DEEP DIVE Mentorship Program is an offering of my heart and soul, born of my desire to have a bigger impact on a select number of individuals each year who are ready to take their personal and spiritual development to another level.
Taking yoga classes is akin to ‘snorkeling’ - there’s a mask, a snorkel, and usually flippers to cover more ground more fluidly. With simple instruction, you’re set free to take in the sights from the surface, witness the beauty, wonder, and mystery below, and at frequent junctures, pop your head above the water at will, and orient yourself to the safety of the familiar -- return to your original point of view.
This mentorship program is akin to ‘scuba diving’ - it requires a bigger commitment, an investment of your most important resources, your time and attention. It requires a competent guide, someone who has put in the time, has first-hand experience of how to gear up carefully, how to enter and exit the process safely, and who, by persistently traversing the depths personally, is equipped to facilitate an at-once daunting and exhilarating experience that inevitably and immutably alters your perspective.
Though your journey is facilitated by a loving guide who understands your history and objectives, you are in control of the pace and direction of the experience.
HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS MENTORSHIP IS RIGHT FOR ME?
Have you been serving others your whole life, realizing gradually (or suddenly) that somewhere along the way, you lost touch with you… that you’ve forgotten what you truly love, what’s alive in you?
Do you find moderate satisfaction in the ‘venting’ nature of talk therapy, but feel like it falls short in some way, or that there’s still ‘something missing,’ and you can’t quite put your finger on what it is?
Do you have a sense that there’s ‘more’ (more clarity, more serenity, more patience, more understanding, more compassion, more ease) and that you’re so close, but it’s always just outside of your reach?
Have you ever wished you had a sounding board who was on the same - or higher - frequency, who could help you see things from an expanded point of view, and offer a spiritual perspective that makes sense of your thoughts, feelings and actions?
Are you wanting to integrate the parts of you that dis-integrated so long ago in order to keep you safe (emotionally, mentally or physically);
Are you yearning to show up in the world authentically, comfortable in your own skin and mind, but not sure how?
Has your focus on building a career or family resulted in a sense of being dis-embodied, inadvertently out of touch with parts (or all) of your physicality, leading to patterns like non-intuitive eating, chronic inflammation/pain, fear of intimacy, unfulfilled desire for connection, etc?
Have your primary modes of physical fitness been flinging your body around in space in some form with little-to-no attention paid to the actual sensations you’re experiencing within, versus inviting conscious awareness - radical presence - to what you’re doing while you’re doing it?
WHAT ARE YOU SAYING "YES" TO?
If it's not a HECK YES!, then it's a NO.
There is a force within you that knows when something is a "YES." When that sense, that knowing, overtakes you, nothing will stand in your way (maybe you can think of an instance of this in your life?).
When you say “YES!” to this Deep Dive Mentorship Program, you are saying
YES to expansion, to enhanced awareness, perception, understanding and compassion;
YES to connection, to yourself, to your longings, to what you’re noticing, and to each other;
YES to authenticity, to aligning with the wisdom of Source in (as) you;
YES to presence, to tending to what’s alive in you in this moment;
YES to receptivity, open to possibility, to what is being revealed;
YES to sustainability, to moving, breathing, living, mindful of the residue; and
YES to purpose, to designing your life with intention.
WHAT'S INVOLVED IN THE
DEEP DIVE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM?
PRIOR TO MEETING
We have a complementary 20 to 30-minute Discovery Call to determine whether we are a fit for each other:
Through a casual, transparent, focused conversation, each asking questions of the other, we can collectively decide whether my combination of skills, experience and personality; the tools, concepts and techniques offered in this Mentorship Program; and the timing of this level of commitment, are aligned with your current lifestyle and your heartfelt desire to grow, shift, expand.
If it's not a Heck YES, then it's a No. ;)
If your background, conditions, or lifestyle present challenges for which I feel underqualified to be of the highest service to you - or, we are simply not a frequency match - I will refer you to another practitioner(s) who may be a better fit.
If ready to proceed,
You complete an online Intake form and email to me.
You complete an online Questionnaire and email to me.
INTAKE & ASSESSMENT (2 hours)
We schedule a Yoga Therapy Intake - a conversational review of the Intake form and Questionnaire you submitted prior to session.
Conduct Assessments of breath, posture and movement.
Design a mutually favorable schedule of sessions, for at least for the first 2 months.
PROGRAM INCLUDES
Goal-Setting - establish three primary aims of our work together.
Education is a critical component of this work and foundational for change and healing to occur. This includes, among other things:
Understanding how our biology works (Nervous System in particular), and how it's relevant to your past, present and future;
Understanding the breath / the diaphragms and their impact on all of the systems of the body;
Understanding how the Soma (the living body) stores and signals, through posture and movement, various compensations, and how they affect us;
Learning how our Language reveals our subconscious patterns of thought, speech, and action that, when made Conscious, can influence the trajectory of our life.
20 Private Yoga Therapy Sessions (75 min) In-person, Zoom, or hybrid (depending on proximity to the Studio) scheduled at a mutually convenient time.
Check-ins by Phone or FaceTime, as needed.
Things come up, and you may benefit from additional support between sessions to navigate the murky waters of a situation in real-time.Especially when you're commited to thinking, speaking and acting in new ways, until the new channels are well established, you may find yourself swept up into familar pathways of the past.
These calls are one of the additional benefits of the Deep Dive Package, and are prioritized to assist you in traversing life's challenges as they arise.
SCHEDULING
Frequency of sessions is client-driven, with the following encouragement:
In the beginning, it's best to schedule at least one session per week to establish a foundation and build momentum.
There are natural exceptions to this when either of us have other obligations, travel, life events, etc.
After a period of time (it's different for everyone), we may decide to space sessions out to every other or every third week, depending where you are in your journey, and how much support you require.
The aim is to complete the Mentorship within six months to a year, no longer.
I am currently scheduling clients Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm (to start), with an occasional exception for evening sessions. I do not hold sessions on weekends, though sometimes the check-in calls take place on weekends, if that's the best time to facilitate requests for additional support.
I handle my own schedule and do not outsource it to a service or assistant. This mitigates the possibility of overlap or double-booking, and enables flexibility for me and my clients when either of us need to make a change.
I appreciate advanced notice of a change, and offer the same respect in return -- and I also understand that life takes unexpected turns, and we need to pivot accordingly. Trusting in the perfect unfolding of all things and remaining flexible has served me well, and scheduling has operated smoothly thus far!