is set up so that we each have different gifts and specialties, so that, whatever your needs are, one of us will be able to match it. Does that resonate for you, ren?

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, if I could just even I can go on and like the countless support that I've received in this group. There was even one time where I was having a moment and the anxiety like took me to a space where I felt like I was standing up and a snake had come up from under my bed and like gobbled me up and I just kind of stood there like what are you doing? And you know, I reached out to Izzy and she was like on it, just like OK hold on.

Speaker 2:

Let me, let me get you together and help get you together. And it was like afterwards I just felt so light, so like, and then you and I, we just had the session with the people moving furniture upstairs in the attic Like you know, christine was great Opened up a portal and you know they I saw guides leaving that are like okay, you got it from here, you're on your journey now.

Speaker 3:

I love that. I love that you are sharing that and I'm curious if you want to share with our listeners what was your Claire's like? What was your spiritual gifts life like when we started to now? Because I feel like they, like we opened the box to yes.

Speaker 2:

Yes, definitely. I just said that that's funny, funny and again, that's confirmation. I was just talking to a friend the other day and I'm like, yeah, I feel like, since I took this course, like you talk about opening pandora's box, like whenever I first joined, it's like I knew I had a gift and it's like okay, I know I have reiki within me, you know, can do this, but it wasn't like that solid, secure, knowing, like now I know who I am, like there's nobody who can't tell me.

Speaker 2:

You know, I'm not a manifest of mysterious miracles. Like I see miracles, like, and it's like this course I don't know, christine, I can't even explain it. It's like I felt firecrackers. You know, going over like soul fabric is one of our topics and how you can see like the firecrackers, I see firecrackers. So my clairs have like opened up tremendously. Like I'm able to hear, see, sometimes I smell, see, sometimes I smell, but like I'm more, so I feel things.

Speaker 2:

But I know like they definitely expanded my gifts, my prayers, from being in this course and that goes through. And actually, you know it's an amazing course because it's set up. You give us the material but you also allow us to do the work within ourselves. And then it's like okay, we come back together on the next call. How is that integrated, you know? You know how is everyone feeling? So it doesn't matter where you are on your spiritual journey. Joining with Christine and Izzy and the ladies like, and Chantel is like you're okay, you don't have to be like a Reiki master, you don't have to be someone who's been on your spiritual journey for 20 plus years, like they're going to meet you where you are. And that was important for me Cause, like I said, that allowed me to be in a space of safety. I felt like if I didn't feel safe and comfortable, then maybe my gifts may not have opened up as they did.

Speaker 2:

It would have been more so focused on you know, are they going to judge me but no this is a space where like-minded people are here supporting and guiding you.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I think that's something that I really love to focus in when I'm trying to explain what our programs are like. Is that you know, just like you just said, like you have an inkling, you know what you're, that you're spiritual or that you're gifted, or that you have this knowingness that there's something more, but it's not really tangible yet and then all of a sudden it's like they're all of your spiritual gifts just on unwound and showed up for you in such a spiritual gifts, just unwound and showed up for you in such a beautiful way, like it was very often that we'd have to pause class because Ren's downloading something, she's got a message coming through, and for us to just being able to be like that's okay, that is okay. We want you to recognize your gifts as they show up. We want to honor them, we want to support you in developing them. So Ren mentioned soul fabric.

Speaker 3:

Now that's something that we do in our advanced course where we look at the soul fabric and seeing where the negative and positive charges are and how to heal those and how to weave in new timelines and all of these things, and so Ren really was able to move through the entirety of the program over around 10 months and and it's just phenomenal to watch and witness people change their lives and going. It's almost hard to think back to a year ago and going. Where were you then? You were in, you know, you were in the struggle of it, you were in the PTSD of it, you were in the how am I going to get through tomorrow, today and now to be in a space where we witness you really starting to develop your own programs and courses and how do you put yourself out in the world?

Speaker 2:

It's just, it's phenomenal to watch as an instructor, as a teacher, to see your students kind of unfold in their spiritual gifts and then start to put them out in the world and it's something else, if I can piggyback on the end of that is it's phenomenal to see it as a peer amongst your other peers as they continue to grow and see the things you know, see them come to their gifts as well as their clairs open, you know, on the journey. Because it's like, yes, life celebrates with you, like that is an amazing thing, like, and you don't have to be afraid, so just being again in that sacred container where it's like you develop a community, I mean the community that we developed. We're actually meeting Saturday just to you know, follow up with each other to see, like, okay, I see in the group chat, you know this is going on. Or you know I was able to read this and I'll be honest, like I'm not always in the group chat or available to read it because, again, so much has been integrated.

Speaker 2:

It's just an amazing experience. It's like, shoot, I really want to message them right, quick. So that's why it is important to get on this Zoom call to catch up. But it's like so much around me is happening. And again a lot goes back to another course which I haven't even completely finished, the course that Christine has offered, the Reiki Manifesting Abundance. Like amazing, phenomenal course, because it's like I haven't. Like I said, I haven't gotten through the course, but tidbits of it. I'm like, okay, my face needs to be on everything. In this small town People don't know what Reiki is, but they're going to know Reiki.

Speaker 2:

Rin, all right, I just if you're filled to reach out to me, you're going to know break it in. All right, I just if you're filled to reach out to me, you're going to be filled to reach out to me, and that's something that I've come to develop. The knowing of in this course is I know that I am fully supported and guided by the universe. Like Christine just said a year ago, I'm like shoot, I don't even know how I'm going to make it to tomorrow, I don't know what we're going to eat, I don't know what we're going to do, and now it's like I'm not worried about it. I might not even have $20 in my wallet, but I promise you I'm not worried because I know due to the miracles I'm not even going to call them blessings, because these are like they're blessings, but they're miracles due to the things that have shown up in my life to just show oh, you're supported, here's some money to eat and we're going to take care of this bill for you.

Speaker 3:

Yes, yeah, I've definitely seen that in your story as well as taking the hardships that you've experienced and been able to turn them into something positive, like when recently, you were at you gave a speech for an event like against violence, and to see that you were healed enough to get in front of a crowd of people to speak about. This was so profound going. There's not a lot of people who would have been able to step into that space and you were ready.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, and that was again. Just, it was a visualization from October of last year. Okay, so the visualization was you're going to host a community vigil to help heal the hearts of the others in the community and I'm like what?

Speaker 2:

no, I'm not I do meditation, you know, but to actually see that come to fruition and host a community vigil at a stop the gun violence event. And it's like, even though these people had no clue what Reiki was, it was just holding that sacred space, you know, coming in and some of them knew what I was talking about, some of them didn't, but that wasn't really the time to explain. I just knew into this space we're going to call in, you know, the seven directions. We're going to call in the archangels, because I know that I have their support and I just like, okay, they are everywhere that I am. So, you know, please welcome into this sacred space with me oh, I love that.

Speaker 3:

I love that I didn't know. You know. Please welcome into this sacred space. Oh, I love that. I love that I didn't know that you did all of that. That's beautiful.

Speaker 3:

And to be able to really own it for yourself I think that's one of the things that we really strive for in the program is like, yes, you can use our what we do to call in directions, what we do to call in your heavy, what I like to call heavy lifters, but by the end, you're developing your own, you're using your own language, you're you're calling in your power and putting it out into the world and noticing how people respond to that.

Speaker 3:

Like noticing how, even back in October, where we were teaching on future forecasting and how do we visualize what we want to create and manifest. So there's a piece of moving away from being tied to past events and opening up into what is possible in the future. And you just, really, you just hit it like, okay, I'm going to, I visualize this. It came to me and now it came to fruition, like it made manifest. And I feel like you did that again and again and again and again and again. And the program like I, I think witnessing you just every single week, going this cool thing happened or I, this came together or this showed up for me. Um, it's been really fun to witness you experiencing miracles.

Speaker 2:

Like, and that's the best way that I would be able to describe it.

Speaker 2:

But it's like, once you come into that, knowing, like I know, you know this is open, I'm connected, the self-talk like we did amazing, you know self-talk just really being able to connect with your inner self and ask the questions and go with that first response that comes up and not overthinking it.

Speaker 2:

So it's given me that extra cushion of knowing like, yeah, everything is good, no matter, you know, no matter if it happens this way. I might've wanted it to happen this way, but there, no matter if it happens this way, I might have wanted it to happen this way, but there's a reason why it went this way. There's a reason why, you know, there was a roadblock and I had to go drive this way. So it just opened up a completely different perspective to life. Like, I look at everything differently. I'm not going to get upset, you know, because somebody's grandmother 89 year old grandmother's, driving slow in front of me. You know, because somebody's grandmother 89 year old grandmother's driving slow in front of me. You know, a granny probably just saved us from getting into a car accident or something.

Speaker 3:

I don't know Right, yeah, it's changing that perspective and going. Everything's being called in for reason and purpose. What do I need to learn from this and how can I maintain my energy so it's not getting pushed around into negativity and being able to hold that positivity? And so, even with all of the hardships that you have experienced, I witness you, I see you and like holding that really loving, expansive, grounded energy that you just bring out into the world loving, expansive, grounded energy that you just bring out into the world.

Speaker 2:

I'm just happy to be here and to be able to be like that person again, because it's like once you sit down and you get that journal, it's like okay, that that's me, like okay, that's what I'm supposed to do. I am a portal from the heavens above to this earth, bringing love and light to the hearts of others around me. So I've learned yes, my heart is my special power and I have to protect it and keep it safe. So in doing that, I need to do these activating actions, I need to do these meditations. I don't know without Reiki Cafe Universities teaching of that shamanic Reiki course and the advanced shamanic, I have no clue where I would't know. Without Reiki Cafe University's teaching of that shamanic Reiki course and the advanced shamanic, I have no clue where I would be. I use a lot of the skills and things, techniques, learned from the courses in my everyday life in my routines and calling in, you know I notice I'm more balanced.

Speaker 2:

It only takes a few minutes, but I know I'm more balanced when I call in the heavy hitters, the heavy lifters, into my daily experience.

Speaker 3:

So when was it? When did it become? Okay? I'm doing this because it's homework and I'm supposed to to. This is my lifestyle, this is my practice. Do you was there like a specific time where it shifted for you?

Speaker 2:

Honestly, no, I don't know that. It was even ever homework. It just felt organically, like you know. Maybe. Maybe I didn't take away every single thing that we do in the course, but it was certain things that just were like oh oh, okay, yeah, we should definitely be doing that. Okay, oh yeah. Activating action for grounding. Yep, wake all that up, get all that out, like it just became natural.

Speaker 3:

Yes, and I think that's really beautiful in the fact that there's a lot of students that they're like, how much time is this going to take? Like, how many hours do I need to give to each week? And you're the you know the star student, who it's. It's not seen as something separate from your life. It's something that's integrated into your life and becomes like, easily flows together so that it's no longer quote unquote homework. It's not extra work, it's just how you live your life now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it is, and that's something if I can touch on that, like you, really shine the light on that whenever I did my Archangel presentation because I didn't just take that for presentations like all day I can, like you said, look up information and share, put it on the slide show and I'm like, but that's not really my style, I'm just straight off the top of my head. Listen, this is what I've experienced, this is what I. I've called on Archangel Michael to help myself and to help my friends find their keys. Like this is just yeah.

Speaker 3:

It's just who you are. Yeah, so that that example came from our advanced class, when I encouraged students to take a leadership role and practice something that they want to put out in the world. And so Ren did a presentation on archangels and at the end I was like that's not you, that's not how, how Ren would do it. How would Ren do it? Because you know, I think this is where every I, I strive to see every student and their own uniqueness and their own spiritual authenticity and power and beauty. And so when you were like going through slideshows, I'm like, oh, no, that's not Ren. And then I was like, what if you did it this way? Because it feels more Ren? And you were like, oh, could I do it that way? It would be so much better.

Speaker 2:

And that has like helped because when I first started last year, when I was doing the SRPT course, I was doing guided meditations and I would read a script during meditation. Clients are there laying down. It's dark so they don't know. But now it's like, no, just being my natural, organic self the first time it was like wait did y'all catch that?

Speaker 2:

I just did this meditation like off the top of my head. And then, when I did it again this past Sunday with my Sunday meditation group, and then I did it Monday, I'm like, oh okay, yep, it clicked on, I'm there. Now I can do these guided meditations with my eyes closed, literally.

Speaker 3:

Exactly and as it should be like. The more you step into your gifts, the more you step into your power, the more you step into your authenticity. This is who I am and I'm completely in alignment. If the slideshow is bringing you out of alignment, if the way you're doing it feels constricting, then you're not your expansion Therefore, therefore, you're not in your alignment. And if, if you're not in alignment, you can't get the download from a higher divine source and so, when you were able to like, release it and let it go and be like, that's not my style. I'm going to give my permit, self permission, to feel into my flow, feel into my alignment and let what needs to show up show up there. That's where magic happens.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, and now that is something that's like a aha, because I use that in every day. It's like you know, I bought this book on how to read tarot cards and blah blah. It's like, oh, halfway through I don't need this book. You connect here, you call in your spirit guides, your channel guides and boom.

Speaker 3:

Yep, yeah, yeah, and and you just would have those moments during class where you could see yourself coming into alignment and getting inspired by the energy of the group, and then you're, you're just going for it, and I it was. It was just. It's just amazing and witnessing you and the other students and like you're still communicating, we have a group chat going and so my phone is dinging all the time because it's all of my past cohorts that are still super connected and supporting one another, and you guys fell right in line with that going. No, we're, just because we don't have an active class going doesn't mean we're, we're done. I feel like there has been these beautiful divine contracts that were created to support one another and you keep, you keep doing it, you keep doing the work. It's so beautiful.

Speaker 2:

And that's a great thing about being a part a member, you know of Reiki Cafe University, because it's like, or you know, being a part of this community because you, you don't even have to look for that support comes to you.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah. Is there any memories, whether Isabel, myself or Chantel, that like stand out to you as a pillar of support?

Speaker 2:

Let's see so many of them. You know, like I said even last week with our session, you know, our, my exit from the course is like, you know, you just holding the space. It's like, okay, what do we need here? And I couldn't even tell you what I needed, just dumped it all out there and you were like, okay, yeah, so we're going to hold space for you with this. I don't have to tell you what to do. You know you're coaching. It's like you just said it yourself, Like you just got to stick to it. So when are you going to, how are you going to apply that? When are you going to do that?

Speaker 2:

And that has just been a major like light bulb switch clicker, because now you know, I've attracted clients. They have come to me. This is, you know, kind of funny to me Because now I've attracted that type of client I've had, at least since our session last week. A couple of people have come and they're like, you know, even yesterday, oh, my mom is just like driving me crazy, blah, blah, blah. And it's like because you were able to support and guide me in that situation where my mom is like, well, you know you, hey, you signed that soul contract. You chose her, so now you deal with it and you, you know how to deal with it, so I'm able to hold that same type of space for my peers in the community that are experiencing the same thing.

Speaker 2:

As a fact, I actually uh, shared a message yesterday. Someone had posted that you know, it's okay to do what makes you happy, even if it makes others upset, and I said, yes, I'm breaking rent and I approve that message because it is like it's okay If I'm out here, people pleasing and making everyone happy, there's no way I'm going to be happy anyway, and that's not what we're here for here to live happy, joyful lives and do the work.

Speaker 3:

Yes, yeah, and you. You did the work, you did the work and there's always more work. I tell students all the time that it's not like our healing journeys ever end is that we know, have the tools and skills and techniques to peel back those layers as they were, down organically, rise to the surface so that you can work through them on your own, and when you need support, you have the people that you can reach out to. So you just move through that so beautifully. I'm wondering if there was a top takeaway or a profound learning moment that stood out to you in the program.

Speaker 2:

I can't say a top takeaway because it's like so many great things to come to mind, but I will always go back to soul fabric, like the teaching that you gave. So the learning of soul fabric I am obsessed Like, because now I used to feel like, oh, I have to go into my brick and mortar and be in my room and have a person land on the table so that I can do a session on them. But no, like my friends that know me, they know like it just happens if they're around and we're talking, it just turns on. So I'm like, oh, yeah, that that little income situation thing we were talking about while you were laying there and talking, I was doing this. And you know, we went ahead and took that negative charge off that soul fabric and folded it over and sealed it with some love and light and healing energy. And they're like, so were you even listening to the conversation? I'm like, yeah, I was helping you. Either way it goes, I was helping you.

Speaker 3:

I love it, so I. So the soul fabric is very much one of our advanced techniques. So what was the thing that moved you, from the regular shamanic Reiki practitioner training, to choose to come in advance?

Speaker 2:

So, because it was like okay, if all of this integration happened during the just the shamanic Reiki practitioner training course and it's like I really appreciate the fact. Just I feel like we moved up my body, we went, you know, from root to crown just teaching how to be in balance, and it's like all right. So now that I've got that in balance, for me, all right. I know this advanced course is going to come with some heat or some fire to like really help me integrate some things into healing, because I really enjoy, you know, healing myself as well as the healing process of helping others around me, helping them to initiate their inner healing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, you rocked it. That's great.

Speaker 2:

Like the breathing techniques and everything is like the alternate nostril breathing. I love it, like I can definitely tell a difference whenever I'm just doing my inhale, you know smelling the flowers three times and blowing at the birthday candles, versus you know doing the alternate nostril breathing. That really like take me to a whole nother and I enjoy putting on my necklace of light, like it's just my so much that I include into and it's like you have these options now. Definitely it's cool if you've taken Reiki somewhere. But to really come into this shamanic Reiki practitioner training course, I would definitely say it's leveling up and it's going to help. It helped me to elevate in every aspect of my life.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, we definitely strive to find like a buffet of options, whether it's breathing techniques or guided meditations or activating actions. We definitely journal prompts Like we have so much so that we can be like you choose from the table, the buffet table, like one doesn't work for you and another is like really potent and focus on that. And so it's like try it all. And then you get to develop your own healing lifestyle. You get to choose to put on the, the, how you project yourself, how you stand true and your energy. And you have the techniques, you have the tools to continue to stay in alignment, to continue in your expansion. And so, yeah, it's really, it's really beautiful the way you're like this one and this one and this one, but there's so much right it is because I feel like, oh shoot, you forgot to say journey.

Speaker 2:

You know, that was something early on in the shamanic Reiki course. It was like I feel like my ability to journey has even, like, grown and elevated, because at first, you know, I would have to do my five minute warm-up and get myself into the space. And then, you know, sometimes I might write the intention on a sticky note and as I'm dropping down to journey, I might read the intention several times, but note, and as I'm dropping down to journey, I might read the intention several times. But now it's like, oh, we're journey, all right, what's the intention? Set the intention. By the time I close my eyes, it's like okay, I'm back, I see it, I saw it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah. And I think that's what happens for practitioners that stick with it consistently for 10 months In the beginning, like we need the tools, we need the tricks, we need the like. How do I do this? Again and again, and again. But once that neurological pathway has a groove, it's nothing more than snap, pop, drop, I'm in. Okay, now, now, what do I do? What was the intention? And like letting it unfold for you. So journey work is definitely the foundation of all of our work. Like you wouldn't have been able to do the soul fabric work without the shamanic journey.

Speaker 2:

Right, and now that I've taken the courses, I've now incorporated being able to journey for my client as well.

Speaker 3:

Yes, yeah, how's that going?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like that's pretty wild, and especially whenever you and the client see the same things, yes, and that it really just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. You know, when the clients do come back up and they're like, you know, we talk, we debrief, and I'm like, well, you know, when the clients do come back up and they're like, you know, we talk, we debrief, and I'm like, well, you know, I did see this, and they're like, wait, I saw that in this detail.

Speaker 3:

Well, there you go. We're on the same energetic wavelength, right. I love when that happens. So if you were going to just describe shamanic Reiki training to someone who never heard of it, what would you tell them?

Speaker 2:

So if I were going to describe shamanic Reiki training, I would say you know it's, you still have your Reiki training, but this is like the big sibling, the big like okay, yeah, that's Reiki, but now let me show you how to incorporate, you know, different tools, using your feather, using your sage. Because that was a beautiful part. I just felt like you all did an amazing job introducing the shamanic tools, the shamanic toolbox, because it's like, yeah, we see feathers all the time, but it's like it doesn't click to people. You know the spiritual meaning of this. So, just sharing shamanic Reiki training to someone, this will help to fully awaken you. It's almost like it did a cleanse and spin on my chakras. Yeah, we got through the course of cleanse and spin of your chakras to help to bring you into balance. So if you're looking like you have that, there's something you know, just that niche to want to go further, I would definitely recommend starting here, because then it will allow you to see endless opportunities.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, absolutely. Is there anything else you feel is important to know or share about either the program or working with the Moon Rising team?

Speaker 2:

anything like this is legit straight up, like it just felt great, you know, being guided and supported with people who understood what was going on through my transitions, even when I didn't have a clue. It was like okay. So you said this happened. Okay, now, why do you think that happened? Like what message are you getting? So, just having some, you know, a team of people around you to be able to dissect what's going on with you, even when you don't know, it was like that's an amazing feeling, that's an amazing thing. And then just having this training it has added to me. Being able to like self-heal is added to me. Okay, you're here on your journey. Have grace with this person because you know they. You're here on your journey. Have grace with this person because you know they aren't there. So it's just help to see people in a completely different way, to see things in a completely different way. I definitely recommend working with this group here.

Speaker 3:

I love that. Thank you so much. Well, if people who are listening want to get a hold of you, if they want to out to you, if they want a session with you, whatever it may be, what's the best way for them to connect?

Speaker 2:

so right now I'm just really active on facebook and instagram. You can follow me at reiki ren on facebook and on instagram. It's spiritual you 222.

Speaker 3:

We'll put that information in the show notes as well, so if you are looking for a quick link, we'll have it there. And otherwise, it's been fantastic talking with you. It's been such an honor to witness all of your changes and expansion and all the healing work. You've done so like one fan great job, fantastic work, and I can't wait to continue to witness how this is all going to unfold for you. Yes, likewise.

Speaker 2:

And thank you so much for the opportunity.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1:

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