Today we’d like to introduce you to Kellie Jean.
Hi Kellie, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I was visiting England in the summer of 1999, with my then husband and one-year-old daughter. While I was there, I got into a conversation with my husband’s sister about a crystal healing session she recently had which sounded really intriguing. I got the healer’s, Shirley O’Donahue, director of Lucis College, information and immediately made an appointment.
After the session, Shirley told me that I had the potential to be “an amazing healer”, and then began to draw a picture of the sun. I asked her what it meant and she told me that “people are going to try to get you to do it their way but you’re going to cut your own cloth.” Shirley continued to say that I should think of healing as the middle part of the sun and that we are all different rays. I felt connected to what she described, I had always had an inkling that if I placed my hands on people that I could channel a divine energy and heal people but always thought, “who am I to think I can do that?!” I shared this with Shirley and she said that what I described was basically what reiki is and that I should learn reiki when I returned to Los
Angeles. We were in England for a month (my ex-husband is from there) and so I took the opportunity to study how to read chakras, feel energy, and use crystals with Shirley.
I waited over a year to study reiki, as I was busy raising my baby and felt unsure that reiki was really my calling. First, I went to massage school (at IPSB) and then shortly after I graduated I got attuned to my first level of reiki in January 2001. At the time, one of my massage clients called me, telling me that she had some major issues going on with her stomach. she said that her doctors could not figure out what was going on and was wondering if “that reiki stuff” I did could help. I told her I wasn’t sure and that I would give her a free hour session so that we could both find out if it could help. I remember being really nervous the morning of her session so I called Shirley, in England, and told her that I was going to work on my first client, I described what I was planning on doing and what crystals I was going to use. Shirley told me that what I was going planning on doing during the session sounded great and to always remember to use my intuition. After the session my client’s stomach problems completely went away. I was amazed that I could actually channel this divine energy that I wasn’t so sure I was capable of. I realized that there must be something to this “reiki stuff” I was doing.
One morning, a couple of weeks later, I was in bed asleep when I was woken by a man’s voice. He told me that I was to give people 4 free sessions each, document my work, and treat it as research. I jumped out of bed feeling really happy and excited. The message was so clear, I had no doubt that I was meant to follow this guidance I was just given. I went through my address book (cell phones were new and I didn’t have one) and called everyone I knew, offering these sessions. I explained that the only thing I needed from them was to agree to come in once a week for all four sessions, and to allow me to document what happened during each one. This is how I got started doing reiki and crystal energy work. I gave these four free sessions for my first year and continued to document all of my work over the next five years, working with over 100 different people. After a couple of months of being attuned to reiki level 1 I received my reiki 2 attunement. Then five years later my reiki master level. I have been teaching and continuing my practice ever since and am now in my 25th year.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No, it has not always been a smooth road! I I knew I had to follow this path. It was really difficult at times. Hardly anyone knew about reiki when I started practicing in 2001. My husband and I decided to divorce around that time and I was working to help support and raise our daughter. For a couple of years I had to take a full time job and only had time to work on a couple of people a week in my spare time. I have had to take several leaps of faith to get where I am now. The first leap was to quit my job and start working out of a healing spa, doing both reiki and massage, then eventually rent my own space in a healing center, then to open my own office in 2010.
It was shortly after I opened my office in 2010 that I quit doing massage and fully dedicated myself to doing only reiki and crystal energy healing. In 2020, during the pandemic, I had to give up my office and move it into my home and focus more on long-distance sessions. I’ve had to work on letting go of a lot of fear along the way. Each time I have let go I’ve been amazed at how the Universe continues to support me and how my practice shifts. Since working out of my home I’ve incorporated sound healing into most of my sessions, using both crystal and Tibetan sound bowls. It’s always exciting to see what the next step with my practice is going to be!
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
I am a reiki master and crystal energy practitioner and teacher. I specialize in working with the chakra system and how it affects people on a physical, mental, and spiritual level. My catch phrase has always been, “Helping your body to heal itself.” Our energy gets really scattered in our daily lives from things like being angry, upset, trauma, injuries, grief, being too busy, or giving too much of ourselves. These things can shock our systems, whether we are aware of it or not. This shock disrupts our natural balance and we need to come back to center. I help people to release what is no longer serving them and help them to retrieve their energy and fully align back into their bodies. When this happens everything else starts to align. We can begin healing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We can connect to our higher selves.
I think that one of the things that sets me apart from other reiki practitioners is that I have been doing it for so long, lol! I have dedicated my life to this practice and to helping others, I have always combined crystal energy healing in my practice from day one. I discovered how crystals affect the chakra system and overall health of the individual and over the years developed my own method for clearing the chakra system and energy from the physical body including injuries and trauma.
I am most proud of listening to and following my inner guidance and trusting God/Divine/Source and sticking with the path that I am on. I see things so differently now from when I first started practicing reiki. It’s opened me up to a whole new world! I am also really proud of the students I have had the privilege of teaching. They bring me so much joy and are all individually unique as healers, I am reminded, through them, of how grateful I am for being allowed to have this gift and to pass it on to others,
Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
Yes, there are several books that really helped me along my journey, including: The Crystal Bible (Hall), Your Seven Energy Centers (Prophet), Adventures of a Western Mystic (Peter Mt. Shasta), Autobiography of a Yogi (Yogandanda), Journey of Souls (Newton), Conversations with God (Walsch), and A Course in Miracles, amongst others.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://kelliejeanreiki.com
- Instagram: kelliejeanreiki
- Facebook: Kellie Jean Reiki
