March 18th 2026- I met up with Andia in Arcata, CA at her studio for an Energy Healing. I had a wonderful experience. I’ll post my experience below along with my intentions! Here is Andia’s interview about her intuitive energy-healing practice, Teachings of the Earth.

Natascha: All right, thank you for tuning in to the little Lost Forest blog. Today I’m sitting here with Andrea in her studio in Arcata. I just had a healing session. This is my first session of this kind. Andia, how are you doing today?

Andia: I’m good. How are you?

Natascha: I’m great. Thank you so much for giving me this offering. What brought you to ask me to come here today?

Andia: Well, I know we talked a long time ago about doing an energy healing session, and I needed to get my window fixed because it was leaking. I’m just getting back into energy healing and wanting to lean into that more, build more clientele, and just practice more. You’re definitely one of the first people I thought of because you’re one of my good friends, and also because we had talked about that. I just wanted to circle back and share this with you.

Natascha: I had a really amazing experience, which I’ll share in the blog post after the interview. What is energy healing?

Andia: Energy healing is. It’s, I would explain it like we all have an energetic body. There is energy that exists, you know, like there’s a type of energy healing called Reiki or that there’s Qi and there’s different things that we call this energy. And it’s a healing frequency that we’re all connected to. Anyone could have the ability to channel it. It’s like setting the intention for this energy to facilitate healing and cleansing, stagnant energy, transmuting the energy into whatever we want to create, into whatever healing we’re calling in. And basically, I would say it’s when a person has received attunements to be able to channel energy healing, they are able to channel natural healing energy that exists through them. They’re just a channel, you know, they’re not exactly doing anything. They’re channeling it. But the energy is what’s coming through, and it’s a healing energy that knows where to go and just exists in this reality.

Natascha: Where is that energy source from?

Andia: I think it’s just the existence, like I personally believe in a spirit world. I believe we’re in the physical realm and that a spirit world exists simultaneously with us. And I believe that energy healing is coming from there.

Natascha: What keeps the positive energy and not the negative energy?

Andia: It’s all intention. It’s like every time you give energy healing, you set the space before. I always ground myself to the earth, cleanse my energy of what no longer serves me, what I don’t want to be sharing or transmuting, just letting that go. And then I always put a bubble of protection of energetic light around me. When I’m going into  channel the energy healing for someone– First I talk with them, and check with them, what their intentions are, and what they want to get out of it. Then I can set intentions. And for me, I set, you know, positive, loving, healing intentions and use that energy in a good way, and then also go off what the person says about what their intentions are and calling that in as well.

Natascha: Super cool. What brought you to this kind of healing?

Andia: It was like 11 years ago. It was just a deep calling for me. It’s really interesting because I, I don’t know, it’s like that kind of feeling, like I kept going to festivals and transformational festivals and just finding different healers. And I kept connecting to different energy healers.

And it was this, really deep calling, like, I might as well not exist if I don’t become a healer.

It was just so strong. I need to do this, and also, just my family lineage on my mom’s side comes from healers, and my grandpa did energy work, like in his older years, and just different ancestors of mine on that side have. So I felt very deeply connected to it because, I mean, I was taught to meditate and do energy. I received energy healing and was taught to meditate when I was little. And so yeah, about 11 years ago, I don’t know what year that would be, 2015, I really felt called to that. And then someone gave me my first energy healing session. And I just remember I felt this blockage or this weird energy in my left shoulder while they were doing it. And at the end I was asking them what their experience was, without telling them what mine was.

Andia: And they were saying, um, yeah, you know, everything was really good, except there was this blockage in your left shoulder and I was just like, whoa, like, so mind blown because I felt that. And then at that time, I started leaning into learning how to receive energy, which brought me to Reiki initially. I got my first attunement from someone. And then I was trying to find someone to teach me my second attunement. And I met this woman, Victoria Luna, whom I wanted to get another attunement from. And she was like, ” Oh, actually, I meditated on it, and I wanted to take you from your first attunement all the way through your Reiki mastership. So she taught me everything that I know, but she did an interesting way because she taught me traditional Usui Reiki, but she also taught me to really lean into my intuition and just do it in a different way.

And now I no longer practice Reiki because for me, it’s a more intuitive practice— that’s deeply connected with the earth, that’s what I do now.

Natascha: If you don’t mind me asking, what is your lineage heritage?

Andia: Like my ethnicity.

Natascha: The culture that your family came from.

Andia: On my mom’s side, it’s, it’s interesting. They’re all from Mexico, but a lot of them came from Europe before that. Then they lived for hundreds and hundreds of years in Mexico. So they are blond-haired, blue-eyed Mexicans. So I have a lot of French, Italian, German and Polish. And then, I do have some indigenous Mexican in me, indigenous from Mexico. Then on my dad’s side, I’m Ashkenazi Jewish. So it’s 50% of my lineage. Yeah.

Natascha: It’s so interesting. I do not come from a lineage of healers. I come from a lineage of war vets and journalists. So that’s why I was just interested in where they draw their form of healing from culturally. That’s beautiful, thank you for sharing. Anything else that you want to share? Maybe, how could people find you if they’re interested in a session?

Andia: Yeah, definitely. I’m getting my website up and running right now, and my business is called Teachings of the Earth. So when that’s ready, it’ll be Teachings of the Earth. But right now, you can find me on my Linktree. It’s Teachings of the Earth just following the Linktree. Yeah. Awesome.

Natascha: I’ll tag that. And after a session, what can somebody expect to come out of it with?

Andia: I would say it depends on what your intentions are, but most of the time I find people are very much relaxed, and that a lot of processing is going to continue happening. So I always tell people, make sure you rest and drink a lot of water. But I think what you come out of it really depends on your intentions. Like, obviously, people are coming for healing. So I would say like that continues to unfold and things continue to deepen, but it just really for specifics, I think it depends where you put your energy into.

Natascha: Awesome. Well, thank you so much for your time.

Andia: Thank you.

Teachings of the Earth offered me a two-hour energy-healing session. It was my first time, and I received incredible benefits from it. I set clear intentions and spoke them aloud. While I was on the table, I could feel where the energy was being exchanged as she moved around my body. There was no doubt that energy is a quantifiable source and that the practitioner could channel it. Toward the middle of the session, I felt myself wanting to transcend, lifting inches beyond my physical realm. I had thoughts of my first love, of giving birth, and of my father’s influence on me. After the session, I felt relaxed and rejuvenated. We discussed my experience, and she shared that much of the healing energy had been focused on the womb. We also talked about how the energy process works. Afterwards, I rested and drank lots of water. Thank you so much for this experience, and I can’t wait to do it again!

My Intentions:

Make Room to become the author and writer I always dreamed of.

Secure a positive dynamic with my husband.

Be an uplifting and child-first mom

Not to offer unsolicited advice, but to hold boundaries and be mindful of community and world struggles.

Live Healthy

Do what’s right.

Honor my ancestors.