A lovely online friend of mine from my writing class, Sandi Ivey, stumbled across the unabridged version of this interview (only a few parts of it made it into the featured paragraph in the newspaper) and encouraged me to publish it, in her words: “It says so much, is interesting and Needs to be out there – we never know who our words strike a chord with ♡”
She also wrote: “This is wonderfully said and written…so positive and intimate..your closing word’s were exactly what I needed to hear/read today…I really enjoyed the whole piece~ Congratulations on being featured!! ♡” Thank you, Sandi!
So, – Universe, named Sandi this time, has asked, I have listened.
Here it is, the unabridged version of the online interview. Hope it can shed some light into what is possible even when it feels like things are broken beyond repair.
“Your name,
Natasha (Natalia Savelieva Ginko in my Spanish passport)
your profession
Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner, Spring Forest Qigong Practice Group Leader, Shamanic practitioner, Reiki Master, Russian Linguist
Where you are
Palma de Mallorca
Why did you get into what you are doing?
I was very sensitive since I can remember myself, it was very painful to be around unhappy and unconscious people, I didn´t have the resources then to know I was an empath and I had no help with what to do with that.
People just thought I was weird and “from another planet”.
I had lived through many traumas in my childhood and young age, dysfunctional family related and my place of birth being a war zone related.
It had contributed to what is called medically Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (only diagnosed at much later date), chronic back pain due to the scoliosis since I was 7, stomach spasms, clinical depression and panic attacks, inability to function in a society and be in the presence of other human beings.
When I was 29 years old my mother died unexpectedly at her age of 56, taking 11 pills a day, prescribed by her doctor.
It was another great shock to my system and the beginning of my search for a more empowered way of being in the world.
Then my father died at his age of 65, after his cancer operation, mis-treated by the western medicine.
This was a final push for me to pursue alternative healing professionally.
Being on this path for 16 years now and never looked back.
My daughter is 13 now and she had hardly taken any chemical based medication or seen a doctor in her life, except for the obligatory check ups.
It has been a lot of daily work of cultivating the energy but I do not see any other way that makes sense and I feel blessed that I have found the one that does and works efficiently.
What is your motivation for doing what you are doing?
I thought before I was under some pre-installed obligation and karma to help people, since I was 6 and my mother gave me my new born baby sister to look after.
I had learned a hard way that nobody can be helped unless they are ready.
Now I have grown to understand through my own spiritual practices, that my passion is not to help people but to rather teach them to help themselves.
Thus empower them to be happy in any way it is meaningful to them. Because they CAN be.
How are you coping with the lockdown?
There are both positive and negative sides to the current situation, like to anything in this reality of duality and “projection makes perception”, we call “the world.”
The obvious pluses are time spent with the family without the crazy schedules on everyone´s part and the time to take care of my home and the old projects.
I enjoy the fact that my daughter doesn´t have to get up at 6 am and we don´t need to drag her bricks heavy rucksack through the center of Palma for 30 minutes to get to her middle school early morning.
Instead she can sleep in and do all her online homework at her own pace. She can have online classes with her dance academy buddies and send the videos of her musical recitals to her percussion teacher at the conservatory. So far, it works just fine.
It definitely had freed my time in the morning to be more creative and to finally move forward with my long time desire to give free Facebook live classes teaching simple methods of Energy Medicine and Qigong to support people in the present isolation and again, to teach them to help themselves to get stronger immune systems or have a happier outlook on life, to deal with any symptom and condition they might have from the holistic perspective and to deal with the emotions and stress with the techniques based on the 5 elements life model, from the 5000 years old Chinese Medicine, adapted to the modern pace of life.
I definitely enjoyed slowing down in a way, even though it somehow feels that 24 hours got much shorter… I enjoy being able to address so many home bound projects that have been on the back burner for years. Now I can´t say, “I don´t have the time to do it”, because I do have the time, I just have to have the discernment about the priorities as how to spend this time that I suddenly have on my hands as a gift from the Universe.
The big downside is of course not being able to spend regular time in nature, where I recharge and rest fully, and to walk my daily hour walks.
It is hard on the body.
It is hard to be in an city apartment on a 4th floor without a garden.
It is hard on the 4 animals we have as well. On the dogs for the obvious reason and on the cats because they are sick and tired of having us home 24/7! Haha.
It is hard to go outside as well, without feeling you are in a war zone with masks and gloves and fear on people´s faces and in their energy bodies.
It is definitely triggering flight and fight, which is not the best way to keep your immune system strong to keep the virus away.
Also to know that there are so many people suffering, the ones who are sick, the ones who hold the front for us out there, the ones who are locked in tiny apartments without even balconies and with little kids at home… Not everyone has a luxury of having a big house with a garden and a pool… I walk the dogs in an area in Palma (Soledad Nord, Pere Garau) where I see people´s washing and their little kids clothes hanging to dry on the rails of the dusty window shutters… My heart breaks for them. I feel grateful and blessed that we at least have a communal roof terrace to stretch the legs, get some sun and tend to the plants. I don´t know what I would do without it.
What have you learnt about yourself and/or other people during this period
People can adapt to anything and make the best of it, if they want to.
Have you seen any benefits to the period of quarantine personally, apart from the obvious “not getting ill”
See above
Has the lockdown changed the way you do business?
I always preferred to give sessions online, because there is no physical border for the energy and techniques work the same way in person, but there is a n advantage of getting people´s egos out of the way, which get more activated in the close physical presence.
The big part of the ego out of the way allows their body to activate its intelligence without the mind interference and the healing process speeds up exponentially. It is also easier on my own body, cause as an empath I tend to take people stuff on me, but it happens much less when we are on the different sides of our screens. My intuition also works much faster, when I am not in their immediate proximity and don´t mix up with their energy patterns but keep my own.
Will you offer more courses online or remotely now?
I am planning on it, for sure.
Where can people find you online: either website or facebook or instagram, whichever is the one place you want to direct people to
My interactive educational group on Facebook, Harmony Unique
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mallorcakingspark/
Also, my YouTube Channel, Harmony Unique
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRTc2w5pIWwn7fmz_Sv4NrA/
Anything pertinent you think you would like to say to the people reading the article, a message of encouragement or any other point you want to make.
I encourage you to get out of your comfort zones and make the best out of this time, to learn how to empower yourself to live a healthier, happier life, in harmony with yourself, other people and nature.
To find your gift, your purpose, to reconnect with the your deeper truth, your essence, your soul, your spirit and to be in awe with the mystery of life and to fall in real love with yourself as an indivisible part of it.”
Harmony Unique. Holistic Medicine Mallorca. Web Magazine. 