The Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli as they welcome Trauma Therapist Kristy Snedden and Occupational Therapist Heather Corbet to discuss the powerful healing combination of Brainspotting®, Reiki, and poetry. They talk about how the three distinct modalities work in tandem to access the deep, subconscious areas of the brain where trauma, intuition, and creativity reside. Whether you are seeking nervous system safety, looking to accelerate emotional or physical healing, or desiring to awaken hidden creativity, their conversation reveals the infinite possibilities that emerge when you trust your body's natural wisdom. 
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
What is Brainspotting® and the discovery by Dr. David Grand
Discover how Brainspotting® bypasses the analytical mind to access trauma, intuition, and creativity stored directly within the brainstem.
Explore the ways Reiki energy is complementary with Brainspotting® and can accelerate whole-body nervous system regulation and safety.
The value of observing your creativity rather than evaluating it and letting go of the fear of getting it right.
How to release deep programming around perfectionism, cultural expectations, and long-standing emotional blocks.
Understand how specialized body spotting techniques can effectively target chronic illness, physical pain, and medical trauma.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Distance Reiki Symbol (HSZSN)
The Mayo Clinic
Dr. David Grand (Founder of Brainspotting®)
Dr. Frank Corrigan (Brainspotting® Neurobiological Hypothesis)
Laurel Gaia (Reiki Teacher)
Martha Lacey (Reiki Master)
Kristy is an award-winning poet whose poetry appears in various national and international on-line and print literary journals. Her collection, "That Broken Tooth, That Blue Tattoo," is forthcoming from Indolent Books. Her micro-chapbook, "Crows and Angels," is available on Amazon.
Connect with Kristy & Heather
Kristy
Website: www.kristysnedden.com.
Facebook: Kristy Snedden-Poetry
Instagram: kristy_snedden_poetry
Email at: ksnedden@me.com
Heather
Websites: heathercorbet.com | heathercorbetspiritualadvisor.com
Email: support@heathercorbet.com
 Connect with Colleen & Robyn
ReikiLifestyle.com
Reiki Lifestyle Podcast - On major podcast channels
Free Online Reiki Share: Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, for a global Reiki healing circle.
Free phone consultation: with Danni
Instagram: @reikilifestyleofficial
Email: info@reikilifestyle.com
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Are you feeling the rapid shift of the 2026 cosmic energies? In this mid-year solstice check-in, Colleen and Robyn Benelli invite you to pause and answer a profound question: "What do you know now that you didn't know then?" Discover how to use Reiki to assess your current energetic capacity, align your divine mind, and gently release old belief systems without self-judgment.
Key Insights
Expanding Your Capacity to Receive: In our fast-paced world, your spiritual capacity is naturally expanding to match the new frequencies developing on the planet. Reiki helps you discern your unique state, whether you are comfortably sustaining your current level or actively growing to receive greater divine guidance and manifestation flow.
Honoring Your True Timing: Celebrate your progress over the past six months is away to honor your present state and earned wisdom. Embracing deep inner honesty aligns you with your natural personal cycles, allowing you to support the gestation periods of your intentions.
Thriving in the Beautiful Unknown: Moving forward with curiosity allows your spiritual goals to build naturally over time. Embracing the peaceful truth that "it is okay to not know" opens the door to receiving and brings deep relief to your mind.
Whole-Body Alignment: Utilizing Reiki harmonizes your entire being by aligning your divine mind, encompassing your head, heart, and gut, with your earth mind. This perfectly balances and anchors higher frequencies directly into your physical form, empowering you to step forward with grounded clarity.
People Also Ask, FAQ
How can Reiki help me check in mid-year? Reiki provides a safe space of higher consciousness that cultivates deep inner honesty without self-criticism. It allows you to look back calmly at the past six months, observe what is true for you right now, and update your personal intentions based on your current energy and capacity.
What does it mean to override the body's truth in manifestation? Overriding the body's truth happens when you let external pressure dictate your actions instead of honoring your true capacity. When you force progress during a natural period of rest or evaluation, it can cause mental burnout; Reiki helps you listen somatically to align your goals with physical and spiritual reality.
How do you microdose Reiki on the fly? Microdosing Reiki involves bringing the energy into your busy daily life using quick, intentional pauses. You can chant or think the Reiki precepts ("Just for today, I let go of worry"), send the energy using your breath and eyes, or briefly focus your awareness inward to recalibrate your mind in the middle of a frantic day.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports 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 healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Embrace the energy of the solstice cycle change to realign your spirit and steps. In this session, Robyn Benelli shares a Reiki Journey designed to help you pause, listen, gather, and update your intentions with inner honesty. Discover how whole-body listening and automatic writing activate your divine mind, heart mind, and gut mind to reveal your life-giving path forward.
Key Insights
The Power of the Grounded Pause: Taking a moment to step out of daily pressure creates a sacred space for your true wisdom to rise. Activating Reiki during a pause shifts you out of striving and opens you to receive love and guidance.
Activating Your Multiple Minds: True alignment occurs when you listen on a deeper level across your whole self. Activating your divine mind, head mind, heart mind, gut mind, and earth mind synchronizes your intuition and intellect, allowing you to process life experiences with massive clarity.
Information in Every Experience: Every aspect of your journey carries valuable data for your soul's evolution. Inspiration, resistance, delays, fatigue, and joy are all filled with information that helps you understand exactly what you need and what you are ready for right now.
Updating Intention as Alignment: Your dreams naturally grow stronger when they include your current truth and respect your present capacity. Updating your intention releases old, mismatched pressures and delivers a life-giving, honest path forward that matches your timeline.
People Also Ask, FAQ
What is the Pause, Listen, Gather, and Move Forward Reiki method?
It is a structured Reiki practice that can be done as a deep journey or quickly on the fly. By pausing to activate Reiki, listening with your whole body, gathering wisdom from your experiences, and updating your intentions, you can confidently choose an honest next step aligned with your current capacity.
How do you use automatic writing during a Reiki journey?
Automatic writing is a practice where you activate the Reiki flow and allow questions or guidance to stream through your pen without analytical filtering. It serves as a beautiful tool during the "listening" and "gathering" phases to capture the quiet, authentic truth of your energy and your guides.
Why is updating an intention considered an act of alignment in Reiki?
Because you are a completely different person now than you were at the beginning of a cycle. Updating your intention allows your goals to evolve alongside your personal growth, ensuring that your path remains grounded, honest, and perfectly matched to your current capacity and true timing.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports 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 healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Parita Shah joins Robyn and Colleen to share her journey from dealing with chronic autoimmune symptoms to becoming a Reiki Master. She explains how energy healing provides the necessary reserves to advocate for yourself when navigating the exhausting medical system. Listeners will discover how to transition from an analytical mindset into a state of intuitive flow. This episode features a guided meditation on the Gokai recited in Japanese to help you center and align with your true nature.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Discover how Reiki builds the life force needed to advocate for yourself within the healthcare system.
Master techniques for a sustainable daily practice by writing simple log-ins each day and track intuitive insights and progress.
Explore how to develop your intuition through focused chakra work and the practice of Reijiho.
Release the need for rigid structures by learning to embrace Reiki on the fly and intuitive hand positions.
Experience the vibrational power of the Reiki Precepts through a guided recitation in Japanese.
Mentioned in this Episode:
The Gokai (Reiki Precepts)
Reiki Symbols: CKR (Power symbol), mental/emotional symbol, and the distance symbol
Japanese Techniques: Kenyoku (dry bathing), Gassho, Reijiho, Joshin Kokyuho, and Seishin Toitsu
Reiju (spiritual blessing or attunement)
Chakra healing and intuitive development
Connect with Parita Shah: 
Website: ParitaShahHealing.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/paritashahhealing
Facebook www.facebook.com/paritashahhealing
Join her: Light Embodied, a Community of Healers
Reiki meditations, courses and blog: paritashahhealing.com. 
Already Attuned to Reiki? Join Parita's free Empower the Reiki Healer 5 Day Challenge to learn powerful energy healing techniques. We'll reconnect with authentic Usui Reiki practices along with modern mystical rituals to support your self-awakening.
 
Connect with Colleen & Robyn
ReikiLifestyle.com
Reiki Lifestyle Podcast - On major podcast channels
Free Online Reiki Share: Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, for a global Reiki healing circle.
Free phone consultation: with Danni
Instagram: @reikilifestyleofficial
Email: info@reikilifestyle.com
 
Love the Show?
If this episode helped you on your journey, please Subscribe and leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your support helps us share the gift of Reiki with more people around the world!
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports 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 healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Join Colleen Benelli for a guided Reiki journey to help you arrive in the present moment, embrace your current presence, and receive Reiki for gratitude, kindness, peace, and inner guidance. In this journey, you are guided into that experience through Reiki, breath, the Reiki symbols, the Bridge of Light, the River of Peace, and the Tree of Life.
This Reiki meditation helps you:
• Arrive in the present moment
• Release worry and scattered energy
• Receive gratitude and kindness
• Connect with your body, breath, and inner wisdom
• Embrace your current presence
• Listen for the truth of who you are today
• Receive a gift from your inner guidance
• Ask for the next step that fits who you are now
Colleen guides you through Reiki energy, the power symbol, SHK, HSZSN, DKM, HF, Tree of Life and the Karuna Reiki® symbols. You will connect with the wisdom of your body, heart, mind, spirit, the earth, the waters, the trees, the animals, your guides, and the light of Reiki.
This journey includes the Reiki precepts as a present moment practice:
Just for today, I let go of anger.
Just for today, I let go of worry.
Just for today, I receive gratitude.
Just for today, I receive kindness.
Just for today, I honor who I am now.
Use this guided Reiki journey when you feel busy, scattered, uncertain, or ready to return to yourself. Reiki meets you here, in this breath, in this body, in this moment.
Key Insights
Guided Reiki Journey for Present Moment Awareness
This journey helps you bring your attention into the present moment. You are guided to notice your body, breath, mind, heart, energy, and the truth of where you are today.
Embracing Your Current Presence
The central practice of this journey is embracing your current presence. You are invited to say, "I am here now. Reiki meets me here. I receive the wisdom of this moment."
Reiki for Gratitude and Kindness
This journey works with the Reiki precepts to help you receive gratitude, kindness, and honor for who you are now. These qualities help quiet the mind and soften the heart.
Tree of Life Reiki Practice
The Tree of Life brings grounding, balance, stability, nourishment, and connection with the earth. This journey invites the wisdom of the trees, waters, animals, plants, air, and ancient ones.
Reiki for Worry, Stress and Scattered Energy
At the River of Peace, you are guided to let go of worry, anger, challenges, cords, and future concerns that do not serve you in the moment. Reiki supports clarity, calm, and inner steadiness.
Inner Guidance and Next Steps
Near the end of the journey, you receive a gift from your own inner truth and inner guidance. Then you ask, "What is my next step that fits who I am, just for today?"
People Also Ask, FAQ
What is a guided Reiki journey?
A guided Reiki journey is a Reiki meditation where you receive Reiki while being led through breath, symbols, imagery, spiritual guidance, and inner listening. It helps you connect with Reiki energy, your body, your intuition, and your spiritual awareness.
How does Reiki help with present moment awareness?
Reiki helps you notice what is true right now. It brings your attention to your breath, body, heart, mind, energy, and current life. This helps you release scattered energy and return to the present moment.
What does it mean to embrace your current presence?
Embracing your current presence means meeting yourself where you are today. It means honoring your body, feelings, wisdom, needs, responsibilities, and spiritual guidance in this moment.
Can Reiki help me release worry?
Yes. Reiki helps you pause, breathe, and receive calming energy. In this journey, the Reiki precepts support the practice of releasing worry just for today and returning to gratitude, kindness, and inner peace.
What is the River of Peace in a Reiki journey?
The River of Peace is a guided spiritual location used in this Reiki journey. It supports release, renewal, clarity, and peace. In this practice, you receive Reiki at the river and allow worry, anger, and challenges to be carried away for healing.
What is the Tree of Life in Reiki practice?
The Tree of Life is used as a grounding and spiritual alignment practice. It helps you connect with the earth, your body, your chakras, your roots, your branches, and the wisdom that supports your life.
Who is this Reiki journey for?
This Reiki journey is for Reiki practitioners, Reiki students, energy healers, and anyone who wants to receive Reiki for present moment awareness, gratitude, kindness, grounding, and inner guidance.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports 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 healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.