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Meet Jay Uecker of BioSoul Integration Center in Louisville

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jay Uecker.

Jay, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
In order to do that I’ve got to go back to when I was 13. I had an ATV accident that I was lucky to walk away from. In the weeks and months after that accident, I started to experience all sorts of strange symptoms in my body: back pain, burning behind my shoulder blades, overall stiffness. My dad took me to see his chiropractor.

I experienced something pretty extraordinary there. Once or twice a week, I would go see him. I would lay down on his table and he would adjust my spine in specific places. Over the weeks that I saw him, my body started to feel better and work better. The pain and burning and tension started to abate. But there were other things that changed. I stopped getting the bronchial infections that I was used to getting every year. The headaches that I often got went away, too. I didn’t really notice these things before because they had become a normal part of my life. It wasn’t until they went away that I paid any attention to them. Every session, I’d leave the chiropractor feeling kind of a pleasant buzz and a sense of well-being. It was then that it occurred to me that I might want to be a chiropractor someday.

I did end up going to chiropractic school. While I was there, I was studying under some chiropractors who were similar to the chiropractor my dad had taken me to, what I would call “conventional” chiropractic. I had experienced a lot of positive change over the years as a result of conventional chiropractic but I still had occasional, intense bouts of back pain. Here I was about to graduate from chiropractic school and my back pain wasn’t “fixed” yet. I about to set myself up as someone who could help others with their pain and yet I hadn’t discovered the solution to my own.

So I started looking at other forms of chiropractic. That’s when a friend of mine suggested I go see a woman who did something called Network Chiropractic. She worked on me in an open room with multiple people. She would take these gentle contacts and then walk away. I was very skeptical because, compared to what I was used to, she was barely touching me. But then I did start to notice something. I noticed my breathe changing during sessions. I felt tension rising and falling away, leaving me with that sort of effervescent sense of well-being again.

It was after the fifteenth session that I walked out of her office one day. It occurred to me that the colors seemed much brighter and more vibrant than they had. The sky seemed more alive than I remembered it. As I was standing there, I started to notice this amazing sensation that was coming up from where my back usually hurt and into my heart. Looking back, I realize that this amazing feeling was GRATITUDE, but at the time, I didn’t know what it was. Under the influence of gratitude, I had all sorts of thoughts about how great life was and the many possibilities that were available to me. To be honest, this was in stark contrast to how I usually was, cynical, judgmental, hard on myself and others. I could suddenly see how the problems I was having in life were mostly of my own making. A veil of sorts had been removed from my eyes. On top of all of this, my back pain changed drastically for the better.

In light of the experience I’d had, it occurred to me that just helping people get rid of their pain was setting the bar pretty low. Not only had I become a much better version of myself but I was a much better version of myself with much less pain to boot. I wanted to help other people experience the same thing.

I’ve been practicing in the area now for twenty years. I’ve worked with nearly 3000 people over the course of that time, helping them navigate the ups and downs that happen during the natural course of one’s healing journey.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Definitely not smooth. As I just mentioned, ups and downs are a natural part of the healing journey. When I first started out nearly 20 years ago, I was having a hard time getting enough clients to make it work. I ended up taking a position as a resident manager of an apartment complex on University Hill in Boulder. That was humbling. Here I was, a doctor, cleaning puke off the walkways the morning after a college party.

I had a pretty large practice going by 2008. I was seeing hundreds of people a week. I had a full-time marketing person and a front desk person. Then 2008 came along and the recession definitely had an impact. I guess the kind of work I do is somewhat of a luxury to most people. It became clear that I needed to downsize.

I moved my office to a spot in the Christopher Village in Louisville. It turned out that the smaller office was perfect. I’m still there and love it. I see less people but overhead is much lower. I’m able to go deeper with folks. It’s been more satisfying.

Three years ago, I decided I wanted to write a book for my business. I saw a program on Facebook called “Write a book in 90 days.” I thought, “that’s it.” Well, three years later, I’m still working on it. Writing a book has been an epic journey. I’m getting transformed along the way. At the beginning of the year, I decided that If I was going to finish this book, I needed to devote more time to it and so I’ve dialed back my office hours. Consequently, business is slow right now but I understand that I’m in the process of unfolding something that will lead to more expansion later on. Knowing that I’m on my soul’s path is very satisfying.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
I call my work BioSoul Integration. The big idea is that Life is constantly drawing us toward our awakening… toward our growth and evolution as human beings. In the course of being drawn toward our more authentic selves, we’re being drawn through our defended senses of self, the parts of us that have believed we are less than because of having been overwhelmed by the hurts and traumas and accidents we’ve encountered along the way,

As Life draws us toward a new level of our evolution, before a breakthrough, it will likely be physically and/or emotionally intense… painful even. My job is to help people amplify the expansive parts of the journey and integrate the painful parts, help them smooth out and speed up their transition from the person they were to the person’s life is calling them to be.

The focus there is different than even most alternative healthcare modalities. Through the work I’m doing, we’re really trusting that whatever the person is experiencing is the solution. It’s what they need to feel to move them to the next stage of their evolution.

In working with people, we focus on what’s working in their bodies as opposed to what’s broken or needs to be “fixed.” My work takes advantage of the nervous system’s ability to self organize and self observe itself. If we can draw the nervous system out of defense, then it can start to observe itself from the perspective of what’s working…where there’s resource. When it can see itself through the lens of what’s resourced, then it can spread that resource to places where the nervous system can’t move information so freely and easily, where it’s crated survival programs. In the process, the energy that was bound up in the pain or the tension gets integrated.

So people’s pain changes, their posture changes but so do the unproductive ways that they’re interacting with themselves… the stories they tell themselves, the belief systems. They start to feel a wider deeper range of emotions, as well. Emotions exist on a continuum. If we’re limiting the range and depth of say grief, it limits the range and depth of joy we can feel. When people are able to go into and process grief or anger or fear, then they’re able to experience a greater level of joy and love and gratitude as well. Seen through the lens of what’s resourced, our pain becomes fuel that drives us toward our wholeness… toward giving our gifts and living our purpose on the planet.

Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
I like the ways in which Louisville feels like a small town… the sense of community I feel here. I like that I have relatively quick access to everything that a big city has to offer because Denver and Boulder are just down the road. But it seems that more and more people are moving here and the amount of building that’s going on is crazy. I used to be able to see the mountains on my drive to work and I used to be able to see them from my office. But they’re building these huge apartment buildings that block out the view. It makes me sad that they couldn’t find a way to build without blotting out nature.

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