About me. Ryan Martin.
Firstly, a big hello and welcome!
I wanted to use this page to share more about my background and personal journey.
Below, you’ll see more details on my approach and the modalities that shape my Inner Reset work with clients. I want to mention — everything I do with clients is something I’ve personally experienced in great depth and have seen life-changing results from. I only offer what I truly believe in.
This is followed by a “series of events” of my story so far, and what brought me into my soul calling of supporting other people’s healing journeys.
Thanks for reading and big love to you!
Ryan
My approach to facilitating healing.
The modalities I’ve studied and that form the basis of Inner Reset sessions are deeply connected to my own healing journey. After exploring many forms of therapy and inner work, I found that these approaches truly get to the root of what keeps us stuck. They’ve changed my life — and are now helping my clients experience profound, lasting transformation.
Somatic Alignment
Somatic Alignment combines breathwork, body de-armouring, and polyvagal theory to facilitate profound healing on the nervous system level. By reintroducing safety to the body, this work helps discharge sympathetic (survival) nervous system energy and suppressed emotion, creating restoration on physical, emotional, and energetic levels. Somatic Alignment delivers exactly what your body needs and is ready for. I have so much confidence in this modality.
I completed my facilitator training with the co-founder of the method, Santi Ramirez - whose integrity, devotion, and embodiment inspire me deeply.
Official website of the Somatic Alignment method.
Emotional Clearing
Emotional Clearing opened the door to true emotional freedom for me. Through a guided inner process, I take you into the depths of your inner, emotional world. We connect with the emotions that have been suppressed and are dramatically influencing your experience of life - knowingly or unknowingly to you - and we clear them out. This is accomplished through unconditional acceptance of these emotions and contacting what was never felt - in a safe and manageable way.
I trained with John Ruskan, the founder of this method, whose trailblazing approach significantly shapes my work. I highly recommend his books for anyone drawn to deep emotional healing.
Official website of the Emotional Clearing method.
In addition, I have completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (India) and Reiki level I (Canada) & II (India). Although not central to my client work, I have a deep respect and appreciation for both and incorporate them when appropriate.
My guiding principles.
ONE. No one is broken, we just have pain within us that significantly impacts our experience of life and blocks our true nature.
TWO. Healing = connecting with and releasing what was never felt.
THREE. Establishing a safe, trusting container is essential for healing to occur.
FOUR. Inner world -> outer world. If you want a better life, go within first.
FIVE. The healing journey is actually the journey of finding your true self - the journey home. And it might just be the most important journey of our lives.
2012-2017
“Struggling In Silence”
Seen as the good kid, sociable, fun, athletic, well-liked, lots of friends.
Someone who feels so deeply, without any tools to handle it, stuffing emotions down, inner world is too scary to go near.
My Story.
2017
“The Breakdown”
Full-on breakdown, can’t keep this pain contained anymore, ER hospital visit, bipolar type 2 diagnosis.
Medication train begins, wow these side effects suck and I’m not feeling better.
Talk therapy, group therapy, support groups, DBT, CBT, ABC, XYZ - all the tools to try to “manage” and feel “normal”, like everyone else.
2018
“Sharing My Truth”
It’s time to share my struggles with the world, hopefully this will inspire other people to do the same and not feel alone.
Launch Mindcycle, solo bike across Canada for four months, raise $125K (team effort), speak in front of thousands of people across the country, National TV and radio interviews, newspaper, podcasts.
Sharing story is helping me feel less alone, but pain inside is still here. Damn.
2018-2022
“Band-Aids on Bullet Holes”
Hyper focused on getting rid of the surface level symptoms - general & social anxiety, depression, suicidal ideations. Does addressing this actually change anything WITHIN me? Why do I hurt so deeply?
Running from feelings and pain without knowing it, co-dependent to feel ok.
2022
“Cracked Open”
Long-term relationship ends, bats come out of the inner cave, I’m pushed to the brink, it’s all too much, ER hospital visit to handle a mental health crisis.
I’m so aware of this pain, it hurts so much, but how do I actually HEAL? How do I get better?
2022-2024
“Time For REAL Healing”
Learn about my trauma and inner wounds, getting to the “root” of inner pain. Confirm with new psychiatrist that I don’t have bipolar - just a deep feeler with a lot of pain inside. Go off meds after 8 yrs.
Doing all the healing modalities: EMDR, brainspotting, plant medicine, energy work, past life regression, IFS, Shamanism, breathwork, art therapy, EFT tapping.
Seeing massive progress, still feeling pain, but I’m learning how to dance with it and release what’s suppressed. Something’s working.
2024
“WTF is a Spiritual Awakening?”
Everything starts changing. My understanding of myself, my life, all of life, comes flooding in. Intuition, soul, Universe, Source, God, karma, past lives, Consciousness, the Witness, a soul experiencing a human life, duality, non-duality, spirit guides, and on and on.
And so the awakening has begun (or was it always happening?) - wow. I have no clue what’s going on, but this feels so true.
Late 2024
“Everything Feels Off”
My career in the business world, the city I’m living in (love you Calgary!), my life - all feel unaligned.
My heart and soul are becoming increasingly loud about stepping into my true calling to help people with their healing — but what about my current life? The certainty, the paycheck, the routine?
The pain of staying is becoming greater than the fear of going into the unknown.
Winter 2025
“Goodbye Old Life, Hello India!”
Quit job, drive home across Canada, leave all belongings in my Dad’s garage, buy one-way ticket to Delhi.
Three months in India, mostly alone, mostly in the Himalayas.
Learn a healing technique called Emotional Clearing. It changes my life and my understanding of healing. I think “Amazing! This is what I’ll use to help people!”. Universe says, “NOPE, not yet. You need to use this heavily on yourself first.” Enter hermit mode in India.
“Wherever you go, there you are”. No more distractions. Learned how to be with and integrate my greatest pains - a skill I’ll now have forever.
Summer 2025
“Becoming a Space Holder”
At a soul level, I’m ready to hold space for other people’s healing journeys.
Become certified as an Emotional Clearing and a Somatic Alignment facilitator. Both are “going to the root” modalities, working with the body and breath to release deep wounds, ease the nervous system, and bring in true inner transformation.
Both have changed my life, and now I get to hold space for other people to experience the same.
