Love, Life, Loss and how Six Years of Energy Healing Held me through it all.
- Liz Bullen Casanova

- 7 days ago
- 8 min read



Thank you for being part of our global community. I am so grateful for these six years we have shared bigger or smaller healing touch points together.
I am writing a personal update out of love and deep reverence for you, traveling this journey with us.
In my personal life, Universal Healing is my guiding light. It has held me these past two years, when all things familiar and safe deserted me…. In the loss of my beloved husband Manel (our Founder), in my Mum’s journey of dementia and transition, healing breast cancer, undergoing surgery and supporting me through many huge changes in my life.
I know the golden thread that kept me together was the multidimensional support of being in three Universal Healings a week and the huge community that held me here.
It was a network that caught all my pieces as they fell and presented them to me. Many to let go of forever and some I wanted to keep to put myself back together, and find new pathways to live and thrive again.
I breezed over the immense journey these past 2 years have taken me on. I do it to avoid the deep pain and heartache I lived? Now I see the immensity of this time, I can see I have lived the unimaginable in my life.
I met Manel Casanova in 2015 and was immediately in love, he was the other half of my being, my “soul mate” and love of my life. I moved from Cape Town to Boulder, Colorado and over 9 years we lived and created the life we both dreamed to live together. The foundation was deep, powerful love, and the respect and support we gave each other was a natural consequence.
Manel sought enlightenment from a young age, he climbed the highest peaks on earth and at times experienced glimpses of it up there at the top of the Aconcagua or Denali peak. He was a born healer and teacher and his time teaching in the Barbara Brennan schools in Florida, California and Colorado were a fulfillment of his life purpose in many ways. As was his need to leave the school and create his own body of work.
When he went up that sacred mountain, the Pedraforca, in his homeland of Catalonia, Spain on August 12th, 2024 it was the moment that changed life forever…. We were in Spain planning a new life together of living between the Costa Brava and Boulder Colorado, I believe he found what he had been seeking for so long. A full completion of a life lived so fully and passionately. He always said he was a Warrior of the Light and it was in the light he left his body. In an unthinkable accident that only he and God can know what happened that fateful second as he fell.
Knowing him, a perfect moment of “Divine Precision”, as he always said life was.
But, for me, it was the unimaginable… When he did not come home and the search began, ending in the 2.30am call that they had found him and he was dead was the moment my life changed forever. Though I have lost very close family in my life, I never conceived the devastation this could cause.
It was as if my heart and being had been ripped from my body, I was just numb, walking through life, smiling at those that held me in love from across the world, unable to sleep, eat or think, a grief zombie. I was walking on the other side, he was showing me his transition and the energy fields dissolving, where he was, how he knew he was dead. Real life did not interest me. I raged at him that he did not take me with him. I wanted to be there, to know.
I could not return to our hometown, it was too hard, I could not go back to older versions of myself, or places where Manel’s light still radiated. I wandered from Spain to Boulder to Cape Town to Bali, Greece and back again…. I lost 25lbs in 2 months, I did not recognize my body or mind… I could not fathom a life without Manel. What the hell was I here for?
Widow at 51?! This was not how my life was meant to be!
It’s strange as I always assumed we would grow so old together, we were so healthy and vital, I was always thinking of how to create more longevity for us to live more in this life together. Energy healing was the big factor I see now.
I said it often “I am so excited to grow really old with you in these bodies, maybe I will be like my mum and you’ll be like your Dad” and he would reply “Mmnn, maybe but I will die on the mountain”.
I was in Greece in July 2025 when I got the call that Mum was going fast, she had been diminishing over years with dementia and I had said goodbye to her so many times, but this was it. I got home to Cape Town as fast as I could but she had left, I think she stayed an extra year or so as she knew I could not lose them both together.
I was heading back to Spain for the one year anniversary of Manel’s leaving with his family. How had I survived a whole year without him?! Was it getting easier? Absolutely not! Cancer had come knocking on my door… I had the genes and I believe the shock and loss manifested in my body to process life…
And so began the next journey. But this is a story for another day.
I went to Bali, unsure of what to do… I was just trusting life would lead me where I needed to be.
Here i was held but some loving friends and the power of the primordial elements - the Bali sun, wind, sea and black earth and love of our little terrier Maya.
Everyone told me that I will rise from the ashes of my life. I couldn’t hear or believe it. There is no coming back from this, is what I knew. But in 33 days I will honor 2 years without Manel. This year it will not be a family fiasco, but I will silently remember all we lived and the love that continues to thrive in me. He is here, around me always, showing up to healers, students and clients regularly.
He shows me many times a day, whispering into my heart “I am here, I am with you. Chose the love not the loss” and sends a butterfly or dragonfly across my path immediately.
Life is a multidimensional mystery where true magic does exist.
“Trust in the Invisible” and we do, every day we see its power and healing. All I know is that LOVE is what underpinned all of these big life challenges… For me it is what I am here to live and know fully in this lifetime. Grief is the other side of the coin of love, the shadow that we don’t want to see but the higher the love the greater the shadow we have to stand in at some moment, and it only comes when you somehow survive it can step back into the light of love eventually.
At times I have asked why do we need this? Why do we need healing? Are we not at a place in humanity yet where we are able to listen, tune into our own body and wisdom and find our healing ourselves?
But I also see that many don’t have access to healing that is affordable, multidimensional and skilled.
Somehow Life/the Divine/Existence guided us to create this work that would turn out to be everything for me (and many) to survive the future coming for us.
Yes, the buzz word of the moment is Frequency Medicine, and it should be!
We have worked with this for 6 years now and I feel it is finally becoming something to really be understood as a support and healing technique for life. We struggled with how to explain our work to those outside the schools of Energy work,
But here we are, after more than five hundred healings with tens of thousands of participants creating a Vortex of light on the solstice.
We are a big community of healers and healing that know Light or Energy is the language of our Universe, that talks to us strongly. For our Earth and our Bodies it is essential and brings magic, peace and life to all. It is important that in sacred times of the year we truly honor this, as our ancestors have done for millennia.
It was June 2020 and the world was in full-blown Covid Chaos, we were a team of 4 partners and a group of BBSH trained healers made to stop our lives. All so excited by this new way of bringing healing to our world. An idea that came to Manel as a download one night in Belize. Could it work?
But ideas are a force of creation in our world when shared with friends it manifests into life.
It just began and no one anticipated the power and reach this field would hold. Endless feedback and stories of unbelievable healing and life transformation, especially from those that joined our longer term packages.
There were fundamental elements of integrity never change. A sacred container that could expand into our world in new ways. A new way to be in coherence together. To allow this work to be accessible to all, that it was done as a group healing, to amplify the energy field, strongly supported by the divine, and hold our group in deep Love.
It is a team of highly skilled healers, real people, not a machine, an app or idea. Humans with years of wisdom and experience in this work, from the lineage of Barbara Brennan, with the amplification of many other modalities, their life work, passion, and gifts.
Universal Healing is a deeply human experience of healing. It is also deep trust in the invisible world that holds us beyond our physical and minds.
Energy Medicine is not a silver bullet or once off cure, its an intricate web of long-term support system, slowly bringing you back to balance… physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, through the language of our Universe, Energy.
Our core team has changed, healers have come and gone as life moves, some are still here from the first healing we ever did. When Manel left his body to join the teams on the other side new things came to be and he holds a strong healing field in another dimension for us all.
It is work that is meant to be in our world in this time and place, as it keeps going, our wonderful community keeps showing up. Our work is to Heal and Empower through love.
LOVE is the golden thread that what holds everything together and as I live I see it is truly what we are here to know, in so many different ways.
Universal Healing is one expression of this love.
Nic joined us just over two years ago and understood this work in a higher dimensional way. She has woven a tapestry of healings together in our packages that support different states and issues. She created the new series’ Hara then the Journey which added a long term opportunity for health and has brought incredible success stories. Including mine and others in our team going through severe health crisis.
Is it a meeting of technology and biology? The “technology” is actually love and ancient wisdom. The delivery is from highly trained and passionate healers working through the energy field into our biology. It is significant in the future of medicine that we are barreling fast into.
We are a web of light across the globe from Hawaii to Japan our healers and community hold the light for a better way of living and being.
All I know is Love is what I am here to live, the love for myself, my body, mind, life, earth, family friends and community. It held me through the darkness and brings the light every breath I take.
Love always
Liz Bullen Casanova


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