Thrive Energetics

About Patrick Prohaska

The foundation of my practice is the belief that the universe won’t allow us to live inauthentically without major consequences.

For me, living authentically means helping others to help themselves. I thrive best when I support others to thrive as well; I suffer most when I play silent witness to suffering around me. It’s a consequence of my natural empathy. It’s why life coaching and intuitive healing are my ideal vocation.

Like others in the intuitive healing arts I resisted the call to practice for a very long time, for countless reasons, none of them good – fear, embarrassment, lack of confidence, and so on. Over the years I’d practiced massage therapy, taught yoga and Pilates, received various Reiki and other healing certifications, and studied Asian religions in graduate school. But I always pushed these interests aside and instead focused on my “real career” in restaurant management. My parents disapproved of my esoteric interests. Professors I respected counseled me to “remain unbiased” in my studies. Friends said, in effect, “forget that New Age nonsense – be practical!” Or worse – “shame on you for believing that pseudoscience nonsense; you’re smarter than that!”

So powerful were the messages I was receiving that even in my Ph.D. program in Modern Religions of India, I ignored my true interests (namely, the Doctrine of Vibration in Kashmir Shaivism, and the Doctrine of Interpenetration in the Buddhist Avatamsaka Sutra) and instead focused on the role of religion in Hindu Nationalist politics.

By the time I completed my comprehensive exams for my doctorate degree, I was profoundly disappointed in my graduate program and the thought of completing my dissertation filled me with dread. But isn’t dread always the price of building a life based on the expectations of others? I had already held the General Manager position at two high-end restaurants, so I decided to do the practical thing and embrace my ready-made restaurant career. And in doing so I exchanged one life of dread for another.

Eventually this career led me to San Francisco and Los Angeles, two markets in which the upscale restaurant industry can be absolutely cut-throat. Over the years I held management positions at some of the most prestigious restaurants in the nation, jobs that many restaurateurs would have sold their soul to get. But I felt dead inside. I jumped from job to job, hoping to find a position that I could finally be happy with, but each one was progressively worse than the last. Where were the Reiki principles? Where was the yoga mindset? I spent 12-14 hours a day, six days a week, running from crisis to crisis and butting heads with some of the most inflated egos in the industry. In the end I collapsed and found myself in the hospital with stress and anxiety-related respiratory issues. I hit rock bottom, lost everything (though this was not a first for me), and vowed to finally live life on my terms.

Now that I’ve decided to embrace my true calling and do what makes me happy my life has flowered in ways I could never have imagined. I’m taking what I’ve learned in the process and giving back to the world, in the hopes that others may experience the peace and joy I’ve come to discover.

As a healer, my skill-set is deep. While living in Italy I was a massage therapist for long-distance runners preparing for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. I was a professor of religious studies at a small college in Iowa, where I taught Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. Before the restaurant industry came to dominate my life, I taught Yoga and Pilates. I studied ancient Indian and Chinese healing modalities, and developed a passion for aromatherapy (of all the physical senses, olfaction intrigues me the most). I studied the Radiance Technique version of Reiki healing. I have multiple Theta Healing certifications. And I’m a certified practitioner and teacher of Awakening Dynamics, develped by master healer Brent Phillips.

I’m also an expert in Law of Attraction life coaching, having studied with Christy Whitman’s Quantum Success Coaching Academy. This program has provided me with clarity and focus I’d never imagined possible. It took me many years to embrace my true calling and finally begin to thrive. I’d love to coach you do the same in a fraction of the time.