My passion is to work with those who feel a stirring, a sense that there is more to this mysterious life than they have been living. Those who are being beckoned by Mystery to discover their wildness and authenticity, to live a life in devotion to the wild earth.
To discover one’s true calling, one must first know their primary belonging is to the earth itself. So too must we learn to recognise ‘windows of knowing’ other than the mind – the heart, senses and deep imagination.
My own initiatory journey has felt wonderful, beautifully terrifying and at times treacherous, but what has been a fundamental anchor has been the witnessing and guidance of another. The capacity of a mentor to continuously meet me with fierce love and clear mirroring, allowing me to relax into the person I was always meant to be. As such I offer a space for you to grow and unfurl, release old patterns and experiment with news ways of letting life breathe through you.
We can explore:
- entering into deeper relationship with nature as mirror and guide
- working with dreams, the deep imagination and wisdom from the body
- uncovering one’s innate human wholeness
- cultivating authenticity, self-trust and inner vision
- identifying and integrating fragmented and protective parts
- practices to encounter one’s truest way of serving the world
- shadow work
- self-designed ceremony
- personal myth
- preparation for vision quest
- integration of spiritual and numinous experiences
Training and Experience:
Advanced Diploma Transpersonal Counselling with College of Complementary Medicine (including training in guiding dreamwork, self-designed ceremony and personal myth)
Vision Quest Guide Training with Claire Dunn from Nature’s Apprentice and Caiyloirch Rupert Marques from School of Lost Borders
Wild Mind Mirror Training with Animas Valley Instutitue plus many Animas Intensives including: Soulcraft, Dreamwork, Wild Mind, Council & Mirroring, Sweet Darkness, Deep Imagination, Nature & the Human Soul
Apprenticeships with Vision Quests at Nature’s Apprentice (5 years)
The Mythic Body with Josh Schrei of the Emerald Podcast
Much intentional and devotional time in wild nature including 6 vision quests
Guide of Wild Threshold Crossing: A 48-hour solo fast for 3 years
Sessions:
Sessions take place in inner north Melbourne, by the riverbank or indoors, or online. Cost is $100 for 60 minutes. Please get in touch with the form below to book a session, or if you would like a free 15 minute exploratory chat.
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I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance.
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.by Dawna Markova