The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 26 - July 1, 2021
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Professionals.....................13
Classifieds............................6
Crossword/Sudoku.............6
Entertainment......................5
Food.....................................10
Legals......................... 4,11,12
Pets......................................14
Police Reports.....................3
Real Estate.....................7-10
Sports.............................. 3,15
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Officer Drohan Receives MADD
Award for Top Arresting Officer
Officer Michael Drohan was recognized by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) as the top arresting officer in El Segundo. In the past year, Officer Drohan made 16 arrests for driving under the influence.
Each DUI arrest is a possible live saved. Congratulations and thank you Officer Drohan for keeping our roads safe from drunk drivers. Photo courtesy El Segundo Police Department.
Bryan Grijalva Heals the Spirit
By Kiersten Vannest
“We have three bodies,” says Bryan Grijalva,
a healer located in El Segundo. The bodies
he describes are the physical, the emotional,
and the spiritual. Bryan, in particular, works
to heal and strengthen the spiritual body.
“Think of an apple. When you see an apple,
the skin is the physical body. You can see
bruises, abrasions, broken arms, bleeding,”
he says. The physical body is most often
attributed to western medicine, able to be
treated in hospitals by medical doctors.
“When we look a little bit deeper into the
apple, the meat of it, that’s the emotional
body.” This body is best served by psychologists,
Bryan Grijalva, owner and operator of Sacred Circle.
First-Year El Segundo-Based Pro
Rugby Team Takes the League by Storm
By Duane Plank
I was fortunate to receive a tip from
a gentleman I had profiled recently in
the Herald, who brought to my attention
that a new professional sports team,
launching their inaugural season, was
headquartered in and practiced in our
fine city. Who knew?
Well, here is your introduction to the
Los Angeles Giltinis (anyone knows what
a Giltini is?), first-year members of the
growing Major League Rugby enterprise,
who are taking the league by storm, sitting,
at the time of this submission, at
the top of the league “table,” and likely
heading to the upcoming playoffs. Which
for Americans means that they are in first
place in the standings.
Full disclosure: I am a total rugby novice,
trying to learn as much as possible about
this great sport. So, if I bollocks up some
of the nomenclature, positions, or terms,
please accept, in advance, my apologies.
The Giltini’s players who I interviewed
said, “no worry, mate!”
Longtime Herald readers may remember
the wildly popular Frankly Plank column
that debuted more than a decade ago,
and dabbled in sports “hot-takes,” and
occasionally veered into other subjects.
But I will admit, I never wrote about
the great sport of rugby, which has been
around the planet for, it seems, nearly 200
years. I believe I have a couple of somewhat
distant relatives who matriculated
psychiatrists, and therapists. Emotional
trauma may be healed through these methods
or fortified. “But then, there’s the issue of
the spiritual body, which would be like the
seeds of the apple… that’s where I specialize,”
says Grijalva. Your spiritual body, as
he describes it, can have blockages that can
manifest in mental or physical health issues.
His job is to find those blockages and help
facilitate healing from the innermost body.
How can these three bodies coexist, or can
they? Grijalva says absolutely. “It’s never ‘in
lieu of,’ it’s always ‘in conjunction with,” he
says, positing that spiritual healing is just the
third piece of effective healing. According
to him, the connection between the three
(physical health, mental health, and spiritual
health) is important and can produce some
amazing changes.
Grijalva himself is certified and practices
over two dozen healing modalities. This
ranges from simply talking to a client, to
analyzing chakra charts, to exercising reiki
to free up blockages and increase chi flow.
Grijalva explains that we all have an essence
of energy and life that flows through
all of our bodies for those who don’t know
what any of that means. This is the chi
flow. Sometimes we have traumas, physical,
emotional, or spiritual, resulting in illnesses,
struggles, or just generally feeling “off.”
Chakras, he explains, are essentially different
energy centers in your body that correlate to
certain nerve bundles and organs. Healthy
chakras are open and balanced. Reiki is
a type of massage in which the massage
therapist doesn’t actually touch the client,
but channels energy through themselves and
into the client. Clients report feeling warm or
sometimes slight pressure when undergoing
energy healing.
Despite his passion and experience, Grijalva
was not always a spiritual healer. “I actually
used to own an auto shop, and I was quite
See Bryan Grijalva, page 4
See Pro Rugby, page 13
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