Sessions with Prajna
“Healing happens in the true presence of another—as you are, without pretending. Presence befriends all pain, all resistance and naturally dissolves darkness. This is enlightenment. You are the space in which it happens.” ~ Prajna
Private sessions available in Fair Oaks, CA or by phone. Please call 530-575-2264 or email: flowingriverus@gmail.com for an appointment.
Sessions include, but are not limited to:
- Discovering your true nature.
- Hakomi – we look to see where you stand in relationship to the whole of life: self, spirit, body, mind, emotions, children, partners, work, play, living and dying.
- Exploring barriers to true nourishment and how organic experience is "organized out." In turn, seeing how to "organize in" missed experiences.
- Dissolving limiting core beliefs in safe and non-invasive ways.
- Unpacking, seeing thorough and healing from past emotional wounding.
- Understanding and resolving issues that block the fullness of your expression.
- Clarifying your vision and steps in your transformational process.
- Exploring new possibilities in your relationships or the roles you play.
- Widening your capacity to embrace all aspects of life.
- Integrating and grounding your body-heart-being.
- A return to cosmic humor.
What is Hakomi?
The word Hakomi comes from the Hopi Indians. Hakomi means to look to see where do I stand in relationship to these "many realms". Where do I hold on to positions in life? Where do I feel disconnected in body, mind and heart? Where do I flow? What am I? These "many realms" can translate to everything you experience in your life from emotions, thoughts, body sensations, memories, beliefs, to the myriad of spiritual, religious, philosophical, and political views, ad infinitum. Everything that arises in our experience can be studied in mindfulness, in this present moment.
Hakomi is a "psychology of awakening" to our authentic selves. Loving presence and a healing relationship are central to Hakomi. An exquisite sensitivity and attunement between client and practitioner are developed. We integrate and use mindfulness, sensitivity (or nonviolence) and the body to study and transform the organization of experience. It is a present-moment-centered, graceful, paradoxically powerful method for support, growth and healing.
Hakomi therapy is a form of body-centered, somatic psychotherapy developed by Ron Kurtz in the 1970s and furthered by a group led by Kurtz in the 80s.
Approach and method
According to the creators, the Hakomi method combines Western psychology, systems theory, and body-centered techniques with the mindfulness and non-violence of Eastern philosophy. Hakomi is grounded in six principles: mindfulness, nonviolence, organicity, unity, body-mind holism, and the truth of who you are.
Practitioners of Hakomi look at people as self-organizing systems, organized psychologically around core memories, beliefs, and images; this core material expresses itself through habits and attitudes that sustain people as individuals. Hakomi is a method for assisting people toward transformation in their way of being in the world through working with core material and dissolving core beliefs.
Hakomi relies on mindfulness of body sensations, emotions, and memories, and may follow a general flow to create a healing relationship, establish mindfulness, evoke experience, contact underlying material, and allow healing and transformation to happen. Time is then spent on integration of healing, and self-realization with the whole of life. True healing continues to unfold long after the session has ended.
“No one has ever sat in stillness
And not left for the better
Silence leaves a big fat
love bruise
In the middle of the mind’s endless chatter
You find yourself bowing naked
Of belief toward everyone
Playful all day long
Kissing this and that.”
~ Prajna
Hakomi is a “psychology of awakening” to our authentic selves. [more...]