#Episode #30 Serin Silva : Embracing the Transformative Journey from Fortune 500 Executive to Reiki Master and Intuitive Healer

Reiki is a journey , not a destination , and on this ReadySet Reiki journey , we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts , as we too are traveling , supporting and learning on this Reiki journey as well . And with that said , I am your first guide , tracy Searite .

She is also a medium intuitive healer , reiki master and a certified social emotional coach . She works to help people reconnect themselves by assessing the innate information that humans have left behind in the spirit of progress . So welcome Welcome to ReadySet Reiki .

And I was really in my career and within four months , and with the permission of my manager and the CEO of our company , I relocated to Colorado with my family .

Along meeting people here in Colorado , I met a few women who were Reiki practitioners and I got really curious about what Reiki was and decided to pursue certification and also started a group , the Boulder Reiki community , here in Boulder , colorado , and Reiki really helped open me up to receiving messages about the body and about the spirit , which then helped me

develop my intuition and develop my mediumship . So I actually owe a lot to the practice of Reiki and to my teacher , and some of the plaques on the wall are my Reiki certifications Wonderful , wonderful . And those of you just listening to the podcast .

When she would get sick , I would put my hands my father at the time he's no longer with us , unfortunately I would work with on him and he'd be like that's really great . You have to show your mother how to do that . I feel so good .

And he was very effusive about it and believed in its potential as a healing modality and now , 12 years in , I'm seeing it become more mainstream and more accepted as a practice .

As human beings we have a language necessarily developed for what Reiki is , and so , rather than try and explain it because I think we all come to the table with different understandings and connotations of words , and so I just talked about it as a being a sort of healing and relaxation modality , and I basically say I'm just going to gently put my hands on you

or over you , depending on your comfort level , and you're fully clothed and you're going to be relaxed . It's going to be relaxation , and sometimes I will get messages around where you're blocked and where you need some healing .

And I just worked on a gentleman a few days ago who specifically wanted me to just check in on his energy body and his overall health because his father has cancer and he wanted to just have me see that .

Now I want to be clear that I'm not a doctor but as a Reiki master , I can put my hands over and kind of sense if there's any block , which is unfortunately for them . There weren't , and we had a really , really good session , right , yeah .

So it's very clear that we're not doctors . I mean , some of us are doctors who are reiki masters , but very good .

So what do you think is the biggest challenge in this industry today ?

I'm also seeing , alongside , that sort of somatic awareness grow with understanding your body , and that's something I'm really passionate about when I'm working with people in the business world as well .

You're not just this much of a person is there , and for good reason , is to keep you making sure you remember to eat , make sure you stay out of traffic , all kinds of fun right . Your body has its own wisdom and so a lot of times when I'm talking about Reiki , I'll go through the somatic door to explain it , like when you put it in your chest .

Through Reiki we can help to release and open that area . I'll be like oh okay , because I think people do have an awareness that emotions and traumas and things can sit in the body . So I find that to be a little bit better avenue . Yes , I think we can talk about it . Yeah , wonderful .

I'm a daughter of immigrant parents and you know they work hard to bring us to this country and you know that striving mentality kind of came from there . I don't regret the career that I had , but I think when I moved to Colorado it would have been better if I just really started working from a healing place .

Now I'm an intuitive coach , so I blend a bunch of things together to shift people . So I'll bring in Reiki , I'll bring in intuitive readings , I'll bring in body sensing and somatics , so it's fun .

So if I had known Reiki to answer your question back when I was a business executive , I think I probably could have used it in certain instances to like bring calming to my own being like when I'd have to go into a big meeting , you know , full of executives and I needed to be strong .

I could have used some Reiki energy to clear and help heal and prepare me and equip me to go into those scenarios . Think it really would have helped with stress management . You know that sort of thing .

I think everyone has to navigate to their own experience , but I do think that there's been a lack of tools , particularly for children , on how to unpack Actually did happens . School immunization , people , individual mission , femaleahls , green , all of that technological energy .

Yes , I think your brain just gets going on a loop and then kids are really stressed out and they're like boy kids are really stressed out . So I can't imagine a scenario where , with Reiki energy , kids could heal themselves or work to kind of abate stress .

My daughter will do that with herself and then she'll come to me sometimes she's an adult now and she'll be like can you put your hands on my stomach ? Like my stomach's really upset , so she'll drop in . She'll be like I really need help with that . I'm like okay , so I'll do a little bit of Reiki work Around her stomach from time to time .

My husband will be like I'm really stressed out , can you do a little bit of Reiki ? I'm gonna help me sleep , and so we'll leave it in there .

I'll also want to have a conversation with the practitioner to just get their take on how they work , what's the experience gonna be like , and to make sure that's somewhat consistent with how I've been trained , because with the different lineages and different approaches and you wanna make sure that you're aligned in terms of how you see this practice .

Now , fortunately , because I'm in the Boulder Reiki community and we started it my friend Gina and I we'll do Reiki on each other and so I know how she was trained Right . So and that's pretty fun we used to do a lot of Reiki circles where we'd have other practitioners come and we'd like do a swap , and that was really , really fun .

We'd usually have some sort of lecturer talk about it and then we would do an exchange .

I know when I first heard like that's really woo-woo , that's really out there and I was like , yeah , and I'm still gonna do it because I think it's amazing and I'd had a session . So if you're curious , definitely have a few sessions . Definitely vet your teacher . My teacher was a recommendation . What else ?

Maybe have a side hustle while you're doing it , which would be true of any kind of a business , new business that you're starting , because we don't know how many clients you're gonna have at first , and then really try not to over-explain it . I think you can get lost in the over-explanation . Then people get confused . People need simplicity .

So , whatever you feel like you're delivering as a treatment for me I would say it's relaxation and information For them . Maybe they wanna work with people that are pregnant right , with women that are pregnant . So , whatever your modality is , just don't over-explain it . Just trust what you know and trust how you're teaching and just lean into it and enjoy it .

Oh yeah , they were intuitives Like you're , and I was like , oh boy , because I was always like I think I'm intuitive , so I do intuitive readings . So in an intuitive session you bring your question . Well , first I do a scan and see what's popping up for you with pattern wise . I don't feature forecast .

So if you call me up and you say I want a reading and I want to know what's going to happen in 30 years , I really can't tell you . Why is that ? Because you're going to make decisions that are going to continually change the course and that's just not how I read . I'll read what's around you and then kind of coach you through where the blocks are .

If they're local , I'll work with them through Reiki as well , like I did with the gentleman that I mentioned earlier this week . We started off with an energy sensing session with some Reiki . Then he got off the table and I did an intuitive reading . I'm also a medium , so somebody wants to connect to the departed .

I mean again , this all came because I learned Reiki .

I have a few regular clients who call every year about family members . I really hold all of this with a high degree of integrity and love . It's really important to me to do this in an integrity way .

So what that means is when I read you I'm not here to scare anybody and it's important to say that I'm not going to be like , oh , you're going to be sick in like five months . That's not what we do . It's to empower the individual and when they hang up the Zoom or call or whatever it is , they should feel stronger , better inspired .

Yes , and they should feel like , if they don't need to call me over again , that they don't have to . It's not about hooking them up to something where they're just saying it's the same with the Reiki energy work .

If you have a really good session and you know your body knows when it needs to have another tune up , you give me a call so I do those things and then I am an intuitive coach . So what that means is I basically use intuition and social , emotional intelligence to help people .

So I work with a lot of women , primarily to help them remove blocks , and with their careers , their businesses , their relationships . I'll bring in all those tools . I'll bring in the Reiki , all that stuff , because we're three-dimensional human beings , we're not just this and you'll hear that a lot . You can find me at sarinselvacom For listeners of the podcast .

I'll offer a free 15-minute session for anybody who signs up . Just mention that you heard it on Ready Set Reiki and I'm really glad to have connected with the two of you and have other sisters who are doing this work , because it's important work .

The world has a lot of big challenges and we need this for people and this is a really , really healthy , non-invasive , energetically aligned way to make people feel better , and who doesn't want that ? I ?

I'm a voracious reader . I can see that this is just one . It's impressive .

One's I also like is one is called the production of reality , because I really believe that the way we think shapes our reality and our experience . We believe that the world is inherently bad . It will show us the bad parts if we believe that the world is inherently good , and I think people just need a reminder that we control some of that view .

Another book that I really love is the artist's way , which has a practice every morning of doing what's called morning pages , where you can just dump your brain out of everything that's coming up , and then , lastly , anatomy of the spirit .

So , millie , the floor is yours .

I also commend you that you have your family your husband and your daughter , you know supporting you , because that is one of the things that comes up frequently is that you know my family doesn't understand what I do . I'm out there , you know , building a new community , building a new network , doing this , and I wish that wasn't the case .

And I just feel that , you know , when people have that loving support and people are taking advantage of it , it just makes us even more engaged and more powerful in this field . So , thank you , that's beautiful .

So again , we , we at Ready Set Reiki we ask that you know our listeners be active with us and we take social media questions , so they submit the questions and Tracy reads them and boils them down from our website to three . So sometimes we get others that we want to include there as well .

So the first one I have for you is how long did it take for you to be confident in doing your Reiki sessions .

So I would say , from certification to practicing , I have six months , maybe tops . Yeah , I tried not to get too focused on external validation , Like how was that for you ? Did you feel this ? Did you feel this ?

Like just let it like again , you know , as as Tracy said , like just kind of trusting the process , right , I would see their eyes closed , they would get really relaxed and they kind of , like you know , wobble off the table , right , so I would know something happened . They couldn't always put words to it , but don't get so hot up on the outcome .

Just allow yourself to relax and let the energy kind of flow through as you're working on the signs Beautiful .

Don't , don't , don't push it , don't give them words in their mouth , don't give them thoughts in their head . Just let them , you know , take their experience and work with it . Thank you , you're welcome . Yes , okay . So the second one I have is I have been a practitioner for about a year .

Do you have any advice on how to handle potential clients who ask for discounts or try to negotiate your price for a session ?

So if you're kind of iffy on your practice and you're like , well , why are they asking me for discounts ? That's going to flow from you , right ? Because you're iffy on it . So first I would say get it , get in tuned here . Do you believe that you are delivering value ? Do you believe that you are helping these individuals ? Right , that's the first thing .

The second is really honing in on the client's challenge . So if the client's like , oh , I'm just making this up , I have stomach aches a lot , just be like . So what does it look like for you if you could not have stomach aches ? And if they say , well , that would be awesome and I could work more , and blah , blah , blah .

It's like paint the vision of what their experience is gonna look like after the session . You need to have them . You need to get them out of the price mindset and into the experience segment . Now , sometimes people think I've gotta talk a lot about me and what I do to get them to value it . It's actually opposite .

You've gotta talk more about what's going on with them and how this will help . It's not like well , I practiced and I'm a man . No one cares that I'm a reiki master . I care that I'm a reiki master . They care about how they're gonna feel . So , with how they're gonna feel , what is the appropriate pricing for that ?

Now , for a discount , what I've done in the past is referrals . Obviously someone will get a discount if they bring somebody else in .

The other thing is I've typically kept a few slots , maybe three slots for people that are they need sliding scale People where I'm like I do really really wanna work with them , and I'm gonna leave a couple of slots open for those folks . But I try not to do that too much because I don't wanna devalue myself in the process .

So I think for each individual it depends . It depends on what your financial situation is , depends on how much you wanna give upfront , but just remember that you don't wanna discount too much because it energetically connotes that somehow you don't value yourself . So hopefully that answers the question . It does it does .

If I'm feeling stressed I'll do like a somatic where I put my hands under my armpits and just kind of hold myself . It feels like a little hug Because sometimes I don't know who's gonna show up for a first time client .

So I just want to kind of resource and I want to set the room , the intention for the room , so that it's healing and that healing people come to my door . So I do a lot of intention setting . I just got a little angel tap . I just do a little intention setting and like maybe the word will be love , right , make sure . Yeah , I have a little process .

I don't ever go from like working on the computer right into a session and then when I close off the session which I think is just as important as receiving it after my client left the other day , I saged everywhere where he was and I opened the window to just kind of clear out yeah , not that he's bad or anything like that , but it's energy , right and so

we worked to kind of discharge some of it and clear it through the Reiki work . So I want that kind of out of my space because other people are gonna come in and then I will consciously disconnect from their energy even after they've left and just kind of sometimes I'll put my fingertips together to seal that it's closed .

I'm very porous as a healer so I pick up a lot of energy , which is challenging . Some people are not porous , but I'm very porous .

I'm enjoying your book Jenga Tower there . I've been the entire process looking at that tiny block in about a quarter of the way up going . Oh , I hope that makes it , is it pink ? There's a little block down towards the bottom . I think it's blue . It's resting there and I'm like she's got this .

I was going to say thank you very much for the experience and the opportunity of connecting to both of you . I hold you both in a lot of love and light .

Reiki .