Reikichat | A Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

How do we create Reiki spaces where people feel safe, seen, and supported? This week, Colleen and Robyn welcome Michaela Daystar, founder of Heartscapes Insight, Reiki teacher, SoulCollage facilitator, trauma-informed practitioner, and co-host of the Reiki Women Podcast, for a deep and thoughtful conversation about healing, personal transformation, and the skill of holding space with integrity. Michaela shares her powerful story of moving from university-level social justice leadership to a full-time Reiki and SoulCollage practice, describing how her own life transitions opened the doorway to energy work, intuitive healing, and a trauma-informed understanding of care. Her insights offer a grounded and compassionate perspective on how Reiki practitioners can build trust with their clients, communicate clearly, and create containers that invite empowerment rather than pressure. This episode also explores: What trauma-informed Reiki looks like in real practiceConsent, choice, language, scope of practice, and w

Activate Reiki, life into the heightened perspective of Eagle vision, the details of Mouse vision, and your Inner vision to choose your path forward. Reiki helps you perceive the bigger picture, understand what is directly in front of you, and listen to your inner guidance so direction, timing, and next steps become clear. This session completes our 5 part Eagle Mouse Vision series. Throughout the weeks, we worked with the Blessing Exchange, Eagle Vision, Mouse Vision, and Inner Vision. In this final week, we integrate all three perspectives to support conscious choice and clear direction. This approach reflects real life. You are a human living in a human world, and Reiki supports clarity without bypassing practical realities. Sometimes the vision will be clear; other times it seems elusive. Reiki energy heightens your higher thought so you can walk your path consciously.   This session can be used at the end of the year, during seasonal transitions, or anytime you are navigating change, beginnings, or endin

This guided Reiki journey helps clarify your path by working with Eagle Vision, Mouse Vision, and Inner Vision together. Reiki supports you in seeing the larger landscape of your life, understanding what is directly in front of you, and listening to your inner guidance so direction and next steps become clear. This journey is useful during times of transition, reflection, or decision-making. It can be used at the end of a year, during seasonal changes, or anytime you want clarity about direction, timing, and choice. Reiki supports both spiritual insight and grounded awareness so your next step becomes easier to recognize. In this guided Reiki journey, you will:• View your life through Eagle Vision, Mouse Vision, and Inner Vision • Release what no longer belongs on your path • Explore possible directions with clarity • Recognize opportunities and supportive timing • Gain insight into your next practical step This journey is part of the Reiki Lifestyle Distance Reiki Share series and is offered as Reiki educati

In this special year-end conversation, Colleen and Robyn sit together for an honest and insightful look at the energetic cycles that shaped their year. This episode explores how personal rhythms, spiritual growth, and the entrainment of Reiki energy flow through everyday life. From Colleen's return from Japan and the deep shifts that followed, to Robyn's grounded presence in the practicalities of family and business, this conversation opens a window into how Reiki supports both the spiritual and the ordinary. Listeners will hear about the Blessing Exchange that arrived through Colleen's integration after Mount Kurama, the powerful invocations that unfolded in their recent classes, and the ways Reiki continues to reveal new understandings of alignment, presence, and authentic living. This episode also looks ahead at the astrological influences of 2026, the Eagle and Mouse Vision journeys, and the possibilities that unfold when we settle into the cycle we are in. This conversation is spacious, real, and fill

In this Distance Reiki Share discussion, Colleen and Robyn Benelli explore Inner Vision as part of the Eagle Mouse Vision five week series. Inner Vision is the perspective that brings awareness inward, where intuition, instinct, imagination, and personal truth live. This conversation focuses on how Reiki helps you hear yourself clearly and perceive your path from within. We explain how Eagle Vision offers a wide view of your life, Mouse Vision brings attention to immediate details, and Inner Vision integrates both by guiding you into the Sanctuary of the Soul. Through Reiki, the Bridge of Light takes awareness inward, unifying the external and internal sources of spiritual insight. Inner Vision reveals gifts, talents, and qualities that have developed across your life and helps you understand what you want to carry forward into new beginnings. This discussion includes reflections on • How Reiki supports inner guidance • The Sanctuary of the Soul as an inner realm of awareness • The role of intuition, instinct

Explore your Inner Vision in this guided Reiki journey with Colleen and Robyn Benelli. This meditation leads you into the Sanctuary of the Soul where your intuition, imagination, instincts, and inner truth come forward with clarity. Reiki supports this inward movement by illuminating your inner world and helping you recognize the guidance already present in your consciousness. This journey is part of the Eagle Mouse Vision five week series. It integrates the wide sight of Eagle Vision and the grounded clarity of Mouse Vision. Inner Vision brings these perspectives together so your own awareness can reveal direction, gifts, and insight. During this journey you will • Cross the Bridge of Light • Release distractions at the River of Peace • Follow the path beside the River of Life • Enter the Sanctuary of the Soul • Engage in automatic writing • Receive a symbolic or energetic gift from your inner wisdom Reiki flows throughout the experience and supports your connection with your Intuitive Self. This journey is

Welcome to our monthly Reiki Community Q&A.  Here are a few of the questions and topics from December's Q&A podcast. Announcements Invocation Blending Reiki with Other Healing Modalities Ordering Your Reiki Manuals Distance Reiki at the End of Life: Bridging Light to Light Animal Reiki Class Recommendations: The Healing Circle Technique Kenyoku (Dry Bathing): A Sacred Cleansing Practice Holy Fire® Reiki: Releasing Ego and Allowing Guidance ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn 
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What is Mouse Vision? Mouse Vision brings your inner awareness down to the level of daily life, and a grounded way of perceiving your life through detail, presence, and intuitive timing. Reiki reveals what matters now and how to move forward with clarity and steadiness. Mouse Vision is especially supportive when life feels full, attention feels scattered, or you sense movement but are unsure of timing.  Mouse Vision works hand in hand with Eagle Vision by translating expanded awareness into grounded action you can apply right away. This video covers: • How Mouse Vision brings clarity through detail and presence • Why grounded awareness is a form of intuition • How Reiki filters distraction and highlights what matters now • Recognizing patterns, timing, and resources already present • Understanding your next step through practical perception This is Part 3 of the Eagle Mouse Vision 5 week series. Each week builds on the last, guiding you from expanded awareness, into grounded clarity, and toward Inner Vision.

Enter a deeply grounded state of awareness through this Guided Reiki Journey into Mouse Vision. This experience brings your consciousness close to the earth where subtle details, intuitive signals, and the practical steps on your path become visible. Mouse Vision reveals what has been right in front of you and helps you understand what supports your next movement forward. In this journey, you will • Cross the Bridge of Light • Visit the River of Life to let go of scattered energy • Shrink your awareness into the Realm of Mouse • See your path behind, around, and just ahead • Identify what you are releasing and what you are taking with you • Receive a gift of grounded clarity • Return through the Bridge of Light with renewed perception Reiki guides the entire experience, offering a gentle and steady field of light that helps you see the details, rhythms, and resources already present in your life. This journey pairs with Eagle Vision to create a complete perspective of higher sight and close-in discernment. Th

This Best of episode revisits one of our most meaningful conversations with Ann Linda Baldwin, PhD, a scientist, Reiki Master, and pioneer in mind-body research. Ann's work offers a clear explanation of how Reiki supports physiological balance, emotional wellbeing, and heart-centered awareness. Ann is a Professor Emerita of Physiology at the University of Arizona and Director of Mind-Body-Science. She holds advanced degrees in Physics and Physiology, is a HeartMath certified trainer, TRE provider, Bio-Well level 2 certified, and an Equine Assisted Learning practitioner. With over 125 scientific publications and decades of federal research funding, she bridges Reiki energy healing with measurable scientific outcomes. Ann's book, The Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice, is a practical guide for understanding how the vagus nerve influences stress, resilience, and mind-body function. She explains how practices like Reiki, breathwork, and heart coherence naturally support vagal regulation. Her work helps practitio

If you have been sensing movement in your life without a clear view of where it is leading, Eagle Vision offers the clarity you have been waiting for. In this discussion we explore how Reiki lifts your awareness into a higher perspective where direction, timing, purpose, and the next step become easier to understand. This session opens Week 2 of our five week Eagle Mouse Vision series and prepares you for the Eagle Vision Guided Journey that will be released in the next video. Eagle Vision expands perception so you can see the wider landscape of your life. From this view you recognize themes, patterns, strengths, and long range opportunities that are not visible from the ground. Reiki supports this shift by lifting your consciousness through the Reiki symbols and the Bridge of Light and revealing the soul level movement taking place in your path. In this teaching we explore: • How expanded perception creates clarity • What higher awareness reveals about purpose and timing • How Reiki shows the patterns shapin

Experience a profound Guided Reiki Journey that lifts your awareness into the realm of Eagle Vision. This session helps you see your life from an expanded and elevated perspective, where clarity, direction, and long-range understanding become visible. Through Reiki energy, the Bridge of Light, the River of Life, and the spiral ascent into higher consciousness, you access spacious vision and receive guidance for your path ahead. In this journey you will experience: • The flow of Reiki activating clarity and expanded perception • Crossing the Bridge of Light into higher awareness • Letting go of what once limited your vision at the River of Life • Rising through a spiral of light to the realm of Eagle • Seeing your path behind, around, and ahead from an elevated viewpoint • Releasing what no longer belongs on your path and receiving the gifts you carry forward • A visit from Eagle, offering a gift that supports long-range vision • A gentle return across the Bridge of Light with insight and direction This journe

This week's conversation opens a gateway into the deeper roots of Reiki. Kenloch Cheung joins us again to share stories from Hong Kong, Australia, and Mount Kurama, along with his remarkable insights into the origins and meaning of the Usui DKM. This episode offers a rare blend of history, philosophy, and lived experience. In this inspiring conversation, Colleen and Robyn welcome back Reiki teacher and ICRT Licensed Reiki Master Teacher, Kenloch Cheung, joining us from Melbourne after his recent move from Hong Kong. Kenloch bridges Eastern and Western Reiki communities with fluency in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, and his teaching reflects a blend of technique, spiritual understanding, and practical everyday Reiki. We explore what it has been like for Kenloch to relocate to Australia, where Reiki is widely recognized and integrated into daily wellness culture. He shares heartwarming stories about meeting Reiki-aware strangers on mountains in Switzerland, having conversations with immigration officers a

There is a moment in every spiritual practice when something shifts, and you see your life from a new place. This discussion opens that doorway. Colleen shares how the Blessing Exchange with the Divine Animal Kingdom restores belonging, reveals the truth of human nature, and prepares you for the upcoming Eagle Mouse Vision journeys. This session explores why blessing energy is a real field on the earth and how it changes your perception when you connect with it through Reiki. In this recording, Colleen describes the Blessing Exchange Reiki Journey and the benefits of meeting the Divine Animal Kingdom in sacred space. The journey itself is in the next video. This conversation helps you understand how blessing energy works, why it is part of the natural world, and how receiving blessings from the animals, the earth, and the Tree of Life strengthens instinct, intuition, and inner knowing. You will hear how the Blessing Fields first appeared through years of Reiki and shamanic practice and how the Divine Animal K

There is a place in the spiritual realms where the Blessing Fields, the Divine Animal Kingdom, and the Tree of Life meet. This guided Reiki journey brings you into that place. You are invited to experience the Blessing Exchange for yourself, receive blessings from the natural world, and return to your rightful place in the circle of life as the human being in that circle. This is the companion journey to the Blessing Exchange discussion. In this recording, you are guided step by step into the blessing fields through Reiki energy, the Bridge of Light, and the support of your spiritual guides. Here you meet the Divine Animal Kingdom, who welcome you, exchange blessings with you, and help you reconnect with your own human nature, instincts, intuition, and inner knowing. This journey prepares your energy and perception for the Eagle Mouse Vision series. The Blessing Exchange strengthens your ability to see your life from expanded awareness, grounded detail, and your own inner perspective. It also heals the belief

Susan's journey is both inspiring and powerful. After a long career in the fashion industry, she experienced burnout that completely changed the course of her life. Reiki came into her world thanks to her young daughter, and it quickly became a daily practice that she often says saved her life. Now a Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki® Master, certified breathwork teacher, and author of Breathwork: Breathe for Change, Susan combines Reiki, meditation, and coaching in her holistic method. She's also the pioneer who brought Breathwork to France, creating her Breathe in Paris® Method that combines coaching, meditation, Reiki, and Breathwork. Her work has reached thousands of people through retreats, corporate events, a book, her teacher training school, and even guiding 2,700 people in a collective Breathwork session at the Grand Rex theater in Paris. In this inspiring episode, Susan shares: ●      Her journey from burnout to spiritual awakening through Reiki. ●      How breathwork and Reiki complement one another to

Welcome to our Annual Reiki Gratitude Ceremony, a heartfelt gathering devoted to the spirit of gratitude and the healing light of Reiki. This ceremony is created to honor the many blessings in our lives, the presence of our spiritual guides, and the strength of our global Reiki community. Together, we create a circle of appreciation, healing, and connection. In this ceremony, you will experience a nourishing flow of Reiki energy that supports the feeling of gratitude in daily life.You will be guided through: • A Reiki meditation that activates the inner light of gratitude • Channeling Reiki to honor personal and collective blessings • Connecting with spiritual guides and welcoming their insight • A community reflection that strengthens the field of appreciation Our ceremony includes music by Karen Drucker, shared with her generous permission. We also honor Chief Jake Swamp for the prayer, Greetings to the Natural World, the Opening Words that he envisioned as a medicine for people around the world. He asked t

In this inspiring conversation, Colleen and Robyn welcome back Yolanda Williams—Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive mentor, host of Reiki Radio Podcast, and founder of The Energetic Alchemist. Together, they explore the rising presence of Sophia, Isis, Ma'at, and Mary Magdalene, and how these divine beings are guiding us toward deeper balance, healing, and collective transformation. Episode Highlights In this conversation, you'll discover: ●    Reiki and Sophia's wisdom: How Lady Wisdom awakens alignment, clarity, and spiritual guidance. ●    Isis and Ma'at in Reiki practice: Ancient energies of healing, protection, truth, and balance. ●    Mary Magdalene and Reiki devotion: Remembering unconditional love, courage, and compassion. ●    Reiki as a Divine Feminine path: Why softening, listening, and receiving are essential in spiritual awakening. ●    Chakra Mirroring: Yolanda shares her channelled teachings on how the chakras work in correspondence, above and below, feminine and masculine. ●    Living Wisdom: List

Step into a guided Reiki journey with Colleen Benelli that carries you up the sacred pathways of Mt. Kurama, the mountain where Usui Sensei received the gift of Reiki. This experience invites you to walk through the gate of the Kurama Dera Temple, move past ancient shrines, and feel the presence of the enlightened spirits who have watched over this land for centuries. As you travel the mountain trail, the sounds of children laughing drift in the distance. A gentle breeze moves through the trees, and the roots of the old cedars rise around you like living guardians. Reiki flows through your hands as you sit among the roots and allow the spiritual energy of Mt. Kurama to rise around you. This journey opens a space to receive the light that has guided Reiki practitioners for generations. This guided meditation is created for Reiki practitioners, students, and anyone drawn to the spiritual origins of Reiki. It supports intuition, inner awareness, and a deeper connection to the source of Reiki energy. What you wil

This week on the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast we welcome our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Martha Lacy—retired physician, Reiki Master Teacher, astrologer, and gifted potter. After 40 years in medicine, including 33 years at Mayo Clinic specializing in hematology and oncology, Martha now shares her wisdom through Reiki, astrology, and creative practice. In this inspiring conversation, Martha takes us inside her journey from the medical world into Reiki and spiritual practices, and how she now teaches self-care as a vital skill for everyday life. She shares stories from her work with multiple myeloma patients, including how Reiki empowered them with peace and relief, and how mindfulness, meditation, connection with nature, and creativity support both healing and wholeness. We also explore the balance of left brain and right brain awareness, how Reiki supercharges self-care practices, and Martha's insights into the current astrological cycles shaping our collective experience. Highlights from this episode: ●