For most of my life, I moved through the world without a clear sense of direction. I survived more than I lived, adapting, enduring, doing what was expected, without ever feeling truly aligned with myself. Music entered my life early. I began playing the piano as a child and later graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in piano. From the outside, it looked like success. From the inside, something was missing. I never truly loved it, and eventually, I walked away, setting the piano and a vital part of myself aside for almost two decades. When my marriage ended, everything I had been holding together finally unraveled. The divorce cracked me open. Grief, anger, sadness, depression, and a constant undercurrent of anxiety took over. I sought help through therapy and medication, hoping for relief, but nothing reached the deeper wound. That dark night of the soul followed me everywhere, touching every part of my life.

In 2020, when the pandemic shut down the gyms, I searched online for ways to support my physical health and well-being at home. What I found instead was yoga, and within it, conversations about chakras, energy, and healing. That curiosity led me to Reiki. I didn’t fully understand it, but something in me recognized it. I was exhausted from trying to fix myself, and Reiki spoke directly to healing from within. As I immersed myself in energy work, subtle shifts began to occur. I felt less reactive, less heavy, less consumed by the emotional weight I had been carrying for years. In its place came balance, then calm. For the first time in my life, I experienced real inner peace. Feeling comfortable in my own skin was so unfamiliar, yet I couldn’t deny its truth.

After several powerful in-person Reiki sessions, I completed my Level 1 Reiki training in 2021, followed soon after by Level 2. In the spring of 2025, while preparing for major knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus and reattach a tendon, I chose to complete my Reiki Master training to support my recovery. My healing progressed months faster than my surgeon had anticipated, further confirmation of the work I was doing. Around the same time, something else unexpected happened. After an almost twenty-year hiatus, I returned to the piano, not as a performer, but as a companion to yoga classes. In that space, I finally fell in love with the instrument I had once turned away from. Music transformed from obligation into presence, from pressure into healing. It became alive again, just as I was. Recently, after a particularly profound experience, I asked the universe, “What’s in my hands?” The answer came instantly and clearly - piano and Reiki. I trusted what I heard and chose to follow it. Today, I play live piano for Yinstrumental yoga classes and weave Reiki into every aspect of my life. I live as a calmer, more grounded, more compassionate and fulfilled version of myself, truly at peace and genuinely happy in a way I never thought possible.

My mess became my message. Reiki changed my life when nothing else could, and now I’m devoted to helping others discover the same healing, wholeness, and inner peace.