Maria V. Sanchez
CERTIFIED TOLPAKAN™ HEALING METHOD PRACTITIONER, M.ED, M.A.
Hi I am Maria Sanchez, the Authenticity Activator. I am on a mission to help women and families shed the labels that limit their authentic expression and illuminate their innate gifts. As a wellness coach and TOLPAKAN™ Healing Practitioner, I empower those who have felt confined by labels of illness or dis-ease rise above them and embody their self-worth, self-confidence, and self-awareness. What I'm most passionate about is supporting others to embrace their true selves and live a life that feels aligned, meaningful and uniquely their own.
If you’re ready to step into who you truly are — or even just wondering what life could be like beyond the labels — I’d be honored to connect with you.
Book a Complimentary Call to Explore How I Can Support Your Journey.
About Me...
When I first learned of TOLPAKAN™ Healing, I didn’t expect to become a practitioner. I was a classroom teacher and felt I’d found my calling. Now, looking back, I see how my path and life purpose led me here. As an adoptee, and later working in a profession that celebrates constant giving, I learned how easy it is to disconnect from my authenticity in order to belong. Perhaps like many sensitive souls, I adapted by disconnecting from my inner knowing and connecting to outer expectations. And, along the way, my nervous system adapted as well, shaped by emotional, generational, and energetic stress.
Looking back, I see how my body began to speak through symptoms that were labeled and treated, yet never fully understood. In my late twenties and thirties I was given diagnoses meant to explain anxiety, depression, autoimmune, and digestive distress, but something in me sensed that these explanations were addressing symptoms, not root causes. That quiet knowing stayed with me, and I saw it through my parents’ health journeys and years of serious medical crises. 2022 was a difficult year for me. Both my parents had passed away and my relationship with my brother was strained. While it was too late to change my family story, it wasn’t too late to understand my own.
That’s why discovering Dr. Karen’s work felt miraculous. TOLPAKAN™ Healing helped me reach and heal the root causes. I believe many of our ailments stem from disconnection: from ourselves, from others, and from the deeper love we were created to express. They can also be our greatest teachers back to purpose. Holding this belief changed not only how I healed, but how I now walk alongside others on their healing journeys.
As a Practitioner, I am like a spiritual midwife holding space, listening deeply, and honoring the precise timing of what is ready to heal or transform. I help people come home to themselves. Every child, and every adult, deserves to thrive beyond the labels they were given, the roles they felt they had to play, and the limits they unconsciously took on as their own
Certifications
TOLPAKAN™ Healing Method
Certified Practitioner
Trauma Informed Abundance
Coaching Certification
Happy For No Reason™
Certified Trainer
M.Ed. Curriculum & Instruction for Diverse Learners
M.A. Teaching Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Teach Using Technology
Psychology Technician Certificate
Son-Rise Program® Intern
B.A. Psychology
Certified Traditional & Vocational Career Education Teacher
Training
Emotion Code®
Brain Gym®
MindUp™
Responsive Classroom™ 1 & 2
How I Help...
I help women and children whose nervous systems have learned to stay overly alert or guarded. In our work together, we gently release what may be blocking you and support the restoration of balance and internal safety. As your system begins to settle, emotional, energetic, and generational patterns can release —patterns that often show up as anxiety, self-doubt or feeling disconnected from your body and intuition. From this place, clarity and ease naturally emerge allowing you to move forward guided by your own timing, truth, and inner knowing.
Nervous System Calming
Release Generational Patterns
Dissolve Limiting Patterns
Release Energetic Blocks
Case Studies...
Going from Anxiety and Stress to Calm and Relaxed
Terri came with anxiety and stress around an upcoming event where she would be seeing her ex-husband after many years. The anticipation had triggered ruminating thoughts, physical tension, headaches, and an increase in negative comparative thinking. She also wanted support in feeling more proactive and grounded as she explored new ADHD treatment options.
During the TOLPAKAN™ Healing session, we found a seed emotion connected to past experiences that was contributing to the anxiety patterns. As the emotion was identified and transmuted, Terri felt a distinct energetic shift in her chest “like something moved,” followed by the release of her headache and the dissolving of anxiety sensations in her stomach. She described feeling a cool almost breezy sensation around her eyes and crown that felt like a physical signal of the clearing.
After our sessions, Terri felt more at ease, physically lighter, and notably calmer when thinking about the upcoming event. Her ruminating thoughts, comparative thinking, and stress responses dropped significantly, with self reported intensity ratings moving down to 0 and a 2. She shared that she was surprised by how relaxed she felt even while discussing stressful topics and noted feeling less stressed in her body overall. *
Finally, a Sense of Peace and Safety
Debbie came with symptoms related to anxiety and stress around family relationships. She had been feeling physically run down, overwhelmed about next steps regarding employment, and felt like she was stuck in unhealthy thought patterns of blaming, complaining and feeling guilty about family dynamics.
Negative beliefs that were perpetuating abundance challenges were released during the TOLPAKAN™ Healing sessions in addition to clearing specific low vibrational frequencies and emotional debris. During the session Debbie shared she felt greater awareness of her physical body and noticed how throughout the session a growing sense of calm was felt. Additionally downloading positive frequencies brought not only a positive shift but confirmation for some recent choices she had made like adding new vitamins and supplements. She felt a sense of validation and understanding for some of the energetic alignments that were identified.
Before our sessions, she was feeling physical tension, digestive upset, low energy, distractibility, and mixed emotions about family dynamics plus anxiety about beginning a new teaching position. Afterwards she felt a sense of peace, calmness, warmth and safety. Being in STOIM also brought her a great deal of comfort where she was aware of outside distractions yet able to maintain a feeling of inner peace. She continues creating time for STOIM and has noticed how it allows for a productive reset. *
Childhood-Rooted Imprints, Gone.
Laura came with a feeling of heaviness in her thoracic/chest area, emotional blocks related to experiencing abundance and expressing her spiritual gift, and general feeling of stuckness in her day-to-day life.
During the TOLPAKAN™ Healing work, we found specific childhood-rooted imprints contributing to the emotional heaviness and physical tension she had been carrying. As these were identified and cleared, Laura felt a noticeable lightness spreading through her body and reported that the sense of heaviness “just dropped.” In addressing the issues she selected for deeper healing, the intensity of her symptoms decreased, shifting from high levels to much more manageable ones. She described feeling lighter, calmer, and less “stuck” in what she had been struggling with.
Afterward, Laura felt more hopeful, a renewed sense of ease, and emotionally free. She described the experience as gentle yet powerfully effective. *
Working with me...
01
ILLUMINATION call
You can expect a conversation focused on clarity. Through gentle inquiry and STOIM, we discuss possibilities and your current reality.
We will identify your healing goals and I will conduct a mini assessment and share areas ready for healing, possible patterns, and next steps so you have a sense of what’s possible for you.
Whether or not we work together, my intention is that you leave feeling clearer and empowered. If we decide to work together, you’ll choose the support option (single session or package) that feels most aligned for you and schedule your first healing session.
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PRIVATE Session
Each session begins with a brief check-in — a chance to share how you’ve been since we last met and what feels most present for you that day.
From there, the focus of the session is guided, first by connecting to Source and then by Divine Muscle Testing to determine if the predetermined agenda is what your system is ready for, and if not identify what is most supportive for your healing path.
The work itself is quiet, gentle, and attuned. We co-create a safe space that allows your inner wisdom to communicate what’s ready to shift and the session flows in a natural and supportive pace to promote nervous system regulation and allow for an integrative experience. Sessions build on one another, supporting meaningful and lasting change.
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Between-Session Support
After a session, the focus is on integration — allowing what shifted to settle naturally into your body and daily life. Much of the healing continues quietly on its own. I’ll offer guidance, as needed, on how to support yourself in the hours and days following our work together.
❝I’ll admit, I wasn’t sure what to expect when Maria worked with both me and my child. I tend to be more science-minded, but I noticed subtle and real changes. After my session, I felt calmer and more aware of my body in ways I hadn’t before. A few days after my child's session, she was noticeably more relaxed—she even got ready for bed on her own without resistance! I may joke about Maria’s ‘woo-woo energy stuff,’ but the shifts speak for themselves.❞ *
❝I experienced a profound energetic healing during my session with Maria, with a deeply rooted issue being identified and released. I felt grief flowing, recalibrations happening, and felt gently guided to connect with my inner child. The issue of ringing in my ears also softened, and when she worked on the astral cord, there was a wave of remembrance and spiritual support—almost like being realigned with my own spirit and held by my guides. Even my vision brightened, as if touched by something angelic. I ended the session feeling clearer, more supported, and more aligned with my purpose. Thank you Maria!❞ *
❝I can’t thank Maria enough for our powerful TOLPAKAN Sessions! When we began, I was anxious about travel as I was leaving Bosnia for an unexpected visit to Turkey then moving to Peru with lots of variables, overwhelmed with coursework, and carrying tension around weight. In our first session, I had a deep emotional release and felt renewed clarity. Maria helped me reconnect with my purpose — reminding me that my work with clients, traveling the world, and leading Lemurian Crystal Activations is JOYful and meaningful. By our second session, my anxiety, stress, and weight concerns had lifted. I now feel balanced, grounded, and at peace — moving forward with ease and JOY.❞ *
Fun Facts About Me!
- Music and poetry have been a creative outlet since I was young. Today I play guitar and piano and enjoy writing and singing original songs. And I love singing and harmonizing with others.
- My cousins and I made up our own language as children. Wuthutatut! Yes it’s tutrutue.
- I’ve written the first of a three book children’s picture book series about adoption from the child’s perspective called, Love Makes Room ~ Before We Were Four.
- I have a photographic memory of sorts and love playing those Spot the Difference games.
If you’re ready to step into who you truly are — or even just wondering what life could be like beyond the labels — I’d be honored to connect with you.
Book a Complimentary Call to Explore How I Can Support Your Journey.
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