Tanya Adams, a seasoned Holistic Counsellor and Shamanic Reiki Practitioner, shares her transformative journey, from corporate life to holistic healing. She delves into the intricacies of Soul Plan Reading, demystifies Reiki and attunements, and passionately explores her work in the Divine Feminine. Tanya’s unique approach blends shamanic sessions with therapeutic counselling, offering a holistic and transformative healing experience. Learn more in the newest edition of MysticMag interviews.
How did you get into Holistic Counselling?
After nearly 10 years of offering my services as a Shamanic Reiki Practitioner, in 2019 I was personally going through something of a watershed year and had to relook at what I was offering treatments, the way it was offered in order to rebalance work with private life commitments. I was initially looking at studying more conventional counselling, as it was something that I had been interested in for somewhile, having realised that there is often a significant element of counselling to Shamanic Consultations to help the integration and understanding process.
It was in the middle of COVID that I found the Spiritual Counselling Diploma course offered by the Holistic Healing College, based in London. The course is accredited by the Complementary Medical Association CMA and is a rich blend of traditional counselling techniques, life coaching and working with energetic interventions to help promote healing and breaking through blockages, such as the Emotion Freedom Technique (EFT), Parts Work, Tarot, Mindfulness, basic Hypnotherapy and many more including the powerful Soul Plan Reading system. This course has enabled me to work under the title of Holistic Counsellor, which feels very grounded and allows me to offer a bridge between more conventional therapy work and energetic healing modalities.
How does Soul Plan Reading work?
Soul Plan is a form of numerology, working with your full name at birth and converting it into a numerological value, which provides a vibrational imprint. It is a powerful system of uncovering life purpose and guidance on how to realise this potential. Soul Plan also looks finally at the Soul Destiny gesture which is shaped through someone’s name.
The system uses the name given at birth as a form of a blueprint which is handed out at birth mapping out the challenges, talents and goals a person may meet on their life journey. Some Soul Plan Readers also work with names adopted later in life as important layover energy and imprint for a person. The system relates to one of the oldest alphabets in the world the Aramaic alphabet which has a resonance to it, revealing energetic influences which have been derived from ancient texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah. The system was first channelled by Frank Alper and then later further developed by Blue Marsden who is the founder of the Holistic Healing College, London.
Soul Plan readings reveal the challenging energies that a person may be grappling with as well as their talents and energetic goals. Understanding these on a much deeper level brings clarity and can help someone move out of the place of being blocked or confused and embrace their potential.
An energetic meditation and healing is included at the end of the reading to help clear energies and empower the client to move forward with the information revealed in the reading.
What are Reiki Healing and Attunements?
Reiki is a high-vibration form of Energy Healing, developed in Japan by Mikao Usui and is now a recognised technique commonly called palm healing or hands-on-healing as a form of alternative medicine. Rei ki actually means universal energy and it is this high vibrational energy you are receiving to enable the healing. The healing sessions can be carried out fully clothed either sitting or lying down and each time the experience may vary. It is likely the receiver may feel varying temperatures, movement in energy, they may even see different coloured light. It is a very subtle form of healing and it is considered to be one of the few healing modalities that have no contraindications.
There are different schools of Reiki including Usui, Western Attunements, Angelic Reiki, Holy Fire and Karuna and others. These all have developed from the original teachings of Mikao Usui but have come in over time, continuing to raise the vibration and healing potential of this gentle, yet profound practice. My sense of Reiki is that it activates and enables the body and energy bodies to connect with their own innate ability to heal and balance. It can help on a molecular level to shift the vibration into a more harmonious resonance.
The Attunements and Empowerments are given by a Reiki Master, who has already received them, worked with them and is experienced in the practice. My sense of it is that as much as it is about receiving an attunement or empowerment it is about awakening a light energy that already exists within the person and enables them to access it more consciously and easily.
What can you tell me about your Divine Feminine work?
When I first started to train in energy healing I had up to that point been living a very corporate life working in a very masculine environment and this had been a very conscious choice. As I felt called to train in energy healing and face my own healing, the first thing that became very apparent was the separation I was experiencing with my own femineity and feminine rhythms. First through connection with nature, journeying and meditating with nature and later through non-psychoactive plant ceremonies this connection began to heal. I then received my initiation and training in 2016 to be a Red Tent Activator, which brought me closer to connect and understand the importance of the moon and bleed cycles and how that relationship had been suppressed over the years. Then in 2019, I received my first attunement as a Moon Mother. I experienced this as similar to Reiki but specifically attuned to the feminine aspects within. Making more of a conscious connection with the moon cycles and inner rhythms learning to listen and honour these more closely has personally been key to appreciating my softer aspects and making better and more discerning choices.
I currently run a regular Women’s Medicine Journey Circle and I am passionate about providing this space to allow for this intuitive connection to be nurtured and honoured. We work often with seasonal themes, moon cycle aspects and feminine archetypes.
What other services do you offer?
I still offer a space when needed for shamanic healing and mentoring, meditation and journeying as well as at times land healing work. In many of my therapy sessions crystals and Bach Flower Remedies will make an appearance along with undertaking a 9 Star Ki reading which is an energy ready based on date of birth and an ancient Chinese Element System. I work on a Wednesday at Neal’s Yard Remedies, St Albans offering in-person appointments.
Is there anything else about your work that you’d like to share that we haven’t covered?
I’m finding working with the Holistic Counselling and having the opportunity to go deeper with a Shamanic Session works well. It allows for preparation and integration to happen before and after the Shamanic deeper healing work. Sometimes I have found that working solely with Shamanic Practice can sometimes leave a lot unresolved in the intellectual psyche and bringing it back into a therapeutic counselling space helps to clear this.
There are also physical offerings on my website such as: I have written a book to help people access a more seasonally empowered lifestyle called “Stop Chasing Time, Have Quality Time” it is available on Amazon as Kindle and paperback. There is also a creative poem book available as a download from my website www.blueroseholisticcounselling.com and there is a link to my Neal’s Yard Remedy online store for healthy beauty products. I have also been known to hold Shamanic Rattle making and Shamanic Mentoring workshops.
