Joanna Lessing-Pernak i Sean Sing Fung Yuen

Sean Sing Fung Yuen

I am an acupuncturist, doctor of Chinese medicine, and healer with over 15 years of experience.
During the festival, I offer acupuncture sessions, cupping, massage, and energy therapy for participants.
I love supporting people in discovering their inner power to self-heal – through positive affirmations, meditation, and prayer.

Joanna Lessing-Pernak 

I never thought the time would come in my life when I’d find it so difficult to put into words who I am.

Once, I knew exactly who I was – a doctor of psychology, university lecturer, psychotherapist, supervisor in clinical child psychology, president of a limited company “Center for Mindfulness”, hippotherapist, recipient of the Medal of the National Education Commission and a UNICEF Child Rights Sheriff, author of monographs and articles often heavily censored by the scientific paradigm.

In the background, a yoga teacher.
A mother of two nearly grown daughters.
Caretaker of four horses, two cats, and a dog.
A triple horsewoman.

Now my views have changed so much that I find myself questioning whether I even want to introduce myself through those limited, external achievements.
Do they hold any real truth about who I am anymore?

My true success is the deep, courageous inner journey — one that comes without certificates or diplomas.

For my so-called achievements in the patriarchal outer world, I paid with a spiteful breast cancer — a Master, a Guru, and a guide who led me to real life.
I entered the true academy of miracles — the healing of body, mind, and soul.
It was a hard school, one in which I died and was reborn.

I made several important decisions:
First, to survive physically.
Second, to truly live — as a woman.
To reclaim my feminine power.
To allow myself to experience pleasure, bliss, joy, and ecstasy, instead of remaining trapped in the grind of duty and pressure.

The truth is, I know very little about myself — I’m only just beginning to emerge, shyly, from the burqa of my PhD and all those rigid, imposed labels and boxes.

I’m 53 years old, and my life has only just begun anew. I’m like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, waiting in the sun for my wings to dry.

I know that I am rooted, wild, radical, uncompromising, unyielding, authentic, true, and free.
I feel like a conscious ambassador of Mother Earth — a priestess and a goddess all at once, standing at the altar of my own life.
A student of interspecies communication, and an adjutant of accelerated growth — a professional guide in the art of transformation, both my own and that of others.

In the world of my dreams, I would be stepping into the role of tribal elder — serving the tribe with my experience, and with the love and wisdom that have grown from it.