DREAMS & TRANCE

for Women and Men

This course will draw from a range of cross-cultural dream work perspectives and reflective practices. We work with the transformative power of the night dream, and with internal conscious trance, visions too from meditations, plus, daydreams and waking dream states. Dream work is a medicine for the soul. It is mind expanding and illuminating!

How to invite /track dreams
Journal Methods
Alchemy of dreams
Astrological influences
Health & constitution:

Your dosha, bodymind temperament can influence dreams
The dream Rx 'prescriptions'

Dreams  and your state of health
Transpersonal dreams
Group mind dreaming
Divination and Dreams
Interpretations: your own dream dictionary
Activating through Ritual

We will work with waking events too--some as strange as any dream--such as loosing only one key from a full key chain, misplacing something to have it show up days later, often in the same place you had looked, exploring why objects spontaneous break, and working with signs and symbols that are all around you. We investigate dreaming for another person, as a medium or healer might, and discuss precognitive dreams as well.

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Transpersonal Realms

Ancestors, Womb, Past-life Regression

For Women and Men

This workshop is fascinating and fun, and can prove to be very illumination and healing

Transpersonal inquiry explores healing and consciousness practices from many sources often ancient, having successfully withstood the test of time: yoga, meditation, altered states, dream work, shamanism, esoteric and East/West traditions. Reflection on the dark night of the soul, spiritual crisis, peri-natal experiences, and near-death experiences too.

The term transpersonal means beyond the personal and approaches an individual as a whole person. Transpersonal experiences involve a mode of consciousness in which the ordinary mental or egoic self is transcended. This work explores a balanced development of the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, social, sexual, and creative aspects of life.

Transpersonal exploration includes the study of states and processes in which a person can experience a deeper, expanded sense of who they are. There is a often a sense of feeling more connected with the internal aspects of self, with others, with nature, and with the spiritual dimension. This work can include regression back to earlier times from within the current life, and to a time beyond, before this incarnation. Progression is a state of consciousness that projects into the future.

Be part of a transformative inquiry exploring the transpersonal realm with a variety of methods. Previous participants report receiving understanding and answers to personal questions about their essential self, childhood, family and ancestors, phobias, interpersonal connections, plus improvements in health, and illuminating insights that loosened old beliefs systems.

This work can shine light on questions such as repeating life patterns, a compulsion toward or away from certain people, places, and things too. You might ask yourself, what if this curious body sensations (or phobias, attraction, repulsion, impulse, and so on) could be linked to your ancestors and to their presence in your life in some form? You might experience this as a genealogical imprint, family belief or ancestor wound that you carry; perhaps you feel their energetic/spiritual presence in your waking or dream life creating an impact in the here and now.

This workshop includes sharing ideas and dialogue, and processes such as: guided trance states, breath work, imagery, self-reflection, evocative music, body-mind meditations, energy work, creative expression, symbolic associations, and amplification of visual, auditory, and somatic sensation.

This group will investigate conception and womb memories too, stories that can come from exploring the energy and time from the womb (prior to this current life’s birth).  With the right guidance, a range of helpful associations can be revealed—some that might seem to come from before or even after this incarnation. All of these may have the potential for healing, meaning, and purpose.

You can participate in this work, no matter if you are a true believer or a confirmed skeptic. With a little exploration it is quite possible you will learn something of value, or at the very least you will have fun with some fellow explorers.

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WOMB WISDOM
A Women's Healing Event

Womb Wisdom is a respectful, inclusive form of guidance, providing unbiased integration and cross-cultural and transpersonal support. This guidance is provided before, during, and after transitions, (choice, crisis, or loss.) This specialty work of many years emerged to help tend to the distress and concerns connected to or following abortion, miscarriage, and infertility.

Situations do occur in life, by choice and/or as a result of unexpected events that can be highly complex and sensitive. This integrative counseling support is available to provide non-judgmental healing and a safe non-polarized atmosphere for tending to these concerns.

Healing integration is available to everyone, no matter how many, why, or when the experiences occurred. This inclusive work is open to all women, all politics, religions, and ages. Each person is entitled to compassion and a safe environment in which to speak freely and be supported with specific methods that have been proven to help incorporate complex life experiences.

Keep Informed
If you cannot make this workshop event please check with me about what support is possible for you. This non-polarized healing does fill a void and is remarkably freeing. Available in private session and through group work for women, teens, couples, and men who have been involved with or influenced by events of the womb (no matter how many, or how long ago). Group sessions are nourishing and supportive.  You are truly safe when speaking your story out loud in these gatherings, there is no shame or blame.

Let me assure you again, this work is compassionate and transformative.

If a group format feels like too much and if you want to address your concerns, book a private session first. Appointments are also available by phone as well.

Learn more about Womb Wisdom by reading through this website. You are also invited to speak with me by phone. All email and phone messages are confidential.

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Women & Teen Self Defense

WHAT YOU LEARN
Empowering practices and self-defense skills that will leave you feeling uplifted and encouraged. Practical information, ideas, and reminders about awareness, prevention, personal boundaries, self-esteem, and how to unleash the power of your voice. Group (and individual) instruction includes self-defense practices, qigong, grounding and opening energy, focused breathing, plus specific yoga postures to support strength and flexibility.

HANDS-ON PRACTICE INCLUDES

You will practice strikes, releases, ground and standing techniques plus specific yoga postures that augment this self-defense approach. This respectful method will develop skills, confidence, and improve fitness. By the end of the workshop or series, which is an integral blend I call YogaChi, you will have more confidence, self-respect, and powerful tools to build upon. You will also have made friends, laughed out loud, and will feel more connected and fluid.

Bring a notebook, pen, and drinking water. Dress in layers for comfort and freedom of movement.

''My approach to teaching is accessible to many, I combine my training, interpersonal skills, counseling background, and playful humor in ways that encourage learning and joy. I provide a safe, unbiased, and warm ambiance that draws forth inner growth and optimism, in both my private and group work."

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Professional Training

Educational training for Health Professionals.

From introductory lectures, in-services, classes, or weekend workshops. For therapists, medical professionals and body workers who see clients and patients who may have a history of abortion and miscarriage. Workshops can be arranged specifically for your women's center, health clinic, doula or midwife training, and massage/somatic therapy practices and schools.

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Healing from Pregnancy Loss
for Professionals

The Healing from Pregnancy Loss Workshop is offered to doulas, midwives, women's health centers, yoga instructors, somatic therapists and schools, pregnancy massage practitioners, pastors and ministers.

This course will be of interest to those who work in the field of women's issues: fertility health providers, lab technicians, nurses, obgyn's, acupuncturists, and other practitioners of women's health and wellness.

Course Description
Healing from Pregnancy Loss is a anything from an in-service talk, and introductory seminar, to a day long or 2-3 day weekend workshop, or a longer intensive.

It addresses the psychological and physiological issues surrounding loss from within the womb and challenges with conception. The course prepares participants to support clients that have a history of pregnancy loss (infertility, miscarriage and/or abortion) through bodywork skills, process skills, and education. Participants become familiar with the changes that occur surrounding transition (by choice, or unexpected loss).

Methods for preventing womb loss, exercises to nourish the womb, and skills for mourning loss, releasing fear, shame, and judgment will be presented.

Miscarriage
Causes of miscarriage
Steps to take that may protect from pregnancy loss
Exercises that nourish the womb and the woman
Giving voice to sorrow

Abortion

Integration after abortion
Types of abortion procedures
Who has abortions and why
Exploring the distress that some experience
Exploring the myths and facts about abortion
Releasing judgment, blame, and shame
Abortion providers and their needs
Options counseling, (prior to choice) steps that nourish and support
Working with an open-mind and open-heart

Infertility
Infertility and its impact on women and couples
Integrative methods that are known to help in cases of fertility challenges
Selective termination, what it is and how to address it

You will Learn
Introduction to anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system
Depression and its connection to infertility
Symptoms of grief
Mourning losses/Healing grief
Remedies and nutrients that have a history of lending support
Somatic therapies and energy healing, specific hands-on bodywork to ease symptoms
Cross-cultural meditations
How a woman's womb (and her experiences) connect to her mother's womb
Empowering your clients/yourself
Recognizing shadow, judgment, and projection
Role play to develop comfort and flexibility when working with these complex concerns

Format
The course will include: lecture, discussion, media presentation, bodywork, movement, and process exercises.

Healing from Pregnancy Loss will provide a non-polarized inclusive opportunity to develop sensitivity, therapeutic skills, and insight. This training will greatly enhance your level of comfort and understanding when working with your clients. You will become more aware of this important (yet often overlooked) aspect of the female reproductive experience. The information provided in this course will help you gain the necessary knowledge and comfort to become an informed therapist--who in turn will be better able to compassionately support clients that might have a history of pregnancy loss, infertility, miscarriage and/or abortion.

To arrange a workshop for your own group contact Terra Wise terrawise@gmail.com

Refer to the Calendar page for additional information