Episode #59 Randi Botnick's Journey: Unfolding the Mysteries of Reiki and the Power of Starseed Healing
Apr 24, 2024
Tracy searight
Have you ever felt a calling so powerful it reshaped your entire life? Randi Botnick experienced just that when Reiki didn't just knock on her door; it burst through, taking her on a transformative healing journey. Today, I'm thrilled to share Randi Botnick's captivating tale with you. She peels back the layers of her extensive healing practices, including Shakim Seikim Reiki and clinical hypnotherapy, and gives us an intimate look at her work with the Starseed Nation. Prepare to have your understanding of energy healing and Reiki broadened as Randi Botnick addresses common misconceptions and illustrates how this powerful practice operates beyond belief.
Imagine a toolkit brimming with healing modalities, each ready to be woven into the tapestry of your unique healing approach. This episode provides a treasure trove of advice for emerging energy healers, emphasizing the importance of honing a personalized healing style and the critical role of a healer as a wellness facilitator. I also take a moment to share insights from my own experiences and writings on energy healing, alongside discussing the psychic healing services and Galactic wisdom teachings Randi offers. For anyone seeking a deeper connection to Reiki and energy work, this is your portal to an enlightened path of growth and healing. Join us on this journey, and let's embrace the universal energy that connects us all.
Randi Botnick began her healing career in 1997, by getting her first Reiki certification. She followed that by becoming Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki Master. Around the same time, she received her Integrative Yoga Teacher certification and opened SpiritWithin Studios
Have you ever felt a calling so powerful it reshaped your entire life? Randi Botnick experienced just that when Reiki didn't just knock on her door; it burst through, taking her on a transformative healing journey. Today, I'm thrilled to share Randi Botnick's captivating tale with you. She peels back the layers of her extensive healing practices, including Shakim Seikim Reiki and clinical hypnotherapy, and gives us an intimate look at her work with the Starseed Nation. Prepare to have your understanding of energy healing and Reiki broadened as Randi Botnick addresses common misconceptions and illustrates how this powerful practice operates beyond belief.
Imagine a toolkit brimming with healing modalities, each ready to be woven into the tapestry of your unique healing approach. This episode provides a treasure trove of advice for emerging energy healers, emphasizing the importance of honing a personalized healing style and the critical role of a healer as a wellness facilitator. I also take a moment to share insights from my own experiences and writings on energy healing, alongside discussing the psychic healing services and Galactic wisdom teachings Randi offers. For anyone seeking a deeper connection to Reiki and energy work, this is your portal to an enlightened path of growth and healing. Join us on this journey, and let's embrace the universal energy that connects us all.
Randi Botnick began her healing career in 1997, by getting her first Reiki certification. She followed that by becoming Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki Master. Around the same time, she received her Integrative Yoga Teacher certification and opened SpiritWithin Studios
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Speaker 1:
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki, the universal energy life force, from the curious beginner to the seasoned master teacher, welcoming all systems, all lineages and all levels. Reiki is a journey and not a destination, and on this Ready Set Reiki journey, we refer to ourselves as guides rather than hosts, as we too are traveling, supporting each other and learning on this Reiki journey as well. And with that said, I am your first guide, tracy Seawright, and I'm your second guide, millie Pampina. And today we have a wonderful guest, randy Botnick. She began her healing career in 1997 by getting her first Reiki certification. Now she followed that by becoming a Shakim Seikim Reiki master and around the same time she received the integrative yoga teacher certification and opened Spirit Within Studios in Southern Maryland where she ran a yoga meditation classes and offered Reiki healing sessions.
Speaker 1:
In 2003, randy became a clinical hypnotherapist and for many years had a private practice which offered both Reiki healing and hypnotherapist, and for many years had a private practice which offered both Reiki healing and hypnotherapy sessions.
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Over the years, she incorporated flower essences into her practice and received certifications in the result system and access conscientious spars, as well as a variety of other energy healing practices, as she has certified hundreds of Reiki practitioners and masters and while working at Wellbeing Holistic Pharmacy in Owings Mill, maryland, she added detailed information about supplements and nutrition in her repertoire.
Speaker 1:
Over the years, she has taught classes in mind body medicine, self-healing and self-growth classes in mind body medicine, self-healing and self-growth. In 2014, she began channeling a galactic group called the Federation of Councils. The following year, she authored a book Foundations of Energy Healing the essential guide for opening into the quantum field. The book covers all aspects of healing, from detailed descriptions of the human energy field, utilizing kinesthesiology, clarifying your intuitive abilities, connecting with your healing guides, and includes over 20 emotional and energetic clearing techniques to practice on yourself and your clients. These days, randy has an active practice psychic healing practice, consistently channels both healing and spiritual information for groups and clients and offers classes on spiritual teaching. She currently resides in Black Mountain, north Carolina, so welcome, randy, to Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 2:
Thank you so much, so glad to be here.
Speaker 1:
Wonderful. So I have given our listeners just a little bit about you. So let's go in and find out. Tell us about yourself.
Speaker 2:
Sure, sure. Well, these days I am residing in the mountains in Western North Carolina with my animals and I, yeah, so I see private clients and that's what I spend most of my time doing, and and I offer these psychic healing sessions and I'm also teaching classes about esoteric and spiritual information, and those classes are tied to information that I get from the channeling sessions. These days, I'm channeling a group called the Starseed Nation. They're here to really support us through this ascension process and all the planetary changes that we're going through. I spend a lot of my time doing that and building that up. They're very eager to get their, their messages out. So it's good, wonderful.
Speaker 1:
I love that. So our next question is obviously about the Reiki. So when did Reiki come into your life and did you find Reiki, or did Reiki find you?
Speaker 2:
Reiki totally found me. That's such a good question. You know, I never really think about it that way, but it was amazing what happened to me. It was really like a spiritual calling, where I was working for a foundation in Washington DC, gotten a graduate degree, you know, in business and everything, and and I was young and I was working and suddenly, out of nowhere, I started getting the sense that I wanted to start healing with my hands. And I didn't even know what that meant. Like really, I didn't know anybody who did it. I didn't have a mentor, nothing. And shortly after that I found Dianne Stein's Essential Reiki book and I thought well, maybe that's what I'm thinking about. I got that book and I'm not. Well, maybe that's what I'm thinking about. I got that book and I'm not kidding Within a couple days a friend of mine said I just met someone in town who teaches and so I got in touch with her and I knew it was going to change my life, you know.
Speaker 2:
And so this was all in 1997, when no one else had done it before, and I met the teacher, I met one other woman and we started practicing on each other. We just did Reiki shares. I don't remember if it was once a week or whatever. But I slowly realized through them that it was a real. You know, it's a gift of mine. It was something that came very naturally to me. I got it very quickly. I was able to, you know, take the information, kind of run with it. So, yeah, that's how it found me. I got it very quickly. I was able to, you know, take the information, kind of run with it. So, yeah, that's how it found me. It was pretty wild, wonderful.
Speaker 1:
And who would have ever imagined that it would take you to where you are today, right, Right, exactly Like the whole journey that this last 25 years has been.
Speaker 2:
it's crazy.
Speaker 1:
Wonderful, wonderful. So 25 years of experience. You have lots of modalities under your belt, written a book. What do you find is the most common misperception about the work that you do?
Speaker 2:
I think it's that you know the recipient needs to believe it, because you know you meet people who don't believe it. But I always want to say to them doesn't really matter, it's true, anyway it's real and you might not perceive it the way I perceive it, but it's real. So you know, it doesn't really matter whether or not you think it's real.
Speaker 1:
Right, right, I love that. I love that. Thank you for sharing that. So what is something that everybody in this industry should start doing?
Speaker 2:
Everyone in this industry should start doing, I think, maybe to really challenge themselves, to go deeper into it and really see what the energy can do. I know I spent a lot of my time when I was younger kind of, you know, praying show me what's happening, I want to see it, I want to understand it, and so, in many ways, training myself or receiving the training from my guides, and I think that's what, first of all, made me better at what I do, made me able to teach and write the book. Certainly and um, you know it, it's what helped propel me forward all along. I didn't just, I wasn't just a passive observer Reiki, I really, really dove in, and I think that, you know, I think that that's highly beneficial.
Speaker 1:
Yes, it's very beneficial to dive right in there, right? Amazing. Thank you for that. So, as you're having all these experiences written a book helping others what is something you wish your younger self knew about your current profession?
Speaker 2:
Just how much it would change my life, like how much spiritual and emotional growth was going to happen. I mean, I don't even remember who I was before Reiki. I've heard a lot of people say that and it's very true. The movement energetically and from a soul level is profound and certainly I would never have known that that was going to happen.
Speaker 2:
I knew it was going to change my life. You know, I was aware that something was going to happen, but not that that, and so that's you know. And the other thing is, you know, give a healing, get a healing. So every time you work on someone, you're improving, and and again, I just, I just didn't understand how deep that would take me. And I would say, the other thing that I wish my younger self would have understood is that when, when you do this as a business, you're everything in the business, right, you're the marketer, the bookkeeper, the promoter, the, you know, the website designer, everything, and so I know that's true for any small entrepreneur, but it's it's. It can be challenging and there's a lot to that. And you know, I don't, I don't know how much of that I really understood 25 years ago. Right, right, I was going to be the sole purpose, the sole person moving, moving my business forward.
Speaker 1:
Right, right, right. It's a lot to move forward in. Right it is Right.
Speaker 2:
It's a lot to move forward in, right it is. There's so much, luckily, right.
Speaker 1:
Right, absolutely. So, when it is time for you to get a Reiki tune-up, or perhaps the reason why you've chosen the teachers that you have, what are some qualities that you look for in a Reiki practitioner?
Speaker 2:
Sure, first I look for intuition.
Speaker 2:
I feel like that's really important, and and what that means to me is that they're getting out of their head and they're dropping their own judgments or perceptions about things and staying open to what's happening in the field.
Speaker 2:
What's happening for me, um, and then from their confidence, and, too, I think that confidence is also getting out of your head, not thinking that you have to know something or or that you do know anything, but just but holding space in a way that says I can facilitate this by just being here with you. So those two things are really important to me. And then I would say the third thing is boundaries, because no one likes to go to a healer or a teacher and feel like you're having an effect on them. You want to be in the receptive mode of receiving from them, not adding to their burden in any way or whatever, or even, to be totally honest, even hearing too much about their burden. I think we all have stories of going to a healer and having them take up the whole hour. So having those boundaries that are clear very important to me as well.
Speaker 1:
Very good, very good advice. Thank you for that. Clear, very important to me as well. Very good, very good advice. Thank you for that. So what advice would you give someone who is just entering this profession?
Speaker 2:
So that kind of leads into what you just said.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but I think too, you know, don't take on too many modalities at once. It's really good to keep learning, but you don't have to know everything. And and if you do have a lot of, if you're drawn, offer each modality on their website and say I do this particular thing, which maybe I've never heard of and I don't know what it is, and then Reiki, and then hypnotherapy, and then this and then that, and, and ask the clients to choose which one that they might want. And instead I would say you know, if you want to keep adding to your stew of who you are and what you do, that's great, but make it your own thing, you know. Let it mix and meld together so that it's yours and then just show up that way for people, because the other is very overwhelming. If I see six or seven things on someone's website, I don't ever know how I'm supposed to pick one, and I prefer to go to a healer, who, who brings everything together and just shows up for me. You know.
Speaker 1:
Right, Right. I can see how that can be overwhelming, Cause many of us on this journey we feel like you know, what else do we need to add to that stew that you said, whether it's credibility or you just feel you're not there yet, that's giving you that extra layer of confidence. But just getting out there doing it and mixing it all into this beautiful way that you do it mixing it all into this beautiful way that you do it Exactly.
Speaker 2:
Exactly, and I think too, I really do understand, and I've learned a lot over the years as well, of course, but there is something about you know, taking it all and showing up with confidence as the facilitator for the work. Right, we're not the actual instruments that are healing, we're the facilitators of the energy, and so we want to present that way rather than come to me and I'll fix you because of this, this and this. You know, it's a little bit of a different way to address it Absolutely Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1:
So what books do you recommend and you can include your book in this as well, my book.
Speaker 2:
Yes, oh my gosh, I happen to have it right here.
Speaker 1:
Wonderful wonderful.
Speaker 2:
Please share with us. Yeah, so this is Foundations of Energy Healing, the Essential Guide for Opening into the Quantum Field. And you know, I wrote this book because I realized I would have loved a book like this when I was starting, something that really explained to me how everything fits together, and I'm a holistic thinker, so I wrote a book like that. I said, okay, you know, this is how you would use your intuition, this is what the energy field looks like, and I go quite into depth with different, many different layers of the energy field. And then this is how you might see it, this is how you might work with it, this is how you might use kinesiology to, like you know, test your answers. And I included how to work with your spirit guides and I included how to. You know I think you had mentioned in the introduction I have many different techniques for working on yourself or your clients emotionally and spiritually and doing all sorts of cleansing practices. So I think this is a great book. So let's see Essential Reiki by Diane Stein Again, you know I thought she was Reiki by Diane Stein Again. You know I thought she was. She just explained everything so well and was so clear. And it's my favorite because it was my first.
Speaker 2:
My Sekhem Sekhim Reiki teacher wrote a book called All Love. Her name is Diane Shoemaker and her book is also the quintessential. Fold it all together and really explain it, and she even offers how to do attunements in the book. So that's pretty cool. There's another book I would recommend is called Eastern Body, western Mind by Anadeya Judith, and it's about the whole chakra system. It's about how the Eastern philosophy looked at the chakra system and then how it shows up in our life in an everyday way. And I thought you know for me when I was first learning, that book was was so well put together and just exactly. You know perfectly what I needed. So beautiful.
Speaker 1:
Thank you for sharing that. So our next question is I listed some of them in the beginning of the intro, but listen up, listeners. What are some of the other modalities that you offer? What services do you offer?
Speaker 2:
Right. So most of my remote work, well, all of my remote work is what I call psychic healing. So again, I have called all of my skill set into one thing and it's like getting a reading and a healing in one and it, you know, I move through the physical issues. You know I move through the physical issues. I move through family lineage, ancestry, karma, lifetimes, all that stuff, and so it's really an all-in-one, deep, deep healing that can really help people make changes in their lives and really help people shift out of the old paradigm and the old blocks and create some beautiful new movement in their life.
Speaker 2:
When people come to me in person, I actually this is a new technique that I just learned this year and it's called the Lotus of Life Healing and it uses an actual physical, sacred geometry that I move over people's body and the geometry itself sort of clears the pathway between our humanity and our spirit self, and so it's clearing and cleaning and opening and opening this doorway to the, basically the star seed and the spirit energy finally connecting in. So that's been really cool too, really powerful for people. And those are the two things I do primarily healing wise. And then the third thing is that I'm a channel and I bring in this information from the Galactics and really they are wanting us to feel safe and joyful during this major transition on the planet, which is pretty difficult at times and kind of crazy and chaotic, and their consistent message is it's okay. It's okay, we're going to help you through this and stay in your heart, stay in your joy and stay in yourself and we're going to teach you how to move through this.
Speaker 1:
Beautiful, beautiful. So tell our listeners how they can reach out to you if they want to book a session. How do we find you?
Speaker 2:
Thank you. Well, the best way to find me is my website, which is randybotnickcom, and I think that's going to be in the podcast notes, and so you can, you know, please sign up for my free newsletter. That way, you can stay in touch with what I'm offering, and that's the best way to do it, and all my events are listed on my website as well, so you know, you can stay in touch and you can take some of the classes. Some of them are free, some of them are not free, but there's a lot of good information on there. There's also a lot of free guided meditations on the website as well.
Speaker 1:
Beautiful, beautiful. Thank you so much. Well, randy, this completes our journey together, and I'm going to pass you over to my co guide, millie Pampina, who has three social media questions for you. So, thank you so much. Thanks, millie. Millie, the floor is yours.
Speaker 3:
Thank you, randy. Thank you so much for sharing especially some of your personal insight. So much for sharing especially some of your personal insight. You know I liked so much the idea that you know not making the clients choose the type of treatments that they need, but being a facilitator of the. You know the healing energies and the healing that that you can bring to them by working with them. That says a lot too. I know we get a lot of folks who say they have to have a good sense about their practitioner. They have to have a good, they want to feel like they're being heard and that makes everything so much more real to me and I appreciate hearing that from a practitioner I really really do.
Speaker 3:
Now, as Tracy mentioned, it's you know we gather questions from our viewing and listening audience and you know we have three for you today. Tracy boils them down to the top three. Tracy boils them down to the top three and you know I work with you on that. So it's the first one is it's really it, excuse me, it's really. It helps if I have my notes in front of me the right way, doesn't it always? What strategies do you use to ensure that all aspects of your client's health are addressed during a session or slash your treatment plan. That goes right to what I just talked about. Great, yeah.
Speaker 2:
So great, yeah. So I start by asking very thorough questions at the beginning of any session, right? So it's my job to intuitive perceptions, to, once the session starts, to be able to see the pockets of energy and where they're held in the body or in the field, in the body or in the field. And so I'm looking for physical issues, I'm looking for emotional issues, I'm looking for the different timelines and things like that in somebody's field. So I'm really assessing, through the energy bodies, where things are held and where, and then I can see where they start, right? So, um, along with that sort of work, I do have expertise with all sorts of supplements and vibrational remedies, and those are also brought in with a little bit of both the skillset, the knowledge skill set, and the intuition, like something will pop in, like this would be perfect, you know. So I'm looking for all of that at the same time when I do any session with a person.
Speaker 3:
That's great. That's fantastic. I'm sure we would all enjoy having a more holistic approach to, to all of those elements.
Speaker 2:
Um yeah, because we we need to understand that the, the energetics um respond to the physicality and the physicality respond to the energetics. That's how we're built, and so it's wonderful to to make sure that we're choosing, to make sure that we're choosing remedies that are the key to the lock, you know Okay.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, yeah, no, that's fantastic. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2:
The second question we have, randy is how do you handle difficult conversations with people who are not open to your type of work? Yeah, part of me wanted to answer this by saying, oh, I stay away. But in truth, you know, let me say that I really honor everybody's free will. First of all, you know and everybody's at a different place with their own healing, and you know what goes on in the world, and so I know that a lot of people aren't ready yet for something that's non allopathic Western medicine and that's got to be okay, and Um, and you know, and, and so if, if they're not ready to hear about these other modalities and they don't want to discuss them, I I just I don't push it. I really don't push it. I don't feel that I have to prove anything about myself and I really don't think I have to prove anything about the energy work, because I'm clear that it's powerful and that it works. I'm also clear that it's not the first step for every single thing you know, and so everything within balance.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I love it because I had, you know, sketched out some notes here while you were talking to Tracy, and one of the things you said is you know, sketched out some notes here while you were talking to Tracy, and one of the things you said is, you know, they don't believe it's real, and you know the patient doesn't have to believe it's real, it's real even if the patient does not believe it. I, you know, I love the confidence you have in your practice, in your delivery, so that's wonderful, um, and that's meaningful, that's very meaningful. So our third question is how do you stay informed about new developments in holistic health care?
Speaker 2:
Um, I have a lot of good friends who are healers and who are medical practitioners, so I have an incredible community of people and we share a lot of information and we call each other with questions, and so I find that I get information about new things all the time and then I feel into whether I'm going to try them or not, but I also just hold that as like that could be something really important for somebody that I know.
Speaker 2:
The other thing is that there are definitely are certain teachers and healers that I follow and you know I get their newsletters and their information and then, yeah, so that's mostly the way. And then, finally, because of my background, already, in the supplements and the remedies and everything, when I do my own research, I'm able to discern, you know, I'm able to discern like I don't think that would work or, oh, that's pretty cool, I think we should try that one. And so those are the ways that I kind of I think of it, like staying awake, you know, and those are the ways that I kind of I think of it, like staying awake, you know, and those are the ways that I stay awake with all that stuff.
Speaker 3:
That's great, that's beautiful. Thank you so much. You're welcome, appreciate that. And the last question I have for you, which is not from social media, is is there anything that, during your conversation with Tracy and I, that you may have recalled or remembered or would like to elaborate on? We always know that something pops in and we want to give people an opportunity to discuss that.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I think I just want to reiterate that getting Reiki training is such a great way to do your own healing, and so, even if you don't think you're going to become a healer, even if you don't think you're going to design a website and get out there and sell, you know, I think, that if you have something minor like aches or pains, if you have something like an autoimmune issue, if you have something other chronic, just even getting the Reiki attunements is a healing process and you learn to work on yourself all the time, you learn to understand yourself better, you begin to attune into your body more, and all of that, I think, is just so, so helpful, and so I just I really recommend doing the training, regardless of where you are in your life.
Speaker 3:
Wonderful. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Well, with that, I'm going to end with my tagline, which is to see beauty in everything is a choice. Please choose wisely. And thank you so much, Randy, for joining us today. So much, Randy for joining us today, and I'm going to turn this back over to our co-guide, Tracy Seawright. Thank you All right.
Speaker 1:
Thank you, randy, so much for joining us on Ready Set Reiki. It was a true honor to have you come with us on this journey.
Speaker 2:
Thank you so much. Can I mention that I would love people to connect with me, that if anybody wants more information or has any questions or anything like that, I offer a free consultation call. There's a link in the podcast notes, but there's also a link on my homepage and I would love to talk to anyone who in any way wants more information.
Speaker 1:
Perfect. Thank you for sharing that with us. All right, my wonderful listeners, if you would like one of your questions featured on our podcast, reach out to us at wwwreadysetreikicom and find us through social media. We would love to share your question with our guest and the world and also check us out on Feathers, sister Wellness. So we offer a variety of yoga, meditation, reiki and Reiki trainings, and Millie offers once a month Reiki meditation the third Wednesday of every month, so make sure to check that out. It is free and you can have your camera and mic off, so what a blessing that is. So my name is Tracy Seawright and this has been Ready Set. Reiki Thank you.