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What Does A Session Look Like?

Each session will be a unique and somewhat collaborative process, drawing primarily from meditation/contemplative techniques, supported by embodied awareness. 

For instance, perhaps you want to focus on starting/maintaining a meditation practice, work on specific techniques, or understand how you might begin to weave the philosophies of yoga/mindfulness into the rest of your life. Perhaps you are already teaching embodied practices such as yoga or meditation yourself, and are simply looking for a friend along your path of self-inquiry—an experienced guide with a sincere interest in your own experience.

Sessions may be conducted live, in person, or via video call and generally run around an hour in length. Often, I will offer practices, readings or other “assignments” to work with between sessions. An organic process, frequency of meetings will fall into a cadence based on the nature of work we are doing, as well as your own between session practice rhythms.


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HeartMind Mentorship

Because personal evolution is intertwined with the interpersonal

Sometimes, the most helpful thing someone can do is to simply hold space for and with you as you feel difficult emotions ripen. And in this process of holding, you can begin to see that things are not as solid or intractable as they seem. New, more intentional choices arise and take root in place of unconscious habitual patterns. Growth happens.

This way of being in relationships is a guiding principle for my mentorship offerings. Less so a “self-improvement” program and more a process of self-inquiry and evolution, mentorship provides an opportunity to explore the ways in which contemplative and movement practices might be personalized to meet a practitioner where they are and build a sense of confidence in the inherent wisdom of their HeartMind.

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Mentorship Is For

  • Individuals looking for an embodied alternative or complementary modality to traditional talk therapy

  • Parents, teens or adolescents who crave deeper, more meaningful connections in their relationships with others, as well as in relationship to their own bodies and minds

  • Educators who wish to weave (secular) mindfulness philosophy and techniques into their classroom curriculum

We are resilient through recognition.
— Pilar Jennings, PhD