Ancient Medicine, Mutable & Evolving

You may have tried everything. And been exhausted in that search. Or you may be new to the work. This is explanation of what you might encounter and why, as it creates itself through every session, it sometimes defies a fair explanation.

On the chalkboard, it looks like this: This work is informed by craniosacral listening, somatic observation, connection, separation, shadow & parts work , homeofluidity, nervous system regulation and stillness practices. adapted into an integrative embodiment therapy. on the table, it is a non-invasive non-cathartic wildly depth-defined dive into deep space and deeper embodiment.

but everything on the table, I draw in other modalities where the formal rules of craniosacral techniques chafe, (being defined by listening and following only, and touch only at the weight of a nickel), or when the somatic rules of noticing can be enhanced by channeling, extraction, and calling in family FOR an entity (there’s a wild one, right? Aid for the very person we want out. This is a healing practice and we don't usually evict. We engage fully by hearing them and seeing them and often giving them a support system as they leave, no matter how cold or cruel they have ever been.

I keep expecting to look around and see the work everywhere. Fluidic, mutable and attuned to the very tiniest indication of direction and rightness, etherically vast and deeply personal, it's a custom built organism in every moment, always seeking clear seeing and appropriate action in the moment that's happening. so it doesn't read as traditional technique, and sidesteps the limitations of those in the process. This isn't gonna look like your last healing experience.

I honor traditional practices by practicing them in a diligent, disciplined, sometimes rigid, fashion. But I stand for, speak for, reach for the PRESENT moment, and I believe the age we inhabit NOW responds really well to, enjoys and asks for technique FUSION, integrative practice & path coelescensence.

This work thrives on the intuitive employment of techniques and practices of many traditions, with a firm yet nuanced discernment of what techniques work in the moment for each person, and accurately perceiving what barriers or collapses exist counter to a fluid harmonization of that singular person inside of and separate from, the collective.

The fusion of medicinal modalities, alchemized through center, source & channeled knowing, with embodiment, observation and acceptance at the root and foundation, IS, as far as I can tell, the oldest, most wild, medicine. As ancient culture received their knowing through channeled information, so now, we can also engage the ancient magic of asking & allowing. This idea that regular people don't have the medicine now is destructive.

I bow to the implicit and explicit native & traditional powers, the encompassing & enormous, humble, gritty, holistic and hyperreal magics that will NEVER be mine. I don't long for that lineage any more than a warbler asks to be a waterbuck. Long may it thrive pelucid and true to its source, uncorrupted and rich with meaning & connection. Surely, we would have perished before this without it.

Every person, no matter how chaotic, jaded or damaged has a medicine person inside of them. I've seen it over and over. When a situation demands, and a person rises to the occasion, their healer comes. So the idea that only traditional or ancient lineage, only a certification board can grant safe passage to our truth. It divorces us from the individualized perspective truths of our divinity and from the belonging that is our birthright.

It's TOUGH. There ARE safety issues, and I navigate by the nanosecond to keep things on the Ridgeline. Appropriation is concurrent with healers channeling a groove for themselves in this age. And as always, the core work is surrounded by it's opposite: image, shadow and money. The mass marketing of Entheogenic plant journeys by unskilled, twisted or uncaring guides, a lack of integration after big openings. The uninitiated opening portals into deep, un-held spaces their clients are unprepared for…. It's goin’ down.

But people are not separate from their medicine, and that needs some space to evolve. If you see the longtide sweep through the natural world, cohesing and expanding every ripple on the water, the log that you lay on, every needle and leaf, all bird song; that is the medicine coming to you. If a person allows themselves to be vulnerable for the first time, learns to receive love and compassionate touch only when their physical heart gives us out. That is the medicine. If I intuitively speak ho’oponopono as a landscaper connecting with delicate, astronomically beautiful and complex little plants, the silica and potential inside of them glowing with an internal fire and will to live….. and then pulling them. Clear explanation, the support of their best in another time and place, and honoring their path back to big Spirit with prayer. That is also medicine.

In all of the heartbreak and forgetting that comes with being in a material mud and blood matrix, otherwise known as a body, we have a more-than-life-line into the etheric space. We can be at our root and our creative growth in the garden chakras and also in the line of communication and knowing from the sky chakras and the expanded consciousness. And if the centerline were a staff and we did not judge the handle better than the foot that grounds in clay & mica, the heart would still be known to balance and alchemize both. And that sweet navigator would still want to touch earth, AND be expressed in high, vertical alignment, (as we are), held as a supporting structure, talking stick, wand and wayfinder; A dowsing rod.

It's one of the consolations of being fragmented into separate bodies. We receive the sometimes joy, sometimes challenge of being unified, and the aching liberation and clarity of being separate. And everybody forgets over and over. So we are bound to rinse & repeat.

Again and again we come to this. Will we make our godhood through the bridge of another? Will we each have our own line? I hold that everything is inclusive. Why NOT both? Let people come together in a powerful collective, using the voice of another, a healer, a spiritual leader, a channel, a guru. And by all means, let's take our individual energetic tendrils back to what is solely ours inside of our sovereign & autonomous auric or physical skins.

Still, when we separate, embodying the etheric through our own chemical and sensory systems; Alchemizing through selfsource knowing & noticing, working on self can be difficult. As creators of our own resistances & obstacles, and not having the lights of another to shine on our blindspots and help us swallow hard truths, it can be hard work, tarsing apart the quiet truths from the louder stories.

For the person I am the bridge for, what is offered isn't about me. It makes it so much easier. The prism of another shows its colors clear to an observer if the observer understands the subjective nature of their own filters and what those lend to the experience. So I too accept the medicine of others. I LOVE being a student and letting a teacher guide me into spaces created, colored, enhanced and expanded by their own perceptual and source medicine.

I’m a big fan of and long standing practitioner of martial meditation and discipline, breathwork & kundalini, traditional figurative & anatomic art, ancient traditional song and dance and yogic practice. But coloring ONLY inside of the lines of any tradition has never been my path. Some people shine as supportive strength in a congregation or collective. Some people must, in order to stay true to self, MUST alchemize everything through their own internal system.

I fall into the squarely in the second camp (AND, apon a moment of thought, cylindrically into the first) I AM a supporting structure. How could they possibly be exclusive? I also accept training and guidance so that I may open doors inside of myself that I hadn't seen before; It’s a delight to roll around in a skilled persons cauldron, relaxing everything but awareness and appropriate action towards what goals are asked for, for higher knowing.

When guidance from another is resonant, it light us up! It Burns bright and illuminates another path to source that could only be created through the chemistry of people working together… Simultaneously, when things are challenging and feel off; It brings an amazing amount of knowing; Sometimes only to push us back to our own center having felt the awkward lean, sometimes breaking us open to let us see the broken edges of things we NEVER would've volunteered for.

So that's what I look for in the experiential arena of healing and people. It's never been the number of years they spent getting the diploma, but how they expand the one and only, ever-evolving moment of now. Accessing the living, breathing sacred is what I look for in others and what I seek in myself. So if you fall squarely or even cylindrically into this camp, let's see what is created, enhanced or challenged when we acquaint and orient our mutual energies toward balance.