Today we’d like to introduce you to Ryan Encinas.
Hi Ryan, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, you could tell our readers some of your backstory.
I’m an only child, born to very young parents who separated before I was old enough to remember. I grew up around many adults and traveled back and forth from Houston to Los Angeles. Being around so many adults was isolating, yet observing others’ feelings and intentions was powerful, paving the way for a deep, empathic understanding of others. I’ve always wanted to help others and have always been an athlete fascinated by biology, nature, space, and science. I started going to school for physical therapy, then realized I wanted to do more, so I ended up in nursing. My first job was in surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Research Center in Houston. I learned how to scrub, assist, and participate in every kind of surgery except for cardiac surgery. I moved to Austin and got heavily involved in spine and orthopedics and pediatric care for GYNO, ENT, plastics, urology, and general surgeries. Collaborating care with the surgeons, I learned how these patients got here, their perspectives, and their recovery, working with PT.
I stepped into beach volleyball when I moved here and became decent, able to hang with semi-pros and travel for tournaments. The entire time, I was always reading about biology and psychology. My girlfriend, growing up in college, ended up at Nopa, a Buddha space school for therapists. It was amazing to participate in the studies, and all my extracurricular activities were centered on athletics. I began diving into nutrition, recovery, physical therapy, and training. I got frustrated when I started hearing opposing views on things like protein, eating meat versus plants, or when someone couldn’t explain what an oxidant was. So, I got training to explain to people exactly what’s going on with their health. Learning that antioxidants on the subatomic level are donating electrons and so much more about how to correct mineral imbalances andand how that affects our minds, emotions, and ability to manage stress. I’ve been in therapy several times to learn how to cope with my own self-limiting beliefs and maladaptive coping mechanisms. I now have the knowledge and understanding of the history of medicine, Big Pharma, agriculture, and the oil industry and how they all synergistically work together for, shall we say, suboptimal health with a focus on treatment, not prevention.
As conversations about health come up often, I can offer perspectives that would help people make more informed decisions. For many years, I helped colleagues, even my surgeons, friends, and anyone I talked with. In my mid-30s, I got back into therapy with the assistance of plant medicine, assessing my beliefs and tracking some of my patterns. I came to a point where I was at peace with everyone who had hurt me and everyone I had hurt. There’s always more work to do, but I finally obtained a new level of self-love, radical ownership, and peace. It was time to get out of the healthcare system that I’ve been working in for over 15 years, including roles as surgical director and in medical spine sales, to help people in a better way – to prevent them from being patient, focusing on education and access to modalities of care that resonate with a patient or client.
Everyone’s healing journey is unique, and our ability to manage stress and our belief system directly impacts our physical and mental health. We live in a time starving for authenticity, so much so that sensationalism reigns supreme. Anyone who can speak passionately, in-depth, and well-articulated catches the eye of many. Time and time again, this sensationalized, heavily marketed information becomes mainstream, though mainstream is consumerism, where everyone wants your money or tells you the treatment. We’ve landed in a very, in my opinion, loveless time where the pursuit of helping others with compassion has long been lost.
To understand that medicine used to be practiced differently, your mental and emotional stress, what you consumed, and your beliefs used to be taken into account. Now, we’ve separated into so many specialties, and I’m grateful that we have them because they allow us to look in depth at certain aspects of the human mind and body. Yet every human is a self-contained ecosystem and part of the ecosystem of humanity and Earth. The fallacy of modern medicine is that we look at one gene, protein, and symptom and create a chemical that resembles an extract from nature. Our water supply is a chemical soup, and 70% of the food at the grocery store is ultra-processed, which usually means chemical calories in which Big Pharma owns the patents for food products. We see the explosion of chronic symptoms and disease in younger and younger demographics and children, so my mission is uphill, to say the least, to navigate sensationalized gurus in a society where our laws are lobbied, but so is our science to understand scientific and medical jargon I’m lucky enough to speak those languages so I hear someone saying that plants are trying to kill you or that is toxic it couldn’t be further from the truth. Everyone’s healing stories differ, and our beliefs and even our jeans play a significant role. Over the years in Austin, Texas, we developed a network of trusted practitioners who are on the same page; they are out there to help people, but that’s not enough. I can help a few people at a time, but how do I help more people? I’m currently working on software to provide education and access so people can find practitioners, modalities, and services around them and help explain these different modalities to people. My partner and I developed Holistic Hub as a theme page for all things Health on Instagram and Facebook in developing a program holistic shift as an acronym for stress, harmonizing insights for transformation, or in the stress can be mental, physical cellular, and metabolic function in your belief system we’ve combined yoga, physical therapy and gymnastics, calisthenics to help people of any age and athletic ability learn to move their body in new ways to obtain greater levels of strength and mobility, moving every joint through its complete range of motion, leveraging bodyweight to build strength and flexibility. Simultaneously, my network includes shamans and surgeons, energy healers, cranial sacral massage therapists, peptide specialists, genetic specialists, traditional Chinese medicine, herbalists, and many more. It’s time to the way we help others heal and provide education, access, support, and community, leading with love and compassion. Food, nature, and mindset are the medicine.
Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned? Looking back, has it been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Smooth is not a word I would use, haha. Some days are “What the hell am I doing?” and others are “This is amazing; I’m never going back.” The most significant struggle was getting out of my way and believing I was capable. There needs to be a roadmap in entrepreneurship, especially when creating a system or a way of helping people that isn’t traditional. The struggle to get my word out and find clients is very much real, as is building foundational software so individuals can see the offers. But beyond that, everyone’s got their own opinion. For example, we have over 90% of the population with potassium deficiency, and only 5% of the population truly understands the impact that can have on their health, hormones, and mental stress. So, education and visibility are massive struggles. Beyond that, all of the societal programming and conditioning for quick-fix Band-Aids, medication, diet trends, and the culture of sensationalism perpetuate a divide where everyone wants to be correct, making many people wrong. To be a good scientist or philosopher, you have to understand what the other possibilities or the other side of the argument is saying and truly understand it. And, of course, transitioning from a nursing salary to building out a business is a whole other struggle.”
Let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
What makes how I help people different is that I don’t want anyone to be a long-term patient or client. I want to empower people to make better-informed health decisions, learn how to cope and manage societal, mental, and emotional stress, and help them navigate discipline for these lifestyle changes. I specialize in health plans, simple from a holistic standpoint, and that is treating the body as an ecosystem where your mindset, genes, and the fuel you consume all affect your health. I’m known for meeting a person where they’re at. I might know five different ways to treat an elbow injury, but which resonates with them the most? While explaining a comprehensive view of health, we could waste your money with some lab tests. But many of those lab values can change in hours or days, and no science or health decision should be made based on lab values from one set of data points. Also, I explain how your stress severely impacts lab values and that a serum or blood lab is only one picture. You can also measure ratios of minerals in hair, saliva, urine, stool, and even biopsies, all illustrating a more complete picture of different body systems. Let’s not forget genetics. What sets me apart from typical practitioners, coaches, and consultants is my working knowledge of all these disciplines and how they work together. That is what I’m known for: I’m someone who questions how things work, an inquisitive individual, and a big heart who believes we all deserve love and good health.
Please talk to us about happiness and what makes you happy.
Things that make me happy, in no particular order, include:
- Helping others
- Being out in nature
- Enjoying the sunshine
- Having many plants inside my home
- Embracing vulnerability and radical ownership
The more I understand myself and acknowledge difficult things, the greater my capacity for others. I also love to dance. I grew up breakdancing, and even though I can’t do that anymore without hurting myself, I still love to express myself and get down with my body. Having a four-legged friend of any kind to give love to is something I enjoy. I enjoy painting perspectives for others to help them with their health. Hugs, I love hugs. I should also mention learning, especially when science proves ancient or lineage knowledge. I’m a huge anime nerd; I love to escape from the harshness of the world’s realities with an artistic touch and concepts that make me think or feel deeply. Art and music, with their wide variety, are also passions of mine.
Pricing:
- Free Discovery Call
- Receive a comprehensive $500 custom health protocol, including a detailed e-guide full of informational references, resources, and a tailored plan overview. This package also offers ongoing support with several follow-up calls over two months and direct text access for any clarifications or stress management guidance tailored to your needs.
- $1000 month: weekly 1 hr calls for protocol support
- $2000 month: Protocol + in person biweekly training- Somatic Strength & Mobility
- 3-6-9 month pricing available, Somatic Strength & Mobility program and follow-ups $500
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_holistic_hub?utm_source=qr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088374433221&mibextid=LQQJ4d
