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Bozena Robertson wants people to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.
Bozena Robertson of Fort Smith owns and operates Dancing Spirits, a business which offers a variety of healing therapies. She demonstrated Thai massage at the Fort Smith Trade Show on April 27. - Paul Bickford/NNSL photo |
To do that, the Fort Smith woman offers her healing services through Dancing Spirits, a business she launched in September of last year.
Among other things, she offers massage, crystal healing and Reiki therapy, which is a Japanese technique involving healing through the use of hands.
"I enjoy talking to other people and helping them find the true essence of who they are," Robertson said. "That's really what it is. It's like we all have different stories, we are at different points in our lives. At some point, you kind of wake up and you're not happy. You maybe have all this material stuff, but you may be stuck in a wrong relationship or you're sick or something is not working, and you question yourself."
She said she's here to help people find their way and get in touch with themselves.
She also gives people the tools to meditate, to eat properly, to take care of their bodies and their spirits, and to just enjoy the little things in life.
Robertson, originally from Slovenia, has lived in Fort Smith since 2010. Back then, she was visiting friends in southern Canada and happened to travel to Fort Smith to see the South Slave Friendship Festival and to speak to elder women about birthing.
She said destiny may have brought her to Fort Smith, noting she met her husband, Doug, in the community.
Robertson is a trained healer, having learned techniques from a Reiki master, taken massage courses in Slovenia and trained as a doula. Even though she now works as a healer, Robertson has a university degree in economics.
Through Dancing Spirits, Robertson offers her massage therapy.
"It's the whole therapy," she said. "It's working on your muscles with oil, plus the energy part. So it's a healing therapy that goes on your physical body and it cleans the emotions, the mental and the spiritual."
In particular, she offers Thai massage, which is an ancient healing therapy dating back 2,500 years to its origins in India. She said the therapy works through stretching, pulling and pushing the body.
"It's a combination of yoga movements, acupressure points along the energy lines of the body and kind of like meditation."
Robertson also uses crystals for healing. She said each crystal has a vibration and a colour, which she lays on the person. Robertson is a Reiki master as well, explaining it is energy healing through the laying of hands on or just above a person's body.
"It goes through me. It comes from the universe, the source," she said. "When you have Reiki, you're open to the channel and it just flows through you into the body. It's not using my energy. It's just the energy that comes through me from the universe."
She said she can help people with issues such as back problems and tense muscles, but can also help on a much deeper level to deal with the emotions and old hurts or resentments that people keep locked up inside.
Robertson is also a doula, helping support women through the pregnancy and birth process.
"You're trained to help to guide the woman through her birth experience and it's non-medical," she said. "It's just emotional, physical and informational support."
Robertson credits her late Aunt Ana with starting her on the journey as a healer and telling her that there's more than the physical world that we see.
"She was healing people through her life. She used crystals, too. She passed on her knowledge to me about the healing, about the energy world, about the things that are here but you don't see them behind the veil," Robertson said.
