You don’t need to be “psychic” to access the Akashic Records—just intention, clarity, and practice with Dr La Toya Davis

What if the most powerful spiritual tools are the ones you can learn, practise, and use today? We sit down with Dr La Toya Davis—author, teacher, and founder of the Chi Healing Institute—to unpack the Akashic Records, ancestral healing, and the quiet ways intention reshapes a life from the inside out. No gatekeeping, no mystical fog—just clear steps, honest stories, and grounded methods you can try right away.

Dr Davis reframes the Akashic Records as an energetic storehouse of past, present, and future possibilities, accessible through simple, structured practices. We dig into five practical entry points—meditation, intention, visualisation, and a prayer process among them—and explore why structure is liberating for beginners. She challenges the biggest myth in spiritual development: you don’t need to be “psychic” to connect. What you need is intention, clarity, and a container that turns insight into action.

Our conversation shifts to ancestral lineage healing with a refreshingly human perspective. Honouring ancestors can be as simple as water, song, and family photos, and profound healing can occur through self-reflection without reliving old trauma. We also talk openly about the misalignment many high‑achieving women feel when they’ve built the “right” life, but their spirit wants something braver. Expect practical takeaways: how to trust guidance, how to set clean intentions that energy can follow, and daily rituals—like gratitude and visualisation—that raise your baseline and steady your choices.

If you’re curious about the Akashic Records, drawn to heal your lineage, or simply looking for a kinder way to align success with soul, this conversation offers both language and tools. Subscribe, share this with a friend who’s on the cusp of a shift, and leave a review to tell us the one insight you’ll act on this week.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome & Guest Intro
• 6:08 Ancestral Healing: From Honour to Healing
• 8:38 Discovering the Akashic Records
• 9:52 What the Akashic Records Are (And Aren’t)
• 12:56 How Beginners Can Access the Records
• 15:03 Courses, Retreats, and Learning Paths
• 15:30 Honouring Ancestors Without Re‑trauma
• 19:39 Trusting Guidance and Building Intention
• 22:37 Why High‑Achieving Women Feel Misaligned
• 26:39 Myths About Spiritual “Gifts”
• 28:53 Daily Practices: Gratitude and Visualisation
• 31:17 Offerings, Website, and Closing

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 2:30

So, welcome everybody to another episode of Barm to the Soul. I'm your host, Natasha Joy Price, and I'm a lawyer, I'm an energy healer, I'm an author, and of course, I'm a podcaster. And on this episode, we've got a lovely new guest joining us, and her name is Dr. Latoya Davis. So, welcome. Thank you all so much for joining us and supporting the podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 2:53

Yes, thank you so much for inviting me. I'm excited to be here.

SPEAKER_00: 2:57

Yeah, there is so much that we can talk about. So let me just introduce Dr. Davis because she is founder of the Chi Healing Institute. She's a leading voice in the fields of the Akashic Records, ancestral lineage healing, and universal law. She's also got her signature shift protocol where she guides individuals in navigating inner transformation with clarity, courage, and consciousness. And she's also the creator of the Akashic Key process. You've also written numerous books as well, haven't you? So being busy.

SPEAKER_01: 3:34

I have been, yes.

SPEAKER_00: 3:36

It's lovely, isn't it? When you find something that you're passionate about, it just flows and it snowballs and it's just, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 3:45

Yes. I was literally telling my daughter either yesterday or the day before on the ride home, because she asked, we get in the car. It's like, how's your day? What'd you do? You know, the normal daughter's chicken thing. And I was, she said something about like you work a lot. And I was like, Well, baby, they say if you do the thing that you love, it's not really work.

SPEAKER_00: 4:03

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01: 4:05

And you feel like that.

SPEAKER_00: 4:06

Yeah. And you know, I'm passionate about energy healing, and I have learned and done so much just out of fascination. It's almost like it propels you, doesn't it? So, how did your own healing journey lead you to working with the Akashic Records and ancestral healing?

SPEAKER_01: 4:27

Um, well, they're actually two different stories. I'll actually start with the ancestral lineage healing. So I've always not true. For a very long time, I have done work with the ancestors, um, kind of in a different context. So I am initiated priestess in the system, and ancestral work is a part of that, but it was never presented or approached from this idea of healing, right? It's more um, you honor the ancestors, you acknowledge the ancestors, you give thanks to them for being for coming before you. And when I completed my Reiki mastership, um, my teacher at the time, we had to pick a focus. And I said, I really want to, because I study herbs and crystals. And so I was like, I really want to integrate crystals and herbs into my Reiki practice. I just knew that that was going to be my focus. And she said, No, I'm getting a message that that's not it. You're going to do work around ancestral healing. And I was like, I don't know what that is, and not me because I don't know what that is. And she said, No, that's what I'm getting. And so I just said, Okay, I know enough to know to just say, Okay. And I give thanks to to this day because she was persistent, she would continue to ask me, even after we hey, have you done it? And I was like, No. And one time I was back in New York and she said, Have you done these healing sessions yet? And I said, You know, no. And I was like, come on, let's do it. And so I went in line. I just set the intention that we were gonna have a session, a healing session, and then the download just came. And it is, I've not looked back since. Um, and then the Akashic Records, I was going through a divorce and um, or a separation. At that point, we were in the separation. And my friend group, my sister friend group, you know, we had the WhatsApp chat, and you know, someone first mentioned that they had got an Akashic record reading, and then someone suggested, oh, let me do it. And they did so, like it was going around the group, didn't know what it was, had never heard of it. And I said, you know what? I'm confused, I need guidance. I too will try this Akashic Record thing. Um, and it was the most like literally, it was just the phone number that you text the lady for, and then she sends you back a time for the session. So that was my complete the introduction was somebody had it, I knew them, I trusted them, and then I went and did it. And it literally has changed my life since then.

SPEAKER_00: 7:14

So just explain for the listeners that don't know what are the Akashic Records? Okay, yes, and why does everybody go on about them being so powerful?

SPEAKER_01: 7:24

So, big picture overview, I like to say the Akashic Records are an energetic storehouse that holds all past, present, and future possibilities. So sometimes when people are talking about um like universal consciousness or it's this idea that everything is connected, right? And if we follow the idea and we believe the idea of that everything is energy, energy never dies. So all of these things, this information, all of this, it has to exist somewhere. The Akashic Records is that where. And we are able to go in and access this information, ideally, to help us live, I like to say, the best and highest version of our life now. People sometimes are attracted to the Akashic Records because of the past life element, and I tend to not promote that or not promote that, but that for me, that's not what it's about, right? I think that that's a little more in the um, because it's like, how is that getting you to the best and highest version of your life now? Right. And I'm all about like, how are we moving forward? How are we taking this information to move us forward? And so I think a lot of people get attracted to it because the novelty of, oh, I thought I was this, and now I can go in and you know, kind of get these stories, versus um, this idea for me, the Akashic Records really is a healing place. Um, it allows you to energetically upgrade yourself because as I mentioned, it is an energetic um kind of field. And so by taking into this, we are raising our vibration, we're able to understand ourselves at soul level. Um, and so yes, that's kind of the big picture overview of the Akashic Records.

SPEAKER_00: 9:07

Because they're often talked about like a library, aren't they? And that you have a book and you can work out your life purpose from that information and like you say, where you're going, your mission, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 9:20

Yes, I do, and again, so I people do talk about it like a library. And I think that that also creates a little bit of because I teach people how to access the records. Um, I try to be really careful with the language that I use because I think that it sets up a false um concept of what's going to happen when people start exploring. And the reality is the records, like I said, they meet you where you are. And so the visual that you may have or not have, right? The energy, the things that you see may or may not align with the library or a book. But if everything that you've heard has said that is going to come to you that way, then you start to question wait, am I doing it? Is this right? Is this real? I didn't really see that. Did that happen? So I try to caution, but yes, a lot of people do talk about it in this idea of it being a hall, a record with books.

SPEAKER_00: 10:14

So really, it's if we put that aside, it's an energetic space, an energetic vibration that people can start accessing. Yes. They get information, things come into their mind. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So how can somebody start doing that if they and also if they're very new to spiritual work, how can they start accessing that space?

SPEAKER_01: 10:37

Yeah, so so they're very, I always say um intention is a powerful thing, right? Um, being able to set our intention and be really clear and believe that you have, I think it's the belief one that you have the power to access the information is important, right? And then setting the clear intention. The five ways that we can typically access the Akashic Records are through a meditative practice, through um intention setting, through visualization, through a prayer process, and through visualization, right? So those are kind of the five ways that you can access that each for each person, it will just really depend. Um, I often each of those has kind of a drawback, or not a drawback, but um a thing that's gonna resonate more, right? So the prayer process I find the easiest for people because particularly if you're new to something like spirituality, because it is a very set process, right? We're used to having something concrete. You're reading words, you know that okay, after I've done this, now this happens. And so I think that that gives people a little more structure versus the intention, right? Especially if you're new, saying I intend, and then you're like, wait, what's happening? Um the YouTube has a lot of like guided meditations. I've never done any of those, but they're they're there in abundance, right? Um if you wanted if you went and Googled that. I do have books that take people through the process from beginning to end and with multiple ways, you know, to kind of do it to help you reinforce that you are connecting and troubleshooting things like that. Um, but I really do think it just kind of depends on where you are in your journey, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 12:27

Yeah, yeah. And you teach that, don't you? You teach that for people if they want to contact you to learn how to do that.

SPEAKER_01: 12:34

Yeah. So I also do I have um on-demand courses, um, as well as sometimes I do I do it in like live retreats or live virtual. It's always funny saying live virtual, but um I also do weekend kind of virtual things online where I teach it as well.

SPEAKER_00: 12:53

Okay. Interesting. That's really interesting. I like the idea of that. So also, so let's talk about the ancestral healing as well. So excuse me, I've got a bit of a croaky fro. Um, how can somebody honor their ancestors um without sort of getting stuck into the trauma that might have happened in there in your ancestral line or your energy?

SPEAKER_01: 13:17

Yeah, so I think for me, um, again, I also I tend to be kind of someone that is on the the outside of what popular the popular character, right?

SPEAKER_00: 13:28

Um that's not a bad thing. Different route, different route to get there.

SPEAKER_01: 13:34

Yes. Um, so for me, the way that I think about the ancestors in general, my favorite saying is that I am the physical manifestation of all of those who have come before me. And because all of my stuff is rooted in energy and understanding energy, that means that energetically I am carrying them, the aspects of them, all of that. And so the simplest way, right, without it being overly dramatic, to honor your ancestors is to honor yourself.

SPEAKER_00: 14:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 14:04

Right. Um, is to acknowledge that there are aspects in me that are connected to my mother, that are connected to my grandmother. And when I drink this water, when I say this prayer, when I sing this song, when I do these things, it is honoring them in a way that is uplifting me, right? Because they're in me. And it is also uplifting their energy. I find that that to be the most uncomplicated way to do it, right? But past that, um, some other ways that people I often say that we often societally honor our ancestors consciously, unconsciously, um, just in everyday practice, right? I grew up in a what would be considered kind of a Southern Baptist household. And one of the things that we had was like a coffee table, a glass coffee table. And under the coffee table, it would be like the pictures of some people who've who've passed, right? Or their obituaries or little mementos. And it was just its own little table over there with all of the pictures and then on the wall, all of the pictures. That is honoring. Honoring is simply just a remembering, right? Um, of being able to connect and tell. And so it can take so many forms. And I think that people hear the word honoring the ancestors, and we start to get like attached this spook to it, right? Or this thing. And I'm like, it doesn't have to be that. Are there layers and levels? Absolutely. And so for me, I feel like there is a difference between honoring elevation and healing.

SPEAKER_00: 15:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 15:38

But level one is definitely honoring, and I think that we can all honor our ancestors just by remembering. And the other thing is for me, when it comes to working with those ancestors who may have had a past that you either have some type of issue with, right? Either because of things happened to you or things that you remember, you know, the narrative that's kind of floating through the through the um through the bloodline. This again goes back to for me, this idea that I am the physical manifestation of all of those um that have come before me. And so, because of that, if I am an energetic body and my goal is to be the highest vibrating version of that, then that means I have to heal all of the parts that are in me that are not operating at the highest frequency. And so that includes those ancestors, those energies that may not be what I consider to be in the highest light, right? And I can do that. So for me, the way to circumvent again the the trauma or the the schism that people can have with dealing with it ancestrally, with dealing with the ancestors directly, is to do it through yourself.

SPEAKER_00: 17:48

Yeah. So it's your own healing, actually. If you're looking and cleaning and clearing and connecting to your own energy field, you are healing your ancestral line because they are there. The energy is there. Right. Yeah. Perfect.

SPEAKER_01: 18:03

So interesting. And again, just to just add to that, again, like I said, everything is layered, right? And there are definitely other ways and ways that we can do it. Another way, but for me, that is the simplest. And that's the way that I think most people can easily accept it, and then we can grow from there. Um team, meet people where they're at.

SPEAKER_00: 18:20

Yeah, absolutely. And presumably there are layers, like you say, of deep trauma sometimes, and and that's a different thing, and that's requires a different sort of healing and support. And but you know, every day we've all got photos of our ancestors, and and like you say, and that should be uplifting, shouldn't it? That that following. Okay, yeah, lovely. So, how do you teach people to trust the guidance that they receive from the records or the or or ancestors? Do and sorry, I'm gonna just question you know, we talked about just we're doing our own healing, but can sometimes people get messages from their ancestors and they're connecting and you know, feel that they they get a nudge from them in some way.

SPEAKER_01: 19:11

Yes, most definitely. I my the start of everything that I do is really about teaching the person to trust the divine within them, right? I think that we are all connected, and what happens is um through societal programming, through conditioning and growing up, right, through things in our home, we learn to not trust ourselves. We learn to dismiss the voices, we learn to disconnect from spirit in a multitude of ways, but it doesn't mean that those things aren't happening. So the acknowledgement for me, everything starts with awareness. So the the coming into the awareness that one, yes, these things are real, these are possibilities, to setting the intention that, okay, wait, I am going to be open and receptive to receiving, to understanding, to hearing, to whatever that whatever that looks like for that person are kind of the key steps. I think that um in let's say we're gonna pick a specific modality, right? Let's say I am in the Akashic Records and I want to know what's happening. For someone who doesn't already have the kind of trust or the no factor, I think that it is important that they go through some type of um structured system because it builds it in. For someone who is already doing this type of work, I'm sorry that my thing keeps tracking. For someone who's already doing this type of work, um, you know, I think that the layers are a little bit different. But for me, it's going to always come back to this reassurance and this um realization that you are connected. And I know my clients in my community get tired of me saying this because I literally say it all the time. Energy follows intent. I trust that once we set the intention, the energy will follow it. And so we we start everything with our intention, right? Creating really clear intention statements and we allow that to carry what we're doing.

SPEAKER_00: 21:11

I love that you say that because that's exactly what I teach as well. You know, I always when I first learned Reiki, I sort of missed that. I didn't realize how important intention was, but intention is actually just the key to to sort of letting that energy flow, isn't it? It's so important. Yes. So I love that. Yeah. Yeah, excellent. So let's talk um also about women, because you're very supportive of women, obviously. So um, why do so many do you think high-achieving women feel like something is missing in their lives?

SPEAKER_01: 21:47

Yeah, I think this goes back to that societal programming. Um, I think that because women historically, and when I say historically, I mean for centuries, right, um is definitely shown up in different ways, but we have not, no matter race, creed, or color, as they say, right, women have not been able to escape the idea um that one, our place is subjective to someone else, right? Our power is dependent upon how much someone else let us have that power. And so conditioning-wise, because again, us here in this physical body, even though you're seeing me here for the first time, my soul has been here many times, right? And so that conditioning, lifetime after lifetime after lifetime, the internal memory, the genetic memory, the um epigenetic memory, like all of those things are playing out. And then what I'm seeing unconsciously, just living life, all of those things are telling me that as a woman, you should be doing A, B, C, D, and E. And so we want to do what we're supposed to do. That's what we're conditioned to do the thing. And so we go and we do A, B, C, D, and E. Even when our spirit is saying, but no, I really think we should be over here at X, Y, and Z. And so there comes a point for most people, particularly when you're when you're starting to rise in consciousness, there becomes a point where there is a mismatch. The spirit is like, wait, no, no, no. It starts to get louder and louder, and it is in direct opposition to the conditioning that you've had. So the conditioning, you're successful. You got the job, you did the study, you were the perfect good girl. And the spirit is like, but wait, no, we were sitting here to be rebel rousers. What are we doing like that?

SPEAKER_00: 23:42

Yes.

unknown: 23:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 23:43

Yeah. I I mean, I've experienced that myself actually, you know, being a lawyer, doing a lot of spiritual training, and you know, your parents want you to have a very safe job and be secure. Yes, but maybe, you know, but you have a nudge to go in a different way. And that is that's difficult to navigate, actually, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01: 24:05

It is. I am a dancer by tri I've started dancing at the age of two, so I've danced my whole life. Um, and when it was time for me to go to college, I wanted to go to school for dance, and my mom was like, Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00: 24:18

No, you're gonna get a safe profession.

SPEAKER_01: 24:23

You can dance on the side, but you will get a degree and something that can pay you. And so that's what I did, right? Um and I mean I ended up back in dance. I ended up being a professor of dance and teaching and travel. So I still was able to bring that too, but again, that's because my spirit was like, no, we can't let this thing go. But not everybody is able to continue to merge and bring those two things together.

SPEAKER_00: 24:48

Yeah, no, it's difficult. I've often tried to merge mine, um, but I've never quite made up never so I just have two paths and I'm convinced that they have keep me very, very high stressed, very chilled out. So they just keep me at the right level. That's where I've come to sort of um settle with them both. But it is what it is. But I I really res I I really sort of resonate with that. I think a lot of women and men actually struggle with that. They do what their parents think they should do, or like you say, what society wants them to do, and and it's it's you know, they're they want their passion, their soul passion is pulling them in a different way. Yeah, which causes a lot of um unhappiness, unsettlement, you know, instead of what's being unsettled. Okay, so um so what's one myth about spiritual development or ancestral work that you love to debunk?

SPEAKER_01: 25:57

That's a good one. Um, what's one myth? I think for me, I'm gonna do Akashic Records specifically. I think a myth is that you have to be psychic or that you have to have some type of gift or skill set, or you need to be special in order to access it. And I'm on this like team, no, it is there. It is literally energy, it is an energetic field that is available to everyone, right? Do I promote and do I teach? Yes, because I think that in order for you to be effective and efficient, I like to think of it like imagine all of like literally every piece of information that ever existed was just available to you, and someone threw you in it, right? And said, Go find this one thing. You it could be overwhelming, yeah. But it doesn't mean that you can't get into the into the bowl of soup, right? You can absolutely get in there. So for me, that one is like one that I am trying to trumpet from the mountains, right? You don't have to be special, it's not a certain group of people that can do it. We can all do it, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 27:08

And what is one spiritual practice that you you personally do every day that sort of keeps you sort of sane?

SPEAKER_01: 27:16

Yeah. I start my morning with um, so I wake up and I start. This is lit, this is my morning routine. I wake up, I start with gratitude. So before I get out of the bed, I'm still laying down, eyes are still closed. I go through kind of my points of gratitude. Um, I think that the energy of gratitude is one of the biggest ways to shift vibration, to manifest things into your life, to stay grounded. So I go through my gratitude list and then I go into my visualization. And my visualization can either be if that day I perceive to be kind of a stressful or hectic day or things that can be a little bit chaotic. I visualize like everything happening for myself in that day, the way that I want it to go, right? The best and highest version of the day possible. But if it's just a regular day, I forecast. So it's like I'm future seeing what I want myself to be. So how I start my day. Um, set my intention and get up and start the day. Lovely.

SPEAKER_00: 28:19

I often um I do something similar, but I often send Reiki into my future day.

SPEAKER_01: 28:26

I love that.

SPEAKER_00: 28:27

Just so that I can move through peacefully through that stressful job peacefully and with grace. That's what that's what I work on every morning. Well, brilliant. I've really, really enjoyed talking to you. Thanks so much for coming onto the podcast. And all everything that you offer is on your website, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01: 28:50

Yes, it is. Um it's um keyhealinginstitute.com forward slash home.

SPEAKER_00: 28:56

Okay, so I will put that up underneath the episode. So if anybody would like to contact you or try out your offerings, they can come and come and meet you.

unknown: 29:07

Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_00: 29:08

Thank you ever so much again for um being on the podcast. It's been a real pleasure talking to you.

SPEAKER_01: 29:13

Same here. I hope you're having a great rest of your day.

SPEAKER_00: 29:16

Thank you. So if you've enjoyed listening to us chat, I'd really be pleased if you could like and share, and you can always subscribe to the podcast as well. And I will speak to you all soon.