Hidden Gems: Meet Marisol Rascon of Sol Integrative

Today we’d like to introduce you to Marisol Rascon.

Hi Marisol, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
How does one even start to explain how you’ve arrived at being a healer? Is it cultivated or is it innate? In a way, I’ve carried this all my life and also life has taught me many beautiful lessons that shape my work.

I’m a first-generation Mexican empath and intuitive. I come from a lineage of female healers, although their gifts were limited to sharing amongst themselves over coffee – not opening up shop to discuss mystic visions. That wasn’t an available option for them, there were historical and practical reasons which prohibited that. I love hearing all the stories, which coupled with my young imagination strengthened my inner knowing that we have the ability to create our reality in collaboration with a universal (co)creator!

When I was 20, at the beginning of a fun career in the dotcom world, I had a nagging urge to seek out what “my thing” was. As exciting as those youthful work hangs and happy hours were it just wasn’t satisfying. During that pre-google era, I was behind the scenes witnessing the way business, communication, and human interaction were speedily moving with the tech industry evolving and shifting daily. There was something that felt like an impending loss in the whirl but I didn’t know what or why it made me feel lonelier than I already was. One day I came across an ad for a massage therapy course. I had never received a professional massage but somehow, I knew I had to attend the open house. I was greeted by the loveliest retired businesswoman turned hippy crone and we chatted openly about mind, body, spirit and how she healed from depression through the help of massage and compassionate touch. Whoa! I had a full-body aha moment mixed with intense fear but I signed up! There was a visceral understanding that we need each other, we need touch, we need compassion for our nervous system to feel safe and for us to be ok in the present.

I guess that’s the beginning of the beginning…I kept studying bodywork modalities, exploring the connections of mind and body, diving into yoga and shamanism, ayurveda, breathwork, deepening my own spiritual practices in classic tantra, meditation, and well basically all things that have roots in the elements that serve as maps to nourish a fulfilling and healthy life.

I practiced on weekends for many years while I held my office jobs but eventually took the leap and opened a yoga and wellness center in 2013 called Golden Sol which had a beautiful run for six years in Los Feliz. Currently, my practice is housed at Source Point Wellness, my dear friend Dr. Amanda’s clinic. I describe the work I do as integrative healing because I believe everything is interconnected and although that may seem overwhelming and daunting, when we accept that, healing can happen. I often see clients for pain management, energy balancing, and spiritual counseling, sometimes it’s one of those but usually it’s a blend of all these that take place. My sessions have a traditional outline in the style of the classic curanderas and medicine women but acknowledging our modern times.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Life has a way of putting certain things on our path – the lessons haven’t been easy but they sure have been rewarding! First, I was a teenage single mom – navigating that in itself brought very specific struggles. I didn’t have the money or support to start my own business and ditching the corporate world, so for a long while I had to keep up the grind with my healing work on the side. That consumed a lot of my energy and so my time management was always being tested.

I would say that the best and biggest struggle was when I finally reached my tipping point and decided to dedicate myself full time to my healing business. I immediately was delivered an opportunity to open a studio and had to face the YES. Facing the yes can be the scariest! I had to juggle many hats and jobs during that time. There were many losses in the closing of the space – not just the beautiful community and business but a dear friendship. It’s taken a while to mend all that but I wouldn’t change a thing! I love where I’m at now and my practice is thriving with in person and virtual clients and teaching online meditation and breathwork classes. I resisted offering online services but covid helped me shift that and get creative.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
I like to say I bring a medicine woman/curandera approach to healing in a relatable and accessible way for our time. I believe in collaboration with Spirit in the healing process so I definitely tend to attract more spiritual people. I like to encourage everyone to deepen the ongoing relationship within their body and the outside world. For that reason, I love working with clients who are highly sensitive or empaths, creatives, and caregivers. Often I find people come into this work tired and in pain, depleted because the energetic demand and outpour is not in balance. I have a big toolkit of modalities to help find a more balanced approach and I customize every session to best address what’s alive for them at the moment.

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I have seen many trends in the yoga and healing communities in the last ten years, many which I don’t like. Commodifying healing and making spirituality a trend is not in integrity with its purpose, if there isn’t heart and respect then consumption of services in hopes for a quick fix will mirror the downsides of our current health care system. I think a lot of people are realizing this and I hope that what comes of it is a practical approach where people feel empowered to use wisdom teachings and traditions with kindness and in harmony. I would love to see holistic care services covered and encouraged by the western medical profession and forming a true allyship between the two.

Pricing:

• 140/hr

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: http://solintegrative.com/
• Instagram: @solintegrative
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/sol-integrative-atwater-village

Image Credits
By self, Diana Zalucky, and Rebekkah Drake