During her award winning, internationally recognized career as an educator and artist, author Sunny Cohen simultaneously cultivated a spiritual and intuitive path. Highly intuitive as a child, Sunny has had a life-long interest in metaphysics. A workplace poisoning in the early 90s started Sunny on her path of self healing through Reiki. Now an elder, Sunny has had a wide variety of lived experience in family, work, and political and artistic endeavors and as an empath can relate to many of her clients' life situations. Sunny began studying and practicing Reiki in 1998 and became a Reiki Master in 2011, initiated in the Usui Method by Reiki Master Chery Esau of Portland, Oregon, USA. Upon retiring from her previous work as a professor, researcher and interdisciplinary artist, Reiki became Cohen's main focus in 2017.