A Journey of Light and Learning with Lorna McLean | Reiki, Women’s Circles & Soul Midwifery
Release Date: 11/03/2025
Reiki, Shamanism, and Manifestation with Jan Engels-Smith
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
In this collaborative episode of the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, Colleen and Robyn Benelli welcome Jan Engels-Smith, founder of LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism, and Colleens shamanic teacher, for a grounded and expansive conversation on Reiki, shamanic practice, and conscious manifestation. Jan brings decades of experience as a teacher, author, and ceremonial leader, sharing how spiritual practice becomes meaningful when it is lived, embodied, and applied with integrity. Together, the conversation explores how Reiki and shamanism support clarity, alignment, and discernment, especially...
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Guided Reiki Journey for Manifestation: Moving Past Resistance and Taking Aligned Action
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
This guided Reiki journey supports you in moving past resistance and into divinely guided action. Through gentle Reiki awareness and listening, you are guided to release resistance and receive clarity for your next step. In this journey, you will: Settle into Reiki energy and nervous system regulation Cross the Bridge of Light into deeper awareness Release resistance at the River of Life Listen for guidance at the Tree of Life Receive clear, aligned actions in the Field of Opportunity Integrate insight into your body and daily life This journey is supportive when you feel ready to move...
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Reiki for Manifestation: Moving Through Resistance and Taking Divinely Guided Action
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
In this Distance Reiki Share, Colleen Benelli and Robyn Benelli continue their Reiki manifestation series by exploring how resistance shows up when energy is ready to move into form and how Reiki supports divinely guided action in real life. Manifestation often feels clear at the vision level, yet challenging at the action level. In this conversation, we explore how resistance can signal readiness rather than failure, how courage and trust develop through movement, and how clarity often unfolds after taking the next step. This discussion offers grounded, practical insight into working with...
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Remembering the Divine Within with Allison Batty-Capps
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
What happens when a spiritual awakening looks like a crisis? Allison shares her powerful story of moving through trauma, mystical experiences, and a diagnosis of schizophrenia, into a life of healing, teaching, and guiding others to their inner compass. This week on the Reiki Lifestyle Podcast, we welcome Allison Batty-Capps, licensed marriage and family therapist, Reiki Master, yoga coach, and author of The Divine Within: Healing Ourselves to Heal the World. In this heartfelt conversation, Allison speaks about: Her personal journey from spiritual emergency to grounded awakening....
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Reiki and Receiving: A Guided Journey into Creation and Manifestation
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
This guided Reiki journey focuses on receiving as a fundamental force of creation. Receiving is a life force movement. It is part of how creation takes form, just as giving is. In this journey, you are invited to receive Reiki as a creative energy that moves through your body, your biofield, and your consciousness, supporting manifestation through alignment rather than effort. Through breath, Reiki energy, and the presence of enlightened beings and guides, you travel across the Bridge of Light into higher awareness and expanded perspective. In the illuminated realms, you receive color, light,...
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Manifestation Begins with Receiving
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
This is part 3 of our Manifestation series. We discuss and explore how Reiki energy empowers our ability to receive and how receiving is a foundation of manifestation. Before action, before effort, before form, there is listening, inner awareness, and receptivity. Reiki supports this process by helping us receive clarity, timing, ideas, and alignment through the body, the mind, and the soul. This discussion continues our ongoing manifestation teachings from parts 1 & 2, beginning with Reiki and listening, intention, and the Burning Bowl Ceremony. Those discussions and journeys supported...
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Nita Mocanu on Kotodama, Reiju, and Reiki as a Way of Life
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
In this episode, Robyn and Colleen welcome Nita Mocanu, a beloved Reiki teacher based on the French Spanish border and a teacher Colleen studied with years ago. Nita shares his journey from classical musician to full time Reiki teacher, weaving together his life in Romania, Sweden, and France. The conversation explores the heart of Nita’s Reiki practice, including Kotodama (the sacred sounds of the Reiki symbols), Reiju (Usui’s original style of attunement), and how sound can bring spiritual clarity in just minutes, along with his monthly Full Moon distant Reiju offering that supports a...
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Burning Bowl and Water Release Ceremony
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
Welcome to Reiki Lifestyle’s annual Burning Bowl Ceremony, a Reiki-guided new year ceremony for letting go and calling in your intentions. In this recording, we create a sacred circle together with Reiki energy, ceremonial sound healing, and a guided journey that supports clarity, release, and the next step you are becoming. This ceremony includes both a Fire Bowl and a Water Bowl (a beautiful option when fire isn’t possible). You are welcome to participate with paper and pen or simply receive Reiki where you are, even if you are listening while working or on the go. Colleen Benelli,...
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Online Reiki Community Q&A | January 2026
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
Welcome to our monthly Reiki Community Q&A. Here are a few of the questions and topics from January’s Q&A podcast. • Announcements and upcoming offerings • Overview of our Distance Reiki Share, including the format, what we discuss, and breakout room etiquette. What to expect and differences from our Reiki Q&A Podcast. – Held every Tuesday at 9:30am PT – Free with one-time registration • Overview of our Reiki Q&A Podcast and how it differs from the Distance Reiki Share – Held once a month on a Wednesday at 9:00am PT • Invocation: what it is,...
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Reiki Journey for Manifestation: Clarity, Intention, and Inner Guidance
Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast
This guided Reiki journey supports deep listening, inner awareness, and clarity around what you want to manifest in your life. Through Reiki energy, breath, and conscious awareness, you are guided into a state of receiving where your heart, mind, body, and spirit come into alignment. This journey invites you to release the noise of the external world, heal the reasons listening may have felt difficult, and reconnect with your inner truth. You will be guided through the Bridge of Light into the enlightened realms, resting at the River of Life and entering the heart of the Tree of Life. From...
info_outlineJoin us on the Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast as we welcome Lorna McLean, a spiritually rooted Reiki teacher, holistic therapist, and guide based in Glasgow, Scotland. Sensitive and intuitive since childhood, Lorna has spent decades weaving together Reiki, holistic practices, women’s circles, and doula support to create soul-centered offerings of healing and empowerment.
In this conversation, we explore her journey from corporate life into a lifetime of spiritual learning, the lessons she has carried through personal loss, and the sacred ways she supports others through birth, life, and death.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- How Lorna discovered Reiki in 1996 and began teaching in 2002
- Her experiences as a birth doula and soul midwife (death doula)
- Her personal experience of love, loss, grief and profound healing
- Spiritual journeys to India, Peru, Jerusalem, France, Sri Lanka, and Scotland
- Her journey to the South of France and experience with Mary Magdalene
- What’s next on her path of service through Reiki and holistic healing
Lorna’s story is filled with resilience, devotion, and the wisdom of lived experience. Whether you are new to Reiki or a seasoned practitioner, you’ll find inspiration in the ways she invites us all to return to our inner light and authentic selves.
Connect with Lorna McLean:
Website: www.lornamclean.co.uk
Email: lorna@lornamclean.co.uk
Instagram: @lornamcleanreiki
Facebook: Lorna McLean
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Free webinar on November 18, 9:30–12:30 PT. Registration required. All registrants receive the recording. Reiki and Shamanism - Journey Skills for Reiki Energy Healershttps://reikilifestyle.zoom.us/webinar/register/6117606442670/WN_52XfKIbmRbqGwIWsOkighQ
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**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.