For years, detoxification was something we did to ourselves – a punishment after indulgence, a reset squeezed between deadlines. Juice cleanses, colonics, quick fixes that promised to strip us clean. But true detoxification, as Malin Svensson reminds us, isn’t about deprivation. It’s about remembrance. “The body already knows how to heal,” she says. “It just needs the space to do so.”

Modern life doesn’t give us much space. We move fast, breathe shallow and carry invisible burdens – emotional as much as environmental. Beneath it all, the lymphatic system quietly toils, filtering waste and keeping our internal waters clear. “The lymph is like the body’s river,” Malin explains. “If it stops flowing, everything stagnates – energy, clarity even emotion. When it moves freely, we feel alive again.”

Malin’s understanding of this inner flow didn’t arrive through textbooks or trends, but through experience. She grew up in a small Swedish town with her parents and two older brothers – a place of still lakes and long winters.

Modelling became her passport out – a way to travel, to learn, to breathe in new places. By her early twenties, she was splitting her time between castings in Milan and shifts as an assistant nurse. “Healing always felt like my calling,” she says. “Even in the hospital, I sensed that true health wasn’t just physical. It was emotional, spiritual – something deeper.”

But her own health began to falter. Persistent stomach pain sent her searching for answers that conventional medicine couldn’t quite provide. The turning point came during a transformative ayahuasca ceremony at 23. “It changed everything,” she recalls. “It stripped away the noise and showed me that healing is really about purification – of the body, the mind, the spirit.”

She adopted a plant-based diet, and within weeks her symptoms faded. That shift opened a new path: the study of iridology and detoxification. Through the iris – a delicate constellation of fibres and colours – she learned to read the story of the body. “The eyes are like a map,” she says. “They reveal genetic tendencies and areas that need support long before illness appears. It’s the body’s way of whispering what it needs.”

Guided by her mentor, Dr. Robert Morse, Malin began to see detoxification not as a single act, but as an ongoing dialogue between the body and nature. “Our role is to support what’s already intelligent,” she says. “Nature doesn’t need fixing – she needs listening.”

After years of movement – Miami, London, Lisbon, Bali – Ibiza called her home. The island’s slow rhythm and open-hearted community gave her the grounding she’d been seeking. Today, in a sun-washed sanctuary tucked into the hills, Malin works with clients from all over the world. Her sessions combine lymphatic drainage, plant-based nutrition and gentle guided cleanses.

“Healing isn’t linear,” she says. “It’s a process of unlearning, of making space. When we stop forcing the body to perform and instead support it to release, everything changes – energy, mood, creativity, even purpose.”
Her own rituals are simple: mornings begin with tongue scraping followed by lemon water, days unfold slowly with sunlight and movement. “Small practices make a big difference,” she says. “They remind us that wellness isn’t about perfection – it’s about rhythm.”

What Malin teaches, ultimately, is not how to detox but how to listen – to the subtle language of the body, to the pulse of the lymph, to the moments when stillness feels like medicine. “Detoxification isn’t about taking things away,” she says. “It’s about coming back to what’s true.”
As part of Anima Frequency’s ongoing exploration of the body as a vessel of consciousness, Malin will be sharing her insights through a series of features on cleansing and regeneration – each one an invitation to return to our natural state of flow.