::: Awakening Through Grief ::: A Sacred Journey Into Heart and Spirit
Welcome to this special journey into Heart and Spirit!
I am so honored to be taking this journey with you. I know it is not easy to show up for your grief, emotions and feelings. This is bold and courageous territory you are choosing to lean into. I'm so proud of you for saying yes to your inner wisdom, for saying yes to your awakening. I look forward to this nine month process together and supporting your unfolding awareness and wisdom, your heart and your spirit! Here we go!
Looking forward to supporting your growth and momentum in the year ahead!
Swati*
Monthly Class Themes
Month 1: Building a Relationship With Your Emotional Body. Learn why your emotions are a gift and how to build a foundation within- for greater strength and resiliency. Finding your safe container. Beginning your grief portrait.
Month 2: Discovering the Wisdom of Your Grief. Learn the deeper meaning of your personal grief journey. What is it here to teach you? Use the jyotish chart to unlock the messages of your grief, trauma and ancestral karma. Working with legs and feet as well as themes of grounding and support. Begin layer 1 of your grief portrait.
Month 3: Deepen Your Relationship With Ritual and the Ancestors. Gather resources and support for deepening your spiritual body relationship with the ancestors through Nature, omens/messages, inner resourcing and ritual. Working with body parts of legs/feet/knees/thighs as well as themes of grounding and support. Begin layer 2 of your grief portrait.
Month 4: Healing the Disconnection Within. Identify your systemic, ancestral disconnection. Where are you resisting, avoiding and disconnecting? How to make sure you're not by-passing your grief, including spiritual bypassing. Working with body parts pelvis/hips and themes of stability, support and holding. Begin Layer 3 of your grief portrait.
Month 5: Attending to Your personal Mythology Around Loss. Address the impact of grief on your relationships, money, mental and emotional stories, personal mythology and limiting beliefs. How are these stories keeping away from living life fully? Working with body parts stomach and solar/solar plexus and themes of power, digestion, strength, empowerment. Begin layer 4 of your grief portrait.
Month 6: Emerging From the Shadow. How to maintain a conscious relationship with your grief as you return back to life. Integrating polarities- shadow and light, masculine and feminine, life and death. Working with body parts heart/chest/lungs and themes of emotions, feelings, receptivity, open/close. Begin layer 5 of your grief portrait.
Month 7: Creating Intentionally With Your Loss. Shaping, reshaping and recreating your inner space. What are you creating for your life, from the emptiness and space within? Working with body parts arms/hands/shoulder and themes of grasping and releasing, holding and letting go, integration and creativity. Begin layer 6 of your grief portrait.
Month 8: How to Deepen Your Relationship With Grief As You Integrate With Life. Create personalized rituals, resources, holding and containers to help you continue to get your needs met. Working with body parts neck/face/head and themes of self, awakening, inner wisdom. Begin layer 7 of your grief portrait.
Month 9: Rewriting/Recreating Your Grief Story. Begin group grief ritual and grief portrait offerings.
*Topics and themes may shift slightly during the course of our nine month journey- depending on the needs of the group.
Building a Relationship With Your Emotional Body. Learn why your emotions are a gift and how to build a foundation within- for greater strength and resiliency. Finding your safe container. Beginning your grief portrait.
Opening Ritual - November 10th, 2016
Embodiment Class - November 19th, 2016
Knowledge Class - November 23rd, 2016
December 2016
December Theme + Intention:
Discovering the Wisdom of Your Grief. Learn the deeper meaning of your personal grief journey. What is it here to teach you? Use the jyotish chart to unlock the messages of your grief, trauma and ancestral karma. Working with legs and feet as well as themes of grounding and support. Begin layer 1 of your grief portrait.
Embodiment Class - December 3rd
Knowledge Class - December 8th
Embodiment Class - December 17th
Knowledge Class - December 22nd
Embodiment Class - December 31st
January 2017
January Theme + Intention:
Deepen Your Relationship With Ritual and the Ancestors. Gather resources and support for deepening your spiritual body relationship with the ancestors through Nature, omens/messages, inner resourcing and ritual. Working with body parts of legs/feet/knees/thighs as well as themes of grounding and support. Begin layer 2 of your grief portrait.
Knowledge Class - January 5th
Embodiment Class ~ January 14th
Your Ancestors: Re-writing the story.
Knowledge Class ~ January 19th
Transforming the ancestral story
Embodiment Class ~ January 28th
Identifying points of tension and ease within the body.
February 2017
February Theme + Intention:
Healing the Disconnection Within. Identify your systemic, ancestral disconnection. Where are you resisting, avoiding and disconnecting? How to make sure you're not by-passing your grief, including spiritual bypassing. Working with body parts pelvis/hips and themes of stability, support and holding. Begin Layer 3 of your grief portrait.
Knowledge Class ~ February 2nd
The Emotional Body Connection
Embodiment Class ~ February 11th
Leaning into the disconnection
Knowledge Class ~ February 16th
Releasing the heaviness
Embodiment Class ~ March 2nd
Confronting the challenge
March 2017
March Theme and Intention
Attending to Your personal Mythology Around Loss. Address the impact of grief on your relationships, money, mental and emotional stories, personal mythology and limiting beliefs. How are these stories keeping away from living life fully? Working with body parts stomach and solar/solar plexus and themes of power, digestion, strength, empowerment. Begin layer 4 of your grief portrait.
Embodiment Class March 11th
My story of Loss: Naming it and moving it.
Knowledge Class March 18th
Identifying losses.
Embodiment Class March 25th
Attending to and transforming the Emotional Body
Identifying losses.
April 2017
April Theme and Intention
Emerging From the Shadow. How to maintain a conscious relationship with your grief as you return back to life. Integrating polarities- shadow and light, masculine and feminine, life and death. Working with body parts heart/chest/lungs and themes of emotions, feelings, receptivity, open/close. Begin layer 5 of your grief portrait.
Integrating
Opening and Closing
Breath Dance
Who am I now?
May 2017
May Theme and Intention
Creating Intentionally With Your Loss. Shaping, reshaping and recreating your inner space. What are you creating for your life, from the emptiness and space within? Working with body parts arms/hands/shoulder and themes of grasping and releasing, holding and letting go, integration and creativity. Begin layer 6 of your grief portrait.
Awakening to Your Grief
Riding the Waves
Identifying Your Grief and Space
Creating With Your Inner Space
June 2017
June Theme and Intention
How to Deepen Your Relationship With Grief As You Integrate With Life. Create personalized rituals, resources, holding and containers to help you continue to get your needs met. Working with body parts neck/face/head and themes of self, awakening, inner wisdom. Begin layer 7 of your grief portrait.
Integrating Your Grief and Inner Space
Grief As Guru
Grief As Guru. What are you learning?
Grief As Guru. Ancestral Support.
July 2017
July Theme and Intention:
Rewriting/Recreating Your Grief Story. Begin group grief ritual and grief portrait offerings.
Grief as my guru. What have I learned?
Moving closer to the messages of your grief.
Tapping for "not enough".
Integrating. Who am I now?
August 2017
Theme + Intention
Building a Relationship With Your Emotional Body. Learn why your emotions are a gift and how to build a foundation within- for greater strength and resiliency. Finding your safe container. Beginning your grief portrait.
What is my grief story?
Harvesting from the Emotional Body.
Emotions aren't the problem.
Identifying the emotional body
September 2017
Theme + Intention
Discovering the Wisdom of Your Grief. Learn the deeper meaning of your personal grief journey. What is it here to teach you? Use the jyotish chart to unlock the messages of your grief, trauma and ancestral karma. Working with legs and feet as well as themes of grounding and support. Begin layer 1 of your grief portrait.
Where does your grief live?
Contemplating the gift.
Moving the bodies.
Finding your pulse.
October 2017
Theme + Intention:
Deepen Your Relationship With Ritual and the Ancestors. Gather resources and support for deepening your spiritual body relationship with the ancestors through Nature, omens/messages, inner resourcing and ritual. Working with body parts of legs/feet/knees/thighs as well as themes of grounding and support. Begin layer 2 of your grief portrait.
Touching the Ancestors
Building A Relationship With the Ancestors
Grief Ritual
*not intended to do alone.
Trusting in Spirit
November 2017
Healing the Disconnection Within. Identify your systemic, ancestral disconnection. Where are you resisting, avoiding and disconnecting? How to make sure you're not by-passing your grief, including spiritual bypassing. Working with body parts pelvis/hips and themes of stability, support and holding. Begin Layer 3 of your grief portrait.
Finding the Disconnection
Self care vs. Taking Care of others
Quarterly Grief Ritual
December 2017
Attending to Your personal Mythology Around Loss. Address the impact of grief on your relationships, money, mental and emotional stories, personal mythology and limiting beliefs. How are these stories keeping away from living life fully? Working with body parts stomach and solar/solar plexus and themes of power, digestion, strength, empowerment. Begin layer 4 of your grief portrait.
Conversations About Grief ~ A free class offering from October 2016. Discover the power of the grief journey and why it's a sacred process of awakening.
In order to maintain the sacred container, please adhere to these guidelines while enrolled in this course. - Offer your presence, without judgment, criticism or blame. - Compassion is key! - Be on top of your mental body. It is called the imaginal body for a reason! - Respect others and their needs, even if they are not your own. - Adhere to the Communication Skills Model for all forms of group dialogue. - No cross talk. No giving advice or suggestions. Just listen and offer your presence. If you choose to share, please refer to the Communication Skills Model as a guideline. - Bring your needs and concerns to me first. - If you are lost, struggling or feeling behind, reach out for support. - Watch for the critic- towards your self and others! What does it need from you? - Give yourself and others patience, kindness and honor differences. - Show up for yourself and others with integrity. - Nothing shared within the group container will be shared outside of our group. Current and past group members must adhere to this- on all platforms. - Respect privacy needs. - Enjoy the journey, lighten up and try not to get too serious!
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Mantra for Saturn
Mrytyunjaya Mantra is a mantra connected to transformation, ripening and enlightenment, as well as Shiva and Saturn. This mantra supports the death of the mundane, and awakens the spiritual, as well as the process of life and change. This mantra is connected to Shiva and letting go of attachments, finding a new relationship with chaos and destruction, opening to stillness and presence.
Ayurveda: Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra: www.vaidyamishra.com for information on Shaka Vansya Ayurveda (SVA). Vaidya Mishra can trace his lineage back 5,000+ years- his family is mentioned in the Charak Samhita. This is a beautiful lineage of Ayurveda that is very holistic and complete. Rooted in Shaktism, goddess worship and the aspects of divine mother, as well as a more esoteric understanding of the Ayurvedic wisdom. I have been blessed by Vaidya repairing my life and health several times now. I often tell people I'm alive because of him. I love him!
For a personal phone consult with an ayurvedic doctor trained by Vaidya Mishra in SVA tradition, these are my two favorite options:
I'm now offering my special gem and flower combination formulas outside of sessions. Choose from three different combination formulas- Maha Heart Clearing, Awakening to the Universe and NavGraha.
Yagyas act as shields that protect you from the karmas coming at you from the planets. These are ancient ceremonies that only highly trained priests can do. Contact Ben Collins at www.Puja.net and tell him I sent you. He has very reasonable rates, using a trustworthy group of pundits in Southern India. You can also ask for his recommendations. Always make sure you use trusted, recommended sources for these procedures. Those that are connected with an ancient lineage only. Specific planetary yagyas can be found here. http://puja.net/Pages/Yagyas/Journal/YagyaDescriptions/PlanetaryYagyas.html Deity, specific planetary and seasonal yagyas are also offered monthly.
The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron The Highly Sensitive Child by Dr. Elaine Aron Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? by Karen McBride Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood Drama of A Gifted Child by Alice Miller
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford Tapping into Wealth, Margaret Lynch
Art As Medicine, Shaun McNiff The Expressive Body, Daria Halprin The Trance of Scarcity, Victoria Castle
Also look at works by Anna Halprin, Stephen K. Levine, Paolo Knill, Sean McNiff
Jyotish:
Freedom Cole's book: Science of Light for more information and understanding of Jaimini Jyotish. Beneath A Vedic Sky by William R. Levacy for a nice intro to jyotish. Light on Life by Hart Defouw and Robert Svoboda
This process does not take the place of therapeutic support from a licensed therapist. Rather this process can enhance and support the work you are already doing with your therapist or become a supplement. I may recommend you seek the ongoing support of a licensed therapist if I think you need this extra holding and resourcing.
Refunds and Returns: I do not offer returns or refunds on products and services. I consider payment an agreement between two people that sets an intention for mutual growth. My work is offered as a resource to support your path and to help you deepen your inner awareness. By purchasing this course, you are saying yes to your personal growth and development. Use the resources I offer to support your process. I welcome your feedback and I'm here to support your journey in any way I can!