VoyageLA - Check Out Jo-Anne Suriel’s Story
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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jo-Anne Suriel
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
You can call me an energy healer but I consider myself a frequency guide. I tap into the energetic frequencies that are surrounding you and help to fortify the vibrations that can support you on your healing journey. As a kid, I thought that I would be in the medical profession, like my parents. But as I grew more into myself, I realized that I’m meant to work with wellness in a way that goes beyond the physical and includes the energetic.
In my early 30’s, I experienced multiple miscarriages when my husband and I began trying to conceive. There was no physical explanation for them and I was in excellent health so I had the intuitive nudge to seek out reiki, which is a gentle form of energy healing that helps to bring you back into a state of balance. It turns out that reiki was exactly what I needed and I began to study reiki after my kid was born.
I’m now a certified reiki master practitioner, sound healer, and reader of the akashic records—which is a modality that taps into the history of your soul for the purpose of clarity, guidance, and healing.
My business is called The Energetic Well because I believe we all have a deep well of healing energy within us. Modern day life has pulled most of us away from that inner well, but with a bit of guidance and intention, anyone can access that powerful resource within, and this can help you find greater harmony throughout all aspects of your life.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Most people don’t arrive at the vocation of energy healer easily. It’s definitely been a path seeded by my own history of childhood trauma and then, in adulthood, ignited by the twin diagnoses of anxiety and autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis) while working in a corporate job that felt very antithetical to the core of my being.
Looking back, I now know that all of my suffering had a purpose. I’m not at all saying that it’s good to suffer! But I acknowledge that enduring a lot of pain (physically and emotionally), has broadened my capacity for compassion and patience. And I’m grateful to get to share with others all that I’ve learned about how to overcome these challenges on my healing journey.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’ve always been a person who likes to combine things and make them my own, so I have a unique 1-on-1 healing session called Energetic Well Readings. In this session, we consult with your akashic records to help resolve and gain clarity on any issues, challenges, or repeated patterns that have been coming up for you. The session also includes reiki and sound healing to help process and integrate the insights and healing frequencies that arise to support you during the session and beyond. Clients often leave with a greater sense of self-compassion, confidence, and calm.
My group healing session is called Energetic Well Sanctuary, where I share messages and insights for the group and facilitate a bespoke reiki and sound ceremony. I do both Energetic Well Readings and Energetic Well Sanctuary in-person and virtually, as well.
I don’t know if others have combined these three modalities—akashic records, reiki, and sound healing—so deliberately. But to me it makes complete sense to offer a holistic healing experience that incorporates all of my gifts.
Do you have recommendations for books, apps, blogs, etc?
One of my favorite books that I refer to quite often is Ritual Baths: Be Your Own Healer by Deborah Hanekamp. This book walks you through the colors of the aura and has specific bath recipes—using herbs, flowers, crystals, smoke, intensions, and more—to help bring healing to almost any situation in life. The stories and the baths help you to remember that you are nature. I’m fortunate to call Deborah, who also goes by Mama Medicine, my teacher and the wisdom transmitted in this beautiful book is so rich and practical. I recommend Ritual Baths to anyone who is on a spiritual and/or healing journey.
Contact Info:
Website: https://www.theenergeticwell.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theenergeticwell