Description of some of my practice:
*HOUSE OF BELONGING, a series for health and soul enrichment.
In the Celtic tradition, the body is a home for the soul. Your body is your “house of belonging”; your soul is resident.
Your active presence brings you to the hearth of your house. Your active presence translates your identity luminously into a clear and vibrant self. When we feel at home, we feel we belong. We might feel at peace, inspired, complete, full, and thankful of the present moment. We become aware of our gift that we have to offer to the world.
“God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.”
Meister Eckhart
Through bodywork, and through visiting curiosity, intention, feelings, senses and dreams, you will find the hearth of your own soul.
The Hearth’s Path will include some of the following: The original LaStone Therapy, Visionary Cranial Sacral work,*bodywork, somatic integration, and presencing sessions. These sessions may include EMDR, narrative technique, body prayer, noetic field integration, or other modalities of body/mind linking. Through actual experience, we can begin to remember a language that is understood throughout our body, our prayers, and our connection to our deepest callings.
Note:* The House of Belonging is the name of a poem by poet David Whyte, and the inspiring works of author John O’Donahue, especially Anam Cara, are relevant to my work.”
Your Hearth’s Path sessions will be custom designed according to your questions and desires.
A sample of a series of Hearth’s Path sessions:
Session one:
Bringing the question or bringing the state of being:
You may have dilemmas that have been your companions for years, or you may have a prompting inside yourself to do something differently; but you may not know how to address it. You may have physical complaints, or dreams that are recurring. This session is one for deciding what is desired and what is needed to bring greater union inside yourself.
Session two:
We embark upon a session of somatic counseling therapy or EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) or other counseling technique to find curiosity and discovery, and the core of the dilemma.
Session three:
A session in Visionary cranial sacral work begins to show any physical, emotional, archetypal patterns that have been recurring through energetic and biological precedents.
Session four:
Now it is time to have a review dialogue about insights, changes, and to see how a core issue may have revealed itself, physically, emotionally, through dreams or changes in behavior. Curiosity emerges, and new possibilities may arise.
You notice you are relaxing, absorbing, and allowing yourself to be tended to, and to be more attentive to yourself.
Session five:
This is a unique time to begin to unlock negative patterns from the physical and emotional levels through bodywork accompanied by blessings and your own insights. There may be an unwinding or a release of somatic habits that you no longer wish and no longer require. You may begin to have your inner eyes open to a landscape of safety, comfort, and belonging.
Session six:
Forgiveness and gratitude often walk hand in hand.
This session may be a LaStone session where the comfort of the earth seeps into you deeply as you are surrounded by hot stones and cold marble stones (alternated with hot) for any tightly bound areas . This is a time you may feel like acknowledging both the old and new blessings that are in your life. You may feel ready to receive more love, and to fully occupy your house of Belonging, and welcome others to your hearth.
Sessions are one to two hours long, with a total of approximately 10 hours in a series of six treatments.
You may expect: More relaxation, more clarity as to purpose and to future endeavors, greater connection with your Self and your positive abilities, improved general health including chronic problems, a joyous response to what “is next” in your life, relationship resolution, radiance and peace. You may feel more “presence” and have an expanded sense of spiritual guidance.
You will learn: How to integrate blessings into your ordinary life. How to create a simple program for self nurturing that will assist you in positive habits and attend to your inner and outer glow and radiance. Some easy movements to help lubricate your joints and bring mobility and graceful expression. You will learn to appreciate your gifts and your Self.
“ If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
Meister Eckhart
