Radical Presence
Somatic Practices & Mindfulness
Online & In-Person
The sources of not being fully embodied and present for ourselves can be many and are often underlying our sense of unworthiness. Whether it is unmet needs or traumatic experiences in childhood or later in life, discrimination, adverse social conditions, struggles with addictive tendencies, or diagnosed states of depression, stress or anxiety. Any, and many other conditions and circumstances that our nervous system struggles to support, cause a felt sense of dis-ease to varying degrees. This can manifest in wanting to run from life, avoid it, or being in constant battle with it.
We will work together on finding the parts in you that keep you from feeling whole and embodied, always in the awareness that your innate wholeness is ever present and our quest is to reconcile with it.
Sessions are available online and in person where possible.
'How is it that I never saw any flaws in her/him/them when we were first in love, and now so many things they do are irritating to me...?' So many of us have this experience in our intimate relationships.
And we so want the harmony of early love to last forever.
It can.
If you are having trouble in your partnership/marriage, we will discover together the parts of our brain that are home to our judgmental, negative selves and those that accomodate our wiser selves, where kindness and compassion dwell.
By getting acquainted with these realities, we can explore with gentle curiosity how to access the parts of ourselves that will support and mend the blocks we are experiencing in our bond.
You can again become radically present for one another, like you were on the first day.
Sessions are available online and in person where possible.
Being present and embodied in community is the antidote for isolation. We have lived through challenging times of separation and isolation, in which the term 'Social Distancing' was coined.
In group work we make space for the lived experience of embodied Social Connection.
Applying diverse modalities we explore our body's wisdom through movement, various approaches to meditation and most importantly, by listening to ourselves and one another.
Being Radically Present in the group will provide each participant with new insights about our interdependence and collective belonging, as well as with tools for the gradual development of new habits gently moving us out of the illusion of being separate.
Groups are available online & in person where possible.
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'Don't tell me about your addiction. Tell me about your pain'.
G. Mate
If you are struggling with addictive tendencies or feel you might even be in the grips of addiction, you have likely tried a myriad of strategies to find a way to 'manage' your behavior.
One of the main motivators for most addictive behaviors is a need for escape from our reality, mostly pain from the past, because it has become intolerable.
We will learn how to listen to the parts in you that keep wanting to 'leave' through behaviors or substances, rather than judging and shaming them, while going on a path of healing what they are trying to protect.
Whatever the path you are on, I am here as a peer to support you with various alternative, non-pathologizing, embodied modalities.
Sessions are available online & in person where possible.
What we often encounter in teams that are not performing, or are simply unhappy,
is a deep lack of presence for one another.
Each member of the team acts on the messages of their own defensive,
ego-driven impulses and conflict arises.
What we are looking for in each team member is a shift from functioning in an assumed role,
acting from a sense of separateness, towards becoming radically present for themselves
within the reality of collective interdependence.
Moving out of the "self-other" consciousness towards the "we" creates an
environment of attentiveness in which team spirit and productivity soar.
Groups are available online & in person where possible.