Today we’d like to introduce you to Queenie Hilfer.
Hi Queenie, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I am a Reiki Master Teacher, Sound Healer & the Founder of a private healing practice, Reiki and Flow. It’s been a journey to get to this point as I come from a very corporate background having worked in Entertainment, Marketing, Advertising and successful startup companies spanning LA, NY and Atlanta. Growing up, I was always very spiritual and in tune with my energy, but I allowed the hustle and demands of fast-paced work life pull me away from this aspect of myself that helped keep me grounded and balanced.
I experienced a massive spiritual awakening from 2016-2018 that continues to this day. For years, I had been in a pattern of doing amazing at each job, then getting lured by new opportunities that came with a better title, higher salary and, of course, much more responsibility. Over and over, this was the pattern being mirrored back to me. In retrospect, my Higher Self kept giving me those opportunities to learn whether that’s what I really wanted or if I was simply functioning on autopilot based on old conditioning I had outgrown.
I was also a new mom with a toddler simultaneously juggling a large load of responsibilities, including all the emotional labor that goes unrecognized in our capitalist society. I was always being pulled in a million different directions and constantly working around-the-clock. There was zero balance in my life and I was burning at both ends of the proverbial wick which began to affect my health. I started breaking out in hives, getting allergies I never had before, having bouts of nausea.
The accumulation of stress and anxiety was clearly causing imbalances in my system. I knew deep down that I had to get my energy taken care of in order to alleviate the physical ailments I was experiencing as well as the emotional toll it was taking on me. In other words, I was suffering from a poverty of spirit that began manifesting physically in order to get my attention. I went to go see a local Reiki Master and after an hour-long treatment, the mental fog and all the heaviness I was feeling was completely lifted. I couldn’t believe it! From that moment, I knew I had to learn reiki for myself to take care of my own energy and avoid allowing energetic imbalances to accumulate to that point again.
I trained in reiki which simply translates to “universal life force energy.” It is an extremely gentle yet effective Japanese energy healing modality that has honestly changed my life. My life looks nothing like it did before. I began by practicing on myself, then friends and family who began reporting their own amazing experiences with this vibrational medicine that helps to process, release & move heavy emotions and trauma through the body. Eventually, I left my full-time corporate job to begin consulting and have more control of my time and energy. I gave myself one year to consult with mission-driven brands whose values align with my own.
I already had consulting clients lined up before my two weeks was up at my job, then a few weeks later, I got the news that my dad suffered a stroke and was in critical condition all the way in the Philippines where he retired with my mom. He passed away a few hours later and that moment shifted my entire world and served as another major catalyst to my soul growth. As traumatizing as that time was, I am so grateful I was able to be there for an extended amount of time to be with my mom and grieve together.
When I returned from that trip, I was a completely different person. It really instilled a sense of urgency in me to no longer do anything that didn’t feel in alignment. I felt so much clarity about what was in my heart and what I actually wanted to birth into the world.
That clarity led to me launching my own private healing practice. I also trained to become a Sound Healer and began infusing my treatments with sonic medicine. The types of emotional clearings & blissful flow I’ve experienced personally and witnessed in my clients has been the gift of my life. I offer private virtual and in person treatments and lead deeply restorative wellness workshops customized for the occasion. I also teach others how to activate the healer within through my training courses and mentorship program.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
My corporate career was literally built on creating efficiencies and generating optimal productivity. I was excellent at it and built a successful consulting business out of it to segue into launching my healing practice. So for me personally, the most difficult part of being a soul-preneur was having to unlearn my deep conditioning around what “productivity” looks like. I had to do the major inner work of releasing those outdated belief patterns I took on as truth and had to rewrite them completely. I redefined my entire perception of work and cut energetic cords with my old programming. Now, I work primarily with energy, frequency & vibration. As a result, I’m living with so much more balanced and ease vs. that nagging feeling of pushing a boulder uphill.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Reiki and Flow?
I am living proof that when you focus on healing your inner world, your outer physical reality follows suit. It can be no other way; matter follows energy. I was the person who used to get sick with a fever at least eight times a year. I would catch a cold and it would linger for months. I simply had zero energy to heal myself. It was all being expended on preparing for a perceived threat because I was constantly in fight or flight mode from chronic stress and anxiety. Since practicing reiki to release heavy emotions, heal old traumas & balance my energy, I never get sick like that anymore. Because of my journey and the choices my intuition led me to make, in my bioenergy field I am now carrying the frequency of what’s possible when you decide to take your healing back into your own hands. I mirror that back to others and all those who are a vibrational match find me in divine timing. This is the case for each and every soul that has made the journey home to themselves and is living their truth. That is what you are holding in your frequency for others as you shine your light.
Reiki is a part of my daily spiritual practice, so I really lean into the spiritual aspect of reiki. It’s not a religion, but it is very spiritual in nature. In my training courses, I teach both reiki and intuitive development because they go hand in hand. In other words, students learn reiki as well as teachings and techniques outside of the reiki methodology so they have a more well-rounded context around how it will begin to shift your life. We all have our own intuitive abilities and I’ve found they begin to come back very organically after practicing reiki. The old energy and your old way of doing things don’t work for you anymore because you begin to vibrate at a higher frequency. It’s like a beautiful door that opens up allowing you to not only see but participate in the world from a much higher vista.
I teach my students about reiki from all angles so they have strong foundational knowledge of it from honoring where it came from, Japan, to being able to speak to it from a quantum mechanics standpoint as well. It’s such an intelligent energy that works on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
Separately, I began integrating inner child healing into my work and quickly saw how transformative it was for my clients. The type of deep, emotional release my clients have experienced time and again has proven to me how foundational it is to heal the wounded inner child within. It’s become a staple in my healing practice.
In addition to reiki, I like to layer various modalities into my work including guided meditation, energy balancing techniques, crystal therapy, sound healing and shamanic journeying. I tend to weave some channeling into my treatments, sound baths and healing ceremonies as well which are all deeply cathartic.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
I’ve had so many advocates along the way that have appeared at exactly the right time to provide the guidance I needed to keep me on track with my journey. Old supervisors, friends, family and mentors all deserve credit. Even folks who looked at me sideways when I decided to walk away from my successful corporate career were all there to inadvertently push me along this path in order to find the resolve to trust in my own intuition and inner knowing of where I was going.
Pricing:
- $135 for 60min Reiki + Sound Healing Treatment (includes chakra reading, reiki energy healing, guided meditation, chakra balancing, energetic cord cutting, crystal healing & sound healing)
- $275 for 60min Couples Healing Treatment
- $444 – Reiki + Intuitive Development Level 1 Training Course
Contact Info:
- Email: info@reikiandflowhealing.com
- Website: https://www.reikiandflowhealing.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reikiandflowhealing/
