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This is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive now, and to be allowed to see this time. There is no other time like now. We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time.
The old ones say ‘this is the time when the strongest spirits will live through and those who are empty shells, those who have lost the connection will not survive.’ We have become masters of survival - we will survive - it is our prophesy to do so.
Humanity must shift from living ‘on’ the earth, to living with her.
—Tiokasin Ghosthorse
What We Offer
Jonah offers Ecosomatic Sessions, SE for Trauma & Grief, Dreamwork, Mentorship, Craniosacral Biodynamics, and Spontaneous Qi Gong — all in-person and remote.
Luna offers Dreamwork Sessions, Writing & Creative Support, Mentorship, Custom Ritual, and Postpartum Doula services — all in-person and remote.
We offer in-person day long land-based immersions, with Ecosomatics, ritual, and other custom guidance, including a meal. We also offer mentorship — in-person and remote.
We offer custom day long, multi-day, individual, small group, and couples work. We can also be booked for your private event. Please fill out a contact form below to begin the conversation.
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Trauma & Griefwork Sessions
Ecosomatic Sessions
Mentorship
Dreamwork
Spontaneous Qi Gong
Work with Jonah
When we are held captive by trauma we are in two time zones. It’s often the case, as Peter Levine stated, “that the worst has already happened.” I use a wide approach in meeting trauma with my clients which includes Somatic Experiencing, Ecosomatics, Polarity, Biodynamic Realities, & Mindfulness. When we meet the past event together, as needed, little by little with wide yet attuned precision, we hold the past with the present — this is the transformative nature of presence. We don’t need to re-live every moment, instead we skillfully court and include the fixation or the suppressed energy to complete it’s necessary sequence that was thwarted at the time of the event or events. We can say that awareness itself is curative, and we allow the wholeness of our being to express at all levels, (sensation, the senses, instincts, impulses, emotions, mind & the mytho-poetic) this is what transforms trauma.
Our presence is developed and strengthened through this artful and deeply moving work. We know that trauma, when met with a skilled guide, can deeply evolve our perception and experience of reality. Your life can change in astounding ways. We are evolutionary beings, designed to heal. Healing is the nature of presence that arises when we meet difficult things together.
We can pay attention to life’s aliveness, the ‘verbing’ animate reality both inside, and outside of our bodies. There is a swinging perceptual door between these two worlds, and in fact, we notice they are not two worlds but one world, one body. Ecosomatics is paying attention and staying with life’s natural unfolding in this way. We listen with our whole body that allows a reorganizing and ‘re-membering’ of our original health. While we are with this natural health, we are more receptive and attuned to guided by Earth and Mystery as our bodies. Life starts to become more clear.
We can meet all of life in its mysterious beauty and intricacies of psyche and soul. Earth and mystery are seamlessly intelligent and woven through us with all of our humanness, our tears, traumas and joy, our brilliance, grief and dignity, our creativity and original gifts. Nothing is off the table with this work. We learn the art of skillfully including it all as it arises through us and all around us. This work re-unites us with the magic of our ancient aliveness woven with Earth. As the work deepens, coherence and more subtle qualities of being arise. We begin to rest and learn about abiding in these more essential qualities of self that become the foundation of our humanness, our adult self and future elder.
These are indeed very challenging times. My focus with mentoring is holistic, a process focused on nurturing the whole person. Firstly, I believe that accurately being reflected is a vital part of being able to truly become oneself and embody ones gifts and purpose. I see my role as being, as clear of a mirror as possible, to support natural evolution. Ways of Soul – I deeply appreciating the vital importance of the conscious and supported decent into the underworld and have many tools and direct experience to guide these necessary returns. Mind — with presencing tools such as mindfulness to learn one's psyche more thouroughly and with more ease. Spiritually — with ways of listening with Earth & Mystery utilizing Ecosomatic tools to follow spirits guidance. Emotionally — with tools of sequencing so that your beautiful emotions become a source of evolution and maturation. Physically — supporting ones body to be both strong and supple through Spontaneous Qi Gong, Hatha Yoga, as well as movements that focus on functional, everyday motion rather than gym-based routines.
Our work together is to have a direct experience of the animate health and aliveness of the specific dream you bring. As you recount your dream, tracking your five senses, instincts, impulses, emotional tones, mind, mythopoetic and imaginal, as well as the permeability to the animate outer world, there’s a realignment with essential qualities of the self and the Soul’s north star. Remember, the Earth is dreaming us. We begin to follow these threads over time. It is an incredible gift to begin to see that we are actually being dreamed, our job is to be receptive to this dreaming.
We will use inquiry to deepen into the dream itself and the body’s intelligence as it is unfolding in real time. As the mystery of the dream unfurls, we will use somatic experiencing to be in direct contact with the information infused in the dream and the intelligence of the body to shape and reorganize our living body as the psyche of earth. This is true health. Dreaming is infused with intelligence that ‘re-members’ our psyche back into alignment, deepens our contact with Soul, and our ‘more than human’ family.
Qi is all around us and within us, at every level Qi is moving and supporting us. I teach skills of presence, deep grounding and alignment with all of our more than human relatives and everything under our skin as well. When you do Spontaneous Qi Gong with me it can quickly become a mythic unfolding, and that's just the way I like it. It’s fun, awe inspiring and deeply healing. I enjoy including Ecosomatic Maps of consciousness within the experience to track how Qi moves in dimensional ways with psyche and soul. Get ready to be moved by life. Spontaneous Qi Gong has many life enhancing effects, as inner and outer energy naturally clears blockages, relaxes the nervous system, and triggers deep self-healing. It acts as a form of "moving meditation," releasing emotional tension, reducing chronic pain, and boosting mental clarity.
Dreamwork
Mentorship
Meditation
Postpartum Doula Services
Work with Luna
From a lifelong fascination with dreamtime and explorations into personal underworlds and the unconscious, to studying for years with Sergio Magaña, a Mexica lineage lucid dream teacher, and researching into the work of Don Miguel Ruíz, it’s become apparent that we can use dreamtime for experimenting, understanding, and building our relationship with Earth and our blossoming selves.
You’ll learn different methods to record dream details and themes, discover meaning through personal, collective, and cultural symbols, and use them to enhance your dreaming and access greater connection to your true self in all aspects of life. These symbols serve as gateways into the psyche, our hearts, and the greater Heart of Earth. We will work with tools for dream recall, harness the power of your personal dream symbols, work with recurring dreams, as well as current dreams, and weave with your waking life. Regardless of what shows up for you, we can play within the dreamscape environment to unfold and activate the waking life, tease apart patterns and old ways of being that are ready to die, and feed and nourish the parts that are preparing to birth. Ultimately we will notice ways that the waking and the dreaming seamlessly merge for healing and empowerment. We will listen for ways the earth is speaking through you, and access her power to unfurl the seed that is your personal blueprint, or Original Instructions. Together we will consciously weave Earth’s dream. It is my wish that we all access the power of our dreams, by cultivating a relationship with our own underworlds, the earth, our own power, and our collective power on this journey together.
Bespoke Ritual
Everything is included in Ritual, and I think that way about life: one long Ceremony. It just is — look around —everything that is showing up is part of the Ceremony, and all that we do, say, feel, think, imagine… all add up to something. It ends up being the sum of our life.
Ritual is a way we feed earth, feed life, and life reflects and gives back to us. We have to slow down to do ritual. You don’t want to speed through or do ritual halfway, otherwise why would you do it? You have to do it all the way. That’s a metaphor for life.
Ritual is creative and harmonizing play with Earth — as Earth. True ritual catches us, it creates through us, in the moment, using symbols and movement to move with Earth energy; we use intention and integrity to create, destroy, call in, and evolve together with ritual.
Ritual helps to mark moments in time, helps us move through thresholds, helps us discover what we did not see. Ritual gives us a gift, gives us grace, and can help us change. Ritual helps us break up the immensity of life into moments to fully honor the time that we're in. They are a huge resource, whether we are together or you are on your own (always with Earth and Spirit;), they help us with whatever we are dealing with, and wherever we are, in our lives. Re-membering our rituals over the course of time creates a beautifully compounding story of integrity, intention, and strength.
You may have an idea of what you need a ritual for, however not necessary. Either way, we will start by connecting with where you are as you are, we will listen together, and create together, given y/our environment and available materials. If you have booked an in-person, during our initial meeting we will also schedule another day to do your ritual together and debrief & integrate. If you are remote, during your planning session we will also schedule a debriefing & integration session for after your ritual is complete.
As a mentor, I support women of all ages by listening, reflecting, sharing stories, experiences, tools, ideas, support for next steps, and resources. My sessions are bespoke — guided by your longings, your dreams, grief, desires, needs, and our collective intuition.
I am here for you to work out (and with) repetitive patterns or new challenges/opportunities, give guidance for creative processes, directional help, as well as support for you as you move through threshholds, deaths & rebirths, big life transitions, and initiations — co-creating with Great Mystery every step along the way.
I may offer inquiry for communing with Earth, wandering or sitting with the land, opening to messages, guidance, and creative impulse. We might be guided to create ritual for you, we may work with writing for creating and re-wiring, both of us attuning to and listening for creative energy that wants to move through you. While not a clinical herbalist, I may offer intuitive herbal council from many years working with plant allies. I am a fantastic researcher around all things health and wellness, and we may be team up to fulfill your needs and build deeper health, bringing more herbs into your daily life.
However our relationship moves us to support your thriving, I am here for it — for your fullest and truest experience of Self. I look forward to exploring how I may show up to support you in moving with natural energy through to rebirth, in whatever ways that looks in your life right now.
Vipassana meditation, is such an ancient practice and lineage. It’s another form of deep listening and inclusion — inclusion with both external and internal worlds, which brings a lot of magic to life. I am sharing it as something that has helped my life in so many ways, a tool that can help immensely. There’s an impeccability and precision to this way of being, of seeing, of living that is Vipassana; it’s really deep love and care. The way I share the practice is cohesive and perhaps less extreme than other ways of learning, however it can be a bridge towards completing a ten day silent retreat, for example, or may be an evolution in an already established meditation practice.
This offering is a tune in and tune up, where first we will get into Anapana, a focusing practice which is one of the teachings of this lineage. Being adept at focusing is so helpful and sets you up for so many other successes in life and sets the ground for other practices. Metta, or loving kindness, is also a vital ingredient that I teach. It fosters true coherence and pervasive peace not only in your being, but rippling outwards, by engaging the imaginal as we embody the feeling, and sending it into the world. It is a form of self-healing which seals up ones own body and being after practicing Vipassana.
Focusing on creativity and creative projects is a very important part of living. It gives us something to focus on, is a way that we can create beauty, contribute, and it guides us through thresholds. If we are in a death portal, apparently something is dying, and in the same moment, something is pulling us. That which is pulling us is creative energy; life is pulling us forward. Proper use of energy is aligning with that life energy and making something with it.
Humans make music, humans dance, humans sing, humans build, write, sculpt, paint, drum, enact, design… humans are creative! In the modern world, much of our creative impulse and creativity has been co-opted. I’m here as a voice of reason to say NO to that— you are innately creative because you are human and no system of domination gets to take that from you. Original creativity is our birthright and, in this day and age, it is revolutionary to simply create!
Being creative is about receiving, being a receptor, and it’s fun! We need not be timid with our creativity, and in fact, it is so very needed! It is a healing balm amidst heart break of all kinds. I’m very passionate and compelled to collaborate and support creativity. Whether you have a ton of creative fire happening through you right now, or are not feeling it at all and are consumed with struggle and despair — the work meets you where you are. Together we will incorporate ritual, prayer, listening, inquiry, and other tools to allow what wants to rise to come to the surface, and then play with that to create or evolve something.
I’m joyfully here to support you; the world needs you to access and enhance all your gifts! These session can be remote or in-person. Curious? Book a consult and let’s connect!
Creative Sessions
I am passionate about and particularly enjoy postpartum planning and care. However I may be a support in community for mothers and families, I love to be.
Most of us don’t live in real village situations in modern day western culture, so there’s huge gaps in care and what mothers and families need. Everyone’s family situation is so unique, so the support needed is unique too. In the hyper-individualism of our current western world, we are relatively village-less, however postpartum doula help can cover some of the roles of the missing village. It is my intention to be a strong balance of both spiritual and physical support for you and your loved ones during this precious and important postpartum time.
Your session may include planning, setting up emotional and mental support, cleaning and organizing, care for older children, meal planning, ritual, reflection, processing, logistical and informational support, griefwork, resource sharing and finding opportunities to fit your needs… I am here for any preparation that might be needed or desired based on your unique needs.
Please book a complimentary consultation with me first so that we have a chance to meet and create a plan for your session, address any questions, and determine your ongoing support needs.
