About Blessingway Healing 
& Reiki Master Ela Stansberry

It all began with a simple faith-based idea fueled by a deep passion to learn how to heal in the same way of the greatest Master Healer, Jesus Christ, as well as renown profound Masters through the ages. Blessingway Healing, in partnership with North Carolina Reiki Confluence, offers access to once lost spiritual traditions of healing in a practical comfortable manner. Our approach is rooted in wisdom teachings from humanity's past, inseparable from sacredness and innate divine integrity, ensuring that every session reflects our commitment to higher good for all.

When it comes to "why," asking that question was where Master Ela Stansberry began this unusual unique journey into healing. What causes a person to seek to learn about what a human being can do to be able to heal in an energetic spiritual manner? Is it even possible? In Christianity, there are the accounts of Jesus Christ the Master Healer, as well as  his disciples, who could bring health in a touch or the laying on of hands. So that is where this started. The idea that it is possible to heal spontaneously. Perhaps even the concept of this takes developing faith or open-mindedness in the idea that human beings are more than just physical bodies in a material world. There are also accounts of Great Masters throughout the ages who were considered healers in this same manner. And the biggest question is simply how does one learn to do such things in modern times? From the moment the possibility came to mind, Master Ela Stansberry began delving deeper into spiritual and religious studies, and the path opened itself. At some point, she states that she began feeling heat rise from her hands during prayer. And as time passed, she began inquiries into any known techniques of healing. Almost immediately, answers were forthcoming, when she was told by a friend about Reiki. 

While researching what Reiki was in metaphysical bookstores in 1993, she learned more about Reiki and began looking for a master to teach her. In early 1994,  she finally found a respected local Holistic Healing Institution that was offering Reiki 1st and 2nd degree classes. Immediately, she signed up! But the classes were canceled the week before they were scheduled to happen. Sometimes things happen the way they are meant to happen, especially on the path of healing. As disappointed as she was, Ela was living in an apartment at the time and she had to regularly haul her clothes to the laundry mat just around the corner. While sitting there on the day the Reiki Classes were originally supposed to happen, she met a beautiful  older lady with long silver hair. While sitting waiting on clothes to wash, they began having a friendly conversation. When Ela mentioned that she was supposed to take a Reiki class that very weekend, the lady just stopped and looked her in the face and said calmly, "That class will be held at my home next weekend." Surprise! It was meant to be. That mysterious lady turned out to also be a Reiki Therapist, and it was her Master who was the teacher for all those classes. Sometimes the divine will lead one exactly where you need to be the most for highest good. And that is how it began. The path showed the way directly. And according to Master Ela, those Reiki Classes and traditional attunements she received have been the most blessed moment and circumstance in her life. She says it gave her life a profound spiritual foundation to build upon.

Before receiving the attunement in her first degree class, Master Ela thought "Either this will be something or it won't." And with that first attunement, Master Ela states that life changed in a way that cannot truly be given the significant honor it deserves through mere words. It was a mystical shift into a different way of life. She said it felt as if a whole different world opened up to her and she could feel it and sense it all around her all at once. And now over 30 years later, as a Reiki Master, with many years of diverse  experience of what healing means, she has only followed the path forward, learning and growing as a human being, while discovering the miraculous aspects of humanity that so few are able to recognize in their own person or in this world. There is so much more to our physical existence when we seek to heal on deeper levels. 

Master Ela Stansberry's spiritual path has led her to intense study with a Swami in the self-realization Shaktipat tradition,  brought her to study Christianity comprehensively, and even briefly led her to enter a cloistered Catholic Monastery, where she became life-long friends with several lovely monks from Gethsemane Monastery. These were brothers to the renown Thomas Merton. She studied Sufism and Taoism, and made lifelong friends, one who went on to become a Tao Master. And then began studies for over 24 years with revered Tibetan Rinpoches of the Nyingma School. She credits the growth of her abilities to the process of healing oneself through the normal every day practices of introspection, mantra, prayer, holistic nutrition and compassionate intent. 

Recently, she decided to begin teaching Reiki Classes again because she feels it is so needed in our tumultuous world as it is. So, in regard to classes she will offer this blessingway service again if people are interested in small personalized classes, which are certified through North Carolina Reiki Confluence, an offshoot of her own Reiki Master's Tennessee Reiki Confluence. And that lineage Master Ela Stansberry offers her students is only seven down from the revered founder, Master Mikao Usui, who rediscovered Reiki from a Chinese/Japanese source of ancient Buddhist Sutras. This lineage is carried through a handful of his original students, to Ela Stansberry's own Master and then to herself.  And as far as Reiki Therapy Sessions, although a lot of her healing sessions in the past have been for the sake of non profit volunteer work with hospice and hospitals, she is again taking clients through the week. Since her time is limited, Master Ela Stansberry looks to specialize with people who really need help healing, specifically those with cancer, debilitating chronic problems, injuries that are not healing fast enough or are causing discomfort, and those with problems such as PTSD or needing options with pain management.

Please feel free to reach out to Blessingway Healing, and let us know your needs. We will work with you however we can.

Healing is a natural process in life. Physical healing can often open the doors to aspects in our life that bring meaning and revelational shifts into better viewpoint and a happier life. And all of us need help with such matters. We make life better for one another in the most wonderful ways when we just decide to heal ourselves and be a light for others. Everyone has a blessing to give.

(Also, please note: The classes have a set cost as they do in all traditional Reiki Usui Ryoho. However, the Reiki Sessions are offered at an affordable cost, considered to be "donation based" because the funds go to support Equine Rescue. Equine rescue and all aspects of equestrian care has always been Master Ela Stansberry's passion, and a part of her life. So the sessions fund raise to support this cause.)