Interview with Tottam Art&Healthy Garden

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How would you introduce Nozomi? Who is she, where does she come from, what does she do in Spain, what does she do for a living?

I would start by sharing that, from a young age, I felt deeply dissatisfied with life. I didn’t fully understand why, but I sensed that life couldn’t be only what I was told it was. There was a continuous discomfort in feeling like I was living in a society that lacked something, which created a sense of emptiness and failed to give life meaning. What I was searching for was meaning—a reason to live. Perhaps this dissatisfaction was what led me to seek a spiritual path. As a teenager, I read extensively about esoteric knowledge, but later, this interest faded when I had to choose a career. Surprisingly, the career I chose—psychology—eventually led me back to spirituality when I encountered energetic therapies.

So, perhaps the best way to describe myself is as someone fully dedicated to my inner work. While some moments are more challenging than others, there is always something reminding me that this is my purpose in life. And as this purpose—an intense search for connection, to feel, to encounter the Divinity within us—takes form, I wish to bring it into my work. As I grow, I see how I can accompany others in their inner growth. The career I studied enables precisely this, and over the years, it has been enriched with energetic therapies. Now, I feel that I guide others from my own spiritual development rather than from a specific technique.

As for where I come from, I was born and lived my entire life in Peru. I have been in Spain for three years, as life somehow brought me here through this pursuit of more profound inner work. Now I am trying to fully dedicate myself to therapy work, which is my passion—to accompanying people in their evolutionary development.

This month, we are traveling with events at Tottam. What kind of journey does Nozomi take when working with others?

For me, developing the therapy I practice has been an incredible journey, spanning psychology, spirituality, and energetic work. After some years working as a psychologist with a Gestalt therapy focus, I began practicing Reiki, a form of energy healing. Slowly, this work evolved further.

I believe each therapist shapes the therapy they practice through their own experience. In my case, beginning to work with energy allowed me to understand many aspects of my life, as I have always had high sensitivity that has been difficult to manage—not only on an emotional level but also physically. Over time, I realized that this sensitivity causes me to sometimes feel other people’s emotions, issues, or even physical pain in my own body when I am near them. It’s like I’m a sponge with open pores that allow many things to enter. As a result, I would often feel drained, physically sore, or emotionally depleted, and at times, this wasn’t due to my own experiences but because I had tuned into others’ frequencies without realizing it.

By understanding this, I gradually learned to manage it to avoid feeling others' states in social events. I have since begun to use this sensitivity as a tool in therapy. When I started working with energy (through Reiki), I soon began feeling in my body the emotions of the person I was working with, seeing images of their life, or perceiving metaphors that, when I shared them, made sense to the person and offered them valuable insights. This led me to explore how much I could “move” and interact energetically with people within this plane.

It was surprising to discover a parallel world, the world of energy, where our inner world exists in its purest form. It is possible to enter someone else’s inner world by synchronizing our energies.

During an Energy Healing session, I can access this realm, where symbols and metaphors arise to communicate the person's core issues. This is incredibly helpful because people often come with an illness or a situation they do not understand, and by entering their inner world, I can see the real cause of their current condition. This often allows a 180-degree shift in how the person perceives their situation and guides their treatment.

Additionally, having this direct connection with each person’s inner world allows me to track the subtle progression of the treatment and make interventions on this level. Then, with that information, I make additional conscious-level interventions with the person to help them work on this in their daily life. Both levels must be worked on simultaneously—the person must actively participate in their transformation process.

In this way, each session is a beautiful journey, as it has become an opportunity to enter the inner world of others and know them from a place that is profoundly essential and real. What we see on the surface is only 5%, while within there lies a 95% extraordinary world that we often have little access to. I desire to help people become more aware of themselves so they can live a more fulfilling life aligned with their Souls' purpose.

What does Nozomi mean?

Nozomi means Hope. It is a name I received on my spiritual path and one that somehow marks a direction for my life. My inner work may have to do with delving deeper and deeper into the essence of Hope, which to me is related to living a life rooted in faith, with an understanding that, no matter what happens, we will be okay, and we will be able to move forward. I believe my duty is to bring this Hope to life so I can share it with others—not only through the guidance I offer in therapies but also through my way of seeing and living life.

How do you bring this resonance to life in society?

I believe that in a society like ours, one of the most important things to uphold is hope. I say this

from my own experience because, many times, a great pain arises when I see the world as it is, asking why humanity behaves as it does and why there is so much war. In the past, this pain led me to despair and deeply negative states. Nowadays, I don’t deny that the pain arises, but there is another understanding that prevents me from dwelling on negativity.

This understanding is connected to hope. I imagine hope as a small flower that finds a way to bloom even in badly damaged, abandoned, dirty, or littered terrain. If you walk anywhere, you can always find little flowers or weeds that manage to grow between the cracks or amidst neglect. Perhaps it is increasingly essential to hold onto that small hope, as it will inspire us to be the change we want to see in the world, beginning with our inner work.

I believe the most important place to end wars is within ourselves because if we find peace within, we will not want to fight externally. Thus, I think the best way we can contribute to the planet is through our inner work, which will resonate outward, and I will offer what I am to the world. And if I am Love, I do not contribute to war.