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/

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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/

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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/

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You’ve trusted someone who said they had the answers. I’ve done it too.

And somewhere along the way - whether it was months or years - you realised they were using that authority in ways that didn't feel aligned. Ways that felt extractive. Ways that made you smaller. Ways that abused their position of mentor.

In this episode, I’m sharing directly about the impact of this particular type of betrayal, why the Spiritual industry as a system enables it, and how to rebuild self-trust without losing the hard-won wisdom you gained from this experience.

Because staying open to guidance while protecting your sovereignty isn't a contradiction - it's the real work.

This is for anyone who's skeptical of gurus, protective of their own authority, and still willing to learn and evolve.

5 things you’ll discover by the end of the episode:

-Why being burned by a Reiki / Spiritual teacher is actually a sign of your openness -not your failure. You weren’t gullible or naïve, and you didn’t miss something obvious. You were vulnerable and willing searching out support for yourself. Here’s what, in my experience, happened & why..

-The three kinds of teachers (The Authority Holders, The Guides & The Mirrors) – and how to help yourself discern who to trust – they all operate differently. Learn how to recognise each “type” and understand how you can shift your relationship with each to better help yourself.

-How your anger about the betrayal is wisdom, not bitterness. Stop being pushed to rush to forgiveness. Your rage is telling you something crucial about your standards and your boundaries. Here's why honoring that matters.

-What real spiritual authority actually feels like (it's nothing like what you've been told) The teachers worth learning from in -my personal experience, aren't the ones claiming “enlightenment”. They're the ones honest about their own process. Here's how to recognise the difference.

-How to stay open to mentor guidance while maintaining your own authority You don't have to choose between being vulnerable and being protected. Here's the mature spiritual capacity that the burn has likely taught you, and how to harness the experience in a positive way.

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

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

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

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

Discover what, in my experience, is potentially destroying your Reiki confidence - and the single shift that can flip that 360.

I've built this episode around my personal experience stuck inside doubt, second-guessing, questioning myself & fear.

Here's what you'll discover by the end of this episode:

-The critical difference between guidance and advice - why asking the wrong people for input is sabotaging your practice, and how to identify who actually deserves a seat at your decision-making table

-How fear can masquerade as wisdom - the real reason you're polling everyone around you, and why resilience (not reassurance) is what actually builds confidence in your Reiki work

-Answer, "whose voice are you really listening To?" - how to recognise when you've abandoned your own knowing & Spiritual wisdom for someone else's fear, and what it costs your practice when you do

-The internal driver Vs the external validator - the radical difference between building your practice on what others think versus what your intuition and spiritual team are likely offering you up on a plate

-The permission you've been waiting for - why nobody can give you the authority you're seeking, and why that's actually the most liberating thing you'll hear this week

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/

Be an empowered empath 1-1 session: https://www.reikiredefined.com/empowered-empath/You'll find me most on Tiktok @reikiredefined, and the same handle on Instagram.

Basics don't feel basic - because you're not returning to something you already know. You're unlearning decades of conditioning and re-learning how to actually create an existence that lights you up - where your authentic Reiki practise is a natural extension of who you are.

In this episode, we're exploring what "getting back to basics" really means when you're a practitioner, healer, Spiritual seeker, energy worker, or anyone outgrowing performing for systems that were never designed for your aliveness.

By the end of listening, you'll discover:

-Why "basics" can feel uncomfy & challenging - and why the difficulty you're experiencing is actually a sign you're doing profound work

-The energy audit framework - how to get radically honest about where your energy is actually going (not where you think it should go)

-The five foundations supporting you to create a fulfilling existence - the specifics that move you from survival mode to actual aliveness

-How to build aligned rhythms instead of rigid rules - the difference between strict practises that breaks under pressure and one that flexs and holds

-The guided goals framework - how to stay committed to your direction while staying radically open to being redirected by something deeper than your ambition

This isn't about doing less. It's about doing what's actually yours.

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

The room full of people leaves you depleted. You absorb your Reiki clients' energy. And somewhere along the way, you learned to abandon yourself in service to others.

But what if 2026 could be different?

In this intimate conversation, I explore the two core traps that keep empaths (Reiki trained or not) feeling burdened - and reveal the perspective shifts that reclaim your gift as medicine.

You'll discover how to feel without absorbing. How to care without taking on. How to perceive without absorbing. How to serve without abandoning yourself. How to distinguish between authentically emerging guidance and the blocks that have kept you tangled in other people's energy, potentially year after year.

This is for the highly sensitive, intuitive, empathic person ready to stop sacrificing and start thriving.

By the end of this episode you'll discover:

Why your sensitivity isn't a flaw from a place of empowerment - Understand the fundamental difference between absorbing others' energy and perceiving it -and how this one shift changes everything about how you move through the world.

The specific bind that traps Reiki practitioners (and how to break free from it) - Learn why mainstream Reiki training can actually reinforce energetic depletion - and discover how to practice as a grounded, boundaried healer without abandoning the depth of your gift.

What "empowered sensitivity" actually looks like in real life - Move beyond abstract spiritual concepts to concrete possibilities: finishing client sessions energised instead of drained, leaving rooms feeling alive instead of flattened, saying no without guilt, creating rhythms that work for you.

How to reclaim your medicine - the vibrant personal energy that's uniquely yours - Recognise that protecting your energy and honoring your sensitivity aren't opposing forces - they're the same act of sovereignty, and it's the foundation for authentic healing work.

The permission you've been waiting for to practice and live as yourself - Discover that there's no "should" in spiritual practice - just what's authentically emerging for you, what's aligned with the truth of who you are, and what's derailment from your path.

Be an Empowered Empath 1-1 coaching day: https://www.reikiredefined.com/empowered-empath/

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

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

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

You'll find me most on Tiktok @reikiredefined & Instagram.

What happens when you stop following the rulebook and start trusting yourself?

In this conversation, Tal shares his journey from addiction and disconnection to becoming a Reiki teacher who challenges what mainstream Reiki teaches about "doing it right."

Moving from the UK back to the Italian Alps, Tal brings a refreshingly honest perspective on energy work that's been largely absent from the spiritual industry IMO: the radical idea that your authentic expression matters more than perfect technique, that everything always works when you're aligned with your truth, and that the rigid structures we've inherited are often just mirrors of the control we experienced growing up.

We explore the creative life force that addiction was actually seeking, how lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences revealed his true power, why energetic protection is ultimately an internal state, and the revolutionary act of integrating your Spiritual practice into the magically mundane moments of everyday life.

This is for anyone who's felt constrained by spiritual dogma, who suspects there's more freedom available in their practice than they've been taught, and who's ready to trust themselves over external authority.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER BY THE END OF THIS EPISODE

-How the creative force we can seek through addiction, distraction, or numbing is actually a soul calling back to authentic expression - and the specific moment Tal realised this about his own 10-year struggle with addiction, and how music became the bridge to reclaiming his freedom

-Why "doing Reiki right" is actually the thing that keeps it from working - including the counterintuitive truth that everything works when you're aligned with your authentic power, and how Tal's "freestyle" teacher freed him from decades of seeking the "perfect technique"

-The hidden connection between rigid spiritual structures and the control patterns we learned growing up - and how recognising this pattern is the first step toward reclaiming your sovereignty in your practice and your life

-How to access lucid dreaming, out-of-body experiences, and premonitions can be reliable guidance - not as supernatural superpowers, but as natural human capacities we've been taught to suppress, including what Tal discovered about safety, fear, and the untouchable essence of who you really are

-The difference between "higher vibration" hierarchy and authentic integration - why the spiritual industry's obsession with levels and advancement keeps practitioners small, and what it actually means to live a "magically mundane existence" where your practice isn't separate from your life, it's woven through it

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

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

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

You'' find me most on Tiktok @reikiredefine & then Instagram

You'll find Tal here:Instagram @talenergyawakening @beyondhuman
Website: talenergyawakening.com