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In this collaborative episode of the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, Colleen and Robyn Benelli welcome Jan Engels-Smith, founder of LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism, and Colleens shamanic teacher, for a grounded and expansive conversation on Reiki, shamanic practice, and conscious manifestation. Jan brings decades of experience as a teacher, author, and ceremonial leader, sharing how spiritual practice becomes meaningful when it is lived, embodied, and applied with integrity. Together, the conversation explores how Reiki and shamanism support clarity, alignment, and discernment, especially when working with intention, healing, and creation in everyday life. This episode speaks to the relationship between spiritual awareness and practical action. Jan offers insight into how manifestation develops through presence, responsibility, and relationship with the natural and spiritual worlds. The discussion weaves together Reiki energy, shamanic worldview, and lived wisdom, offering listeners a deeper understanding of how these paths complement one another. This is a collaborative episode focused on shared values, spiritual maturity, and honoring diverse traditions while staying rooted in personal experience. In this episode, you will hear about: • How Reiki and shamanism intersect as conscious spiritual practices • Manifestation through awareness, responsibility, and relationship • Spiritual discernment in daily life and decision making • Teaching from experience rather than theory • Creating a grounded spiritual path that supports clarity and purpose • Jans bi-monthly Manifest Miracles community Colleen and Robyn Benelli at Reikilifestyle.com. Follow Reiki Lifestyle on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and your favorite podcast Jan Engels-Smith LightSong.net Manifesting Miracles : https://lightsong.wufoo.com/forms/manifesting-miracles Thank you for being part of the Reiki Lifestyle community! **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Reiki, Shamanism, and Manifestation with Jan Engels-Smith
In this Distance Reiki Share, Colleen Benelli and Robyn Benelli continue their Reiki manifestation series by exploring how resistance shows up when energy is ready to move into form and how Reiki supports divinely guided action in real life. Manifestation often feels clear at the vision level, yet challenging at the action level. In this conversation, we explore how resistance can signal readiness rather than failure, how courage and trust develop through movement, and how clarity often unfolds after taking the next step. This discussion offers grounded, practical insight into working with Reiki during moments of hesitation, uncertainty, and decision-making. We talk about listening to Reiki energy, honoring different ways people experience guidance, and recognizing that inspired action does not require certainty or perfection. Topics covered include: * Understanding resistance as part of the manifestation process * Listening to Reiki and inner guidance for next steps * Trusting action without forcing outcomes * Moving through fear, hesitation, and overwhelm * Taking small, meaningful steps in daily life * Working with Reiki during cycles of inspiration, pause, and renewal The session includes a guided Reiki journey that supports letting go at the River of Life, receiving guidance at the Tree of Life, and identifying clear actions in the Field of Opportunity. Automatic writing is offered as an optional way to listen more deeply to guidance during the journey. This video is part of our ongoing Reiki manifestation series and is suitable for Reiki practitioners, students, and anyone interested in using Reiki for clarity, confidence, and aligned action. Reiki meets you where you are. Movement unfolds one step at a time. Learn more about Reiki Lifestyle, upcoming classes, and our free weekly Distance Reiki Share athttps://www.reikilifestyle.com Subscribe for Reiki teachings, guided journeys, and energy healing for everyday life. **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Reiki for Manifestation: Moving Through Resistance and Taking Divinely Guided Action
This guided Reiki journey supports you in moving past resistance and into divinely guided action. Through gentle Reiki awareness and listening, you are guided to release resistance and receive clarity for your next step. In this journey, you will: * Settle into Reiki energy and nervous system regulation * Cross the Bridge of Light into deeper awareness * Release resistance at the River of Life * Listen for guidance at the Tree of Life * Receive clear, aligned actions in the Field of Opportunity * Integrate insight into your body and daily life This journey is supportive when you feel ready to move forward but unsure of the next step, when clarity feels incomplete, or when action requires trust rather than certainty. Guidance may come as a feeling, a knowing, an image, or a subtle shift in awareness. You do not need Reiki attunement to receive this journey. Simply allow yourself to receive. This guided Reiki journey is part of the Reiki Lifestyle manifestation series on YouTube and the podcast channels. It is for Reiki practitioners, students, and anyone using Reiki to receive clarity, confidence, and divine action. Learn more about Reiki Lifestyle and our free weekly Distance Reiki Share athttps://www.reikilifestyle.com Subscribe on YouTube for guided Reiki journeys, Reiki teachings, and energy healing for everyday life.  Colleen Social Media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/reikilifestyleofficialempo **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Guided Reiki Journey for Manifestation: Moving Past Resistance and Taking Aligned Action
What happens when a spiritual awakening looks like a crisis? Allison shares her powerful story of moving through trauma, mystical experiences, and a diagnosis of schizophrenia, into a life of healing, teaching, and guiding others to their inner compass. This week on the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, we welcome Allison Batty-Capps, licensed marriage and family therapist, Reiki Master, yoga coach, and author of The Divine Within: Healing Ourselves to Heal the World. In this heartfelt conversation, Allison speaks about: • Her personal journey from spiritual emergency to grounded awakening. • How Reiki, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems therapy helped her integrate mystical experiences. • The role of trauma, embodiment, and reparenting in spiritual healing. • The difference between empathy and compassion, and why sovereignty matters in energy work. • Practical ways Reiki practitioners stay within scope of their practice when their client needs additional mental health therapists • Practitioners and clients follow the advice of licensed mental health professionals alongside Reiki practice. Allison’s work bridges psychology, spirituality, and energy healing, offering a compassionate framework for those navigating awakening, trauma, or sensitivity to the collective. Her new book guides readers step by step through mindfulness, self-discovery, and reconnecting to the divine essence within. Resources & Links: • Website: BlossomingHeartWellness.com • Book: The Divine Within Preorder Link • YouTube: Blossoming Heart Wellness • Instagram/TikTok: @allisonbattycapps Join us for this inspiring episode, and remember, you are not broken; you are divine. ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn Classes: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page/FREE Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/community/ Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ (available on all major platforms too)Website: https://reikilifestyle.com/ **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Remembering the Divine Within with Allison Batty-Capps
This guided Reiki journey focuses on receiving as a fundamental force of creation. Receiving is a life force movement. It is part of how creation takes form, just as giving is. In this journey, you are invited to receive Reiki as a creative energy that moves through your body, your biofield, and your consciousness, supporting manifestation through alignment rather than effort. Through breath, Reiki energy, and the presence of enlightened beings and guides, you travel across the Bridge of Light into higher awareness and expanded perspective. In the illuminated realms, you receive color, light, and frequency that empower your intentions, your chakras, and the areas of life you are ready to manifest. This journey supports releasing blocks to receiving, remembering your connection to the universe, and allowing creation energy to flow into your life. You are invited to receive clarity, inspiration, timing, and next steps through listening and inner awareness. There is nothing to do in this journey except receive. You can return to this space anytime to reconnect with Reiki, creation energy, and your natural ability to receive. Explore more guided Reiki journeys, teachings, podcasts, and blogs atwww.reikilifestyle.com Colleen Social Media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/reikilifestyleofficialempo **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Reiki and Receiving: A Guided Journey into Creation and Manifestation
This is part 3 of our Manifestation series. We discuss and explore how Reiki energy empowers our ability to receive and how receiving is a foundation of manifestation. Before action, before effort, before form, there is listening, inner awareness, and receptivity. Reiki supports this process by helping us receive clarity, timing, ideas, and alignment through the body, the mind, and the soul. This discussion continues our ongoing manifestation teachings from parts 1 & 2, beginning with Reiki and listening, intention, and the Burning Bowl Ceremony. Those discussions and journeys supported letting go of what no longer belongs on your path and recognizing the gifts and talents you are ready to bring forward. In this session, Colleen shares personal experiences from her Reiki and shamanic training, including how learning to receive transformed her spiritual path, her work, and her understanding of creation itself. Receiving is not passive. It is an active state of awareness that allows ideas, guidance, and practical next steps to arrive naturally. We also explore how receiving relates to timing, urgency, compassion, and daily life. Whether you have time for a full self-Reiki practice or need Reiki on the fly, receiving can happen in small moments throughout the day. Reiki supports you in listening to yourself, aligning with your own timing, and allowing manifestation to unfold through clarity rather than force. The accompanying Reiki journey guided by Robyn is truly beautiful. It helps you to release your blocks to receiving, and most of all, to empower your ability to receive. Be sure to listen to the next video to receive and open more fully to the areas of life you are ready to manifest.  Our free online Distance Reiki Share is part of our ongoing Reiki Lifestyle teachings and is offered to support clarity, empowerment, and conscious living through Reiki energy. Every Tuesday morning, 9:30-11am Pacific.  You can find our full library of Reiki teachings, journeys, podcasts, and blogs atwww.reikilifestyle.com Thank you for being part of our global Reiki community and for exploring manifestation through receiving. Colleen Social Media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/reikilifestyleofficialempo **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Manifestation Begins with Receiving
In this episode, Robyn and Colleen welcome Nita Mocanu, a beloved Reiki teacher based on the French Spanish border and a teacher Colleen studied with years ago. Nita shares his journey from classical musician to full time Reiki teacher, weaving together his life in Romania, Sweden, and France. The conversation explores the heart of Nita’s Reiki practice, including Kotodama (the sacred sounds of the Reiki symbols), Reiju (Usui’s original style of attunement), and how sound can bring spiritual clarity in just minutes, along with his monthly Full Moon distant Reiju offering that supports a global Reiki community through consistent practice and generosity. Episode Highlights ● Nita’s personal journey: musician, Reiki student, and now a Reiki teacher for 30 years, establishing Reiki community in France and around the world ● How Reiki became a clear calling, and what helped him choose it fully ● The surprising story of funding his Reiki training through a vegetable garden ● Why Nita teaches Reiki as a coherent system and a way of life ● Kotodama and Reiki, and why sound has a central place in spiritual practice ● How to chant the Kotodama with awareness of breath, vibration, and voice placement ● The felt experience of Kotodama, including crown and heart activation ● Reiju explained, how Usui developed and practiced Reiki attunements ● Nita’s Full Moon distant Reiju event, offered freely on his Facebook page, NitaReiki, each month for attuned practitioners worldwide ● His annual Reiki Congress and resources, including group chanting recordings ● Nita has published Tomita Kaiji’s Reiki book in French. Find it on his website Key Concepts Mentioned: Kotodama Nita explains about the origin of the Kotodama, a Reiki practice of sound that supports spiritual connection and energetic activation. He shares how the sound is not about volume, pitch, or speed. It is about vibration, breath, and placement of the voice so the sound becomes a living energetic experience. Reiju Nita describes Reiju, the attunement practice of Usui sensei, that does not use symbols, touch, or blowing. It is simple, focused, and deeply felt. Nita also shares how he blends initiations and Reiju in his Reiki training to support student confidence and clarity. Full Moon Distant Reiju for Attuned Practitioners Nita offers a monthly distant Reiju during the Full Moon for practitioners who are already attuned, welcoming participants from any Reiki school or lineage. He shares that the event details and instructions are posted as a Facebook event each month. Resources and Links for Nita ● www.reikiforum.com ● https://www.facebook.com/NitaReiki/ ● reikiforum.nita@gmail.com Nita’s site is a rich resource library for Reiki study and continued learning. Listen and Share If this episode supported your Reiki practice, share it with a Reiki friend who loves Japanese Reiki history, sound practices, or deepening daily Reiki. And if you try Kotodama chanting after listening, notice what changes in your breath, your crown, and your sense of inner clarity. Find us at: ReikiLifestyle.com **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
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Welcome to Reiki Lifestyle’s annual Burning Bowl Ceremony, a Reiki-guided new year ceremony for letting go and calling in your intentions. In this recording, we create a sacred circle together with Reiki energy, ceremonial sound healing, and a guided journey that supports clarity, release, and the next step you are becoming. This ceremony includes both a Fire Bowl and a Water Bowl (a beautiful option when fire isn’t possible). You are welcome to participate with paper and pen or simply receive Reiki where you are, even if you are listening while working or on the go. Colleen Benelli, Robyn Benelli, Danni Smith, and Lauri Shainsky, PhD, ceremonial singer and shamanic sound healer, bring this beautiful ceremony to life! What you’ll experience in this ceremony * Opening the circle and gathering scattered energy into presence * Activating Reiki in Gassho and receiving Reiki as a group * Calling in the elements, directions, spiritual guides, and support for ceremony * A guided Reiki journey across the Bridge of Light to the River of Life and the Tree of Life * Releasing burdens into the fire and water bowls * Moving into the Field of Possibilities to listen for what you are bringing in * Closing prayers for peace and connection with peace grids around the world * How to participate * Have paper and pen nearby for automatic writing if you want * Write what you are letting go of and what you are bringing in * If you burn your paper later, practice fire safety and fully extinguish ashes * Optional: keep your intention list in an envelope and revisit it at a solstice 00:00:00 Welcome + ceremony intentions 00:02:34 Reiki circle opening + receiving 00:10:34 What the Burning Bowl + Water Bowl ceremony supports 00:20:04 Introducing ceremonial singer Lori Shainsky, PhD 00:24:00 Showing the altar, bowls, and peace items from Mount Kurama00:31:50 Invocation + sound healing begins 00:47:20 Automatic writing: what you are letting go of 00:55:40 Releasing into fire and water 00:01:07:00 Field of Possibilities: what you are bringing in 00:01:17:00 Prayers for peace + closing the circle Next Step Reiki Training and Explore the 12 Heavens (Registration closes January 18, 2026)ReikiLifestyle.comFree consultation with Danni available through our website. “What is a Burning Bowl Ceremony and How to Conduct One”Instructions on our YouTube channel  Find Lori Shainsky, PhD:Shamanic Sound Healing: shamanicsoundhealing.comSoundCloud: soundcloud.com/redstonesong If this ceremony supports you, please like, subscribe, and share with someone who would love a Reiki-based new year ritual. Link to the music from Lauri. https://soundcloud.com/redstonesong/dawn-breathing?in=redstonesong/sets/lulus-favorites Listen on the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast if you prefer audio. **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Burning Bowl and Water Release Ceremony
Welcome to our monthly Reiki Community Q&A. Here are a few of the questions and topics from January’s Q&A podcast. 00:00:00 - Announcements and Upcoming Offerings 00:03:10 - Overview of our Distance Reiki Share, including the format, what we discuss, and breakout room etiquette. What to expect and differences from our Reiki Q&A Podcast.– Held every Tuesday at 9:30am PT – Free with one-time registration https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/ 00:15:20 - Overview of our Reiki Q&A Podcast and how it differs from the Distance Reiki Share– Held once a month on a Wednesday at 9:00am PT https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ 00:31:19 - Invocation: what it is, why it’s used, and examples of how to create or work with an invocation– Including calling in energy and working with symbols without speaking their names– Free sample booklet available in English and Spanish https://reikilifestyle.com/prayers-invocations/ 01:12:23 - Discussion of the Distance Symbol and how it supports Reiki practice 01:21:57 - Using Reiki to support manifestation through inner authority and alignment 01:35:07 - Ways to work with Reiki when feeling blocked or stuck 01:43:23 - How to listen to our Distance Reiki Share recordings and other podcasts– Available on our YouTube and podcast channels– New episodes posted Mondays and Thursdays 01:47:20 - How to care for and protect your own energy when offering Reiki to others, including in volunteer settings such as cancer centers 01:52:05 - Ways to avoid absorbing energy from people or animals during sessions, with practical examples ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn Classes: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page/FREE Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/community/ Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ (available on all major platforms too)Website: https://reikilifestyle.com/ **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.
Online Reiki Community Q&A | January 2026
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