Years after our initial conversation, I reconnect with Tonya Parker, a contributor to “Reiki Heart and Soul,” to discuss how her relationship with Reiki shifted into something she embodies, crystallizing during her 2020 training with Frans Stiene. Tonya shares many inspiring ways of seeing and understanding healing. Her message speaks to the hearts of healers and to the depths of our wounds.
Rev. Tonya Parker, MEd, EdS is the Founder and Creatrix of Mind Body & Soul Food, a holistic wellness and conscious healing practice devoted to nourishing women’s lives from the inside out. With more than three decades of experience as a psychotherapist, educator, healer, and spiritual teacher, Tonya bridges ancestral wisdom and modern restorative practices to support deep, sustainable well-being.
Through offerings rooted in mind, body, soul, and food, she creates sacred spaces for restoration, self-remembrance, and embodied leadership. Her work integrates Reiki, meditation, retreats, mindful nourishment, reflective writing, and community-based healing, inviting women to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with their truth.
As a self-identified W.I.T.C.H. (Woman In Tune with Conscious Healing), Tonya teaches from lived practice, guiding women to heal generational patterns, reclaim their voices, and rise as conscious leaders in their lives and communities.
FOLLOW TONYA:
https://www.instagram.com/throat_chakra_shaman/
BOOKS:
Reiki Heart and Soul https://a.co/d/0aRtaEoU
W.I.T.C.H. Voices: Women In Tune with Conscious Healing Remember Their Truth & Reclaim Their Power https://a.co/d/0gKixvV2
W.I.T.C.H. Voices, Vol. II: Women In Tune with Conscious Healing Remember Their Truth & Reclaim Their Power https://a.co/d/05BKph8f
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