In this raw, collaborative conversation, I sit down with Tracy Searight - a Reiki & yoga teacher, energy behind Ready Set Reiki podcast & owner of Feather Sister, to explore what actually matters when choosing a Reiki training and teacher – whether you are one, or seek one.

We don't hold back.

From red flags in unethical training (one-hour "master" certifications, attunements, training without client consent) to the real cost of bad training on your soul, we dig into the questions you should be asking but might not know to ask.

What makes this different?

This isn't a lecture. It's two practitioners having a genuine conversation about:

-Why credentials alone don't guarantee safety or alignment

-How to trust your intuition when something feels off

-Why Spiritual guidance is often over looked and misunderstood

-The gift of being rejected by gatekeeping communities (and how it redirects you toward your real work)

-Reciprocity, bartering, and the ethics of charging for Reiki

-Building your own community instead of waiting for permission from mainstream structures

-How the universe meets you when you move with a pure heart and intention of service, without hanging yourself at the altar of giving freely

The throughline: When you prioritise alignment over authority, connection over hierarchy, and discernment over credentials - everything changes.

For aspiring and qualified practitioners: This conversation is permission to trust yourself, ask the uncomfortable questions, and build Reiki practice on your own terms - not the terms of gatekeepers or hierarchies.

Free workshop Lifting the Veil on Reiki: https://www.reikiredefined.com/lifting-the-veil-on-reiki/

Spirit-led Reiki Pathway: https://www.reikiredefined.com/spirit-led-reiki-pathway/

Free community:

https://www.reikiredefined.com/free-community/

Get my free updates straight to your inbox: https://reiki-redefined.kit.com/6629991732You'll find me most on Tiktok @reikiredefined & Instagram

You'll find Tracy at www.feathersister.com and www.readysetreiki.com Her socials handle is @tracysearight

I've come to learn that a lot of Reiki practitioners are working with only half the equation - and, in my experience, that costs us energy, confidence, and spiritual authority.

In this episode, I unpack the difference between Reiki energy (universal life force energy), and personal life force energy.

If you're pulled to tune in, you'll discover why understanding these 2 separate energetic systems means you won't be energetically or Spiritually compromised when working with clients.

By the end of listening in, you'll discover:

The "hollow bone" vs. "clear channel" distinction

~ Learn why being a hollow bone (the bridge between physical and spiritual realms) is the foundation for spiritually guided healing, and why the channel language without this understanding may keep you feeling deeper connection is available.

Why your energy gets depleted (even though you've been trying to protect it) & how to stop that happening

~ Discover an often hidden truth: when you're not the bridge between worlds, your personal life force energy gets pulled into the healing work. This explains that exhausted feeling after sessions.

The energetic entanglement nobody is speaking about

~ You can't fill an egg yolk with egg white. When you're extracting personal energy from clients with or without knowing it, you need to return personal energy - not use Reiki energy to fill the gap. Learn the two techniques (spiritual detoxification and personal life force energy return) that Reiki training doesn't normally cover.

Your authentic spirit-led reiki style (away from your lineage's rule book)

~ As you know, Reiki isn't one-size-fits-all, yet most practitioners & teachers are bound by methods that don't resonate with their own animistic and cultural lineage, even when actively working in their own way. Uncover how to access your exclusive, spiritually guided style of working with Reiki energy that's uniquely yours - and infinitely more powerful, in my experience.

The 3 huge shifts that happen when you understand the difference

~ Stop over-functioning. Eliminate energetic bleed. Reclaim your sovereignty. Learn how understanding that Reiki and personal life force are separate systems fundamentally evolves how you practice, hold space, and most importantly - how you live without becoming a martyr to the cause of supporting others.

Free workshop Lifting the Veil on Reiki: https://www.reikiredefined.com/lifting-the-veil-on-reiki/

Spirit-led Reiki Pathway:

https://www.reikiredefined.com/spirit-led-reiki-pathway/

Get my free updates directly to your inbox: https://reiki-redefined.kit.com/6629991732Free community: https://www.reikiredefined.com/free-community/

You'll find me most on Tiktok @reikiredefined and Instagram same handle.

This conversation is for Reiki practitioners, energy workers,coaches, activists, and anyone building something real in a world that wasn't fully designed for it. It's for people who can feel the gap between what's possible and what's happening, and who are ready to stop trying to riseabove the world and start actually integrating with it.

We are being asked as energy workers to embody presence,wholeness, and sovereignty while living inside systems engineered for fragmentation. This isn't a personal failing - it's a structural contradiction that's impacting millions of Reiki practitioners and spiritual seekers right now.

In this episode, we explore the five paradoxes that arebreaking Spiritual practitioners: the gap between witnessing wholeness and living in a culture obsessed with optimization, the collision between personal sovereignty and systems requiring external permission, the mismatch between energy literacy and a world built on incongruence, the tension between collective consciousness and radical individualism, and the impossible task of staying present in an infrastructure designed for your distraction.

But here's what changes everything: these paradoxes aren'tproblems to transcend. They're the exact place where real transformation happens - if you understand them.

Your spirituality isn't separate from your business. Yourauthority isn't granted by external systems. Your presence matters more than your performance. And the work you're meant to do doesn't require you to disappear whilst healing.

By the end of this episode, you’ll discover:

-The Five Paradoxes Breaking Spiritual Practitioners -Why you might feel fragmented even though you practice presence, and how these aren't character flaws but structural misalignments between what you've been taught and the systems you're living within.

-The Foundation Shift from Transcendence to Integration -How the old spiritual model of "rising above" the material world is actually keeping you stuck, and why real sovereignty is built in the world, not above it.

-How Your Business Is a Spiritual Act - Why pricing well, setting boundaries, marketing your work, and building sustainable income aren't separate from your healing practice - they're extensions of it, and acts of reclaiming your authority.

-The Difference Between Spiritual Bypassing and RealTransformation - How to stop trying to meditate your way out of real structural problems (I tried this for a long time!) and start building real, grounded structures that honor both your spirituality and your humanity.

-What Reclamation Actually Looks Like - Concreteshifts in how you show up, how you build, how you claim authority, and how you create spaces where real consciousness can actually emerge - not throughtranscendence, but through integration.

Spirit-led Reiki Pathway: https://www.reikiredefined.com/spirit-led-reiki-pathway

Lifting the Veil on Reiki free workshop: https://www.reikiredefined.com/lifting-the-veil-on-reiki/

Free community: https://www.reikiredefined.com/free-community/

Get my free updates straight to your inbox: https://reiki-redefined.kit.com/6629991732You'll find me most on Tiktok @reikiredefined and the same handle on Instagram