Leigh Aschoff: Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner Certified by Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam
Leigh Aschoff, Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner
I am officially announcing my being granted certification as a Compassionate Inquiry practitioner by Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam. This is a life experience I am so deeply proud of and most tenderly humbled by. This is less about the actual certification and much more about the personal healing, professional expansion and way of life I have and am experiencing from the year and a half long training and mentorship.
See my listing on the Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner page here!
I am deeply grateful to all the teachers along the way who have come in so many different forms both within the CI community and beyond.
Most profoundly, I approach my entire life differently now. I experience deeper connection with my heart body wisdom and my ongoing freedom to choose compassion over judgment.
I have dedicated the last three years to a variety of healing certifications (Intuitive Energy Healing, Transpersonal Energy Healing and an array of Akashic Records Practitioner Trainings and Teacher Training).
In the Compassionate Inquiry training and community, I have found the depth I was previously seeking. I have also found a healing approach that aligns with my own integrity and ethics.
My confidence in my gift to invite people to a healing process in presence, respect and safety has grown down deeply.
One of the many aspects of Compassionate Inquiry that I love so much is the faith in a person's healing process. This one I align with so much. I trust so deeply in this and am so honored to share in presence with those I work with in the somatic counseling sessions.
As many of you know, I have named the weekly Compassionate Inquiry sessions I offer HONORING SESSIONS. I did this because I have long seen and sensed a deep need in all of us to offer ourselves respect, honor and with that, compassion. And through this offering of gentleness, discover what shifts in ourselves and over time, what shifts in those around us and the world we (create) live in.
Thank you so much to all of you who have supported me on my path -- literal teachers, mentors, circle guides, friends, my physical family, my non physical family, colleagues, animal companions, "strangers" (I love the shared eye gaze and smile in public, a glimmer of life connected), trees, mountains, sea, all of nature, to the courageous hearted beings I work with and to those courageous heart beings I have yet to work with...
I am so grateful and so humbled... If you appreciate my work, please tell your friends and family about what I am offering. If you do not appreciate my work, please tell me (kindly here).
May all beings experience heart peace, love and embodied belong.
ALOHA🌈
Honoring Understanding As Love
This rich invitation from Thich Nhat Hanh reminds me of how the approach of Compassionate Inquiry invites us into compassionate relationship with ourselves and one another. This compassionate relating has a profound transform on how a person can experience life and being alive.
Moving away from our habitual reactions and thinking, what is possible?
Compassionate Inquiry invites us to discover this in our own present moment experiential healing and growth.
Seeing understanding as love invites so much gentleness. Where there is gentleness, there is room for curiosity. Where there is curiosity, there is room for possibility. When possibility is invited, we can open our heart to receive.
There is so much creative power and strength to being with what arises in an understanding, compassionate way. I have dedicated my life to serving humanity by making the focus of my work to offer healing approaches for those called to deepen and heal their relationship with themselves, others and the world we live in.
May all beings experience heart peace, love and embodied belonging. May all beings receive the support they are seeking when they are courageous and ask for help.
To apply for a complimentary conversation with me, click here.
To book an Akashic Records Session, visit this page.
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“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Compassionate with Thoughts and Emotions
Getting into compassionate relationship with our thoughts and the emotions that arise through us is a profound way to live a balanced life of embodied freedom and ease.
When we shift our relationship with ourselves from harshness to compassion, a lot transforms.
If you are curious about how to enjoy being alive and how to be in more harmonious relationship with your thoughts, feelings, heart and body, please accept my warm welcome to work with me in somatic counseling sessions.
For those of you curious and ready for this, please apply for a complimentary conversation with me here.
Enjoy these slides I made in the spirit of healing and creating harmony in the world we live in together.
May all beings experience heart peace, love and belonging.
Aloha
Leigh
Honoring Intention
Hello Lovely Beings! My name is Leigh and I am a healing practitioner. You can work with me in one on one sessions. I offer Honoring Sessions (I share Compassionate Inquiry, the somatic healing approach created by Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam) as well as a variety of Akashic Records Sessions.
There are limited spaces open in my weekly spaces for Honoring Sessions. For those of you curious -- click here to apply for a complimentary zoom conversation with me!
These conversations are a way I can answer your questions and share in presence about the things you are curious about transforming in yourself and in your life.
These slides I made this morning because I am feeling so inspired by the powerful practice of creating intention.
Every Honoring Session is guided by your intention. This is a powerful part of healing. When we pause to connect and create an intention, we are leaning into our own ability to choose, have agency, connect with possibility and in many ways orient ourselves in relationship.
I am so honored to share the healing approaches with those I work with. Please accept my warm welcome.
May all beings experience heart peace, love and belonging.
Wishing you a day of ease, heart peace and intention.
Aloha
Compassionate Heart Body Workshop with Leigh Aschoff
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Registration is now open for this dream manifested event that I am offering, hosted by Santa Barbara Yoga Center! Click here to register.
This event is a blend of all my life's greatest experiential studies and explorations... I am so excited to share with you!
This event will offer you an introduction to Compassionate Inquiry, one of the somatic counseling healing approaches I share with clients.
There will be a demo and time for questions. We will conclude with a delicious heart body guided self connection.
The intention of this two hour workshop is to invite you deeper into daily self compassionate awareness.
Join us!!!
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023
Santa Barbara Yoga Center
IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL!!
1:30-3:30pmPDT $50
May all beings experience heart peace love and belonging.
With heart appreciation,
Leigh
Akashic Records Community Message
Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
CONNECTION WITH INTENTION is a way to move through any challenging times.
When you pause and connect with breath in the present moment to create and choose an intention, there is a powerful synchronicity of asking, opening and receiving.
Notice your conditioned mind wanting to control and be again at ease by relaxing into your heart body.
There are many evolutions of an intention - choosing is just one part of the journey of intention.
There is an inner cooking process that occurs when you stay aware and holding gently this intention. We recommend holding this intention in your heart body, where you feel called, as a way of gestating it and as a way of actively being with the intention.
Another aspect is seeing and sensing as you walk forward on your path. See and sense as you gently hold and nurture your intention and receive with ease and openness.
When you find yourself contracted or in a state of tension, this is another call for gently pausing and holding what is arising in your system.
Tension is a call for deeper knowing and more expansive ease. It is easy to misread tension as something negative yet if you are willing to consider it as a part of you squeezing you with a loving call for loving connection, what shifts?
Your perception is powerful. We encourage you to not overlook this. Notice how you perceive and interpret. Notice how your body feels through the various perceptions. Become familiar with the terrain of your heart body so that every sensation and every perception is a part of your landscape that is both welcome and invited to be seen, heard, felt, held and cherished.
We trust you are deepening your trust in your life and life energy. These words are intended to encourage your unique way of expanding into ease and freedom in your current incarnation.
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Compassionate Heart Body Workshop with Leigh Aschoff
Compassionate Heart Body Workshop with Leigh Aschoff April 2nd, 2023
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Join Leigh Aschoff for an introduction to the somatic healing approach, Compassionate Inquiry, and a guided self connection. During this two hour workshop, Leigh will invite you to connect with your breath, body and heart while learning and experiencing.
The intention of this workshop is to inspire you to connect with yourself with compassionate curiosity on an ongoing daily and moment to moment basis.
The workshop will begin with gentle body movement and a guided grounding and centering. Leigh will then offer a short introduction to Compassionate Inquiry. There will be time for questions and a demo with Leigh. The closing of the workshop will be a delicious and gentle guided self connection. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes and bring anything that will support them to be at ease during the workshop (essential oils, tea, water, a notebook with pen/pencil, a precious scarf, blanket or eye covering, et cetera).
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Honoring Our Relationship with Emotions
Honoring Sessions (Compassionate Inquiry) & Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Have you ever noticed how many emotions might emerge and flow through you in one day?
One of my favorite aspects of the Honoring Sessions that I share is the invitation to come into a new relationship with emotions as they arise in our bodies, as they emerge to the surface of our awareness in the present moment.
When we are willing and open to co-create with our emotions, to witness them, to get in touch with them, to be curious about what they might want to show us, there is a different relational experience in our internal world.
Another aspect of this that I love, is that there is a spaciousness in the relationship we can have with our emotions, so that we are not identifying with them.
When there are many emotions flowing through our bodies and our energy, we can notice and be in relationship rather than merged with them or pushing them away which often includes an element of tension.
Each one of us has a very precious and unique invitation and relationship with the emotions that we work with.
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Honoring Sessions and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Death, loss and grief are experiences of the medicine I share with you when you work with me in the healing sessions.
Here’s an image of me in Death Valley. Join me in celebrating the rich depth of discovery and healing available to us all through such human experiences.
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song: “Crying” Roy Orbison
Honoring Sessions & Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
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A New Edge of Awareness
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
These two trees remind of me of the way healing and growth can expand us to an edge.
A new edge of awareness, seeing things in a new way, more space, more possibilities…
Honoring the inner journey of growth as something sacred, private and sometimes challenging yet profoundly rewarding if we are willing to stay with it and ourselves.
Honoring the rich connections possible when we are willing to be vulnerable and share with one another.
Honoring life as ever changing and ever growing…
Honoring Sessions / Compassionate Inquiry & Advanced Akashic Records
Transforming Tension Into Embodied Freedom
Returning to Ourselves
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Returning to ourselves is often an ongoing choosing that unfolds beyond the healing transformation in the sessions.
What I love so much is that life continues to present opportunities so that continued returning to our authentic selves is possible.
Transforming Tension Into Embodied Freedom
Honoring Sessions / Compassionate Inquiry & Advanced Akashic Records
When we listen to our bodies, we have the opportunity to notice when our nervous systems are regulated and when they are not.
Vulnerability is possible when our nervous systems are regulated. Experiencing safety allows us to experience vulnerability, reception and authentic sharing.
Honoring the practice of caring for our nervous systems, our bodies and our incredible ability to be vulnerable with ourselves and one another.
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Honoring Sessions (Compassionate Inquiry) and Akashic Records Sessions with Leigh Aschoff
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Heart Peace Healing with Leigh Aschoff
Heart Peace Healing invites you to an active returning to self connection & wholeness. The healing approaches I offer also invite an ongoing honoring of your heart body wisdom.
Through the sessions and beyond, the healing invites transformation of tension into embodied liberation. My passion is honoring, with you, the creative path your wisdom takes to reveal itself in the power of shared presence.
All the healing sessions I offer have an intentional focus on your inner wisdom in an environment of unconditional positive regard, genuineness & compassion. All the techniques I offer invite you to experience an emergence of embodied truth, heart peace, play & freedom. When you relax into your heart, body and truth, healing & vitality flow.
May all beings experience heart peace, love and belonging.
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
You can schedule Compassionate Inquiry Sessions and/or Akashic Records Session with me directly through my website.
Both of these healing approaches invite you to an active returning to self connection and wholeness.
I often work with people growing through loss, grief, depression and trauma recovery.
www.heartpeacehealing.com
Honoring Possibilities
Which possibilities are you listening to?
There are so many different possibilities… how many possibilities are there?
Have you considered how many possibilities actually exist?
To really deeply explore what is possible, I invite you to the one on one sessions I offer - Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records.
The real, deep, embodied heart work happens in the sessions and it continues from the sessions into your life where you get to practice and see clearly where and what your work is.
As I do this work myself, in particular Akashic Records, Compassionate Inquiry and my daily meditation, I am expanding my awareness and my heart embodied perception of a wider, wider, expansive range of what is possible.
I am also noticing and recognizing which possibilities my habitual mind loves to go to.
I am also noticing which ones I really want to choose for this present moment.
What possibilities are you listening to?
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For more information on Compassionate Inquiry, Akashic Records and opportunities to work with Leigh, explore her website and/or book a session or apply for a conversation here.
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
Compassionate Inquiry and Akashic Records with Leigh Aschoff
If I had known how challenging and lonely starting a private healing practice would be (and it has been and sometimes still is), I am not sure I would have done it. I am deeply grateful to the parts of me that saw myself clearly and said yes to using, cultivating and sharing my gifts in this lifetime, on this planet we find ourselves together on. I am also grateful to myself for walking on from teachers and people who were no longer in heart aligned relationship with the healing work I am called to share. This has been a large part of my path - finding my no and trusting the ongoing new path towards the (sometimes unknown) yesses.
As I recently sat by a fire reading “Internal Family Systems Therapy” by Richard Schwartz and Martha Sweezy, I was touched by Richard’s mentioning of Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir (among others), who are also my teachers and beings I admire so much. Other teachers who have been and are influential to the healing work I share with others are Dra. Rosales Meza, Gabor Maté, Helen Vonderheide, Kit Kanohoaloha Wynkoop, Cheri Clampett, Arturo Peal, Douglas Brooks, Sianna Sherman, Pia Melody, Jorja Rivero, Hilton Als, Darryl Turner, Elaine Salango, Dave Petersen and Stephen Brown.
Though I am grateful for all my teachers (everything, all of life), I am especially grateful to the teachers who have shared with me, through heart, in ways that have welcomed me to relax more deeply into my Self and especially on my path as a healing arts practitioner, to echo this heart resonance in a warm, inviting way to others.
I am infinitely grateful to the guidance I received and receive from my non physical companions. The encouragement, love and stream of insights they have shared with me have supported me so much. I am so honored to have such a bond with them.
Thank you to all of you who have shared with me with heart and authenticity both personally and in the one on one sessions.
Healing, like comedy or love or fashion or creative energy, is never “finished”. We get to see again and again and from the seeing, we are invited to grow into sensing life, with our heart bodies, as us and all around us, in new and harmonious ways.
Feeling is healing and what a courageous choice of action that is.
HONORING SEEING PSYCHE AS A SYSTEM✨
May all beings experience heart peace love and heart body belonging.
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You can schedule Compassionate Inquiry Sessions and/or Akashic Records Session with me directly through my website.
Both of these healing approaches invite you to an active returning to self connection and wholeness.
I often work with people growing through loss, grief, depression and trauma recovery.
Honoring Our Heart Body Mind
Join me in honoring our minds, hearts and bodies as we experience life as us and all around us.
Learning how to offer ourselves compassionate acceptance is a process.
Welcoming all parts of ourselves is a profound journey of befriending ourselves, of being our own best friend. When we are best friends with ourselves, we are best friends forever with LIFE because there is no distinction between us and life energy.
The field of life energy is everywhere and we are all a part of this.
The deeper collective work is connected to the deeper personal work.
As we relate in more harmonious ways with ourselves, we are invited to connect more clearly with our heart body truth (the inner wisdom that is calling us all), see and share it, with ourselves and one another.
Heart Body Truth is connected to Heart Body Wisdom.
Heart and Body are pathways to Truth; Compassion is woven throughout this invitational journey.
One on one healing sessions invite you to emerge from what might be veiling your truth and wisdom. Honoring the truths that emerge from heart body is a deeply self and collective respecting action and offering to make.
It is with deep honor I share the healing approaches I am trained in.
I offer heart gratitude to all my teachers of all kinds. I learn from and honor all my relationships.
Deep heart gratitude to the exquisite beings I have had the honor of sharing the healing approaches with - thank you.
May all beings experience heart peace love and heart body belonging.
You can schedule Compassionate Inquiry Sessions and/or Akashic Records Session with me directly through my website.
Both of these healing approaches invite you to an active returning to self connection and wholeness.
I often work with people growing through loss, grief, depression and trauma recovery.
With appreciation, respect and compassion,
Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing
Compassionate Inquiry with Leigh Aschoff
Compassionate Inquiry Sessions with Leigh Aschoff
Join me in celebrating a symbolic and deeply resonant completion in my life. As I celebrate this completion, I also honor my own evolving as a person and practitioner in the Compassionate Inquiry Mentorship Program.
My intention is to grow myself as a practitioner by looking at my shadow areas for invitations to expand my own self-awareness so that I may be an even more clear mirror to those I have the honor of working with.
Compassionate Inquiry invites us to deep and profound internal work and processes. This work is important for us personally and collectively.
The people who work with me are committed to their own healing and growth. The people who work with me are lit up from within with a burning creative passion they are listening to. The people I work with are sincere and courageous in heart. The people I work with are genuine in their desire to be the change in the world they themselves are called to be. The people I work with are heart warriors - beings who are ready to honor their sensitivities, their strengths and their gifts.
This is a memorable moment in my life. Being a part of the year-long professional Compassionate Inquiry training has changed me and all of my relations. It has deepened my ability to offer healing approaches to the people I work with. It has taught me so much and those learnings are still unfolding in my heart and bodymind.
One of the things I hear Gabor Maté say often is - only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth (a quote form Almaas). It is with heart honor that I share the healing approach of Compassionate Inquiry with others, through the weekly Honoring sessions.
Please accept my invitation to experience the healing invitation of Compassionate Inquiry. I have space available for weekly Honoring sessions. To begin the process, book a session or apply for a conversation.
May all beings experience heart peace love and heart body belonging.
Resting Mind : Resting Heart
Compassionate Inquiry with Leigh Aschoff
Honoring our minds, hearts and bodies as we experience life as us and all around us.
Learning how to offer ourselves compassionate acceptance is a process.
Welcoming all parts of ourselves is a profound journey of befriending ourselves, of being our own best friend. When we are BFF with ourselves, we are best friends forever with LIFE because there is no distinction between us and life energy.
The field of life energy is everywhere and we are all a part of this.
The deeper collective work is connected to the deeper personal work.
As we relate in more harmonious ways with ourselves, we are invited to connect more clearly with our heart body truth (the inner wisdom that is calling us all), see and share it, with ourselves and one another.
Heart Body Truth is connected to Heart Body Wisdom.
Heart and Body are pathways to Truth; Compassion is woven throughout this invitational journey.
One on one healing sessions invite you to emerge from what might be veiling your truth and wisdom. Honoring the truths that emerge from heart body is a deeply self and collective respecting action and offering to make.
It is with deep honor I share the healing approaches I am trained in.
I offer heart gratitude to all my teachers of all kinds. I learn from and honor all my relationships.
Deep heart gratitude to the exquisite beings I have had the honor of sharing the healing approaches with - thank you.
May all beings experience heart peace love and heart body belonging.
Healing Approaches with Leigh Aschoff & Heart Peace Healing
Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing
Though I now primarily share Compassionate Inquiry in the weekly Honoring Sessions, below are other healing approaches that are inherently present in how I share and invite you to the relational healing experience in the sessions. Please enjoy this post as it is a general overview of the previous areas of study, training and certification I have experienced.
Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic, psychotherapeutic approach developed by Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.
Using Compassionate Inquiry, both the individual and practitioner/therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.
Through Compassionate Inquiry, the person/client can recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them.
It is a revolutionary approach that draws upon the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, epigenetics, polyvagal and social engagement theory, internal family systems, the understanding and research of trauma, the body-stress connection, and somatic practices all held by a strong and crucial emphasis in presence, safety, and compassion.
“The purpose of Compassionate Inquiry is to drill down to the core stories people tell themselves – to get them to see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are, where they came from; and guide them to the possibility of letting go of those stories, or letting go of the hold those stories have on them …
That’s what Compassionate Inquiry is.”
~ Dr. Gabor Maté
Intention
To share the Compassionate Inquiry approach, developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, so that individuals can connect to the truth within themselves in the present moment, become free from self-generated suffering, and gain insight, clarity and choice in their behaviour.
Vision
To bring compassion, respect, acceptance, insight, healing, freedom and connection to humanity.
The descriptions on this page are from the Compassionate Inquiry website, used with permission.
Transpersonal Energy Healing is a system that tracks the movement of energy through your body, voice, language and beliefs as we discuss your life challenges.
This tracking allows us to make conscious, subconscious memories that live in the tissue of your body. As subconscious cellular healing awakens in your conscious mind and physiology, transformation begins to unfold.
Incorporating a series of body/mind questions called “The Art of Inquiry”, the body’s chakra energy centers (vortexes of vital energy that influence the health of the body’s major organs, the brain, the mind, and the emotions) are stimulated and unwinding begins, releasing buried layers of tension from the psyche and physiology.
Transpersonal Energy Healing can be a pathway to deep release, relaxation and increased awareness of the connection between body, mind, emotions, will and spirit.
How It Works
Chronic conditions often have roots in the subtle layers of the nervous system, also referred to as the chakra energy system.
These sessions involve us working together using subconscious cellular exploration. We track the energy to see where it lives in your physiology on mental, emotional and spiritual levels in your auric field. Together we will track where your aliveness is stuck, and discover how to bring movement and healing there.
Throughout the session, we explore your intention using “The Art of Inquiry”. This process invites a holistic body and mind awareness dialogue about how you are experiencing the energy of chronic physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual pain in your life. During that conversation, we will track where the issue lives in your body’s tissue and follow the energy to the source where it begins to then unwind and heal.
Intention
When we connect to the root cause, the body’s natural self-correcting healing mechanism is engaged. Often people feel a flood of sensation, similar to the experiences of “chi” energy in acupuncture. The feeling is typically described as an increased flow of life energy. Once the energy stabilizes, we can revisit the issue you are working on. Often, your perspective will shift by the end of the session and beyond, into your life.
Intuitive Energy Healing is an invitation to be present with your breath, energy body and intuition for deeper self-awareness and transformational insight.
How It Works
Intuitive Energy Healing is shared through guided self-connection in both one on one sessions and in groups. When we create time and space to intentionally connect with our energy bodies, we can deepen our connection to ourselves and to our intuition.
Each energy center (chakra) has symbolic invitations. When we connect with ourselves in a relaxed yet active listening state, we can deepen our awareness of areas that need attention and areas that may need balancing.
You will get a taste of Intuitive Healing in the grounding and centering portion of every Honoring session as well as in any of the group guided self-connections and workshops I offer throughout the year.
Intention
Intuitive Energy Healing has an inherent intention of awakening our awareness of a deeper level of our beings - our energy bodies. Through this process of deepening awareness, it is likely and very possible to strengthen a clear connection and receiving from our intuition. Being aware of, attuned with and capable of listening to our intuition provides an inner relational system of trust, faith and empowerment through presence.
Sacred Creativity is present and foundational through all the sessions I share with you.
The Nature of Creative Energy
Creativity and imagination were my first great loves in this lifetime. Creative energy is ever present within us and around us. We are connected with this energy and we are not separate from this energy.
As I share the healing approaches in the sessions, I invite intentional connection to creative energy which arises in the present moment and supports the healing process. I also invite full body listening to the flow of creative energy and I invite you to this as well, throughout the compassion, inquiries and presence shared in the healing exchange during the sessions.
Intention
My intention is to honor and listen to the energy of Sacred Creativity in the healing sessions and in my personal life. Time and again, creative energy has led me to expansion in my mind, heart and body. As I honor the sacred in creative energy, I welcome the unknown to present itself in whatever creative way it unfolds.