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Karma Revolution, Ko Phangan (2025)

EWA Ji - the master of education in sport science, with a taste yogi, an activist in favor of a healthy lifestyle, fan of natural medicine, energy healing and transformation. From the very beginning of the knowledge and skills derived from the best Senior Teachers - G. Gubillaro, Gita Iyengar, Faque Biria. Since 2005, Ewa directed her interest towards dynamic - Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (AVY), which became her daily practice and later she taught AVY by traditional way with regularity and complete devotion. Authorized teachers Ewa has studied with are: Basia Lipska -Larsen, Maty Ezraty, Tim Feldman, Petri Reisenen, Noah McKenna, Ajay Tokas, Kino MacGregor and Bela Lipat. In January 2012, during the last trip to India took an intensive course Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga & Pranayama in Mysore Yoga Shala Krishnamachar and intensive practice in Tattva Yogashala in Rishikesh. Along the Yoga journey Ewa devoted a big part of her life into strict meditation practices and techniques. She explored variety of holistic traditions and their healing modalities from all around the World. The most recent is related to the Somatic Experiencing Therapy, Stress Physiology and Trauma Release. Currently Ewa lives and teaches in Thailand, Koh Phangan island, where she shares her experience, skills and knowledge; in order to discover & connect you to your highest potential. Ewa strongly believes in empowerment & teaching her students how to become their own medicine! Feel free to connect, ask question, book the session.

05/11/2024

How to Heal the Third Eye Chakra and tend to third eye trauma, Iterating the Separate Self.

If you read The Healing Path of the Third Eye, Integrating the Separate Self, you already know that the chakra that heals the separation wound, never works alone, so while I will offer plenty of guidance on the healing path of the third eye chakra below, it is a bit more nuanced than the previous ones.

In order to heal a wound, we must first become aware of it.

The truth is that we all have this wound of separation. It accompanies the cutting of the umbilical cord, weaning and the process of individualization, and it’s not necessarily bad. In fact, for many of us, it fuels our devotion to the spiritual path.

From the wound of the third eye, the seeker is born- as is, the journey to becoming whole.

Because the third eye chakra is overseeing the entirety of our subtle anatomy, third eye wounding and healing can play a role in the healing paths of all the other chakras. I don’t say this to confuse you but to empower you, because if you’re working on the healing path of the root, sacral, solar plexus, heart or throat chakras and you feel stuck or plateaued, engaging with the third eye may be the very thing restore your momentum. When I say “engaging the third eye” I mean giving it some attention by practicing the tools I shared in The Healing Path of the Third Eye or the ones at the end of this article.

But remember that I’m a clinician so I use the same skillset to identify the primary wound at the wheel, as I do to diagnose medical conditions.

With that said, when the third eye wound is present, my clients don’t complain of feeling separate. They complain of fertility challenges and hormone imbalances that often result in diagnoses like PCOS, PMDD, perimenopause & more. They come into my office with the results of genetic testing and family histories they’re desperate to escape from. They suffer from headaches, debilitating indecision and their histories are layered with stories of dissociation and third eye trauma. Often these clients are on the autism spectrum, and/or their parents or partners have accompanied them to the visit and they are the ones doing all the talking because the client doesn’t think anything is wrong.
In my experience, the third eye wound has a unique polarity to it. Either it results in extreme sensitivity (especially following third eye trauma), or those inflicted are too numb to perceive the existence of a problem.

In the years that I’ve been in practice, what I call third eye trauma has definitely become more prevalent. This is what happens when we enter the third eye prematurely. It can feel like a panic attack, extreme sensitivity, anxiety, dissociation or psychosis. It’s a separation from the body. Given the popularity of Kundalini activations, psychedelics, breath work and other consciousness altering experiences in recent years, I’m not surprised that third eye trauma is on the rise. Below I will offer some tips for tending to this.
Keep in mind that the third eye matures in the 6th cycle of life. Chronologically that means that we are not ready to access this perspective until we are 35-42 year old. These days 35-42 doesn’t sound very old, but the third eye represents the wisdom of the elder- the maturity that comes with having lived a lot of life.

The reason the third eye is associated with clairvoyance is because it can see patterns in everything- and when you know the patterns you can predict what’s coming next. But it takes time to be able to recognize and identify all the patterns. This is why the perspective of the third eye requires experience, maturity and preparation.

How to Do the Work
When it comes to healing the third eye chakra, you always have to think bigger and look beyond the obvious. Just as the anatomical organ of the heart reminds us of the importance of circulation and exchange in the dealings of the heart chakra, the pituitary gland reminds us how the third eye acts as a puppeteer for much of the endocrine system. This has great relevance when we’re seeking the root cause of dis-ease because our experience of dis-ease is usually limited to the our symptoms. The third eye encourages us to see the unseen forces driving those symptoms. It demands that we look beyond hormone levels and functional test results and excavate the cause.
Here is some practical advice for those of you interested in working on the third eye.
Third eye trauma
If you have experienced third eye trauma, the goal is really to get back into the lower chakras and I always recommend starting with the root. When we enter the third eye prematurely, too much information floods in too fast and we can’t contain it. It’s like screwing an industrial strength light bulb into an overhead fixture in your home. If you don’t get that analogy, I’ll tell you what happens …the lightbulb bursts and your kitchen floor is covered in glass.
I’m not a fan of talk therapy to manage third eye trauma because the talking keeps us out of body. I recommend engaging with the 5 senses, mindfully with intention. Fins something you can smell, taste, touch, hear and see. Choose things that are pleasurable and soothe you so you’re intrinsically motivated to come back into your body. It’s common to loose your appetite after experiencing third eye trauma, but it’s really helpful to eat nourishing, tasty foods. Remember the great privilege it is to be in a body and return to the present. Eventually all that information will integrate. You don’t have to know what ii is or what it means. Just trust the the unseen forces have planted seeds and your job now is to simply tend to the soil. You will know what to do when the timing is right.
Intention and visualization
Intention and visualization are the name of the game when working with the third eye so I recommend infusing any and every healing effort with both of these. Remember that the third eye impacts the quantum field through intention so regardless of what you’re dealing with, it’s important to define the direction of healing. For example, if you’re struggling with fertility issues, there will be quite a bit of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual work do do in the sacral chakra (and maybe others too) but the role of the third eye is to remember the big picture and hold the intention of a successful pregnancy or parenthood to make that outcome more likely than the rest. Holding this intention will also prevent you from getting lost and overwhelmed in medical interventions. Once the intention is clear, use visualization to see the intended outcome. The third eye doesn’t need to know all the details to create- nor does it need to know how you’re going to get there. So when you’re visualizing, start by focusing on what you can imagine about the result you want and leave the rest blank. In the example of fertility this could mean closing your eyes and visualizing yourself holding your newborn child. Hold the imagine for long enough that you start to feel an emotional and physical shift. This is when you know that the third eye is starting to have some downstream effects.

Bypass the over-active mind
This may be the most important use of the third eye these days- because we live in a culture that is so stuck in our heads and we’re highly conditioned to believe that we are less capable than we really are. The best and worst thing about the third eye is that nothing has to make sense. This can drive our minds crazy but it can really help us bypass the limitations of the mind. This is why intention and visualization is so powerful at the third eye- because you don’t need to know how you are going to get to the outcome. You don’t even have to believe that the outcome you want is possible. You just have to exercise your imagination. For many of us, the solar plexus is what holds us back because it insists that have to know how we’re going to get from point A to point B. This is really problematic if you have a mystery illness or an incurable disease (according to conventional medicine). You are conditioned by the medical team to believe the outcome you want is impossible. This usually requires some solar plexus work, but the third eye provides a strong tailwind because it can create independently at the quantum level and the results will impact your belief system. In other words, it expedites the solar plexus work and makes it so much easier to do!
Dreamwork
The third eye speaks in symbol. It’s beyond the duality of language and we don’t need to do psychedelics or breath work to speak this language. It’s happening every night in our dreams. The dream state is the optimal training ground for the third eye. The trick is to remember your dreams and start noticing the symbols. If you have trouble remembering your dreams, a dream journal is a really good practice. However, if you can remember your dreams without having to write and you can avoid the use of language to describe your dreams, pick up some colored pencils or markers and just draw, color and create freely. Once you have at least 10 journal entries or drawings you can start looking for symbols and patterns.
The Pituitary Gland Series
This kundalini kriya is a great practice to try. You may never understand the why behind every part of the instructions, but you can practice it and notice how it impacts you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I have used this kriya for a wide range of hormonal imbalances and seen great results, especially when you we’re able to commit to doing it 40 consecutive days.
Add a Metaphysical Dimension to Everything
I’m really speaking about the spiritual quadrant of health but this can be applied universally. Seek the metaphysical why! Don’t settle for symptom resolution. Keep excavating the roots. Particularly when you’re struggling, get in the inquiry of what is happening on a deeper level. What does it all mean? After decades of clinical practice I don’t think I’ve ever worked with someone who wasn’t eventually able to turn their biggest health challenges into a vehicle for deep meaning and purpose. When we seek to discover the metaphysical backdrop, it becomes easier to impact our physical reality. If this feels impractical you may experiment with medical divination. This is something I use often in my private practice. We ask a question and consult the Iching. This could be done with tarot an a medical astrology reading that uses the date of onset or diagnosis as the birthdate.
Dr. Erica Matluck

26/10/2024

The Healing Path of the Throat Chakra: Integrating the Censored Self

How your words can heal all of us

The throat chakra is the first of the upper three chakras. Remember that in the upper chakras the separate self is dissolving and we are becoming one with the creator. Because there are 3 steps on this part of the ladder this dissolution of self is a process. At the throat chakra we are closer to a unified experience of self than and individualized one, but the separate self does not completely dissolve until we reach the crown. This is why the throat chakra is such an enjoyable place to work- because we can access ourselves as the creator, but we’re still pretty connected to the material world- so we see tangible results quickly.
Not only does this help us believe in magic and miracles but turns life and health into the best playground!

Discovering ourselves as the creator is one of the most empowering and life altering realizations we can have. It’s a tremendous privilege to have that much impact on others and the world around us. It’s also a heavy responsibility. With that said, becoming aware that we are all, G.O.D (the one that Generates, Organizes, and Destroys) is not always easy to hold. Even those of us who have confidently crossed the bridge of the heart chakra are not necessarily ready for the responsibility that accompanies that much power.

At the level of the throat chakra, we cannot create for individual gains because we are one intimately connected whole.

The teachers out there selling manifestation programs on instagram to seekers of wealth, status and material gains may not like hearing this, but while the throat chakra is the most effective instrument for manifestation, it cannot be powered by the wounds of the lower chakras. It will not create from fear, denial, vanity, perfectionism or insecurity.
The throat chakra is a magic wand that translates thought forms into the material world but it shuts down in the presence of greed.

The throat chakra transforms intention into impact through sound and vibration. Abracadabra! With my word I create. This is the motto of the throat chakra.

And just as the field of the heart extends far beyond the body, the boundaries of self at the level of the throat include anywhere your vibration can be heard or felt.

Understanding this is critical to holistic health because how we speak about our health, not only affects our health directly, but it impacts the practitioners we work with and the environments in which care is provided.

Through the lens of the throat chakra our vibrational impact is real, but it goes both ways- so as your vibration imprints other, they are also imprinting you. We are actually co-creating a shared reality together, so while we the throat chakra invites us to be very intentional about the words we speak, it also requires that we be very intentional about when we speak. Listening is as important to the throat chakra as speaking.

*This is where you turn the volume on your phone off, and protect yourself from the many vibratory imprints coming through that tiny device.

While most conventional healthcare providers may argue that the exam room is no place to discuss the throat chakra, Edgar Cayce said “The medicine of the future will be music and sound” and Albert Einstein stated “future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies”.
If you hear these statements and your imagination immediately goes to futuristic technology, vibrating sound beds and crystal sound bowls, I want to tell you what the future looks like in my exam room- because it’s actually much simpler than that.

I want to remind you that YOU are the greatest and most advanced medical technology on the planet and if the medicine of the future is sound, you do not need to look any farther than your throat chakra. Everything you need is already within you.

At the level of the threat chakra, even the creator can be wounded and the wound pattern associated with the throat is guilt. A wounded throat chakra feels guilty for having a voice with so much impact. It feels guilty for creating a beautiful life, a successful career, fulfilling relationships and vital health. A wounded throat chakra is burdened by the privilege and responsibility of the creator. If you’ve ever been in a situation where you’ve worked hard to create something really wonderful for yourself and you chose not to tell a friend or family member about your success because they’re not thriving and you don’t want to make them feel bad about themself, you know this wound. The guilt of the throat is heavy. It weighs us down so we can’t create with freedom and ease.

The wound of guilt either prevents us from creating the lives of our dreams or it holds us back from sharing it with others. But your guilt doesn’t just hold you back- it’s holds all of us back, because it’s when we share our successes, our triumphs, our magical experiences and positive manifestation results that we inspire all those around us to believe in magic and do the same. The throat chakra wants to create impact with integrity with ease, and to do that, we need to talk about it. We need to use our voices to demystify magic, expect miracles, and turn extraordinary phenomena into ordinary experiences. Through our voices, our vibrational imprint on others can become a viral form of inspiration. We all rise up.

But when guilt is at the the wheel, our creative potential is limited.

People have never come into my exam room saying they feel guilty for their creative gifts. They complain of thyroid issues because they’re using the thyroid gland to slow them down, to hold themselves back from living vital, creative lives. They’re using the thyroid gland to express guilt physiologically.
They complain of neck pain, acid reflux, feeling silenced or unseen. This is the guilt of the creator- we can’t hold our heads up high and allow the divine instructions to move through the upper chakras into our voice. It gets stuck in the esophagus or the larynx. We can’t sing our part of the beautiful chorus.

My clients complain of feeling resentful, overwhelmed, and exhausted from trying so hard but not getting anywhere.
They complain of feeling misunderstood.

The results don’t match their intention in health and in life. They want one thing and seem to be doing all the right things to get it but they’re getting something else. This is the archetypal pattern of a wounded throat chakra- and it has a profound impact on our physical vitality, our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves and our healing, our emotional wellbeing and our spiritual orientation to reality.

When we heal the throat chakra, rather than feeling guilty for our creative potential, we use our privilege to create for the betterment of all. We stop depriving ourselves of our dreams and living under the illusion that our successes are the direct cause of others' failure. We become aware that the mega-verse contains enough resources for all of us to thrive (maybe not all at the same time, but at the level of the throat chakra our orientation to time must expand).

When we heal the throat chakra our heart’s intention is translated into impact with the greatest precision.

Healing the throat chakra should not make you the loudest person in the room- nor should it make you into someone that everyone listens to all the time. Healing the throat chakra should refine your ability to discern when to speak, when to sing and when to listen, which words to use and which words to eliminate from your vocabulary, when to shout, when to whisper and when to be silent.

A healed throat chakra is the most potent musical instrument and when enough of us have healed the throat, we create a therapeutic symphony that can heal the world.

In the meantime, you can start exploring the creative potential of your throat chakra with your language. To experience the gifts of the throat chakra, we must be very intentional with our language. This is not always as easy as it sounds- especially when it comes to health- because our entire healthcare system is based on problems, diagnoses and treatments.

In other words, from the perspective of the throat chakra, the language with which we talk about our health is actually contributing to illness and disease.

If you want the throat chakra to support your health goals, your language must bring the future you want into the present. Present tense, declarative statements are very effective but sometimes we need a bit more nuance.
For example, If your intention is to feel vital and energized, it’s ideal to make statements like:
I am vital, I am healthy, I feel well, I have unlimited energy, etc.
But if you’re feeling fatigued and you go into a doctor’s appointment and make these statements, they won’t know how to help you. The trick is to workshop your language so that you can communicate truthfully while also using words that create the thing you want. So if you walk into the doctor’s office and declare “I am exhausted and I don’t think I’ll ever feel normal again” your language becomes an obstacle to your goals and the throat chakra uses those words to create a future state in which your are exhausted and don’t think you’ll ever feel normal again. But if you walk into the appointment and say, “I thrive when I feel vital and energetic so I am here today to get your help with that.”
This statement doesn’t get you there as quickly as “I am vital and energized” but it moves you in the direction you want to go while also communicating truthfully, that you need some help.
I recommend workshopping your language and creating a list of statements like this before any healthcare encounter so your words can support the therapeutic outcomes you want.
And at home, remember that every time you speak you are creating something so use your words thoughtfully. The throat chakra works best with language that is declarative, free of doubt, consistent and in the present moment, so practice that!
One of the reasons why mantra is such an important part of so many spiritual traditions is because the sounds we make have a direct impact on our wellbeing. When we chant mantra, the sound waves we create stimulate the sella tursica of the sphenoid bone- the seat of the pituitary gland. The vibration stimulates the pituitary to release stimulating hormones that trigger other endocrine glands of the body to release hormones that impact our physical, mental and emotional state. This is the therapeutic power of your voice! It’s real.
Dr. Erica Matluck

15/10/2024

The Healing Path of The Heart Chakra: Integrating the Armored Self

„Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” -Carl Jung

I want to take this statement a step farther and say that until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your health and you will call it illness or disease.
The chakra system is an invisible framework that allows us to understand how unconscious wounding (often from the past) can affect our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experiences of our present selves and reality, via the nervous and endocrine systems.
When these unconscious wound patterns express in our physical bodies, they become medical diagnoses. When they enter our minds, they drive self-sabotaging, or limiting thought patterns. When they inform our emotional experiences, we’re labeled by the DSM, and when they express spiritually our lives become the force of resistance that prevents us from experiencing ourselves as instruments of the divine- as perfectly imperfect parts of a mysteriously intelligent whole.
When it comes to the chakra system, the heart is especially unique. In fact, if I spent the rest of my life only writing about the heart chakra, I’d never run out of words. But as Rumi and Hafiz have demonstrated so perfectly, the only way to use language to describe the great mystery and unspeakable beauty of the heart, is through poetry.

The heart chakra is the bridge between the lower 3 chakras- the separate self, and the upper 3 chakras- the unified self, where my liberation is bound to yours and we are one with the creator.
The heart chakra is the bridge of all bridges, connecting heaven and earth, intuition and instinct, self and other, the personal and the transpersonal, the one who prays and the one who answers the prayers, the terrestrial and celestial worlds. The heart chakra is the bridge that allows us to be humans having spiritual experiences and spirits having human experiences at the same time. It represents the point on the journey to becoming whole where we must look back and reflect on whether we’re still operating from our wounding- and therefore unconsciously wounding others, or whether we’ve healed enough to create the lightness of being required to rise into the upper chakras in service to the whole.

To walk across the bridge of the heart, we have to have done enough healing to embody our work so fully that through our presence alone, we inspire others to heal.

In this image from the Egyptian book of the dead (below) we see the human heart being weighed against the feather of Ma’at, who represents truth, harmony and justice. It’s understood that if the heart is heavier than the feather, the soul of the deceased is condemned to non-existence and devoured by a ferocious beast. If the heart of the deceased is lighter than the feather of Ma’ at, the soul joins the eternal, celestial realms of the afterlife.

This image provides a great analogy when we’re climbing the ladder of the chakras. When we arrive at the heart chakra it is time to self reflect through the archetype of Ma’at- a pilar of truth and integrity. If we haven’t done the work of the lower chakras, and our intent is to rise into the upper chakras for power, greed and individual gains, our hearts are not lighter than the symbolic feather of Ma’ at. We must go back to the root chakra and begin the healing process. But if we’ve done the work of the lower chakras and we’ve healed enough that our hearts are as light as that feather we have enough integrity to rise into the upper chakras and begin to serve the divine for the betterment of all life on earth.
The heart chakra demands integrity. Without it, the bridge will collapse.
But that doesn’t mean the heart can’t be wounded. It is still a chakra, and the wound stems from an illusion that occurs when our self awareness is overly confined to the lower chakras. The illusion is that we are separate and therefor everything feels so personal. The heart chakra allows us to experience ourselves as both separate and One- it is the bridge- so it needs to be able to hold the tension of these paradoxical truths. We are separate AND we are not separate.

If that sounds confusing, rest assured the heart has its ways that the mind will never understand- it’s not supposed to make sense. This is why the heart turns writers into poets. But when the bridge of the heart is unable to hold the weight of the paradox, it is vulnerable to the most painful kind of wounding- heartbreak.

The primary wound of the heart is rejection. This isn’t limited to romantic rejection- it’s rejection from our parents, communities, job pursuits, and most importantly ourselves. Rejection is so painful, so heavy that often we sink back into the solar plexus and let the inner critic devour us. We use the relentless pursuit of self improvement to better ourselves and ensure that we’ll never be rejected again. But if we’ve done enough work in the solar plexus, rather, we’ll remain at the level of the heart and feel the heartbreak. The wound of rejection tells us to retract into ourselves, to isolate, to build armor around our vulnerable hearts so that we’ll never be rejected again. This feels safe, and it’s very effective, but it comes with a great cost. The armor is thick and impermeable to everything- so even love can no longer get in. We feel alone, isolated and unable to feel all the love around us, so the wound of rejection becomes infected and debilitating. This wound will push us and push us until we have no choice but to connect with others, to reach out for help and to allow ourselves to be cared for.

This is the great teaching of the heart- that we need each other. It will force us to connect. It will remind us that compassion is essential for our survival. It will show us that circulation of love is as necessary to the health of humanity as circulation of blood is to the health of a body. And in doing so it will crack us open and teach us how to receive love.

When the heart chakra is wounded, rather than recognizing rejection as a form of divine protection, we build our own walls of protection around ourselves- but we are an essential part of the whole, so when we retreat and self-isolate the collective circulation of love is impaired.

The anatomical heart reminds us that exchange is essential. It can’t continue to distribute fresh, oxygenated blood to the periphery of the body if it doesn’t receive an equal amount of deoxygenated blood back through the venous system. So if we respond to rejection by cutting ourselves off from the whole, or by giving more and more of ourselves in attempt to avoid further rejection, there is no exchange and dis-ease is inevitable. Giving must be balanced with receptivity.

In my private practice, clients don’t show up saying they’ve been rejected. They complain of circulatory issues, depression related to social isolation, chronic fatigue and exhaustion. They keep giving and giving and giving but they don’t know how to receive. Sooner or later this results in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual burnout.

The heart wants us to share our gifts with the world- it wants to serve and love. But when it’s wounded, withdrawn and overprotected, our gifts cannot overflow. There is a backup within and the resistance feeds pathology. Sometimes we experience this as high blood pressure, other times back pain or muscle tension. Mentally this can present as overactive thoughts or obsessive-compulsive tendencies. We can be emotionally guarded, or so grief-stricken with heartbreak that we just can’t recover.
Healing the heart chakra requires a whole new orientation to suffering. This is where suffering becomes grace- because we know that pain is a teacher of the shared human experience. It’s a compass that helps us find our way back to the whole. Without pain there is no compassion and compassion is the boundless fragrance of love.
Healing the heart means recognizing that we are all surrounded by the love of the divine. If you hear a bird singing, or feel a cool breeze on a warm day that is the Great Mother loving you. There is no deficit of love for each one of us. But the work of the heart chakra is to LET IT IN. We don’t need new partners, acceptance from lovers, or acknowledgement from our parents to receive love. We need to open up to toward the upper chakras- toward the creator and learn to receive the love all around us.
The heart is an alchemist within all of us, where pain is the base metal that it turns into love. A healed heart chakra does not shy away from pain. It uses it to connect to the human experience, to generate love and compassion for others, and to appreciate the great mystery for continuing to guide us toward love, no matter how challenging the terrain may be.
Dr. Erica Matluck

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