**Please note that as of 25th Jan 2021, Shin no longer offers Past Lives and Psychic Readings.
Meditation classes are also no longer conducted at of 2022.
Our Story
Origin of Song was founded in 2016 by Shin and officially launched in 2017.
'Origin of Song' is a name given by the Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin, through texts on the Goddess's origins. The name signifies our deep longing to return to our roots, our search for the Truth and the larger purpose of humanity. On another level, it reverberates the deep vibrations of our hearts, expressed as songs, the music of love and the pure sound of the Universe. Origin of Song is also the holding space for Shin's dedicated Reiki website at www.limshinreiki.com.
Shin is currently based in Singapore, Asia. She teaches in both English and Mandarin.
About Shin
Awareness, personal commitment and dedication in our practice are necessary for transcending ourselves and for transformation. Break the cycles that land us in neverending states of suffering that go beyond countless dimensions and lifetimes." - Shin
Like her beloved grandmother who had a 'gift' (or as she would have had termed, a 'karmic curse') in prophecies of death, Shin was born with the ability to receive messages from the Other Side, including messages from higher guidance. Since young, she has had received past lives messages and precognitions regarding her and her family, including 'previously traumatic' precognitions about her beloved grandmother's sufferings, mostly via dreams. Her precognitive, telepathic and clairvoyant experiences aroused her curiosity during her growing up years about most things unexplained which eventually set her on her own (inner and outer) journey and ultimately settled her in the practice of Dharma.
Shin has a unique innate ability to read the energies and past lives of people remotely or live without tools, accessing relevant past lives relating to specific blocks her clients are facing and bring forth clarity in the bigger themes and lessons in their current life. She is one of the rare few psychics whose niche area lies in detailed access of past lives. As of end January 2021, Shin no longer offers Readings services and has dropped all psychic-related work (read announcement). Meditation classes are also no longer taught as of 2022. Time is dedicated to a focused Dharma practice and self-cultivation. She continues to walk on her path to learn and grow together with everyone around, facing the challenges that are meant to come along, expanding the virtues of humility and compassion.
The chanting of the name of Amitabha and Sutras is the foundation of Shin's daily meditative practice for years. She has taught the unique Practicals of Meditation workshop since 2018 (no longer offered) that aimed to impart some practical knowledge to the practitioner to go about a basic meditation practice with ease. Please kindly seek meditation classes at a Buddhist temple that resonates with you should you wish to learn proper meditation techniques for stability and wisdom. Shin is a dedicated practitioner of Dharma and Pureland Buddhism, after decades of exploration in the esoteric.
Meditation
The practice of Reiki played a kickstarting role in Shin's initial exploration journey. Shin is a Reiki Master Teacher under the Reiki Centre lineage, and trained with Elaine Grundy for her certification. She has been in practice for over 10 years and teaching. Shin is also the first and only certified Medical Reiki Master (Gold Standards & Practices RKMRI©) in Singapore who has trained and practised physically with the late Medical Reiki pioneer, Raven Keyes, in New York USA, and also physically with pioneer Pamela Miles in 2018. Her stint in Manhattan, New York, inspired her to set up and facilitate the first professional public Reiki clinic for the community with volunteer peers in Singapore since 2019 (on hold due to the pandemic since 2021 and no longer active).
Shin also has extensive experience spanning 20 years, working directly with and including the education of youths and youths-at-risk, with specific focus on language development, gradual mental development and modern mental illnesses inflicting our youths and/or loved ones today. Her work started when she herself was a teenager, working on causes closer to heart. Her cumulative experience in private education (primary to tertiary) led her to author and independently distribute her book of notes for the Science Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE). Her clinical Reiki experience in mostly the human nervous system, pain management and caregiving has supported her work with youths and her adult Reiki clients across a range of imbalances, illnesses and death. Shin has given talks at organisations about self-care and mental health, including to nurses at the Institute of Mental Health, Woodbridge Hospital in Singapore. Shin currently do not hold Reiki classes actively.
Shin grew up in a traditional Asian family where her grandmother and father were in her childhood eyes, the most wonderful cooks. Her father has been a humble cook and chef and also a gardener for decades, unconsciously cultivating her taste buds since childhood and a delicate care for and communication with vegetation. Many years ago for almost a year in the background, she supported a well-known restaurant chain in Asia in food tasting, degustation and deconstruction in their efforts to improve their menu and flavours.
As she decided to adopt a wholly plant-based diet due to Buddhism's influence on her, Compassion has been the guiding direction in her meals and how she prepares food for her family - meditation in food preparation results in the most loving and compassionate meals produced, with a harmony from nature.
Should one require categorisation, temple food can be mainly classified as Asian or Korean temple food or Shojin Ryori in Japanese, or food without the five pungent vegetables. When not at the stove, her family members take turns to prepare meals. Currently, her sister helms the home kitchen and advocates vegan food cooking. Natural plant-based meals can be so heartwarming and satisfying, that people will have no need to consume the flesh of animals, while providing the needed energy for Life and is light for the body. Shin has a small home garden along her family apartment's corridor where some vegetables and herbs are grown together in a shared space with her Dad's decorative plants and with her neighbours. Shin shares about Temple Food cooking (fully plant-based) and culinary art, together with the nuances of intuitive cooking with her sister. She believes that meal preparation is an activity born out of an individual's blessings. For one to start realising the blessings of being able to take care of a loved one and express love through food, the values of purity, simplicity, sincerity, practicality and harmony through food preparation or any expression of love for the recipient are essential.
Shin also shares about Herbs and Tea Preparation together with Temple Food Cooking at the Instagram handle @limsvegankitchen, focusing on the quiet practice of growing one's own herbs, the drying, storing and drinking of tea leaves from the garden.
Shin is a hobby painter, with a preference for oil paints. Showing a flair for drawing and perceiving colours, shades and shapes in her surroundings when she was 3 years old, her art teacher aunt brought her to her art classes. She attended group classes with her aunt for a few years until she reached the limit of what her aunt could teach her and her aunt sent her to her mentor, an art teacher for youths of 40 years. Shin studied art continuously for 9 years, exploring various mediums including poster, oil pastels, pencil and graphite sketching, Chinese calligraphy and Chinese ink painting, receiving an award for 5 collective paintings in her 'Young Artist' days until she took a break at age 11 to focus on her primary school leaving examinations in the rigorous education system in Singapore. She continued part-time art studies in secondary school for 2 more years, exploring acrylic and watercolour before taking her longest break, when her art took a standstill. Shin resumed her art interest in adulthood and studied for a short period with an American portrait and realist painter in fine arts, and also with the Lasalle College of the Arts in Oil Painting while concurrently exploring freely on her own. Shin places a few of her humble paintings and art for purchase occasionally, with 100% of profits going to the specified charity organisation. Completed paintings will be available under the "Shop" tab and can also be viewed on her virtual Art space at the Instagram handle @shinah_art__. She enjoys painting nature landscapes during her free time, and practising yoga and ballet.