Reikichat | A Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

What happens when the worlds of Reiki and mediumship come together? In this week’s Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, we welcome John Holland, one of the most respected psychic mediums and spiritual teachers in the world. For over 30 years, John has dedicated his life to helping people connect with the spirit world through readings, teaching, and public demonstrations. He has authored six books, created three oracle decks, and starred in groundbreaking television specials on A&E and The History Channel. John also founded My Soul Community, a space for people to explore their spiritual gifts. In our conversation, John shares his personal story of discovering his abilities as a child, the life-changing accident that awakened his path, and the years of training that shaped his work as a medium. He offers inspiring insights into the mechanics of psychic ability, how spirit communication blends with Reiki energy, and the importance of education, integrity, and service in spiritual practice. We also talk about: •    Chil

How do you tell the difference between intuition, psychic insight, and imagination? In this Distance Reiki Share conversation, Robyn Benelli talks about the clair senses and Reiki reveals your natural intuitive gifts. You will learn practical ways to work with clear seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing, empathy, and more, along with the role of “clear intellect” for analytical minds. What she covers: • Intuition vs psychic insight vs imagination, and why each matters in  Reiki practice • The clair senses explained: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairsalience, clairgustance, claircognizance, clear intellect, and clear empathy • How metaphor shows up in images, sounds, memories, and “movie scenes” • Discernment skills to tell calm inner knowing from worry or mind chatter • Using Reiki symbols to filter energy, strengthen boundaries, and clarify messages • Why sensitivity is a strength and how Reiki heals early conditioning that shut it down • Simple practices to track your impressions, validate insi

Step into a guided Reiki journey designed to awaken your clair senses, imagination, and authentic intellect. In this meditation, Robyn Benelli guides you across the Bridge of Light into the higher realms where Reiki reveals your intuitive gifts. You will release old fears, receive clarity, and explore the River of Peace and the place of childlike wonder to strengthen your inner knowing. This journey helps you: • Let go of doubts, fears, and cultural beliefs that cloud your intuition • Connect with your clair senses; clear seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing, and more • Awaken your imagination as a true spiritual sense • Develop discernment and inner awareness with Reiki energy • Receive guidance from your spirit allies in the Third Heaven Reiki naturally clears blocks to intuition and imagination, empowering you to live from your authentic intellect and inner wisdom. Whether you are new to Reiki or deepening your practice, this guided journey will support your intuitive development in daily life and in your Rei

Welcome to our monthly Reiki Community Q&A.  Here are a few of the questions and topics from September’s Q&A podcast. 1. Introductions 2. Opening Invocation 3. Preparing for a Session – Supporting both in-person and online clients, including first-time client preparation 4. The Role of Invocations – Why they matter during a session - Link to sample booklet. https://reikilifestyle.com/prayers-invocations/ 5. Evolution of Reiki Energy 6. Training & Learning – Is specific training required to practice Reiki? 7. Karuna Symbol: Gnosa – Experiences and perspectives from different practitioners 8. Receiving an Attunement – Can someone be attuned to Reiki without prior knowledge? 9. Imagination vs. Intuition – Which comes first? 10. Sharing with Clients – What to share and when 11. Understanding Reiki Levels – What they are and why they matter 12. The Clair Senses – Exploring intuition through the senses ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn 
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Reiki awakens intuition and helps you trust your inner guidance in both subtle and profound ways. In this Distance Reiki Share, Colleen and Robyn explore how Reiki opens the clairsenses, expands the heart light, and teaches discernment so you can recognize your unique intuitive style. Reiki shows us that everyone has intuitive ability. Some may see images, others feel sensations, hear words, or simply know. These differences are natural, and Reiki helps you discover and strengthen your own way of receiving guidance. Reiki heals the blocks that may hide the power of your intuition from you. The Reiki energy provides the frequency that allows intuitive impressions to grow stronger, and over time you learn to trust them in daily life. In this video you’ll learn: * How Reiki activates intuition through your whole body.  * Reiki entrains your head brain, heart brain and gut brain to your higher consciousness   * Simple ways to notice whether your intuition comes through sight, sound, feeling, or knowing * How to r

Do you ever wonder if your intuition is real—or if you’re making it up? In this guided Reiki journey, you’ll experience how Reiki reveals your natural intuitive gifts and helps you trust them. We begin with the red rubber ball exercise to notice how your inner senses work. Then Reiki takes you across the Bridge of Light, where you hear the water flowing below and walk through colors of healing light. At the River of Life, Reiki washes away the worries of the world. In the Field of Possibilities, you receive imagination, curiosity, intuition, and childlike wonder as your authentic intellect awakens. This Reiki meditation is designed to: Strengthen your clair senses (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance) Heal blocks that keep you from trusting your inner knowing Open your imagination as a sense for spiritual awareness Help you listen to your intuition with confidence Your spiritual guides are with you throughout this journey. Notice how you perceive them, ask questions about your intui

What does it mean to truly live Reiki beyond the meditation pillow or treatment room? In this inspiring conversation, Frans Stiene, co-founder of the International House of Reiki and author of The Inner Heart of Reiki and The Way of Reiki, joins Colleen and Robyn Benelli to explore how Reiki becomes a way of life. Frans shares stories from his personal practice and teachings in Japan, weaving humor, depth, and practical wisdom into every answer. Together, we explore how childlike wonder, stability, and kindness create the foundation for Reiki as a spiritual practice in daily life. In this episode, you’ll hear about: •    How the Reiki precepts guide everyday actions and relationships. •    The importance of kindness as a spiritual practice, and how it can change the world. •    Why gratitude, even for life’s challenges, opens us to greater light and connection. •    Simple practices to bring Reiki into ordinary moments, from breathing to a smile at the grocery store. •    The role of stability and ritual in R

Discover how Reiki and shamanism each bring healing and empowerment through their own unique techniques—and how blending them can create even deeper results. In this in-depth session, Colleen Benelli shares her experience as a Holy Fire® Reiki Master Teacher and Shamanic Practitioner, guiding you through the similarities, differences, and integration of these two sacred traditions. You’ll learn how Reiki uses symbols, spiritual guidance, and the HSZSN Bridge of Light to connect to higher realms, while shamanism works with drumming, rattling, power animals, and nature spirits to travel in non-ordinary reality. We’ll explore their ceremonies, from Reiki blessings to shamanic fire rites, and how to merge them into a unified practice. In this video you’ll discover: * How Reiki heals and empowers through spiritually guided life force energy * How shamanic practices restore balance through soul retrieval, extraction, and power animal connection * The role of spirit allies in each tradition * The differences in jour

Experience the powerful union of Reiki and shamanic journeying in this guided meditation for deep healing, spiritual empowerment, and connection to your guides. In this session, you’ll activate Reiki symbols, cross the HSZSN Bridge of Light into the Third Heaven, and meet your enlightened Reiki guides. Then, you’ll shift into the rhythm of shamanic travel, connecting with power animals, ancestors, and nature spirits. This unique integration lets you feel the difference between the luminous, high-frequency Reiki journey and the grounded, earth-based shamanic journey—then merge them into one unified space of healing and empowerment. In this guided journey you will: * Activate Reiki energy and sacred symbols for protection, harmony, and higher consciousness * Travel across the Reiki Bridge of Light to the Third Heaven * Experience the depth of shamanic journeying with drumming and nature imagery * Meet and receive gifts from Reiki guides, power animals, and nature spirits * Return grounded, empowered, and connec

Rare Reiki Documents Revealed: Olaf Bӧhm on Usui’s Lost Teachings This week on the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, we’re honored to welcome Olaf Bӧhm, Reiki researcher, practitioner, and author of the extraordinary new book Reiki: A Journey to Oneness with the Universe. Olaf takes us through his deeply personal and historical pilgrimage to uncover original Reiki documents, including writings from Usui Sensei’s direct students and rare artifacts never before published in English. This is a story of spiritual calling, serendipity, and dedication. Olaf’s journey reveals firsthand accounts, Gokai prints, and historical treasures that illuminate Reiki’s history in Japan, and why it still matters today. Guest Highlights: Olaf began his Reiki journey in 2003 during a pilgrimage in India. In 2008, he trained in Gendai Reiki Ho with Doi Sensei and Komyo Reiki Kai with Inamoto Yukishina Sensei. For over a decade, Olaf has traveled to Japan, meeting lineage holders, historians, and guardians of Reiki’s past. He gained access

In this Distance Reiki Share, Colleen and Robyn Benelli explain how Reiki and shamanism connect with spirit guides and how these practices overlap and differ. You’ll learn how Reiki guides, power animals, ancestors, and divine beings offer healing, wisdom, and protection, and how to safely integrate both traditions. What you’ll explore in this video: * The role of Reiki guides, including angels, ascended masters, ancestors, and energy forms like colors and sacred geometry * Shamanic helping spirits such as power animals, nature spirits, and teachers from the Upper, Middle, and Lower Worlds * Spirit guides across traditions: Celtic faerie allies, Native American power animals and ancestors, Andean Apus and Pachamama, African ancestors and nature spirits, and Shinto kami at Mt. Kurama, Cosmic, Galactic, Mystical, Religious Spiritual Beings. * How Reiki connects with higher consciousness and enlightened beings of all traditions  * Reiki provides guidance and discernment with spirit guides Spirit guides are unive

Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli for a guided Reiki and shamanism journey to meet your power animal and connect with compassionate spirit guides. This experience blends Reiki’s symbols and energy with shamanic practices to open extraordinary reality, where humans and spiritual beings perceive each other. In this journey you will: * Activate Reiki symbols to create a safe and sacred space * Release what no longer serves you and invite in what you need most * Travel down the roots of a great tree to meet your power animal * Ask your power animal how it supports you and how it combines with Reiki * Cross the Bridge of Light into the Third Heaven to expand your relationship with spirit guides * Visit the Tree of Life and receive blessings from the Divine Animal Kingdom * Return with guidance, a message, and your next step for daily life This guided Reiki journey helps you deepen your relationship with Reiki, strengthen your trust in spiritual  communication, and receive wisdom for healing and empowerment. Explore m

Reiki in Medical Systems: With Kae Fink How can Reiki thrive in hospitals and medical settings? This week, we’re joined by Kae Fink, a Reiki Master and board-certified holistic nurse, who shares her inspiring journey of bringing Reiki into clinical care at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health in Cleveland, Ohio. Kae’s work is a model for how Reiki can complement modern medicine—offering stress reduction, emotional support, and comfort to patients, staff, and caregivers alike. Her story is rooted in decades of experience as a caregiver, nurse, massage therapist, and health coach. Through her leadership, she’s developed a volunteer-based Reiki program that now operates across multiple outpatient and inpatient cancer centers, guided by clear protocols, measurable outcomes, and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care. In this episode, you’ll hear about: •    Kae’s early experiences with Reiki and how it transformed her nursing career.li •    The development of a hospital-based Reiki volunteer pro

In this Distance Reiki Share, Colleen Benelli explores the similarities and differences between Reiki journeys and shamanic journeys, how each approaches healing, and how blending them can create profound results. You’ll then be guided through a full Reiki journey to heal, empower, and awaken your imagination, memory, belief systems, authentic intellect, ancestral gifts, and spiritual connection. Part One – Discussion: * How Reiki journeys work, including the role of symbols and the Twelve Heavens * How shamanic journeys use drums, rattles, and rhythm to enter the Lower, Middle, and Upper Worlds * How journey techniques affect the type of healing received in each system * The shared space of extraordinary reality where both traditions meet * How to integrate Reiki’s light and safety with shamanism’s earth wisdom and sensory depth Part Two – Guided Reiki Journey: * Activate Reiki energy and symbols (CKR, SHK, HSZSN, Holy Fire) for deep healing * Invite your Reiki guides, teachers, and spiritual allies * Cross

Experience this Reiki Invocation,  a profound guided experience that fills your body, mind, and spirit with the healing light of Reiki. This session helps you release old energies, awaken your heart light, connect with enlightened beings, and remember the truth of who you are. Through the flow of Reiki energy, you’ll: * Receive divine love, higher consciousness, and deep earth connection * Release the cords and layers that hide your authentic self * Expand your awareness into extraordinary reality * Align with the heartbeat of the earth, the heavens, and your own soul * Take your place in the sacred circle of life This invocation is ideal for Reiki practitioners, energy healers, and anyone seeking a deep spiritual reset. Whether you are starting your day, ending your evening, or preparing for a Reiki session, this guided invocation brings peace, clarity, and empowerment. Use this Reiki invocation to: * Prepare for self-Reiki or client sessions * Deepen your spiritual practice * Open to higher guidance and spi

Welcome to our monthly Reiki Community Q&A.  Here are a few of the questions and topics from August’s Q&A podcast. Announcements Invocation How do I know if Reiki is working? What if I don’t feel anything when receiving Reiki? How do you shield or protect yourself the day before and after a session as a practitioner? What is a Reiki filter or Bubble of Light? Is it okay to combine Reiki with other healing modalities such as shamanism, reflexology, massage, hairstyling, nursing, or Feng Shui? (Include link to Marie Diamond podcast on Feng Shui) https://youtu.be/Qfz2B_Kdj5Q?si=_fDstn2jsPEmS5sU Can Reiki help reveal our own shamanic gifts? Does Reiki interfere with medical treatments, medications, or pregnancy? What are the different levels of Reiki? Reiki Symbols: When and why should they be used? ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn 
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In this episode of the Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast, Colleen Benelli shares the first of a 4-part series exploring Reiki and Shamanism, how they are different, how they overlap, and how they work together. Colleen takes you through her personal story of how she trained in Core Shamanism and then discovered Reiki. You'll hear how these two spiritual paths converged in her life, and how she now teaches integrated Reiki journey techniques using the Bridge of Light (HSZSN) instead of drums or rattles to access spiritual realms like the Third Heaven, River of Life, and Field of Possibilities. Highlights from this episode: * Colleen’s shamanic roots and global training with Indigenous teachers * How Reiki came into her life through her horse’s guidance * The differences between Reiki and Shamanism * How Reiki journeys use symbols, spiritual light, and divine guidance * Integrating Reiki with soul retrieval, spirit release, past life healing, and more * The Spirit Reveal Technique™ and how Reiki heals the soul’s history

This guided Reiki journey is designed to support you during the Lion’s Gate portal, a powerful time of alignment, soul remembrance, and heart illumination. Led by Reiki energy and grounded in Shamanic Earth-based wisdom, this meditation helps you receive higher light frequencies, connect with spirit allies, and release what no longer serves. This journey is part of our 4-week Reiki and Shamanism series, exploring how Reiki energy flows through spiritual landscapes, ancestral wisdom, and sacred Earth practices. You’ll journey across a Bridge of Light into a circle of ancient stones, where Reiki merges with the energies of starfire, golden light, and natural world allies. You’ll be invited to release what no longer serves, receive guidance, and remember your soul’s authentic truth. In this Reiki journey, you will: Connect to the energy of the Lion’s Gate for clarity and illumination Welcome spirit guides, power animals, and Earth spirits Offer burdens to the fire and receive light in return Receive messages fr

Have you ever felt your animal companions were trying to tell you something deeper? In this enlightening episode of the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, Colleen and Robyn welcome Penelope Smith, the renowned “grandmother of animal communication.” Penelope shares how animals speak to us not only through behavior and body language, but through a profound spiritual connection that can change how we live, heal, and practice Reiki. About Penelope Smith Penelope Smith is a global pioneer in interspecies telepathic communication, with over four decades devoted to helping humans truly listen to animals. With a foundation in biology, education, and counseling, she has taught people worldwide how to connect with the minds and hearts of animals. Her classic books, Animal Talk, When Animals Speak, and Animals in Spirit, have inspired generations of animal lovers, healers, and spiritual seekers. Penelope believes animals are wise spiritual beings with emotions, purpose, and guidance to offer us all. Her teachings empower us to de

What is your Reiki business really here to do, and how do you share it with the world? In this free online Distance Reiki Share, we guide Reiki practitioners and teachers through how to create a professional Reiki business that reflects both their heart intention and the practical structures needed for success. This is part 5 of our “Teaching Reiki” series and focuses on building your Reiki business identity from the energetic purpose behind your practice, to branding, naming, and visual design. In this video, you’ll learn: * How to align your Reiki business with your values and spiritual guidance * Questions to ask Reiki about your intention, ideal clients, and voice * Tips for choosing a business name that grows with you * How to create your logo and brand visuals with intention * What every Reiki website needs to communicate clearly * How to write content that speaks to both people and search engines * The role of Reiki in shaping your business path * How to let Divine guidance and self-Reiki lead your dec