Intuitive Wellness: Interview with Sydney
My practice is what I put under a very big umbrella that I call intuitive wellness. My focus is providing people with tools and experiences that help us to de-stress to improve our energy levels to create clarity in our lives. so within that, I use multiple modalities: Reiki energy healing, tarot readings, I teach yoga, and crystal energy healing.
This idea that I needed to focus, that I needed to hone in on one thing or like refine, and pick one thing that I was going to be known for. It just didn't work for me. I've got all these things in my tool belt. I don't feel like I'm doing my clients and my communities of service by saying, ‘Oh, well, I do all these things, but this is the one thing that I actually do’.
The way I like to talk about it is like on-ramps. So we're all trying to get on this highway of like grace and ease and transformation like that in my work. But we're all coming from different places. And what I do in offering so many different modalities, and having so many ways that I serve people, is I offer many on-ramps onto that highway. Some are going to be easy to get easier to get to for some people than others, you know, so for some people, like showing up on your mat and taking a yoga class that's like, yes, that's great. That's awesome. That is enriching and fulfilling and exactly what I need in my life. For other people, they hate yoga, and that's okay.
I certainly think it's one thing if you have someone who is from a particular culture, who is choosing to share that medicine and share those teachings with people regardless of what background they come from. I think it's quite another thing entirely. When you have White people, of which I am one admittedly a white person who are charging thousands of dollars to hand down these communal tribal teachings from tribes that aren't theirs. And along with that, like the obsession with using Native American tools and symbolism in our everyday lives in a way that is not, in my humble opinion, appropriately reverent of their meaning and origin in the culture that they come from, and are not always even from, like the things that are being produced or sold or not always even from that culture. And are not made by those people. And so this is like this big problem that I was having where I was, ‘Oh, I really want to explore my spirituality deeper, but I feel like everywhere I turn, it's just some white lady appropriating something’.