The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ~Albert Camus
My husband lives in New York, I live on Saltspring Island. When he grows up he wants to be a hooligan and I want to be a witch married to a forest. I love those old tales of the wise woman with a colorful reputation and an amused air of mystery about her. I love how some people could gain so much insight and healing from her where others would entirely miss it - even though the words or instructions were the same. What always fascinated me was how this old witch would hold her own no matter who was getting her or what they were doing with her offerings. That's why I want to be her, strive to be her.
But I digress. Husband and I travel back and forth in order to see each other which means we don't have to choose between island life and big city life and all the treasures of each and we don't have to choose to make only one part of ourselves happy at the expense of all the other parts. This is also why I see my clients over the phone or on skype - you never know where I'll be!
arousal...
I *feel* sound on my body like a touch. Music vibrates along my skin, raising the soft hair there, creating shivers and shudders of pleasure. I'm not speaking poetically, it's very physical. And it's not only music, I feel air and light and movement (my own and also movement that I see) as though they were caressing me, communicating their attributes by touch. I also have this experience when I am in sync with another person through a shared activity or a conversation. It's a gift - or a skill - of being perpetually aroused by the things around me. I invoke the word 'arousal' because it is a lot like being called into my body by the touch or sound of a lover - and all the physical indicators of being aroused are much the same - and when it's happening I want to get as close to the source of the arousal as possible - be as open to it as I can stand - and let it have it's way with me. And I use this skill to root out the deepest and most pleasurable connections with the people and things around me. I also use it with my clients. It can often help other people connect more deeply to a moment we're both sharing, making it more present and palpable. It often stirs and triggers things - which is how deep work starts. It can serve by opening you up more physically or emotionally to the kind of assurance, permission, comfort or strengthening or pleasure that you need.
uncanny talent meets formal training...
I have an uncanny tendency to perceive things you're not supposed to in casual conversation. I also have an uncanny tendency to say the exact thing someone needs to hear (which can be very similar to the tendency to say things no one wants to hear). In my day to day life conversations with complete strangers in random public settings made it abundantly clear that I was meant to do this for people on purpose - not just by accident. I wanted to make sure I could handle the responsibility of being in my full power. I was also curious about ethics as a healer and so I went to school to become a psychotherapist. I have come back from that process into the everyday calling I started with. Better trained, more alert, but still just called to be...
a gatherer of stories...
...Sit by the fire and tell your tales, I know how to listen underneath, upside down and sideways absorbing the details into my blood...
My particular talent seems to be turning people back toward themselves so they can find whatever it is they need to unleash a deeper and more vital energy and wisdom to continue facing the world. I have a tendency of taking everything as deeply as it will go and explore all it's connections - tedious in casual conversation - but if you're bewildered, confused, overwhelmed, unsatisfied or just uncertain it's nice to have someone like me to delve with. I believe in savouring pleasure, delight, the small but incandescent miracles of everyday boldly, thoroughly and shamelessly - but I am also ruthlessly perceptive and follow my instincts tenaciously. I have a sharp intellect and a wild imagination. I hold both sacred.
a witch of raging and wild weather...
...the electricity, and searing heat of lightening - flashes of insight that tear across your darkness. Winds whipping through you with the force of change challenging you to take up roots and learn to bend or be thrashed and tossed around - or lifting your hair and whispering in your ear with the warm affection that exists between living things when you pay attention. The stages of rain - from the floods that drown your demons to the splashes that clear away the dust of tension from your treasures to the tip tap lullaby that lets you, finally, be soothed into rest...
Destruction and renewal are part of the growing cycle - and the terror they inspire in us can keep us safely, but unsatisfyingly fallow. You are ready to stand with the doors flung open to the undulations of the weather in your life and I can help prepare you for that.
Of all the skills I have to support you in unleashing your desire for your true self, the most valuable is my fearlessness. I am not timid in the face of your untravelled realms. I am not afraid of what is locked away in you or the wondrous intensity of your fullest power. I revel in it. To be quite honest, I take glee in provoking courage and creativity. To me it is like settling a wild horse - you must be gentle and patient and equally as fierce.
a word Yogini...
...let the words have their way with you - massaging your mind, heart and soul into a deeper stretch. Inhale and follow the breath of language into the stiff and unmoving parts of your psyche, linger for a moment, collect the stones of your thoughts and bring them with you in a pocket of words when you exhale. Dwell in your spaciousness...let the sounds flutter across your skin, goosebumps and all...
I can help you find the words that tap into your wisdom and truth - and the sound of your own voice expressing them.
I serve not only with my love of language and my perception but also with my passion for self-awareness. knowing yourself makes you more sturdy. The ways of knowing yourself and the information you find within - that is like an ink sky bright with stars: vast. And that exhilarates me.
a lover of the body's melodies...
...your soul plays your body like a flute. It can be lilting and mournful, poignant, and high-spirited. It is an orchestra and sometimes off-key. Tuning to the high pitch of clarity, humming the easy melody of your happiness and restfulness, playing symphonies of tragedy and ecstasy.
be moved...
There is a power in movement, touch and attention on the body to connect you with your deep knowing. I believe in adoring and pleasing your body but also that it is imperative to listen to it and attend to it. Your body holds so much of the answers you're asking about who you are and what you want. And your body is the key to unleashing your pleasure, passion and creativity.
body psychology
Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as all the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.
~Saraha Doha
If we have the opportunity to work in person I will lend you my solid sense of the ground through body psych and energy work allowing you to strive and risk and soar.
...exploring the relationship between emotions and the body through touch and gentle movement. Specific areas of your body (for example your joints) are slightly elevated and articulated while you are encouraged to be present to the sensations there and any emotion or memory or thought that arises for you. A routine is often followed during a body psych session but intuition and presence is always involved and can inspire spontaneous adventures.
Does this thrill you the way it does me? I am available for sessions over skype, over the phone and sometimes in person.
