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Never have I felt so held, seen, guided and supported by a teacher or mentor as I have felt with Sam.
My recent experience of Holy Fire Master Reiki training with Sam Goddard far exceeded my expectations.
From the beginning of our correspondence and zoom Reiki sessions that travelled across an ocean and several time zones, Sam has been gracious, professional, kind, honest and profoundly insightful. I found her book on Reiki in the tiny bookshop/cafe of a small town in South Lake Tahoe, California last fall. Moved by her words and curious to connect with her as a fellow Reiki practitioner and possible mentor, I sent her an email. Within a week, she had responded and we setup our first Reiki zoom session.
Speaking with her about my past experiences of training in Reiki (Master level) that felt unfinished and feeling a strong need to deepen my own practice of Reiki to benefit my clients, Sam listened and then offered to give me an intensive one-one training.
My plan to travel Ireland in June, 2024 dovetailed perfectly with the dates Sam offered me for the intensive Holy Fire Reiki Master training. Sam amazed me again and again with her generosity and skill as a travel advisor, finding me the best ways to get to London from Heathrow and train tickets to and from London to Devon; she even offered to pick me up at the station near Devon School of Reiki when I arrived!
And then the most amazing experience began as I embarked on three days of learning with Sam. I stayed in her caravan near the Reiki studio and watched flocks of sheep wander and graze on the fields nearby. And every morning for the next three days began another incredible adventure of Reiki, nature, wisdom and power.
Never have I felt so held, seen, guided and supported by a teacher or mentor as I have felt with Sam.
She listened to me, she allowed me to find my own way, and she took me to powerful places in nature that awakened my senses and brought me joy. Wild ponies on the moors! A sacred Druid forest scattered with ancient boulders and guarded over by a magical messenger bird! A flowing stream dappled with summer light traversed by an old stone bridge that, in Sam’s twinkling words, had a Troll living underneath it!
Our time indoors in her Reiki studio was equally powerful and filled with deep learning and wisdom.
By the time I left, I felt as if I’d studied with her for years or even lifetimes. My sense of mastery in Usui and Holy Fire Reiki continues to be much stronger and more deeply rooted than before our time together.
Sam helped me to find my own path, to access my authentic self, and to allow Reiki to flow through my nervous system organically, without effort or struggle. And she wisely guided me to follow strategies for integration, including scheduling follow-up sessions on zoom to keep continuity with her as my teacher.
I am forever grateful to Sam and strongly encourage anyone who wants to learn more or improve their Reiki practice to study with Sam Goddard at the Devon School of Reiki. Move aside, Hogwarts. Sam is magical!
Rachel Pray, MA
Holy Fire and World Peace Reiki Master
Reiki+Wisdom Energy Healing, Tiburon, CA, US
https://www.reikiwisdom.space/
Sam will, with love, compassion, understanding and gentle shoves when needed, bring you back to your true, strong, beautiful and amazing self!
I began my Reiki Journey back in 2012 and have learnt and grown immensely on so many levels through this journey. My Reiki journey did not start with Sam, however, I believe that, like many ‘coincidences’ our paths were meant to cross and it did lead us to meet.
Since 2012 I have been fortunate enough to have been given teachings from some beautiful souls and incredible teachers, including crystal souls and shamanic practitioners. Sam has been working with me on a 121 basis for the last couple of years and helping me deepen my understanding of both myself and the path that I have walked and am continuing to walk.
The space that Sam holds has been both powerful and gentle intertwined with grace and a presence of Elders and ancestors who come through to assist both Sam and myself with what needs to be seen, undone, re-lived, seen again or understanding deepened.
The shifts that Sam and I have worked through, have been on many levels and following our recent session, has taken me back to work that I was drawn to in sacred Temples and lifetimes lived through in different timelines. This work has deepened my understanding and transition into my Crone phase, and is helping me draw on the power and shifts that this is bringing through now in this lifetime and through physical shifts in my energy levels and my body.
Previous Temple work has drawn me to understand and deepen my teaching and experiences of my Mother phase of life and both bearing, losing and nurturing children of many lifetimes. This has also included connecting with my own child whom I lost and have since been able to hold in her birth sac energetically and hold her closely as I said the goodbye that I was never able to do on this Earth plane. She remains connected with me through both my crown and umbilical connection and I often feel her presence close and somehow she guides me. I have also had the incredible honour of re-meeting children of mine from previous lifetimes and healing that which needed to be healed for us and clearing timelines so that we could move forward once more in this lifetime.
There are Temples that I was drawn to where I was honoured to work with the souls of children who had passed and yet still needed a depth of love that I was able to feel and give them from a place in my heart that stretched back many lifetimes. Sam’s 121 sessions have helped me remember this which in turn is helping me walk that path that I now find myself walking. The reconnections to my womb through these sessions have been both moving and empowering on so many levels. Just to know and remember that it is within this beautiful and sacred space that seeds can be nurtured and sown on different levels, is empowering in itself. Our own temple within our sacred, amazing, powerful and beautiful bodies.
The comfort, reassurance and confidence that I am walking in shoes previously walked in, drawing on ancient knowledge, feeling those ancestors walking with me both in Sam’s sessions and now whilst writing these words has and is, having an immense effect and helping me to navigate with confidence a path in life that perhaps I have walked before and am remembering how to again walk that path with grace and an energetic presence that I feel within me.
Sam is incredible at reawakening in me, that which I had previously embraced and can, thanks to her continuing 121 sessions, I can bring forth with a reawakened confidence and soft power and confidence that I am loving!
The sessions don’t end when I leave the sacred space. Even now, weeks after our session, I still feel the energies moving through me, lessons appearing to show me that which needs to be worked through, people coming into my life to mirror that which needs to be seen and my confidence as an independent, strong and beautiful woman growing in me like a flower coming into bloom. It sounds like a cliche to say that it feels like there is a rose growing within my soul, my heart and my womb that is opening and replacing hurt, anguish, pain and grief and as it grows there is a lightness within me that is beginning to shine once again from every cell in my body and reconnect to the Universe on different and vast energetic levels and connections.
Never have I been drawn to have so many roses in my house – white ones especially. It is like they are a reminder and a gift that I can see every day of the love and the beauty that is reforming in me.
Someday, I hope and trust that Sam and I will return on the physical plane to the Temples and the energies that I was fortunate enough to work with in the Mediterranean and she and I will reawaken so much more in each other and perhaps in others and remember the paths and the lessons that we were born to reawaken in ourselves.
I am honoured and privileged to have met Sam and I hope that this testimony will go some way in giving anyone the reassurance and courage to step through Sam’s door, trust and surrender that you too are very much meant to be there to remember just what strength and beauty lies within you.
Sam will, with love, compassion, understanding and gentle shoves when needed, bring you back to your true, strong, beautiful and amazing self!
The love and gratitude that I hold for Sam as both a sister and a teacher will be held in my heart for many lifetimes to come. The work that Sam brings forward is a gift to many sisters and I am honoured to have been able to experience Sam’s offerings and openings.
Jan Stibbs
