No matter your location or mine, private sessions are always available by phone (8054483360) and skype: terrawise.
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I will be in Califonia this summer of 2011. Contact me (terrawise@gmail.com) if you would like to aranged a group seminar or workshop event for your community. I will also be working with private clients by appointment.
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Winter 2010 through Spring 2011 I will be in Toronto -- writing, meeting with local clients, and counseling by phone.
The following descriptions outline the variety of courses and workshops available. Information can also be found on the Course Descriptions page.
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Womb Wisdom TM
for Doulas
Abortion, Miscarriage, & Fertility Concerns
This transformational gathering is recommended for doulas, midwives, healers, counselors, nurses, acupuncturists, and those working with women and couples in the field of women's wellness.
Womb Wisdom TM:
Navigating the realm of pregnancy loss, abortion, miscarriage, and fertility concerns with dialogue, experiential process meditation, imagery, role play, and healing touch. This work helps to bring awareness to this area of feminine taboo that is still associated with women's reproductive health. This safe environment supports sharing and healing.
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"Dear Terra, I just received your most recent newsletter. I'm reminded that you are one of the blessed guides who helped me on my way as I began my journey toward motherhood. My daughter was conceived not long after I had a very powerful session with you. I was able to make space in my body for her after doing a lot of work, including the powerful visualization/cord cutting you helped me to complete. I am feeling grateful, and wanted to extend to you my thanks and my admiration for the work that you do."
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Dream Work
Ongoing Series & Day-Long Workshops
for Women and Men
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"Terra has the ability to transcend rigid thinking when responding to a range of concerns. When working with dreams for example 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.'’
- Dr. Jane Hart, M.D.
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Dreams have the potential to inform, heal, and guide us in a number of ways. They provide insight and wisdom, support us in our daily and spiritual lives too. Health and creativity become enhanced as a result of working with your dreams.
This course introduces trance states, experiential process, and somatic awareness. Bring your dream journals, current dreams, or special dreams from the past.
If you do not remember your dreams, that's ok too, it often happens that you will begin to dream and remember them once this work is underway -- plus, you probably have experiences of waking-dreams these out o the ordinary (while awake) experiences are rich with insight.
Some of what you can expect
Develop your abilities and have fun as you explore the images and symbols that come to visit you!
Alchemy of dreams
Health, constitution in dreams
Rx 'healing prescriptions' revealed in dreams
Somatic experience of dreams
Transpersonal dreams (beyond the personal consciousness)
Group mind and medicine wheel dreaming
Divination and Dreams
Trance and meditative visions
Daydreams /Waking Dreams
Methods to invite/track dreams
Activating through Ritual
Planetary influences
Journal Methods
Interpretations:
creating your own dream dictionary
Signs and Symbols
Dreaming for another person
Precognitive dreams
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After Abortion Support
2 or 3-hour groups & weekend workshops
Non-biased Support Post-Abortions
Read Womb Wisdom & the Home Page to Learn More
You are invited to speak freely with your authentic voice about your womb story. The setting is a respectful healing environment, you will be safe.
Women's circles provide a supportive and safe atmosphere in which to share stories of the feminine heart, sexuality, and soul.
Group work helps to shed light on issues that have been silenced, repressed or disowned.
Dialogue and experiential process assist with insight and integration, no matter how many terminations, or how long since your abortion. Cross-cultural, mythic, creative, transpersonal, and somatic approaches will help you to regain peace and wellness.
Feel free to contact me with any questions about this work and courses.
You may also want to work in private prior to and/or after the group for added support. Read more throughout this website to learn about Womb Wisdom.
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After Miscarriage Healing Support
Women and Couples
2-hour workshop
This group provides a nurturing environment, compassionate dialogue, and healing methods that support anyone who has experienced the pain of womb loss through one or more miscarriages. In this atmosphere of patience and safety you are free to share your feelings.
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Transpersonal & Healing Trance
Trance ~ Regression ~ Ancestor Energies
for Women and Men
Ancestors, genealogical imprints, womb memories, life before this life, psychic health.
Within this group it is possible to discover that your dreams, memories, body sensations, impulses, fears, phobias, areas of repulsion, attractions, and interests may be linked to events that are a type of insight from beyond this life and incarnation.
You are invited no matter if you are a true believer or a confirmed skeptic, you will learn something of value in this class - at the very least useful meditation techniques and ideas that can uplift and inform your life in positive ways.
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Altars - Rituals - Sacred Objects
Awareness, Invocation, Healing
Psychic Health/Protection
Women and Men Invited
Learn about intention and the power of working with objects, altars, and ritual for healing and transformative purposes. Your focus on energy and intention through ritual can help you to birth ideas and inspiration that continue to unfold long after the work.
Envision yourself participating in a highly focused creative workshop (or part of an ongoing group) that guides and encourages the creative flow of your intentions.
A ritual can help bring forth into reality healing images from dreams, meditations, therapeutic sessions and manifest life goals too. You choose the focus, personal life, professional life and/or relationships.
Altars have many intentions and expressions. They can be designed specifically to communicate with ancestors and to show respect. They can be created to ask for guidance, and to protect the soul during shamanic journeys. A ritual can help with healing and inner peace after any kind of trauma. Altars and rituals are created for popular celebrations too, weddings are an example.
An altar can be created to lend support during times of transition (for self and others), to show respect to people living and passed, for patients in hospital rooms, in birthing centers, or any special place. They are built to nourish our Earth Mother, to honor the Feminine and Masculine in sacred sexual ritual, and for magnetizing intention into manifestation. Ritual workings can be designed for brief durations of time, or for longer cycles. They can be built for numerous reasons: for cleansing spirit-body-mind, for healing and attracting positive change, and when mourning/lamenting a loss.
An attunement to a personal altar, no matter how small or humble has the power to invoke change and a sense of sacredness. Conscious work with sacred objects, altars and rituals can result in emotional clearing, happiness and hope. They can add serenity to any environment.
You will be guided in developing sensitivity and awareness about how to design and empower your ritual altar space. You will learn which images and objects are a part of the collective mind and which ones are of special personal significance for you. You will learn about transpersonal, mythic, and archetypal ideas and how to invoke protection, good fortune, and clarity, of purpose.
Imagine the healing and spiritual/creative expression that is possible! We will draw from cross-cultural themes, the the power and meaning of the elements and directions, the connection between spirit and matter, and the relationship between the human and the divine.
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Womb Wisdom TM
Professional Training
Somatic and Counseling Therapists
Educational training is offered as an introductory lecture for in-service talks for organizations, plus, ongoing classes, and longer weekend workshops.
This training is for therapists, medical professionals and body workers who work with clients and patients who may have a history of abortion, miscarriage, and fertility concerns. Workshops can be arranged specifically for your women's center, health clinic, doula-midwife training, massage or somatic therapy school.
Healing from Pregnancy Loss
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
Addresses the psycho-spiritual 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.
Areas of Focus
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(s)
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
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.
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To arrange a workshop for your own group contact Terra Wise, terrawise@gmail.com
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Specialty Yoga and Somatic Courses
Yoga - Movement - Energy Workshops
blend the somatic, energetic, and spiritual healing aspects of life.
Stress Reduction
Yoga and Erotic Embodiment
Healing the Sensual Self
Trust the Body after Trauma
Chakra Flow
Embodied Ritual
You will feel safe and comfortable. Classes for all shapes, sizes, and fitness levels.
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Women & Teen Self Defense
Group/Private ~ Mother/Daughter
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.
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Would you like to organize your own group of 6 or more teens and/or adult women? Are you interested in a series of weekend or evening classes, or a day-long workshop? Give me a call and we can discuss how to make your interest a reality.
Terra Wise, teacher, counselor, an ally for girls and women in Canada and the U.S.
Certified self-defense instructor through Defend University, R.A.D., and trained in Wendo, women's self-defense. Terra is also a certified yoga instructor and a sexual assault crisis counselor.
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