Reiki Radio Podcast

Happy July, Alchemist! Get comfortable and let’s reflect on the transition from June’s Gemini-to-Cancer seasons, dancing between mind and emotion, encouraging curiosity, balance, and self-awareness.   July continues in Cancer (moon-ruled) before shifting into Leo (sun-ruled), highlighting the luminaries and moving us through feelings, into illumination. There will be emphasis on self-nurturing, re...

Welcome back to the origins of Reiki Radio’s original focus, applying Reiki and related practices to real life. Interviews will continue only as live “Happy Hour” episodes on Fridays at 4:00 PM Pacific on Reiki Radio’s YouTube channel.  I'm sharing why I stayed with this work for over 15 years, how Reiki deepened my self-knowledge, expanded my studies (intuition, psychic development, Hermeticism,...

It's the midyear point of a universal year one, focused on re-identification, alignment, authenticity, and rebirth through shedding. After grounding Taurus season, Gemini season invites curiosity, learning, communication, and research while staying methodical. This month’s oracle card is the Major Expression 6, Lemniscate, emphasizing inner dualities (feminine/masculine, intuition/analysis, above/...

A year ago, Awakening Airwaves began as an idea rooted in connection, curiosity, consciousness, and the desire to create meaningful conversations around spiritual practices. What none of us could have fully anticipated was the incredible community that would grow around it, and TODAY we celebrate our 100th episode together. Over the last year, Awakening Airwaves has become home to conversations ex...

In this conversation, Mama Mut Ra-t, a contributor to Mama Ifetayo’s anthology, Reiki Heart and Soul: Many Stories, One Bright Light , shares her story “The Journey of a Generational Cycle Breaker” Her story reflects on early childhood in New Orleans, her mother’s passing when she was eight, being moved to Brooklyn under strict church rules, later learning her father had died, and ultimately recla...

Years after our initial conversation, I reconnect with Tonya Parker, a contributor to “Reiki Heart and Soul,” to discuss how her relationship with Reiki shifted into something she embodies, crystallizing during her 2020 training with Frans Stiene. Tonya shares many inspiring ways of seeing and understanding healing. Her message speaks to the hearts of healers and to the depths of our wounds. Rev....

Hello, Alchemist! Here’s your May energy update. We start by reflecting on April’s fiery Aries season as an invitation to pause, acknowledging growth, and integrating lessons learned. Then we explore Taurus season, as fixed earth energy ruled by Venus, emphasizing grounding, sensual presence, stability, self-worth, and financial responsibility. And of course, we look at the month’s numerology and...

Susan Stone is an Artist, Author, Reiki Master, Intuitive Healer/Counselor, Ordained Minister, and Initiated Shamanic Practitioner After a massive heat stroke in 2013, Susan had to give up her career as a professional gardener and reinvented herself as an entrepreneur. Starting her first brick and mortar business in 2017 when she opened ZenDen…a metaphysical, crystal, sage, and gift store. After s...

On this episode, I speak with Jonathan Richardson, a contributor to Ifetayo White’s book, “Reiki Heart and Soul: Many Stories, One Bright Light,” whose chapter is titled “Footprints.”   "Unhealed Healers Don't Heal Anything..." - Jonathan Richardson What happens when you want #Reiki to heal one thing, but what actually starts healing is YOU?! Jonathan shares how his upbringing and marriage led him...

On this episode, I interview Christal McElveen of http://neptunesgate.com , a fellow contributor to the book, “Reiki Heart and Soul: Many Stories, One Bright Light,” about her lifelong sensitivity to energy, growing up in a religious environment, and learning to cope with intense empathy and visions. Christal shares how she eventually shut her gifts down, then was cracked open by her grandmother’s...

April 2026, Energy of the Month, is an initiation and rebirth! Let's explore our relationship to Aries season, the influence of Mars, and the Energetic Alchemist Oracle card - The Architect (counterpart to last month’s Breathing Goddess). We'll also touch on how Pisces season, the energies of dissolution and release, created space for our Aries embodiment, bold authenticity, and action, while emph...

Yolanda and Melinda reunite to celebrate the equinox and discuss seasonal shifts, especially the Sun moving into Aries, and what it means for energy practitioners. They reflect on transitioning from Pisces themes of dissolution, forgiveness, purification, and compassion - moving into Aries, cardinal fire, action, audacity, and self-directed initiative, while noting the need to balance water and fi...

In this episode I sit down with the hosts of Haute Hustle Morning Mystics, Jeneth and Lyanca. I met these incredible women when I was invited to be a guest on their show, and now they’re on the other side of the microphone, sharing about how they met, their career pivots, and the spiritual experiences that shaped their work.   Jeneth shares how a life-changing surgery sparked mystical encounters,...

In this March 2026 update, Yolanda reflects on a collective sense that what is “for you” is amplifying and encouraging inner illumination. She also draws guidance from The Energetic Alchemist Oracle card “The Breathing Goddess,” emphasizing sacred feminine receptivity and creation from within. Key astrological dates include Mars entering Pisces (March 2nd - April 9th), the Virgo full moon, total l...

Today we have a conversation with Jonathan Robinson, a certified hypnotherapist and instructor, as well as a Reiki practitioner. He specializes in past life regression hypnotherapy and spiritual hypnotherapy because he’s seen how powerful it is when people finally access the deeper layers of the subconscious mind. In our conversation, Jonathan explains hypnosis as a guided meditation that brings t...

In this conversation, Yolanda speaks with Frank Arjava Petter, a well-known Reiki teacher, about his life updates, spiritual practices, and the profound changes he has experienced. Arjava shares his recent focus on creative projects and his reflections during a period of change in his work-life. He emphasizes the importance of self-reflection, staying present, and the interconnectedness of heart-m...

Do you ever feel unsure of how to balance your spiritual practice with your other desires and inspirations? Have you ever found yourself questioning who you really are and what you actually want to experience in life? Fortunately, we come to learn that our spirituality is expressed through all things, including the fullness and uniqueness of who we are, individually! Today we discuss this with Ang...

Laura Morris and Anjie Cho are the founders of the Mindful Design Feng Shui School and co-hosts of the Holistic Spaces podcast. Together they have over four decades of experience designing harmonious spaces for their clients and students in their successful design businesses. Through their articles, books, workshops, videos, TV appearances, and consultations, Laura and Anjie have guided thousands...

We talk a lot about intuitive development, and for most of us, a step-by-step process helps to clarify and understand the ways we personally recognize and translate energy. Eboni Banks, author of, Your Intuitive Nudge: a Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting with Your Intuition , had an interesting experience of finding out that she was clairtangent.   Through her work, Eboni has found that most Reiki...

At a time when so many feel disconnected, from their bodies, one another, and the Earth, Banafsheh’s message is both healing and transformative: the body itself is a sacred vessel of divine intelligence. “Most of us live in our heads,” she writes, “missing the opportunity to experience the body as a source of true happiness and spiritual awakening.”  Drawing from her signature Dance of Oneness® mo...

This is not just a new year, it's an invitation into your personal acceleration and the start of a NEW, nine-year cycle. It's important. Let's explore how we can be more deliberate in this energy of personal alignment and opportunities to raise in frequency and consciousness. To kick off the new year, I also invite you to join me for the FREE, annual, Numerology 101 class, happening January 4th. S...

This new year, 2026 is a Universal Year One, inviting you to acknowledge your personal alignment, opportunities for new beginnings, and coming into higher relationship with your own mind, emotions, body, and frequency! Join Yolanda and Adrienne for a sneak-peek into Life Chapters, an inspirational journey through a year of authoring your own life path and personal development. Grab something to wr...

Maritza is the founder of Bruja School, where she teaches the Liberation Magic Method. Her teachings center around a simple premise: the secret to life (and everything you truly want) is spiritual connection, free from religious trauma and new age b.s. Grounded in her Indigenous Chilean and Mediterranean lineage, Maritza blends ancestral wisdom with practical coaching. She equips people with power...

I want to have a conversation with you about you. There is a lot that comes up as we are ending a year, ending a cycle. And whether you are someone who likes resolutions or not, there’s an almost automatic, or collective kind of resonance with the acknowledgement that we’re in a time of transition. There’s a lot that comes up in terms of reflection around where we are and where we're going. I’ve h...

Do you have more than one spiritual practice? Many of us do, and it’s common to find that all roads and systems are pointing to the same expression – YOU and your self-realization as ONE with All There Is.   J. Efunlayo Maxey is an experienced Reiki Master-Teacher, an ordained Ifa/Yoruba priestess and retired schoolteacher and administrator. She has combined these skills and experiences to create...