Style

Four sessions each utilizing a more esoteric practice that has been so effective personally for me that despite the fear that sharing these practices will undermine my credibility as someone who is profoundly academic and science-based, I’m doing it anyway.

Astroanalysis

In the first session we will look at your astrology, teasing out archetypes, myths, living stories, shadows, projections, complexes, desires, hidden strengths, elemental resources - following a thread that we will co-create through mutual curiosity, communication, and exploration. We will also look at the transits as themes and energetics that are heightened for you currently.

The astrological work does not end with the first session - we will deepen into it as organically unfolds in the remaining sessions. Astrology - in the way I practice it - has the power to be profoundly unshaming, space-creating, possibility-creating, field-widening, permission-giving, and delicious medicine for the Self/Soul.

Astrology can sustain, scaffold, support, heal, reorient, and revivify those who feel lost, stilted, wilted, drained, depleted, etc. It has personally done so for me countless times. Is it the right medicine for everyone? No. Is it the right medicine for you? If you’re still reading this, then probably yes.

Ritual/Magic

In the second session, using the astro-insights we gleaned during session 1, we will explore pragmatic ritual and action for you to take that is self-appropriate and takes into account your unique path and timing.

We may craft a ritual, or we might reach deep into a ritual library that ancients and cultures have created.

Depending on your comfort and experience with magic, we will explore both magic and mundane ritual. The rituals we identify for you may be contain elements of emotional release/channeling, thought-work or journaling, cultivating mindfulness/presence, somatic movement, and/or modern, clean, nature-based magic that is reinforced with elements of neuroscience - that feels right and safe for you.

In this session, we will also explore the things that feel the hardest to do - whether they’re necessary, and if they are, how they can be worked with for greater ease. We will, in part, be guided by the Ram Dass quote, “You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

We will also begin to explore themes, images, and desires around your bespoke trancework, coming up in the third session.

Trancework

After the first two sessions, I will custom create some trancework for you. You will learn how to enter and deepen self-hypnosis, and how the conscious and unconscious minds move a little differently when in trance. You will learn how to utilize trance effectively, even if you are someone who resists or is skeptical of hypnosis.

Trancework is an extremely powerful nexus of physical/emotional/mental rest (so deeply needed by so many of us) as well as modern ritual (somewhat like a meditation practice) as well as imaginative and liberatory thinking - something that we all have that is an extremely powerful resource that we need to use more often, more consciously, and more skillfully.

In this session we will practice trance, as well as try out the custom trances, so I can make any changes to improve and deepen the experience before I record them for you to keep and listen to forever.

Integration

In our last session, we will work to integrate everything that came up in the previous three sessions. This session will contain slowness, silence, somatic work, and time/space to be with everything that came up in the previous sessions.

Facilitated integration is a profound gift that very few of us get, and requires practitioner skill at holding silence, non-verbal processing, and opening up neurological memory reconsolidation processes.

It might be tempting to skip this session, and tell ourselves that we don’t need integration, or that we will integrate on our own, but facilitated integration has the ability to change deep neural patterns in a way that is profoundly life-shifting and is best accomplished with the support and space-holding a facilitator provides.

In this session, you will also learn techniques to facilitate your own integration, the critical art and missing piece to successful neuroplasticity that has been lost with the busy hustle of modern life.

A note: A Vibe Check is always a good idea - let’s make sure we’re a good mutual fit. but you can listen to the podcast episodes that contain live, unedited coaching to get a very granular, intimate feel for what working with me looks and feels like. You can also find me on Facebook and peruse my public updates and micro-essays.