Psychic medium, healer, spiritual teacher, speaker, and author Uma Alexandra Beepat has over 35 certifications, which makes her the perfect person to be the founder and owner of Lotus Wellness Center. Although Lotus Wellness Center does it all, they focus on natural wellness and health, including mainstream things like massage, reflexology, life coaching, and hypnosis, as well as lesser-known things such as reiki healing, access bars, theta healing, intuitive readings, and spiritual counseling.

 

The Awakened Life

 Uma is mostly known as a spirit communicator. “I’ve been doing that since I was a child,” she says. Around 2014, the spirit woke her up in the middle of the night and told her that they had to talk to people who were just starting their journeys. So Uma got up and wrote from three in the morning until eleven in the morning, and had her book finished.

The book helps people who are awakening. Folks have their lives, spouses, children, jobs, and social circles, but still feel like it’s not enough. “They’re feeling like something’s missing, something’s lacking,” says Uma. The book helps them find what they are lacking, what they can expect in living an awakened life, and serves as a how-to guide. People starting on their journeys may feel alone, under pressure, depressed, sad, or anxious, but the book and Lotus Wellness Center are here to show you that you’re not alone. That’s why Lotus focuses so much on community. “We want people to know [they’re] not alone, and we’re really trying to let them know that there [are] avenues available for them,” Uma says.

 

Hearing Voices

The spirit has been talking to Uma since she was a child, but it wasn’t until she was 30 years old that the spirit told her to get busy. “Usually I hear voices in my head, and this time I heard it outside of me,” says Uma. The voice told her that the time for playing was done, and it was time to work. “It was almost like I was robotic. I lifted up out of the bed, got down on my knees, and I didn’t even know or have the enlightenment to say this, but I heard myself saying ‘I know nothing. Teach me everything,’” she says. Everything fell into place without her having to pay for anything or worry about anything, and she started the business out of her basement in 2009.

 

Go Sit in Your Wrongness and Be Wrong

In her business, she focuses on wrongness. Everyone is told how wrong they are from the minute they’re born. They’re the wrong gender, as a man living in a woman’s body or vice versa. They’re the wrong religion, wrong color, in the wrong state, or the wrong country. Everything is wrong. “As a healer and a speaker and a teacher, I am focused on the wrongness of people,” says Uma. “I celebrate the wrongness of you. I help you live your authenticity.” She wants to help people find their path that is unique to them, and then stand in it. “We focus on empowering our students, our clients, on them finding the answers within themselves,” Uma says. “We’d rather teach a man to how to fish than to give them a fish.”

 

The Devil Made Me Do It

Clients are the most skeptical about receiving energy healing and intuitive reading treatments. They think it’s satanic. “Energy healing is not right, only Jesus can heal, if you do that you’re messing with karma,” Uma says, rattling off some of the excuses she’s heard. Intuitive readings are definitely satanic because they involve tarot cards, it’s psychic, it’s Wiccan, it’s pagan. But Uma has been in business since 2009 and she hasn’t turned into a demon yet, so you will probably be fine.

 

It’s All in Her Blood

Although she looks Indian, Uma calls herself a child of the world. She was born in London, grew up in Barbados and Guinea, her father is an atheist Hindu, her mother is a practicing Muslim, and they sent her to an Anglican church as a child, where she was confirmed and baptised as a Catholic. “My mom is what we call the Dreamer. She prophecies in her dreams,” says Uma. Her maternal grandmother was a Medicine Woman, so if you went home with a cast on, she’d be in the kitchen making an herbal paste to put on your injury. On her father’s side, her aunts are very psychically gifted, and one of them is a tarot. “I come from a strong line of women,” Uma says.

 

What’s Uranus Have to Do with It?

What we can expect in the future is a complete revamping of the healthcare and financial systems, if Uma is hearing the spirit correctly. Uranus is moving into Taurus in May 2018, and will sit there for the next four years. The last time Uranus moved into Taurus, the Great Depression happened, people jumped out of windows to kill themselves on Wall Street, and everything crumbled. “Uranus is upset, surprises, magic,” says Uma. “Taurus is financial systems.” And just look at all this bitcoin and cryptocurrency starting to come out. In addition to a major shift in financial systems, Uma also sees healthcare shifting. “I see the big healthcare crumbling. I see all that stuff about Monsanto crumbling,” she says. “I see healers and readers and all of that, all the people in my profession, we’re now going to become part of the regular healthcare team.”

 

Contact Information

To learn more about Lotus Wellness Center, you can find them on their website, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Youtube. To find out more about Uma, you can visit her website.

When you picture a child with cancer, what do you see? Perhaps it’s the carefully crafted and sold feel-good image of a smiling, bald-headed child at Disney World, who gets better and lives happily ever after. What Tom Mitchell sees is the parents of children who have to watch as chemotherapy, derived from a chemical warfare agent, is pumped into their child’s body, a medicine so toxic that some parents have to wear protective gear just to change their child’s diaper. He sees parents who are holding their children’s hair back as they puke, holding their hands as their hair falls out, and being forced to make life or death decisions for their child in an instant. He should know. He lost his daughter, Shayla, to cancer.

 

After Shayla passed away, Tom founded StillBrave Childhood Cancer Foundation to help parents deal with the everyday horror and heartbreak of cancer treatments and expenses. “StillBrave’s mission is to provide non-medical support to children with cancer and their families,” says Tom. They provide help with gas and grocery cards, rent and utilities assistance, car and home repairs, and way too many funerals.

 

The Birth of StillBrave

When Tom was a kid, he used to be a boxer. Although he wasn’t great at it, he could throw a straight punch and hit pretty hard. When Shayla was diagnosed with cancer, he began boxing as a sort of therapy to help himself deal with her treatment. While he was working out one day, he met professional boxer Jimmy Lange, who then met his daughter. Jimmy and Shayla became friends, which led to Jimmy watching Tom fight, which led to Tom becoming a professional boxer at the age of 40. For his first fight, Shayla walked him to the ring. He was knocked out in the second round, but he made a lot of money, and since he’s gotten his ass beat for free before, he considered that a win.

Between his first and second fights, Shayla passed away. “It was at that time that we coined the term ‘still brave,’ which was something that my daughter had said to me,” says Tom. “That was the birth of StillBrave, right before that second fight.”

Renegades of Cancer

Although Shayla is gone, Tom hasn’t stopped fighting. “She’s not coming back,” says Tom. “No matter how hard I work, no matter how hard I wish, no matter how hard I sweat, I’m not going to bring her back.” He’s not fighting for his daughter. He’s fighting for yours.

“We consider ourselves to be renegades. That’s our tagline,” says Tom. The inspiration for the tagline is from a Rage Against the Machine song. As renegades, they don’t do things that an average foundation might do. They do things like put on a punk rock concert every year. “We open it up to families who want to come out and forget about life for a night, take a shot of tequila and shake their ass and have a great time,” says Tom. They have a Carnival of Kindness, a big carnival that’s free of charge not only for children with cancer, but for children with other diagnoses or children with no diagnoses.

Tom also does ultra running, and will be running a 200-mile marathon in August of 2018. Each of those 200 miles is dedicated to a child who is fighting cancer or who has lost their battle to cancer. He carries their pictures with him, and when he feels tired and like he can’t go on, he looks at those pictures.

 

“Kumbaya?” Kumbay-no-go.

People often send Tom messages asking if they can go to the hospitals with him and hang out with the children. What they don’t seem to realize is that kids in the hospital are sick. Go figure. Most chemotherapies are done on an outpatient basis. Children are only hospitalized for very toxic treatments, fevers, and complications. “So when I go to the hospital, the kids are really, really, REALLY sick,” says Tom. “One of the common misconceptions is that we go to the hospital and it’s fun. We’re not going to the hospital and playing guitar and singing ‘Kumbaya.’” Just like cancer isn’t a happy kid at Disney World, it’s also not a fun slumber party at the hospital.

Be Somebody

People also like to ask Tom how he does it all. His most candid response is, how could they not? “Kids are dying at an alarming rate,” he says. “The ones that aren’t dying are being butchered by some of the medicines that we’re giving them.” Standing by and doing nothing is saying that this is okay with you. “If you don’t act upon that, you’re saying to yourself and the world ‘that’s acceptable to me.’ It’s not okay.”

You don’t have to be a big corporation or have a lot of money to get involved. Look at Tom, for example. “I’m nobody special. I’m a tattooed knucklehead,” he says. When Shayla died, he wondered to himself why somebody didn’t do something. Then he realized that he is somebody. “Advocate. Donate. Do SOMETHING. Anybody can offer thoughts and prayers. I don’t want you to be anybody,” Tom says. “I want you to be somebody. I want you to do something.”

One way you can get involved is through the upcoming 200-mile marathon. You can step up and sponsor a mile. At the StillBrave website, you can see all 200 children that they are honoring and sponsor their mile. If you are a runner, you can run in your own community and add your miles to the children. StillBrave’s goal this year is to raise 500 thousand dollars. And they will. “I don’t know how it’s going to happen, I don’t know when it’s going to happen, but we’re going to do it,” says Tom. Maybe it will be with the help of everyday people like you and me, the renegades who will change the course of history.