What is Spiritual Emergence/y? In trying to understand my own experience, and others like mine, I have encountered many ways to describe it and work with it. In this blog series, I’d like to present some of the paradigms I have found useful, with their corresponding courses of action (or non-action). I’ll zoom out from my own experience and explore how these paradigms interact with a larger range of what I’m tentatively calling spiritual emergence/y. By spiritual emergence/y

Spiritual Emergence/y Part 1: A Journey Beyond the Mind I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside! Rumi Almost twenty years ago, I was living in New York City. This was its own kind of spiritual practice – a maximalist, ecstatic, tantric whirl that I had no preliminaries for. My outer world never stopped moving – between bedbugs, the art scene, landlords who didn’t speak my language, commutin

Do you ever feel like you need more support, guidance, clarity, or strength? Deep within your subconscious lies a powerful protector—an inner ally—waiting to be discovered and activated. In our meditation, you can connect with this inner source of wisdom and resilience. And if you choose to nurture this connection, it could become one of the most transformative practices of your life. My own inner ally is a daily source of grounding, courage, humor, and strength. This guided

Earth Connection Meditation A 23-minute audio to help you access the power and groundedness of your innate connection to the earth element, the central tenant of Taoist philosophy. We disconnect from the larger earth outside of us and our smaller earth inside of us when we go through situations that are too painful to process. When this disconnection becomes a habit, we suffer. In this meditation, we look at our connection to the earth and its importance to the center of our

Connecting To The Inner Child Audio + Integration Journal When we are young, we are naturally more connected and open to the world around us. It is easier to touch into feelings of joy and awe without self-consciousness or embarrassment. Yet, because we are more impressionable to our surroundings, we are also more easily hurt. In this meditation, we explore playing with our inner child and reclaiming the magic and awe we effortlessly touched into when we were young. This 22-

Guided Meditation Journey What would it be like to have an inner friend who you could summon whenever need be? Someone who brought an embodied sense of protection, strength, balance, and support into your life? Establishing a connection with a plant ally is a powerful way to begin building a relationship with the world of spirits. Plants are beautiful and benevolent beings who want to help us grow into our full potential. They have so much wisdom to offer. This 25-minute audi

After a recent session focusing on inner child healing, a client of mine wrote this beautiful poem. I received permission from her to share it, because I think it so powerfully captures

Procedural memory, an integral component of our cognitive architecture, plays a crucial role in shaping our behaviors and responses. In the context of trauma treatment, understanding the mechanisms and implications of procedural memory is essential for fostering healing and resilience. The intricacies of procedural memory have profound implications for trauma recovery within the framework of somatic therapies, especially. And it can just be downright interesting to learn abou

One of my favorite meditations, the Microcosmic Orbit, is an ancient Taoist breath and attention practice that moves congested energy. That could be sexual energy condensed in the pelvis (this is a popular practice for delaying...

By gaining a deeper awareness of what our subconscious wants to express—secret desires, hopes, insecurities, and fears, our pathway to that realm becomes more lucid. This opens up the doorway for beings in our subconscious awareness to come through into our waking consciousness. Opening up this pathway allows for a deeper connection to the realm where we can communicate with our plant allies (find the Plant Ally Meditation here). This 25-minute audio file is a guided journey

Understanding our values is crucial, forming the foundational principles that guide our actions, decisions, and interactions. They shape why we do what we do, how we make choices, where we direct our efforts, and with whom we collaborate. As we embark on this journey, we'll weave our narratives, values, and traditions into a harmonious tapestry, determining what resonates most with us and what aligns with the world's needs. In the following discussion, I'll showcase a values

In this video, we explore the concept of resourcing within Somatic Experiencing, as explained by Cassie Belden, a somatic coach.