In our latest interview, we sit down with Shellee Rae, an “unTeacher” who guides individuals in unraveling from conditioned mind perspectives. Shellee Rae shares her journey from becoming a Reiki Master to exploring energy modalities and spiritual practices, offering profound insights into healing and awakening. MysticMag has the pleasure.
Can you please introduce yourself to our readers and share a few details about your professional journey?
I call myself an “unTeacher,” helping people unravel from the conditioned world/conditioned mind perspectives.
In 1998, I became a Reiki Master and subsequently attained mastery in several other energy modalities over the following years. I am also certified in numerous body-centered therapies. Additionally, my spiritual journey led me to India in 2006, where I became a deeksha giver after a transformative month.
My first book, “Suffering ~ A Path of Awakening,” gained global reach and opened a gateway for me to guide and support individuals through Zoom in their awakening process. By gently pointing to the truth of their essence from my own profound realization, I blend deep compassion with unwavering awareness that your Essential Self is not defined by suffering. This realization is joyfully and effortlessly transmitted—not merely to the mind, but deeply into the core of the being.
All my work is organic and intuitively guided, responding to the unique needs of each moment.
As a Reiki Master, what would you say are the main benefits of Reiki and who is it for? Can everyone expect to get those benefits if they do Reiki on a regular basis?
Reiki is for everyone and everyone can benefit from it. People often come with a myriad of challenges, illnesses, and personal struggles, often as a final resort for relief and then witnessing their departure with a sense of calm, sometimes glowing with joy and renewed optimism fills my heart with warmth.
I am often blessed to observe their gradual improvement over time, witnessing personal growth, increased confidence, and a greater trust in life.
Reiki can also stimulate significant life changes and adjustments in relationships, work, or home situations.
Reiki occasionally seems to create miracles. I’ve seen many over the years that I’ve been sharing the energy.
Working with people in Reiki sessions, I (or the client) may sense or see the presence of spiritual entities or passed-over loved ones, feeling their gentle touch, and knowing they are working with us.
Reiki is also a profound source of support for animals. I’ve worked with hundreds since my journey began. It has been a catalyst for my own personal growth and evolution, reshaping my perspectives, values, and beliefs.
What are your Sacred Ceremonies like?
The experience of sacred ceremony is a deep, beautiful, and often life-changing journey to the heart of what really matters – an opportunity to face and integrate shadow, transmuting trapped energies and making them available for life-affirming purposes. The sacred ceremony experience helps people search – sometimes in the darkness – for what’s been lost. True personal evolution and awakening can be challenging, requiring courage to face fears and commitment to the awakening journey. Sacred ceremony is also an amplifier that will bring to the surface patterns and programs that no longer serve you. Ceremony compels us to face, resolve, and release issues that have been buried.
Surrendering to the awakening process often involves deep healing which includes cleansing and integrating painful memories, emotional blockages, and self-limiting patterns. The accumulation of these things prevents us from re-discovering our true selves and living a life filled with joy, abundance, and inner peace.
A sacred ceremony is an intimate circle (working with our plant medicine) in which approximately 8 to 16 participants are guided by myself and our assistants through a life-changing journey. While this often takes place in a group setting, each participant is having their own personal, individually-focused experience on their path of spiritual growth, personal transformation, and awakening as the ceremony unfolds.
Group ceremonies are conducted in carefully chosen locations that are diligently prepared for this work, creating truly sacred spaces where participants feel safe, held, and attended to with great care by myself and experienced guardians.
You’re also a successful author. What books have you written and why would recommend them to our readers?
My first book: Suffering ~ A Path of Awakening: Dissolving the Pain of Incest, Abuse, Addiction and Depression is the brief memoire of my life, a wounded Heroine, (as some have stated) and the eventual awakening through the portal of suffering. It is a light-touch telling of a heavy story, revealing to the reader an essential secret of life that they too can know as their own: Nothing can defeat the human spirit. Nothing. No matter how broken you’ve been, my story gives hope and can help you heal — which means, become whole.
I awakened to a voice in 2008 that said, “It’s time to write.” By day three, the voice was so loud that I jumped out of bed and began the writing journey. At the time I didn’t know I was writing a book. It was much like a download or channeled writing as it came pouring effortlessly through me. There was a pause in the writing during a traumatic event, which was the catalyst for my awakening, and then the voice returned stating, “Finish the book.”
The three books after Suffering were written from the consciously awakened condition. They are helping people all over the world by supporting and guiding them during life’s challenges and in the often confusing awakening process. The simple and direct words offered in these books begin to infiltrate beliefs, and people often rediscover their sovereignty and autonomy that was masked by conditioned mind and conditioned world ideas. The chapters gently point to learned beliefs and behaviors, redirecting the readers inward, and they begin to feel the depths of Being, experiencing more levity and joy! Releaseing baggage of the past (which hinders connection to inner guidance and wisdom), the readers may realize that the one they have been longing for has been here all along.
My fourth and most recent book: PRESENCE: How To Be Here Now
Second book: Enlightenment: Tips To Reveal Your Divine Nature
Third book: AWAKEN: Steps and Stories to Guide You
What can people expect from your retreats?
I ask people to come open, with no expectations, and see what arises through our work.
What other services do you offer?
Reiki sessions, in-person and remote, Tea With Shellee sessions, in-person or via Zoom where people have the opportunity to explore what’s not working in their lives and create space for movement towards liberation from limiting beliefs, conditioning, concepts, and judgement, and Sacred Ceremony.
To learn more about Shellee and her work, you can visit www.shelleerae.com and www.RaeOfLightMinistries.com
