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Andy Sway

Andy Sway-Biography

 

 

I always struggled with a dissatisfaction that pushed me to imagine a higher reality.  I have always known that life can be better and more fulfilling than it is for most people. It has always seemed, even in childhood, that most people are living lives of conformity and dissatisfaction, rather than the joy that we are meant to express.

 

My Mission

 

My mission is to do my part to help the world rise to this higher level of joy, a joy that comes from alignment with our true selves and our life purpose. Life is meant to be fun and filled with love. We are all spirits yearning to remember this truth despite the dense energies we live in. We are here to raise those frequencies and claim a new reality.

 

I have always been equally interested in the mystical as I am in the practical, as you will see below. It is that combination of understanding how the world works in terms of politics, economics, business and culture with gifts of intuition and facilitating healing that makes my work unique.

 

 

Escaping My Own Matrix

 
I’m a Scorpio and my birth definitely lived up to the intensity Scorpio is known for. My biography begins as the world is fearing nuclear war. My birth process began right as the Cuban Missile Crisis was winding down, on Halloween. I was born on the Day of the Dead and the delivery process involved my mother cracking her pelvis when the nurse told her to push at the wrong time. So I got to know a little about trauma before I even emerged. Little did I know it but this entrance would help me hold space for clients healing the most horrible trauma.

 

There has been a weird theme in my life of living in conservative places where I felt out of place. My story begins in the Central Valley of California where I never really felt like I fit in. I was interested in a lot of “out there” topics in a place that was Christian and conservative. Later on in life I would end up in some of the most exciting cities in the world like Berlin, Paris, London and New York. But I also lived in conservative or uptight places like Gävle Sweden, Brugge Belgium and the Central Valley of California.

 

The Deepest Wound and Greatest Role Model

 

Nothing hurts like being fully rejected by a parent at a young age. I was lucky enough to have a father with absolutely no interest in kids. They were a distraction and an annoyance to him, and as the first born I was the main culprit. My deepest wound happened the day he took me to a river to give me the bad news. For some reason he wanted to sweeten the moment by skipping rocks on the river. I wasn’t too interested in skipping rocks at that moment.

 

Then my father officially left my mother when I was five years old and her gay friend Jim moved in with us.

 

Andy Sway in the middle. Bar Mitzvah boy

 

From Christian School and  Summer Camp to Hebrew School in Two Years

 

Then, as if not fitting in wasn’t enough with a gay prankster in the house, my mom married a Jewish man and we all proceeded to convert to Judaism. I’d never met a Jew in my life and had no idea what to expect. I had spent my entire childhood in a private Christian school and going to a summer camp where faith healing and talking in tongues were on the menu.  Now I was preparing for a Bar Mitzvah. Before I ever attended a Temple service I tried to imagine what the Rabbi would talk about and all I could imagine is endless sermons entitled, “Why we don’t believe in Jesus.” That’s really all I knew about Jews, that they didn’t believe in Jesus.

 

Not fitting in can be good.

 

That feeling of being out of place has helped me with my clients in a huge way. The people who gravitate to my work generally don’t fit in completely to the Matrix they were born into. People who have always felt a little out of place just have to work a little harder to find their place. A gay man with a passion for fashion can have a hard time in Nebraska. When they do break free of their conditioning it is oftentimes spectacular. It is difficult to find your path when you refuse to conform to the limitations of your upbringing but it is so worth it when you do.

 

Ninth House Themes–All things foreign and/or spiritual.

 

I began exploring the wider world at an early age. (For you Astrology buffs, my sun and Neptune are in the 9th house.)My travels and studies took me first to Norway at age 10 where I lived with relatives most of the summer. I went to Sweden at the age of sixteen where I was a foreign exchange student for a year and became totally obsessed with Sweden and determined that I would emigrate there within the first week I lived there. I mastered the language and culture and became an honorary Swede for a while.

 

At age eighteen, I moved to Israel where I completed an intensive Hebrew language course on a Kibbutz. I then emigrated to Sweden for life, or so I thought. But the winters were just too much and I realized I needed to get some higher education. So I returned to California and started college and later completed my Bachelors degree in International Affairs at the American College in Paris, now the American University in Paris.

Altogether I spent over six years living in Europe. I have lived in Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, Israel and England and speak Swedish, French and German besides my native English.

 

Spiritual Awakenings

 

My introduction to the inner worlds of spirituality began at fourteen, when I met my first spiritual teacher, Laura Riene. Laura was my art teacher in summer school but turned out above all to be more of a mentor and guru. She lovingly ripped my ego to shreds, and being near her was like what I imagine it must have been like being near Christ or the Buddha.

 

This woman was so full of wisdom that with one look, and without words, she would answer my most perplexing questions. I would ask her a question about something that was tearing me up emotionally and causing a lot of confusion. She would give me that knowing look and I would go from total confusion to absolute knowing, feeling silly for ever having asked the question. She radiated pure love but held an impossibly high standard or purity. I’ve always felt that looking for a guru would be indulgent after having a teacher like that. Mrs. Riene gave me spiritual homework that will never be fully complete. There was no use looking for more prescriptions from other teachers. I had to find it myself.

Laura Riene

 

 

I thought I wanted to be a professor.

 

In 1998 I was in the middle of a PhD program because I wanted to be a professor of International and Comparative Politics. At that point I had no idea about energy healing but had been vaguely interested in hypnosis and past lives.

My first energy healing breakthrough blew my mind and changed the course of my life when a friend offered to practice some energy healing on me. This event—a true aha! moment—immediately triggered my exploration into “alternative” approaches to healing. Within a few minutes into the session I had regressed to my birth and was able to release a huge issue. The birth trauma I experienced came up and I saw how it had colored my perception in a profound way. It all cleared in that one session.

 

After that session I knew my life would change. My six years of Doctoral Studies would have to end with a downgrade, a Master’s Degree in Political Science. I ended up devoting myself to energy healing and personal transformation as a vocation.  I then trained in the healing modalities of Holographic Repatterning™, Reiki, VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing, and Dolores Cannon’s Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique™(QHHT) and ‘M’ Energy Healing®.

 

 

 

Doing Healing in the Fashion and Entertainment World

 

Throughout my healing career I’ve attracted a clientele of highly creative people in the fields of fashion, entertainment and art, among other things. I seem to have a knack for guiding people through the process of expressing their creativity. This brings me a lot of amusement because I never thought of myself as creative or artistic in any way. But as soon as I started doing this work, I surprisingly began attracting clients on the cutting edge of creative self expression. I have worked with some of the most exciting creative people in fashion and entertainment. It thrills me to assist talented creative people to become more confident and powerful in their work.

 

33 Years in New York and Now Back to California

My plan moving to New York in 1987 was to learn about the big bad world of business. Then I would get out of a city I assumed I would hate. I always assumed that I would return to Europe, but I ended up loving New York, and still do. But the Universe kept pointing me back to California. I finally listened. It’s good to be back home!

view of Whitley ave, Hollywood

 

Whitley Ave. Hollywood

 

 
 
 
 

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