Coaching and Coming Home Meditation Tomorrow @ 9am EST ~ Numbness Finale
A note on my coaching offering and musings on tomorrow's last meditation session (for now) on numbness...
Dear Friends,
Before I get into the content for tomorrow’s Coming Home meditation, I want to mention that I do 1:1 coaching.
I love working with individuals to integrate and heal trauma, access deeper embodied wisdom, and evolve spiritually and personally. Clarity and grounding assist in the liberation of old patterns, beliefs, and stagnant energies that can lead to feelings of stuckness, despair, and sickness. My coaching lineage comes primarily from years of study with Thomas Hübl, who is also my supervisor, and Nicholas Janni. Emergent and intuitive in approach, we work with what is most alive. Feminine wisdom and Buddhist Tantric philosophy are also fundamental. If you’ve been thinking you’d like to do some deep healing work and haven’t been sure where to start, reach out!
My email: schuyler@artofemergence.com
I am currently taking on 10 additional individual clients and running one group coaching session (Current clients, you know who you are, I got you!). The group coaching will be limited to 6 people. If you’d like more information either about 1:1 sessions or group coaching, send me an email and I will send you more information on structure and pricing, along with a link to schedule an introductory call to assess fit.
Now on to tomorrow’s meditation…
Coming Home ~ Working with Numbness…Again.
Folks, we are now on Week Three of the numbness exploration. It’s been so potent for all who have attended and I truly feel we’re building a stronger field of awareness together—a safe space for the numbness in each of us, and in the collective, to present itself for healing and digestion. Please join us if you’re curious. There are many advanced feelers and sensers in the space, not just me. I guide the process, but we are holding each other.
This week we will be looking specifically at generational trauma and the inherited patterns of numbness that can creep into the body so stealthily we hardly recognize them. They have a quality of feeling “normal” until we investigate and realize there is a whole area of our life where we are largely absent or can’t really feel. Even now, we can bring those frozen parts of our family history into loving awareness and feel the unfelt feelings. We can hold the hands of our ancestors through the experiences that were too much for them to bear.
I’d like to use a slightly different format tomorrow. This is one I learned from Nicholas Janni and have done with him several times. It’s really a beautiful way to explore the subtle energy of our lineage. We will work with a specific ancestor. It can even be one you never met—a grandparent or great grandparent is wonderful. We will break into small groups and presence this ancestor to our partners. Together we will feel into their energy body, into their subtle presence as it is still with us. And we will work to liberate them from some numbness they carry. In doing so, we free up stuck energy in our lineage and change the past, which changes the future. After the group share, we will sit together and integrate the experience.
I’ll give a quick example from my own family history. Over the years, I have done a lot of work on the subtle planes with my ancestors. There is one particular trauma that seems to have cast a long shadow on the lineage and I know its effects came down through my maternal line to me. I have spoken and written of this before. My great grandmother, Maggie, gave birth to 11 children. They were poor Appalachian people and at some point, two of the children died within weeks of each other from a flu. The girls, Ona and Edna, were about 5 and 7 when this happened. My own grandmother, their sister, was only 9.
I can sense that they weren’t mourned sufficiently. I can sense that Maggie put the grief aside to protect her living children and to provide for them. She wasn’t, at that time, supported in a way that she felt safe to surrender into the grief. So she took a “stiff upper lip” approach and carried on. This grief is something I have worked hard to feel and process for them. It came through my lineage as a kind of anxious vigilance masking deep despair and a feeling of being forsaken (that’s the word I get) by God. What God would do such a thing? This is the question I hear Maggie asking.
We will ask ourselves tomorrow—What numbness or coping in me is tied to trauma of the past? Was there an ancestor who fought in a war? Was there an unmourned death of a loved one? Was there exile from a homeland? Were there unfulfilled dreams? In short—are there HARD TIMES that need attending to? I can’t imagine a family without them.
I know this is a deep subject and the potential to open a can of worms is high. I also know this is really important and beautiful work. It can restore intimacy with ancestors. Please come if you feel called and also, we will embrace this as an act of service. We don’t need to sacrifice ourselves to the process. We can hold it lightly and with extreme care. We can titrate. We can only bite off what we feel we capable of digesting. This is how we liberate family karma, face the past, and feel more ourselves in the process. Liberating the past is freeing up energy for the future.
A note on payment for Coming Home sessions
Some of you know this, but I haven’t shared it here at The Art of Emergence yet. I really appreciate donations for Coming Home sessions if you feel called to give. Suggested donation is $10-20. Venmo @ElizabethSchuyler-Brown and PayPal is eschuylerbrown@gmail.com. If you are a paid subscriber, you’ve already done your part and I appreciate it!
Join me from 9-10:15am EST tomorrow here: