Carol’s Journey Through Reiki and Beyond
I’ve been in business for over 35 years, 20 of that owning and operating Fitness Centres, where I had 23+ staff and over 1,200 members. N I have focussed my energies on delivering top quality service to my many clients and students over the years, and sharing my knowledge through my website, workshops and social media pages.
For the past 4 years I have been on the Board of Directors for Reiki Australia, which is a voluntary position, and I’ve been the Chair for Reiki Australia for 2 years. It has been sucha rewarding and at times challenging endeavour, and I’ve learned so much, however I will be completing my term of office on October 25th 2025, which means I’ll have more time and energy to put back into my own business, to provide more quality service to my clients and students.
Over the years I have overcome several obstacles, firstly due to years in the fitness industry teaching up to 11 high impact aerobic classes per week, I had swollen, damaged knees for 3 years. Surgeons said an operation would have 20% chance to fix my knees, and that I should forget it, and would never be able to exercise again. After a Reiki book fell off a shelf in front of me, it opened my mind to new possiblilities. 2 weeks later I went to Byron Bay and learned Reiki Levels 1 and 2, and when I returned home I placed my hands on my knees for 20 minutes then went to bed. The next morning when I woke, the swelling and pain was gone and I could jog. This “miracle” was such a gift, as it opened my mind to know that anything is possible, and after that experience, the direction of my life changed forever.
I have also survived breast cancer twice, and used Reiki, self-hypnosis, meditation, nutrition and vitamins to work on the resulting bone cancer that appeared 3 years after the first bout of breast cancer. A year later they could find no trace on my rib. Reiki has always been the foundation, but when I studied Clinical Hypnotherapy in 2005 and later 5-PATH Hypnosis in 2007, it gave me a faster way to combine energy with the subconscious mind to create greater results for my clients. I then went on to study a plethora of other modalities for mind-body healing, and now use whatever works best, depending on the needs of the people I work with.
Through working with tens of thousands of clients, I have witnessed so many “miracles” I could write a book on it, and probably will one day when I have the time, such as pain and swelling disappearing after 18 months of severe back pain in1 Reiki treatment, cancers dissolving after 1 or more sessions, people tranistioning from suicidal tendancies, PTSD, anxiety, depression and lifelong phobias, trauma and bad habits in just 1-3 hypnosis sessions. I know this sounds difficult to believe, but check my website for some of the testimonials I have recieved, and you’ll realise anything is possible when we use the power of the subconscious mind and energy medicine to heal physical, mental and emotional problems and connect with their spirirual nature.
Anything is possible. Remember the 4 minute mile! Up until 6th May, 1954 it was believed that human beings could not break the barrier and run 1 mile (1.6km) in under 4 minutes. On that fateful day, 25 year old Roger Bannister broke the record. As of June 2022, the “four-minute barrier” has been broken by 1,755 athletes, and is now a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures. In the decades since, the mile record has been lowered by 16 seconds, and currently stands at 3:43.13, by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, at age 24, in 1999. I believe that if one person can do something, it opens the door so that anyone can.
This is why I love the work I do, and am passionate about helping as many people as I can while I am on this planet!
My aim in writing these Newsletters is primarily to teach. To help open your mind to new possiblilties, and in so, perhaps to help you heal different aspects of your own life. In each Newsletter, I’ll be sharing different Blogs and insights, from my years of experience, to help empower you to shift your thinking and let go of old paridigms which have helpd you back and stopping you from being your authentic self or reaching your potential. In this way there will be more of us living healthier, happier lives, which will impact others and hopefully spread out like a drop of water in a bucket, to touch lives we may never see. This is how we change the world. One thought, one feeling, one person, one day, one newsletter at a time.
If you have any questions or would like me to address any area of interest specifically, please let me know. If one person has an interest, generally others will too, so you will be helping many with your questions.
We are all in this together, so lets go hard this year and get clear about what we want for ourselves and others, so we can all have a better life.
During the flight home I experienced heat rising up her back which remained for 5 hours, and her hands were on fire, which I later found out was Kundalini energy rising. Once home I placed my hands on my knees for 20 minutes, then later went to bed. When I awoke the next morning, the swelling and pain was gone and I could even run! I knew then that this mystical energy was not my imagination- it was real and it could heal. Even the pain in my back which I had had for several years, due to damage and a scoliosis for all the years of aerobics was gone.
3 weeks later I started doing reiki treatments on clients and got amazing results.
A year later I did my Reiki Master’s training in Broken Hill and was also attuned to Seichim, the Egyptian Healing System now known as Sekhem/All Love, and 3 weeks later I was teaching Reiki Workshops.
Now Carol has over 1000 students, including 92 Reiki Masters I have trained, so that they too can share the gift of Reiki with others.
This was the beginning of my life work as a healer. Reiki has changed my life, and it can change yours too!
I continued to train in several other modalities, including becoming a Clinical Hypnotherapy in 2005 and 5-PATH Hypnosis in 2007. I later became a Master in in Komyo Reiki-Do trained in Theta Healing, Touch For Health Kinesiology, Yi Dow, Qigong and Neuro Stress release using tapping techniques and other mind-body healing systems. I use an integrative wellness approach to helping me clients to heal their mind, body, emotions and their lives. I believe in finding what works for you, then sharing it with others. This is my quest.
In 2021 carol was asked to join the Board of Directors for Reiki Australia, where she continues to help promote Reiki as an alternative form of Natural Therapy which can work alone or in conjunction with mainstream Western Medicine. Carol was promoted to become the Deputy Chair in 2022, and in October 2023 Carol was promoted to become the Chair of Reiki Australia, Although her 3 year term on the Board of Reiki Australia was complete in 2024, Carol was asked to stay on in that position for another year, so she expects to complete her service on the Board at the AGM on October 25th, 2025.
As a Registered Nurse (Non-Practicing), she is very currently engaged in a project to bring Reiki into hospitals and the wider community, and gain greater recognition for Reiki in the community and Australia wide. Carol has witnessed it first hand in her own life, dealing with 2 bouts of breast cancer and actually using Reiki, self-hypnosis, meditation and nutrition to manage her own bone cancer in 2016, which vanished after a year, against all expectations from her oncologist.
Book an appointment or attend one of her empowering workshops to change your life and heal your body, mind and soul.
Carol's Reiki Lineage
CAROL’S REIKI LINEAGE #1
When training in Reiki, your lineage is important. The closer you are to the top, the more you will be in alignment with the traditional teachings.
It is said that 2,500 Years Ago- ? Tibetan Monks and Practitioners first used this energy, but this cannot be verified.
1. Dr Mikao Usui- Rediscovered Reiki, March 1922 during a mystical experience
( 1865 – 1926) on Mt Kurama.
2. Dr Chujiro Hayashi- One of Dr Usui’s students. Founded a clinic in Japan. Developed
(1878– 1940) the standard hand positions and divided Reiki into Levels 1, 2 & 3.
3. Mrs Hawayo Takata- Learnt Reiki form Dr Hayashi and brought Reiki to the West. (1900-1980)
4. Beth Gray- One of Mrs Takata’s 22 Masters. Initiated between 1970 and 1980 and spread Reiki to the rest of the world.
5. Denise Crundall- Beth Gray’s Student
5. Also William Rand- William has also taken Reiki from Diane McCumber, Marlene Schilke, Harry Kuboi, Bethel Phaigh and Phyllis Furumoto
6. Zetta Michaels- My Reiki Master
7. Carol Macrae– Your Reiki Master
8. YOU– If you attend a Reiki Workshop with Carol, you will be at number 8.
This workshop is the start of a life long opportunity
to practice, apply, contemplate, live, honour, choose
and love working with Reiki / Life Force Energy.
CAROL’S REIKI LINEAGE #2
1. Dr Mikao Usui- Rediscovered Reiki, March 1922 during a mystical experience
( 1865 – 1926) on Mt Kurama.
2. Dr Chujiro Hayashi- One of Dr Usui’s students. Founded a clinic in Japan. Developed
(1878– 1940) the standard hand positions and divided Reiki into Levels 1, 2 & 3.
4. Iris Ishikura– 1973-1980. One of Mrs Takata’s Masters
5. Arthur Robertson– 1982
6. Jeanie Sande– 1982
7. Judith Tripp Chasin– 1992
8. Anna Khan Isis– 1993
9. Shirley Britton– 1997
10. Merilyn Bretherick– 1998
11. Carol Macrae– 1999– Your Reiki Master
12. YOU
KOMYO REIKIDO LINEAGE
1. Mikao Usui
2. Chujiro Hayashi
3. Chiyoko Yamaguchi
4. Hyakuten Inamoto Founded Komyo ReikiDo and began teaching in 1998
CAROL’S KOMYO REIKIDO LINEAGE
1. Hyatuten Inamoto
2. Carol Macrae, Levels 1, 2, 3 and Komyo ReikiDo Master and Teacher in July 2017.
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