We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Yehonatan Banayan. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Yehonatan below.

Hi Yehonatan, thanks for joining us today. Is there a heartwarming story from your career that you look back on?

A heartwarming story that comes to mind is working with one of our very first clients. I remember her initially calling us up because she had had enough but she was not sure if she was ready to go forward in her healing process. A part of her had begun to find comfort in being ill and she was not sure if she was willing to give that up. After speaking, she agreed to proactively work on herself to find a way to feel better, if she did not have to give up her mental health issues just yet. She felt isolated from herself, from the team and from her family. There were so many times when she would just disengage with the process and go back to her old habits. But at some point, things changed. I believe it was when our team really learnt how to connect with this person, and in turn, when this person began to truly trust us and like us as people.

Once we were able to help them see reality in a way that made sense for them, they were engaged and curious to live a better life. Soon after, the same person who was adamant that they would never be happy again was seen laughing, started dancing, and starting saying things like “I love my life” and “ I am so happy”. She gradually started to play more, to smile more and to connect deeper with not only her team, but also herself.

She is now focused on a career that she loves and is passionate about and has since connected back with her family as well. We connect time from time and she is consistently feeling more free to be herself and it is clear that her natural leadership personality and her way of being are spreading to others too.

Yehonatan, 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?

Sure! I go by Yehonatan Banayan, or “Yoni” for short. I started off as Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and gradually utilized more and more holistic techniques due to their effectiveness. I became interested in the one common denominator of people who created life changing moments in their life and I discovered the state that people stayed in for most of their time was the dominant factor of who they would become. I found myself researching more and more on the body, and practicing techniques with clients that involved using more and more of the body and spirit. From meshing internal family systems into psychodrama, to somatic experiencing and eastern energetic practices, it became clear to me that I can only heal what I am consciously capable of healing. This became a personal journey that has had business implications: the more healed I am, the more I can help others. I began to study different forms of yoga before diving deeper into a practice called “Kundalini Yoga” which deeply impacts your body and energetic states. I began teaching kundalini yoga, Yin yoga and practiced as a Reiki Master. With time, I began to work often with these techniques to the point that the old therapeutic approaches that I went to school for were clearly time consuming at best, unhelpful and sometimes harmful in comparison. Not to say that they are disregarded, but they are used when ethically and functionally appropriate. A hammer sees a nail as the saying goes, but it does not necessarily mean that it is a nail and sometimes a hammer can do more harm than good!

I began to gather a team of practitioners who all had specific niches and methods in healing various issues. We initially started with just eating disorder treatment and disordered eating treatment, but soon after, we began treating a whole list of other “mental health disorders”., such as OCD, anxiety disorders, depression and PTSD. What sets us apart is that we are not limited to seeing things in a western OR eastern way. We just focus on results and we can generally provide results for our clients within the first week of working with us! While their work is not complete after a week, more often than not, they are already on their way to true and long term healing.

The real secret sauce is in our initial assessment. Every one of our practitioners in a client’s team has their own unique perception of what is going on for a particular individual: from psychological, biological, nutritional, energetic, nervous system related, endocrine system related, relational oriented, sociological, educational to a spiritual approach. When these are combined, we have a larger than life and more detailed step by step plan that the client can take alongside their team. Our practices have been honed to the point where we can give an outline of how long it would take clients to get their desired results.

Our goal is never to “treat” our clients. The goal of Earth’s Edge Wellness is to educate people of their natural processes to allow them to GET AND STAY BETTER. We believe when people are effectively educated, they are empowered to feel better for good!

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

Most definitely, yes! While I appreciate the holistic approaches I use, I find that having my professional background and knowledge in research analysis allows me to impact thousands who would have been skeptical to try something without the science to back it up. While most holistic approaches are not back up by our culture, many of them are backed up by science and a quick search on peer reviewed articles will help me navigate what is experiential vs. peer reviewed.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

I know without a doubt that I am and have always been blessed with whatever I needed to succeed. I think one of the biggest blessings that I have received in this lifetime is the blessing of the right teachers at the right times. I have always had guidance from impactful and thought provoking people and this helped me make the right moves in my own careers and life that has led me to find peace within myself and in effect help others do the same.

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