One-to-one sessions allow us to bring our respective gifts and knowing together into a shared space as we follow the weave of image, memory, felt sense, creative inspiration and story together around an inquiry or curiosity of your choosing. This is a place where I can assist you in grounding your nervous system, unburdening your energetic field, building deeper relationships with supportive energies in both the physical and soul realms, and metabolizing and integrating current life, past life, and ancestral traumas.
Integrative soul work is the phrase I use to describe a way of looking at our lives through a lens of free and bound energy flow. This allows us to then consider the current lifetime personal and systemic threads as well as past-life and ancestral threads, both resource- and trauma-based, that weave together to form these different states. Where we are able to identify resource threads, these can be deepened by allowing them to become more conscious and by entering into more of an actively reciprocal relationship with them. Where we are able to identify trauma (whether personal, systemic, previous incarnation and/or intergenerational), these threads can be untangled, metabolized and integrated over time through slowing, asking for additional support from supportive energies in both the physical and soul planes, and bearing witness to the stories that these threads carry that have heretofore gone unseen and unheard. At it’s core, this tracking and untangling of threads is the domain of the weaver archetype.
Prior to the execution of so very many folk healers across Europe in the Middle Ages and beyond at the hands of representatives of the Church and the Feudal Lord system (see Lyla June’s essay on Reclaiming Roots of European Indigeneity and her music video, Mamwlad, for more on this), many of the Goddess energies revered by these skilled and gifted healers were spinners and weavers (see Max Dashu’s amazing work around this through the Suppressed Histories Archive). The archetype of the weaver as one who can hold awareness and track the interplay of multiple energetic themes and threads across space and time in the service of a co-creative relationship with the flow of Universal Energy is an archetype that I strongly identify with and help others to reclaim within themselves. Sadly, I find this archetype which is non-linear and deeply spiral-based and labyrinthine in its nature, is often pathologized within the more linear and efficiency-focused dominant overculture of “Whiteness” in the West.
The threads of the weaver can all be a lot to track. This is where the process is often buoyed by the wisdom of the Old Stories. While the details may change as the world continues to evolve itself forward, the archetypal challenges and underlying themes experienced by humans in relationship to themselves, each other and the natural world have remained remarkably consistent throughout time. While we may think that the challenges of the present are unique to us here and now, the right story at the right time offers us a contextual map for the challenge(s) we find ourselves in while simultaneously reminding us we are not alone.
As such, I offer one-to-one integrative soul work sessions for those who are interested in deepening their walk here in the physical world with an eye on and attention to the wisdom and intersecting threads underlying this journey in the soul plane. The primary entryway into the soul realm, whether it be connection with the elements, plants, animals, ancestors and/or the Old Stories, is often the felt sense of the physical body in the present. When combined with and channeled through each person’s unique gifts of sensitivity, active engagement with this felt sense and it’s underlying soul wisdom often opens up whole new worlds of understanding, choice, possibility, and healing, not only for ourselves in the present, but for those further back in our lineage and those who are yet to come.
Integrative soul work often dovetails into and out of some of the more commonly-known shamanic healing rituals such as soul retrieval and curse extraction, as places of bound energy and authentic power make themselves known for release, removal and transformation according to each person’s authentic rhythm and timing.