- From Having an Active & Healthy Life to Suffering from Chronic Pain for Over Seven Years and Finding Healing & Life Purpose -
Ivi is a Brazilian born who has been in Perth Western Australia for over nine years now and is very connected to the ocean and nature in general. She spent a great part of her youth living in a house near the sea that had no electricity in Brazil where climbing trees, collecting shells at the beach, feeling Earth with bare feet, watching the birds play in the skies and having deep conversations with her parents and sister was how a normal daily routine would be like.
Life then became more serious and decisions on ‘What to be as a professional’ and ‘Where Ivi wants to go in life’ had to be made. She was lucky enough to find a job in the Oil & Gas industry in Brazil but to be able to grow in her career, learning English was a must.
In 2011 Ivi arrived in the magical & mystical lands of Australia and the first feeling was that she was re-born in a different but always known Mother Land. Finding a job in the field was not too hard after she had improved her English. Soon Ivi was working for a mining company, managed to have her permanent visa, won the International Student Award in 2014 and could not be happier with all her achievements. Though, on the other hand, life was VERY stressful at work and a lot of emotions were swallowed and suppressed at the time.
Always into sports and having an active life, Ivi would cycle around 30kms per week along the beautiful bike paths in Perth. It was in 2012 when the lower back pain started for the first time. It was constant and very debilitating to a point where she could no longer sit down for two minutes and standing up would be as painful. Medication, a number of Doctors, Therapists, medical tests but nothing would help or show clearly what the issue was.
Two years went past with no much relief until the neck and shoulders started flaring up. It was then the lower back, neck and shoulders in constant pain. More Doctors, tests, injections, stronger medication, but nothing was found, nothing would give Ivi the relief she needed.
Years went past and gastrointestinal issues and constant migraines also became a part of her days. She would hear people and Doctors say ‘This is all in your mind’, ‘You are creating these issues’, ‘Just forget about the pain and keep on going with life’. In 2018 Ivi was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and then Myofascial Pain Syndrome. Even with all the debilitation that Ivi was physically and mentally experiencing, she was still working full time, smiling out there and taking the best out of every second in life.
It was when Ivi had to spend most of her time in a space where she would have very little exposure to light and work in a dark container that the answers she was looking for for all those years came to her. She always knew natural healing could happen and never stopped BELIEVING it was going to come.
In March 2019, Ivi went to a BioDynamic Breathwork for Trauma Release workshop that touched her on a deeper level from all the other therapies she had tried in the last seven years. The use of active meditation, with the breath, body movements and bodywork brought to the surface emotions that Ivi did not know were still attached to the body. The release came straight away and the most important thing was that she did not get attached to the trauma event, but instead just let the breath and body movement bring out what had been suppressed for so long. The sense of calmness, clarity, love and lightening was incredible!
In April 2019 Ivi quit her job in the Oil & Gas industry and headed to Peru on a healing journey! There she was in a 10 day retreat with the plant medicine Ayahuasca and three weeks in a Yoga Teacher Training. Reconnecting to self, immersing herself into Yoga when only three classes was what she had taken before, learning some breathing techniques along with the asanas, meditating on a daily basis, meeting people who shared the same beliefs, who had no judgements and were fully present to hear and feel the essence of Ivi went beyond the physical healing she was in Peru for and received, it connected her to her purpose of being of service to others.
Ivi arrived in Rio to visit her family and friends in May 2019 with an impressive improvement in the pain she had been feeling for more than seven years. She was free of daily migraines, neck and lower back pain. She could again sleep on her sides, sit down for a conversation, read, walk with a backpack on her shoulders. The sense of being alive was energising every cell in Ivi’s body!
One of the messages Ivi received when in treatment with Ayahuasca was that she had to simply BREATHE. After sometime of integration, Ivi felt that there was more to explore from the BBTRS she had tried back in March 2019. Ivi felt that the modality could not only explain the physical and mental illnesses she had gone through but also keep on improving her health and opening the blessed path of sharing the work with others and living a life of being of service.
In December 2019 Ivi was in the magical Bali doing the Level I BBTRS training and since then life has become an enjoyable and fulfilling journey. Today, Ivi no longer has symptoms, except for minor flare-ups when she forgets to follow to her real life’s purpose. The way she reverts pain is by offering a safe space and compassion for her clients to release emotions that ha been stagnated in their bodies. No more daily migraines, gastrointestinal issues and chronic pain, but instead the joy of be sharing this amazing modality with other people who resonate with her story and have somehow ‘being there’ too. People who are ready to reconnect with what they have lost along the way: their ESSENCE. People who are ready to connect with others on a deep level, who want to experience life to its fullest, who are experiencing some sort of physical illness and want to find their natural own MEDICINE: their BREATH.
Ivi is grateful for all the pain that she carried for all these years. That was the way she found her path, her purpose, herself.
Please feel free to connect with Ivi for a chat on how she turned the whole Sh%# up side down and found healing from chronic pain. Also, if you feel you are ready to jump into your deepest self and journey through your repressed emotions, release them and regain vitality, connect with Ivi by message or email surrenderbreathsoul@gmail.com
‘Every second, every breath is a brand new life’ Ivi Oliveira
