Self-Hypnosis With Jenka Gurfinkel
03/30/22 • 57 min
When people were looking for ways to connect early in the pandemic, my friend Jenka came up with a brilliant way to bring a physical experience into the virtual realm. In this episode, we discuss her guided wellbeing experiences and her journey into hypnosis after using it to heal her chronic back pain.
Jenka Gurfinkel is a Principal User Experience Designer at athenahealth, a network of more than 160,000 providers and 110 million patients. She is also the founder of SPA x HOME guided wellbeing experiences. SPA x HOME began as Jenka's quarantine birthday party and has since grown into a social self care ritual shared by people all over the world. Through the SPA x Jenka combines digital tools with ancient healing practices to design experiences that relax, inspire, and transform. Jenka writes and speaks about how technology design affects public health and is fascinated by the exploration of health as a medium for creativity.
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Referenced in this episode:
- Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connectionby John E. Sarno, MD
- Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal by Erik Vance
- SPA x HOME
- Instagram: @spaxhome
How you can work with me:
- Apply to work with me 1:1
- Enroll in the Cycle Magic cycle-syncing course
- Check out my virtual workshops
Keep in touch!
Website
Instagram
Thanks for listening!
When people were looking for ways to connect early in the pandemic, my friend Jenka came up with a brilliant way to bring a physical experience into the virtual realm. In this episode, we discuss her guided wellbeing experiences and her journey into hypnosis after using it to heal her chronic back pain.
Jenka Gurfinkel is a Principal User Experience Designer at athenahealth, a network of more than 160,000 providers and 110 million patients. She is also the founder of SPA x HOME guided wellbeing experiences. SPA x HOME began as Jenka's quarantine birthday party and has since grown into a social self care ritual shared by people all over the world. Through the SPA x Jenka combines digital tools with ancient healing practices to design experiences that relax, inspire, and transform. Jenka writes and speaks about how technology design affects public health and is fascinated by the exploration of health as a medium for creativity.
Listener perk: Get $100 off Cycle Magic, a cycle-syncing course for menstrual misfits, with the code LUNARLOVE.View all podcast listener perks here.
Referenced in this episode:
- Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connectionby John E. Sarno, MD
- Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal by Erik Vance
- SPA x HOME
- Instagram: @spaxhome
How you can work with me:
- Apply to work with me 1:1
- Enroll in the Cycle Magic cycle-syncing course
- Check out my virtual workshops
Keep in touch!
Website
Instagram
Thanks for listening!
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The Lunar Body - Self-Hypnosis With Jenka Gurfinkel
Transcript
Kristen Ciccolini: Can you tell us how SPA x HOME came about and how you got the idea for it?
Jenka Gurfinkel: My birthday is in June, and in June of 2020, as you may recall, there was just a desert void of anything to do. I had been Zoom very early on in the pandemic, and I immediately knew that that sucked. I did not enjoy that. All I wanted [for my birthday] was to have something on the calendar to be able to look forward to. In the process of trying to solve that rid
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