There’s a quiet moment after every ceremony when the songs fade, the altar is cleared, and the body begins to hum with what has been seen. In that space, we discover a truth that is easy to forget: the ceremony was never the destination—it was the doorway.

A Sufi Story. The Wisdom of The Sands

In deep moments of presence or ceremony, many people encounter a surprising sense of joy that feels intrinsic to their being. Integration is the practice of learning how to allow that joy to live again in the ordinary rhythms of life.

If you are interested in exploring the path between Light and Love join us this January for a deep dive. First we offer a one day Meditation Intensive and then we are following up with a Weekend Residential Retreat. Take a deep dive into meditation with us —clearing the dust from your mirror. We will be featuring The Ultimate Alchemy, discourses by Osho.

Healing the mother wound is a journey to self that can lead to profound and deeply moving changes in a woman’s life. It is my honor to focus my work, intention and prayers to help women heal and become whole by digging into the hole left by an unhealed mother’s care. Unhealed mothers create unhealed daughters AND daughters who work to heal can also alchemize healing in their mothers and daughters too.

If you are curious about scheduling a Compassionate-Inquiry based integration session with me this post might help you understand a bit about how I work with my clients. If you re struggling to integrate a pschedelic or retreat experience and/or any life-changing event my integration sessions can help you unravel, unwind and embody whatever teachings you are earnestly trying to grapple with. I am always deeply touched and honored to assist my clients as they show up for themselves int his way.

The felt sense is a doorway to healing, inner knowing, awareness, and more presence. Its illusory because we have forgotten the language of the body and are conditioned to turn our conscious awareness to our thinking mind and its interpretation of outer cues. One of the reasons I am so passionate about Compassionate inquiry is because the sessions create a safe space for the felt sense to become a familiar and powerful tool toward healing and presence. I have witnessed time and again how healing and empowering this is for my clients and for myself.

Our bodies are the key to healing and to presence. Learning to listen to our bodies and connect with our inner innate wisdom allows healing, authenticity and wholeness.

In preparation for my Kundalini essentials three-class series I have been thinking about my own kundalini yoga practice and how it has helped me on all levels – physical, emotional, and spiritual.  By using this ancient science of yoga over the last decade I have indeed strengthened my body and increased my flexibility and developed a discipline of practice that is good for my overall physical health. However, this is really just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the actual manifestations of this practice in my life.

This meditation comes from Atisha, The Thrice Great. It is a beautiful meditation for people who want to transform negative thoughts and emotions and experience the spaciousness and compassion of their heart. The heart has great transformational power, it can change any fear, worry, pain or suffering into love and heal your troubled mind.