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Award-winning film producer, Reiki Master, certified Life Coach, and TEDx speaker — where healing becomes a way of life.
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About Courtney G. Smith
Courtney G. Smith, known as The Reiki G, is an award-winning film producer, Reiki Master, certified Life Coach, and TEDx speaker who has built her life and work around a simple discovery: going with the flow is the best medicine she's found.
A year out of her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University, Courtney was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis in April 2001. That September, on the 11th, she underwent a thymectomy meant to push the disease into remission. She woke up from surgery, chest freshly opened, to find that remission hadn't come. What did come was a new sense of purpose.
In fall 2002, she enrolled as a graduate student at MSU to pursue a master's in health communication, determined to help others understand their own health the way she was learning to understand hers. Circumstances beyond her control meant she completed 17 of the 33 required credits, but the direction the degree pointed her in never left.
Back home in Chicago, Courtney set out to show the public what women living with autoimmune disease actually go through, day to day, behind closed doors. In April 2006 she founded Control Your Auto Productions, Inc., and that June began producing and filming Beauty Does Lie: The Untold Stories of Autoimmune Diseases — an award-winning documentary featuring seven women, five autoimmune diseases, and commentary from a rheumatologist and a neurologist.
Courtney's own healing journey has run alongside that work ever since. Since May 2014, she has used Reiki, food, yoga, supplements, and meditation to heal her body, and she has learned, day by day, to listen to what her body tells her rather than override it. That process led her to become a Reiki Master Level II and certified Life Coach, work she now shares with others.
In 2018, Courtney founded Om Shanti Wellness, Inc., the company through which she offers Reiki healing, life coaching, and wellness education to clients across the country. In 2026, Om Shanti Wellness was recognized by the GHP Holistic Health Awards as the Most Innovative Holistic Reiki and Mindfulness Practitioner — a reflection of the standard of care and transformation she brings to every client relationship.
Today, nothing brings her more joy than watching her own clients and students transform their energy and reclaim their health — the same way she once had to reclaim hers.
The Mission
Healing Is Non-Negotiable
Courtney's work is rooted in the belief that every person deserves to feel whole — in body, mind, and spirit. Through Reiki, life coaching, and community, she helps clients shift the energy inside of them so they can begin to shift the energy around them.
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