About Me

Leonie's journey through life and quickening of spiritual and psychic development through learning Reiki & Seichem and onto the path of healing and teaching.

My name is Leonie. I was born on Christmas Day in Sydney Australia in the 1950's, into a family that would total 6 children, me being the 5th child. As a child I had a strong connection to nature, I loved running with the wind, climbing the nearest tree right up to the topmost branch and feeling the wind blowing around me and the branches swaying to and fro, lying on my back on the grass and looking up at the sky and reading the clouds, also investigating the night skies, I loved swimming in the ocean, going out in my parent's row boat, riding my bike and sitting around the fireplace on a winter's evening, playing card and board games with my brothers and sisters and listening to the radio, playing cricket in the backyard and rollerskating.  As I got a little older one of my hobbies was collecting swap cards, I would sit on the floor and make up stories about each picture that appeared and how each interacted with the other. When I would go out with my mother we would catch the tram from the top of the street to the shops and I would sit next to her and make up stories in my head about the life of the person sitting opposite on the tram, poor people probably wondered what I was staring at.  It wasn't until I was around 9 years old that I realised that I was a separate being, I had always felt connected to everything and everyone around me. After this realisation, I felt my first pangs of what it was like to be separate and alone. I didn't like it, but I figured that that is what life must be about and I had better get used to it if I was going to grow up.  My psychic and spiritual abilities were very much in tact. There were some unfortunate incidences in my childhood that I would rather forget and that I have worked with over the years and have been able to heal and release. Being brought up as a practicing Roman Catholic and attending Catholic schools the beauty of my natural abilities was soon stifled and I began to take on what I was expected to from the beliefs I was being taught at school and from the society around me.  Even so, as I grew up I was aware of a constant inner guidance that did not always go along with the religion that I was bought up in but in my heart I knew to be true.

My teenage years back in the 1960's were much the same as any kid growing up in Sydney in those days.  Idyllic weekends down at the beach, all the family gathering for roast dinner's or bar-b-ques for Sunday lunch, and the annual 3 weeks Christmas holiday camping trip with the family, going out with friends to the local disco's or dances and wherever there was a live band playing. I was very lucky in having three brothers who kicked off a local rock band which my parents encouraged by letting them practice in the lounge-room of our home on Saturday or Sunday afternoons. I would invite my friends around and we would all have a great afternoons free entertainment.  After finishing business college I found work at the then GPO in Martin Place, Sydney and enjoyed the work and people I worked with immensely.  I had all the up and down romantic relationships that are common at this stage of life and coped quite well in general with life.

In the mid 1970’s I married and we soon became the proud parents of two wonderful boys.  We moved to the Central Coast just after our first son was born and I have lived in this area ever since. Going through the birth of my first son, I had an expansion of consciousness, realising the preciousness and beauty of bringing a new life into the world and what an amazing thing this is.  Realising what my mother and grandmother and right back to the beginning of time each mother had gone through in giving birth to the next generation. How great, beautiful, spiritual and sacred is the experience of giving birth to a new life. So underestimated and taken for granted in the western society that we live in today.

After the birth my mission became to find out what life was all about, why was I here and what happens when we finish our earthly life.  So I began going to church again, and then over the years explored different churches, while also attending a Yoga class involving meditation. Throughout my life I have received guidance from my dreams, and found that I was able to find answers to all sorts of different problems through remembering my dreams.  These dreams were sometimes prophetic in relation to my life, and occasionally I had visits from passed over relatives. Even my pets that have passed over seemed able to come through and give me healing and encouragement.  At the time I couldn't quite work out how my spiritual and psychic abilities fitted into main stay religion.  Although the Bible is full of visitations from other realms, prophecy, communication with those passed over and paranormal activities.

When my oldest son was 3, my younger brother only 27 years old, had a cerebral haemorrhage and was in a coma for 18 months after which he passed away, such a sad end to a young man and the potential that was there.  He left behind a young wife and a child who was born after he entered the coma and whom he never knew.  I had had a dream of a funeral some 6 weeks before he had the haemorrhage, but as there were some elderly relatives in the dream I assumed that it might be one of them that was going to be passing over.  This dream was preparing me, I didn't realise that it was going to be my brother.  I was attending the Baptist Church when my brother got sick and I prayed as I had never prayed before, I had everyone in the church and at bible study praying.  I prayed that God's will be done.  I visited my brother regularly and held his hand, in some way I knew, that he knew, that I was there, and I would talk to him as though he was conscious, I took my two boys with me to visit and they would play around near him and it felt homely. But my brother was unable to come out of the coma, and was eventually taken off life support and to everyone's amazement he kept breathing and so they continued to feed him through a tube. After a certain amount of time in hospital they have to be placed somewhere else and my brother was placed in a nursing home, they did look after him well, however, 18 months from the time of the haemorrhage my brother passed away.  This was a dark time for me as I couldn't understand why God didn't make him well again, but then again I was relieved that he didn't have to suffer anymore, I didn't know where my brother's spirit had gone but I knew he was still alive,  just in another place that we are not consciously able to see. Not long after he died my mother had a dream that he was standing next to her bed and mum said to him "Are you for real?" and he said "Of course, I'm for real."  This dream bought comfort to mum and also to me to know that he was able to get a message through from the other side that he was OK.

Unfortunately, over the years many things took their toll on our marriage relationship and it came a time that we knew that we had done whatever it was that we needed to together and mutually parted ways.  It was a very sobering time and went against all the inward beliefs from my upbringing.  But I knew in my heart that it was right. 

On approaching 40 my health was not good and I was constantly dealing with migraine headaches, over a few years I went to different doctors, naturopaths, a homeopath and an acupuncturist with minimal relief.  Then one Sunday I received news that my father had passed away suddenly and my heart went into a spasm, now this spasm was still there at the funeral about 4 days later and I mentioned it to my niece.  My niece told me that she had recently received Reiki I and was able to channel healing energy and so we arranged to meet in the back bedroom so that she could discreetly carry out some healing.  I lay down and with her hand above my heart for about 5 minutes, the spasm left and my heart felt all warm and this warmth spread throughout my body.  I was very happy and grateful for what she had done, but I thought well "she has a gift", not thinking that for one moment that I could ever learn how to do this. I had two visitations from my father not long after the funeral in which he appeared to me smiling and surrounded by light and he spoke to me with his mind telling me that he was OK and happy and not to worry about him, in his mind he told me to "keep my chin up" and this was a common expression that he often used.

About 18 months later, I was still having migraine problems and trying to keep working at my job in Aged Care.  These migraines were taking over my life.  I was reading the local paper and I saw an advertisement for Reiki treatments and so I was immediately led to pick up the phone and make an appointment.  Little did I know that this phone call would be the most healing, life changing event and the beginning of the return of my perfect and born with spiritual and psychic gifts.

I attended the Reiki healing session and found that as the practitioner laid his hands on me there was an incredible warmth and peace, a peace beyond all understanding, and I knew that this was the beginning to my return to perfect health.  I attended quite a few healing sessions and during this time my third eye began to reopen and I was able to receive beautiful visualisations.  Then it was suggested to me by the Reiki practitioner "would you like to learn how to channel these energies for yourself?" My reply was "Can I learn how to do this for myself?" He knew a lady who taught Reiki and she was coming up within the next few weeks to do a Reiki class, so I booked in.

Well I suppose the rest is history as I became a Reiki-Seichem Master myself during 1994. My path has been a healing one ever since.  The attunement and practice of Reiki more fully opened up the spiritual and psychic abilities that I was born with and also improved and strengthened them and helped me to regain the confidence to use them and in turn to help others on their spiritual journey. I have now come the full circle and know that I am and have always been connected to everything and everyone around me. We live in a world of energy.

My mother passed away just 3 days after the birth of the new millennium, she was 83 years old, what a wonderful woman.  I had two dreams preparing me for her passing over, one was I was woken up in the middle of the night when someone yelled in my ear "She has two months" and I somehow knew that they were talking about my mum, but two months to what?  Then two week before Christmas 1999 my mum went into hospital, the first week mum was in hospital I had a dream that I was at my grandmothers home (her mother) and someone was calling my name, so I got out of bed and walked around to the hallway and someone was still calling my name, I then saw a set of stairs with light streaming down, and at the same time I said  "Is that you Nanna?" and my Nanna came down the stairs dressed in her tweed suit with the brown velvet hat with the hat pin in it, she still has her beautiful head of white hair, just the way I always remembered her - she came towards me and hugged me and transmitted this beautiful warmth and love from her heart, but she never said a word and then I suddenly woke up and felt the warmth still in my heart and whole body. I didn't understand the significance of this dream until after Mum passed away, my Nanna was preparing me for what was to come.

Over the past 11 years I have attended many courses in psychic and spiritual development.  I received training in Reiki-Seichem Mastership with Kathleen Milner during 1994 and continued on with further Reiki training in Threshold Reiki (Usui Reiki Ryoho) with Rick Rivard up to Master/Teacher Level, Komyo Reiki with Hyakuten Inomoto up to Master Level, Gendai Reiki Master with Gabor Fejes & Katie Kovars, have received initiations into Sakara I, II & III, Sophi-El I & II, Angeliclight, Egyptian Cartouche, 3rd Eye Attunement, YOD, The Order of Melchizadek, The Violet Flame & Shakti Pac. I can carry out initiations into all levels of Reiki & Seichem, Egyptian Cartouche, The Order of Melchizadek, The Violet Flame, Shakti Pac and The Third Eye Attunement. I  have a Certificate in Remedial Massage, Clinical Hypnotherapy Certificate, Hypno-Kinesiology Levels 1 & 2, Diploma of Healing Meditation, Cert IV in Workplace Training & Assessment, Angel Intuitive trained with Doreen Virtue, NLP & Time Line Therapy Practitioner, Ear Candling Practitioner, EFT ADV Practitioner and DNA Theta Healing Practitioner. I have attended five SKHM All Love courses with Patrick Zeigler (founder of Seichim) and have become an SKHM All Love Facilitator. I have received Sharmanic Empowerment.

Photo of  beautiful people from SKHM All Love Course with Patrick Zeigler (back row second from the left) in Melb Feb 2006 - (I am middle row second from the right).