Today we’d like to introduce you to Erika Kluthe.
Hi Erika, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My story started with a great deal of darkness & pain. Inside of that place, something opened. Something opened after seeking help for great mental/emotional strife & addictive behaviors that followed. What first helped were recovery/12-step programs, help with debilitating anxiety & therapy. Once that foundation was established, I was still unable to move forward out of a longstanding feeling of personal pain & hopelessness. My willingness to get to a yoga class lit something previously squelched. Close to a decade & a half ago, yoga practice began to shift me in surprising ways. A bright fire developed where there previously, for many years, had been none. After falling in love with the practice, I dedicated nearly all my time. After two-plus years as a disciplined student, I trained in several programs, began full-time teaching even before I had completed my first certification, and dove into spiritual studies. Now, I have had a relationship with what I will call “spirit’ since I was but a little thing. Still, I was undisciplined, preferring to live like a raw, wild artist. My primary art was then writing. I had even had unexplainable “burning bush” experiences outside of what most perceive as reality, which confirmed more so my knowing that this is, in fact, a spiritual/energetic universe. Still, my lack of discipline kept me in the wild. My intense passion for studying & teaching yoga led me to further depths of study and practice in multiple wisdom traditions & energy practices. I am currently completing three degrees in Integrative Medicine based on Quantum Physics. I have been teaching for over a decade, have taught all over the world & love it now more than ever. I also continue to hone my skills as a wellness practitioner & gain tremendous satisfaction from my work with individuals.
We all face challenges, but looking back, would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
The first 30 years of my life were not smooth. Not at all. They were painful, confusing, and rife with almost impossibly intense emotion & addiction. Difficult experiences with these addictions & all that resulted were but a part. I also watched my father die a very, very sad death when he was 47. I was 13. My mother became more robotic and emotionally detached. As a sensitive kid, I entangled with her and did everything I could do to make her life less terrible, but at the same time, I was ignoring my own needs and truths. This all but destroyed me.
Thanks for sharing that. You could tell us more about your business.
Mine is a “holistic” wellness practice. I often see that term used, but I rarely find practitioners who attend to all of the essential layers of me/us. All rules change at the quantum level (the sub-atomic). Modern Science knows this & has found that what we refer to as “spirit,” “metaphysical,” or “mystical” is, in fact, the feminine language for what the grandmother science of Quantum Physics is telling us in the masculine. As a favorite professor, Dr. Joe Dispenza likes to say: “Science is the contemporary language of mysticism.” I have known this inherently for a lifetime. Though over the last many years, formal study & practice. Quantum Physics’ concept of “Downward Causation” shows us that before disease develops in the body, it passes through the emotional layer, then the mental, next the supra (meaning above or beyond) mental, and before that (the engine on the train) the bliss or unified layer. I like to refer to these last layers as the soul-spirit complex. This is where the laws that govern our very beings exist. If we are aware of and live by these laws, we will remain in our natural state of ease. If we remain unconscious and live contrary to these laws, we shift into disease.
I don’t intend this to sound so black and white, but laws are laws. Obey gravity, and you get a particular result. Disobey it and jump from the balcony, and you get a different result. This is a law-based universe, period. I have an uncanny understanding of these laws; education in the spiritual traditions and sciences has only solidified this. And as a creative writer for over two decades, I have the gift of communicating in metaphor so that some of these less familiar ideas land. I’m also blessed to be studying with some of the world’s most beloved scientists and doctors who may as well be called miracle workers.
In short, when I work with you, we focus on who you are at every conceivable level. We can live our truth when we become more familiar with who we are, beyond all of the false or conditioned layers. And for all of the wise folks who have said over the years: “The body does not lie,” bless you, and to that, I would like to add: “The bodies (our essential layers) do not lie.” When they do, they take issue. When they do not, they do not. I’ll end with two of my favorite short “spiritual tropes:” Know ThySelf.” And, “To thine own Self be true.”
Can you talk to us about the role of luck?
I do not use the word luck, but rather Creative Intelligence. Creative intelligence has guided me for over four decades at the prodding of both “light and dark” forces/life circumstances. Both work to my benefit, as long as I have the eyes to see that.
Contact Info:
- Website: erikakluthe.com
- Instagram: @erikakluthe
- Facebook: @erikakluthe
- Other: @erikakluthe (TikTok)
