The basic offering here involves meeting whatever is coming up for you from a heart-space of patience, openness, compassion...just really hanging out with whatever you're feeling and giving it a space to felt and expressed on its own terms.
And that's a lot in itself: just spending time feeling accompanied in an open space without hurry, pressure or expectations to show up any particular way.
Beyond that, we work from the idea that your experience of life is a reflection and expression of what is happening in your inner world. Working with this principle involves becoming more and more aware of what's happening within - in your present moment emotions, body sensations, energy, and alignment to what is most important to you. It involves making room for what's hidden and disruptive inside you to become conscious.
About Shawn
My ability to hold space for people is rooted in thousands of hours of meditation...learning gradually how to stay still and relaxed with what shows up. I've been awarded credentials in spirituality and therapeutic techniques. But I like to think what really accredits me to sit with others in their difficulties is the depth I've found through sitting with my own. It means If you drop into profound stillness or intolerable grief, if you're visited by angels or demons, if your hair catches fire now and then in a session...we can meet that together.
My training and background has included in-depth training in Vajrayana Buddhism, Esoteric Daoism. Zen Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta. I'm also involved in ongoing training in the fields of counseling, trauma, and somatic technique. Really though, so much of my "training" has involved watching how my teachers love...and gradually discovering the place within themselves from which great love is possible. I'm speaking here of love without prejudice; with a warmth that encompasses stars and squirrels and strangers and demons. Somehow it seems, a certain kind of devotion can bring up the surface of a person some pretty great qualities: compassion, caring, real warmth...real love. My aim in this work is to do my best to bring these kinds of qualities to sessions in a way that benefits you.
When you feel ready to deep dive into the exploring who you are...