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"Summer 2009 until early November '09 I am in Toronto, Canada. Fall/Winter 2009 until Spring 2010 I am in NM and AZ, working with clients by phone, skype, and in person while in the cities I am visiting." ~ Thanks, Terra
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Stress Reduction: Stress and the methods that help you to the other side of it. Soothe your body and mind!
Martial Arts Family Fitness,
122 E. Gutierrez St.,
Santa Barbara, CA, 93101
Fri. June 12/09.6:15-8:30 PM.
Tuition: $30
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Aug 20/09: Toronto
Women's Workshop
Healing Womb Loss
Details Here...
UC Berkeley
Female Sexuality
Guest Speaker, May 2/09
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Healing Insight and Integration
Give birth to yourself as a healthy and whole person. This cross-cultural inner-outer holistic health awareness process will help you know yourself in a powerful and balanced way. Guidance, coaching, and mentoring is provided for teens, women/men, and couples for a range of life concerns. Plus, a unique non-judgmental inclusive method of support and integration is available for women and couples about issues of loss from the womb. In addition, the womb-centered empowering aspect of this wisdom will help to nourish healthy energy, somatic awareness, sensual/sexual fulfillment, and psychic health too.
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Ongoing Healing Educational Seminars for Students, Health Care and Counseling Professionals, and the Public
"It is my pleasure to write on behalf of Terra Wise, whom I have known for more than a decade. I am a psychiatrist, teacher and author, and one of the founders of transpersonal psychology. I was founding president of the International Transpersonal Association, and am currently an adjunct faculty member of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Terra Wise has presented her work at conferences of the ITA, both here and abroad. Her background and training in an extraordinary variety of psychotherapeutic disciplines and indigenous healing traditions has made her a unique source of insight and support for women undergoing periods of deep personal transformation. As a therapist she brings to her work a remarkable capacity for intuitive insight and empathic sensitivity. Her non-judgmental compassion plays an important role in her ability to support women of all ages in their journeys of healing. She also has a rich knowledge of the mythic and archetypal dimensions of women's experience, a knowledge grounded in long study but also, more importantly, in direct personal experience. She is an effective teacher and speaker, with her lectures regularly drawing enthusiastic responses from audiences enriched by her perspectives and moved by her special spirit. Our world today is deeply in need of teachers and healers who bring a more spiritually informed view to the whole human being, body and soul. Many women in our time are being required by their own inner development as well as by the pressures of our collective life and the evolution of our society to cross very challenging thresholds of transformation. I believe Terra Wise's work is of unique relevance in supporting women as they undergo this critical task on behalf of all of us." - Stanislav Grof, M.D.
"I have known Terra Wise for a number of years and have had the privilege to participate in group process with her and experience her work as a facilitator. Terra has the ability to transcend rigid thinking when responding to a range of concerns. When working with dreams for example, where traditionalists might see one predictable interpretation of an issue that a person is facing, Terra has a refreshing and integral way of significantly and surprisingly expanding ones way of thinking rather than shutting it down--a real art. Terra brings a rich blend of diverse experience to her work with women. Her professional skills, sensitivity, and compassion combine with her training in shamanic/intertribal teachings, embodied arts, transpersonal psychology, and more, allowing her to truly blend her holistic perspective into one that fully embraces that of mind, body and spirit. I would highly recommend Terra as a teacher/facilitator for a workshop or course at any institute of education."
~ Dr. Jane Hart, M.D.
Shedding the old
A snake sheds its skin when its insides become bigger than its outside, in other words when it grows. So too, when you grow on the inside the outer aspect of your life that no longer fits you will try to slough off -- whether you are ready or not. The way we approach the shedding of the old will have a profound influence on the level of suffering experienced. This means, if you are fiercely holding on, resisting change at all costs versus letting go and deepening into the potential for a fresh start, all these variables will powerfully influence your experience of suffering.
Snakes often suffer during their shedding cycles (according to experts who work with reptiles). The experience of inner growth forces the snake to make important adjustments to its normal routine. For example, the eyes of the snake shed too, they become cloudy for a time making it harder to be safe from various dangers, therefore steps must be taken to create a safe environment during the cycle of change. Some snakes find a hide-away retreat space, away from their usual environment because they are vulnerable and can easily become wounded or hurt by predators Not only is the cloudy vision a concern for the reptile, the outgrown skin as it sloughs off can get stuck too. The snake may have to scrape its body against a rock to keep the process moving, intentionally harming the tender skin that is newly revealed during the transition (short term pain for long term benefits).
The same can be said of the various delicate life transitions we humans go through time and again. During these cycles when we shed the old way of life, many feelings, experiences, and sensations can play havoc with ones life. All that was known and comfortable (even if the comfortable life was not nourishing to the body and soul) regardless if the life transition is for the good of the person, these changes can be very demanding and hard to make sense of, especially without support.
The familiar logical life that was thought to be so reliable is now slipping away and instead a "new normal" begins. Many people will naturally feel uncomfortable in their own skin as the old way prepares to loosen and shed in order to reveal the next-step phase of life. When this happens it is quite understandable to want to hide under a rock for a while, or to scrape away at the experiences of fear, resentment, and confusion.
This can be a cycle that feels like a roller-coaster for many people, a time filled with ups and downs, nervous/anxious feelings, melancholy, regret, rage, and confusion become the lens and world view. Plus, during this transition it is not uncommon to have feelings of low self-esteem, shame, lamentation, depression, even numbness can be present.
It may be that you feel quite strange to yourself, unsure of who you are now, unsure of your place in your environment. You may feel that you have lost your purpose and direction, or fallen from grace, veered from your life path--everything you thought you knew and believed in is shifting. The upheaval can be tremendously difficult filled with moments of struggle and painful contraction that come and go. And yes, the old way of being, of knowing yourself is shedding like a snake to allow the new growing self to emerge.
Knowing that life has many bumps along the way, it is of great benefit to have a skilled and unbiased guide by your side to help illuminate your path and support your 'birth' into a new phase of being... into the next chapter of your soul story.
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'' The work I've done with Terra is nothing short of extraordinary. She provided a safe setting for me to journey to the core of my soul. During my initial session I felt a tremendous energy shift take place within me. Our second session allowed for snapshots of my life's memories to unfold; under Terra's capable, calm, and non-judgmental guidance, I uncovered connections that triggered recognition and subsequent release of negative thought and energy patterns. I honestly feel what Terra evoked in a short time would otherwise take months or more of intensive therapy!'' - Susan P., RN, Arizona
“ What a gift for me to work with a therapist who listens as respectfully to what is spoken, as to what is unspoken and responds compassionately to both. Thank you!” ~ Kim M
"Many people today are feeling a sense of personal urgency and planetary concern, with this in mind I believe Terra's practical and wise guidance is a timely blessing for us all. She contributes powerfully as a leader bringing focus, knowledge, and compassion to each moment of an individual session and in her brilliant group work. The experience created by Terra and the valuable tools she teaches changes lives. Any organization would benefit immediately from a program with Terra. I am thankful for her presence." - Cris Beaty, CA
Womb Wisdom TM Healing Book
In the works: Support in the form of audio and book. Dialogue, insight and awareness practices that provide healing for miscarriage, post-abortion distress, and other womb related events. This teaching tool explores personal, mythic and transpersonal aspects of the womb, heart, and soul.
Do you have a womb experience you would like to contribute? If you do, please send your story by email to, terrawise@gmail.com. Your privacy (name /city) will not be revealed.
The content on this website is the property of its author, Terra Wise, and is copyright material.
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Terra Wise, LMT, CHt, Midwife for the Soul, is an ally, educator, counselor, healer, and speaker in practice since 1983. Terra counsels clients in person and by phone, and guides educational seminars on a variety of topics with skill and intuitive wisdom. People of all ages, and walks of life experience compassion, insight, and integration through a seamless blend of cross-cultural and non-biased supportive methods. The result is a healing experience of awareness and movement from darkness into light. ___________________________________
Counseling/Support/Education Life Transitions, Spiritual Crisis, Lifestyle Guidance
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Transpersonal Insight
- Dreams & Symbols
- Personal- Transpersonal
- Healing Trance
- Clinical Hypnotherapy
Womb Wisdom TM
Health and Balance
Somatic Therapies
for women and teens
- Guidance, counsel, support after trauma, assault, domestic violence
Nourish the Whole Self Integral Healing Methods for Body, Mind, and Soul
- Your Soul Story
- Ancestral, Mythic, Transpersonal
- Insight Integration
- Healing Ceremony,
- Rituals, Altars
- Shamanic Methods
- Medicine Wheel
- Night Dream Teachings
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Exploring hidden/repressed personal and cultural taboos
In many ways this work is akin to the heart-to-heart guidance and soul healing of a medicine woman. A life experience is informed by many elements, some are right in front of our noses, while others emerge from a distant or ancient place. What might be thought of as a medicine teaching, a powerful teaching for and from the soul, can at key moments in one's lifetime yearn to birth forth from a portion of the soul that has thus far been concealed.
The questions and answers contained within this newly discovered aspect of soul story may require an ally to help reveal and better understand the teachings contained within.
And so it is that the 'pearls on a string' the experiences and memories from all directions, time, and space, begins to inform one another.
The power of a medicine wheel is in both the sum of its parts and also in the teachings of the individual directions (aspects) of the circle, each has a quality, a teaching of its own, and yet they are also profoundly interconnected.
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