The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 70, No. 26 - July 1, 2021
YouTube Theater Comes to Inglewood
We’re excited to officially announce - the Performance Venue at Hollywood Park is now YouTube Theater. This intimate venue, offering seating for up to 6,000 guests, will be celebrated as the new home for a variety of live entertainment. At 4,200 square-feet, the stage
is an expansive area to be creative, and every seat is close to the action on-stage. A place for creators, curators, performers and the community. Photo courtesy YouTube Theater.
Bryan Grijalva from front page
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
happy,” he laughs. During this time, his sister
began to develop debilitating migraines. When
medicine wasn’t working, and she felt at a
loss, he felt helpless. So he signed himself
up for massage school to see if he could
alleviate any of her pain. Massage school
led deeper into energy studies and eventually
holistic healing. Fifteen years later, he
teaches classes out of El Segundo and sees
clients regularly.
Grijalva is also what he calls a medical
intuitive. This essentially means that with meditation,
through a process called synchronization,
he can feel a client’s pain in his own body.
This helps him to empathize with his client
everything related to the pandemic and the
lockdown. From loneliness to loss, his spiritual
healing has been focused often on anxiety
and depression lately, though he says every
client is completely different and is treated
individually.
With his studio, Sacred Circle, opening up
again soon, he hopes to resume a practice
of a monthly sound bath, which works to
bring vibrations into the body, and can quiet
the mind or bring emotions to the forefront,
depending on the kind of sound bath and
individual reaction to different vibrations.
He says that taking in other people’s pain
and constantly working through roadblocks
and struggles can be very physically and
emotionally exhausting. But on days he feels
burned out and is ready t Bryan Grijalva, owner and operator of Sacred Circle. o throw in the towel,
and better understand where blockages may
be occurring. Thankfully, he says, this is
something he has largely learned to manage
so that he isn’t walking around feeling the
pains of everyone around him in Los Angeles.
How does one know if this is a field they
could enter? Grijalva says he believes these
abilities are implicit in everyone, though some
have to work harder at it than others. As for
him, he describes feeling this from the time
of childhood. “As a child, I was very sick
all the time, but realizing it wasn’t mine. It
took a while to get a hold of it, and I do see
a lot of sensitive children experience it quite
a bit,” he says. Part of his work is helping
to teach children about empathy and helping
adults sort out what pain is theirs and what
is external. By realizing what is yours and
what is not, he says, you can begin to open
your mind and help others.
In the past year, a common issue he’s
dealt with during his consultations has been
he’ll hear from a client who says that a huge
problem they never thought they’d ever been
able to deal with or cure is completely gone,
and his dedication to the craft is renewed.
“That to me,” he says, “that’s worth more
than all the money in the world: to hear how
someone has healed themselves or to have
helped facilitate their healing.” Grijalva’s
hopes that holistic healing will be more
generally accepted in the future. “I’m not
a doctor. I don’t pretend to be. But there
are so many things that are not medical or
physical in nature; they’re spiritual. That is
what I’m trying to do: help people understand
that we are spiritual creatures, and we can
address our spiritual concerns in a safe and
healthy way. Then we can really facilitate
true healing.” •
Grijalva’s studio, where he offers classes, reiki sessions, and intuitive consultations.