Meet the Owner
Hello!! Thank you for stopping by our little Oasis from the chaos of the daily living. My name is Michele Stephens. I live in a cute little house with my wonderful teenage son and my fur baby Kevin. I am a U.S. Navy veteran who served for 16 years before my illness took its toll on me and I was forced to start a new adventure as a civilian.
I received my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Colorado Technical University in March 2018. I received my certification as a Reiki Master Trainer in October 2018. I received my Reiki I and II training to become a Practitioner in March 2017.
I have always had a desire and need to help others from a young age. It followed me as I grew up. I now believe that my journey to creating the Mind Body Spirit Oasis really started back in 1998. It was a very traumatic time in my life. It is said that the greatest growth comes from the greatest trauma. I did see this first hand. As the years passed I talked to many individuals who told me I was a natural healer. For a long time I shied away from this calling, yet it kept coming back to me.
One day I was in one of my favorite stores and I started to talk to a wonderful lady. During our conversation, I opened up to her. I was always so guarded about the fact that I had pain from my life that no matter how much I wrote, spoke with a counselor, or cried over it would not get any better. She asked me if I had ever heard of Reiki. I never had so she explained to me that she was a Reiki Master Trainer and how it works to help people heal from the traumas of their lives. At this point, I knew I was being shown a new way to possibly help myself heal so I went to an appointment with her in October 2016. I was so surprised by the session. I was not sure what to expect, but I didn’t expect to feel so relaxed and a calmness I hadn’t ever experienced. She gave me directions for self-care and sent me home. I don’t get massages because of pain it causes because of my illness. Everyone talks about how much better and more relaxed they feel afterward. I can say I experienced this feeling without her touching me with her hands physically. It was amazing. The feeling continued into the next morning. The calmness came and went as I started working through emotions that started surfacing. I knew this was part of the process of healing. She had explained it all to me ahead of time. I was so amazed by the progress that I saw her couple times a month for the first three months. During this time I started noticing some huge changes in me. After that, I started seeing her monthly.
I think it was after the first month that I asked her if she thought I could learn Reiki. She said I should learn Reiki because of my natural healer abilities and that she could teach me both the hands on Reiki or Reiki 1 and distance Reiki or Reiki 2. Right after my birthday in 2017 I became a Reiki practitioner in the traditional Master Usui Reiki system. I practiced on myself and would do so when I needed to relax after a rough day or when I was not feeling the calm I had started to enjoy. I knew I had to be my own guinea pig so to speak. I wanted to hurry to become really good so I could help others. My Master told me I had to first heal myself in order to be able to heal others so I kept at it. I later met my second Master who trained me the more in depth skills of Master and Trainer. I am now not only a master practitioner of Reiki, I am able to train my own students.
I knew I wanted to use Reiki and other healing techniques to help others as it was helping me. I knew that I wanted to be a practitioner and have my own business. I just did not have a clear vision so I put it on the back burner until I had a better idea of what it would be. I had the breakthrough after seeing my son’s cranial sacral practitioner a couple of times along with an inner child healing. I was in college at the time and in a class that required that I create a business model. Initially it started out as a simple vision then as I worked on it I saw my goal for my business, the Mind Body Spirit Oasis, come to life.
I chose the name, the Mind Body Spirit Oasis, because I wanted to create a safe destination for healing, relaxing, and re-energizing for everyone who wants to get away from the chaos of everyday living. Here is where we work on bettering our mind, body, and spirit. I invite you to meet with us. You may be surprised in what you learn. I look forward to meeting you!! 🙂