This video and blog was sent to me by one of my out of state students, it’s truly remarkable. Science is beginning to capture subtle energy, Reiki in a way people may be able to SEE it, HEAR it and understand it if they don’t already. This article is short and the video is less than 3 minutes. Worth the time. LINK
Author: Josslyn Streett
I am a Reiki Master/Teacher and a Psychic Healer/Reader on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. I work in person or over the phone. Please go to my Rain Shadow Reiki website for more information about Reiki and other services.
Happy Chinese New Year!
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
Blessings to all my clients, students, blog readers!!
I’m coming at you for Chinese New Year because I’m pretty much usually behind a month when it comes to the new year so I start celebrating about this time. It seems January is usually, for me, catch up from the past year and February I really start feeling like it’s whatever year it actually is now. Plus, my son and I were traveling for the holidays so we weren’t here to send out my gratitude to all of you. So, thank you for being patient in many ways.
I wanted to take this opportunity to express to you my gratitude to all of you for continuing to follow Rain Shadow Reiki despite the big changes we’ve had in the past 18 months. We shut down for six months completely since I was pretty much in bed for about five months after the crash we were in. We have slowly but surely been getting up and running again, despite or because of deepest trauma, we need and work with our Reiki even more now.
Everything is very much harder now in all ways and all levels, but every time I think about not doing Reiki, not teaching Reiki, I can’t even imagine it. It’s not even an option in my soul path. Reiki is healing me, my Reiki people are healing me, YOU ALL are healing me. How can I NOT do Reiki and share it. Simple, I can’t. So, at whatever level I can continue, with great help from my fellow healers and students, I continue. And, I’m so grateful that you have hung in there with me. Thank you.
Rain Shadow Reiki is now Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center because we are more people working here and more energy healing modalities being incorporated. We do and teach Reiki, low level laser for Reflex Integration, intuitive abilities, healing and reading and sound and color healing. Plus more.
We will be slowly but surely revamping our website to include all the modalities we work with and the new healers who are working with me. All in Divine time.
We just want you to know we are here to support you on your spiritual and healing path if you feel drawn to work with us.
If you want a long distance Reiki Psychic Healing session, spirit guide reading, past life reading or a Negative Energy Clearing (Recommended FIRST!) Please call or email us to schedule a session. We look forward to getting to know more of you who have been reading, but not yet calling.
So blessings to you all in this New Year, may it bring much Love and Light to you and Divine Grace as you navigate this amazing school house.
Josslyn, Ellen and Amber
Rain Shadow Reiki Master/Teachers
Reiki As Witness – Grieving 3
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
Many years ago I watched a movie with Susan Sarandon. I love movies, they are often my muse. I didn’t love this movie so much, “Shall We Dance”, it was o.k. for me, but this line by Susan’s character stayed with me many years.
- Beverly Clark : “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness’.”
Two of my most beloved witnesses to my life died in the crash July 20, 2017. My husband and my son were my soul mates, my heart, my witnesses to my life; good and hard. My husband especially maybe because he had chosen this position as witness when he married me. He had proven over and over again to be my most loyal ally in this sense of life/marriage. He didn’t always know how to be there for me, but he worked at it, he learned, he proved to me over and over again that he cared even through he didn’t always understand. He made the effort daily, year after year to learn, to understand more, to be there for me whatever the case, that’s love. I was blessed to have 22 years of his love. Many people wish for and search for the kind of love my husband and I had. Not perfect, but perfect for us.
Which maybe makes my loss more unbearable, maybe it makes it more bearable. It depends upon the moment and the feeling in that moment. It changes moment by moment which it is.
I’ve secretly struggled with this since the death of my chosen witnesses. I secretly struggle with a lot, but this was a BIG ONE.
Who? Who, in my deepest darkest hours, with all of my piled up, extreme baggage now, would want to witness me. Who would I trust enough to witness my baggage, my HUGE stacks and stacks of baggage? I was terribly mad at God, my Reiki was not running through my body, although I worked with it in other ways, I didn’t see it as my witness. Just wasn’t there yet. Yet.
My Caregiver/Assistant/Co-Healer/Very Close Dear friend, Ellen, was teaching a series of Talking to Trees Classes during the summer, one year after the crash. I could barely get out of the house regularly and my physical therapy wasn’t coming along as fast as I had liked to be hiking out into the forest to talk to trees. But, I was determined to go. I knew I needed it more than staying home and being safe for my body.
The first one at beautiful Lake Crescent was amazing and I got some very important messages from the trees. But, the second class, just down the street from my home in the forest near by, was the one that shook me to my core and opened me up to a old and new possibilities. I had only made it down to the forest near my home once and that was too much and created too much pain for my body, so I hadn’t walked there since. In fact, for the tree class, I drove there and walked into the forest, just being careful and respecting my bodies healing pace.
The class was going beautifully, Ellen is a wonderful facilitator and teacher, very naturally gifted with plants and Reiki both. We were getting to the first session in which we break up, walk around the forest and pick a tree to talk to, or they pick us is how it usually goes for me. I had to go to the bathroom and was struggling with how far of a walk it was and should I go now, or do the talking session then go. Stupid stuff that clouds your mind at important moments, body stuff that constantly reminds us we are human.
I choose to do a quick session talking to the trees and then make the hike to the bathrooms since I knew the trees I needed to talk to were on the way and I’d already be part way there. I just know which trees want to talk, and I head in that direction. I turn to the tree I feel is the one and I look at it. When I’m looking at it, it’s looking back at me. It has many eyes, all looking at me. I was taken aback for a moment, then went on with the process Ellen has taught us to connect with the trees. Still in my mind, I need to do this quick because I still have to go to the bathroom. Luckily, this tree got right to the point and didn’t mince words. As I connected to it, it said, “I see you. I am witness for you. We all are.”
Well, I hadn’t told ANYONE about my ‘witness conundrum’. No one. I started blubbering right away. There is no other word for it. This tree, in one sentence, knew the deepest darkest fears of my heart and got right to the point. I felt it too, I felt it take me through the Universe as if to say, the Universe IS the witness to your life and I am part of the Universe, as are you. DUH. Of course, we are all one, we are all connected, but this tree had to remind me of that and help me FEEL it in my core, in every molecule. It had to help me feel it so substantially that I wouldn’t forget it.
I went to the bathroom, rejoined the group and couldn’t share. It was too deep, too personal, made me too vulnerable at the moment. I wasn’t ready. I usually share quite willingly what the trees tell me, even if it’s hard, even if it’s sensitive, but that day I couldn’t. It took me quite a long time to even share the experience with Ellen, but I did. And, now I share with you. Hoping and praying that this, as always is my path, helps someone else to know/feel, that even when we are/feel alone the trees witness us. Even when we are in the pit of depression, the Universe witnesses us. And, even when we feel there is no hope, Reiki witnesses us.
This is when I conceived this process and have used it ever since with my Reiki when I need it. I need it often. I feel it working, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to get off my couch to write this. It lifted me up enough to take one more step into my life. One more step onto my path. One more step into healing.
Reiki as Witness Process:
- Bring in my Reiki with intention (Gassho Prayer Position)
- Ask God/Reiki to WITNESS my pain, suffering, grief
- Ask God/Reiki to FEEL my pain, suffering, grief
- Ask God/Reiki to FILL ME UP, fill all my cracks with Reiki
- Ask God/Reiki to TAKE THE PAIN AWAY: Whatever is not mine. Whatever is no longer serving me for learning. Whatever is not for my highest and best good and in the highest and best way- Take it all to Divine or to Mother Earth and leave the Reiki in it’s place.
- Reiki yourself hands on or just with intention in your heart.
- Do this a million more times until I feel better, feel like moving off the couch.
- Say THANK YOU.
God Bless you for reading, healing, sending love,
Josslyn
P.S. – One of my favorite songs, gets me every time I hear it, hauntingly beautiful and profound for this blog topic, The Story, by Brandi Carlile. Hope the link works, if not, it’s worth hearing to go to You Tube and listen to it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pQLtHTPaI
Q & A: Is it disrespectful to your Reiki Teacher to get another attunement?
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
“If I’ve already had a Reiki Level 1 attunement from one teacher, is it disrespectful to my original teacher to get an attunement from another teacher? I was under the impression that you only got an attunement with each level of learning. Is it ok to get more? Thank you, M
Good Question, thank you M. No, it is not disrespectful to your teacher at all to get another attunement. Reiki Master/Teachers have often come to me and asked me to exchange attunements with them for a boost in energy or for a special intention in their energy or even just to bond with each other by sharing this very special ritual. And, your teacher wants what is best and healing for you. If you FEEL an attunement is for your best and highest good and you are not currently in the same area with your teacher, talk to the Reiki Teacher you are currently working with about having one or ask Reiki Source to send you the right teacher for you.
WHAT REIKI ATTUNEMENTS DO?
Reiki Attunements do a whole lot more than ‘hooking’ you up to the Reiki Source. Yes, you would think that is enough, and it is. Actually, that is incredible. But, to prepare your bodies (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual) for the attunement and ‘hooking’ you up to Source, the attunement also prepares your body to receive the Reiki and allow the Reiki to flow through you.
During this Reiki ritual your energy bodies, chakras, Joy Circuits, energy meridians and aura all get a boost, a clearing and a healing. Reiki wants your body to be at it’s highest vibration when you are connected to the Divine Healing Energy of Reiki, so it raises your vibration. This attunement process is very healing to you on all levels and will also clear any blockages that could be keeping you from reaching your full potential. This is one reason people see/feel detoxifying processes for 30 or more days after a Reiki Attunement, because it’s deeply healing. I have had people report miraculous physical healings after attunements as well because blockages were cleared.
So, if this process is so good for you, any Reiki Teacher worth their weight in Reiki would want you to have one if you want one. We as Reiki Teachers want our students/clients to heal and be happy on their healing path, so the attunement is just one more way to help that happen.
Thank you for your questions, email or comment them to me on any page and I’ll get them. rainshadowreiki@gmail.com .
More about Reiki Attunements HERE.
Reiki Attunement Events
Blessings all, Josslyn
This question came because we were talking about Reiki Attunements with our event coming up soon. After we initiate new Reiki Master/Teachers we like to offer them a place to practice their attunements. This is coming up this Tuesday, January 29th. Details following.
Hello all Reiki Friends, We are holding a very special event, an Attunement Event. With this Attunement Event, we are honoring our new Reiki Master/Teachers and holding space for them to step fully into the energy of a Reiki Master/Teacher. Please join us if you live in the Olympic Peninsula area to learn more about our sacred rituals. R.S.V.P. to rainshadowreiki@gmail.com for the location which is near Sequim, city center. Blessings, Josslyn, Ellen & AmberDETAILS:* Tuesday, January 29th, 5:30pm to 9pm.*What is a Reiki Attunement? rainshadowreiki.com/…/what-is-r…/what-is-a-reiki-attunement/*Donations accepted*We’ve had three new Reiki Master/Teachers who are practicing their Reiki Healing Attunements and Reiki I Attunements.*Anyone can have a healing attunement even if you have not been attuned to Reiki. To make the healing stronger with the attunement, you add your own intention.*All students and clients who are already attuned to Reiki, can choose to have a Healing Attunement or a Reiki I Attunement.*Attunements are healing in and of themselves. You can get them anytime you feel you need an energetic boost. They raise our vibration just by having one. Attunements take about 7 to 10 minutes per person and align your chakras, get your meridians energized and clean and clear your aura, all from a Reiki attunement. When the attuenement is finished it’s like you’ve had an energetic ‘tune up.’*We will have heavy appetizers provided by our loving Mystic Sisters, spiritual ladies night out circle of women.*Everyone who wants to be attuned will be and you will learn how to hold space for our new teachers as well as the people getting attuned. With the group energy, this will be a very high vibrational evening for everyone.
Reiki For The Deepest Darkest Hour – Grieving 2
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
Today is 18 months since my husband and 16 year old son died in a car crash.
I am not speaking for everyone, but if this resonates with you, or even helps you in any way, I’m deeply grateful.
I crack myself open and share my deepest pain, only in the hope that it can help someone else. Being vulnerable is not my best thing, I’m getting better at it because I am forced to in my situation, but still not comfortable with it. Maybe a bit on the cheesy side, but Princess Diana is my muse here, reminding me that her vulnerability was her greatest asset and strength for me. I could relate to her in her vulnerability, her perfect imperfectness. And, she comes through me now reminding me that people need to relate to others even when those others are a mess, especially when they’re a mess. People need to know they are not alone in their mess. I am telling you now, you are not alone in your mess. I am there with you. Many are there with you. Reiki/God is there with you.
In our deepest darkest hours, usually alone, the fact that we can still touch others, help others, resonate with others may be our only super power. It may be the most important one, at that. Maybe not. No one really knows anything in this place. We are all doing our best, one minute at a time. But, I’ve been motivated to get off my couch, stop crying or cry in between typing, and reach out.
In our deepest darkest hours when we feel most alone, we are not alone. We still have Reiki. We still have the Universe or whatever Higher Power you feel in your heart/being. When we can’t get up off the couch to do anything that society deems worthy, we can still talk to Reiki. Heal with Reiki. Sometimes that’s all I have. Sometimes, that’s all any of us have.
When I’m angry at God, and yes, I get very angry at God sometimes, many times – for some reason, even though I believe Reiki comes from God, I don’t get mad at Reiki. Reiki is still safe for me. Reiki has always been there for me. I feel it in my body, my hands. I feel it working, I feel it helping me, lifting me up. Reiki hasn’t abandoned me. Even when my body couldn’t channel Reiki after the crash for almost a year, I didn’t feel abandoned by Reiki. I knew it was in my home, in my son’s hands, in my caregivers hands, in the Universe – and all I had to do was talk to it, ask it with my thoughts to heal me. And, I knew 100 % in my belief in every cell in my being, that it would. When I felt I had nothing, I had that. I still have that, even in my darkest, loneliest moments.
Here is my process for getting out of the pit of depression and despair, pray it helps at least one person:
- Bring in my Reiki with intention (Gassho Prayer Position)
- Ask God/Reiki to WITNESS my pain, suffering, grief
- Ask God/Reiki to FEEL my pain, suffering, grief
- Ask God/Reiki to FILL ME UP, fill all my cracks with Reiki
- Ask God/Reiki to TAKE THE PAIN AWAY: Whatever is not mine. Whatever is no longer serving me for learning. Whatever is not for my highest and best good and in the highest and best way- Take it all to Divine or to Mother Earth and leave the Reiki in it’s place.
- Do this a million more times until I feel better, feel like moving off the couch.
- Say THANK YOU.
In Love and Light, Josslyn
The Knots Prayer with Reiki to Ease the Holiday Discomfort
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
The holiday time is not always the joyous time for some of us. For some of us they are very difficult without our loved ones, lonely, feeling emotional or mental traumas get worse by the unbalanced energy of everyone else being so happy and expecting others to be so too. There is so much expectation and many of us aren’t able to rise to it and don’t need to or want to. I understand. I’m in it too. I’m walking the path with many of you of grief, trauma, PTSD, depression.
I work with my Reiki constantly through the day to help life me up and get done the things I need/want to get done, and heal me in between. I am healing all day long.
Sometimes my students/clients are afraid they don’t have the right words so they don’t do their Gassho or turn to their Reiki when they could. You do not have to have the ‘right’ words. The perfect words come from your heart and just describe what you feel. Just tell Reiki Source HOW YOU FEEL and HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL. And ask the Reiki to HEAL THAT. And it will.
But some people like to have words as a jumping off place and I understand that as well.
So, I’m sharing a prayer that I like. I don’t remember where I found it, but I didn’t write it myself. Lets say, Author Known to God.
Blessings to all who are reading, may you have the best next two weeks that you can possibly have WITH THE LOVE AND LIGHT OF REIKI SURROUNDING YOU!!
Love and Light,
Josslyn, Ellen, Amber
TIP: ALWAYS BRING IN YOUR REIKI FIRST WHEN DOING ANY SPIRITUAL RITUAL/EVENT
Dear God/Reiki Source/Universe/The God of Your Heart,
Thank you for untying the knots that are in my mind, my heart, and my life.
Thank you for removing the have nots, the can nots, and the do nots that I have in my mind.
Thank you for erasing the will nots, may nots, might nots that may find a home in my heart.
Thank you for releasing me from the could nots, would nots and should nots that obstruct my life.
and most of all, Reiki Source,
I thank you for removing from my mind, my heart and my life all of the ‘am nots’ that I have allowed to hold me back, especially the thought that I am not good enough.
Amen
Author Known to God
New Gassho Experiential Workshop REVIEWS!!
Because I’m getting ready to spend quality time with my son for the holidays and wrapping up my ‘work’, I’ll let my students speak for themselves about how they liked the Gassho workshop.
I will be teaching another of these workshops soon, in person as well as online. Email us if you’d like to be a part of this workshop. It’s FABULOUS if I do say so myself. I was deeply moved by the experience and had a great deal of fun as well. Thank you to my students for letting me know how the workshop effected them so honestly.
Downloading, writing, visioning and teaching new workshops is one of my new favorite things to do. We will have a lot more experiential workshops coming in 2019 because EXPERIENCING REIKI IS THE BEST WAY TO LEARN REIKI!!
Blessings, Josslyn
“What a wonderful practice to learn. I didn’t get this practice with my Reiki I teaching and really am looking for a more spiritual practice and way of incorporating Reiki in my everyday life. Thank you Josslyn. Heart.” Molly M. from PA, December 2018
“This workshop allowed me to deepen my awareness of my connection to my Gassho practice. Josslyn divided the Gassho into individual components- this made it easier for me experience the Gassho in a much more introspective and personal way. I value and will continue to use this new practice!!!” Michele R. from PA, December 2018
“Josslyn is an amazing teacher who understands students and their needs. She is patient, knowledgeable, compassionate and has an awesome sense of humor. I would highly recommend any classes Josslyn teachers!!! Especially Reiki! Heart” M. Heins from Sequim, December 2018
“This workshop was actually quite deep. We worked on much more than a simple prayer. I especially liked the meditations at the end- on different elements of the Gassho. The insights I gained were very deep and I feel very motivated to explore further with this. Bottom line- Gassho Workshop is really about a lot more than just the Gassho!” Margaret F. from Sequim, December 2018
“I feel so much better about doing my Gassho and intention, I will NO LONGER second guess myself; wondering if I’m doing it right. This class has given me relief in performing Gassho and empowerment in my Reiki! Heart -Smily Face” B. Owens from Sequim, December 2018
“Yes, I feel this workshop will deepen my connection to divine source and enhance my personal healing and those of the people I work on.” J. H. from Sequim, WA, December 2018
Website Under Construction
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
We are making much needed updates and changes to our site so we can better serve our students and clients.
Thank you for your patience while we change for the better,
Blessings,
Josslyn, Ellen and Amber
Gassho Workshop This Saturday
LAST CALL FOR OUR GASSHO EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP THIS SATURDAY
GASSHO WORKSHOP – Saturday, December 15th, 10:00am to 2:30pm, 1/2 hour lunch break. $75. Online and in person. https://josslynstreett.wordpress.com/reiki-experiential-workshops/
The Gassho Reiki Ritual is one of the most important and grounding rituals I do for my spiritual self. It has become vital to my daily practice and to who I am energetically, psychically and physically as a person. Some classes do not teach the Gassho in Reiki I and some do, like ours, but there is so much other new information that sometimes the importance of the Gassho ritual, gets lost. This workshop will focus on helping you feel connected and confident in your practice of the Gassho.
All levels of Reiki welcome.
Some of our students have expressed a desire to dig deeper into the Gassho that we teach in Reiki I.
The Gassho is a foundational part of Reiki and your Gassho will evolve as you walk your spiritual path and can change from healing to healing, day to day.
In this workshop we will delve into the spiritual ritual of the Gassho as well as going deep into our souls, asking “What do I need most to work on and how to do that best to support the healer in me?”.
I’m High On Reiki!!
By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki Energy Healing Center in Sequim, WA
OMG-The Self Healing Reiki Experiential Workshop on Monday, was AWESOME!!
I was SO HIGH ON REIKI!! When we have so many people, doing Reiki with the same intention IT’S SO POWERFUL!! Our intention is to break through blockages keeping us from doing our Reiki on ourselves. It’s WORKING ALREADY!! Just the intention and showing up, is powerful.
IF you want to join us for this workshop, we have two more Monday sessions. Online or in person, join us. $50 per session. Monday, December 10th and 17th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm PST. SO WORTH IT!!
Hope to see some of you here,
Josslyn & Ellen
rainshadowreiki@gmail.com or 360-460-7829
