We’re looking forward to introducing you to Camila Oopp. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Camila Oopp, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
The first 90 minutes of my day are everything, they set the tone for how I show up, not just for my clients, but for myself.
I usually wake up around 9 am, then I head outside, barefoot if I can, and drink coconut water or a smoothie, sit in the garden. Just feeling the air on my skin and listening to the sounds around me, it reminds me I’m alive, that today is sacred.
If I’m in the Hamptons, I walk to the ocean early. I love how quiet it is at that hour. I’ll slip into the water, sometimes just up to my knees, sometimes all the way in. The salt, the cold, the movement… it’s a way to wash off any heaviness and reconnect with something celestial. Then I sit at my altar, light a candle, maybe burn some palo santo or copal,
and meditate.
Before I see my first client, I cleanse the room, lay fresh linens, place a small crystal on the table, and say a quiet prayer for the soul who’s coming in. I want everything to feel intentional, held, and beautiful.
This ritual is how I anchor myself, it’s how I remember who I am, why I do what I do, and how I keep my heart open for the healing to flow.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hi, I’m Camila, founder of Buddhas Heart, a luxury holistic healing brand rooted in ancient healing, sacred ritual, and heartled presence. I specialize in working with high-performing individuals, leaders, creatives, and visionaries. Who carry deep emotional, physical, and energetic loads. My sessions are designed to help them return to themselves through a personalized blend of bodywork, energy healing, breath, and sound.
Buddhas Heart was born in Los Angeles in 2022 and now lives between Financial District – New York, the Hamptons, and seasonally in Miami Beach and West Palm Beach, where I offer private healing experiences a few times a year. What makes my work unique is the intention behind it. Every session is a sanctuary. It’s about slowing down, restoring balance, and reconnecting with the deeper wisdom of the heart.
Beyond healing, I’m deeply inspired by travel and art. I’ve visited over 45 countries, and that global perspective has shaped how I hold space. I also express my creativity through body painting, it’s one of my favorite ways to celebrate beauty, energy, and connection. Right now, I’m expanding our Concierge Healing Experiences in the Hamptons and co-creating with aligned souls who are looking for healing that feels sacred and deeply human.
This is more than a brand, it’s a living, breathing sanctuary without walls. A place where healing becomes art, and presence becomes power.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. Who taught you the most about work?
Honestly, life has been my greatest teacher, especially in the moments of surrender, reinvention, and deep service.
During my first two years in New York, I gave over 700 healing treatments. That level of dedication was a true initiation. It taught me discipline, intuition, and the power of showing up fully, even when no one is watching. That experience shaped me more than any textbook ever could.
Along my journey through my travels over the world I’ve met mentors in the most unexpected places. Healers, artists, temple keepers, teachers. Some offered me knowledge, others inspired me through the integrity of how they move through the world, how they build from truth, and how they care for people with humility and strength.
Spending time in Buddhist monasteries and Hare Krishna temples also left a mark on my soul. The simplicity, the devotion, the rhythm of sacred service, it reminded me what it means to live and work from the heart.
So while I’ve studied techniques and modalities, the deepest learning has come from real people, real presence, and real practice. Every experience, every client, every ritual continues to teach me.
What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
One of the most defining wounds of my life has been losing both of my parents. My father passed in 2012 when I was just 17, and I lost my mother ten years later in 2022, at 27. Those experiences shattered me and shaped me.
They taught me how fragile and fast life moves, and how deeply precious our time here is. After losing them, I realized that material things don’t hold the weight we think they do. What truly matters are the experiences we choose, the moments we create, and the presence we offer to ourselves and others.
I also walked through intense seasons of depression, anxiety, and grief and those became some of my greatest teachers. They brought me into the depths of my own pain.
And because of that, when I work with clients, I don’t stand above them, I meet them eye to eye. I know what it feels like to be in pain. I know how it feels to feel lost. And I also know how it feels to rise, slowly, and come back home to myself with resilience.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
A big lie is around the idea of the “healer” as someone superior. I personally feel deep rejection toward spiritual superiority, people who put themselves on a pedestal, acting like they’re more evolved just because they wear all white or use certain titles. Real healing doesn’t happen from above. It happens when we meet each other soul to soul, from the same place.
To hold space for others, you have to be willing to go into your own shadow. To sit with your own pain. To face your own fears. Otherwise, it’s just performance.
True healing is humble. It’s human. And it doesn’t require you to pretend you’re enlightened, it requires you to be real.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. When do you feel most at peace?
I feel most at peace when I’m next to the ocean. There’s something about the waves washing over me that clears all the energy I’ve gathered from clients throughout the day. Feeling the sun on my skin, it’s like a reset for my mind, body, and spirit.
That connection to nature grounds me and reminds me to simply be.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.buddhashearthealing.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buddhashearthealing/
- Other: https://classpass.com/studios/buddhas-heart-healing–new-york
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