Hello, my name is Piotr, and I like to call myself an Integrative Health Practitioner. I'm crazy passionate about delivering health services in a wider context. I highlight the word "wider" as I believe that in the modern system, people who seek help through alternative methods can be unintentionally deceived by the inherent philosophies created behind any healing modalities.
I am convinced that most therapists and healing approaches (both western and alternative) work but they are not fully understood by those who offer them.
Over the course of my life, I have dealt with allergies, severe asthma, multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), chronic mold sensitivity and poisoning, sound sensitivity, bruxism, reflux, Lyme disease, rosacea, anxiety, and depression. I have also experienced numerous injuries to my body, including herniated and bulging discs in my lower back and neck, a meniscus tear, lower neck instability, ligament issues in my wrist, torn muscles, and others.
This website is the testimony to that path, as well as a way to offer my services.
My story
Due to my numerous conditions, I have visited around 150 specialists to try to solve my problems. I will just name a few: acupuncturists, Chinese medicine doctors, rolfers, osteopaths, EFT practitioners, neuroplasticity coaches, prolotherapy applicants, physiotherapists, craniosacral therapists, Feldenkrais teachers, somatic experience therapists, different psychotherapists, and some therapists that could be considered spiritual.
Where has this led me? I still can’t say, “I tried everything,” as I did not. None of those specialists fully understood life, and it’s not their fault, as life is so complex. The problem begins when we try to categorize health in the same way as any other branch of business. Life can’t be brought down to ready made “healing scripts".That requires a proper discussion around the philosophy of health.
My education and expierience
I graduated from the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow with two specializations: Massage and Wellness, and Posture Correction. For many years, I worked as a swimming and fitness instructor.
After suffering a back injury, I embarked on a multi-year journey to heal myself, which challenged many beliefs I had been taught at university. Along the way, I became certified as a Dietitian through the Polish Academy of Dietetics.
For the past 5 years, I've been treating people using an advanced method of spinal adjustment, combining it with health coaching and consulting with great success.
I recently graduated as a craniosacral therapist and am currently exploring the depths of this practice. Two years ago, I started writing a blog called "In a Wider Context," which touches on my other field of interest: the electromagnetic and biophotonic aspects of life on Earth. I believe this is a crucial missing piece in understanding overall health.
My goal now is to continue deepening my knowledge and practice of craniosacral therapy while helping others on their path to wellness.
My values as a therapist and health coach
Compassion
Buddhist philosophy is very close to my heart. The older I get, the more I sense in my skin that developing genuine compassion is the way to remain calm and happy in life. I’m not there of course, but through daily actions, I’m trying to develop that trait, togheter with mindfulness and wisdom.
Cultivating the Unknown
In times when health entrepreneurs need business growth, they often promote themselves as all-knowing. I cultivate "not knowing" as an answer when I feel it's appropriate. I have talked to numerous people who have been unintentionally deceived by health practitioners. They have been given imprecise information filtered through the narrow ideologies around which the practitioners have built their businesses. I acknowledge that I don't know everything, and this journey won't end until I die. I want you to know that I dedicate my mind to seeing through the many layers of reality I can imagine and recognize. I dedicate my speech to speaking with clarity and intention, to see where in my sentences I lack perspective and can be misleading.
Directedness
Although I am at service to society and humanity in general, my business is not to please people but to build health awareness and promote life while increasing wellness. I believe society's perception of who we are as human beings has not caught up with scientific discoveries from recent decades. Due to this fact, we might end up discussing topics that could go against common beliefs in society. That is what I truly call service.
Authenticity
We are living in times when we collectively accept that "being professional" requires implementing numerous traits and "poses" to be seen in the right way. In large part, I intentionally refuse to be like that. After hundreds of health consultations experienced myself, I feel like there is often an invisible wall between the practitioner and the patient. It feels like an unconscious social agreement that leads to a lack of connection, as if the whole society is playing a game. I don’t want to fake it in a white coat. I want to be seen as a real human (with fears and passions) where there are no curtains between us. That way, I can save an enormous amount of energy to widen my cognition and perception of reality. Through that, I serve you better.
“Matter of itself has no power to do, to make, or to become. It is in energy that all these potentialities reside, energy invisibly associated with the material system, and in interaction with the energies of the surrounding universe.” - D.W. Thompson (1917)
