Energy Work

[00:00:00] I am so excited to have Tracy with me today for this episode. We are going to be talking about reiki and a little bit of yoga, basically energy work.

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Let me tell you a little bit about her.

She is an educator yoga teacher, Reiki master business owner, author and podcaster, and owner feather sister. And we'll ask what that is in a second. The yoga Jeep is also what she works in, so it looks like she does a lot of things, which. Means we have a lot to talk about and connect over, which is so exciting.

[00:01:00] Let's start with, can you tell us about what's going on with these feathers that are behind you that are so pretty? Because I remember asking you about this before and a really fun story came out of it.

Feather sister came out in 2020. Very early on in January 21 days into it, my sister had passed.

And when you connect with the spirit, you may hear, oh, Cardinals, right? Butterflies and feathers. The feathers were coming in magical places. Places were like, come on, there is no bird here. How can this. Be right. I was moving from Pennsylvania a few years later to Texas, and so I was looking around.

My husband got this bigger house I needed to decorate. I went to a thrift shop, went into the thrift shop and it's about five steps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Get in there, turn, find these two large pictures, $10 a piece. This is for my studio. I didn't even have a [00:02:00] studio at the time. So took those two big pictures, put them in a grocery cart.

'cause this place used to be a grocery store, but now it was a thrift shop. So that is a part of my feather sister. I created a business in honor of my sister.

And what is beep Yoga Jeep?

Is that your yoga studio?

Here in El Paso, Texas there's not much in. Coming of commercial property. So it works to that property owner's advantage so that they can hike up the prices. So to find that perfect space at that particular price yoga's not consistent, Reikis not consistent.

And I did have a space and I, parking was an issue out of all things. There was a restaurant next to me and it was taking up the space. My students and clients were. Parked in and I thought, what can I do? This can't be sustainable. People wanna come and relax, right?

They don't wanna get stressed out and have to worry and struggle getting out of their car and having to look around to see who parked [00:03:00] behind them. So one day I was driving and I thought, what can I do? There has to be an answer and it just connected. Use my Jeep, and I'm like beep. The yoga Jeep.

And so I got a grant that I got yoga mats and I got all the supplies and I drive around El Paso and I do events, private lessons. People can rent the materials from me or I can go and come to you. So it's the yoga that comes to you.

El Paso's. Interesting. You have the west, you have the far east you have the Upper Valley and people just don't wanna drive out to the far east.

Fun. And my favorite yoga space that I do yoga in is the library.

Beautiful. I love it.

I do it at the library three days a week with yoga, that is absolutely so fun.

Yeah. Find your space, find that sacred space that you can go to. I've improvised and had the Jeep and then I had a space.

I moved into a new house and I took a window out. We put a door in. So you make used to it. We go to the [00:04:00] park, make it work.

Yeah. I love that. And I followed yoga with a Rand and I love her. She has such a funny personality. There's times where I'm in a pose and she says something funny and I just, I can't hold the pose 'cause I'm laughing at her.

But she's had some videos where she's done it at the park, so yeah. That's our reminder that we can do it when we travel, it doesn't take much to take a mat. Or you can even in a pinch, do it on carpet. Just don't wear socks while you're doing it. Otherwise you're gonna fall outta the pose.

I was in a connecting flight and there was a woman, she just had her rolling luggage and she was doing a yoga pose, a standing, a balance pose, just because she had been sitting for so long.

Let's dive in about spiritual wellness and just that, energy healing and how does that go together?

What are your thoughts on that? Let's start there.

I originally heard of Reiki in [00:05:00] 2006. My very best friend, who was my college roommate had come down to visit me, and she's you have to try this reiki. I'm like, okay, what is it? And it just so happened there was a health fair and I was living in Charleston, South Carolina at the time.

So we went and I sat in the chair and I observed this gentleman moving along her body and he could. Feel things and see things. And at the time I'm like I dunno if I'm there yet. But she was a big fan. She was all in. She went and she got trained and I moved on in life. I thought, I'll do my yoga.

It's all good. Circle back around to that January 21st, 2020 where my sister passed. That was the Jenga paste out of our family. And after that happened. I just needed something more. So I went like everybody else who gets on this journey, reading all the books, the podcasts taking trainings, taking classes.

And my friend circled back around and said, why don't you try reiki? And I was like, I gotta do something. I'm tired of feeling this way, grief. Was just [00:06:00] taking over. My daughter's mother, you're wallowing. You're wallowing in this grief, and I needed to do something. And so when I reached out about Reiki, it was the idea that I would help myself and my family, and I never imagined that first class that I would ever be.

Teaching it, let alone have a podcast on it. And something shifted and changed, and through that, it really helped me. Now I did all the other things right that you're supposed to do. Exercise, journaling, seeing the doctor. But something like this really shifted and changed things for me. I had a tool to help me when the stress occurred, when the grief occurred, like I walk into a store.

My sister was a big Christmas. She loved Christmas, so seeing all the things at Christmas and then, oh, angel would've loved that. Here it comes again, the wave of grief. I'm gonna go sit out in my car and just breathe and place my hands right on my heart and ask the Reiki to flow to help. And [00:07:00] this is a consistent practice.

Every day there's the five principles that you bring in. Like just for today, I will not worry. Just for today, I won't get angry and I would use a principle like, I'm not gonna worry, I'm not gonna stress out and just breathe through it until that emotion passed and with a consistent practice.

I can help self-regulate myself when it comes like, oh, I feel it again. Or, oh, here comes that anger, and just breathe through it. So this is how I use it. It's a wonderful stress reducing modality.

I never considered it as something you could use on yourself. I always considered it as something you use on somebody else, and it's making the correlation to me of tapping

Sure.

How you can do that on yourself.

Correct. Level one is about you, a gift for yourself. And so you get the hand placements, you learn the history, and there's many systems out there, many systems. But we go from the foundation in [00:08:00] 1922 as zoo sensei connected to the energy on the mountain, and we all, that's the root of our tree.

And then as time went on, other masters went. So now you have Celtic Reiki, rainbow Reiki animal crystal, you name it, there's so many out there, but they all come from him. But that idea is that you're working on yourself and then from giving it to others, that comes when you're a level two and a level three.

But even when you are that practitioner and master teacher, it's still working on yourself. We got a clear. All this culturally created itself out of us to get that true connection and healing. Because you certainly want someone who's grounded working on you, right? So if we're doing a reiki session, I'm placing my hands on you.

It's you that's pulling that healing. You are pulling it through me to yourself. So that's how that connection is.

That totally makes sense because as a coach and all things wellness, I have to [00:09:00] really work on myself so that my stuff isn't coming up in coaching sessions.

So absolutely. But I use it all. The yoga I've used, tapping humming, all of those tricks in your energetic toolbox. So it's nice to grab I originally studied with Azu Rahi. Holy fire and I kept going. And all of these tools I can use for various things to go a little bit deeper.

You learn by each time you study with that system, you go a little deeper. Oh, okay, I'm learning about animal now. And the thing that I didn't realize with animals is you ask them permission, right? It's not forced. So if you're going to give reiki to a bird, you're not gonna reiki the whole cage because that's gonna make the bird feel trapped.

You wanna give that bird permission? And have a choice. So you would put a little Reiki bubble in there and say, you can go in and out of it as you want. You wouldn't give reiki to the whole fish tank, just a little bubble so that the fish, if it chooses not to do this, yeah, I don't want this.

[00:10:00] It can go around it. So you learn a little bit deeper and you may see practitioner. With their eyes closed, especially online. And they're moving their hands with animals, you keep your eyes open because it's a safety issue. Even if it's your own pet, something can happen. One time I was doing a reiki session on my very own dog and a bee buzzed by, and it scared 'em and jolted them, and by having my eyes open, I was aware of that so I could take care of it.

Wow.

Okay, so let's back up I was realizing I know about Ricky, but not everybody does. So let's back up to explain it for those people. Sure. Because I'm sure people are listening and they're like,

what is this? So explain that and explain like. I know there's energy involved, but explain that part. Just for somebody who knows absolutely nothing. Are we raking leaves? Like what even is this go, like that far out.

So this is the reiki talk that I give to people.

So reiki [00:11:00] as what it means as you break down. The word is universal energy life force. And in 1922 there was a gentleman Michael Zui he has the word doctor in front of it. It's framed in a way. He was probably an academic doctor he was looking for Zen. He was going on a quest and he went up to a mountain with the idea that he was going to die.

He wanted to connect with this energy, and 21 days he would pray. He would fast. He was up there on the mountain that 21st day he got struck by something. Lost consciousness. When he awoke, he realized that he is the universe and the universe is in him. So excited. He rushed down the mountain, stubbed his toe.

It started bleeding, and he placed his hands right on the toe and their healing began to happen. So he in a way began to modify and change things and work with energy and work with people. And his claim to fame came. When there was a big tsunami in earthquake [00:12:00] that happened in 1923, and all the people were injured.

And so he prayed like, what do I do? What can I, do to help people? And he realized he could pass this gift on to other people. And so it is known as hands-on healing, but it can be done distance-wise. And so he became this rockstar helping. Thousands of people at a time when there was no cell phones, right?

There was no computer, there was not social media, and through him and his teachers in a long lineage come to where we are today where we have different systems of reiki. So it is known as a Japanese style of healing that is a. Complimentary stress reducing modality. So it's not a replacement for your doctor.

By no means as a practitioner, you never tell anybody to get off their medication. Do amazing and magical things happen, of course, but we always go by what the doctor says. Many believe Reiki has been around since the beginning of time. Some believed that Jesus, [00:13:00] when he disappeared in the Bible, from age 12 into his thirties, went off to India to study this.

We know the collective and through the Healing Touch by William Rand, that there was a book in 1919 called the Reiki Rahi. So there was reiki prior to Zoey sensei, so he's the one that gets credit. So this is just bringing energy in, shifting energy, placing hands on you or connecting to online, and you can give Reiki to anything.

But I wouldn't. As I'm giving it to someone, I'm asking permission. So Reiki honors free will. It's never forced, demanded or commanded. It is never anything with religion. You can make it spiritual. So if I have a background where my family was religious, I can place my hands at my heart center and I can ask God in Jesus for guidance.

If you're someone that believes in source or. Something else, A God of your own understanding, you can bring that in as well. Archangels, you [00:14:00] can color it really whatever you'd like. And it is moving the hands along the body to help shift that energy. So the person laying there or sitting there, they're pulling it through that practitioner's body and shifting and change.

So more or less it's helping relax the body.

And this can sound so weird. Sure. But.

Let me tell you my experience so that it doesn't sound as it's still gonna sound woo, but a little less woo is my first experience with it, and I've heard about it in different ways and everything else was I received a massage.

They also, it was a couple and my husband and I would go on a date and it was almost like a double date, but they were giving us massages in the same room, but like we got to chat during, anyway I did the add-on of doing as well and I really liked it that way 'cause I was already relaxed and I felt like I was more receptive at that [00:15:00] point.

So his hands were on me for the massage, and then at the end I could feel the energy flow and he was hovering right above my body and I could tell where he was sometimes because I could feel the heat from his hands just hovering above. My husband did not do it, so the wife was massaging him, and I could definitely feel a difference.

That was my first time. I think that was the first time and then the second time my husband did it too. This was years ago.

And they made a comment of, they could tell that there was some stuff within our marriage at that time. We had our second child and I was still nursing and postpartum depression, figuring out myself all over again. So there was some tension with our marriage, mostly because there was tension within myself, like me figuring out myself.

And it was just really interesting to discuss with my husband afterwards, just how much was released and the difference in there. [00:16:00] And just some of the stuff that they asked about while doing Ricky is like. But I feel like I've been more receptive to it because of doing yoga.

And it's one of those age old human things where you have to hear it several times and from different sources. And that's where I finally got to Ricky because going back to yoga, how I mentioned, you are still dealing with energy flow while you're balancing your body. Moving the muscles and everything else.

And I really liked it for my own healing journey because it's frustrating. I'm not one that likes to. Hurry up and give me the results now. And I want this to fix everything, but realizing that healing happens in layers and it was another layer that I needed to add on with my healing.

So it [00:17:00] makes sense that you try one thing, it works for a while, and when it doesn't and you're ready for the next thing, then you try something else. And when it works, you keep doing it until it doesn't. Then you try something else. So beautiful. I hope that. Helps to make sense of it, but you're never really going to fully understand what Reiki is until you try it for yourself.

Many massage therapists blend that together because you wanna get the body relaxed. There are different systems of reiki holy fire, the azu holy fire energy. You have a meditation or experience to get the body relaxed.

Crystal Reiki is great if somebody, you need to physically touch something laying on the table for someone and just waiting and you're just silent. Gets people a little nervous.

But that's a great thing, and not all reiki practitioners and masters pick up things. And so you had people that were intuitive that they could read the energy. And some people, they don't. They're like, I like the hand placement system of Madame Tata, [00:18:00] where they set hands right on the head and work their way down to the feet.

That's why it's great to merge with massage therapists because this is how they're learning to move through the body as well.

I think, and you almost hit on it, I thought you were going to for a second, is it really matters that you have that connection with that person. Like absolutely. Interview that person.

Make sure that you feel like you are on that same wavelength because then you're more open to it. For me it was really interesting to hear the story of the husband because he fell into it by accident. He was going to get his massage certification and he was doing it because his wife was already a masseuse and he wanted to be able to give her massages.

He never anticipated them opening up their own practice and doing all these things, and when he was. Earning his certification. He was asked, do you do Ricky? And he's no, what is that? Because he's [00:19:00] already naturally doing it. So then it was one of those maybe I need to dive into this further to make sure I'm doing it right if I'm already naturally doing this and I don't know what I'm doing.

So it was fun to hear his story of it and. I think that's where your podcast comes in. So for those of you that are interested and wanna hear more stories, where is your podcast? Where is that found? I just feel like this would be the perfect place to set it.

You can find it everywhere where you can listen to podcast, Spotify, iHeart,

it's on YouTube as well. And what I do is I have the curious beginner all the way to the Master PhD. Come on, talk about their experiences that keep the questions in the beginning, the very same, because then you're hearing, wow, this amazing person who has all these accolades, they struggle too.

They had a challenge on their spiritual journey. Wow. Like they weren't convinced in the beginning. So it makes it relatable that maybe I give it a try, and if you [00:20:00] try it, if it's not your thing, okay, maybe it's your thing for a little while, and then you'll move on to the next thing.

Many people have used reiki to help them. Open up their gifts, help them relax their body to get to their true, authentic nature. But it can be just a small piece or a big piece of your journey.

I've never heard of light language. I'll have to Google that one later for my husband.

That's fun. Yeah. For my husband. He did Ricky. And he's eh, I'll stick with the massage. Where I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna do both. And then I moved on. I just, chiropractor wasn't doing enough for me and I could not get into doing massage often enough, and from, I made the mistake. I have four children and I held all of them on this side.

I did not switch sides while carrying them, so I had this huge knot. Just giant and it was like I was weightlifting hardcore, but like only this muscle [00:21:00] set. And then it tightened in a weird way back here. I think they said that it's actually here, but it radiated is the best way to explain it.

As you can tell, I don't know the muscle system as well as I should with all the classes I've taken for my degree, so I then added on acupuncture. And that is an energy healing as well. Which has been very interesting.

How many of you get massages or have heard of it and know how amazing that benefit is? That is still energy healing.

Yeah.

And if you think about it in a fundamental level, we are all energetic beings. Same with our animals. The plants outside are there is energy in there.

Everything around us has energy and we are in such a world that we only think that. These little things have energy or are like switches. No, it's so much more than that. If we get away from technology, we're spending time in nature. We are still surrounded by energy. And we become [00:22:00] disconnected in the society where we forget that.

And that's where it's going back to that it's going back to nature. It's bringing you back to those things.

Yeah. Energy transfer is real. That's why one phone call or a text can change your entire mood when you think about it. And always be mindful of who touches your body. You figure a hairdresser touching your hair.

The nail technician, right? That chiropractor who's laying hands on you. What is their intention when they're touching you? Are you gonna be in a bad mood? Or oh, I don't like their energy. So it's a whole big thing, even beyond the reiki here. So there's energy everywhere we go.

Just think of that one coworker. They walk into the room, Ugh, they're like a drain, right? Versus that other one that comes in. You're like, yeah, I can't wait to work with her. It can change your mood just like that and the energy. Helps as you bring it through the body helps you relax as you're imagining the stress melting away.

But [00:23:00] there are a lot of misconceptions about Reiki. One of them being that it's like woo, or it's religion because you see the word Japanese and the same thing with yoga as well.

They're like, oh, I can't do yoga. My mom gave me the hardest time about yoga 'cause she thought it wasn't Christian.

She's it's not. Christ, and I'm like, but I'm moving. That's not what it is. So as long as you do it, research it, see how it feels, and make the judgment for yourself.

Man, there's so much in here that I'm excited to edit this

yeah.

And I know people who are very active in my church

yeah.

That not only practice it but are a master healer. Oh, my mother,

when I was playing sound bowls, she called them the demon bowls. When you look at yoga, the movements that's praising the deity, right?

So I even modified my yoga practice to take it out. So I started doing yin 'cause You're not doing warrior two and Yin. I was doing restorative chair. I did laughter yoga. I did Christian [00:24:00] yoga. When I got my certificate, my mom's I don't understand saying some Bible verses as you're doing a son a helps.

So it's the way you're looking at it and how she interpreted it. Yeah.

Never thought of it that way.

Yeah.

Is this actually a lawyer post?

Cutting the head off and everything if you look into the research of it.

'Cause my intention is not that as I move through it.

Yeah, that's what I go back to.

That's a word that my husband and I use a lot within our family is what is the actual intention.

Absolutely. Yeah. And I think that matters for everything. If we're gonna talk about religion for a little bit, even Halloween just happened, right? Yeah. We celebrate Halloween. I did not grow up celebrating Halloween because it was sacrilegious blah, blah, blah.

And it really is, what intention are you going to it? What are you bringing? And what are you expecting to get out of this thing?

And for me, yoga has been instrumental in my healing after a car accident. I feel a huge difference in my [00:25:00] body I notice I can't do weightlifting anymore. It flares up my neck too much, and I have lost some muscle mass in some areas because I am not using those muscles the same in yoga, but there's still a huge difference in the positive

from practicing yoga.

Sure.

And

I

mean, in the

yoga sutures of Paul and Johnny, the original for yoga was ceasing the fluctuations of the mind.

And now we've turned it into a billion dollar industry of fitness. And that's not what it is. It's not a workout, it's a work in where you're taking it off. The mat. You wanna do no harm to people, right? You wanna move through life with intention, and that's the purpose of that.

It's breaking down that ego okay, I'm at the mat today. Oh man, I can't get into this shape today, but I was able to last week. And then the mind starts, gosh, I'm too old. I'm too heavy. I'm moving. I'm here on the mat. I'm consistent.

And you're changing that mindset. [00:26:00]

Absolutely. And it's helped me to realize that my desk chair was not the right fit for my body.

Because I've been doing yoga for a while and I dove further into it since my car accident and realizing that there's some poses I just can't get quite right, like downward dog.

My knees are still bent. And I've been doing it for years. What's going on here? Let's dive into that. And realizing from, I now have a reflexologist I've been working with to help me. And it's been interesting to see my legs are loose here, but they're tight here. You know that, that whole, okay, this is how my body's working, this is what I need to work on, type of thing.

And that's what I like about yoga is it's really giving me a chance to. Focus on myself. Sure. Especially as a mom. Yeah. What's going on within my body. Yeah. And then especially in balanced poses, like no, [00:27:00] We're not having the chatter going on. Shut up brain. Let's focus.

And. My favorite is when, and I'm always sad when the teacher forgets or runs outta time when we do ohms because somatically that is so good for us and I love when they have the singing bowls going or I've been in one yoga practice where she, had a gong. It was so fun. The little kid in me and thinking of all the movies that have gongs.

That was a practice when I was 17 years old yeah, of course. Childlike, but there are things that we can bring into our daily life that maybe had a different intention originally, but they can still bring us joy, even if they are warrior poses.

Yeah.

We can, it's about bringing in the things that better our wellness, better ourselves.

Letting go of the rest and trying on different [00:28:00] things to see what fits for right now. Realizing that what fits for right now won't be forever. For some things. Yoga, I hope, will be a lifelong thing for me. That doesn't mean that Reiki will always work for me. Maybe I'll need to add tapping to it.

It might mean that I need to add in more meditation during the season of life or whatever, I love the idea that we have so many options out there and we can try them on to see what fits for right now.

Yeah. You wanna listen to that inner teacher, we all have this inner guru and the great thing about life, if you live long enough, life will teach you how to live.

So you shift and change? Once upon a time I was able to nail that downward dog and then as I'm growing and going older and I had an injury and getting that injury helped me be a better teacher because then I can give people more options and variations.

There not that many variations it's lay [00:29:00] down, we're in Shavasana, that's it. And now it's oh, go to Art of Shavasana. Now you can do belly Shavasana. Go into crocodile. And now we're giving this acknowledgement of what does your body need instead of let's read this book. This is how we have to get, 'cause that's how I got hurt.

I was going into kind of how I anger taught. Which B-K-S-I-N-A, which is alignment is everything. And my body just could not get into that. We have six different types of femur bones. Male and female have different hips.

And I just felt I can do this all day long. It's bone on bone. I can't. And that was just that realization okay, I'm never gonna be able to do bow pose and be okay with that. But then, oh wait, I can do it another way. I'm gonna do it on my side. I'm gonna use it with a strap. I'm gonna use it with a block.

I got it right. And that's really how life is. When things aren't working, can you stop and redirect? Is there another way? Think out of the box. And Paul Grille, who is like the guru of [00:30:00] yoga, he said, if you're only doing it one way, you're already doing it wrong.

Oh, I love that.

And the good and bad. So the yoga class that I take, it's on Saturday. The one at the library is longer than I normally do. And he goes around the room and he adjusts us. And he's always can you do this to uplevel it? And I'm like, really? I was just so proud of I got this pose right.

No, there's many types of teachers that are there. Some that are adjust and some that won't. I think with COVID happening, the adjustments stopped. With the hands on. But yeah, I've been in where they're pushing on you and I cannot and then it pops me back out into that not relaxed state anymore.

It's, he's pushing me like, oh, okay. You know how to do this. Did you know that you could uplevel it? I gotcha. So I love that part of yoga that you can do more or you can do less. Especially because one side of your body is completely [00:31:00] different than the other.

Especially for me. After having children, I have less balance on this side with this leg. Compared to my left leg. Sometimes I have to adjust a little bit before I do tree pose, which for some reason, that is one of my favorite ones actually. I think I know why with A-D-H-D-I have to focus more, so it really calms my brain.

Because once I'm not focusing, I feel myself finding your drishti, your

But honestly, when you look at it, are we really balanced? I'm right-handed. I find that I lead with my right foot more, right? I'm using my right hand more.

Balance. That's the goal.

And that's what I like about is I've even noticed after doing Ricky, is that my yoga's better because I have gotten rid of, and I don't know if any of you have noticed this, that when you are doing certain, if you do sports or even going for a walk, you can feel like maybe your muscle's tight, but sometimes it feels different like that.

That can be an energy blockage. It's not just. A muscle [00:32:00] thing. It can be deeper than that. Different than that. So that's what I like about the idea of using Ricky. There's tapping, there's acupuncture, there's massage.

Somatics is very good. Know that there's so many different styles of yoga too. We have Ashton, haha, Iyengar Yin, restorative Celtic, I do Celtic yoga. I do stick yoga, right? Laughter yoga, just as there is many as. The reiki as well. So just find something that resonates with you. Light language is great.

Light language is where you're channeling a different language and you speak in different ways, so that's quite interesting as well. Some people resonate with that by narrow beats. Taking a walk, going to take a shower. There's so many ways to bring healing to yourself.

I could say find your Goldilocks, find your just right.

I signed up for a class. Unfortunately not enough people did. So if you wanna join, you should have joined with me. Everybody listening?

Yeah.

The [00:33:00] idea of doing a forest bath. Okay. Yeah. To spend time in nature, I know that, yeah. There are so many things, but I think the real thing of all of this is you need to find a way to slow your body and your brain.

Yeah. We have yoga nidra, which is the yogic sleep,

actually, I moved too much.

That's helping you. So someone who does move too much, that helps you as well. And then the sound baths.

And now we have floating sound baths and I saw somebody doing watercolor and a sound bath. We have puppy yoga, you name it. There's so many more things now than ever I think in the last 10 years. Just amazing things that have popped up,

yeah. And I think that's important, especially if you have a neurodivergency.

I know so many people that I've coached. I've talked to on the podcast and just out in the world that struggle with staying still and yoga is not for them. But it's because there are different types of yoga, so don't go for a slower one, maybe. Depending on what your needs [00:34:00] are. But I love that we have so many different options.

Because like you said, be Goldilocks. Find, the right yoga. Find your right one. You might

need a vinyasa, which is a faster one. Maybe hot yoga. Just keep, give it more than one. Try. Keep going back. Reiki is cumulative, so you need to do it maybe a few more times.

Same thing with yoga. You might hate it in the beginning, and then you'll find that sweet spot like, ah, here we go.

It's like you need to find that one pose that your body just goes finally and then you're sold.

Movement is medicine.

You need to move your spine in all directions every day. Cat cow even if you're standing just doing this, I've been doing cat cow since I've been in my. Twenties and that's so important 'cause we'll lose that mobility as we age. You wanna do a little arching twist, bring that in.

Heel rocks where you're moving up and down. So you wanna move that body. I work with the veterans, ours [00:35:00] who have served, they're in their seventies. My oldest a hundred years old, a hundred years old. He turned last week. And these are people that served our country. They would hold the guns and now they can't even lift their arms up.

And you can see it in their face they're just, and they're like, I'm so sorry. So if you're sitting in a chair, move every hour, whether it's wiggling those fingers, even just touching fingertips to thumb that's crea technique here.

That gets our mind going. Our cognitive function, the tapping helps with that too. Immunity crossing the midline here, right? That are just simple movements that we can bring in every day. To help with our vitality, to help with our health, help with our movement, our muscles our attitude.

I do laughter yoga, and it's playful, it's breathing. People look at me like, is this girl nuts? And I tell them, listen, I was a preschool kindergarten teacher, so we're gonna have fun. We're gonna breathe. And it's simply just saying like the word hello, but we [00:36:00] laugh. So we breathe and go, hello?

Tell 'em to laugh like Santa Claus. Have a bowl full of a belly, full of jelly and they just get a big kick out of it. But we have those mirror neurons in our brain where it's contagious.

Like when we yawn and they just start laughing, I'm like, great. As adults, we're not even laughing. More than 15 minutes as children. Two to 300 times a day. So think of that bringing that in, changes your attitude as well. I'm like, wow, that girl came in and did you see her? And she was making us laugh while we said hello.

I love it. Yeah. And how many, yeah, it reminds me that there are some people who just have laughs where you are laughing and you're like, why are we laughing? Oh yeah. You're laughing and it just makes me laugh. And it's contagious, but I don't know why we're laughing.

And it changes our, body and our mood and stuff. Just imagine. Sitting in a retirement home all day. And then this person comes in and we're doing these activities. One of them is the milkshake where you're like, woo. And they're like, [00:37:00] what is she doing?

So I say, it's like charades, right? Improv. We're gonna just have fun and we're gonna laugh. And you get in the belly, it's wow, my belly's getting a little sore here from laughing at you.

I bet they're so excited when you come.

We've been lately I go into memory care and many of them have been hurt serving our country.

And then we also, they also bring in gold star mothers who had a child who served for our country and had passed. And they come in as well. And I've been bringing in drumming. We're drumming with it and we're tapping and we're moving and we're playing music and fifties and sixties and seventies music.

One woman was just, every time I would come, she would just stare. And I thought, I gotta switch this up. And the music, she started singing and I was like, oh my goodness. And another guy who had sat there for the longest time put on over the rainbow and he was mouthing the words.

And so I would bring things in from my teaching and I'm like, you [00:38:00] know what? Let's, do row, row your boat. They were all remembering and we're singing row, row your boat. And it's here are these people, 70 years old and up singing this. They remembered it. They remembered those things from their childhood.

I love that.

Oh, so tell us where to find you.

All right, perfect. So you can Google my name Tracy c Wright. You can find me@www.feathersister.com. You can find me at ReadySet reiki and beep, the yoga Jeep. I'm on Insight timer.

I've been doing. 30 days of Reiki on Insight timer, and it is all the 14 different systems of Reiki that I am trained to teach and practice. I'm doing little educational things from hand placement to the Reiki precepts, doing a Reiki 1 0 1 with them. You can find me on Spotify anywhere you can listen to the podcast, Instagram, Facebook.

All over. I offer in-person [00:39:00] classes and online classes at Feather sister, so I do yoga nidra that I talked about. I do sunrise yoga and I do Reiki sessions as well. And I also do many different trainings in yoga and in reiki.

Wow is there

anything

you don't do?

That list might be shorter. And I've written some books. You can find my manuals. I do money reiki. You can get trained in Money Reiki, angel Reiki am Mario Reiki. So I have manuals on that. And I even have a children's book called Detective Pancake.

Oh, that is so fun. It sounds like you obviously love kids.

Right. I have four of my own and I have six fur babies as well, so I do dog yoga and an animal communicator. And I do card readings and someone asked me yesterday really cute do you read their paws? I'm like, that's really cute, but no so I can't read the dog's paws

aw.

Thank you so much for being on. This has been. I learned stuff and I knew a little bit about Reiki, so I hope all [00:40:00] of you learned stuff, and I would love for you to tell both of us what you learned from this so we can continue the conversation off the air.

But Tracy, thank you so much for being on. I am so excited that you were willing to do this when I met you because this is something that I've wanted to talk about and I needed the right person. And as soon as I met you over video, I'm like, you're, the person. You need to do this with me.

So thank you for being on.

Thank you. It was an honor.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope that you found the answers that you needed, and you had some amazing aha moments. Please share this episode with others because it helps us align ourselves and then better align the world so that we can seek the healing that we really are looking for as part of the legal language.

I am a certified life coach with a Bachelor's in Applied Health. That is what I am leaning on for this. This [00:41:00] is general advice. Take it as such. See you in the next episode.