Waymaking Details

Most of the elements of Waymaking are similar to the elements of Waytending work. The main differences are in intensity and commitment, for both of us. There will be more practice, deeper check-ins, likely more frequent check-ins — there will be a stronger energetic dedication to what wants to unfold. You are not so much a coaching client as you are an initiate in a mystery school of one.

You

  • You’re ready to change your life, and to step away from your usual narratives and habitual modes of consciousness. You’re ready to step into a mystery and find the way out by moving forward, not by retreating.

  • You feel like there's an embodied myth, or a complex of them, that are holding you back in some way. You're willing to dive in and examine them and change them, and excited about the possibility of using more-than-conscious methods to do so.

  • You're even excited to try out some methods where you have no idea how they might work, but are willing to be surprised and find out they do in fact work.

  • It's not necessary that you have any experience with somatic/embodiment work, but it does help.

  • It's not necessary that you have any experience with imaginal work, but it does help.

  • You're excited about the prospect of centering your life around practice and soul — bringing the practice to every aspect of your life.

  • This work is intuitive, we follow where your life force leads us. So you may come in with a specific issue you want to work on, but as we explore, we find that something else wants your attention more. The way this method works, we'll be giving the movements of life force higher priority than your conscious wishes — so if you're stepping into this container, that should sound reasonable and exciting to you.

The Work

  • I've used a lot of tools for this before, and different ones are appropriate for different people. We’ll be guided by intuition in how to apply them. Some of these include:

  • Somatic exploration: deepening into open, embodied awareness, connecting with the qualities of that awareness, and using that as a treasure map to find markers of the myths that you live by — and to speak to them directly.

  • Imaginal journeying: shamanic and Jungian techniques for experiencing myths and archetypes with multi-sensory awareness, making yourself a screen for the inner world to project itself on while we navigate it together.

  • Ritual & symbolic action: the unconscious world works largely on symbol, image, and intention. We work together to design ways of using this in your favor.

  • Energy work: this will look like a thousand different things depending on the person and the situation; myths are, at core, the shape and direction that energy falls into as it's driven towards a goal. To re-shape the myth, we'll have to make that energy pliable and open to moving.

  • Physical practices: tied to the energy work above, there's likely to be certain physical and/or dietary practices that are useful for shifting things.

  • Mantra: I don't know why mantras work but they do seem to have long term effects, so we use them.

  • Art: both creating and appreciating; this is likely to be a later phase, we can talk about it then.

  • Other: a lot of stuff comes up in this type of work, some of which doesn't really code neatly onto our usual categories of inner work.

Logistics

  • Weekly check-in and adjustment meetings (extra calls if something important comes up). Meetings tend to find a natural closing point after ~70-90 minutes.

  • Some voice note assistance as needed (WhatsApp is best).

  • Home practice, essential for the efficacy of the work. The offering here isn't "let's fix you up with one meeting per week," it's "let's transform your life through practice and ritual — which only works if you dedicate yourself to it."

  • We will craft personal rituals together — this will look different for everyone. Some might do best with a big bonfire under a full moon, burning carved symbols of their old life one time at the end of our work… others might do better with smaller, daily rituals throughout the course of our time together, maybe a small altar with some symbolic tokens on it. Either way, symbolic ritual is a powerful tool to communicate with and alter the flow of the unconscious.

  • You'll be given access to recordings, guided meditations, and other materials from my courses and previous work, as relevant.

  • I will also make and record new material for you, as relevant.

  • Price: $7,170 for 3 months; above that, we figure out on a case-by-case basis.