process psychology

Today we welcome a very special guest to the show. Christina Nielson is the founder and director of Metavision Institute, a vibrant community for holistic education where we undertook our psychotherapy training (and where the idea for this podcast first began to take shape). 

The Metavision Institute has grown out of the need to heal the effects of living in a fragmented world. The Metavision ethos is to see the universe as sacred, with laws that govern and connect everything. To see the human being through the lens of eco-spirituality, soul and body awareness and as a part of a sacred universe helps to heal despair, depression, isolation and alienation. 

Christina has led an extraordinary life and in today’s episode we explore how following her soul’s calling led her to weave her training and practice in Social Work, Chinese Medicine, Anthroposophy and Process Oriented Psychology into a holistic model of counselling and psychotherapy as taught at Metavision today. Through her journey, we’ll explore the deep mysteries of Life and discuss how we can all learn to listen to and follow our own soul’s calling.

We chat about:

• The wisdom of the Prayer of Surrender by Rudolf Steiner and its relevance to our current times (1:30)
• The incredible story of what prompted Christina to found Metavion (4:00)
• How to develop awareness of the signals in our life that point towards our soul’s calling (8:00)
• The universal impulse wanting to come through us all (13:00)
• How to know if we’re following the right path (14:30)
• How to navigate the challenges we encounter on our path (16:40)
• How the threads of our calling are present even in early childhood (22:00)
• The soul's calling as being deeper than a single goal or purpose (30:00)
• Working with our biography and Life Myth as a way of making sense of where we’ve come from and where we’re going (35:00)
• An exercise to support you to apply the lessons and wisdom of today’s topic (42:30)

And so much more!

• Contact Christina

Episode Resources

• Metavision Institute 
• The Prayer of Surrender by Rudolf Steiner 
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 
• The Way it Is by William Stafford
• The Quantum Mind and Healing by Arnold Mindell 

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Today we welcome Jamie-Lee Jones to the show. Jamie is a holistic counsellor, psychotherapist, youth worker and energy healer who has been on her own profound healing journey. Jamie believes that the healing journey is one that can put us on our true path in life.

Today, we’ll be talking about the challenges and difficulties that we encounter on a healing journey as well as the gifts, wisdom and insights that can arise.

We chat about:

• Jamie’s personal healing journey  (2:50)
• How we’re always supported even in the midst of difficult experiences (8:55)
• How deep connection to the physical body is the gateway to healing (11:30)
• Defining moments that alter our path and redirect us towards our true purpose (17:00)
• The art of surrender and why its an important part of the healing journey (22:40)
• How ritual and ceremony can support us on our healing journey (32:00)
• The different layers and levels of healing (37:00)
• The importance of not attaching ourselves to our illnesses (45:00)
• Energy healing (52:00)

 And so much more!

Contact Jamie

• https://www.jamieleejones.com.au

Episode Resources

• The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
• A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson 

 
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Today we welcome Louise Largier, our dear friend, colleague and fellow psychotherapist. Lou is a deeply insightful person who has spent many years exploring the mind body connection.

In addition to being a psychotherapist, Lou has studied human bioscience, Ayurveda, herbalism, aromatherapy and yoga in her quest to gain a more holistic understanding of the human being and the connection between mind, body, and spirit.

Today, Lou invites us to explore the mind and mental wellness from a new perspective...

We chat about

• The mind as a subtle organ with its own process of digestion (3:35)
• Why “difficult” emotions play a vital role in mental wellbeing (8:50)
• The importance of understanding how we as individual experience emotions (13:40)
• The value of slowing down and allowing our minds to rest and digest (17:30)
• How inner work can support our wellbeing (21:30)
• How therapy can support our mental wellbeing (31:00)
• Lou’s experience of using inner work to understand and work with back pain (40:00)

And so much more!

Episode Resources 

• https://www.amazon.com.au/Ayurveda-Mind-Pb-David-Frawley/dp/0914955365
• https://www.amazon.com.au/Living-Joy-Personal-Spiritual-Transformation/dp/1932073515
• https://www.amazon.com.au/Nature-Personal-Reality-Practical-Techniques-ebook/dp/B005SJQT8A

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Your Life Myth is a blueprint that highlights themes you will face throughout your life, including your growth edges. 

Working with our Life Myth can allow us to access more of our innate resources, work our growth edges, cultivate our capacity and navigate life. 

Today we continue our exploration of this fascinating topic with Elsa Henderson, a teacher, coach, facilitator and Process Worker based in Portland, Oregon. 

WE CHAT ABOUT

• How to recognise the mythic patterns and archetypal forces that are seeking expression through us (00:50)
• How getting in touch with marginalised and lesser known parts of ourselves creates more flow and resilience (6:30)
• How the energies that disturb us often contain a hidden resource or gift (16:30)
• Ways to notice and work with emerging patterns (22:00)
• Noticing and working with dream figures, symbols and archetypes (24:00)
• An exercise to help you access and work with your life myth (28:00)

And so much more!

Episode Resources

• A Path Made by Walking by Julie Diamond and Lee Spark Jones

Contact Elsa: http://catalystochange.com

 
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Your Life Myth is a blueprint that highlights themes you will face throughout your life, including your growth edges. Working with our Life Myth can allow us to access more of our innate resources, work our growth edges, cultivate our capacity and navigate life. Today we are joined by Elsa Henderson, a teacher, coach, facilitator and Process Worker based in Portland, Oregon. Together, we’ll be taking a deep dive into this rich and fascinating topic. 

DIVE INTO ELSA'S MIND...

• How Elsa came into contact with the topic of Life Myth (2:20)
• What Life Myth is (4:30)
• Life Myth as a psychological inheritance that encompases our family, ancestry and culture (7:20)
• How we can begin to discover our own mythic blueprint (8:58)
• Life Myth as a process of individual and collective evolution (11:27)
• What growth edges are and how to recognise them (13:30)
• Why it’s helpful to bring a mythic perspective to our lives (19:00)
• How dreams, body symptoms, and relationship challenges all point towards themes in our Life Myth (22:50)
• How to start working with your own Life Myth (32:00)

And so much more!

 Episode Resources

A Path Made by Walking by Julie Diamond and Lee Spark Jones

 Contact Elsa: catalysttochange.net 

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In today’s episode we continue our conversation with Alyona Kobevka and Alexandre Jodun. 

Alex and Alyona are holistic psychotherapists and facilitators who offer experiential therapies for seekers and sensitive individuals on their path of psychospiritual healing and development. Through their work, Alex and Alyona support people to enter into the heart of what's difficult, vulnerable, or unknown, and connect with the parts of  themselves that have been forgotten and are yearning to know their true home. 

In today’s episode we talk about…

• The importance of being present to what is arising for us and asking deep questions (1:10)
• Why grief is a deity and an important teacher when it comes to deep soul work (4:50)
• The danger of our cultural obsessed with ascension (8:10)
• How our life circumstances, health complications, relationships and painful experiences can also be messages from the soul and serve as initiatory experiences (9:40)
• How life will give you what you need (and not necessarily what you think you want) (15:11)
• Retrieving exiled parts of ourselves in order to become more whole (17:20)
• Why we need to be able to tell our stories to someone who is willing to really listen (20:40)
• How to harness the power of ritual in order to revive and nourish the soul (24:46)

Connect with Alyona & Alexandre

• 1-on-1 Holistic Psychotherapy Sessions
• 3-Month Ayahuasca Integration Program called "Living The Wisdom": 
• Personalised 1-on-1 Ritual & Ceremony (in-person only)
• "Ancestors In The Making" Video Interview Series with healers and visionaries from around the world, exploring the territories of adulthood & elderhood, ritual & ceremony, initiation & rites of passage, and community & village (Launching on 2nd of February): 
• Gatherings & Workshop Offerings for 2021, which include a 4-week series on Working With Shame & The Inner-Critic in April, a 4-week series on working with Grief in Winter (June), and a 4-week series called Harnessing The Flames (Working with Anger) in September. To keep up to date with these offerings, listeners can subscribe to their website: https://www.ahealingbridge.com/subscribe

Episode Resources: 

• Poem: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova 
• Belonging by Toko-Pa Turner
• Awakening the Soul by Michael Meade
• Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin 

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Questions? Comments? We’d love to connect with you! Follow us on Instagram @therapeia_podcast or send us an email  therapeia.podcast@gmail.com 

In today’s episode we chat to Alyona Kobevka and Alexandre Jodun, a married couple and the creators of A Healing Bridge, about how to revive our wild souls in order to find an authentic sense of belonging and remember who we naturally are and why we’re here.

In today’s episode we talk about…

• A little about Alexandre and Alyona and the experiences that initiated them into their soul journey (5:31)
• What we mean when we talk about soul  (17:19)
• How coming into relationship with the life of our soul revitalises us, reconnects us to ourselves and all that is and supports us to remember why we are here (20:40)
• Why each person’s soul is unique and also interconnected with the soul of nature  (23:00)
• Soul as a disturber and how our souls will seek to wake us up to the deeper meaning of our life (26:16)
• How ritual and ceremony can prepare us to encounter our souls (30:13)
• Why encountering the soul can involve difficult and traumatic experiences and how we can prepare for, resource and support ourselves on our journey (35:00)
• Some advice on how to come back into relationship with your soul (38:00)

Connect with Alyona & Alexandre

• 1-on-1 Holistic Psychotherapy Sessions
• 3-Month Ayahuasca Integration Program called "Living The Wisdom": 
• Personalised 1-on-1 Ritual & Ceremony (in-person only)
• "Ancestors In The Making" Video Interview Series with healers and visionaries from around the world, exploring the territories of adulthood & elderhood, ritual & ceremony, initiation & rites of passage, and community & village (Launching on 2nd of February): 
• Gatherings & Workshop Offerings for 2021, which include a 4-week series on Working With Shame & The Inner-Critic in April, a 4-week series on working with Grief in Winter (June), and a 4-week series called Harnessing The Flames (Working with Anger) in September. To keep up to date with these offerings, listeners can subscribe to their website: https://www.ahealingbridge.com/subscribe

Episode Resources: 

• Poem: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova 
• Belonging by Toko-Pa Turner
• Awakening the Soul by Michael Meade
• Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin 

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Questions? Comments? We’d love to connect with you! Follow us on Instagram @therapeia_podcast or send us an email  therapeia.podcast@gmail.com 

Time to get dreamy with Rose Harvey, fellow psychotherapist and my podcast buddy. 

Join us as we unpack dreams and explore ways to work with them. 

Dreams have wisdom. We just need to learn how to listen. I am still surprised by how much my inner dreamer teaches me!

Today's exercise will require some time and space to lie down.

Yoga Nidra,, also known as the sleep of the yogi is a powerful practice.

With over 40 years of experience Ian Melrose is a meditation teacher  who specialises in Yoga Nedra and runs weekly online sessions for people around the world.

This meditation technique has the ability to heal, transform and bring us closer to our true nature.

Today Ian will guide you through a Yoga Nedra session.

For more information listen to Therapeía Podcast EP 008: "Yoga Nidra: Enlightened Sleep with Ian Melrose

Today's exercise is all about you finding and exploring your very own Earth Spots. 

They can be real, they can be imagined, they can be a place you physically visit or a place you mentally take yourself. The key is this is your spot on earth, a place that holds you. 

We all experience Earth Spots differently. I invite you to sit in the experience and see what comes up. Remember you can have more than one Earth Spot. Its time to explore the magnetic pull of places on earth. 

Maybe it’s an ancestral link? 
Or a place of power? 
Or just think of a place that draws you? 

For more information listen to Therapeía Podcast Ep 007: "Anxiety to Awe: Shaped by the Earth  withTina Bramley

This exercise is about working with your relationships.

Example:
High and low dreams in a relationship.
Losing love as a low dream experience. Unfold the loss and use the energy of loss as the source of healing.

High Dream:
Living your high dream, becoming someone you hope you can become in a particular relationship, together with the new partner. For instance, becoming the lover you are looking for, living the change you are hoping for now.