We recently connected with Lucy Ann Flores and have shared our conversation below.

Lucy Ann, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you share a story with us from back when you were an intern or apprentice? Maybe it’s a story that illustrates an important lesson you learned or maybe it’s a just a story that makes you laugh (or cry)?

I am originally born and raised in Puerto Rico and as an Environmental Science Student I was always looking for internship opportunities. As an intern I had the opportunity to go to different places like Washington DC for a Greenpeace internship, Wyoming at Yellowstone National Park and the Eco institute at pickards mountain in North Carolina. I have been able to learn from biologist, sustainable community leaders, earth and human relationship educators, nature protectores and spiritual councilors. Through my experiences I notice, that the people that I admire, had one thing in common, the connection with their intuition and with nature. I notice people I admired where what I considered “aware” and I was fascinated by the things I was learning and by the experiences I was having outside of what I considered my comfort zone, Puerto Rico. Leaving the island to explore new places took a lot of courage, but once I tried it for the first time I was inspired to look for new lessons and adventure. In greenpeace, learning to protect the environment at all cost with other environmentalist looking to make a difference and a positive impact in the world, opened my eyes to the passionate, committed and powerful community working towards educating and protecting the environment. While in Yellowstone National Park , I was able to hike with biologist doing a project on monitoring native and non native fish in the rivers streams of the National Park. This brought a broader understanding on the different environment that biologist had to work on and repopulate data on the field. Giving me the experience to live in Yellowstone for 3 months, and have encounters with the wildlife. Being par of the Eco institute opened my perspective on living in a sustainable community that educates people on sustainable community lifestyles. They do different ceremonies that guide you to connect with nature, which I found really important to me in that time in my life. I had collaborated with Plenitud a Non profit organization in Puerto Rico that focuses on sustainable community education, organic farming and sustainable practices. Adding all this experiences got me motivated to studying my Masters Degree in Environmental Management with Sustainable community Planning at Wester State Colorado University at Gunnison Colorado.

Just having this different experience in nature and with people connected with themselves got me inspired to connect with my spirituality and ended up feeling guided to start my Reiki practice.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Lucy Ann Flores, born and raised in Puerto Rico, I have a Masters degree and experience in environmental management but felt the calling on starting my spiritual business after I started to connect with my intuition. I provide Reiki sessions for individuals, groups reiki circles open to the community. As a Reiki Master, I offer Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 Certifications. I combine the knowledge of Reiki with Yoga, which I am 200 hours teacher training certified. Currently I am talking the Ashtanga yoga certification, to deepen my practice and be able to teach in the future adding it to my business offerings. Since Covid I started to take my business more seriously and I have been blessed to be able to help people through the stress and anxiety Covid protocols had brought. As a Reiki Master I provide the space for people to heal providing them alternative healing therapy that helps you relax. Some of the benefits from reiki benefits can be sleeping better, new perspectives, motivation, feeling of relaxation and healing. Reiki helps us detoxify our body of energy that we no longer need. It has many benefits and it can always help us connect with our intuition. I am also a military wife, Ashtanga practitioner and a mother of a 3 years old. I feel inspired by people that are following their passion and doing what they love.

I have always felt good connected to nature and exploring nature, and through reiki I have been able to feel grounded even on the times where I’ve been living in caos.

I have been connecting with my intuition and my spirituality and with groundwithlu I want to create a space where people can connect with their intuition and heal at their own pace feeling supported.
I am proud of the support and benefits I have been able to offer my clients.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

I started my career as an environmental manager with sustainable community planning as a main focused, and I realized there are some people living in what it is known as fight or flight. Through my experience I have noticed that to be able to help other people connect and respect nature, first we have to connect with ourselves handout intuition. In order to live a healthy lifestyle we need to be aware mindful and able to manage responsible our emotions.

Reiki helps us with managing emotions since it helps us release what no longer serves us and helps us organize our thoughts and have broader perspectives.

Training and knowledge matter of course, but beyond that what do you think matters most in terms of succeeding in your field?

Being Aware and confident in the decisions being taken. Only when you as a person take yourself seriously, people and clients will start taking you seriously things. Start showing up as the version of yourself that you feel proud. Having that in min has helped me stay focused in my goals and committed in what I want to achieve.

Contact Info:

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