Transformation Doula Offerings

 

Sound Journeys.

I have 22 antique Tibetan/Himalayan singing bowls, 3 gongs, my voice and more to take your body, mind and spirit where they want to go with the intuitive music that arises in the moment. Rest and relief, traveling the inner cosmos, joy and delight, peaceful or energizing; the experience is unique to you. Sessions are one-to-one, adaptable to your needs. They include inspired energy work in concert with the sound energy. Sessions for pairs, groups and special occasions or ceremonies are also available. Full length sessions include time for grounding and sharing if you so desire. Everything is at your choice and permission.

We will consciously connect with each other, become present, and set permissions and boundaries. We will talk a little bit about what your concern or desire is. At some point, I will go low verbal or non verbal, and listen to your being-ness, your “system.” Sounds will come, either toning or clicking or melodies and such. I will place bowls around or on your body as you are comfortable with it.

While this is not medical treatment and I do not cure you, many people report relief from pain and other physical, mental, emotional and energetic challenges and seek this kind of sound immersion for that purpose. Your experience may differ. Some people get some much needed sleep and let the vibrations do their work. Some people, myself included, experience the gongs as portals to other places or dimensions, and communications channels with other realms. I believe you can send prayers and intentions on the sound waves to reach through the hologram of reality and through the barriers of the intellect, connecting us with the subconscious, superconscious and underlying realms. You don't have to believe any of that to benefit in ways that work for you.

It's magnificent fun to play gongs in special places at special times, and soar with the complex sounds. Bowls are much quieter than gongs, but very powerful in their unique ways.

My bowls are not manufactured to a certain tone or purpose; their sounds evolved over centuries of use, wear and gravity. One of the downsides I see of modern bowls tuned to the "piano scale," the notes we are familiar with A B C D E F, is that the entrainment of brainwaves that happens in music may reinforce a particular conditioning based on western beliefs, which are frequently misinformed and colonial. I am working to undo such conditioning. I do not use those kinds of bowls.

We can also get you toning/singing too, as that is super helpful on many levels. The creative energy is amazing. You don’t have to sound like a singer, just letting the sound come is transformative. Together we can co-create a great deal of vitality and expression and release.

Even more description here!

Insight Card Readings.

Oracle and Tarot cards. I have 9 decks! I work with a broad background of interpretations integrated with your own responses to help the reading go deep for you, not just a rigid set of meanings to project onto you. I have an article describing my decks and way of reading, here.

 

Symbol Analysis.

We will look at the things, events, people, feelings et al that appear in your life to sift for symbols and messages meaningful for you. Kind of like archaeology of the soul and psyche 😉 Since the world is more symbolism than matter, this can be very fruitful. (I base this belief on quantum physics and cutting edge cognitive science. Try the book The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman.)

I offer a 3 part class on this subject.  See the description here.

 

Inspired Energy Work.

With your permission, I will use a variety of techniques and tools including gongs, crystals, psychic connection, intuition, and more to open portals, shamanic spaces, and quantum connections. People report that I can detect the correct place on the body to send healing energy to. I can detect non-ordinary processes and bring them to light and gently work with them for the highest good. I build altars to send blessings. This can be a one time session or at regular intervals. FYI what I do is apparently not Reiki. It is something I was naturally gifted with and then developed in shamanic ceremonies, and practiced on friends and colleagues over the last 12 years. I employ protections of compassion, neutrality, love, inclusion, higher guides and helpful spirits, curiosity and especially my inviolable self. It’s all with your conscious and soul permissions for the highest good. My personal needs are kept out of it through self-care, vigilance and the nature of the altered state where I am in no need or fear, just a conduit of flowing energy for your benefit.  If you are not local to my office, I can do distance energy work too.

 

Life Doula.

I am a sister traveler to walk with you on your journey. I can witness your wounds, your breakthroughs, your intentions, your Divine Beautiful Soul; sacred witnessing is in itself transformational. This is soul sharing on both our parts. There are life navigation tools I can share. There are observations I can offer. I am someone outside your familiar circle of influence, to help break bubbles, denials, patterns and programming. Energy and healing work can be part of the sessions as appropriate. This is probably best as a series of regular sessions through some section of your life. If you or a loved one are going through a transition like marriage, divorce, birth, death, moving, starting a new endeavor, etc., this is a portal to making a significant shift and transformation in your life. I can offer deep listening, practices to stay observant and neutral, practices to allow and be, practices to vision and bless. I can help you clarify your intentions and keep to them. I have some training as a death doula and experience as a hospice volunteer, sitting with dying people and their caretakers. I offer guidance, feedback, suggestions, compassion, presence, keeping an eye and a prayer out for you, and holding you in my heart. It doesn’t have to be a big deal. The everyday processes of healing and living are just as important and can benefit just as much from these services. Keep in mind that it is difficult to start this work during a crisis peak and has it’s limits in physical crises like hurricanes and ICU.

 

Quantum Subjective Reality Reorientation.

Physicists learned 120 years ago that there is no such thing as objective reality, that the world emerges or materializes concurrent with consciousness in the act of observation. Thus the world and the observer are one, consciousness is in everything, and it’s all subjective and co-creative. They have developed quantum mechanics theory over the decades and it has been proven accurate in every single experiment, becoming the most robust science in human history, and central to our modern technology we use every day, right now in fact. The meaning of it is still in debate! Ha! Yet western culture and education still operates on outdated Newtonian or Classical physics and ancient Greek inaccurate beliefs in reductionism and a mechanistic universe. This keeps us in a very destructive illusion and out of our conscious co-creative power, condemning us to unconscious co-creation, which means aaa lottttt of shadow comes in to play. We clearly see the devastation this has wreaked on our lives and this Planet with endless war, predation, extraction, ill health, and severe social-economic-political problems, and in the extreme climate change and Sixth Mass Extinction currently in progress. Our perspective drastically affects our perceptions, decisions, abilities and actions. We are shaped by the environment we are in and the people we are around. It helps tremendously to have someone help you gain experience and presence in the quantum mindset and out of the newtonian and platonian mindsets we have been conditioned to since birth. Their time is coming to a close. This reorientation is infinite potential. This is where I am choosing to play and create and heal.

 

Processing and Integration.

Healing journeys can be super intense, that’s for sure! And bewildering as well as mind blowing amazing! And painful and scary, or exciting and freeing! It’s all over the map lol. The ego and mind can really snap at me when I’m in a big change. The fear and programming roll in heavy. As one of my teachers said “Patterns can rear their ugly heads when they’re up for clearing!” I can assist in keeping you from going back under. Remind you of what you know, what you can do, what you love, what good you are doing. The stabilization of the breakthrough is what we are after and there are many techniques. It helps me a lot to have someone to witness me and talk through some of the things. Or just have an anchor point, a lifeline to hang on to for a moment, but not the old familiar one ~ reach for the new one available on the path opening up to you. It can also be difficult to remember what tools we have and to use them, so I can guide you through what *works for you.* Whether it’s journaling, walking, asking a series of questions, non-dominant hand writing, meta-cognitive drawing, dancing, gardening, etc etc etc. Often a physical action or change in the direction of the new path is necessary as part of the process.

 

Accountability Buddy.

Get feedback, reminders and encouragement for your intentions and activities. You can safely admit to me what you did or did not do, without succumbing to guilt or despair.

 

Guided Introspection.

I find introspection to be absolutely essential to clearing and realizing and manifesting, as well as how we relate with Life and other people. Our belief systems need frequent assessment and realignment as we learn and grow. Our inner world greatly affects our outer world, and there is actually no difference once you start to examine it. Honest, fruitful introspection is compassionate, open minded, curious, willing to go where it’s scary, holding oneself in love and care. It can be difficult to determine what is a real problem or not, with all these self-test diagnoses flying around. It can be extremely difficult to spot one’s own habits, blind spots and denial ~ by definition! Even trauma processes are often hidden from one’s own view. Thus another perspective is key. It can be difficult to differentiate what is yours, others’ or the collective, although at some level it’s all all of it. But in our current systems of functioning, boundaries are crucial. We are solely responsible for our perceptions and responses, thoughts and actions, even though we’ve been conditioned and programmed. Deconditioning and healing is an inside job. No one can do it for us. But we definitely help each other along the way and need it very much. I will use a collection of tools, inquiries and challenges to help you look inside.

 

Working with Wetiko.

This is a specific line of introspection. Wetiko is a Cree term for a mind-virus that pervades humanity. It can also be thought of as archons, asuras, negative energies, invasive species, demons, evil. You get the idea. What I have found to be profoundly revealing and healing and true for me is that whatever you call what is eating at you, draining your energy, preying upon you, destroying you, destroying the world, also holds your creative power and a jewel to dive for, like a soul fragment or realization or truth. I have learned very very clearly that negative energies/beings/people are not to be hated nor battled nor attempted to be killed. It doesn’t work and just creates more suffering and karma for yourself and them and the collective. The healing is in turning toward the Wetiko, the scary monster, the threatening voice, the abject fear, the power-over. In that process we can disarm it and regain our energy, our power, our creativity. Here is one of my stories of the doing the process on myself. Here is another story of mine working up to that one. Paul Levy writes about it in Dispelling Wetiko. I will walk you through the process while being mindful of not overwhelming you or sending you over the edge, to the extent I can influence that. We will start where you’re at and go where you’re ready to step next.

 

Shadow Work.

This is another specific line of introspection, dealing with our unconscious beliefs and behaviors, our disowned parts of ourselves, guilt, fear, blame, denied grief or rage. Because they are unconscious, they “come out sideways” and cause unintended harm and other consequences to oneself and others. Unhealthy patterns are here. It’s the collective soup of millennia of unresolved trauma and karma and battles. Ancestral trauma is here. Past life trauma is here. This can also delve into non-3D entities and parasites in our system to find and release. This is often the shamanic underworld we find ourselves in. Without knowledge, training and guidance, we get lost in there. Like Wetiko, it is a place to reclaim your power and soul shards and split-off parts of yourself. I think it’s absolutely essential work for everyone at this point in human history.

 

Inner Child Work.

This is another specific line of introspection. There is a way of understanding one’s troubles as hurt children living inside us. Traumatic, overwhelming, or misunderstood experiences, even unmet needs or survival behaviors, can split a part of us off, whether you think of it as psyche or soul, and this tends to happen easily in our younger years. Feelings from our past are stuck, outside of time, and subconsciously drive us to this day. It’s as if our younger self is still alive within us. To trauma, time and circumstances are irrelevant. Your system will keep trying to resolve the trauma, basically by recreating similar experiences over and over until the trauma process can be completed. Since most of us don’t know that is happening, we can’t assist in the process and unwittingly suppress or divert it, leaving us to repeat it again and again. Thus the patterns of troubles in our lives. Inner children can drive us to do things we don’t understand and may regret. I have found some in me holding on to entities and turning them into parasites. It is said they can elicit illnesses to try to get your attention. There are techniques to find, listen to, care for, and reintegrate inner children and bring your system back to present time, free of the patterns. This was part of the process that brought me out of a dissociative personality coping mechanism that had been driving me since I was 5 years old. I had spent decades stuck in the social and relational abilities of a terrified 5 year old, with no idea that was what was going on. It was not fun.

 

Gentle Cord Release.

Together we can scan your system for attachments to release, whether to people, entities, beliefs, places, etc. I don’t “cut cords.” I have found much less violent ways of releasing, reclaiming and returning energies.

 

Sacred Journey - Pilgrimage Navigation.

If you are called to do a pilgrimage or other form of physical travel with a soul or healing purpose, I can aid you in planning and navigating and integrating it. I have been traveling this way for almost 3 years straight now and have learned a lot. It would be prudent to put that to good use for others! You can read about how I started this at my blog Summoneo Journey. A few months into it, it got so fast, deep, intense and complicated that I couldn’t keep up publishing my writings about it. I have started putting the writings together and will be publishing them over the next several months. This website has bits and pieces too.

 

Death Cafe.

This is a format where a group of people sit in sacred circle to listen from the heart as each takes a turn speaking from the heart about death and dying, usually in ways they have no other outlet for. It is *precious.* This is a free community service I currently offer on Tuesdays evenings from 7pm to 8:30.  I am planning a weekend daytime circle as well.

 

Some travel and outdoor immersive work.

We can camp at the same campground, travel the same route, and maintain virus safety protocols. This will give us more time and presence to dive deep, and I can observe you in action for feedback, and Nature and the Cosmos has plenty of pathways to assist.

 

Special sites and ceremonies.

I can meet you at a place special to you and assist in creating a ceremony, establish non-ordinary connection, be a witness, or do some form of healing work for yourself, loved ones, the land, the ancestors, the spirits.