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Awaken To Your Healing Within
I am super excited to share current science and ancient teachings leading us to a deeper understanding of our true nature and the outstanding realization of our self-healing abilities.
Within the last two years I have expanded my skills and knowledge in the arena of Energy Medicine with Dr. Sue Mortar Institute. This expanded information beautifully complements both our PT and MFR wholistic approach. It shines a light on the emerging understanding of our evolution as a human species – this is truly an amazing time to be alive!!
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YOUR WHOLISTIC THERAPEUTICS BENEFITS
At Wholistic Therapeutics we care about teaching a more integrated and complete way of living on all levels; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. When our system of mind/body/breath is integrated we experience a greater level of Health and Wellbeing.
We help people who suffer from chronic pain and are open to exploring options to heal their chronic pain and enhance their quality of life, providing hands-on local services in the Chicago area, remote digital therapy sessions globally, and self-healing and self-care educational materials.
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WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH MYOFASCIAL RELEASE AND ENERGY WORK
Today I wanted to share with you the experience of one of our happy clients and how our services and teaching tools affected his body and his life. “Izabela is a master healer. I have been working on healing a long-time chronic knee injury with osteoarthritis for the last 30-plus years.
Today I wanted to share with you the experience of one of our happy clients and how our services and teaching tools affected his body and his life.
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Your 3 Powers to Activate Self-Healing
Hello everyone and what a good day it is!
Today, June 28, 2023, Wholistic Self Care has officially opened its doors and begun to share and teach you the ways you can Experience a Healthier You. Over time, I will be making available information and exercises that had only been obtainable privately.
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What is Fascia And What does it do?
Fascia is an amazing system that helps us in many ways…
1. FASCIA SUPPORTS
2. FASCIA PROTECTS
3. FASCIA FACILITATES CELLULAR PROCESSES
4. FASCIA IS A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
5. FASCIA SUPPORTS
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My Yoga Story
I was introduced to Yoga when I was in my early thirties and have been practicing Yoga on and off over the past 20 years. As a special offering during the rest of May and all of June I will be offering a 5 minute personalized individual one-on-one introduction to Body Awake Yoga for you as part of any in person clinic appointment.
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BODY AWAKE YOGA
INTRODUCING BODYAWAKE YOGA CLASSES
I am so excited to announce to you that after 15 months of work and dedication I became Certified as a Body Awake Yoga Teacher.
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10 Steps to Self-Love as Medicine

Your thoughts and feelings can actually stimulate intense physiological activity. By physiological activity, I mean the functions and processes of your body, its parts, organs, and systems. This is the key point of the body-mind connection.

This has been established scientifically time and time again. Proven scientific devices have recorded the energy generated by the brain. It has also been established scientifically that the body is surrounded by energy.

This leads us to the second key point:

There is a connection between your thoughts, feelings and health.

This is HUGE and most likely your doctor will not tell you about it!

Many of us grew up in a culture and families where a healthy relationship with one-self was not cultivated and many times diminished, not even taken into consideration or even ridiculed. We all have a tendency to think that we have relationships with others. In reality, the most important relationship we will ever have in our life is the relationship with ourselves.

Everything in our life, from health, success, and self-esteem, to how other people treat and trust us, starts with what kind of relationship we have with ourselves and our connection to something bigger than us.
We do live in a Universe that is fully loving and supportive of us (God, Divine Spirit, Loving Intelligence, Unified Field).
How do we take care of ourself?

On a physical level it means to take good care of one’s body and provide it with nutritious food, an adequate quantity of sleep, a proper exercise program, hydration etc.

On an emotional and spiritual/ energetic level unconditional self-love, self-compassion and acceptance are very crucial ingredients opening and perceiving ( BECAUSE IT IS ALWAYS HERE) the Divine flow which creates a better and healthier quality of life.

How can we get there?

1. Connect with your Inner Self every day. Self-love is the essence of who we are. Take few minutes to be quiet, breath, meditate, contemplate, pray, and pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. Focus on you breathe and connect your mind with it. Feel the aliveness in and around your body. Like when we want to be a good friend to someone else and hear them…do the same with yourself. Give yourself a priority every single day.
2. Be totally honest, gentle and embracing with yourself. Many of our fears, anxieties, low self-esteem or lack of acceptance are the byproduct of our feelings, outdated beliefs or patterns of thoughts from the past. The most important is not to judge them or ourselves. Many of those unpleasant emotions or feelings want to be embraced, accepted and gently released. During many MFR sessions we feel and have memories because we are connected to ourselves.
3. You can only receive what you believe you are worthy of. The Universe is giving you exactly what you believe you can receive. Open your heart wide and receive all the gifts, healings and miracles that are waiting for you when you feel worthy of receiving them.
4. Love just is. The Divine Love is the essence of who we are. We do not need to look for it, find it, earn it, work for it, manifest it or receive it. You are Love, you are made of pure love and that realization of that Universal truth will change your whole life forever.
5. Self-Clarity is the realization that we are, at our core, the pure love energy living in the body. Realize that old wounds or childhood experiences are not the reflection of who you are. Our mind usually makes a story about what happened and creates false beliefs like “I am not good enough”, “I am not loved”. These mental beliefs became our boxes that holds us back from healing and reaching our full potential.
6. Self-Compassion. Many times it is easier for us to love others vs our own self and it is because of self judgement and comparison to others. We forget to notice our own beauty, love and uniqueness.
7. Accept yourself where you are right now. I believe that the healthy way of living is to be authentic with yourself and others. It is great to be in a present moment and enjoy it. It is wise to be aware of past conditioning, old wounds, and memories so we can fully live in the present moment. It will not happen over-night, change takes time, so be gentle with yourself.
8. Surround yourself with people who support and honor you. Not everyone in your life will be supportive and reflect back to you the love and honor that you have for yourself. Not all the family members and friends will give you back the appreciation and respect that you deserve.
9. Give the love that you want to others. Probably the single, most important part is to treat others the way you want to be treated. If you want love, attention, honesty, respect and honor give it to those who resonate with you and understand that.
10. Feel worthy. You are a child of the Universe/God and it is your birth right to feel whole, complete, joyful and happy. There may be many layers to remove some of the old illusions and hidden mistruths called beliefs that are not allowing you to see the whole reality of life and yourself. If we spend some time every day reflecting and cultivating one or more of these 10 steps, day by day you will be walking a path filled with more unconditional self-love, fulfillment, a greater sense of overall well-being and love towards others. The only way to live that way is to reconnect with your true self. I hope my thoughts inspire you to connect with your heart and live a life that is authentic.

There is no better time to start than NOW.

6 KEY Elements for Healing and Successful MFR

Here are the 6 KEY Elements for Healing and Successful MFR:

ACTIVATING THE LOVING PRESENCE OF THE ENERGY BODY

SLOWING EVERYTHING WAY DOWN

QUIET AND MEDITATIVE MIND

CONSCIOUS AND SLOW BREATHING

LEARNING TO FEEL ALL THE SENSATIONS

TREATING THE WHOLE BODY

If you are new to MFR (Myofascial Release) or looking for a deeper dive into this work and you also know deep inside that there is a way to heal yourself and your life, let me invite you to explore a few key elements necessary for your success and deeper progress and also for your self-treatment. Myofascial Release’s purpose is to help integrate your body with breath, and your mind with the fascial system, which is a doorway to an authentic healing, and flourishing in all aspects of your life.

6 KEY Elements for Healing and Successful MFR – Audio Recording. Your therapist is your facilitator, your guide, who helps you navigate towards healing and deeper connection. The goal of this beautiful work is for you to become more aware and conscious of your own restrictions, patterns, what is holding you back from healing, and from fully flourishing in life. The intention is also to connect and activate the Real You, The Healer within the innate capacity of your system that has ability for corrective and healing measures. This is the part of you that is eternal, divine, whole, and complete. Your therapist is holding space for you, encourages you, supports you and nudges you when they see you being stuck. Here are the 6 elements:

1) SLOWING EVERYHTING WAY DOWN is crucial and vitally important in a session and with self-healing techniques. This work invites us to slow down, way down, and hold the position for minimum of 3-5 minutes or even longer if we want to see some magic happen. Slowing down the mind and the breath is necessary for the “walls” or protective mechanism to start coming down.
2) QUIET and MEDITATIVE MIND. This point is significant. Quieting the mind from obsessive thinking, mental chatter, self- doubt, and wobble of confusion is necessary to hear the messages from the body appearing in the form of sensations or feelings, enabling you to explore your body. When you fully engage your mind with the body, it is like sinking into the groove and you enter the Mind-Body Connection. If you lose your mind to thoughts, be easy on yourself and come back to the body. It gets easier with time and practice. Imagine that you want to listen to a country song, yet your radio station is tuned into a reggae station. Put your mind’s attention onto the body. The key is for the mind to be more in the observer role. By paying attention to the breath and the sensations of the body you are learning how to be self-aware and how to expand that self-awareness.
3) CONSCIOUS BREATHING. Make it an intention to keep breathing more consciously, slower, however without effort or trying during the session. Engage with the breath that is deeper, smoother, and more relaxed. Breathe into the area of tightness or discomfort with a simple intention to fully feel and embrace that area with full acceptance and surrender. Stay very patient and present. See The Power of the Breath.
4) LEARNING TO FEEL. The only way to heal, truly and authentically, is through the feeling process which is exactly opposite to what society, or our upbringing is teaching us. The first 3 keys must be consistently present in order for you to start feeling anything. Engaging with the body and fascial system requires curiosity, staying open, being patient, remaining mentally quiet and neutral, imagining you are embarking on a new journey of self-discovery. Make it fun and exciting. Many times, you may not be familiar with those sensations, or your mind may question if you are supposed to feel them. With fascial restrictions you may experience tenderness, heat, burning, a “good” hurt, or a deep hard to reach itch. Breathe with and into these sensations and be present with them. You may feel that you want to stay in the same area longer or that you want to run away from it. With more time and practice you will become more familiar with those sensations. Think of those areas as a doorway to a space that wants your attention for healing. Your pain is not your enemy. It is here to invite you for deeper exploration so you can experience more freedom and liberation in your body and in your life.
5) TREATING THE WHOLE BODY. We tend to go directly to where the pain is. It is like spot treating. Remember that we are treating the entire system, body, and a person. In most cases of chronic pain, the root causes and restrictions are buried deep in the fascial system. A skilled and experienced therapist will help you to find the area that may require our attention.
6) ACTIVATING THE LOVING PRESENCE AND THE ENERGY BODY. After you are breathing for a few minutes, your mind is quiet, and your body is relaxing deeper and deeper. you will start becoming aware that something is rising from deep inside of your belly and your body. We are all born with a healing capacity and loving unconditional presence that is waiting for us to be tapped into when we learn how to quiet the mind, relax the body, and disconnect from the external world. Your most healing capacities are in your own heart and in your belly. This part is the most important part of healing that nobody really talks about.

What is Possible for You in 2024
May YOU bring deep peace, joy and relaxation to your body and your life in this new year.
Deep Body Relaxation – allowing what is deep inside of you to emerge – the true and authentic you.
With every New Year most of us have a strong desire to reassess, re-evaluate, start on a positive and a new way to create what we deep inside desire and dream of.
January is a month when we can start anew, when we can tap into our heart’s desires and dreams and Intentions.
The big part of our culture operates on a premise that our health and well-being are not our responsibility and if we have a challenge with our body, it means that something is wrong and needs to be fixed.
Another big misperception that we live by is that we are completely lost in the external world. We look for all that we need and want from the external environment. We have strong beliefs that someone else can give us what we want.
If we step back and open to a higher perception, and gain new knowledge, we realize that everything is an opportunity for curiosity and investigation.
The biggest truth, treasure and mystery of this life is that all that you want, your health and vitality is inside of you.
Reclaiming our body/mind for deeper healing is a very creative process of internal transformation. If we fully own it we can regain our vitality, health, and live our best life.
Finding, igniting, and animating the REAL YOU and integrating it with your body/mind is what you want to learn more about.
This is where the magic is, this is where the healing is, this is where the creative process is.
Your body and well-being is your own creative process.
In human experience – most of us wake up to our true nature via different gateways – either health, financial situations or personal relationships or combinations of all of those above.
It is NOT your fault that you did not know it. The society and our culture is ALSEEP to those things.
Let your PAIN be the gateway to your awakening. Let me help you to find the GIFT in it, so you can unpack it and discover your treasure.
Creating an Intention vs setting up a goal is an important first step as it helps us navigate from where we are coming from.
Intentions live deeper in your physiology; they live in your DNA, and they are driven by the energy level of your authentic self.
Goals are usually driven by the mind’s energy and are less powerful if they are not attached to the authentic self.
Let me give you an example.
Let’s say you have been dealing with chronic pain for a long time, which hugely impacts your life on many levels. The logical and natural feeling is:
“I want to get rid of the pain. I do not want to feel it anymore. I am hoping that someone else can do it for me or just fix it”. DISEMPOWERED INTENTION
This mindset is disempowering and is simply not working.
What is an empowered Intention in this case as an example?
“I feel flexible, relaxed and open in my body. I am able to enjoy daily walks with my loved ones”. EMPOWERED INTENTION
One of the reasons we do not intend for much bigger goals/intentions for our health is that our mind is trying to figure out how that would happen. We usually do not have a belief system in place that senses dreams or desire as a possibility.
The mind alone is not able to heal you, so right now do not listen to your mind and dream up what would be your desired outcome for your body and well-being.
Our innate energy goes wherever you focus your attention, so if you focus on what you do not want, guess what? You get more of what you do not want!
Choose well what you WANT vs what you don’t want.
Self Awareness
Have you ever realized that our whole life from the day we are born is externally focused?
We are conditioned to pay attention to everything that is going on and happening on the outside of us. We learn early in life in our families, schooling, and training how to be successful in life, how to be liked, accepted, smart and productive. Those ways of functioning in the world are not wrong, they are an incomplete picture of who we are. Those patterns keep us closed off from our true Self and we develop a way of protecting ourselves or proving and performing in the world.
Since everyone is doing that, we accept that way of operating in the world as a norm and simply think that that is just how life is.
Many times, we end up being unhappy inside, unfulfilled, unsatisfied, sick and in pain.
What is truly happening to most of us in life is that we all splat or disperse early in life. Meaning our body, mind, and our breath (Spirit) work as separate parts of us and honestly life does not flow easily and smoothly for us. In this way we operate ONLY as a mental body and react to life, at best responding and living in survivorship, feeling like we are victims in life.
I used to live that way as I did not know any better or any other way until I DID, and everything started to change for me.
I learned that Self Awareness is the key to life, to learn and understand all parts of us, and to embrace them fully in love to create more personal freedom. When we do that on a consistent basis, externally we will be able to experience well-being, beauty, personal power, and more personal fulfillment in all life aspects.
There is NO change without Awareness- John F. Barnes, P.T.
What if I told you that all your emotional unhappiness, uneasiness, lack of well-being, and pain are the byproduct of only one thing?
If the Energy Flow is NOT moving in your body, the byproduct is that the life experience you are having is not optimal.
Steps to Self Awareness are becoming radically aware that:
1.       I exist, and I AM this life experience.
2.      Nobody is responsible for me, my life experience and all that is happening in my life is happening for my highest good if I shift my perception.
3.       I am the Awareness itself and I Have a body and mind.
4.      Body, Mind and Breath are one and I am here to learn how to integrate those three so my life experience can improve, so my health, vitality and sense of joy and internal peace can be enhanced.
5.       Everything in the Universe is Energy. I am also at the core of my being’s pure energy, and my work is to bring my awareness to within.
6.      I am the creator of my own life experience, and I am either creating intentionally and bringing more of what I want to my life, or I create by default and create more of what I do not want in my life.
7.       My health, vitality and happiness is directly related to my own level of Self Awareness.
8.      The core of my true self is purely unconditional, greater love and the more I am in touch with that Love the more I create from the place of wholeness.
If you have been unhappy, tense and dissatisfied with your life and health, it will take some time to create a new State of Being. The key to healing is to live from the space of our heart and soul. It’s the source of how things flow to us . . . fulfillment, joy, bigger and deeper love, abundance, fulfillment in relationships and friendships, total health, and prosperity.
When we are internally relaxed and happy and we make better choices for ourselves, the body is more relaxed and can heal itself. The brain releases happy hormones like dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins, enhancing internal well-being.
Healing HAPPENS as a byproduct of the Authentic life, life lived from the INSIDE OUT, is the life that’s worth living. The quantum Flip or the Awareness of that which is living as an Essential Self vs Personality is the first building block of your healing journey.
Introduction to Experiencing a Healthier You
My deep intention and joy has always been to share and teach you the ways you can discover and ignite your own healing capacity for a greater level of healing, up-leveling yourself, and living your best life.
The month of May brings to the forefront the magnification of that intent through introducing you to Wholistic Self Care (WSC) – Experience a Healthier You.
From our work together at the office I know you have been living with chronic pain for years and even for decades. Making progress can be such a relief and yet often we feel frustrated and disappointed when our pain ebbs and flows.
Science is showing us that how we relate to our pain can be affected by our thoughts, feelings, attitude, beliefs and also by our subconscious mind. This is what I am so excited to be teaching; that we can create new thoughts, emotions and energy that amplify our own healing.
My intention is to teach you how to use new tools and techniques to connect, unlock and unleash the amazing healing stream of energy that naturally flows through our physical body. You may experience healing on many different levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
WSC is an effort that represents an expanded vision of Wholistic Therapeutics growth based on my deep desire to teach each of you valuable tools and practices derived from my experience and the Science of Energy Medicine.

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