I combine practices and tools from ancient healing systems and contemporary psycho-somatic studies to meet all of you where you are today for a truly integrative and holistic investigation of Self.
I believe that each person accesses their body and inner landscape in different ways. The practices we will work with in our sessions will be catered to your needs in the present. Below are some of the healing tools we might explore together.
Embodiment
Embodiment work encompasses any practice that helps us to sense, feel and be present with our physical body. Living our lives with the compass of body allows our our heart and our instincts to guide. This practice brings us to presence, which is the foundation for healing, for self-love and deep human connection. Embodiment practices I work with include movement, yoga, psoas explorations, myofascial work, inner-sensing and self-massage.
Breathwork
Breath is the most essential thing for human survival, yet somehow most of us have forgotten how to breathe well. Attuning to and learning to deepen the quality of your breathing is one of the most powerful things you can do in a daily way to free yourself of patterns that are obscuring your true Self.
I draw on both contemporary somatic and ancient Yoga practices in this work.
Plant Medicine
We are all One with Nature, but our modern lives are moving us further and further from actually feeling this connection. Days go by where our feet never even touch unpaved Earth.
Working with plants for healing can take various forms, but all will help to re-align us with Nature. Herbs can be applied topically for musculoskeletal pain, internally to calm, cleanse or revitalize the body. Essential oils bring shifts in consciousness due to the connection between scent and the limbic system in our brain. Flower essences are vibrational, working to clear energetic blockages.
Psychedelic medicines provide profound access to hidden parts of ourselves and inner system and unique opportunities for understandings, unburdenings and release.
Sometimes we are so disconnected, we need strong plant medicines to bring us back. Other times it is the gentle nourishers that are needed most.
Parts Work
Inspired by Internal Families Systems (IFS), my own intuitive inner-work and other modalities that recognize the multifaceted nature of being, I invite you to be curious about your own parts. We all regularly recognize that we have parts within us when we have a decision to make, but our investigation of said parts usually stops there. The various parts within us have different roles and behavior. Some are there to protect us, some parts hide, some hold pain from childhood experiences and some steal the show even though we don’t feel particularly aligned with them. Some parts and patterns we inherit from our lineage.
Through conversation and inner-journeying, I will guide you in meeting and understanding the parts within you in a paced, safe and illuminating way.
Ceremony
The world at large is fraught with much calamity and chaos, I find healing work leads us to some form of surrender to the Great Mystery. For me, this is a relief, a place I find refuge.
I do not dictate to you what prayer or ceremony needs to look like in your life, how you define it or engage in. However, I will invite you to explore your connection to the sacred, to consciousness, to the unexplainable and most importantly, to the deep well of love that exists in your heart.