A heart centered approach of intuitive, energetic, and spiritual healing, support, and guidance, through a variety of skilled and custom services. I am available for remote sessions (via phone, skype, or travel). My home base and healing office/space is located in Portland, OR. If you feel called to this work or to work with me but are unsure in what capacity we can arrange a consultation. I have a suggested hourly rate for most services. I also provide a sliding scale option for financial flexibility, or for giving the space for you to discover the value of this work for yourself. The immersion work will be priced differently as they are energetic containers of ongoing work. Please reach out to learn more about the offerings, rates, or to begin co-creating some work together.
Walking with Dementia
I am here to support the dementia population by co-creating a living environment that most benefits them through working with subtle energy and a heart-centered approach. I do this through educating, guiding, and supporting those who live with and care for those with dementia, including Alzheimers. I want to help family members and/or caregivers connect and engage with dementia through the heart, through their energetic environment, through new and deeper ways, and to feel supported.
This service could be used in a number of ways and will be unique to everyone. It could look like a personalized support group, with education and tools (including self-care) for family members or caregivers. This service may also be used as guidance/consult/support in creating, working with, and maintaining an energetic environment to benefit the situation and your loved one. It can also be used as a personal healing service for those living with and working with a loved one with dementia to help heal the confusion, chaos, and emotional pain of disconnect the dis-ease can so easily create, while at the same time creating the environment for a new connection to form and flourish. Through observation, assessment, education, consultation, and support I am able to help you create a relationship and environment that most benefits you and your loved one/client as you both walk with and through the journey of dementia.
I also offer one on one work as in-home therapy sessions with first and early-middle stage alzheimers, i.e. intuitive yoga flow/movement, breathework, music therapy, art therapy/alchemy, grief processing, eating to support brain health, working with plant and stone medicine, soul and energy healing.
I once had a client who had a moment of clarity and was briefly able to share with me how this disease made her feel. She said, "frustrated and embarrassed." I certainly took this to heart and realized she gave me a doorway into some of the very confused emotions that get stuck and unexpressed with dementia. Activities and tools such as art, music, chair dance/yoga are a few things that are really helpful in expressing, releasing, and/or identifying emotion. Our loved ones are very much still communicating with us, but it is we that must learn their language, the language of heart and subtle energy. We are learning to allow feeling to guide us, to feel before we speak. We are learning how to communicate vibrationally and that less is more.
For those with dementia, it is common to become more sensitive to the energetic environment and to energy itself. As caregivers and family members, tending to and becoming aware of your loved ones energetic environment is very helpful to their well being. Becoming aware of what you or those around add to the energetic environment and how it effects your loved one is key. If we are frantic or stressed, our loved one will directly take on these energies. The more we work with our own energy (through practicing grounding, centering, and heart centered presence), the more it benefits our loved ones.When we can work with our own energy and our energetic surroundings, becoming fully aware of what we bring to the experience, we can create indirect and subtle healing and changes benefiting our loved one caught in the sticky web of dementia.
We are all awakening into a new relationship and a new way of living with the world of dementia. In my personal experience and years of hands on work with this dis-ease, I have come to view dementia and those who have dementia as my teacher(s). For our loved ones, it is a transition into the world of heart, feeling, sensitivity, and vulnerability, while at the same time losing the ability to express emotion and losing connection to a familiar way of living. It is imperative to create containers of compassion and love that are so very forgiving for dementia, and in the process we are also forgiving ourselves.
My beloved teachers have taught me how to relate and communicate through the heart and vibration. How to allow space to the dementia. How to make ways to honor what can no longer be easily expressed. How to flow and evolve with the dis-ease peacefully and not always try to fix everything. And how to love even more unconditionally.
The journey with dementia is tiring. It is not an easy journey. It is confusing and scary at times. Much fear can arise, as one begins to lose their self identity and become unable to communicate emotions and feelings.I am available as support, guide, and consult to caregivers and family members in working with and waking through dementia. All work is unique and is dependent upon the stage and type of dementia, including alzheimers. I offer practical (including self-care), emotional, energetic, and spiritual guidance, support, training, and tools to help you move with and through this new relationship. I will help you to create a situation that will be beneficial to all.
* Call for consultation and to inquire on how this offering might benefit you and the one/or those you care for.