• Sessions may take place in your home or at Namae's place in the mountains of Santa Barbara and are usually 2-3 hours long. Phone sessions are 1 hour. Retreats and longer sessions are by individual design.
  
  
• Beginning with some sharing, together we find your deepest intention. You may close your eyes or not, lie down, sit up, dance or move around inside or go out into nature if you feel so called. Usually the session starts with some form of meditation or body movement. During longer sessions and retreats we may watch films as an entry point to your exploration.
  
  
• Techniques may include breath work, sounding, intuitive inquiry to deepen your body and emotional awareness, dream exploration, tantra and sacred sexuality exploration, various states of trance and meditation, role play, gestalt and voice dialogue, sandplay, dance, bioenergetic exercises, shamanic journeying, stillness, prayer and exploring the enchantment of nature. I give you permission to go wherever you need to go within your psyche to untangle confusion, connect with the source of your imbalance and expand your consciousness there.
  
  
• I use a diverse range of music throughout the session - to calm the mind, to awaken energy through movement and dynamic meditations, to evoke emotional releases and support your feelings, whatever they may be. Music and various ways of breathing allow your consciousness to expand, supporting you into non-ordinary states of awareness, where you gain insights and fresh perspectives.
  
  
• You may experience a range of physical sensations as energy begins to move - vibrations or muscle tremors, cold or excess heat, sensitivity to lights or sounds, nausea when feelings are making you sick or the need to shake your limbs and move.
  
  
• Where appropriate you may dialogue with people in your current life or the past, as if they are present with you, which they are inside your mind and heart. You can reclaim lost parts of yourself through people, pets, places and objects, using them as symbols or as aspects of yourself. You may have transpersonal conversations with God or goddesses, archetypes or animal spirits, with beings from other worlds or any other creature that may or may not exist in anyone's reality.
  
  
• There may be times when you feel deeply, expressing whatever it is that has been stuck, be it pleasure and/or pain. You may open to lost memories, altered states of perception, experience new energy and expand your sense of Self. You may have spiritual or mystical experiences or feel as if you are being reborn. Time may seem to flow more slowly or hours can seem like a moment. The past may seem to be more real than the present or you may have insights into possible futures.
  
  
• This work creates a shift from the more logical left side of the brain to the holistic right side that governs imagination and intuition. Many people find that drawing right at the end of a session further expresses their experience, helping them to ground the energy and to create a record so they can reconnect with it again later on. Many of the colors and symbols which emerge have deep meanings which continue to speack through dreams and meditations and surprisingly they often show up in ordinary life in songs, the media and in conversations.
  

I mindfully observe and feel each person's experience guiding them to the places of energetic, emotional and sexual blocks, coaching them to feel and become self aware of the patterns which bind them there. By feeling deep empathic resonance with them, I model healthy emotional patterns, assisting them to relax into their authenticity and constellate their own new bio-resonant choices.

Integration

In the final integration phase of the session, we develop strategies to apply your new awareness to your life and relationships. Integration of the work is emphasized. Based on your specific needs, you may be guided and encouraged to explore homeplay assignments of a sexual nature, to seek additional help from other practitioners for dietary, medical and physical concerns, study relevant written materials, watch issues specific movies, engage in contemplative meditation practices, connect feelings with new ideas, listen to music, be in nature more or support your emerging creativity through dance, mandala drawings, journaling, sculpture or other art projects. Follow up phone calls provide you with ongoing integration and loving support.

Timing

Most clients learn to appreciate that the depth and power of this work requires gradual integration and it takes time to mature and be open to the adventure of a heart full, energy rich, mature life. Each person's rate of growth and integration is organic and, as I prefer to be open to their rhythms, sessions are arranged as needed. The exception is those clients who due to work commitments or a more structured disposition prefer to organize regular appointments with me.

Retreats

Being with and sharing the journey with like minded souls is an integral aspect of the process, one that many people crave. Tantric teachers in India often used to take mature students to live and work in their home so that they absorbed the vibration of the practices and experienced how they were lived in ordinary life. In keeping with this tradition, advanced students and couples may be invited to longer private sessions or retreats for three to five days with my husband and I in our home in the mountains of Santa Barbara.

We are willing to share how we walk the talk, to provide experiences being in harmony with a conscious committed couple and explore in much greater depth the issues and delights of mature conscious relationship. For individuals seeking a partner, this provides a precious imprint of what is possible. For those seeking deeper levels of transformation, private retreats provide extended containment and support in the comfort of your own home or in Santa Barbara. See the Calendar for my availability.

Client Experiences.

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