Frequently Asked Questions

We will first explore the issue you bring and look at your ancestry in order to determine if and how you are entangled in a family trauma. Family Constellation work gives us the tools to break free of this unconscious loyalty by bringing it to light and finding resolution. It is a very effective and powerful way to take full ownership of our lives.

In our first session together, I will draw up your genogram, mapping the patterns of the 3 generations behind you. We will identify and release what you have been carrying for the lineage.

Everything we perceive is a projection of the internal map we carry within us. When you change the map, you change your life. Imprints in our field are created by trauma, some personal and some of it generational. We clear these imprints and accelerate the healing process tremendously. We will look at your relationship with your parents and I will guide you through the process of finding the right distance. The right distance allows you to receive their love while retaining your own sovereignty. We will also identify if you are entangled with an ancestor and give a place to those in the lineage who have been excluded. When someone or something is excluded, this creates a ripple effect that spreads unease for generations until it is seen and acknowledged. This work is about releasing what doesn’t belong to you and reclaiming what does.

As you witness in a family constellation, they don’t die with them. These stories, traumas, sorrows and joys are still there, in the blueprint of the family field. There is also a cultural field, a nationwide field and a global field of humanity at any given moment. 

Being made from particles in constant movement, we react to each other and we inform and shape each other’s experiences. For example, the grandmother who gave up a child and cannot grieve will create a reverberation within the lineage backwards and forwards until the energy can be run through a body, a field that is incarnated. When it is just circulating chaotically in the field, it is aimless, it can’t be harnessed and it wreaks havoc, looking for a way through. By experiencing it in the physical body of a representative or of the client, this discombobulated energy finds a place to land and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. The emotion did its job and the ancestor’s soul can rest in peace. The current generation is relieved of the burden, confusion and pain of carrying something that is not theirs. They are finally free to step into their own destiny.

Below are some common dynamics we will identify and bring resolution to in our time together.

A break in the bond with our mother—The importance of our early bond with our mother cannot be overstated. She is our first relationship as we enter the world. She is our first love. Our connection or lack of connection with her forms an essential blueprint for our later relationships, as well as for how safe and supported we feel in life. It is essential to bring resolution and healing to our bond with our mother, regardless of our current age. It’s never too late!

Merging with a parent—When our parents couldn’t be present with their own emotions and needs, we become out of tune with ourselves. If you were trying to take care of mom or dad, you became a child helper, a parentified child. In adulthood, you might place other people’s needs before your own, often not even being aware of your own needs. You might have lost connection with the most valuable resources you have - your intuition and your inner child. Living to please others depletes you and builds up disconnection from your sense of self.

Rejecting a parent—Do you use harsh language to describe one or both of your parents? We often disown in ourselves the traits we don’t like in our parents. We might also project these traits onto our partner, believing that he or she will treat us
similarly. In our defensiveness and hyper-vigilance, we can create a similar outcome. We may even treat ourselves the way we feel we were treated as a child. If we perceived a parent as being mean, critical or aggressive, we can become self-critical or inwardly aggressive.

Identification with someone in the ancestry—An identification is when you live life like / act like / repeat the fate of someone in the family who was excluded or where there was unresolved trauma or a secret. To heal an identification, we need to bring back together what was once separated and to recognize what happened. Only then can we experience a separation between ourselves and this relative’s fate.

Most of us have 3 to 4 main imprints (fundamental psychic wounds) we operate from. It is important to first release the generational components of our core wounds (with the inherited trauma work above).

At the level of mind, there are dozens of beliefs but they come from a few energetic imprints. Instead of dwelling on the dozens of beliefs, we go to the source and address the root cause.

For the Shamanic healing, you will be comfortably laying on your back on a massage table, fully clothed (or on your bed or couch for a remote session from your home). At times, my hands will cradle your head to gently activate acupressure points. Other times, my hands may be working above you. I might use a rattle above the body as well.

You might feel energetic shifts taking place within or around your body or you might fall asleep. You might see various images or memories like in a dream state. No matter what you experience, powerful shifts are taking place. The sensations can be strong or subtle, depending on your state and the issue we are working on.

After the energy work is complete, we will close with a discussion and use this time to evaluate your experience and create ways for you to honor what was released.

The energy continues to shift for half to a full moon cycle and you are encouraged to drink lots of water and take a bath with sea salt/epsom salt, baking soda and sage essential oil after your session to further the integration and release.

I am often asked how many sessions are needed? It really depends on what you are going through and what your goals are.
One session is enough to experience a powerful breakthrough, ongoing support sessions are recommended in order to re-wire the brain and reverse the trauma response.

Below is a beautiful description of the energy healing portion of our session by Alberto Villoldo, founder of the Four Winds.
He has been practicing and teaching these healing techniques for over 30 years. “At the core of the shamanic energy healing session lies the Illumination process. Illumination achieves healing in three ways. First, it burns up the sludge and deposits adhering to the walls of a chakra, promoting longevity and strengthening the immune response. Second, it combusts the toxic energy around harmful physical and emotional imprints. Third, it scours clean the imprints in the Luminous Energy Field (LEF). 

When these imprints are erased, it is possible to change negative emotions and behaviors. The power of the immune system is unleashed, and physical healing is accelerated.
Every imprint in the LEF is linked to a chakra through which it releases toxic data into the central nervous system. To better understand a client’s problem, I perform a chakra assessment to determine which is the compromised energy center. An imprint contains information that got dumped into a chakra (the base of the chakra connects to your nervous and hormonal systems). The energy work upgrades the quality of the information in the chakra so it doesn't have to keep replaying the same stories over and over again.

In the Inka shamanic traditions, there are no “bad” energies. There are only energies that are “light,” and so support life, and energies that are “heavy,” which cannot be digested. The Illumination process transforms heavy energies into light, turning emotional wounds into sources of power and knowledge. Only one healing issue and one chakra should be worked on during an Illumination session.

The entire process takes about an hour. After opening Sacred Space and enveloping my client in my Luminous Energy Field, I focus on the compromised chakra. Cradling my client’s head in both hands, I hold the pressure points at the base of the skull. These points, known in acupuncture as the heavenly gate, help to bring the client into a deep state of relaxation. While holding the deepening points for at least ten minutes, I softly ask what she is experiencing.

Synchronizing my breathing with my client’s, I reach down and open the compromised chakra by holding one hand a few inches above it, sensing the swirling energy, and then rotating my hand counterclockwise three or four times. (Sometimes I use an eagle feather for this process, as it allows me to reach the lower chakras without leaving my place by my client’s head.)

As soon as the chakra is opened, it begins to “backwash,” releasing its sludge and toxic energies. I often perceive dark streamers, like thick ribbons, swirling out of the chakra. I spin the chakra counterclockwise several times since it can become clogged when it backwashes, and check in with my client to see how she is feeling.

Some clients report a change in body temperature, or experience involuntary muscle spasms, or spontaneous jerking – signs that energies around the imprint are being combusted and expelled. I remind my clients that they can slow down or stop the process at any time by crossing their arms over their chest.

Once I detect that my client has reached a state of natural resolution, I perform the Illumination. Reaching above my head with my right hand, I gather the energy of my eighth chakra and bring it down into the client’s open chakra. I visualize a radiant sun above my head and see my hand gathering scoops of sunlight and showering the chakra with this golden light. I repeat this step three times. The Illumination heals both physical and psychological conditions, overwriting the imprint with pure light.

After the Illumination, I bring my hands once again to the base of the client’s occipital ridge and hold the deepening points for several minutes. This helps the client to relax while the luminous body establishes a new, healed architecture. Then, I balance the chakra by spinning it three or four times in a clockwise direction and close my own Luminous Energy Field, gathering it back until it becomes a radiant orb above my head. I close Sacred Space after inviting my client to sit up and share her experience.”

Below are some examples of other techniques that may be part of your session.

• Soul Retrieval

• Guided journey

• Cord cutting

• Ancestral Healing (releasing ancestral contracts, secrets, entanglements)

What is a soul retrieval?

When trauma happens, a part of our life force, a quanta of energy, a fragment of our soul splinters off. It waits for you to reclaim and reintegrate it. Receiving a soul retrieval helps you feel more whole and recover from past wounds. You will rework contracts that you may have created as a child or in a past life.

Through deep meditation, a Shamanic practitioner can journey to worlds beyond the physical, to the collective unconscious to find pieces of your soul that may have slipped away in the past, and assist you in retrieving that which is ready to be restored to you. In welcoming these parts of your soul back into your life, you are now on your way to living a more complete life. 

what is an extraction?

An extraction removes disruptive energies and “hooks” that are draining your energy. It also eliminates the affinity that caused you to be attracted to toxic persons and situations. By disconnecting or removing these intrusive elements, you regain physical, psychological, and emotional wellbeing and balance.

HOW many sessions are needed to see powerful results?

You can see life changing results in as little as one session. I recommend 3 sessions minimum to set a solid foundation for this new blueprint and then ongoing 1-1 emotional coaching until you create new neural habits and no longer need the support.
It takes time to rewire our brains, but it’s worth the effort. This work will change your life, guaranteed!

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