Rainbows Rising

A Celtic Shaman's Toolkit with Olivia Sultana

• Rainbow Raaja • Season 8 • Episode 4

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Celtic shaman Olivia Sultana reveals the ancient wisdom of earth-based healing practices and how they apply to modern spiritual development. We explore the profound connection between humans and earth elements through crystals, plants, and grounding practices.

• Ancient shamanism as a bridge between universal wisdom and human experience
• Our fundamental connection to earth elements through our physical bodies
• Using the Celtic Tree of Life symbol to understand our position between earth and heaven
• Simple grounding practices to reconnect with earth energy even in urban environments
• Crystals as living entities that communicate wisdom through frequency and vibration
• The shamanic perspective of viewing illness as beginning in spirit before manifesting physically
• Personal accountability as the foundation of genuine healing
• The challenges of walking between two worlds as a modern shaman
• Specific Celtic shamanic tools including herbs like rosemary, thyme, lavender, and bay leaves
• Creating sacred space through salt circles and purified water
• The universality of shamanic practices across different cultures and geographies

Rev. Olivia Sultana is the founder and owner of Soul Meet Body Holistic Energy Therapies, where ancient wisdom and modern knowledge meet to create pathways of healing, wholeness, and balance. A Celtic Shaman, Integrative Celtic Reiki Master/Teacher trained in both Usui and Celtic methods, Sacred Soul Midwife, and Ordained Minister with the Canadian International Metaphysical Ministry, Olivia has dedicated her life to guiding others to find wellness, spiritual connection, and divine alignment. Her work weaves together Celtic traditions, metaphysical philosophy, psychology, and integrative energy practices to support people in reconnecting with their essence and true purpose. 

Olivia’s work is rooted in the belief that healing is both an ancient art and a modern necessity. She feels deeply honored to share this hybrid form of therapy, helping others navigate the complexities of contemporary life while drawing strength from timeless traditions.

Check out Olivia's workshops and services below.

🌐 Website: www.soulmeetbody.com 

📧 Email: soulmeetbody2@hotmail.com 

Want more?  Olivia and I continue the conversation on Patreon!

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Intro and Outro - Light of the North by Kalya Scintilla



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Rev. Olivia Sultana:

I'm excited.

Rainbow Raaja:

I'm excited too. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to Rainbows Rising, where we ascend together. I'm your host, Rainbow Raaja, and today I have a wonderful guest for you all. We have Olivia Sultana. She is a Celtic shaman and she's been practicing for many, many years. I'm going to go ahead and give the floor to her to introduce herself, and something wonderful about her is she actually was one of my teachers. We worked together for a couple of weeks and I had the wonderful like honor of giving her some sessions, and she gave me some sessions, and I was just so blessed to be able to work with her. She's very, very powerful and I am so excited to have her on today. Welcome, thank you.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Hi, how are you?

Rainbow Raaja:

I am wonderful. How are you?

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

I'm well. Thank you, I'm so happy to be here and I'm happy to share today.

Rainbow Raaja:

So, yeah, thank you for inviting me. I'm happy to invite you. You are kind of you're, you're kind of hidden, so I don't think a lot of people know about you, but you are so incredibly powerful and you have so much wisdom to share, and I'm just so honored to be able to host you on this platform and to be able to share your wisdom with the people out there who are seeking it.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Thank you. I feel like it's such an important element to add into our world. I think, you know, with the energies of today, I feel like it's such an important thing to bring into our awareness, and I don't know how familiar people are with shamanism or whether they have an inkling of what that is, but really it's an ancient practice. It's something that is incredibly old, I mean thousands of years old, and when you think of shamans you think of, you know, really, the first people that navigated this world of understanding and healing. And you know we're kind of like the middleman, you know, working between the universe and human beings, and so it's conveying information in ancient information, ancient wisdom, in terms of what it is to be whole, what it is to be healthy, what it is to be functioning, and so there's many elements that are tied into that, and so you want to focus on earth elements and earth elements. Really it's kind of a beautiful place to begin to be quite honest, because earth is what we are comprised of. You know, when you think about it, some of our own elements within our own body. You know how do we function, what about our blood, the iron that's in it. You know we think of all of these things. We're not separate from the earth at all. We're actually very connected.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And when you think of a very important Celtic symbol, it's of the tree, it's the tree of life.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

That's what we refer to it as. And when you think about that tree you think of, you know, that tree is held strong because its foundation is the earth, and its roots grow into that earth and then it has this vitality where it begins to grow, and then its leaves and branches, you know, reach into the sky, and that's our connection to creator, the universe, heaven, however you want to think about it right. And so the foundation from which we begin is that earth, and and so it sustains us, it nurtures us, it keeps us strong, it keeps us rooted, you know, and it becomes such a vital element and such an important way, even for the way that we begin our day or the way that we retreat at the end of the day. You know, retreat at the end of the day, you know. How do we, what do we do to find that rooting again, to find that stability again? You know, after we've spent a day out in the world, we come home, in whatever shape we do, right.

Rainbow Raaja:

Or in the office.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Oh yeah, I know Anywhere, anywhere, absolutely anywhere. But I mean, the earth has this beautiful way of taking care of us. Like, think, you know, at the end of the day, or even before you begin the day, going into your garden or going into any garden or any park, taking your shoes off and just allowing your feet to feel that earth right, your feet to feel that earth right, there's a pulse there. You know, if we can just allow our mind to become quiet for a moment, if we can just allow ourselves to like, feel that earth, to breathe, that in what it does, even within a few moments, to help to ground us right to, to renew us, to recharge us, but also to connect us to something so very alive, right, we don't think about that, do we? On a regular basis? We?

Rainbow Raaja:

know I don't think we do. No, I do, but I don't think others are thinking about that very regularly.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Exactly, and we get disconnected from it. And I think that's the biggest issue that we have in modern times, you know, is the fact that we're busy, we live in a society and in a culture that is very technologically based, and so we become very, very disconnected. And so how important is it, especially today, to remember the you know, the simplicity and the quiet and the tranquility that we find in nature, wherever it may be, even if you live in a busy place. Grab a potted plant, even if you live in a busy place, grab a potted plant, put it in your hand and sit down for a moment and just allow yourself to connect with that plant. Right, I mean, the plant is rooted in soil, in earth. Right, it has a pulse, it has a vibration, it has a frequency, and so why do we not connect even in that way?

Rainbow Raaja:

Just, very, very simply right, I kind of was doing that yesterday with crystals.

Rainbow Raaja:

As you can see, I have a lot a lot of crystals and it's been a very long time since I used crystals for myself. I used crystals for myself. Normally I use them with my clients. I'll set them up and kind of place them around my clients and that's great and all.

Rainbow Raaja:

But when was the last time that I sat down and held a crystal and was like, hmm, this is nice, I'm just going to sit and do some Reiki and listen to the crystal? And I hadn't done that in so long? And I sat down and I connected with the energy and each I had like a couple of crystals out just to kind of get my confidence up, to help me get some energy, because I was working late. Working late, I was like I gotta, I gotta do some extra podcast things. I'm gonna sit down and do it, even though I really just want to go to bed. And I was sitting with those crystals and connecting with their energy. Each one is so different, each one has such a different frequency and it's been so long since I've connected with those frequencies. It's been so long since I've connected with those frequencies. It's been so long since I remembered how that felt. How that felt to like have a discussion. Oh, you went away. You went away. No.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

No, maybe we needed to.

Rainbow Raaja:

I don't know we needed crystals. Let's just share with the listeners here what crystals you and I had to go get in order to have a nice clean stream.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah, why don't we do that? So I mean, I'm surrounded by crystals all over this house. I typically grid, just like you do.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah, so I mean, there are so many different crystals we can work with I have.

Rainbow Raaja:

One of my favorites is Merlinite merlinite oh I I love mystic merlin. I use that for psychic protection all the time it keeps gross things out of my energy field. It does it's really powerful.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

It's really, really powerful.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

So I love things like that because, interestingly enough, it keeps us safe as we're doing the energy work that we're doing because we're opening up so that we can access information, but at the same time, you want to make sure that everything about your auric field is protected. So that's a wonderful way of doing it, but, interestingly enough, it's also really helpful for when we are on technology, because we don't seem to be very compatible. For when we are on technology, because we don't seem to be very compatible, our frequencies and technology's frequencies differ. Even though we may think that they wouldn't, they do, and yeah.

Rainbow Raaja:

So I find that sometimes what I have to do is grid in order to be able to, you know, utilize the technology that's available to us.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, I find that technology glitches a lot. Whenever I'm doing energy work, I will you know like I used to do a lot of recordings with my light languages and the songs that I would do, and half of those recordings didn't go through unless I did a grid. If I did a grid, it went through just fine, or it would come in, you'd see, like these weird bands that would like, you know, like, come through the screen or whatever, but it would at least record. But the other half I've just had to scrap, which is kind of sad because it was a lot of good content, but oh well, but it's the life of a, of a channeler, you know exactly, exactly, and I mean we're working with energy and we're working with different frequencies and, um, it's unfortunate that it isn't better monitored or understood because, I feel like it would benefit us in so many ways as opposed to some of the technologies that are readily available and seemingly understood, because they seem to actually be very detrimental for us.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

So interesting topics.

Rainbow Raaja:

It is Well for those viewers out there that don't know what happened. Uh, we were having a grand old time doing our, our interview, and video cut off on both ends, uh, and we had to boot everything back up and um, olivia recommended that we we go ahead and grab our crystals. So I went and grabbed some shugolite, I've got some silica, I've got some black tourmaline, I'm sitting on a giant piece of rainbow hematite. She even recommended some sodalite. I put that on my audio interface, so we are just surrounded by crystals. I'm sure Olivia has some crystals that she is using. She mentioned Merlinite and I use Mystic Merlinite whenever I'm doing any kind of. I do a lot of soul retrievals and extractions and I feel that Mystic Merlinite really helps separate the authentic soul from any kind of projected or like there. It's kind of a controversial thing to talk about, but sometimes there are things that are implanted in people and you gotta like that's not yours, we don't know where that came from. Maybe we'll talk about that on the after show.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yes, that would be, a great one to talk about, absolutely yeah.

Rainbow Raaja:

But today we're going to talk about the earth element and how it applies to Celtic shamanism.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah, absolutely. I mean we think about earth as in the soil, the ground, that we're on, but the crystals are very appropriate to this and it is a piece of serpentine. It's absolutely beautiful.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yes, that's, yeah, that's a. That's a nice piece.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And so this really reminds me of my roots and I refer to it as my soul home because, honestly, it takes me back into times that you know, I haven't lived in this present moment and yet I was very much a part of. And again, all of these things keep us rooted, but, as a shaman, our crystals are very real to us. But, as a shaman, our crystals are very real to us just as everything is. You know, the tree is real, the grass is very real and alive.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Our crystals are very much alive. They've been around for thousands of millions of years and so, my gosh, do they not carry with them, you know, this incredible amount of energy wisdom? But Celtic shamans also believe that every element has a spirit, and so they speak to us, and I'll give you a direct reference to this how I really started working with crystals. It actually began long ago. It began when I was a little girl and my uncle, who was a geological engineer, would bring from wherever he had traveled these different stones, rocks and stones and crystals and things like this stones, rocks and stones and crystals and things like this, and they were throughout his office and I would love to pick them up and hold them, and I was amazed by the things that they would speak of, and so having a piece of black quartz, for example, that came from Siberia, was interesting to hold on to because it embodied this incredible amount of energy, and so I would describe these crystals to him, or these stones to him, and he was always so fascinated.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

It's like how do you know this? How do you know that this you know came from a cold place? How do you know this? How do you know that this, you know, came from a cold place. How do you know? You know, and I would always say to him well, because they speak, they have a language. They, if you sit with them quietly, they will speak to you and, interestingly enough, they carry their own frequencies. But they also hold many healing properties and qualities, and this is one of the reasons why I absolutely love working with them, whether I'm working as a healer, working on someone's energy, or whether I'm wanting to connect with my own energy and allow myself the opportunity to either get grounded or to get rebalanced, or simply just to grow and evolve and to understand something beyond. You know this moment, in the moment that I'm in. So they're very powerful tools and again, you know another earth element that we don't typically think of.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah.

Rainbow Raaja:

You know, something I had ended up studying a little bit going over this particular season was that in Celtic shamanism the use of stone circles and stone spirals is very, very prominent. In Celtic shamanism, I know one of the most powerful practices that I had incorporated into my own practice was a stone spiral that I had done in one of my offices where I had placed like hundreds of my crystals in a pattern and it went all the way around and I made almost a walkway where I walked between the spiral and I had a story that I had made as I was laying them out to the center, where it was like I was trying to make the stones line up with northeast, the stones line up with northeast, south and west, and but I was also having them line up with the planets and I was also having them line up in a specific color spectrum. So they were like I had it. I had I put hours into making this spiral. I was really bored one afternoon, just made a giant spiral and then I recorded it and I had taken this walk and I was doing drumming as I was walking into the spiral with the intention of bringing in a certain energy or whatever. It was starting a new journey. I think it was right before I started my podcast and I sat in the center of it and I just asked that all the crystals kind of pour into me their information, their healing, and I was like my hands were like vibrating with how much energy, like because I had taken the time to show reverence at all the directions as I traveled in.

Rainbow Raaja:

I was doing medicine songs going in in. I was doing medicine songs going in and I even had, like handmade, hand sewn, a shawl with like it's like a cloak with a hood on it and I I put all I don't really know what had what had pulled on me to do all these things, because getting me to even get up and do one thing is normally a challenge, but somehow I had done all these things, because getting me to even get up and do one thing is normally a challenge, but somehow I had done all these things that lined up to this particular practice and it was so powerful I could feel my cells vibrating and I remember thinking as I was sitting there just breathing in these waves of vibrations and frequency and frequency keep in mind, you guys, this is not like I'm not playing music, there wasn't anything going on, it was just rocks on the floor, just walked, I walked in a circle around some rocks and sat down and it was like being in I don't know like a chamber. That just was like vibrating. I don't. I haven't really experienced anything like that again, but it was. It was really profound.

Rainbow Raaja:

I think that that practice because I had read about it, and then I was like, oh, I'm going to try this, like the spiral dance or something, I think that came from Celtic shamanism. I don't know, you would know better.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah, it absolutely does. I mean, we definitely work so much with rocks, but this goes back thousands of years as well, because you know, think about labyrinths. Yeah. You know, and again, always in the formation of a circle. That's true, yeah, that are placed in these labyrinths take us essentially back into the core of who we are right.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And your experience and you creating that circle is very much the same thing. It's like this is I love when things like this happen, when we do things without recognizing truly why we're doing it, because we're being led back on a spiritual or on a soul level, to the core of what we are and who we are and our connection with creator. It's very, very powerful. It is truly very powerful. And again it's um, it's a beautiful thing because it takes us out of this present moment and it moves us back into a particular, uh part of ourselves, to a particular point where time no longer exists. It's like the past, the present, the future, they're all within this. Yeah.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

But it takes you back into the true essence of who you are and again like that is such a very, very powerful thing and it's been done for 1000s of years, you know, when you think back to. You know a lot of the Celtic shamans would create these circles for healing and so if someone was ailing, they would create these circles the crystals would be amongst you know what they were creating, the space that they were creating.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

They would use different types of plants. Often I've done that as well in terms of some of the ritual. You know you're going to bring in the essence of plants into what you're doing because it lends, it's all about energy. It increases the frequency of the vibration that we're creating and in truth, you know and science is beginning to sort of catch on to this and work with it a little bit more but everything is about frequency and healing most definitely is about frequency and it doesn't matter where emotionally trying to heal, whether we're mentally trying to heal or whether we're physically trying to heal, because all of those components respond to frequency and vibration. Yeah, it's powerful, but I love it.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, I love it too. I love you know. I feel that a lot of what I've done innately has been tied to the Celtic shamanic practices and I've I don't try to claim any culture because I haven't been, you know, like directly trained by someone over many, many years. Like I worked with you and you had kind of told me, you know you're already there, girl, you know you don't need help and I appreciate that. But at the same time, there were periods in my life where I was like I was really looking for someone to be like, hey, what should? Let me give you words for what you're doing. Let me help you understand, because I was doing it and, for example, that practice that I had done, where I did the you know the entire spiral and I'd put the stones in certain places and I had, you know, crafted this whole shawl or ceremonial robe and um had done some singing going into it and some dancing. I danced in the center of it. It's like nobody had really taught me that. I got an idea from a tarot card that said go do a spiral dance, but literally that's all it said is a spiral dance. I was that said go do a spiral dance, but literally that's all it said is a spiral dance. I was like I don't know what a spiral dance is, but here's some crystals.

Rainbow Raaja:

But I've always incorporated herbs and I have Cunningham's Book of Herbs, which some people say isn't very accurate, but I haven't really found anything better. So if you have any books to recommend, I'd highly, I'd highly appreciate it. But I have the Cunningham's book of magical herbs and I've used that to kind of discern what is a good idea and sometimes even the plants themselves, like if I'm seeing the growing, well, I'm trying to manifest more opportunities and then I'll just sit with. I like a box of like herbs that I don't know. I found a bunch of herbs my mom had kept in a cupboard that looked like they were from the 20s and I was like I don't know where all these herbs came from, but they're old and they're in cute little glass bottles with like really old looking script on them. I'm just going to take them. I was a teenager.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

But you know what I was a teenager but, but you know what I mean. You are on to something and you know. This is critically important. Shamans are not taught. They come into this world containing everything that they need.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And so a lot of times, a shaman will recognize another, and we kind of work it seems counterintuitive to growth and learning. However, we wait to see what we need to see, and so what I mean by that is when you first came to me and I said to you you're on the right path because you are beginning this journey. Where you're now asking those questions, however, you already I could tell vibrationally, when I connected to your energy, that you were already walking this path, because this path was already belonging to you to begin with. And so a lot of times it seems like we're doing things backwards in shamanism, but we're not. It's like you've always got to go back to the core, but a true shaman listens to their core and allows that to be the guide.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Later on, as we develop and recognize actually who we are, later on, as we develop and recognize actually who we are, that's when it becomes important to connect with another shaman so that we can share that information more readily, so that you understand what it is that you're being guided to and why. Right. And so that's exactly how you began this entire journey, how you began this entire journey. So we've kind of gone full circle now, because we're back again to continue on a very different path, one that perhaps solidifies so much of what you are and what you've been doing this entire time. It's a very powerful thing, and that's actually very typical of you.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Know what it is to work with a shaman, what it is to work within shamanism. To begin with, it's really about taking those ancient ways of understanding and bringing it to the forefront in where we are today, and it is actually a very, very powerful you kind of you feel like you're straddling two worlds. I've lived my entire life this way where, yes, I'm very much rooted to the physical, but I'm also very much rooted to a world that most people can't see or hear or even recognize that it exists.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And that is really what it is to walk the path of a shaman. You're never quite in one world or the other. You're in both at the same time.

Rainbow Raaja:

That can be really disorienting, that can be really disorienting.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, it is as a shaman. I mean, ever since I was a kid I was not well received by anybody, including my parents. You know there are things my parents liked about me, but for the most part I've just always been very off and I didn't know what was wrong with me. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I was like, hey, I like myself, I seem to be pretty cool, I can do magical things. And why is everybody avoiding me? Because I can do magical things? That seems kind of silly. Wouldn't they want a magical friend? No, okay, well, that's fine with me. I have the fairies. Like I don't need you, I don't need friends. I got fairies. I've got this cool dragon that I go and meditate with and he shows me the rest of the world. We've like flown around in Tibet. Like I don't need friends.

Rainbow Raaja:

I'm a 33-year-old who goes on magical journeys with sound a little delusional, but the point is is it's really disorienting because as an only child I didn't have siblings to like verify my experiences. I didn't. My parents worked 40 hour a week jobs and were never around, and I had babysitters who just kind of put me in front of the TV or I was just kind of running around outside all by myself and so there wasn't a lot of people who could verify things. Until I started in massage school and I had teachers who outright recognized. They were like hey, you've got some cool things going on, we're going to help you because you're not grounded at all. You've got some energetic issues, you have a lot of wounds, we're going to teach you how to deal with that. And they did, and I'm so grateful to them. They helped me heal all that.

Rainbow Raaja:

But it was really being a shaman in this day and age where you have to fit in, to be accepted, and if you're not accepted, then everybody just kind of ostracizes you. They medicate you, they, they. They're like oh, there's something wrong with you. This one's, this one goes in the trash. And we'll focus on these ones over here who produce results trash and we'll focus on these ones over here who produce results. It's, it's. It's really harmful to the psyche, it's harmful to the soul, because you're just.

Rainbow Raaja:

You know, if anything I feel like, what I bring to, to a connection with someone is such a high value, not just on like hey, I can heal you, I can give you good insight. I'm an extremely loyal friend. I've never just dipped out on someone for no reason. I may be inconsistent, because time doesn't flow linearly for me. I admit that. But for the most part I am an extremely loyal individual who gives good advice. I'm a good healer, I have a lot of fun, I have a lot of boundless energy. I'm a creative blah, blah blah and I think a lot of shaman art, a lot of those things.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Absolutely. I mean, we don't come into this world to fit in, we don't. But it takes a while to understand that because you just want to belong takes a while to understand that, because you just want to belong.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

You know you want lonely, exactly, and that's exactly a part of it as well. We are very solitary in how we do things. I'm sure you'll be able to relate to this too. You know most of us are very much the observer of life. You know you tend to perceive things and see things in a very different nature. And it's not that we're not grounded. We are grounded because you know we understand what, what you know the importance of being grounded, even though it feels very nice to be in the higher frequencies. Right, who?

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

wouldn't, want that. The key is to understand the journey and also to allow for the journey, because that's what allows us to evolve. So the shaman that I was at the age of, you know, 10, or the age of 20, or the age of 30 or 40, 50. Now, in my 60s, is very, very different. I've evolved into this individual that I am today. I've, like I really honed in in terms of what those skills and arts are and you know, for the very first time actually, I embrace all of those different facets of who I was in the past, you know, because it brings such wisdom. However, it brings something else that's really really incredibly magical, as that you know little child and see the beauty of that little child and recognize that that child is. You know it is forever within you as well. No matter how old you end up being, that child is still there and that in itself is such a magical thing to behold.

Rainbow Raaja:

If you can feel that child and allow that exuberance to like, affect the energy that you are today, right and going forward that's a really touching sentiment because, like I know how you know how you had spoken at all the different decades of a shaman that you were and how you were, you've evolved and changed and I was kind of brought into a state of thinking about the shaman that I was at 10 and I remember just being so fluid with all these different realms and then the I didn't know they were all separate. I thought they were all just flowing together. I thought everybody could see it, everybody could see these realms, and I just was like, oh yeah, everybody can see the fairies and everybody can see the ghosts over there. What you don't see, the shadow guy, and everybody can see the ghosts over there. What you don't see, the shadow guy that stands behind you. Are you kidding me? Like I just thought everybody could see that.

Rainbow Raaja:

And then when my mom started medicating me, I felt like I lost a lot of my intelligence or like my innate connection to all of those realms and my ability to be lucid in reality was taken away from me for a decade and until I hit my 20s and I was like that was when I like really, I was like I'm not, I'm not what you say, I am, I, I'm taking back my sovereignty. I'm not going to be taking medication. I'm taking back my sovereignty. I'm not going to be taking medication. You guys can go find someone else to peddle your pills onto. I'm not going to take them and it took me years to reclaim. I don't think I'm ever going to be the same.

Rainbow Raaja:

To be honest, I don't think I fully healed from the deep pharmaceutical psychosisosis. It really took a lot away from me, but I'm I'm grateful that I've pulled myself out and that I didn't like play into that narrative my whole life. But I was such a powerful little 10 year old and even though at 20 I wasn't as powerful or as tuned in or as connected as I was when I was 10, like there was a difference in how I was interacting I started to do like Reiki and energy work. So I like, I like, focused myself in on like the light. And then here in my 30s I am more discerning. So I'm not going out and just giving any old hoo-ha on Venice Boulevard free advice. I'm like, hey, is this individual ready for the advice I have? They're probably not. I'm not just going to go give some strangers some divine guidance on the entity I see following their footsteps.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

That also is another trait. A shamanic trait is recognizing that you can't heal others. It's not your responsibility to heal others. There has to be in shamanism, there has to be accountability right. So a shaman will often ask if someone comes to me. Often ask if someone comes to me, for example, and wants to learn or heal. I'll ask what the intention is, Okay, but I will also ask in terms of their accountability, how accountable are you to this journey? Right.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Are you fully in and are you, you know, doing it for all the right reasons? Right, because people have different reasons that they come to you. I don't believe that you can teach shamanism as you would any other thing where you kind of read chapter one, two, three, you know, here we go. And no, inherently there's something within you that is propelling you forward. You recognize something you know. I've often said I'm not going to, you're not and I'm not going to discover something about myself.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

I'm actually going to uncover things they're there already, but I'm going to uncover, layer by layer, so that I fully recognize what I'm all about and what I've always maintained within myself. Right. So, it's kind of like a maturing where you

Rainbow Raaja:

oh

Rainbow Raaja:

, did it again.

Rainbow Raaja:

Technology.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

I know, I know, can you see me?

Rainbow Raaja:

I can.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

I can't see you anymore.

Rainbow Raaja:

Let's fix that. There we go, we're back.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

That is wild. I wonder how many more times that's going to happen.

Rainbow Raaja:

Hopefully not any.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Let's keep our fingers crossed. Let's keep our fingers crossed what I was simply saying.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

with shamanism, it's like there has to be a level of personal responsibility and accountability yes, and so there are many reasons why people approach us for healing and for knowledge, for healing and for knowledge. But my thing is always, you know, is that individual ready right? Because I remember my grandmother. She was very, she was a very interesting lady, she was an herbalist, she was very much a shaman, and I remember her always saying to me not everybody's going to hear you.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

You can talk, but not everybody will hear you. The ones that are, you know, ready to begin the journey, and the ones that have within them their senses that are open, they will hear and feel absolutely everything you say.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And that's exactly where you know, as a child. It's not that we come in in any way, but perfect. But we come in a little bit differently in that we have arrived in this physical incarnation and our senses are fully open. That means all of our physical senses, you know the eyes, the ears, the nose, all of that right.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Like we can smell, we can. But our other senses, our clear senses, are, are very much a part of who we are. We're not disconnected from them. We don't have to learn how to use them because they're already there. So this is why I say, in some ways we're working backwards, because you know we're trying to fit in, but we stand out because we are open. We are completely open, yeah.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Whereas it takes some people maybe even a lifetime to come to that place where they begin to open to the reality of their creation right, yeah. And so we all come in with these senses, but are we utilizing them?

Rainbow Raaja:

You know, I had a young woman came to me in about 20, I think it was 2017. She had come to me through a groupon package or whatever it was. And, um, she was interested and I did a session on her and she was like that was phenomenal, that changed my life. I want to learn from you. And she she was. She was barely 18 and I sat her down and I asked her like why do you want to do this? And she was like well, I've always been able to connect with these, these particular realms, and I'm in this bad situation with my parents. And at the time, I had bad situation with my parents when I was 18. And I was like, girl, I feel you, I would love to teach you so you can get out of there, right, but what I wasn't, you know. I had kind of been away from my parents long enough to forget the reactivity that comes with being in a trauma cycle and trying to get assistance while in that trauma cycle. And so she came back to me for our first class and we didn't even get 15 minutes into that class because I sat her down. I was like, okay, we're going to just start this class off with a grounding meditation. And she's like, okay, and she's all ready to go. She's like super excited.

Rainbow Raaja:

And I was like, yeah, I'm super excited too, but she had come in from a fight with her parents. So she was like still like you could feel it in her energy. She's like super buzzy and like really reactive and really like pissed off. And and she had like kind of started talking to me about it. I was like, no, we're not. We're not bringing that into, into our. We're not. That's not. You just leave that outside. You can touch that later if you want to, but I I don't want it in here. She's like okay, fine, I was like we're gonna do a grounding practice to get you present and I was like just take a deep breath in. She's like I can't. And I was like what

Rainbow Raaja:

can't. She's like I can't. What do you mean? You're expecting me to breathe? Like it was like well, you do it all the time, naturally. Like why can't you breathe? It's just like are you, are you not human? I'm, I'm confused. And she's like like how dare you say you know that, that, that you know that I'm not doing it right? I was like, no, no, I'm not, I'm not saying you're not doing it right. You're telling me you're, you can't do it. I'm, I'm confused how you can't take a breath.

Rainbow Raaja:

got really like reactive and then I like was like, okay, calm down, you know, my, my six-year-old daughter she gets temper tantrums and I've I've coached her into like calming her system down and taking deep breaths. And she's like what are you saying? You saying that you're like six year old is better than me. I was like no, I'm saying that if you calm down, I can guide you through how to do this, because if my six year old can do it, you can too. And she got so pissed and I was like I know, you know she's like fuming. And I was like, hey, it's OK, I know you're 18. I know everything feels like it's life or death right now and all she heard was that I was calling out her age and saying that I was better than her. I was like, ok, well, there's no way that I can salvage this, because right now this person is not ready to take accountability, they're not able to step into a space where they are able to learn from someone else. They're not able to kind of sit in their own body and go hmm, why can't I take a breath right now? What's stopping me from breathing? Is it my mind? Is it my emotions?

Rainbow Raaja:

And this young lady like I, literally after she left, I cried for her. I cried so freaking hard because my heart hurt that this, this person that I felt was a pretty good fit for learning shamanic practices. She was very um, her energy had such a powerful signature and I was like I would love to be able to teach her. But the issue is is I can't teach someone who is trying to fight the teacher. If you are a reactive person, you are, like you know, questioning everything that your teacher. You know I'm not like your money is not important to me, truly Like I would love the money I have children I have to raise. It's important for me to raise children. But like she kept saying, well, you're going to lose my business now and I'm like I was. You haven't paid me for the last three sessions. I was doing them out of the kindness of my heart to, because you said you were a poor teenager and I just wanted to help you. So like I don't mind, like I I.

Rainbow Raaja:

But she called me years later and was like that session, just really, you know, it's been on my mind for years.

Rainbow Raaja:

And I was like, well, let's talk about it. And she just kept screaming, she wouldn't even let me speak. And then she said something about wanting to um, you know herself. And I was like, ok, well, as a mandated reporter, I now have to contact the authorities. I'm really really sorry. And I had to call and have something done about it because, like it's been years and this girl was still reactive to, still just me trying to calm her body down. She didn't understand that I was trying to create a container where she was safe and me creating safety for her was such a threat and like when you were talking about finding the right students, like if you are someone who is that reactive, like you need sessions, you need reiki, you, but you, you probably aren't ready to walk this path because it's you're not going to be a receptive student.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

No, absolutely, and it's kind of like you know it's equating it to think about the glass and the water. You know if you have a full glass of toxic water toxic like we have. We have things we need to understand and it's usually the difficult stuff of this life that we need to understand whether it's traumatic experiences we've had and they can be varied, but you cannot pour into that glass until you remove some of that.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah right, and so I often look at that. You know, part of the journey and part of our responsibility. You know, if we are walking this path, is that number one. We are that clear container we are. You know you were walking the talk. You're not just out there talking about this. This is not just what you do, it isn't what you put on, it's what you actually are, it's what you live and breathe. It is the essence of who you are, everything that you speak, everything that you touch, everything that you do. It doesn't mean that we're perfect. We're not. We're imperfect. We're in that imperfect state of evolution, right. And so, as we evolve and stay true to this, we come to this place where we become more refined in who we are and what we practice right. Yeah.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And so it becomes very, very important that the students that come to us, the people that want to learn or the people that want to heal and it's kind of a little bit of both really- yeah then you know that they are open and receptive to learning, but also taking accountability for this journey. I'm not going to heal you. I might help facilitate something. I may be the lantern bearer that holds that light so that you can see. However, I'm not going to show you what you need to see right.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah.

Rainbow Raaja:

That is something that will come to you and that's unique to each and every individual I think that's something that is so commonly misunderstood about healing modalities as people, especially people with like so much on their plate or so much trauma, like they've been through the ringer, they go to um like a reiki therapist or they go to a shaman and they're like all right, here's my body, fix me and heal me. Just just, I'm just going to lay here and you do all the work. And that's not. That's not how this works, like, and I have to tell people like hey, this is, this is a co-creation. What you put into this is what you'll get out of it. Sure, you can lay down on my table and I'll do Reiki, but if in your head you are still benefiting from these negative toxic cycles that are perpetuating your life and you may not realize you're benefiting from them, but if you're using your mental illness as an excuse as to why you can't do certain things in your life and it's enabling you to continue not doing certain things, like getting a real job, you're not going to heal that. If you are ready to heal that mental illness and you're ready to take on the responsibility of picking up a real job, you're ready to take on the responsibility of being a working member of society, then you can heal that. But if you are like on the fence, you're like I don't know, I really like my disability check. I don't know, maybe it would be nice to get that.

Rainbow Raaja:

You know, I don't like to have to do things. I like to have an excuse that I kind of like having these mental breakdowns because it forces me to rest, because everybody expects me to do certain things. I've been there, as you can tell, and it was. I didn't realize that it is an excuse. I utilize my mental illness to pretty much force other people who have expectations out of me to give me space Instead of setting my own boundary. I pretty much just have a mental breakdown and nobody wants to deal with me. And also, I don't have to get a normal person job Because normal. You know this, it's all subconscious. It's subconscious. But there's there's other illnesses that we get, you know, having pains in your knees or you know any kind of arthritis like there is.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Well, shamanism will recognize always that whatever we're manifesting physically actually began in a very, very different manner. The physical aspect of whatever it is that we feel, whatever sort of disease we manifest, is really the the last frontier. So it began somewhere else and it generally has to do with the spirit right so you know, I've often taught that we are, we're like those little russian stacking dolls, you know yeah, the nesting, dolls yeah, we open it up. There's another one inside. Open that one up. There's another one inside and we're very much like that.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

We're encased in a physical body. Right. We have emotions, we have a spirit, we have a mind. That's all inside, right, and so we have this physical.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

You know, we often hear this as well. You know, mind, body, healing type of thing, right, mind, spirit, body, all of those things they're, of course, they're all integrated within who we are as as a being right, and so we are very much encased in this physical body. But that's not where it began, and so a lot of times when we look at healing, we need to look at it from a very different perspective, and that's one of the things that I've always enjoyed, also as an energy therapist, is the fact that when I am working on someone physically, their body speaks to me and tells me where the problems are physically within the body to me, and tells me where the problems are physically within the body. But then their spirit starts to speak and I get to hear all the things that have impacted this individual earlier on in this life. But then something else happens where, on a very different level, so on a soul level, I begin to understand what this person's journey has been all about prior to incarnating, you know, to coming into this life and some of the challenges that we face, all of us and sometimes you know when you're dealing with people and this is something I've taught all of my students over the course of time is you need to get out of your own way.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Sometimes, right, we're hell bent on going in a particular direction and the universe is saying, hell, no, that is not the right way to go, right, but we sometimes don't get that message. We don't get it because we're so locked into expectations, the status quo, the trauma that I've experienced, the status quo, the trauma that I've experienced, god knows. There's a million and one reasons that we'll come up with as human beings as to why life feels the way it is or why it looks the way it does. And absolutely some of us have gone through really traumatic things. But again, in shamanism, what are you going to do to get yourself back?

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, so speaking of what we're going to do to get ourself back. I really love that. The core of what we've talked about today was we've have plant medicine, we have crystal medicine and we talk about the, the. You know self-healing, the body and how the body itself has information that like ties into how you can heal it, how you can work with it, and so I'm wondering if there is a Celtic practice that you can share with the listeners that might incorporate those three elements. You know, if you could guide us through a practice that they can use in their, in their everyday. You know, self healing, whatever to raise their vibration, and all that stuff.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

You bet, you bet. That's one of my favorite things to do. Well, I say that about everything. I love it all. I have this passion for living life and sharing.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Same and it's all about love, like we're connecting on that level. So, absolutely, how would we incorporate any of this? So, whether you work with crystals or don't have crystals, go outside, pick up a leaf, pick up a rock, it doesn't matter what it is, bring it back in, find yourself a comfortable spot to sit and hold on to that. So grab a crystal right now, because I'll take you through a little bit of a journey into reconnecting with yourself and clearing some of yourself. Yeah, what have you got there?

Rainbow Raaja:

I don't know if you can see it, it's I. It starts with an s. I don't know, it's a long name, it's like s, co-l something. It's a big long name. I don't know, it's a. It's a crystal. It's in one of my crystal books I got. I got the melody melody crystal book and I think I had got it because it recommended it in there.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

So all right, well, right, well, let's begin. So, if you are right-handed, then hold your crystal in your left hand, because I want you to hold the crystal in a non-dominant hand.

Rainbow Raaja:

Okay.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Reason being is that hand tends to be a little bit more sensitive, whereas the other one is a thinker. And now what I want you to do is just bring your hands together Right and get comfy, sit in a comfortable spot and do exactly that close your eyes, tune out the world, just go into a quiet space. And what I want to do is I want to reconnect you to the earth because I want you to refocus your breath. You know, I want you to breathe in through your nose. That foot and your feet that are touching the ground are actually taking that breath in, and so, as you breathe in, feel that breath being drawn in through the soles of your feet and as you exhale, you exhale that old breath and it leaves your body through your feet. And as you exhale, you exhale that old breath and it leaves your body through your feet and your whole body begins to breathe in this way. And with your next breath, I want you to actually feel that breath and see it as a light entering through the soles of your feet, and you might even begin to feel a vibration in your feet, perhaps in your toes, and as you breathe, I want you to draw that breath and that light further into the body so that it moves through your feet into your ankles and it begins to soften the ankles, soften your calves. And every time you breathe out that old energy in your body, you're going to breathe that out and the earth is going to take that breath away, replenishing you with a new breath. And that breath you'll draw even higher into your body. It'll soften your knees, it'll move into your thighs, it'll soften all the muscles, relax all the muscles, release any of the pain you might feel there. And as you breathe, that breath moves into your body so easily that old energy leaves us and the new energy flows and goes higher and higher into our diaphragm, opening it wide, moving into our heart, opening our heart, clearing our heart.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

As your breath moves, it softens your throat, it loosens the muscles in your neck and in your shoulders and that relaxation, that softness, moves all the way down your arms into your hands and as you breathe, more of your body relaxes, more of that energy flows, moving into your jaw, softening it, softening all the muscles around your mouth, all the muscles in your cheeks, your eyelids becoming heavy, your brow softening, all that tension leaving and that energy flows all the way to the top of your crown, opening your crown, and I want you to imagine the rays of the sun above you and those rays cascade down onto you, cascading over your body, the earth, providing you with breath, the sun providing you with that beautiful light, clearing all of your energy until you're left with a body that flows with light, with breath.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

You are completely rooted rooted to the earth and you're open to the heavens. You're open to the universe, in perfect balance, flowing clear, strong, renewed, beautiful and brilliant. Allow yourself to stay in that and know that you flow with that at all times. Slowly come back into your awareness, reconnect and, when you're fully back, open your eyes I love the ooey gooey energy.

Rainbow Raaja:

It's always my favorite. Thank you so much for sharing that. I have a really similar practice with like deep grounding. That's kind of one of the basic grounding practices that I give to my students is, you know, bringing their awareness to the soles of their feet, yeah, and learning to breathe through the soles of your feet.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Yeah, Her very first element right Connecting to the earth.

Rainbow Raaja:

I was the. That was the first practice in my career at school. That was a complete game changer for helping me with emotional regulation, absolutely. I had such volatile emotional um roller coasters and I had a teacher who just sat me down and did energy work and was like you just need to sink. I want you to breathe and imagine a pit opening up beneath you and you're just going to drop everything. My whole body started to feel fuzzy, like, like, like when a limb falls asleep. My whole body felt like that and I was like I don't like this, the word, I hate this feeling Like.

Rainbow Raaja:

Ever since I was a kid, the feeling of having an arm or a leg fall asleep was like the most painful feeling. And she's like. You just got to breathe into it, breathe into that pain. You got to be the discomfort for just release, like release, like I was like, but my whole body is falling asleep. She's like no, it's not, you're doing a release, you need to release. And that day I learned that when your limbs fall asleep, you're actually doing, you're doing like an a release. Your, your body is releasing energy that's too dense for you.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Absolutely. I mean, look at all the things that happen. When you do that Number one, you're connecting with your breath. When you connect with your breath. On a physiological level, it signals to the body you're safe, You're safe, right. So what you're doing essentially is you're allowing your body to enter into a state of healing, homeostasis, rest and repair right, that's right.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

When you start breathing that way also, it signals to the brain something else is happening. You've closed your eyes, you've turned out all of the sensory things that we're so preoccupied with. You allow yourself to go into a different state. All of a sudden. Now the brain waves start to really slow themselves down, and yet the frequency of the brain goes up. It's kind of like that antenna Hang on.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

I'm picking up different channels, right, and so you're connecting with the higher levels of energy, universal energy, your own higher self, so that you can go into this beautiful state of just healing, resting. That little exercise didn't take very long. What did it take? Take A few minutes, right. Yeah. That's all you really truly need, if you can just remind yourself to do that even throughout the day. If you're having a day where it's just feeling like Jesus, kill me now.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, not that you would ever say no, no.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Where it's just atrocious right you're off your feet. You know the phone's ringing. You've got a million responsibilities. You're overwhelmed right that is horrible for your body on so many different levels right that fight or flight sort of sensation. It's actually really really detrimental for the body on so many levels, and so, if you can just remind yourself to ground. Get into that space. Let your feet touch the floor, uncross your legs, you know.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Close your eyes, connect with your breath, even if you're doing it in, you know, I don't know the lunchroom, the bathroom, it doesn't even matter, just as long as you have the opportunity to do that and just balance your body off again, yeah, yeah, I love that yeah.

Rainbow Raaja:

Hmm, well, I'm so glad that you were able to share that practice with us, and before we close out for today, I'd like to, you know, just kind of talk a little bit about the difference of Celtic shamanism versus the other cultures of the planet and just like if you could give us a little background on what makes Celtic shamanism unique and how Celtic shamanism uses the elements, because we talked about how, in particular, you use earth, but, um, we're going to be covering all the rest of the elements, um, all five elements, over the rest of the season, and I'd love our viewers to know a little bit more about what Celtic shamanism is and, um, should they want to work with you, or to take your courses, your workshops, what they can kind of look forward to learning about when they come and work with you.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Absolutely, I think, when we look at shamanism because we've got shamanism throughout the world- whether you're in Europe, whether you are in England, scotland, whether you're in Russia, wherever North America, south America, there are shamans everywhere and you know uniquely. We are different and yet the same at the same time. So our languages might be different, our tools might vary a little bit, but at the end of the day, there are these parallels. And so what makes Celtic shamanism different over, let's say, north American or South American shamanism are some of the tools that we use. You know whether we're using crystals, whether we're using, for example, something simple. So a lot of us are familiar with saging, clearing energy, and so sometimes in North America we tend to use white sage very often to do that right. In Celtic shamanism we may use other herbs to sage what?

Rainbow Raaja:

what herbs are you guys using?

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

so, for example, we may use things like rosemary rosemary for purification right I've used rosemary.

Rainbow Raaja:

That was the first cleansing herb that I was called to use. I like gathered it in front of my house and my spirit team was like, um, I would write things on pieces of paper that I wanted to like release from my life, and then they told me to put rosemary in it and to set it on fire. So I'd like twist the top of the paper and set it on fire like little tiny bomb, and, um, the rosemary like pops, it like. But um, that was like one of the first herbs that called to me. So that's I. I just got excited because I didn't know that.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

So, yay yeah, so I mean, there are herbs that we would use that are a little bit different. So the other thing when I'm making my bundles, I will use rosemary, I will use thyme and I will use lavender. A lot of times. What I will use are rose petals as well, and a lot of bay leaves, and so I'll create my bundle with that. Each one is significant for different reasons, and so lavender is for cleansing, it's for um, also purification.

Rainbow Raaja:

Oh, you paused. No, let's see if we can get you back. Nope, darn it. Why does it keep doing this? It's my internet connection.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

That's what it is yes, so lavender is um also purifying, in that it is meant to ward off any bugs, viruses even, like when you think of lavender oil, it's antibacterial, antiviral, and so they would have used that right, especially during times where sickness is prevalent, you know.

Rainbow Raaja:

think of the different times of the year.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Exactly so you would use things like that. Time is used also because it also has very much similar qualities to it, and so, again, with time, it's actually warding off any of the negative energy that might be around us, right? And so, when you think of bay leaves, bay leaves are also very purifying, but they're going to send the message of whatever it is that we're releasing to the heavens, whatever it is that we're releasing to the heavens, right To creator, to a higher source, and so there's a reason why we would sage with all of these, it's like you're saging first for yourself, you're saging the environment that you're a part of, and then you're sending that message also to creator. So please join me with all of this, right?

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

and so both energies come together. Something else that we do in celtic traditions is that we sprinkle salt and we create a circle of salt, and that salt is for protection, so nothing comes into that. So within that circle, we are completely safe to do whatever it is that we want to do, whether it has to do with healing of ourselves, of others, or whether we're simply communing with creator movies, but I I think that it it's just.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

It was just one of those innate things where I was like I want protection salt exactly well, you know a lot of our traditions right salt over the shoulder type of. Thing they originated from someplace where did it come from? Why is it? Used, it's just, it's been forgotten, right yeah yeah, so yeah, those are just a few of the things, that tools that perhaps we use. The other thing we use readily is sacred water and so sacred.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Water is water that we have attuned, and so you will take it from a river or from a brook or from an ocean, wherever you are right. I'm from an area where we were surrounded by water. We had water, and so you would bring that in and again, you would sprinkle the salt into it, you would put your herbs into it.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

And so oftentimes I would use rose, for example. Rose is used in your saging, but it's also used in the water, because rose has the highest vibration and it's connecting us to the heart and to love, divine love. Oh, that's nice.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, yeah, I think it's so interesting because, like there's so many tools that are cross-cultural, for example, in like celtic shamanism I know you guys use drumming and dancing and crystals but all those things are also used in like australian ab Aboriginal culture and Native American culture, in South American culture, in Siberian culture, and I I just find that so fascinating that, like all these places that were separated by expanses of space with no way to communicate, there was no technology, there was no phones, there was no, there was no post, and they all seemed to tap into the same resources, but they were all unique applications, like even the christian beliefs. They have holy water, they have that. They have their like little, their frankincense, that's right, that's right, it's all all very similar. They have prayers, which is pretty much the same as like us going on journeying or us sitting with our, our crystals or our stones. I just I think it's so fascinating that pretty much every belief system has these ingrained similarities that are cross-cultural.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Absolutely. And geographical. Yeah, we're using the tools that are abundant for us wherever we are, and that's why they may differ, but ultimately, how we use them, the applications are very much the same, because what we're trying to do is heal, raise energy, raise vibrations, remove things. So the applications would be very, very much in line and parallel. Yeah, it's beautiful. I love it. I truly love it.

Rainbow Raaja:

I love it too. Well, if any of you viewers and listeners would like to connect with Olivia as I make sure I'm using the right hand Olivia I will go ahead and leave all of her contact information in the bio. If she wants to go ahead and share them here, she can do that as well. And if you have any classes or workshops coming up, let us know.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

Absolutely I will. I definitely will. Yeah, this is interesting times and we are heading into very powerful times, and I think this was so timely because, really, it's about empowering ourselves, grounding ourselves, feeling alive. Right, we all have a purpose. What is that purpose? And like, have we got everything we need within us, you know, to move forward and connect with that purpose, whether it's personally, just for ourselves, or whether it's for humanity and the earth? I think all of these things are so, you know, interwoven into who we are and what we're here for. Yeah, so thank you for today.

Rainbow Raaja:

Yeah, thank you, and I'm really excited because we're going to have like a like a behind the scenes controversial talk on on protection and frequency and uh, some some psychic, psychic uh, entity in plants and stuff after this. But it's on my patreon. So if you're interested in continuing our conversation, head over to the patreon you can find. You can find the link below. This is so fun. This is so fun. Link is below go join the patreon. But it was just such a pleasure to have you. Olivia. I am so grateful that we've been able to stay in touch all these many years and that I know the earth is so blessed to have you as one of our like master healers. Like you probably wouldn't, you're very humble, you probably wouldn't consider yourself that, but I think you're very powerful. Wouldn't consider yourself that, but I, I think you're very powerful. I've, I I'm so grateful to have you in my corner and I know that if you're out there, you're looking. You're looking for a teacher. She's good one. You should consider her thank you likewise.

Rev. Olivia Sultana:

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