Image by Titian of Leigh at Storm King, October 2024
Honoring Art & Platonic Love, Keeping Me Alive Since 1979
This is me, at Storm King, photo taken by Titian. In front of Arlene Shechet’s piece “As April” (2024).
💛 Honoring doing the things that nourish us in order to show up resourced for the work we do. Quality time with Mother Earth, art and beloved companions are a few things that resource me. What supports you to experience embodied balance? What experiences and adventures resource you the most?
Compassionate Inquiry Honoring, Compassionate Inquiry Mentoring and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Throughout my years of experiential study, healing and certifications in Compassionate Inquiry, I have come to really love parts work (rooted in Internal Family Systems / thank you Richard Schwartz). Many of us attempt to "give up parts of ourselves" yet that is not really possible. Being curious about different parts of ourselves that emerge in certain relational contexts is so profound and powerful! I have come to really love this part of my own healing journey and definitely enjoy being curious about parts in Compassionate Inquiry Sessions when working with clients.
I have long been a skeptic of the word "part" since it suggests a separateness or a disconnection of wholeness (healing = wholeness). Over time, and with great dialogues with Gabor Maté and other colleagues, I have come to see that the word part supports us in exploring the process that is emerging within us. This exploration is the pathway to a deeper relationship with our present moment experience. This leads to self-awareness, access to pausing and discovery of choices otherwise veiled. It often leads to a heart body centered embrace of all our parts and processes. This is compassion led and felt in heart body by and with our Essence and True Self.
The healing journey is profoundly creative and generative. It is a different world when we lead ourselves from Essence and True Self.
If you are curious about learning more about somatic healing and how to align with your Essence and True Self, especially during moments of challenge and suffering, reach out to me about Compassionate Inquiry Sessions. I have a few spaces available for new and returning clients.
Honoring us all in this grande unfolding of being alive and here together.
May all beings experience heart peace, love and embodied belonging.
Aloha
Leigh Heart Peace
MEGA HEART Podcast: Heart Body Wisdom with Leigh Aschoff
MEGA HEART, a new podcast I created, is live! The intention of MEGA HEART is to inspire you to connect with your heart body wisdom with compassionate presence.
I am a trauma integrating somatic healing practitioner, private mentor and akashic records practitioner and teacher.
My work lies at the intersection of creativity, embodiment and healing.
Please enjoy the first episode where I share about MEGA HEART, Heart Peace and Heart Body Wisdom. There is a guided self connection at the end of this episode, inspired by what I share.
You can listen on my MEGA HEART substack, apple podcast and/or spotify.
Stay tuned for more episodes. I look forward to sharing more and hosting some of the inspiring teachers, colleagues and friends I have the honor of learning and healing with.
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and freedom.
Aloha
Leigh Heart Peace
Somatic Healing and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing
A beautiful insight I have been recently contemplating is from something the Buddha said.
“Spiritual friendship is the path.”
For many of us, stepping more deeply into an intentional healing process means stepping into new communities of others who are also doing their work. Some communities we stay with for a long time and others are for shorter life chapters. However long the duration of being immersed in a spiritual community or however long a spiritual friendship may unfold, there are profound gifts and growth opportunities for us all.
Today I shine light on the beauty of compassionate, loving reflection from spiritual friends who are also on a healing path. I shine light on the trust and openness of sharing with one another, how we suffer, while standing in our work (grounded). There is an exquisite healing through reciprocity of truth sharing that occurs.
When I share with a spiritual friend how I suffer and am met with spacious compassion and presence, it provides a growth opportunity. This growth opportunity invites me to the possibility of reflection, processing and integration.
Being seen and seeing another is a powerful part of relationship that I invite you to honor with me. This is a process. Not every friend can be a spiritual friend and not every friend can be long lasting yet I invite you to the curious consideration that every friendship can be an opportunity for growth, transformation and healing if we are willing to notice.
With spiritual friends, there is a flow of giving and receiving. There is a flow of connection, dialogue and showing up for one another. There is a flow of quietness, space and reprieve.
With spiritual friends, there is a shared awareness of suffering being a part of life. There is an ongoing learning and discovery we can share together that relates to our own unfolding growth and healing.
Often we are reminded of how to be our own spiritual friends through the tenderness, gentleness and loving kindness spiritual friends share with us. The reflection of ourselves, to us, from spiritual friends, reminds us who we are and supports us to see ourselves more clearly by way of admiration, kindness and abiding presence.
Many of us go long periods of time in our lives where we are hungry for spiritual companionship and spiritual friendship. Engaging in an intentional healing process and stepping into community are wonderful ways to begin aligning with others who are investing in their own growth and health.
Given that so many of us have been wounded in relationship, particularly in some form of a group dynamic (family, school, work, et cetera), I honor the approach to community as letting it unfold to show us what it is and how it is. When we step into community and engage in an ongoing experience with others, what is it like to invite ourselves to allow an unfolding of what the group is, how it is and what connections may or may not unfold naturally? This approach can quell the weight of bringing our expectations (unmet needs) to a group which can result in frustration, disappointment and avoidance of what we are deeply seeking.
Spiritual friendship includes the dimensions of being human and being soul. The content in the dialogue is expansive, inclusive and generative in possibility.
What relationships in your life are spiritual friendships? What do you receive from these particular friendships? What do you offer? What do you notice in your body when engaging in these relationships?
For anyone seeking spiritual friendships, I encourage you to be open to the possibility of new community experiences. I encourage you to trust your gut sense of which communities are in alignment for your heart and body.
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My name is Leigh Aschoff. I am a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Certified Compassionate Inquiry Mentor, Advanced Akashic Records Practitioner/Teacher and a certified Transpersonal Intuitive Energy Healer.
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and liberation from suffering.
Aloha
Trauma Integrating Somatic Healing with Leigh Aschoff
This poem that I have read and heard so many times, speaks to me again as I welcome and acknowledge sadness, loneliness, fear, joy, love and gratitude as these sensations move through my living system [body]...
Honoring the dynamic nature of being alive. Honoring how unique we all are. Honoring the profound possibilities we often do not see. Honoring the ongoing possibilities for growth, expansion, contraction and un/learning the limits of the conditioned mind and relaxing into a greater field of life energy, together.
Aloha
Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing Founder and Trauma Integrating Somatic Healing Practitioner
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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi
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Sessions available worldwide. All sessions are currently through zoom. Book a session here.
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Our bodies are full of wisdom poems. Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic healing approach that invites you to know, and benefit from, the technology inherent in the poetry of your body.
A typical session begins with your intention. From a shared resonant understanding of your intention, we explore various features of your experiences related.
For those new to CI, setting an intention is a powerful part of the process. It invites you to pause, check in with yourself and discover, connect with, what most wants to be explored.
What do you want to shine light on today in your session?
Taking the time to fine tune your intention supports the flow of the session in a powerful way. It gives us something to anchor to and explore from.
The features we explore end up creating what I consider an aesthetic equation, a poem or a song.
What can we learn from the constellation of our experiences? We can discover how the past may be showing up in the present.
If it is, we are invited to feel the body sensations of this new awareness. We are invited to notice what it is like to explore how something happening in the present day may have a root far back.
Being continually frustrated in traffic, experiencing embarrassment when the waiter forgets your meal or feeling like a failure because you did not receive the professional review or promotion you expected are all rich areas to explore.
A rich area is a portal to a deeper connection with yourself. The areas we need to reconnect with ourselves the most are often out of easy sight or reach. Compassionate Inquiry is an approach to support this journey to reconnecting with ourselves.
Knowing your body’s aesthetic equations gives you an embodied understanding of your work. When you know your work, you get to know it more and more as it arises within you throughout your day to day experiences. Part of the sessions invites you to choose actions to engage in this work. Over time, if you engage in your work in a consistent way, you relate with your experiences much differently and this leads to more embodied (inner) balance by way of open connection.
Open connection is support by compassion. Compassion arises spontaneously in the presence of truth. As we deepen our relationship with what is really true (not the untrue stories and beliefs), we have the opportunity to experience clarity and freedom.
The healing work you engage with for yourself has a healing impact on the collective. I encourage you to remember this, especially when you are in a pit of tension or are in the process of a heavy rep. Incremental repetitions lead to transformational changes. May we all remember how connected we are to one another as we engage in the healing process of knowing our body’s aesthetic equations.
One of my many favorite quotes is, “To listen is to be embodied”. Thank you Stephen Porges.
Throughout the trauma-informed somatic healing [Compassionate Inquiry] and energy healing [Transpersonal Energy Healing & Intuitive Healing] trainings I have experienced, this is a way of saying something I experience every day — in relationship with myself, those around me in my life and especially with the people I share the healing approaches with in session.
I have been contemplating this. If to listen is to be embodied, then we listen to our body, with our body.
Embodiment is a form of presence. We experience the presence moment through our bodies. And, our bodies remember things for us.
This is a profound opportunity for healing.
This is a profound opportunity for creativity [curiosity + possibility].
Our body memory manifests as sensation of some sort. Along with this is some kind of visual memory — images from the past that arise when we listen to our bodies, with our bodies.
If you have not yet experienced somatic healing, please accept my warm welcome.
Somatic means “of the body”. Soma means “body”.
Somatic healing sessions like Compassionate Inquiry invite your body into the process of healing. The sessions invite you to go beyond story. The story, what happened [then and now] are important yet that is more the pathway into body and memory than the main show.
How our bodies remember is a profound gift. Our bodies remember and call us in with sensation (tension, stress, numbness). When and if we are willing to listen [being embodied], we discover what is asking to be seen. From there we have an opportunity to participate, now, with what is arising from the past. And this time it is based in a conscious self-connection that is compassionately and empathically witnessed (by both practitioner and client).
This process I share about in words here is an experience. It involves an embodied listening [to body] and it calls forth an energetic knowing.
What do you really know about the suffering that presents in your daily life? Quite a lot, if you are willing to listen to your body, with your body.
Your knowing about your suffering includes needs. From history to now, needs ready to be known, cherished and embraced.
As a healing approach, Compassionate Inquiry is creative. When you are the person receiving the inquiry, your entire biological, energetic, physical system is leading. Compassionate Inquiry honors your lead. As a healing approach it lacks agenda or any specific method. This is important. A healing process needs openness, space and allowing.
Engaging in a healing process is a courageous act. I deeply respect Compassionate Inquiry for the space and active listening it naturally offers those who come to receive inquiry, rooted in compassion, tethered to the intention they choose.
Your system is listening. Your system is receiving. Your system is integrating. Your system is choosing.
What will you choose to compassionately support yourself around your same old repeating patterns of suffering and pain?
Listen to your body, with your body, to discover the vast possibilities available to you.
If this calls to you, I invite you to book a session with me through my website.
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and freedom.
Aloha
Leigh
Somatic Healing with Leigh Aschoff
Somatic counseling invites your body into the process of healing as an active and present collaborator.
This is an embodied experience; it is not only a process of mind and intellect.
Somatic healing is like discovering a poem your body holds for you. To discover the poem, we include awareness and relationship with body. The poem is an aspect of you, written by your experiences, your wounds and your wisdom. Your body holds the poetry which unfolds as part of the pathway to healing and ongoing heart expansion, connection and wholeness.
I have space available for those interested in working with me and experiencing Compassionate Inquiry. If you are curious about beginning or returning to sessions with me, do not wait. The spaces will eventually fill up.
This is deep work and like all great transformation, it takes time and incremental steps and reps. I work with heart warriors committed to honoring their healing timeline and the process somatic healing invites them to.
Every session begins with your intention or question. This is a powerful aspect of person centered healing that I am passionate about. You choose.
What will you choose to explore?
Every breath is a new opportunity to choose gentleness. Inviting more gentleness and less judgment in our relationship with ourselves and one another is a powerful practice we can all engage with every day.
“Incremental change leads to transformational change.” — Deb Dana
Will you join me in inviting more gentleness for yourself and those you share your life with?
Are you willing to take a few moments today to notice what your heart and body need?
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and liberation.
Aloha
Leigh
“Feeling is a subtler, passive process than emoting. It is best illustrated by contrasting the concepts of emoting and feeling. Emoting is when we cry, anger out, or verbally ventilate the energy of an inner emotional experience.
Feeling, on the other hand, is the inactive process of staying present to the internal emotional experience without reacting. In recovery then, feeling is surrendering to our internal experiences of pain without judging or resisting them, and without emoting them out.
Feeling is a kinesthetic rather than a cognitive experience.
It is the process of shifting the focus of your awareness off of thinking and onto your affects, energy states and sensations. It is the proverbial “getting out of your head” and “getting into your body”.
As a grieving process, feeling involves consciously reversing the learned survival mechanism of clamping down on pain to banish it from awareness.
Feeling “occurs” when we direct our attention to an emotionally or physically painful state, and surrender to this experience without resistance. When we relax acceptingly into our pain, we can learn to gently absorb it into our experience. Feeling then functions as if our awareness is a solvent that dissolves and metabolizes the affect, energy and sensation of our emotions.”
— Pete Walker, “Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving”
Aloha
Leigh
When we grow to be loving in our relationship with ourselves, how does that shift our relationships with those we share with?
May our self-love practice be consciously connected to one another.
As I read, “The Diamond Heart: Book One” by A.H.Almaas for a second time, I am discovering the loving and connecting that those of us with human bodies have. YES AND how the love we share together in community supports that work we do ourselves yet cannot complete the personal heart body work we each have.
To be human is a precious gift. It is so easy to forget this in the world we live in.
I believe we can shift things. I believe we are blessed to be here. I believe, even amidst pain and suffering, there is something incredible that continues to unfold within us and all around us.
Wishing you and yours ease, heart peace and loving kindness.
What are ways you offer loving kindness to yourself?
How does this offering touch into your relationships with others?
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and liberation.
Aloha
Leigh Aschoff
Enjoy this step by step invitation to connect with your heart body before choosing.
My name is Leigh. I am a wisdom inviter. Work with me and you will be invited into connection with your heart body wisdom.
I have a few spaces available for one on one healing sessions.
Your body has the wisdom solutions for the challenges and problems you face. The way out is through the embodied tension.
May all beings experience heart peace love embodied belonging and liberation.
Apply here for a conversation to work with me today.
www.heartpeacehealing.com
Aloha
Leigh
Compassionate Inquiry Honoring Sessions with Leigh Aschoff
I am calling in Heart Warriors for embodied healing. Saying yes to an intentional healing process is a pathway to knowing your work as a human being on the planet at this time.
If you have experienced separation, loss, othering and/or life experiences that in some way broke your heart, this work is for you.
If you are continuing to show up in the world centered in your heart, this work is for you.
If you are passionate about being a part of collective healing in an embodied, conscious, heart centered way, this work is for you.
Being in an intentional healing process in one on one sessions gives you the time and space to explore the intricate ways you have been wounded and in that process discover more clearly what your gifts are.
Somatic healing sessions also invite you into a deeper responsibility which allows for more connection and harmony — within you and with all your relations.
This becomes a practice. We all have our work. If this resonates for you, I invite you to say yes to an intentional healing process.
Click here to apply for a complimentary zoom conversation to begin.
May all beings experience heart peace, love, embodied belonging and liberation.
Aloha
Leigh
Compassionate Inquiry Honoring Sessions with Leigh Aschoff
HONORING THE NEED TO BE HELD : HONORING US ALL BEING HELD BY HEART PEACE
Being held, being seen, being heard…. ATTUNEMENT… what a profoundly healing experience that can be and often is…
So many of us search for this from the outside, a forever type of seeking that is often fleeting in satisfaction and unpredictable.
Yes, we are wounded in relationships and we heal in relationships.
Yes, being held by one another can be deeply healing.
And, what would it be like if we allow ourselves to be held by heart peace?
This is an invitation into the depths of our hearts, into the questions that spontaneously plant seeds of compassion in the darkness of our unconscious.
Unsubscribing from the conditioned thinking mind is an ongoing practice.
Deepening our connection to heart is an ongoing practice.
Honoring the possibilities still being revealed of how heart peace is already holding us and how we are not ever separate from its resonance, even when it is veiled to us perceptionally.
MAY ALL BEINGS EXPERIENCE HEART PEACE LOVE AND EMBODIED BELONGING.
Aloha
Leigh
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
-Alan Wilson Watts
Honoring compassion as a powerful yet gentle alchemy we experience when we connect with our heart bodies.
Curious about this? As much as we resist and push away “unsavory” feelings and sensations, bringing our attention to them is one possible pathway to transformation.
I have space for new and returning clients for one on one Compassionate Inquiry sessions. Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic counseling healing approach that honors your intention and heart body wisdom.
For more info or to book a session click here.
MAY ALL BEINGS EXPERIENCE HEART PEACE, LOVE AND EMBODIED BELONGING.
Aloha
This change begins on August 14th, 2023. All Akashic Record Sessions will be on zoom going forward. Thank you.
As of today, August 14th, 2023, I will no longer use Tape A Call for Akashic Record Sessions. All Akashic Record Sessions will be offered through zoom.
***Please download any recordings of past sessions and save to your archive by Thursday, August 17th, 2023.***
Thank you!
Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing
Compassionate Inquiry Honoring Sessions and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Dear Wonderful Beings,
Thank you for being here, a part of Heart Peace Healing, just by this post today.
As I write this update, the title came to me and I am receiving the many meanings within one.
Healing in connection with heart peace within is a growing.
I write this update to share with you some changes. Heart Peace Healing is a living system that supports me in offering healing sessions for others. The living system that it is asks for changes as growing continually unfolds.
Beginning today, July 17th, 2023, I will offer a one time introductory session for those interested in experiencing Compassionate Inquiry Honoring Sessions with me. These sessions are 45 minutes over zoom and they are offered at a slightly discounted rate. These sessions are for new clients. This allows a shorter sample of Compassionate Inquiry and also time for any questions about the healing approach or my style as a practitioner.
To connect with me for an introductory session, apply here. After receiving your application, I will reach out to you directly through email.
For anyone wanting to connect prior to an actual session, be it the introductory session or 75 minute sessions, I am open to offering a 20 minute telephone call.
I will continue to offer 75 minute Compassionate Inquiry Honoring Sessions as I find it to be an ideal time for nervous system settling and gentle exploring of the intention you bring.
The Akashic Records Sessions I offer remain and those can be booked directly through my website.
As I work with those who step forward for healing sessions with me, I am continually in deep awe and humility to share my gifts in this way. Aligning my gifts with the work I do, in service to health, wellness and embodied liberation in our world is deeply meaningful for me.
Thank you for stepping forward to explore what transforming tension into embodied freedom is like, for you. Thank you for stepping forward with your courageous, open, curious heart.
Honoring you all, with heart.
With appreciation, respect and compassion,
Leigh Aschoff
♡
MAY ALL BEINGS EXPERIENCE HEART PEACE LOVE AND EMBODIED BELONGING
ALOHA
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
One of my favorite poems, especially to honor and celebrate summer solstice >>> HONORING ALL BEINGS THAT EVER WERE, ARE AND FOR THE UNBORN :
In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,
I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.
In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,
I will honor all life
—wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell—on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.
-Diane Ackerman
from I Praise My Destroyer
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
To work with Leigh in one on one sessions, apply for a complimentary conversation here.
Compassionate Heart Body Workshop with Leigh Aschoff
Join us! 5/13 COMPASSIONATE HEART BODY WORKSHOP : AUTHENTICITY 🍯
This workshop is on the Saturday before Mother’s Day (as celebrated in the U.S.). Whatever your relationship to this holiday, I welcome you to join us for a rich two hour workshop.
Click here to register.
You will be invited to connect with your body, heart, breath and compassionate awareness. You will be invited into contemplative presence about the topic and experience of authenticity.
@heartpeacehealing
Honoring Heart Body Wisdom
Transforming Tension Into Embodied Freedom
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records
🌈Aloha
