The Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

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.
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**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.

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.
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**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.

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 at
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Thank you for being part of our global Reiki community and for exploring manifestation through receiving.
Colleen Social Media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyle
Instagram: 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.

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/
●    [email protected]

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.

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**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.

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
Next Step Reiki Training and Explore the 12 Heavens (Registration closes January 18, 2026)
ReikiLifestyle.com
Free 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.com
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/redstonesong
Link to the music from Lauri. https://soundcloud.com/redstonesong/dawn-breathing?in=redstonesong/sets/lulus-favorites
If this ceremony supports you, please like, subscribe, and share with someone who would love a Reiki-based new year ritual.
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.