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I offer 1:1 sessions online and in person. Here are some of the ways we might work together…
INTUITIVE GUIDANCE + MENTORING
SOMATIC WORK
GRIEF WORK
BODY WISDOM : YOGA + AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
CONSCIOUS DYING COACHING
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ONLINE + IN PERSON 1:1
THE MOST VITAL INGREDIENTS FOR HEALING = TIME + SPACE + SUPPORT
ALL SESSIONS ARE A CO- CREATION AND SHAPE SHIFT AS NEEDED IN THE EVER PRESENT UNFOLDING MOMENT
INTUITIVE GUIDANCE + MENTORING
(online & in person)
These sessions are an invitation to show up with any burning question you have on your mind, anything you need guidance/mentoring on.
We will drop into the liminal space together with curiosity. We take time to witness what is showing up and, through deep inquiry and trust, we will find a prescription for a way forward. This might include personalized ritual, guided movement, meditation or somatic awareness. This may happen in the unfolding of our session and/or you may be sent away with work to do after we meet.
Through coming into deeper alignment, these sessions work with developing/trusting your intuitive knowing.
You are welcome to bring anything you are needing to be met with. Anything. I hold the container for it all to unfold and be expressed.
SOMATIC
WORK
(online & in person)
I. A.M. Returning = Impulse + Authentic Movement + Returning to breath/self
Within this space, we pause and listen for impulse, notice what wants to happen (and didn't get to) and allow the sovereign animal body to move naturally.
We explore our relationship to what we find and return to breath time and time again. This embodiment practice supports liberation from habituated patterns and suffering (contractions), intimacy, empowerment and greater capacity.
Through these sessions, you will be gifted with tools to better support your body’s knowing and practice to gently guide your breath and nervous system to expanded capacity and a deep sense of vitality and alert relaxation.
GRIEF WORK
(online & in person)
This is a space where we meet grief and begin to build a new relationship to it so that proper healing can begin. Our fast paced productivity culture doesn't allow enough breathing room to grieve and we can feel isolated in carrying it alone. This container is for being with death and grief in all its many shapes, sizes and forms. This can be on any level; personally, relationally, culturally, globally. Ex. Relationships that didn't work out the way we imagined, losses that feel monumental and need space to grieve, losing a loved one, a job loss, heartache of any kind, an aspect of self that feels “dead” inside.
Through witnessed grieving, we develop more capacity for life and all its challenges and there is greater life force available to draw upon. From this transformative space, we can re-imagine what wants to take shape and breathe renewed strength and energy back into ourselves. We begin to move through the heaviness of loss and birth into new life.
BODY WISDOM: YOGA + AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
(online & in person)
YOGA AT YOGASOURCE PALO ALTO (AND PRIVATE)
Through a movement practice rooted in Vinyasa Yoga, we allow the body to pause when it wants and organically move to support and explore unwinding tension patterns/stuck energies that are held in the body wanting to release.
We play with expansion /contraction, tightening /softening, grasping onto /releasing to harmonize the natural wave-like rhythm held in the body, heart, gut and nervous system.
When we work 1:1, your practice can become more specific to your body - taking into account any injuries or trauma. In these hands on sessions, I support the body through adjustments, gentle massage and touch so that our work is tailored to your specific needs are.
CONSCIOUS DYING COACHING
This coaching method offers you a healing presence, comfort, connection and compassionate communication to help you understand and implement what is most important well before you die. We will have intimate conversations around death and dying and how that informs how you are living now. During these sessions, you will be gifted with insights into what matters most in your current reality and we will energetically clear what is in the way.
Through the act of pure listening, conscious communication skills and deep reflection/journaling, I will guide you through the 5 domains (physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, practical) to assist in building a new relationship to the process of active dying. This transformational space creates a fresh perspective, more capacity for pleasure and deeper connections to self and other (people, nature, animals, the elements).
This was life changing for my teenagers! Any age is welcome. Contact me with interest.
“Every time I have a session with Mara, I feel completely transformed, reset and centered. She has this unique ability to hear me and make sense of what I am going through. Mara is so insightful and tuned in to what I truly need to do in order to break through my blocks. The energy work she performs clears my mind, heals my body, and lifts my soul. I go to her feeling confused, messy, hopeless and I leave her feeling inspired, supported and able to breathe and smile again. To me, Mara is my real life miracle worker.” ~Blair