Agnieszka Wolczynska

People often ask me what I do as an Ayurvedic Practitioner. The honest answer? I do not heal people. The wellness industry often sells healing as a protocol. This one miracle trick or supplement. A diet. A perfect routine. But after reversing multiple chronic illnesses myself, I learned something uncomfortable: The body does not heal simply because it was told to. I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Some may call me “a healer,” yet I cannot prescribe healing to anybody. I cannot inject you with...

Tomorrow, When the War Began was the first book I ever read in English after moving to Australia in 2005, at the age of eighteen—a haunting story that has been returning to my mind a lot these days. It tells of a life suddenly overturned, of invasion and aggression the characters never saw coming and were never prepared for. That story fell on fertile soil in my mind even back then. Because being Polish means having shrapnel in your genes. Do you believe in ancestral or intergenerational...

The first step of healing is digestion. “Show me your midsection, and I will tell you about your metabolic health” is one pretty way to look at this. But I'm going to say that your toilet habits will tell you even more. So will your skin, the whites of your eyes, your energy levels, your immunity, your hormonal health, and so on. Ayurveda is honestly obsessed with digestion — not calories, not macros, not supplements — but Agni. Before herbs. Before detox. Before rasāyana. First: fix...