Jan 15, 2013

The Journey of Healing & Awakening



                         


COME TO THE ORCHARD
...The orchard is an emblem of the sacred imagination, 
the place where knots are untied.
It is a call to move within, but not reactively, 
not curling up like a dog in the cold, 
but soaring inward like an eagle....
The orchard is the place where the heart opens.    
- Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks

                                               


Psychosynthesis Guiding & Psychotherapy
I draw on a spectrum of approaches and wisdom traditions to guide others towards greater authenticity, integrity, freedom, and wholeness (authenticity, freeom, wholenes).  Psychosynthesis is one of the frames I have found most useful for holding all these approaches.  It recognizes the breadth and depths of who we are, and allows for a fluid movement between levels of experience.

Whatever the presenting issue or goal, this holistic psychology engages three broad dimensions of growth - the personal, the transpersonal, and the spiritual.  During the journey of remembrance and discovery, of trials and transformations, Psychosynthesis facilitates the union of one's personality with a deeper source of purpose and direction in life.  This center, the transpersonal Self or Soul, is the integrating principle of the personality, its source of healing, wisdom, inspiration, unconditional love, and the will to meaning and service.

Initially we attend to the needs and concerns of the personal self for greater balance and effectiveness in daily living.  Here the work involves strengthening the sense of ego or "I-ness", repairing psychological confusions, addictions, and injuries, and bringing forward latent resources that empower and raise self-esteem.

                  

 In middle stages of the journey, deeper, more universal patterns that block or evoke higher capacities for vitality, love, learning are discovered and worked through, especially trauma, so that the capacity for expanded life and awareness is greatly enhanced.  Throughout, and especially in later stages of development, the work evokes the presence of essence or Spirit.  At first this contact is experienced as a strengthened connection or relationship, later as an energetic alignment, so that one is living more and more as one integrated being in service to the deepest - or simplest - or truest - promptings of soul.
                                                           

The times are calling us - like crazy!  - to live from our true nature.  Our fierce compassion, our zeal for being alive, our love joy and clarity of purpose, all are needed now as ripples that go out to help heal and transform our birthing world.  As we are better able to deflect the forces of fear and delusion, we can better meet the challenges of the extreme changes that are sweeping our culture and Earth.  The path of inner work, including meditation, Light practices, and body work, is essential to developing an inner center that does not quake when the outer world shakes.

I am still learning how to do this, drawing on all levels of being.  I am grateful for all the guides and teachers, inner and outer, who have blessed my path, and for the opportunity to pass on what has been given.  I appreciate the continuing opportunity to serve as guide and witness to seekers on the path.  I welcome inquiries from newcomers as well as returning clients and students.



                                                         

 The sacred imagination is the place where knots are untied and new patterns are woven.  Over the years, I have found body-oriented guided imaging and dreamwork to be vital resources for uncovering and reworking the mental/emotional patterns that direct us along certain trajectories of experience.  This gentle, subtle mode is balanced with goal-setting, cognitive focus, emotional release, dialogue with parts, energy work, centering and body practices, creative expression, and a panoply of interventions that can be called on through muscle testing.


Winter Special.  You are welcome to a free introductory session in person or by video-conferencing.  I work in two locations: Concord, MA and New Lebanon, NY.   $80-140.

Issues & Aspirations
  •    Managing transitions in identity, work, health, relationships, life stages
  •    Clarifying and harmonizing relationships
  •    Strengthening self-esteem
  •    Attunement to the guidance of the higher self
  •    Grounding and empowerment
  •    Cultivating resources, gifts, and higher potentials
  •    Working through fear, loss & grief, greed, anger
  •    Support for creative expression
  •    Addressing boredom, anxiety, anger, confusion, depression
  •    Self-care and recovery from burn-out, injury, illness
  •    Finding meaning, life purpose
  •    Healing from religious wounding
  •    Addressing spiritual crises of meaning, identity, purpose, duality
  •    Uncertainty or despair for the future and the planet

To Schedule an Appointment
For more information or to schedule a session, call (978) 460-7457or send an email to ramsay@dreamwheel.net.  I will be available to speak after January 2.







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Counseling & Psychotherapy

Inner work may address the following kinds of aspirations and issues:

· Coaching support for initiatives in personal, work, community, or spiritual life. Weight gain or loss? Religious confusion? Need to contribute more fully to others?

· Self-esteem & empowerment

· Discovery & development of gifts, potentials

· Relationship dynamics

· Inner guidance

· Loss & bereavement

· Transitions in work, health, relationship, identity, & life-stage

· Recovery of meaning or purpose in living

· Religious confusion or wounding

· Disconnection from self, nature, source

· Uncertainty or despair for the future and the planet

Brief Work may be as short as a single session or as long as a season. Frequency of meeting reflects goals, needs, and resources. The focus may be a specific short-term goal or an open-ended inquiry into a compelling situation, inner or outer. It may focus on a conflict, a dream, an aspiration, memory, feeling.


Ongoing Work allows for a depth of process to unfold that ordinary living does not allow. The soul is responsive to safety and slower rhythms of attunement and discernment. Ongoing work three to four times a-month allows the deeper issues that structure personality to gradually move foreground for healing and re-integration into a fuller sense of identity.


Multi-Modal Ways of Engaging. The work draws on different levels and modes of awareness. It may include some of the following: life style assessments, bodily centering and grounding, inner dialogue with parts or issues, trance work, guided imaging and dreamwork, art-making and mandalas; thought field therapy, energy medicine; life stories, healing through light, sound, movement, or touch. Frameworks that hold the work are: Psychosynthesis, Gestalt, and Archetypal Psychologies, Energy Medicine, The Enneagram of Psychotypes, as well as meditative principles and practices.


Sessions. Most meetings take place in-person to allow the perceptions and energetics of joined presence to guide and contribute to growth and healing. When suitable, Brief Work may be arranged by phone or Skype.


Fees. $75-140 per hour. Sliding scale is offered to accommodate needs and resources. Sessions run 1 hour with an option to work up to 75-90 minutes.


PK & ZT descript

Energy healing with

Prana Karma

&

Zen TaroT



Prana Karma (PK), a mode of hands-on energy healing, is the most distinctive and effective therapeutic modality in Suddha Yoga & Ayurveda. It corrects and enhances the flow of prana or chi (life force) through one's body being. Working on all levels unitively, it helps to restore balances through the innately intelligent workings of source energy.

Whether through direct touch or long-distance work, Prana Karma

· Dissolves blocks

· Increases resiliency

· Optimizes function

· Promotes rapid healing

· Calms and balances

Prana Karma Energy Healing is the root of various modern energetic healing practices, such as Reiki, Pranic Healing, Polarity Therapy, and others - some of which are closer, some farther removed from their font. Fully respecting all individuals who practice these recent modalities, I invite you to experience the source.


Prana Karma is offered in combination with a mini-reading from Osho's Zen Tarot. These superb original images help to illuminate and fertilize the issues at hand, providing synchronistic reflections as guides and sustenance for the spiritual journey. The familiar language of image and archetype helps to ground the subtle effects of PK long after the session is over. This seriously fine combo is also employed to enrich and facilitate ongoing psychotherapy.


SESSIONS

Prana Karma is a meditative process during which the practitioner directs energy through the body by applying touch to the back, head, hands, and feet to circulate prana in a balanced way. The recipient is clothed, and sessions last 1¼ hr. Prana Karma itself takes about 30-35". The remainder of the consultation, which includes a mini-Zen Tarot reading, elicits needs and goals, and clarifies resources for fulfilling those aspirations.


Fee. $50-100. A sliding scale feel is offered to make this form of healing more broadly accessible, while still generating the funding to support the work. Based on financial resources, each is trusted to peg the fee at a level he or she can reasonbly afford.



What some are saying, so far…

...about Prana Karma sessions


I would like to share the peaceful healing I experienced with Ramsay as a volunteer to try the PK she had told me about. Since I do Reiki, Polarity Therapy, Hypnosis and have studied or tried many other modalities of healing, I was curious about this avenue of which I had not heard.


As Ramsay placed her hands on me I felt an extremely soft, delicate touch which exudes energy in a profoundly gentle but direct way. The feeling or sense of great love from the practitioner left me with a feeling of safety and respect. I have NEVER experienced such profound love flowing through her hands in any other session of anything in my life. Afterward I felt balanced in my body, and felt a peace in my chest I had not experienced before. I highly recommend Ramsay as a PK practitioner. - Sue McCombs, Hypnotherapist


…. about Prana Karma & Zen Tarot Combos

*** Thanks you so much for the wonderful sessions, and your generosity with expanding the work. It was lovely to receive the beauty and grace of how you work: so fluid and full of wisdom and sublime tenderness. I felt very seen. - Jen Swan, Bodyworker


*** I am feeling much more grounded, centered, and creatively renewed after our session, Ramsay. You're really gifted and I appreciated it. I have already given your name to several friends and clients. (Two months later:) I seriously credit the work we did together on the way things changed, Ramsay.

- Shawn McGivern, LMHC, professor, counselor


*** It took about four days for the session to sink in, but when it did that chronic back pain went away. And the feeling of heaviness that I had been carrying for a couple of months from caring for two people in trouble, that went. The back pain is still gone now, two weeks later.

- GM, professor