I’m Rachel Novetsky. For as long as I can remember I have been an empath. As a child I witnessed and experienced others’ feelings and emotions, and oftentimes I confused them for my own. As a young adult I struggled with the feeling that my mind and body could not possibly manage the enormous amount of overwhelm it felt. I did not understand and could not LOVE that highly-sensitive part of me, so I abused, numbed, starved, drugged, blocked, and silenced those feelings and that part of me as many of us do. When I began to teach yoga in my early 20’s, I physically took on many of my students’ injuries and emotions, which at the time I misinterpreted as a tool for connection and understanding. I did not know how to separate myself from my students, how to create a healthy energetic boundary between us.

To better understand how to use my empathic gifts, I trained under many incredible healers and teachers, and I studied many healing modalities that speak to my heart, including Power Vinyasa Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Gentle Therapeutics Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, ThetaHealing®, Pranic Healing®, Integrative Nutrition™, Access Consciousness Healing®, Holonomic Healing, and crystal sound bowls. I honor and give credit to the masters and teachers who have led me to where I am today. I humbly give thanks to the incredible support that guides me while working with another individual. Ultimately, I know that anything can be healed from a place of unconditional love. 

I work from an intuitive place of deep love and kindness. I approach each person in the same gentle loving way I would an innocent child. From this place, I feel I am simply here to remind them of what they already know deep down: that healing is available for everyone and to initiate this healing we must begin to consider the parts of ourselves that we have closed our eyes to.

In yoga and energy work, by embodying and supporting all emotions that surface in a session, we release and begin to heal. We all hold this innate wisdom. It is a gift if we choose to open it.