About Ru Sunaya Kazi
My name is Ru Sunaya Kazi and my pronouns are Ru/Ru’s/They/Them. Although I’ve long since stopped correcting people on my pronouns. I am a blend of the masculine and feminine energies, which makes me well-suited to care for the nuance of your energetic being.
My family comes from South Asia, and as a first generation, queer, non-binary American, I understand what it is to not be in balance with one’s surroundings. In our energy work, we will pinpoint what makes you unique in the world and aim for a balanced energy to allow you to engage freely with those in your sphere.
How Did Energy Work Find Me?
In me as your practitioner, you get someone who has lived many lives. In this world, I have been a drummer for rock bands, a Certified Public Accountant, a professional actor, director, and a Director’s Guild of America assistant director for film and television.
I’ve always felt connected to the universal energy which is why I think I’ve experienced success on so many levels. But, energy healing specifically didn’t come to me until 2013 after I had been struggling with the effects of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) I experienced in 2009 from concussions relating to my time as a hockey goalie.
The results of this TBI were catastrophic. I could not properly make sentences for four years. I couldn’t look both ways to cross the street without getting a Post Concussion Headache. I had symptoms similar to vertigo. I couldn’t communicate in real time, as there was a delay when I would start saying a sentence to the time the sentence would actually come out of my mouth. I lost everything that made me feel special in this world. I lost the gift of gab. I lost my athleticism. I lost my ability to play the drums. I lost my job as a CPA because my brain couldn’t handle the work. I lost everything.
Miraculously, acting came into my world. Here I was having trouble communicating, and then a career path appeared where they give you the words to say, and tell you when you have to say them. I saw a light at the end of the tunnel.
After successfully auditioning for projects in my home city of St. Louis, Missouri, I decided to take this new opportunity very seriously and applied to and got in to the prestigious Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. That led me to join their Los Angeles studio, and graduate in high esteem. Graduation led to getting an agent and acting in TV shows such as The Good Place, 2 Broke Girls, and NCIS.
During my time in acting conservatory, I was introduced to formal breath work and energy consciousness. I also kept bumping up against my TBI. A post concussive headache would hit at the worst times and knock me out completely until the next day. Nothing I tried in terms of therapy would work for my injuries.
One day a movement teacher suggested that the next time one of these post-concussive episodes would happen, I should “have a conversation with it.”
As a rock and roller athlete masquerading in Southern Illinois as a testosterone-fueled biological man, I had never considered having a conversation with energy. It just wasn’t language I was familiar with.
But I was willing to try anything, so there we were in a warm up for a movement class; getting in touch with our chi (energy) when the post-concussion syndrome hit. So this time I decided to have a conversation with it, as instructed. And in this conversation, I re-experienced in real-time every moment I had as a hockey player, from when I was six years old playing in the cul-de-sac, to when I was a fully grown adult having my third concussion in a month.
It was not a highlight or lowlight reel scenario. I re-experienced every moment I ever had playing hockey. Our bodies remember. Our past is imprinted on our energy, and undoing that past trauma is part of our work here.
This warmup was designed to take 15 minutes, but I was on the ground in corpse pose for almost two hours going through this healing process.
At the end of the highlight reel, and finding myself having just re-experienced my final play in hockey - a glorious blocker side save if I may say so myself - I found my energetic and perceptible self in what seemed to be a black void space. And then a superhighway of nerve endings and synapses filled the space all around me. I was in the center of what looked like the universe as pictured from a telescope. Similarly it looked like medical imagery of the way our brains are wired. Was I at the center of the Universe? Was I at the center of my brain? Are those two options mutually exclusive?
Oranges and reds and other bright lights filled the void as I saw my nervous system super-highway come alive. This past two hours of chi work brought me to this place.
And then I looked to my right, and I noticed almost behind me, an area of the highway all greyed out. I could see the infrastructure of the highway system, but it’s as if there was no power to that part of the grid. Interestingly, it was the back right of my “brain”, where the strongest impact point of the concussions happened.
So I threw almost two hours of built up chi energy to this area just by focusing my mind on it, and slowly, starting from the outside working in, the lights started turning back on. Synapses started firing and emulsive explosions of red and orange energetic light began brightening my vantage point.
As the synapses started to re-fire, and the circle closed itself up to where it was just the size of a pinhole, my chi did the last bit of repair work, and when the last synapse fired to close the pinhole, my entire brain/the universe/the superhighway engaged in a bright blue and white light that filled the entire black void space I was in, and the shine caused me to open my physical eyes. The healing event was over, and my eyes opened as if for the first time in the four years since the TBI.
Immediately, my body was accessible in ways in hadn’t been for years. I joined the rest of the actors in class in the movement exercises they were working on, which on this day involved a lot of back bends and contortions. My body moved intuitively and effortlessly, and displayed flexibility and agility that had been dormant for years. While I can’t say I was “back” immediately, I can say that I was “fully available” to myself again.
My unencumbered journey to self could continue again.
After this energetic awakening, my entire world changed. I could now perceive the energy of others in a tangible way and I learned that my sensibilities can help others.
I could play the drums again. Other instruments became available to me as I started playing guitar, bass, and keyboards (not well, but hey, it’s a journey!)
And my timing lag on my speech patterns went away.
To the point where I was able to take class and eventually end up on a main stage team at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater doing improv comedy. If you are familiar with improv comedy, you’ll know that it requires lightning fast thinking and speaking without a script. Making up a comedy scene on the fly with some of the brightest minds in entertainment proved to me that my brain was healed and that my journey could continue.
I since trained under the Holy Fire Reiki Method and formally learned what my system intuitively discovered.
Lastly, as someone that wasn’t raised in wellness and energy talk, I can say plainly that sometimes this work can get a little weird. Woo-woo, if you will.
I will do my best to ground this woo-woo nature in reality and leave you walking away with tangible relief as opposed to a shoulder shrug wondering if any of this is effective or not.
Whether you believe in energy work, the reality that energy surrounds, or the truth that we are all connected to each other or not, for effective Reiki treatments, we need to lean in to the fact that all are true, real, and valid.
Energy work is a two-way street, and requires spiritual buy-in to be impactful.
That gets me to my final point…
Why Charge For Healing?
We don't charge for healing. Fees go directly to covering rent, supplies, and further education for the Reiki practitioner.
However, if cost is what's keeping you from the benefits of Reiki, please reach out to me directly and I’ll see where we can fit you in. I’m also open to barter and trade, so please don’t be shy. Let’s help each other in this oft-times individualistic society.