My journey into holistic practice
Mine didn’t start with an awakening. It started with burnout.
For years I tried to think my way into growth. I read constantly. I collected modalities, finished maybe half the courses I paid for, and got good at explaining ideas I had never once felt in my own body. It didn’t work. It took me a long time to admit it wasn’t working.
What changed things was putting energetic alignment together with somatic tracking — paying attention to what my body actually did with a belief or an intention, rather than what I hoped it would do. Positive thinking wasn’t enough on its own. It never is. I needed to feel safe in my own body first, and to keep practising when it got boring, and to stop treating shadow work as a phase I’d eventually be finished with.
So I start from the assumption that there’s nothing about you to repair. That isn’t me being nice. Most people I work with already have the capacity; what they don’t have is a map they can use.
I also wasted a lot of money getting here, which is most of why the review side of this site exists.
What is Syntropic Soul?
“Syntropy” comes from the physicist Luigi Fantappiè, who used it to describe processes that appear to organize toward order rather than dissipate into disorder. I should be straight with you: it is not an accepted principle in mainstream physics or biology. I use it as a metaphor, because it names the thing I care about — whether a practice leaves your life more organized and livable, or just more complicated.
Entropy pulls things apart. Syntropy pulls the other way — toward order, complexity, life. That’s the whole premise here: if your practice isn’t making your actual life more ordered and more alive, something’s off.
A lot of spiritual writing is dogmatic, or thin, or quietly selling you something nobody has tested. I wanted one place that covered the full range — human design, numerology, somatic healing, energetic tools, mindset work — and that was straight with you about what’s worth buying.
Everything I publish has to clear one bar: will it change what you do tomorrow morning?
How I review and recommend resources
My reputation is the only thing I’ve got, so I’m careful with it. Here’s how the reviews work.
I’ve used it. Nothing gets recommended here unless I’ve had it in my own practice or my client work first. No writing from a sales page, and no reviewing something I’ve only watched a demo of.
I test it properly. Human design software, binaural beats, a journal someone claims will change your life — I want to know whether it’s genuinely useful, whether it’s a pain to use, and whether it still earns its place three months later. That last one rules out most things.
I tell you when to save your money. Plenty of what I test doesn’t make it onto the site, and some of it gets written up specifically so you don’t buy it. Where there’s a free option that works as well as the paid one, I’ll say so, even though it earns me nothing.
Commissions don’t buy coverage. I’m not paid to review anything, and no company gets to see a piece before it goes live or influence what it says. If a brand has given me something for free, that’s stated in the review itself.
If a recommendation here ever turns out to be inaccurate, reach out directly at solaria@syntropicsoul.com so I can re-evaluate it.