Listening to the Body: A Journey Through Energy, Stillness, and Healing
By Lucja Maslowska
This month’s Wellness Expert is Lucja Maslowska, born and raised in Poland, where she earned her first Master’s degree in Education. At the age of 24, she relocated to New York City, USA living there for a decade. During this time, she studied Massage Therapy and Chinese Medicine, developing a profound understanding of holistic healing practices.
Now based in London, UK for over a decade, Lucja further expanded her education by earning a second Master’s degree in Nutrition. There, she also worked at some of the country’s leading spas, becoming a respected practitioner in the wellness field. Her passion for deepening her expertise led her to India in 2018, where she became certified as a Meditation Specialist.
Since 2021, Lucja has been traveling to wellness retreats around the world, offering an integrative approach of massage therapy, nutritional counselling, and meditation. Through her diverse background and hands-on experience, she supports clients in their own wellbeing journey in achieving balance, vitality, and a higher quality of life.
In this edition of the Wellness Expert Series, Lucja shares with GOCO her reflection and insights on Listening to the Body: A Journey Through Energy, Stillness, and Healing.
Lucja Maslowska, founder of My Separate World Ltd.
The Body as Energy: What Does It Mean to “Listen”?
“In many holistic practices, the human body is seen as a living field of energy. Through years of hands-on therapy working with people around the world, I have learned to listen to the body’s energy flow to recognized the subtle body messages, manifesting as emotional or physical tensions and imbalances, which presents as physical pain or discomfort. Learning to tune into this energetic language is one of the most transformative aspects of bodywork, and it is best guided by strong anatomical knowledge, intuition and mindful approach.
When placing my hands on the body, I feel and recognize the patterns of restrictions or imbalances in the body. It is through the somatic intuition, paired with deep anatomical knowledge, that I help release stagnant energy or the emotional and energetic build-up that can affect posture, mobility, and our mood.
When placing my hands on the body, I feel and recognize the patterns of restrictions or imbalances in the body.
Posture, Pain, and the Nervous System
Modern lifestyles often create imbalances in the musculoskeletal system. Poor posture and repetitive activities lead to the overuse of certain muscles and the underuse of others. These imbalances can place stress on the body, restricting movement and increasing the probability of pain and fatigue.
When posture is compromised, the energy flow is too. Chronic tension can trap emotions in the body, and physical pain can become a manifestation of unexpressed emotional states. My energy work treatments intentions are to correct these patterns by opening the energy pathways in the body to help release unprocessed emotion, the stagnant energy at the root of physical aches and pains. By eliminating those blockages, stress and tightness in the body are released, allowing the natural free flow of energy to return. Such treatment aims to stimulate the body to heal within, to especially restore and relax the nervous system which controls every aspect of our health.
The Power of Integrative Healing
Rather than relying on a single method, I create personalised treatments by combining massage therapy, breathwork, nutritional guidance, guided by intuition energy. This integrative approach acknowledges that wellbeing is multi-dimensional. Physical tension, poor nutrition, and emotional stress are often interconnected, and treating them in isolation limits long-term results.
With this whole but individual approach, I am dedicated to support every person I have an opportunity to meet in restoring their own body, mind, breath equilibrium and connecting their source of energy within their body, which then lead to a spiritual mind, and body growth.
By quieting the busy, often overpowering mind, by awakening stillness within her patients she opens up a deep connection within.
Spiritual Growth Through the Body
I firmly believe that the body is a powerful gateway to our spiritual development. By reconnecting with our internal energy, we are open to experience inner stillness and transformation, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. My purpose is to help people connect and understand this deeper level and power of body, mind and breath connection and awareness through gentle yet profound wellbeing interventions.”
Over the years, Lucja has built a loyal international clientele and partnered with leading names in the wellness hospitality industry. In 2009, she established her own company, My Separate World Ltd. – a name inspired by her clients, who described their sessions as transporting them to a physical, mental and emotional space far removed from their everyday.
Lucja’s story is a powerful reminder that healing is not about a solution that is achieved rapidly with a temporary result, but it is about investing in your health by recalibrating, rebalancing a whole-body system. Through her therapeutic touch, breath guiding techniques, or food advice, her work purpose is to reawaken awareness deep-seated in people’s heart. By quieting the busy, often overpowering mind, by awakening stillness within her patients she opens up a deep connection within – for them to understands their own body, mind and thus reconnect with the authentic, healthy versions of who they truly are.
In a fast-paced world that often prioritises the quick solutions, her work invites the most simple yet remarkable approach: one of listening, attuning, of achieving stillness within which guide you back to return to your wholeness.
