bodymindspiritworks   LLC

• You’re at a crossroads, facing a career or personal decision.
• Your life is wonderful, you want to keep enriching & affirming it.
• You’re blocked or stalled in your life,
         and you feel the need to move forward.
• It is your nature to seek out life-enhancing experiences.
• You’ve lost connection with the life of the spirit.
• You’re an artist, hoping to gain access
         to your deepest sources of creativity.
• You’re completely stressed-out
         and need to make a major life course correction.
• You’re at a point of transition in your life…

Come home to yourself.   Come home to your life.
Discover living for the sheer joy of pursuing
that which is good and beautiful and true.

During the initial consultation, which will take a couple of hours, we will clarify the goals of our work together and “where it hurts:” the motivation behind your wanting to work. For example, when there is difficulty in any of four major areas of a person’s life, there is life-energy that is restricted or even stuck, and that can have a profound debilitating effect on every other area in the person’s life. These areas are all related to each other: persons, work, the body/physical life, and ultimate concerns/life-meaning. A person’s attempt to continue on despite the difficulty in one of these areas can in turn create further imbalance and what’s worse, mask the underlying problem (which may be too uncomfortable to work with directly, yet…). Some examples:

In each of these examples, the overall goal of our work together would be the integration of disowned aspects of yourself (shadow work), unblocking bound energy (where is it stuck?), releasing creativity (think new thoughts and find new paths) and finding in yourself everything you need to move forward in your life (instead of looking outside yourself for that strength and direction).

Because our model is “integral,” we approach the work from four areas: bodywork, mindwork, spiritwork, and shadow work. After determining the initial focus of your work, we select a set of core practices on a “try this and see how it works” basis, practices that will move you toward your desired outcome from the Life Integration Matrix. If there is a particular practice for which we do not have the training, we outsource to a network of trusted colleagues.

A next step might be filling out your goal sheet, where the actual practices in each of the areas are recorded. At the beginning of your work, one or two practices in each area will probably be most appropriate. As you progress through your program, it may become important to add (or subtract) practices. In every case, the work will evolve with you and the work will adjust to reflect your growth and progress. We will fill out this worksheet during the weekly coaching/counseling sessions. Part of our job is to help you be accountable to yourself.

“Attitudes” can also be “practices;” “beliefs” that do not serve you or which may be self-defeating or even self-destructive are “practices” You have practiced some of these for a long time and replacing them with beliefs and attitudes that are more accurate and self-creative takes practice!

If “finding the time” is an issue for you, we will help you work with a weekly planning grid to create the time for your Life Integration Program. You will block out all the times you are already committed (job and other scheduled appointments). We will work to schedule in sleep time, recreation time, time for journal work and the other practices you have determined, and schedule your weekly massage/bodywork session and coaching/counseling session.

We will bring in the resources to help you as we go along. Articles, exercises, self-discovery tools, and personalized coaching will help you expand your “map of reality,” and it is exactly this larger context that gives you the answers you need to the most pressing issues in your life.

Across the next 16 sessions of your program you will work with your practices. For many of them you will work on your own, and for others you will work with a trained professional (your weekly massage/bodywork session, for example) or with a group (enrolling in a yoga class, for example). During each weekly check-in we will review your experience together and adjust as necessary.

At the end the program, you will not only have experienced a profound shift in your experience of yourself and your life, but you will also have experience with a set of tools/practices that fit you which you can use to continue your growth, whether it be with us or working on your own. The course correction you make will “stick” because of these practices and your commitment to using them.

"Both the Intensive Journal Workshop and the Integrative Lifework process
provided me with a powerful and fully authentic lifeline
back to myself; one that I can rely on now and in the future."
                                                                       + NSM (Wisconsin)