EPISODE 118 - Past Life Regression: What Your Soul Remembers (and Why It Matters) with Toni Reilly & Ann Theato

Did you live before? In this fascinating conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Toni Reilly — international author, speaker, and Australia’s leading past life regression specialist. Toni has guided thousands through past life recall, helping them reconnect with loved ones in spirit, discover their soul’s purpose, and release emotional patterns carried across lifetimes. 

We dive into the mysteries of past lives, soul groups, and the metaphysics of loss — and explore why younger generations may be naturally wired for deeper spiritual awareness. 

If you’ve ever wondered whether your soul has lived before, or how your past lives could be shaping your present, you won’t want to miss this episode. 

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“We must be here in various bodies — who knows how many — at the same time. Our soul energy is limitless and endless, and it changes you… just these realisations that you can’t unknow once you know them.” – Toni Reilly

 

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EPISODE 118

You’ll Learn

• How past life regression works and what actually happens in a session.
• The surprising ways your past lives may influence your present-day relationships, fears, and habits.
• What “soul groups” are and how they shape your life experiences.
• How recalling past lives can bring emotional healing and release long-held patterns.
• The connection between past life memories and your soul’s purpose.
• Why younger generations may be more open and tuned in to spiritual awareness.
• Toni Reilly’s personal journey from mainstream life to becoming Australia’s leading past life regression specialist.

Transcript

VO: Psychic Matters with Ann Théato. The top ranked spirituality podcast.

 

Ann: My guest today is the extraordinary Toni Reilly, international author, speaker, and Australia's leading past life regression specialist. She's the founder of the Toni Reilly Institute and the creator of SoulLife® Psychology, a groundbreaking approach that blends deep spiritual insights with modern psychological understanding. 

Toni has guided thousands of people through past life recall, helping them reconnect with loved ones in spirit, uncover the soul's purpose, and heal long held emotional patterns. Her work challenges the way we think about grief, death, and what it truly means to live. In this episode, we open up a conversation about past lives, soul groups, and the metaphysics of loss, and consider why today's younger generations may be wired for deeper awareness. 

If you've ever wondered whether your soul has lived before, or how your past lives could be influencing your present, you'll find this conversation thought provoking. Toni Reilly, welcome to Psychic Matters.  

Toni: Hello Ann, thank you for having me on Psychic Matters.  

Ann: Oh, you are so welcome. It's really great to have you here, and I'm very excited about the conversation we're about to have. Let's get straight into it, Toni. How did you first become interested in past lives? Where did that come from?  

Toni: Well, I was on a mission to enhance intuition, which was new to me in my thirties, my early thirties, and in that process, trying to find out, find someone where I could develop intuition, I did find someone, was sitting in a development circle meditating away, and the lady who let me into the circle told me to read Many Lives, Many Masters, which was all about past lives, but she didn't tell me that. She said, you need to read this book. And I went on a mission to find the book. I found it, took a few weeks, found it, read it in nearly one go, and I thought, whoa, this is what I'm here to do! Sounds so cliche, but that's how it happened. 

Ann: And this is Dr. Brian, this is Dr. Brian Weiss' book. 

Toni: It is, yes. And it was all about a patient of his who had so many, we'll just say issues, and, uh, he sporadically started recalling past lives, which was new to him at the time as well, but it fixed, it fixed a lot of things for her. So, um, yeah, it was like I was reading it, thinking, oh, it just resonated, it seemed just so right and real. 

Ann: It's interesting how things like that can just suddenly sit with us and feel so correct. Like you just said it, it feels so right. But before we deep dive into that, go back a little because you said you went to a class to develop your intuition. Why did you feel you needed to do that at that time? 

Toni: Well, at that time in my life I had led what I consider a very mainstream life. I was a mom, three little kids, and I worked in a mainstream type work. And my, I, my marriage was breaking up or it had broken up. And in the process, I had, on reflection I probably had been intuitive, but I had stopped it. Um, and just got on with life and, uh. I just became hyper aware that I had this, and I did once in a while have readings. Two of my friends and I used to go once a year and have a reading. And the reader always said, you could do this. And I never had a chance to think about it more at that time. But obviously I remembered it because at the time when I thought, wow, what is this all about? Why do they say this to me? I, I need to find out. So, the compulsion took over and, I thought, I'm gonna go and find out about my intuition. And I asked one of the readers who had said it to me, I said, what would I do to find out about my intuition? And he said, you have to meditate. Before that he said, when are you ever quiet? And I said, well, only when I sleep because you're so busy. 

Ann: Yeah. 

Toni: And yeah. So, he said, you have to meditate. And I was, I was so ignorant then to all of this that I thought Buddhist monks meditated. I didn't even know what they did really, but that was what I thought. Oh gee. And then I started to think, oh my God, am I gonna have to give up drinking? But I really wanted to develop my intuition. So, of course I discovered that you didn't have to be a Buddhist monk. And I found this lady who I would consider very mainstream. And away we went. I got to sit in, in the circles and just meditate each week, couple of times a week we used to do it. And it was just phenomenal. Everything, everything flowed and I could see, in here, of course, I could see and I could hear my thoughts or clairaudiently and, it was just wonderful. 

Ann: Mm-hmm. Mm. Fascinating, that's how you began with that beautiful development circle. Was she developing you, in meditation or was that all round intuition, psychic, mediumship. What was that circle?  

Toni: I'd say that circle was more psychic development. 

Ann: Yeah. 

Toni: And her style of meditation was still my favourite, is she would lead you so far with guided visualization. There was always some lovely shaman music or some lovely music going, and she would take you so far and then leave you, and something's happened and I, well, I guess what I know now is the soul took over and it took every person in there on somewhere different, but it was relative to them. And I, I used to be quite vivid back then when I first started to see, and every time I meditated, I would get something. And it was also a massive awakening to me because I never knew about insecurities. I, I never realised that they were a thing. I never knew about self-awareness. I didn't know about any of that stuff. 

And, and probably one of the rudest awakenings was that I was a bit messy and I had insecurities and self-worth, things going on. And it was, it was mind blowing and eye-opening and it changed me profoundly. So, I thought I was going along to develop my intuition and psychic ability, but of course, something much bigger happened and, it was kind of the start of what eventuated into SoulLife® Psychology. 

So, it's as if I was given the steps myself that needed to be taken in order for someone to get into a really good space. It took a long time. Yeah. 

Ann: I think it's great, isn't it? Because we don't know these things. We don't know about Buddhist monks. We don't know so much through our lives. And it doesn't matter that we don't start these things when we are seven. It's okay if we start it in our thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, it doesn't matter. 

Toni: Yeah. Yeah. 

Ann: And so, you read this book by Dr. Brian Weiss. And what happened then? So that really sat with you. What happened after that?  

Toni: So, what happened after that was, I was just so enthralled. I went back to my meditation teacher who was named Mary, and I said, Mary, I have to do this. And I was thinking at the time, 'cause I'd never heard of it before, I'm gonna have to fly to the States. I'm in Australia, I'm gonna have to fly to the states and have him do this for me, this regression. And anyway, I went to her and said, you know, this is what I'm thinking. She said, I can do this. So, within a few days I'm on her couch in the living room, having a regression. And it was just phenomenal. I cried a lot, I must say. I really, truly felt like I was there and and it was very emotional and I guess it was wonderful. And also, I had asked about three particular things because she'd said to me, when you do this, we're usually addressing something. And of course I'd been doing my, my development and realised I had a few issues. So, I had the chance to address them. And I asked for three things. One was I could not speak in front of people. And in my life that meant in front of my immediate family. We were a small family, three kids, mum and dad. But if you had to stand up and talk, oh, I just, I would get this feeling that nearly made me faint and I, and not that I ever had to really stand up in front of people, so it was so rare that it happened, but it occurred to me that that's a bit not normal. And that was one thing. I also asked for. I went through school covering my writing. It was weird. I had this sensation someone was reading over my shoulder. Of course they weren't, but it felt like that and then I thought, oh, that's a bit weird too, so I asked for that. And I also asked, why am I in my thirties? And I only just now know that I have this intuition or these intuitive capacity. They were my questions. 

Ann: Yeah. Good questions. 

Toni: So, what I saw was a couple of things, two lives in that time, but one, I was this young girl in Scotland and teenager, 17 I was. And I could see that people would come to the cottage, the little cottage, and they would hold their hands over mine. We'd sit on the floor together and I was able to tell them things, which seemed to make them feel better. And also, I knew how to make, um, poultice, uh, to put on wounds. And I also knew that my mother had died and I had a little brother and my father worked away. There was a lot of detail that I got and I saw a lot. So, um, and my dad then was my dad in this life, in my current life. And, uh, anyway, what I also saw was I was to be hung in the little centre of town, and it was because, and I knew I'd been deemed a witch. And I, I thought my brother had said something. He was much younger than me. I was 17, he was eight. But um, I think that he had told some people, at least that's what I thought in the, came up in the regression. Anyway, I was on the platform, going to be hung. All the, not all the people, but there were a lot of people there jeering and yelling much like you would see in the films. And it was very scary. And also, you knew inside that you were so innocent. And, um, anyway, what happened was, and in, in my regression, I only saw this person's feet, like maybe up to their knees. 

Ann: This is the person that you were.  

Toni: No, I could see me, young girl in my long skirt and white shirt, but I could see when I was to be hung, it was a man standing there, right? Could see, but I only could see him from the knees down. And I knew that he had let me get off the platform because next thing I'm running off the platform and running down this road out of town. And I took cover under some kind of, on little, little rocky mound, big mound. But there were some rocks that you could kind of take a bit of cover under. And anyway, that's where I ended up. And I also saw that I died not long later. They didn't hang me. I died up there, I got sick became, and of course it was cold, but I got sick and died anyway. I remember thinking logically, why wouldn't those people run after me? Because just this young kind of little. Girl, but uh, they obviously were petrified because they think you're a witch. 

Ann: Right. 

Toni: So, no one was coming after me. And um, that was the first regression. I got so much detail about it later that was like, answered all these questions in particular, why would that man let me go as he's supposed to be, making it happen Anyway, that was the first one and it answered, why couldn't I speak in public was one thing. It also answered why or fixed that I couldn't speak in public. And also, it answered my question, why am I this age and don't know I'm intuitive. 'Cause I guess to some extent you just ignore it. for fear of that happening again. Of course, it's all subconscious, but that was one thing. And the second life I saw in that one took care of the writing thing, where I saw myself as a, about a 40-year-old man and I had black buckle shoes and the white stockings and knickerbocker clothes on, and I knew I was someone of importance in my town. And I wrote, I could see I wrote the most beautiful handwriting with a quill in a leather-bound book I don't even know where you get one of those beautiful things from. But anyway, I would write in it and I was writing things like philosophy, my own philosophy, and I guess what was streaming through. But what happened in that one was. I, I, I think it was the mayor. I was something of that kind of status in this little town. And I had told the people, I called the people to a meeting and told them that there was to be a storm. Nothing even outrageous. There's to be a storm and we, we must prepare our little town to save it from being flooded. And, they said, how would you know that? Basically this, how would you know that? And they ransacked wherever I wrote my, text and were like, what, what is this? And that they locked me up. I, I didn't get all of the details, but they locked me up. I died in, in the lockup, in the prison. And, yeah, I guess they were just afraid. Didn't, didn't know what it was all about. But it was why, because they read my text was why they had locked me up. And it answered why I didn't want anyone reading what I'd written. So ... 

Ann: Ah, of course, of course. 

Toni: Yeah, so I came out of that regression with Mary a little bit um, astounded because I could see so clearly and all of the feelings were there as well. And, um, it was just phenomenal. Probably one of the biggest things aside from that, it healed those problems for me. It was, I knew, I knew implicitly that I hadn't imagined it. There's no way I could have made that up. I was just not familiar with history or anything really. And the visions that I saw were so clear. I tell this story a bit, I always remember from that moment forward that nobody, no matter how educated they were, more educated than me or more scientific research than what I had, I knew that I hadn't made it up and it was real. So, that was it. It was my anecdotal, literal experience that sent me on this mission. I was unstoppable actually after that of trying to... I think what I realised was this can help people, and there was major compulsion to work out how to do that. Yeah.  

Ann: And so, what, wow, this is so fascinating. What did you do then to move that forward? You had this compulsion to, to investigate, to find out, to seek more knowledge. What did you do after that?  

Toni: The first thing I did was I thought, I must learn how to do this because it can help people. 

Ann: Yeah. 

Toni: And so I went back to Mary, well, I was there with Mary, but maybe I had a couple of time, uh, days to think about the session. And I said to her, I have to learn this. She says, I'm having a class on the weekend. She's teaching people this on the weekend. So, I, um, attended the class and that class was myself and two or three other girls and we were, we would take it in turns one person on the couch and she would regress us. So, we watched, we watched and observed, and each of us was regressed many times over that weekend. So, that's how it happened. That's how we learned. And I felt just completely ease with it. It came just easy and I felt completely confident about it as well.  

Ann: So, you do this weekend with Mary, and then what happens after that then, how do you, I'm trying to establish, Toni, where, how you've gone to being Australia's leading past life regression therapist to, to this where you've just started to learn, you've, you're just at the beginning of your journey here. 

Toni: Yeah. I love this. I love talking about this. So, what happened then was, after I did my couple of days of training, um, the first thing I was told in my guidance was I must keep notes. So, from that minute forward, I kept notes of every regression I did, um, but in, in the lead up to, in developing my intuition, I was working in a crystal shop where they did readings, so I had access to people who were interested in past lives. So, I guess what I got was this open canvas, if you like, of people who might want to do regression. So, I went back there and like, oh, I've learned how to do past life regression. Who wants to do it? Well, I cannot tell you, it had to be destined because these people show up, they're wanting to have these sessions. And they went so well and I kept all the notes and we were having phenomenal, results and these stories that of people's lives. So, it just skyrocketed and um, I just kept all of the notes and kept seeing people recording everything. And then I thought to myself. I need to go and train with Brian Weiss because at that time he was the only person I'd heard of that had even done anything. I wasn't even aware that other people had done a lot of extensive research and work in this field. So, I went to, it was probably 12 months later, I went to New York to train with him, with Dr. Brian Weiss. And, um, it was fantastic. 

Ann: It must have been so super exciting. Arriving in New York from Australia and doing this wonderful course of Brian Weiss, amazing.  

Toni: It was so exciting Ann, and also, I had some more affirmation of the intuitive insights that would come, or the psychic insights. And one of them was, at that time I had started running a development circle because I lived in a different state to Mary. So, I started one in, in my home state and people came, so many people. So, it's like, you couldn't make this happen, it was magical. But uh, I remember about a week before I was going over to the States, I said I had about 20 people in the circle that evening, and I used to meditate with them when I guided them in. But this, this particular evening, it said to me in my mind, you are going to meet a teacher when you go away. And I answered back, I know Brian Weiss. And he said, no, no, his name's Dan. And I'm like, what? And, and it starts saying in my head, Dan and Dave. Dan and Dave, which I think was a comedy show when I was a little kid. 

Ann: Oh, how funny. 

Toni: Or Dad and Dave, it might've been. But anyway, I was like, Dan and Dave, Dan and Dave. And I'm like, oh, well, okay. And so, what we used to do in Circle at that time, is everyone would say what happened for them. So, I told them all. I said, well, I was told I was gonna meet a teacher and it's not Brian Weiss, it's Dan. So, I thought, we just put it out there. Well, when I got to New York, the, the place where Dr. Brian Weiss teaches is couple of hours outside of New York upstate. And so, you have to get on a big bus that takes you there. And because I was new to traveling then, or certainly new to traveling by myself, yes, I thought I'm gonna sit at the front like a real tourist so I can see the landscape and everything 

Ann: Yes of course, I'd be the same. 

Toni: Yeah. So, I'm sat up there, um, I was so excited and this big bus fills up with people. They're obviously all going up to this, this campus. And, um, no one sat beside me. Then the bus is nearly full. This man gets on the bus. I think he's the second last person that got on and, he stood near me. He said, is anyone sitting there? Do you mind if I sit there? I'm like, no, no, come sit down. So, he gets in there and we're like, oh, hello, I'm Toni. And then he says, oh, I'm Dan. And I'm like, anyway, we did not stop talking for the couple of hours journey. He turned out to be a hypnotherapist and he was very humanitarian and he worked with, young people. and he was, he was just a lovely person and very, um, easy to talk to. So then when we got to college, he's got a roommate. I'm in a different section. He's got a roommate and his roommate's Dave, who was also a hypnotherapist.  

Ann: Wow. 

Toni: So, um, anyway, it was really brilliant and I do remember, and I sat with them. There were 120 people in that training. But I sat with, Dan, a couple of things. One thing he said to me, I'll never forget it and I have to always attribute it to him, was he said, we're volunteers, not victims. It really stuck with me 'cause I was really quite new to working out how life worked back then, where I thought, that's really powerful.  

Ann: It's really powerful. 

Toni: And yeah. And what else did he say? I was telling him all about energy at that point because the pendulum and all that was so new. I can remember we walked into, there's a little shop on the campus and there were pendulums. They all started rocking. We didn't even do anything. And he was like, they were really fun. and also, Ann, he had an iPhone and they had just come out with a camera in them. Because it's nearly 20 years ago. And, anyway, so I ended up getting regressed by Dr. Brian Weiss on stage. Only did two people. 

Ann: I love it. I love it. 

Toni: And, uh, he took photos. Dan took photos. So, I have photos. They're not great photos, but they're there. And I thought this, this is just all came together. It's all meant to be.  

Ann: Amazing. And so, you were regressed by Brian Weiss, and then you had this wonderful week. You must have flown home to Australia on a high after that. 

Toni: I was on such a high, and I also, I think probably the thing that I learned, I mean, I learned lots of things from it, but Dr. Brian Weiss was the most humble teacher. He was not a gatekeeper. He wanted everyone to have access to this information or these skills that he had come across. But I, I learned that already the way I had learned from Mary was working very well, slightly different because Brian Weiss was, of course, because he's a psychiatrist, he was quite clinical in the way that he facilitated. Nonetheless, it worked beautifully. So, when I came back from there, I thought, oh, I need to learn, I need to teach this. And I also realised that it was easy to do this in big groups. You could facilitate a regression for many people at once. 

Ann: Yes, yes. 

Toni: So, I started doing those things and it all kind of rolled on.  

Ann: Beautiful. And it rolled on to, what, so it's rolled forward. And now where do you find yourself today, say for instance? 

Toni: So, today, all of those regression cases or yes, case studies just gave me, um, a massive amount of insight, not only for my clients, but I started to teach as well. And sometimes the class numbers would be uneven, so someone would have to regress me. One, one of my students we're like, you're with me? Um, so I've been regressed so many times, so many times I don't remember them all to be honest. Mm. But, um, so I had a lot of, I guess, um, experiences myself, but also what people said. It was all the same, basically. It was all the same, what they would say. Of course, the circumstances were slightly different and some ended violently and some ended, many, in fact, most ended very, uh, calm and the person was ready to go the past lives. But I got to document all of this information in here and also literally. But from the, the past lives, people always went into past lives, lives initially, but then it switched. It was though I was getting my little degree in transcendent experiences, but after a while it switched and people would go to between lives and you would have a run of them. You'd be like, oh, everyone's going between lives now. And so, we got to explore there and of course, learn how to facilitate and you get better each time it happens. Um, how to ask the, ask for what is needed or what that person needs, all of that kind of thing. So, we did, we got, or I got really well versed in between lives. 

And also, what happened was, sometimes they never told me that this, but people, a lot of people would, they passed over, a person would come in and visit them, and it was really beautiful for them because, and they would say, oh, oh, my dad's here. They're in there recalling a past life. But before it used to happen, usually before they went into the past life. 

And you're getting them into the, the zone or the relaxation. You know, they would say, oh, my dad's here, or, or my whomever passed other person. It was so beautiful. So from that, we learned you can facilitate that visitation in the afterlife with your person. You can go in between and find out what is really the purpose of what you're doing here. The past lives really always I did that for therapeutic value, but whether people come for curiosity or not, that always something will be fixed for them or be better for them now, will give them some sort of insight into what they're doing here now. 

Ann: It's beautiful. I love the way it can be used, as you said, life between lives. Where does our soul go to once we finish this physical body? It returns of course to, uh, the spiritual realms. 

Toni: Yeah. 

Ann: And it's really interesting to explore that. Um, as you know Toni, but perhaps listeners don't, I trained myself as a past life regression hypnotherapist over at the Edgar Cayce Center in Virginia Beach in America. 

Toni: Yeah. 

Ann: And that was incredible. And the second or third time I was regressed within that class by a fellow student, I remember it so distinctly, Toni. I went into a hut- in my mind, I'm in a hut and all I can, I was choking, I was physically choking in the session 'cause I couldn't breathe because of all the smoke that was in the hut. And, and uh, what happened was when that smoke cleared and suddenly I stopped coughing. My father stood there. My father died maybe seven years beforehand. And I could not believe that he was there. I could see him; I could touch him. I could smell him. I remember straightening his tie. I remember the touch of his flesh. Um, and the, his, he had a certain smell about him. Not horrible smell. It was a beautiful smell of the smell of my father. And, um, it was just so real. And he was just standing there and that's when I realised myself during this past life regression work, that you can go to different places within our consciousness and not just visit different lives but visit different places and see the people that we've loved from the spirit world. And that is the type of work that really fascinates me to move more into that. 

Toni: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. That's beautiful. You've made me tear up. 

Ann: I know, 

Toni: that your dad came, it's really special. 

Ann: It was. And you know, like you said there earlier in our conversation about, you knew it was not your imagination. It was something so different. And that was the experience with my father. It was so, it, it changed my life. That's that's how important it was.  

Toni: Yeah. Amazing. Amazing.  

Ann: So, Toni, do you think anyone can. Access a past life through regression or do you think people need to have a spiritual side or a psychic side? Is this for everybody, 'cause some listeners may not be a psychic or a medium or have any pull to be, um, such, but would like to experience past life regression. What do you say about that?  

Toni: I would have to say that most of the people that come for past life regression don't work in this realm as we do in mediumship or psychic, um, or therapy. But I guess that's what made it even more exciting is these people would come, often they would come as a last resort. They have a physical symptom or an ailment, or they've been labelled something with some sort of mental disorder. And there, um, there must be some knowing inside them that there's something gonna help them here. And often people would find this, they were coming to do past life regression as a last resort. But it worked. It always worked. And it was more exciting for me when they didn't have any, they weren't spiritual, they were mainstream or just not aware of how it all worked. And they would still be bringing these prolific insights and having prolific memories. So, you certainly don't have to be on the spiritual bent to experience a past life.  

Ann: Mm. Yeah. No, I feel the same, absolutely not. And what about people's, they want to come and explore perhaps some trauma that they're feeling in this particular life, or a phobia that maybe they have. How, how does that work in a past life regression when we go to address those kind of things? What's the success rate perhaps afterwards? Or could you maybe talk to us a little bit about that?  

Toni: I'm gonna say straight up, the success rate is almost a hundred percent is probably just taking it too far, but it's so close to that. I think, um, with phobias, which usually when people have a phobia, it doesn't make sense as to why they have it, even if it's something which people perceive makes sense, like it's heights or fire. But it's actually, if you haven't had an experience with heights or fire, then it's not actually normal to have such an extreme fear of it or phobia of it. And people have also odd phobias as well, but even looking at heights or fire and, what they recall is some time in a past life when they've been affected by heights or a fire or lying or um, whatever the case may be that they've come to address, they get to see, remember, recall what the core was that caused it, and that is what fixes it. That's the simplicity of the past life recall is all the person needs to know is what happened, why it happened. So, part of the therapy is, it's really not rocket science, but we find out what happened. Then we find out why did it happen? And then often they get, information from a bit of a higher perspective and it clears whatever's going on for them. And also even, not just phobias but physical symptoms and even, I, I mean, I guess they're deemed mental symptoms or psychological symptoms where whatever the thing going on for them is, suddenly doesn't exist anymore. It, some of the things vanish like this, I guess with phobias, for example, much like my writing once or speaking in public, you don't know it's gone until you go out and do those things. 

So, you go and write and it's like, oh, it's gone. You can feel it then. So, but some things that can be instant right there on the table and, quite phenomenal. So, the success rate is extraordinary. 

Ann: Yeah. 

Toni: And I, believe that it's because, not by chance that, we're being exposed to past lives at this time in the trajectory of humanity, that people when they come for past life regression, they're really communicating with their soul because even though they're seeing themselves as someone else, that it's really, it's them, it's them in a, in another timeline or another time when they've been in a body. So, it's, um, talking to their own soul.  

Ann: And so, in a typical session, somebody would, uh, you would talk them down into a state of, um, beautiful, altered state of consciousness whereby they can go on this wonderful experience and they can narrate out loud to you the experience that they are having. And then afterwards, um, after that finishes, you ask their soul to give them information about what they learned. Speak a little bit about that 'cause people might not quite understand.  

Toni: Well, one of the most important parts of the past life process is taking them to the death scene because at that point when we go to the death scene, sometimes physical symptoms were caused at the death scene in a past life. But so, we get to address that even if it wasn't that what people do at that point is they lose the fear of death because they know that they have this feeling or this sensation that they're going on. Um, but also what we do at that point is the person passes, it's like the person in regression lets whomever they were, pass over, and then we call that person's spirit back. 

So, if I was, if I've just had a past life as John, then we would say, okay, bring John's spirit back and what does he want you to know? So, and John, of course is my soul then, because I just saw myself living another lifetime as John. So, then what happens is that person receives insights for them. Generally, the message is for them now, nothing to do with the past life that they just remembered or recalled. And it will be, usually it's somehow related to what's going on for them now. And also, what we started to ask was what was the purpose of the life as John, what did you set out to do? And I know sometimes they talk very much about; we went to learn a lesson. Sometimes it's just to have an experience. Rather than that we're coming to pay for anything or we're, you know, paying back karma or anything. So that's, at that point they get, um, an insight into what was actually the purpose of the lifetime and that's very often once a wisdom comes through and they're like, oh, I had no idea that that perspective was why, they may have even experienced something really horrendous or by our standards, we would perceive it to be horrendous. But they come in and go, oh, and they'll start to relay why they did that, why, why their soul agreed to come back and do that. So, it's very profound and they come back wiser and lighter. I'm like, wow. 

Ann: Yeah, it's extraordinary. And before we had our interview, Toni, you were so kind and gave me a private past life regression session so that we could talk about it in this interview. And it was absolutely phenomenal and extraordinary. It was quite a traumatic past life that I went back to actually. I was a small, it was small boy of seven who had, let's just say had some trauma through, uh, adults behaving in a fashion in which they shouldn't. I have so many takeaways from that session. One of them was really interesting, which was quite a light thing really. It wasn't that, uh, meaningful. Perhaps you might not think it that meaningful, but for me it was like, oh, that's really interesting. And that was, um, in that lifetime that young boy had had an injury to his abdomen. And you said to me afterwards, do you have tummy problems? And I was like, oh my God. I've had tummy problems all my life with this sort of bloated, bloating feeling. It was so painful or all of my life. And I've never really understood why. And that, for me was a really big takeaway. Very, very interesting. But for you, Toni, what do you remember from that, that you'd like to share? 

Toni: Okay. I feel that when we did that session, it was another profound thing to happen in the trajectory of what we are doing as therapists and in the trajectory of humanity. So what you, what happened was you put it very nicely, and I guess we don't have to give details about what happened, but it was a traumatic life that, that, or certainly from our perspective, that that little boy that you were led and also to his demise as a little boy or his death, and you were an extraordinary, um, this is from my perspective as a facilitator, you were very prolific in your recall, and you were very detailed with what was being experienced. And I felt like you were also looking at it almost from a, a higher perspective and not right in it. You were very vivid with how you explained everything, and that was wonderful. Particularly because it was quite a dramatic, thing for that boy to experience and put the fear into many people, uh, an experience like that. But what happened at the end when we'd been through the process and we, his name was Michael, I do remember that. 

Ann: Yes. that's right.  

Toni: Your name was Michael. 

Ann: That's right. 

Toni: And you were seven and, and it was 1974. 

Ann: That's right. 

Toni: And yeah, and there was something else we need to talk about with that, don't we? 

Ann: Yes. 

Toni: So, when, when we called Michael's spirit back to give you a message, you said, you are honestly nearly the only person who's ever said that you ended up saying, there's, there's no message. I'm like, oh. I said, well, what was the purpose of that life of Michael? What did you set out to do in that lifetime? Then you came back with this phenomenal, wise insight and what you said was, I'm briefing this so it's not verbatim, but you said to the effect of, it was for the mother, and obviously that mother had lost her little boy and he came from a happy family as well, so not a dysfunctional family. And, um, you said, yes, it was for the mother, and the mother had to, well, she would've experienced extreme, uh, grief and guilt, but her, it was for her to accept help from others because she was, uh, she must have been a woman that helped other people. And this experience, this grief experience, gave her this, uh, this chance to accept help from others. You also said, you said so much that was like the wisest gold. You also said that life is not about the drama that happens, which is what happened with that little boy. It was very dramatic when you were the little boy. You said it's not about the drama, it's about the impact that it has, the energetic impact. And this is something that I had come to know from all of these sessions that I've done over nearly 20 years, but not a lot of people I think get this insight or they not ready to process it or there. But you said it's for the energetic impact that goes out. And then later we discussed that what that means is, not only did the mother suffer, and of course the immediate family of that little boy. But then every parent in town, or maybe in the country is petrified that the same thing might happen to their child. So, it puts off this emotional fear, I guess, but it gives people an emotional experience. And then even more than that, with something so dramatic as, uh, the death of a small child. And what happened to him is it goes around the world, it goes in the media, and then parents all over the world cannot imagine if this happens to them. So, they're on edge and watching out for their own kids. So, it has really a massive energetic impact. And that's what you came back and said from that regression, it looks really special. I feel a bit like teary now. 

Ann: Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for saying all of that. 'Cause um, some of it is still a little blurry in my mind and I did re-listen to it just before this interview, but it's so impactful. It takes a while for me to process what happened, 'cause I was definitely, some very awful things happened to that little boy, which, which I was just observing. I was just watching it and and narrating what happened without any emotional attachment to the events, which was really interesting. And what was super interesting was that the, you asked me what year it was and I said, it's 1974. Now, I was born in 1965. So, the question is, how can I have a past life when it's not past, it's actually happening at the same time, which draws us into time not being linear and all of those things. Do you wanna comment on that?  

Toni: Yeah, always when I was doing the past lives, I thought they're literally, people always go literally into a past life and they would remember totally human things. Sometimes they went elsewhere as well, but past lives, always literal past life and um, I didn't find them overlapping until a certain point when obviously I'm supposed to understand that we can be in a body as a different person at the same time, different age, different, different potentially everything. And then just as what happened to you, I had a run of people that were recalling a life where they had already been born as themselves now, or it was happening. Kind of now even, or at the time that they had their session. So then, um, there had to be this, this undeniable reality that we must be here in various bodies and who knows how many at the same time. And we know the soul energy is limitless and endless, so it makes sense that that can be true. But I think, I think what's exciting is we, as people are allowed to know that this is true now. Yeah.  

Ann: Yeah. It's, it's, I, I mean like all of these things, we just touch the surface of what the, the potential and the possibilities are. But I found all of that really, really fascinating and I loved my past life regression session with you, so thank you so much. And it's one of those things you, yeah, it was, it was really great, Toni, really, really great. And the thing about it is, possibly like a mediumship reading or a psychic reading that you have, a past life regression isn't just for that hour and a half or hour that you're with your therapist. It unfolds over time. The meaning of it, the impact of it, it unfolds. Yeah. You need to give it time to breathe and to settle, yeah. And to get the insights, um, as you move through this physical life, so. 

Toni: Yeah. It changes you, doesn't it? Yeah. I know it changed me. My first one, it was like, oh. It was never really the same again in some ways. Yeah, just these realisations that you can't unknow after you know them.  

Ann: Yeah, that's right. Exactly. Yeah. So, so Tony, you are also working with, um, soul Life Recall. Is that the same thing? Is that something different? 

Toni: It's the modality that I ended up calling regression recall, mainly because over time of course, we discovered that people might go, whatever is needed to help them make this life better is where they go, so, if that's in a past life, they'll recall a past life or maybe more than one, or they recall memories from when they were a child and it helps them truly move forward now and understand what's going on for them. Sometimes they recall the in between phase where they're planning what they're doing here and that gives them massive insight and liberation as to what's gone on for them in this life. Or what else do they recall? Well, they can go visit in the afterlife. So, they're recalling something to do with their soul plan or their past lives. So, we thought we'd cover it all.  

Ann: You teach people as well, don't you? It's not just for people to come and have an experience with you as a facilitator, but you teach this to people so they can go and we teach it to people. 

Toni: Yes, because I think, um. It's just so important. I felt like this and even as soon as I learned it that wow, there can't really be enough people who know how to facilitate this. So, I've been on a mission to teach as many people as possible, so, I'm still teaching and it seems like it's not the kind of thing that everybody is interested in, but when people feel the calling, I guess much like what happened to me is they're in, they come in and they learn and they go out and help. 

Ann: Yeah. 

Toni: So, it's pretty wonderful.  

Ann: Yeah, it's fascinating. The work that you do. What, what is next for you, Tony, in life? You, you moving forward with this work, you're exploring certain areas in it?  

Toni: Yes, well what happened over these years is we developed, or I developed SoulLife® Psychology, which is a bunch of modalities. Recall is really our healing modality or our main therapeutic modality. But we also have aspects to it that are gonna help a person develop. So, they learn intuition. They learn about, I call them bruises, but they're emotional bruises. And essentially, they're the insecurities that we all come, every single one of us come to the planet to work on because they invoke emotional upset or also joy for us. So, we know how, we can tell also with the, with the life maps, who's doing what and also what their wonderful characteristics are and what their vulnerabilities are. So, you kind of can help people become really aware, fast tracked if, if it's the time in their life for them to do that. So, the SoulLife® Psychology is a bunch of things like that, put together that someone can learn and then work with people and give them a real metaphysical, um, feeling depending on what's going on for them at the time. So, the SoulLife® Psychology is, is happening. It's kind of, it's reached a point where it's all about exposure now. It's, it's ready. Um, and now it's about really letting people know that it exists and they can come and learn it. Mm-hmm. So, there's that. Yeah. 

Ann: And, and so people that are listening to this and they're like, oh, I've gotta go and have a session with Toni or, or learn how to do this through Toni's teaching, where do they go to? What's your website, Toni?  

Toni: Oh, my website is tonireillyinstitute.com. And yes, I'd love to hear from you either for teaching or a consultation or even if you just wanna share what's gone on for you.  

Ann: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, it's really beautiful. Um, do you ever work with children out of interest or, you know, 'cause we often see television programmes, the, the ghost in my child and all of that.  

Toni: The children that I've worked with. Um, it's also, I think it was part of the, the kind of the degree in developing recall. But the children would come along with a lot of the time, be anxiety or they're hyper stressed or, um, hyper worried about their mama leaving them. Just all sorts of things like that. And when they would have regression. Basically, we didn't cap it at any age because we thought that their soul's in charge and their soul will not give the child or an adult, for that matter, anything that they can't deal with or, um, aren't ready to process. So, with the kids, it was the same. It worked and they were like, not even kids. They're, they're wise, wise beings and, um, they, they would recall their past lives just literally as though they've been there. And I know there are a lot of those on, uh, on social media now, which is wonderful when the kids say such wise things, but it would fix whatever was whatever they had come about. So, there was that with children. And also, a big thing, and I only knew this about probably seven years ago, that this psychology that we were developing was actually for the young people. So, what happened around the year, no, it happened the year 2000. Every child born from the year 2000 up until the rest of humanity has a number two or has the energy of two within their psyche. And two energy being born 2000, whichever it goes to now brings very soft, sensitive energy to every single individual on the planet. So, they are different to us and less logical, they're more inclined to default to, uh, intuition and also driven by their feelings. So, in some ways it makes them super wise. I know that some people might think that they'll be loose cannons, but actually makes them more emotionally intelligent and all-knowing and aware of what's going on with their, their friends or their parents. So, it's quite extraordinary. But anyway, this SoulLife® Psychology more metaphysical psychology is, it helps us all, but it's, it, it's been developed for them because they stop and a lot of psychologists and therapists have noticed that the traditional ways don't work for them. It doesn't work. They're not about remembering or uh, changing their thought patterns and that kind of thing. It just doesn't work. So, we need to get into here for them.  

Ann: Yeah. It's fascinating that. I've Recognised within my own children, they're grown up now, they're 23 and 28. Yeah. But they and their friends, they have such deep wisdom that they've brought with them. They really, really care about the planet. They really, really care about the natural world. They care about each other so much, 

Toni: They do. 

Ann: And look out for each other. And I don't remember having those kind of insights or that deep feeling when I was a child, not my generation.  

Toni: Mm-hmm. yeah. I, I also can see it in, in my kids that mine are all born in the nineties, but they still, they're still sensitive. And they're like this precursor to the two thousands. 

Ann: Yes.  

Toni: Just like yours, Ann. And then it's like, it's just, it's been one of the most beautiful things to witness. And as you say, they're friends and it's like. I'm still blown away. Sometimes when you hear their conversation it's like, didn't know that until I was 50 or I didn't know until I was 45. Yes. And yet they, for them it's just so natural. Yeah. To be in touch with themselves, I think, or mindful of others. It's really special.  

Ann: Really mindful. They don't do the bullying. They don't take the mickey out of each other. I mean, humorous banter of course, but not the way that we used to, 'cause we'd do it to the extent of being hurtful, whereas they don't, they see how important it is to treat everybody fairly. And that goes for all genders, all cultures, all yeah. All colours of skin and religious thought. Yeah, it's beautiful that they're 

Toni: it really is beautiful. 

Ann: Using your words, our younger generations are wired for deeper awareness.  

Toni: Yeah. They are. 

Ann: Yeah, it's beautiful. It gives us hope for the future. 

Toni: Absolutely. 

Ann: Toni, it's absolutely been fabulous talking to you. Thank you so very much for your time and your knowledge and sharing everything that you know. and I would love to speak to you again further down the line, have you back on the podcast. but for now, thank you very much, Toni Reilly.  

Toni: Thank you, Ann. Thanks for this putting this wonderful platform together to share all of all of the things that we know. 

Ann: You are welcome.  

  

Ann: What a beautiful and thought-provoking conversation with Toni Reilly. I hope you've really enjoyed her insights into past life regression and to the awareness of our own soul, and I hope that that's given you something really meaningful to reflect on. And Toni's work really does remind us that we are so much more than this one lifetime, and that healing can happen when we begin to understand those deeper threads that weave through our soul's journey. So, Toni, as she said, offers one to one past life regression sessions and so do I and if you feel called to explore your own past lives, you can book a session with either one of us. Just head to tonireillyinstitute.com or anntheato.com to learn more, and I'll pop both links in the show notes. Thank you so much for listening. If you found this episode valuable, please do consider leaving a review or sharing it with someone who might benefit from Toni's wisdom. I will see you next time with more extraordinary guests and conversations that inspire and inform. 

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