Welcome

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I honor your quest to be at home in yourself. May your heart's deep longing be met.

I offer tender support for your journey. I will be a witness for your sacred flowering, and a listening field of compassion. I will help you find safety to explore, create, and come to terms with loss and limitation.

I discovered Waking Down in 1998, and passed through my awakening transition in 1999. The profoundly loving regard of this unique community continues to be one of the most precious resources in my life. I am proud to serve as a Waking Down Senior Teacher.

In my work, I am naturally drawn to help you integrate places that have been challenging to embody. I love to offer deep holding in dark places. I can assist you to find more capacity and ease there, so that energy bound in exile can gradually integrate. I welcome your native Being, and will hold space for you to let down from effort and striving. Together, we can interweave an empathic tapestry where you, the human, and You, the Divine, unite in Conscious Love-Trust.

I was raised in the Midwest, and have lived in California for a long time. I have academic degrees in Art History, French Translation, and Somatic Psychology. For many years, I was a devotee of Adi Da. My approach to Waking Down is very much informed by my background in Somatic Experiencing and Integral spirituality.

Together with Ron Ambes, Hillary Davis, and Krishna Gauci, I co-founded the Institute for Awakened Mutuality. I offer trauma healing in India to tsunami survivors and refugees, and started a trauma resolution clinic at a local homeless shelter.

With Love and Blessings,

Deborah