Reikichat | A Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

Usui Sensei practiced Gassho meditation, the first pillar of Reiki, and the chanted the Reiki Ideals every morning and evening. He said it is the "The secret art of inviting happiness." Join Colleen as she guides you through the Gassho meditation and recites the Reiki Ideals in English and Japanese. The meditation starts at 2:30 min.    Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen's Reiki classes can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes

Meditation @5:10. Hot Topics @21:00. Lena Takahashi of Healing Land Reiki shares her gratitude ceremony experience. Is the Holy Fire 2 upgrade offered online just as good as in person? Holy Fire 2 placement and ignition style of attunements and disabilities. Is my Reiki just as effective as anyone else? Let Reiki do the work! Using Reiki for discernment and your authentic authority in uncomfortable professional situations.  Lena Takahashi can be reached at: healinglandreiki@gmail.com www.healinglandreiki.com www.facebook.com/healinglandreiki   Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen's Reiki classes can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes

Barb shares her journey of retirement and finding a renewed purpose in Shake Your Soul® and Reiki. Her transformative experience at the World Reiki Retreat. The tragic but incredibly beautiful story of the death of her son Daniel and how Reiki supported her through and after it, and how it can for many grieving parents. And how Dancing and Reiki light up her life! Full bio is below.  Barb can be reached at: bpastie@msn.com   Colleen and Robyn Benelli can be reached at: ReikiLifestyle.com - Classes, Webstore, Free Downloads, and More! colleen@reikilifestyle.com robyn@reikilifestyle.com facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Barbara Pastie holds a BA in biology and chemistry from Elms College in Chicopee, MA and an MS in management from Antioch New England Graduate School. Her pre-retirement career centered on supporting elders and people with developmental disabilities through work and volunteerism at Berkshire County human service agencies. In 2010 she retired from her full-time position as a training specialist at Be

Meditation @14:50. Today’s hot topics @39:10 : Does Reiki follow you? Is Reiki your calling? Divine listening and Spiritual guidance. How does your intuition reveal itself to you? The "Clair Senses". DNA and Ancestral healing. How does distance Reiki work? Am I making this up? Reiki and Shamanic Journeying.  ReikiChat™ is now the Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast. We are getting a new look but it is still the same great podcast with Colleen Benelli-the one where we talk about all things Reiki! Our "Online Reiki Circle" is a monthly conference call where Colleen answers all questions Reiki. Whether from the listeners on the call, or emailed, Colleen discusses the topics you want to know about. Come join the conversation!  Kulia Selwyn can be reached at: https://kulia-selwyn-usui-holy-fire-ii-reiki-master.jimdosite.com   Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen's Reiki classes can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes

How do you balance your business intentions and your heart intention with Reiki? Is it wrong to want to have a successful small business and make money with Reiki? Our ego and how it ties into our spiritual and Reiki practice. Listening. Compassion and empathy for animals. ReikiChat™ is now the Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast. We are getting a new look but it is still the same great podcast with Colleen Benelli-the one where we talk about all things Reiki! Our "Online Reiki Circle" is a monthly conference call where Colleen answers all questions Reiki. Whether from the listeners on the call, or emailed, Colleen discusses the topics you want to know about. Come join the conversation!  Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen's Reiki classes can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes

Colleen Benelli and Dawn Fleming discuss all sorts of Reiki topics today! They talk a lot about different aspects of having a Reiki practice, whether it’s personal or professional. Dawn has online courses, one of which is how to be a CE provider for Reiki, which can have a big financial benefit to your Reiki practice. Using Reiki as a life management tool. Reiki and brain trauma. Reiki and medical intuition. How Reiki can be life changing for a practitioner. Dawn Fleming is a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master teacher, Medical Intuitive, Life Coach, Chakra expert, and author. She has been working with energy since 1989 and with Reiki since 1993. Dawn has clients all over the world as well as in Dewey and Scottsdale, AZ where she has offices. She is the author of Start, Grow and Expand Your Holistic Health Business, Teaching Workshops Effectively, Mastering Reiki along with a DVD Mastering Reiki. She offers Reiki I and II Manuals that teachers can copy for their students, and books Chakra Empowerment: 24 Days of Tra

William Lee Rand, Colleen Benelli, and Robyn Benelli discuss the history of Reiki, Reiki in Japan, the energy of Reiki, the energy of Holy Fire II Reiki, and William's upcoming Reiki ART/Master and Karuna Reiki® Master classes in Japan.  William is a Senior Reiki Master/Teacher, founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), The Center for Reiki Research and The Reiki Membership Association. He is the publisher and editor in chief of Reiki News Magazine. He has authored many books on Reiki, William has done extensive research on the origin and nature of Reiki and produced a pioneering work titled An Evidence Based History of Reiki. William is the originator of the Usui/Tibetan system of Reiki which he developed in 1989. In 1995, with the help of some of his students, he developed the Karuna Reiki® system of healing. And in January, 2014, he introduced the Holy Fire system of Reiki.   William can be reached at: reiki.org email: center@reiki.org (800) 332-8112   Colleen can be rea

Meditation @21:00. Today’s hot topics @41:00. Reiki, prayer, and invocations. Reiki, Christianity, and judgement from others. Using Holy Fire II Reiki to help heal your judgement. God is only Love. Animal Reiki, healing horses, and animals healing us. 2nd and 3rd heaven beings and Shamanism. Belief consciousness. There is no dark, only light. Discerning 2nd and 3rd heaven beings and your Reiki practice. Holy Fire II as pure light and its power to heal. Reiki in Kean University.    Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen's Reiki classes can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes

Meditation @ 8:25.  Hot Topics @ 21:00 How and when you receiving intuitive information during a Reiki session. What, when, and the appropriateness and ethics of sharing the information. Discernment with sharing, staying within the scope of your practice, and you are not responsible to share. Use the Usui symbols to assist with intuitive information. Understanding your style of intuition. Telepathic and interspecies communication with the Usui Mental/Emotional symbol and the Distance symbol is a bridge of light into higher consciousness. Byosen Scanning. Next Step Reiki classes with Colleen and Robyn. Explaining Holy Fire Reiki in your Reiki practice. Just go for it! Reiki attunements. The ethics of permission in sending Distance Reiki.   Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle     Next Step Reiki™ is here!  More information at: https://reikilifestyle.com/nextstepreiki/

Podcast start @ 12:52. Tracy Benelli is a pioneering reputation strategist, leadership coach, and keynote speaker who empowers and inspires you to step fully into your calling as a transformative leader in order to have massive positive impact on business and society. Tracy teaches and speaks about how to achieve great leadership by empowering others to be and do their very best. She will inspire you to be the leader you are capable of, in order to do the work you are most proud of! Tracy has built and led world-class communication organizations and leadership mentoring programs for HP, Dell, Quest Software, and Citrix, guided public policy platforms for Hillary Schieve (first female mayor of Reno, NV in over 40 years), and has taken two companies private, one company public, and guided leadership transition and reputation strategies for over $100B in M&A activities. She has a masters in divinity and is a big believer in the non-scientific healing power of cheetos!    Tracy can be reached at: https://www.

Mindfulness Meditation @11:45. Today’s Hot Topics @26:33: A caller asks: If Reiki is not a religion, how can you bring the trinity into Holy Fire II Reiki? Spiritual exploration. Using Reiki to expand your consciousness and help overcome immense grief; what tools does Reiki provide to help us stay in a higher vibration through it? Using Colleens free meditations in your practice. Hands being over-energized after running Reiki. Reiki and grounding. Can you drink caffeine and alcohol and still be a Reiki Master? Jumpstarting your Reiki after a long break. Can you take a Holy Fire Master Class even if your Reiki I & II was not Holy Fire? Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen’s schedule of Reiki classes can also be found on her website at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page   The Webstore is now up!!! https://reikilifestyle.com/product-category/reiki-products/

In this Guided Meditation (invocation) Colleen takes you on a journey to help you remember your spirit and inner power and light. Help heal your spiritual injuries and connect to your higher consciousness with Reiki! Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen’s schedule of Reiki classes can also be found on her website at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page   The Webstore is now up!!! https://reikilifestyle.com/product-category/reiki-products/

Guided Meditation @13:00. Today’s hot topics @46:10  Holy Fire questions answered: Do you have to work with Holy Fire? I am ignited (attuned), but not called to Holy Fire 2 Reiki, do I teach it or Usui as I have in the past? Inner guidance and what you are called to is always the answer. Listen for the answers that are right for you. Staying connected to Reiki. Kids crafts with Reiki. Physical injuries and Reiki practitioning. Healing yourself before becoming a Healer. Sound healing and Reiki sessions. Personal consciousness. Life force vitality. Reiki and divine guidance. Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen’s schedule of Reiki classes can also be found on her website at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page   The Webstore is now up!!! https://reikilifestyle.com/product-category/reiki-products/

From Japan Muniqui Muhammad and Lena Takahashi, the co-founders of Healing Land Reiki, join Colleen and Robyn on the podcast today. They discuss their incredible experience taking the Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki Class from William Lee Rand and Colleen Benelli, where they received their placements/attunements on top of Mt Kurama, the birthplace of Reiki. They also talk about staying in Kurama Village, the amazing Ryokan Inns the class stayed in, and the beautiful Kaiseki Cuisine their hosts prepared. Both speaking multiple languages including Japanese, Lena and Muniqui were essential in the travel planning and offer many tips and tricks for traveling to and within Japan. Muniqui Muhammad is a Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki Master, a Certified life coach with specialties in spirituality and cultural connections, has a Bachelor's degree in Spanish from the University of Arizona in Tucson, speaks English, Spanish and Japanese, and has danced Hawaiian Hula for 11 years. Lena Takahashi is also a Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki

Mindfulness meditation for letting go @18:30. Hot Topics @41:40: How to clear and imbue crystals and other objects with Reiki. Long distance Reiki. Sending cleared energy into the bridge of light. Common bodily temperature changes and how Reiki works within that and hot hands vs cold hands. Observe vs evaluate. Reiki on the Go. Reiki works anyway. Attunement vs Ignition. Starting and holding a Reiki circle. The circle is always divinely ordered. Invocation and prayer. Reiki empowers all of us and our belief systems. Join the conversation at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen’s schedule of Reiki classes can also be found on her website at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page   The Webstore is now up!!! https://reikilifestyle.com/product-category/reiki-products/

Colleen and Robyn Benelli discuss tips, tricks, and using Reiki as a tool to help manage stress during the holidays or any time of year. In conjunction with the “Stress Reducing Guided Meditation” the tools shared include Reiki on the go, Koki Ho (breath), Gyoshi Ho (eyes), and the Reiki Ideals. This episode ended up rather lighthearted with silly moments about dancing mushrooms, surrounding yourself in love bubbles, and “hey buddy, keep your Reiki to yourself”! Other topics included the Solstice, Saturn moving into Capricorn from Sagittarius, and Mercury Retrograde. Colleen can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Robyn can be reached at: robynbenelli@gmail.com   Colleen’s schedule of Reiki classes can also be found on her website at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page   The Webstore is now up!!! https://reikilifestyle.com/product-category/reiki-products/

Colleen guides you through a quick 12 minute meditation to help reduce stress. The holidays can be an extra stressful time of year and this meditation can be a tool to help you manage that stress, achieve mindfulness, and move through the holidays with grace and ease. Use this meditation any time of year to relieve stress, fill up your batteries, and recharge with Reiki!

Mindfulness meditation on The Thanksgiving address @11:45 Hot Topics @35:00. Diversity of belief systems. Tools and solutions for integrating with fundamentalist christianity. Inner vs outer Authority. Gratitude as a force of creation. The Gratitude Ceremony. Healing businesses using 21st small business and service professional practices. Effective titling. Receiving the answer to your prayers. Hospice work and helping patients transition. The Online Reiki Circle is a monthly conference call where Colleen answers all questions Reiki. Whether from the listeners on the call, or emailed, Colleen discusses the topics you want to know about! Join the conversation at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Colleen’s schedule of Reiki classes can also be found on her website at: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page   The Webstore is now up!!! https://reikilifestyle.com/product-category/reiki-products/  

Colleen shares the prayer, “Greetings to the Natural World”,” the Iroquois Thanksgiving Address, Ohenton Kariwahtekwen. Iroquois elder, Jake Swamp, offered this prayer as a “giveaway,” for the people. We give great thanks for this gift. We also want to give thanks to Deb Scrivens and Terry Kem for bringing this prayer to the Lightsong School of Shamanic Studies community.  Colleen provides a written copy of the prayer on her website as part of her Reiki Gratitude Ceremony. The Gratitude Ceremony is beautiful to offer for holiday dinners and prayers. As a giveaway, the written prayer and ceremony can be adapted to accommodate diverse beliefs and the needs of the gathering.  Colleen can be reached at:  Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Instructions for the Gratitude Ceremony: https://reikilifestyle.com/gratitude-ceremony/   Colleen performs The gratitude Ceremony at the Sedona Reiki Retreat:  https://www.youtube.com/reikilifestyle   Sacred items for the gratitu

So your friend you asked to officiate their wedding...where do you start? How do you do it? How do you write it? Colleen and Robyn Benelli, both Holy Fire II Reiki Masters, discuss the steps it takes to add ceremonies to your Reiki Practice. From weddings, to Gratitude Ceremonies, to full Reiki ceremonies, get an introduction on how to create ceremonies. Whether you want to perform ceremonies for your friends and family, or as part of your professional Reiki services, Colleen and Robyn illustrate all of the steps you need to take.  Colleen can be reached at:  Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.com www.facebook.com/reikilifestyle   Robyn can be reached at  robynbenelli@gmail.com (503) 539-4855   Their article "Officiate Ceremonies with Reiki": https://reikilifestyle.com/officiatingceremonieswreiki/   Their presentation "Officiate Ceremonies with Reiki" from the Sedona Reiki retreat: https://www.youtube.com/reikilifestyle   Sacred items for ceremonies can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/pro