When Christine Rasmussen posted her flyer for her first sound healing event, she wasn't sure anyone would show up. But by morning, her first sound bath was sold out. That moment of trust and faith in things always working out has become something of a theme for Christine. What began as monthly donation-based sound healing gatherings has grown into Find Your Power Wellness, a full-spectrum wellness center now open in El Cajon.
Find Your Power Wellness founder Christine Rasmussen
Nine years ago, Christine was desperately ill. Diagnosed with multiple autoimmune diseases and placed on over ten different medications, she reached a point where she could barely walk. Western medicine, she was told, had done all it could. A doctor looked at her and said: you just have to accept that you're sick. That was the sentence that cracked everything open.
"I just was not familiar with anything outside of typical Western medicine," she recalls, "and I don't think at the time it was as popular or as accepted as it is now." But with nowhere else to turn, she started exploring holistic alternatives, including working with a trauma-specialist shaman, overhauling her diet, tending to her mental health. Within a year, she was in remission.
That journey into alternative healing also became a spiritual awakening, and eventually, the foundation of her life's work. She wanted to create the kind of integrated, whole-person support she had to piece together entirely on her own and craft a space where someone at rock bottom might find everything they need without having to figure it all out alone.
Christine's path to opening the center took some twists and turns. She spent years as a special education teacher, with a bachelor's in neuroscience and psychology and a master's in special education. She loved the kids. But a hostile work environment, overloaded classrooms, and a body beginning to show signs of stress-related relapse pushed her to a breaking point.
"I told myself there's no amount of money, nothing, that could make me deteriorate all of the hard work I did to heal," she says. She gave herself two weeks to think it over. Then she quit, with no plan.
She knew she'd been drawn to yoga teacher training. She went all in, completed her 200-hour certification, then her sound healing certification. She bought her first set of sound bowls with her last $300. "I said, Universe, you better pay me back for these because I'm trusting in you fully right now."
So she started sound baths in the park. And thankfully, people came. In just over two years, roughly 2,000 people have come through Christine's classes, and her community following across Instagram, Eventbrite, and email lists has grown to more than 1,700 people and counting. She handles nearly every facet of the business herself including building the website, creating and editing content, writing training curricula and contracts, coordinating events.
"I feel I've always been an entrepreneurial spirit," she says. "My creative heart loves the chaos of entrepreneurship and solving the unique puzzle that is my path."
Founding Find Your Power Wellness
El Cajon isn't typically the first San Diego neighborhood that comes to mind when people think of wellness as that distinction usually goes to the beach cities. But Christine sees that as exactly the point.
"What we're trying to do here is make it everything wellness, all in one," she says, "and not just physical wellness, which I feel like is the main focus at every other studio."
The new space is built around a vision that's rare to find under one roof: fitness and yoga classes alongside private appointment rooms being stocked with acupuncturists, myofascial release practitioners, nutritionists, dietitians, and holistic mental health therapists, including a clinical psychologist. Down the line, Christine also wants to bring in career, purpose, and financial wellness support because true wellbeing, in her view, spans all eight dimensions: physical, emotional, spiritual, social, financial, occupational, intellectual, and environmental.
One detail she's especially excited about is the center’s open meditation hours, offering a free, quiet, safe space for anyone who needs it. "It sounds so simple," she says, "but it's what many people don't have access to."
Classes are priced accessibly by design as Christine is deliberate about keeping the space trauma-informed and financially accessible, values rooted in her own story. The center’s generous intro offer is two weeks of unlimited classes free, and a monthly unlimited membership runs $99.
As for what comes next for Find Your Power Wellness? She's not mapping it out too precisely. A potential long-term dream involves a farm, a homestead, and wellness retreats somewhere off the grid. But for now, she's staying present and following the cues, as she always has.
"If you would have asked me in January, I would have said you're crazy," she says. "None of this has ever been planned. And I feel like it's taken on a life of its own."
Find Your Power Wellness is now open at 2333 Fletcher Pkwy, El Cajon. Two weeks of unlimited classes are available free for new members. Visit their website for the class schedule, provider appointments, and research resources.
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