The art of healing
My promise
More than 7 years ago I was trained as a chemist in pharmacy & drug discovery. Yessss, I am a true nerd, loving to get to the bottom of things. So that’s what I did. Because ever since I was a young girl I have been fascinated by healing. My dad got ill when I was very young
& I made a promise, to help people, like him, heal. Back then I did not know the ‘route’, I only knew the promise in my heart. And after that heartfelt moment. I let it go. It wasn’t on top of my mind when going through high school and later university. Yet coincidentally (spoiler, that does not exist;)) I ended up with a master’s degree in drug discovery with thorough knowledge about the biochemical ‘deficiencies’ or anomalies that occur with certain ‘diseases’. I learned about the western view on how to cure these, how to design organic chemical compounds that could be used to target these deficiencies. Although I am fascinated by biochemistry, how our bodies ‘work’, (I can talk hours about how marvellous and intricately intelligent our body is), I just wasn’t convinced about the certainty with which medicines were proposed. To me it was obvious, that next to all we did know about the body, there was so much more we just didn’t know. Often the ‘cure’ was just a cover up for the symptoms. And often the ‘medicine’ had-far reaching effects on other systems too. It just did not ring like true healing to my ears. Especially not in hindsight, with all I know about healing now. Neither was it my passion to be locked in a lab 9-5…
Living fully
I wanted to live, fully. So I often jumped into the unknown. A bike ride from North to South New Zealand with just me, my bike and tent at 24? YESS WHY NOT? Learning to ride a motorbike at a petrol station in South India, to one day later go on a tour? YESS WHY NOT? And all the while people looked at me and asked, aren’t you scared? Shouldn’t you choose the safer option? Shouldn’t you get a stable job, house & follow the beaten path? Nope… I never did, I always chose adventure. Because to me there is no greater feeling than the feeling of adventure, of feeling utterly alive. For me that is being outside, feel the elements, cry my eyes out and laugh until my belly hurts, study life, I thoroughly enjoyed learning about our bodies, I enjoyed to marvel at life’s wonder. It’s the same feeling when I look at my daughter discover the world with wonder. What is it for you?
Energy & healing
But after all these adventures in faraway lands, it was also time for me to come home. Home to myself, home to my feelings. Taking in knowledge & analysing was no problem, but feeling my own feelings? That’s something I had to learn. It’s not that I couldn’t feel. It would often be that I could feel so much it would overwhelm me. I just didn’t know what to do with it. So I started to learn how to feel myself. Yoga helped me, Reiki helped me. & with every layer of feeling myself more, I started to feel others more. I started to feel energy. If you would have told scientific me about feeling energy through my body or hands: I would have laughed & asked, and where is the prove of that? Yet because I could feel it myself, there was no way that my mind could deny its existence.
It opened up a path of healing that was beyond the physical & yet it had profound effects on my physical body too. I started to learn about the dance of energy & the physical, the emotional, the spiritual. I started to learn how connected they are, how when we change one, we change the other. And how physical symptoms could be healed when taking all layers into account. And after a lot of learning, feeling, healing. I poured all my experience in my practice in Amsterdam where I have guided many people in their healing.
My work & vision
I am stil learning, still studying, still fascinated. Still jumping into new adventures: I moved to Portugal in April with my newlywed husband, after giving birth to our baby girl. Living our dream on our land, one where we live close to nature. One where we live together. One where we heal with the land.
So yes, I did become to do what I promised myself when I was 7 years old. I do help people like my dad, heal. Just not in the way I thought I would. I work with nature, I work with spirits, I work with energy, I work with plants, not the hallucinogen ones, just the house, garden and kitchen herbs you find right at your doorstep. I work with food, with diet, with patterns, with trauma, with consciousness.
& Yes, I work with your molecules, with your cells, with your biochemistry, in all ways possible, but not in the manufactured way. I turn to plants, to diet, energy & emotions. It’s not in the way we learn in science and school. Not the logical route, but the route that is felt in the soul. The route that brings true healing, true remembering.
I am a holistic energetic therapist working on healing with all that is right at our feet. & that might seem hocus-pocus, but it truly is more scientific than one might think.
I am happy to chat about it if you have any question. & If you feel the call to heal: come visit our land, reach out.
Big hug, Lisa
Lisa Augustijn
education
2023-2024 - Basic medical knowledge, healing space, Bussum, Netherlands nd
2017-2019 – Msc. Drug Discovery and Safety, Vrije Universiteit
2012-2016 – Bsc. Bèta- Gamma, Major in Chemistry, University of Amsterdam
2013 – Foundation year Psychology, University of Amsterdam
2025 - Psychic school 1&2, Not Your Average Psychic
2021-2024 – Reiki 1&2, Reiki therapist & Reiki master, healing space, Bussum, Nederland
2020-2025 – Ashtanga Vinyasa RYT 900+hr, Level 1&2 (level 3 in progress) Indea Yoga teacher, Mysore, India
2022 – Energetic massage beginner & advanced, healing space, Bussum, Netherlands
