Sami West, a natural-born healer, has dedicated her life to helping others feel beautiful and confident. With 18 years of experience in the beauty industry, she has expanded her expertise to include holistic healing modalities such as Crystal Healing, Reiki, and Holistic Nutrition Coaching. After relocating to Okinawa, Japan, in 2020, Sami was inspired to create SHE Unbound, a company focused on Sacred Healing Energy & Beauty, offering unique retreats and healing services. Through SHE Unbound, Sami aims to share her boundless love and light with the world, empowering others to heal themselves and embrace their inner beauty. MysticMag finds out more.
Sami, can you share with us your journey of how you transitioned from the beauty industry to becoming a healer specializing in Reiki, Crystal Healing, and holistic health?
Well, I never really transitioned out of the beauty industry. I’ve been in the industry for over 20 years, but I’ve always felt like something was missing in my training and also in my experience. I could never quite put my finger on what it was that wasn’t present.
When I started finding out more about the spiritual healing realm, I noticed that my beauty business started to grow rapidly. I was attracting all kinds of new opportunities and connections with others. It was like this new piece of the puzzle came together and fit perfectly with what I was currently doing. I had now found the piece of my career and life long purpose that had been missing all along. So, I never really quit the beauty industry, I just added to my list of magic that I offer my clients and really anyone that comes to connect with me.
What inspired you to merge inner and outer beauty in your healing practice, and how do you believe they are interconnected?
The way I see it, spiritual healing, beauty services, and also holistic health all work as one unit. You can’t have one without the other. They all go hand-in-hand so perfectly when it comes to self-confidence. Spiritual healing helps give your inner confidence a boost, holistic health practices aid in keeping the physical body in peak condition and to maintain a healthy body image of yourself – and my beauty services can help boost your outer confidence which makes all of it come together.
My business is about helping women, specifically, master techniques to build their inner and outer confidence as a whole. I think that every facet of what I do plays an important role in helping to ensure that we live our lives as our highest selves and that we enjoy our lives to the fullest.
Could you explain how Reiki and Crystal Healing work together to facilitate healing, and what benefits clients can expect from these modalities?
Crystal healing, and Reiki are amazing modalities on their own, and can promote so much healing as separate services. However, I noticed that pairing the two together in one session actually helped the client to go deeper and experience a more powerful sense of healing overall.
This is because crystals are known for their enhancement of present energies, as well as helping to ward off any negative ones that come about. Think of them as little magnifiers of the powerful energies that you can experience. With that being said, Reiki uses a form of universal energy, and so as a result of using them together, you heighten the overall healing experience and allow yourself as the client to access different aspects of yourself that normally you would not be able to access.
For example: lost memories that are the root of deep seated traumas. This helps you in your healing journey long term, to be able to maintain the healing that you had in the session for longer periods of time after the session is over and in between sessions.
When I start working with a client for the first time, I always let them intuitively choose a crystal for their own so that you have something to work with on a daily basis and continue the work that we started in between sessions.
Your SHE Circles retreats in Okinawa sound like transformative experiences. Can you tell us more about the inspiration behind them and what participants can expect from attending?
Yes, my she circles are very special and dear to my heart. They are intricately and mindfully planned gatherings & retreats based in Okinawa, Japan for women to immerse themselves in a full mind, body, spirit experience. These women’s circles provide you with a sanctuary to take part in sacred ceremonies, join in meditation & connect with others in a safe and open environment, which I think is so very important these days. To just feel like you belong gives you confidence in itself. You will leave feeling rejuvenated, connected & balanced within your whole being while feeling your true confidence radiating inside and out.
These events are anything from my weekend retreats that include yoga, vegan and ayurvedic meals, workshops and a beachfront sanctuary all the way down to my one on one and group workshops. A few examples of workshops that I have hosted in the past are Numerology 101: How numbers in your life have meaning, Empower your Beauty: Learn to enhance your natural outer beauty with simple skills and tools, and also Blossom & Glow: in every trimester of your pregnancy, where you learn simple holistic practices and healing modalities to use in order to have the most connected peaceful pregnancy and pre/postpartum experience.
All of these events are meant to be a journey we take together throughout the time that you are present with me. I want them to be an unforgettable experience where you take the tools you learned and apply them to your everyday life to help you grow and flourish.
As someone who offers both in-person and distance healing sessions, what are your thoughts on the effectiveness of distance healing, and how do you ensure the same level of healing and connection with clients remotely as you do in person?
As a healer, I can see why someone would be skeptical of a distance session for sure. It’s hard to comprehend, or even explain the type of healing that happens at an in-person session, let alone trying to explain how a distance session is possible.
This is why it takes extra care and connectedness in order to perform a distance session. First, I connect with my client over video chat to get to know them and their lives, ensure that I have a clear understanding of the healing that needs to take place and also a connectedness and a comfortability with me that will work as we partake in the distance session. I always want to educate my clients on what to expect and the level of trust that needs to be in place in order to experience any healing with the distance session. I am always honest with them if I feel that the distance session will not be as beneficial to that specific client.
Once we establish the boundaries and the specific areas that you want to work on, I go through a guided deep meditation to get you prepared to receive the healing in the best way for you.
After that is complete, I let you off the call and give you strict instructions for an uninterrupted session. Including making sure you are in a safe, comfortable, very quiet space with no distractions. This will appear and feel like a meditation but you may experience physical, emotional or spiritual sensations along with pictures and symbols coming to you and your body as I work from miles away on your healing and opening up your chakras.
After a dedicated amount of time you will lift out of the meditative state and return to a call with me to discuss anything further that you need or anything that you experienced in the session that you want more clarity on.
It’s truly a different experience when doing a distance session but it can be just as powerful if not more powerful sometimes depending on how open you choose to be.
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