I am experimenting now with offering personalized recordings that you can download and use whenever you want.
How it works:
-Reach out to book a real-time session with me, whether in person or on the phone/video chat. Specify that you are booking the session because you’re interested in a recordings package.
-We have a 1 or 1.5 hour session. We get to know each other and engage in some therapeutic practices. At the end, we discuss the preferred elements of the custom recordings: whether you want a single recording or a package of multiple recordings, whether it will be outdoor-based or not, whether it will include background music, whether you want it to be more internal-awareness focused or include movement/dance, etc. Cost will be based on the number and length of recordings and whether editing time will include adding music.
-You receive downloadable files that you can use anytime. I request that you please not share the recordings with others without my written permission.
Free Resource: Dream Practice
If you’d like an example of a guided somatic meditation/movement practice I made, you can check this one out! Back in 2020, I recorded a 20-minute guided somatic practice to help anyone connect with, embody, and more deeply understand what their nighttime dreams might be communicating. It was part of an experimental project in collective dreaming. You can still find it here!
Context:
In a previous chapter of my career, I trained as a hypnotherapist and closely studied different techniques of guidance/facilitation and how they influence perception on both subconscious and conscious levels. Many people I have worked with have given feedback that my voice is a natural fit for hypnosis and guided meditation, and that their bodies respond strongly to suggestions that I offer – it is a gift I don’t take lightly and intend to use responsibly. I no longer practice hypnotherapy per se, but I have learned how to weave in certain useful aspects of the training and experience into my more somatic, relational, and nature-based practices.
When a client I had been working with for months requested recordings she could use on her own, I remembered how much I love to create that kind of thing and that it would be a useful service to offer. It is not the same as live sessions where we get to build relationship and work on new practices as you change over time and develop new capacities and work through new challenges, but it is cost effective and can be a nice anchor to return to when you just need an outside voice to help you remember how to drop in to that connected and attuned space.
Why might someone be interested in getting personalized ecosomatic recordings when there are many “guided meditation” apps and such on the market these days?
-The practices are personalized to your needs and proclivities– your desires, styles you are most drawn to, specific places of stuckness, etc.
-You can decide if you want just one recording or a package of custom recordings with different focuses to keep the practices fresh.
-I specialize in ecosomatic guidance that you can listen to outdoors and learn specific ways to ground into respectful and healing relationship with land, plants, and place
-I feel that with my blended backgrounds in arts and art therapies, hypnotherapy, somatics, and herbalism/ecology, the kinds of practices I offer and can lead you through are pretty unique and you won’t find ones just like them in the corporate apps
-Your money supports a holistic healer who is determined to work in alignment with their values rather than give into commercialist, capitalist, and colonialist power structures