We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful S O L A R I VQ. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with S O L A R I below.

S O L A R I, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?

The idea for my business wasn’t born from strategy — it was born from a breakdown. I had spent years as a high performer, excelling in conventional roles while secretly unraveling on the inside. When my body began to shut down from the pressure, I surrendered to a deeper calling that had always been whispering beneath the surface. That calling revealed a truth: that healing is not something to chase externally — it’s a sacred remembering that must be awakened from within.

Open Gate Wellness was birthed as a sanctuary for that remembering. I wanted to create a space where nervous system repair, spiritual reconnection, and ancestral healing weren’t just alternative options — they were the new standard. I saw a massive gap: people were exhausted, over-medicated, spiritually fragmented, and starving for wholeness. I knew I could bridge that gap with my lived experience, ancient training, and the ability to channel customized healing for each person who walked through my doors.

What got me most excited was the realization that I didn’t need to follow someone else’s blueprint — I was here to create my own. Open Gate isn’t just a business — it’s a movement. One that now includes a spiritual school, mentorship programs, a book, and sanctuary space. This idea changed my life, and now it’s changing others’. That’s how I know it’s worthwhile.

S O L A R I, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m S O L A R I, founder of Open Gate Wellness, a sanctuary-based spiritual studio offering energetic healing, soul work, and integrative medicine for those ready to live in alignment with their highest timeline.

My journey into this work began with my own breakdown and breakthrough. After years of high achievement and burnout, I reached a point where conventional systems failed to meet the depth of what I was experiencing. I left behind a full-time career in healthcare/mental health and answered the call to become a healer, a guide, and a temple keeper. I now serve as a Reiki Master Teacher, Death Doula, Shamanic Practitioner, Ordained Minister, and founder of multiple offerings, including The Open Body Method, The Sacred Undoing, and Shiloh Drive Spiritual School.

Open Gate Wellness is not just a family business — it’s a movement. We provide one-on-one healing sessions, certified trainings, priestess mentorships, and sanctuary services both in person and virtually. We serve the heart-centered seekers, the high performers on the edge of awakening, and the families seeking freedom, nervous system regulation, and ancestral healing. Our sessions are deep, sacred, and profoundly customized. Our spiritual school is rooted in ancient knowing and modern transformation.

What sets us apart is the frequency. People may come for the Reiki or the reading — but they stay because something in them remembers what they’re here for.

What I’m most proud of is how many lives I’ve witnessed transform in front of my eyes. I’ve seen grief transmute, relationships heal, children thrive, and women reclaim themselves as divine. My book, The Sacred Undoing: How High Performers Break, Heal, and Rise (Kindle), is now reaching people across the country, and it’s only the beginning.

For anyone discovering me for the first time — welcome to the threshold. Open Gate Wellness is more than a brand. It’s a gateway into who you really are.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

There was a moment in my life where everything broke open. On the surface, I had what looked like success — a career, stability, the appearance of doing everything “right.” But I was unwell. Spiritually sick. Burnt out. Disconnected from my essence. That fracture — the deep, sacred unraveling — is what I now call The Sacred Undoing. It was in that undoing that I finally met myself.

I left the safety of convention to follow a call that felt ancient and undeniable. I stepped fully into my path as a healer, minister, mother, and guide. I scaled Open Gate Wellness not as a business, but as a temple — a sanctuary for transformation. Every offering I’ve created, from Signature Reiki and The Open Body Method™ to priestess mentorships and book publishing, came from lived experience, not just training. I lived through the undoing — and came back as S O L A R I.

Resilience, for me, wasn’t about pushing through. It was about surrendering to the fire and becoming who I truly am. Now, I teach others how to do the same: break, heal, and rise. That’s what Open Gate Wellness is all about. That’s what my book, The Sacred Undoing, is all about. And that’s what this next wave of leadership in the healing arts must be rooted in — embodiment.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One of the most powerful lessons I had to unlearn was that healing and success had to look a certain way, happen within a certain timeline, or follow a socially accepted formula. I was raised to be a high achiever—structured, sharp, and constantly performing at a high level. That programming rewarded my external accomplishments, but it kept me in cycles of burnout, disconnection, and self-abandonment.

The backstory? I broke.

The break came not from failure, but from living too long out of alignment. I had checked all the boxes—career, family, reputation—but something inside me was dying. It was the wild part of me, the intuitive and ancient part of me that remembered freedom and mission. I had to unlearn the cultural blueprint of success in order to remember the sacred one that was uniquely mine.

I gave up a full-time contract job, turned toward my spiritual gifts, and let my wellness business, Open Gate Wellness, become the ministry I was born to carry. I now teach others how to unlearn survival programming and embody the nervous system of someone who is truly free. That is the essence of my work—and the root of my book, The Sacred Undoing.

Unlearning is a sacred practice. I believe it’s the prerequisite for every authentic transformation.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.opengatewellnesstx.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theiamsolari?igsh=bHB3ZmlvaTk5bncz&utm_source=qr
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ByhWWx7v3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Image Credits

Open Gate Wellness, LLC