SPIRITUAL CARE & SUPPORT ~
Spiritual Companionship is a practice of providing clients a caring nonjudgmental space for cultivating listening to that deepest place inside oneself where truth already resides. With mindful presence, attentive listening and gentle inquiry, I accompany a sacred unfolding process for people discovering their own inherent insights, realizations, understandings, and wisdom.
Many people from diverse cultural and spiritual traditions desire stronger connection with their inner lives and with something greater than themselves (however they choose to define that). Some people are spiritually curious. Some people find themselves at spiritual crossroads, needing a safe supportive space for their exploration. I offer a welcoming and confidential place for people. There is no one right way to be spiritual.
Spiritual Companionship is not about offering advice, solutions, or trying to fix things. It is not counseling (which tends to focus on healing the past), nor is it coaching (which tends to focus on achieving specific goals). Rather, this is a practice that focuses on the present, on accepting you exactly where you are now, and on your own unique and unfolding experience of Source (or whatever Name that is right for you).
Over the years, many Spiritual Friends have offered me their gentle loving presencing, a sacred way of looking deep into the well together. I’m immensely grateful for receiving such blessings, and am honored to now share with others this practice of listening to and with Heart, this discipline of Deep Heart. After all, Heart is both a physical and spiritual organ, that place within us where spirit, soul, and body come together in a unity of self.
Private hourly sessions are scheduled on a basis to best support the client, either as a one time session or as ongoing regular monthly support. Setting aside such time and space provides sanctuary in the midst of busy lives and our complex world, creates continuity for clients uncovering their own wisdom, and nurtures an ongoing connection with their inner life.
ENERGETIC HEALING ~
Chakra Clearing with Applied Integration is a healing practice I use in one-on-one sessions. In this work, I attune to a client’s chakras, energetically scanning for compromised areas. Stressed chakras are identified and underlying emotions, beliefs, trauma, losses, history, and/or challenging life experiences causing the imbalance are addressed. Through a gentle inquiry conversation, issues compromising the chakra(s) are explored.
Chakras are energy centers located within our physical bodies. They are constantly mediating life force energy, interfacing with and responding to the world around us. Through this circulating energy, chakras nourish our physiological systems. They are consciousness centers as well, with each chakra representing a specific spectrum of our life activities and expressions. They also encode the energy of what is unresolved or not fully digested in our life experience.
A clear strong chakra means that within a particular sphere of life activity and self-expression, you are healthy, active, and evolving. The area of the body that is influenced by that specific chakra will be vital and strong. On the other hand, a congested, depleted, murky, or closed chakra indicates that you carry unresolved challenge, trauma, or conflict. This can lead to minor or major health challenges and diminished self-expression.
CCAI work requires active client participation. In sessions, I offer energetic practices, new life strategies, and/or other integration processes for self-care and homework. Working in partnership in this way, clients are empowered to energetically clear and resolve chakra imbalances, and to facilitate chakra expression.
This practice of Energetic Healing I offer is borne from personally facing my own life-threatening health crisis. Personal sessions I had with Elizabeth Frediani (Creator and Trainer of CCAI) turned my life around, quite literally. In sessions, the movement of ‘things’, long since stuck inside, was jump started. Energetic self-care practices at home kept the movement and integration going. Something profound shifted. My will to live returned. Today, well and strong, I’m grateful for such healing opportunities and deeply honored to share this healing modality with others!
DEEP LISTENING & MEDITATION GUIDANCE ~
With Deep Listening and Meditation Guidance, I provide practices and practical tools to private clients choosing to turn their attention toward their inner life, toward uncovering insightful or inward-looking awareness.
The purpose of Deep Listening and Meditation practice is to increase one’s awareness of what’s happening in the present moment, to increase one’s familiarity with the whole spectrum of human experience – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Thus, experiencing it with fullness, with acceptance, and with curiosity.
Through self-awareness practices and practical tools, we strengthen our ability to be our own container, to allow with lovingkindness and wisdom our truths, and to hold space for one’s own unique and unfolding process.
We can begin to view our experiences with an open mind and heart, without judgement or expectation. We notice the arising, changing and passing nature of things. Observing experience as continually unfolding phenomena, as a constantly changing wavelike process, as energy endlessly moving through.
My first introduction to meditation was with my father, inviting me to sit crosslegged across from him on the carpeted living room floor. Some time passed before I began realizing the value of that introspective lesson he’d given me. Then, at 30 years of age, it was the practice of turning inward that allowed me to cross the deep ocean of grief after his death.
When providing clients Deep Listening and Meditation Guidance, I draw from a wide breadth of influences and wisdom teachings. To meet clients’ specific requests and needs, various threads of self-awareness practices and practical tools are tailored into a one-of-a-kind weave. My rates are determined on an individual client or small group basis to appropriately reflect each agreement.
