Mystic Holistic Worcester

06/10/2025

The magic and wisdom of Birch trees 🌳✨🥰💚

🌳 The Birch, bright and steadfast, teaches us that creativity always begins with a clearing. When we let go, we make space for the new to be born.

🖼 Slide 3 | Reproduction of a painting by Mariana Soares - | Postcard and A3 Poster — soon available at the OBOD Store.

05/10/2025

The lovely, cosy set up today, upstairs at for Reiki & Reiki Head massage 🍁🍂☺️ I had the best feedback from a client today who said they felt like a weight had been lifted! 🥰🙏✨
My October Sunday appointment spaces are filling up! The end of the month is fully booked, but I do have spaces in between, if you need to set some time aside for self-care, rest and rebalancing 🥰🍂🧡🙏

03/10/2025

Reiki’s most common translation is ‘Universal Life-force Energy’, which is synonymous with qi/chi and prana in other traditions and practices, with the ‘ki’ of Reiki being the Japanese equivalent of the word chi/qi as in Tai Chi/Qigong. Reiki is the word for both the energy that surrounds us/ is us, as well as the practice of working with energy intentionally.

At level 1, Reiki is a meditative practice with a focus on self-healing and rebalancing, that helps us perceive and connect to the energy that is around us/is us. At level 2 and above, it teaches us how to develop an even deeper connection and awareness with frequencies of energy for the benefit of ourselves and others.

All energy is measured or connected to in terms of frequencies/vibrations, so when we learn reiki we connect to 3 symbols which represent frequencies of energy that are earthy and grounding, airy/spacious, connecting and centring.

Whether we train in or receive Reiki, I think it’s important to delve into what ‘universal life-force’ energy is really referring to, so I include this guided practice in my training to expand into the vaster meaning of Reiki. It can be read in full on my website and is also available as guided practice.

“From Reiki
We become Reiki.
From Reiki all is born.
To Reiki we return.

Reiki is the sun, the moon and the stars,
Reiki is the Earth and all that we are.
Reiki is the water, and all that flows,
Reiki is the air and the breeze that blows.

Reiki is the highest vibration of love.
Reiki is the Earth below
And the cosmos above.
Reiki is every plant, every leaf, every drop of rain,
Reiki is in our greatest joy and our deepest pain.

Because Reiki is universal life-force energy,
Reiki is openness, responsiveness, pure sensitivity,
Reiki is all that we are and more,
Reiki is what we are to become,
Reiki is what we were before.

Reiki can be trusted where it flows,
Reiki travels where our loving attention goes.
May Reiki guide us back home to connection.
To healing as wholeness, through our highest intention.”

01/10/2025

Welcome October! 🍂🍁🧙🏻‍♀️🖤 To me October always feels like an exciting, potent portal into the darkest part of the year - the time of rest, of reassessment, of gathering and nurturing our resources and potential. We really notice the shortening of the days after the Autumn Equinox and we’re plunged further into the darkness when the clocks go back.

I love this month as the leaves put on their colourful displays, and the winds get up to help them fall to feed the land for the winter rest.

When we tune into this part of the Earth’s seasonal cycle (which is of course is inseparable from us too,) and celebrate this process of the surrender to transformation, the releasing and shedding, the rest, the renewal - the darkness can become our friend, a kin to the nurturing great mother figure from goddess archetypes. It’s then possible to appreciate the necessity of the cold, damp, grey days that make the rebirth at spring possible.

I used to struggle with SAD as soon as the clocks went back but now I prepare and tune in, honour and celebrate, burn homemade, seasonal herbal incense, drink seasonal herbal tea, make my inside spaces comfortable and cosy and I make sure I spend as much time outdoors as possible, noticing all the small changes and signs of growth and the renewal to come.

This time of year can be especially potent for those of us experiencing the transformation of menopause, as the season mirrors our own physical, mental and spiritual process, so it can be really helpful to tune into the gifts October brings, to support our own season of change. 🙏💚✨💫

30/09/2025

A trip into lovely Malvern today and stopped by my favourite trees and favourite fountain 🌲🥰💚

27/09/2025

Power Retrieval is a traditional shamanic technique employed to call back lost energy and energetic parts of ourselves.

Power loss happens to all of us at some point over the course of our lives and can be felt in our body, mind and spirit as fatigue, mild depression, burnout, feeling lost or stuck; mild illness and repeating patterns of thoughts or behaviours that we know don’t aren’t truly aligned with our needs or serve our highest good.

Power loss can especially be felt during peri/post menopause journey, where we can experience a keen sense of groundlessness and can feel lost and experience a sense of grief for the lost parts of ourselves.

Sometimes we can feel power loss happening in situations when we’ve lost self-confidence, feel anxious, unable to be our true selves in some way; felt silenced or felt unable to speak up.

Power loss can happen subconsciously in situations beyond our control, or when we’ve engaged in activities that have uneven energy exchanges or an unequal sense of authority/agency.

We can sometimes even feel our energy, our life-force draining from us as it’s happening. In these moments our body is giving us important messages and clues to our real needs and feelings about something.

There are various techniques we can utilise for power retrieval whether we work with a shamanic practitioner or call back our power for ourselves. Power Retrieval can involve meditation, drumming, chanting, intention setting, affirmations, visualisation, working symbolically with power animals, with compassion and forgiveness (to ourselves and another,) and/or ritual.

It also involves continuing to ‘feed’ the returned energy afterwards and ‘acting in accord’ in ways that continue to support and protect it.

I learnt Power Retrieval practices as part of my Shamanic Reiki Drum master/teacher training and from additional shamanic drum workshops, and offer sessions of guided power retrieval, working together with the soothing beat of the drum and the energy work of reiki, to call back lost energetic parts symbolised as power animals.

This is an excerpt from a new blog that also offers a simple empowering self-power retrieval ceremony utilising the elements, the senses and transfiguration:

http://mysticholisticworcester.co.uk/2025/09/27/shamanic-power-retrieval-worcester/

If you would like a guided power retrieval session with shamanic reiki drumming in person in Worcester or online, utilising the sound of the drum, reiki and guided meditation to call back your energy, feel free to get in touch for more details.

(Please note that power retrieval is not the same as Soul Retrieval which requires an authentic and apprenticed shamanic practitioner to journey for you.
Power Retrieval work is not intended for deep trauma work, or for those with PTSD, addiction and severe mental health challenges. Power retrieval is a complementary technique and not a substitute for professional support and guidance and/or medication.)

26/09/2025

On Sundays in October I’ll be upstairs at . It’s a lovely cosy space to let go into deep relaxation, to de-stress, release tension, ground, centre and reconnect with your self-care needs through reiki, shamanic reiki drum or reiki head massage. 💆🏻‍♀️✨💚

After October I’ll be reducing my appointments spaces throughout the winter months in harmony with the season that’s for slowing down and tending to our roots, so if you’ve fancied booking session but haven’t yet had chance, Sunday’s in October could be the perfect opportunity to visit me in the lovely therapy space at Balance.🧡🍂🍁🥰💫🌝✨

21/09/2025

Sunday and a full day of super relaxing Reiki/Shamanic Reiki Drum & reiki head massage clients, working with the dark moon resting energy and tomorrow’s equinox for rebalancing and restoring equilibrium 💆🏻‍♀️🍂✨

Spaces available this Thursday and Sundays in October 🍂

20/09/2025

Autumn signs as we edge towards Monday’s equinox. 🍂🍎🍄 I collected some Damson sap to dry as resin, after spotting it glistering all amber and jewel-like from the undergrowth, and collected some of my favourite herbal allies. 🌿💚 Fittingly for this time of equinox pause and Balance, I’ll be at the fabulous tomorrow with new moon and equinox sessions of rest and relaxation with reiki, drumming and massage 🫶🍂⚖️🧡
And from October I’ll be offering my services on Sundays rather than Thursdays, more info to follow! 🍁🍂🧡🫶