• Transpersonal Counsultation Sessions.
• Consultation groups and workshops for Body Workers and Energy Healers.
• Multicultural Approaches to Working with Teens.
• Bindu Breath work ™.
• This Month's Teaching

This Month's Teaching: Hidden in View
This day on our walk down the driveway to catch my daughter’s bus, an eagle graced us. This great bird sat perched on a tree only a few hundred yards from the house. >more

Transpersonal Counsultation Sessions:
My primary intention as one’s therapist is to assist you in bringing forth your True Nature, your essential self.
Within the therapeutic relationship I view myself as a skillful “navigator” and the client as the “Captain.” You tell me where you want to go (what are your intentions and desired outcomes) and I give you some ways and how’s to get there…I work intuitively, as well as practically, using both ancient and contemporary techniques.
I get regular training in both the ancient teachings (such as breath work, shamanic, and meditation practices) and more contemporary teachings (such as on the, dynamics of narcissism, attachment disorders, and narrative therapies). I consider myself skillful at helping my clients find the solutions within the difficulty. I work with the teacher and healer within you, my client. The therapeutic relationship is a dynamic one – a place where deep insight and needed changes can take place.

Out of pocket sliding scale also available: $65-$125/hour.
Healing Services Overlooking the River and Harmonia Center for Psychotherapy.

Locations:

• 610 Water Street in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin 608-963-0724
• Harmonia Madison Center for Psychotherapy 401 N. Pickney Street. Downtown Madison. 608-255-8838, ext, 1.
  
  

The Shaman’s Body. Consultation groups and workshops for Body Workers and Energy Healers. Fifteen years ago In Minneapolis I began a consultation group for healers, massage therapists, and other body workers. A consultation workshop or regular group can be a place that such healers can receive answers to their questions, seek guidance and support around treatment issues and gain skills that generate healthy, strong boundaries in their professions.

The Initiation Course
This class is an intensive and experiential group intended for those who are ready to go deeper into their personal andspiritual truths. It is a progressive process in which your intention coming in will be developed and explored. You will create and practice the Four Conditions of the Initiated Life.™ You will further develop your own personal intuitive and spiritual skills through the class lessons and experiences. Lessons will include: mind training, in-depth work with your intentions; intuitive empowerment tools; living in alignment with your truth; deep body awareness and meditations; Bindu™ breathing lessons; learning through trance states; insight into the rights and power of each chakra; getting to the root of your habitual patterns; in-depth understanding of Karma in your life; initiating the uninitiated parts of your psyche; the power of personal story telling; community rites; personal rituals of transformation and awareness meditation. An emphasis will be on how you will be taking this wisdom out into the world. The year will end with an initiation ritual.

The class will be Thursday evenings, 5:30 to 8:30 pm at my space in Prairie Du Sac Wisconsin. The next class begins October 2006. If I have not worked with you, you need to schedule an individual intuitive session with me before signing up for the
class. The cost for an individual reading is $85.00. The cost of the class is $25.00 per class session.

Please give me a call to confirm your place in this class, or to ask any questions you may have at 608-963-0724. Or email me at julie@julietallardjohnson.com

"The impact of this class can not be measured in words; I am more awake; living my truth and intentions. This class took me deeper into my personal freedom."
- MES, Physician

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
- Emily Dickinson
 
Multicultural Approaches to Working with Teens.
 A training for therapists, mentors, teachers, guidance counselors and social workers. A two day workshop.

Workshops, groups and resources for teens and those working with teens...

• Talking Stick Workshop. A 2 to 6 hours of storytelling, making of talking sticks, empowerment meditations and community building.
  
  
• Meditations for the Thundering Mind. Classes and instruction for teens and young adults. Basic mindfulness meditation, ways to still the mind, deal with anxiety, the power of positive thinking. Real and lasting “anger management” comes from one’s ability to relate truthfully to our anger from this place of awareness and compassion.
  
  
• Dream weaving Workshops; Journal Making and Writing workshops (includes making of mandalas); Consulting the I Ching for Guidance, and Intuitive Empowerment workshops.

Bindu Breath work ™
One to one sessions and group breath work sessions offered at my location in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.

Bindu Breath work borrows from the practices within holotrophic breath work, Yogic Breathing, Rebirthing, Toltec breathing and Shamanic breath work. I have practiced all of these forms of breath work for over 25 years and since 1999 offer Bindu Breath work sessions. Bindu Breath work™ combines circular breathing, yogic techniques, energy work and drumming/music to help the breather create a healing and transpersonal experience. In this altered state the breather naturally releases repressed emotions, blocked energy patterns and gains personal and spiritual insight. A healing occurs through a direct experience with one’s own Inner Healer.

Sessions are 1 to 1 1/2 hours long. Group sessions take 4 to 6 hours and include creating a mandala.

Individual sessions are $85.00/hour. Group varies from $25 to $45/per person a night.

This Month's Teaching: Hidden in View

Grace
The woods is shining this morning.
Red, gold and green, the leaves
lie on the ground, or fall,
or hang full of light in the air still.
Perfect in its rise and fall, it takes
the place it has been coming to forever.
It has not hastened here, or lagged.
See how surely it has sought itself,
its roots passing lordly through the earth.
See how without confusion it is
all that it is, and how flawless
its grace is. Running or walking, the way
is the same. Be still. Be still.
“He moves your bones, and the way is clear.”  
–Wendell Berry,  The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

This day on our walk down the driveway to catch my daughter’s bus, an eagle graced us. This great bird sat perched on a tree only a few hundred yards from the house. We took time to admire it. The eagle remained in the tree after the bus took my daughter out of sight. I stood in silence watching it as it looked out over the field. Then I went inside for my morning meditation and journal writing. Later I came out to find the eagle had left its perch, and I caught it flying across the field to the distant eastern hill. This wet March day created a view of white snow still lingering in spots among the grays and blacks. As the bird flew east and landed in a tree across the valley, it disappeared, blending in with the trees and the patches of snow and grayness.

Seeing the beauty of this bird so unusually close was a gift, but watching it blend into the hill and trees it perched among was the greater gift. Hidden yet in full view the eagle sat looking out over the valley too.

I wondered, how many mornings had this eagle sat perched across the valley, looking out, present but unseen? I wondered how true is this of the beauty that is all around us, all the time? How much is present but unseen? The eagle showed the omnipresence of the Creator; what others name the presence of the Buddha nature in everything.

All day I kept witnessing that eagle and its beauty in everyone and everything. I realized that even though Truth, beauty or one’s Buddha nature may be hidden or disguised it is always in view. Everywhere. Present in everyone. Present in everything.

We all would benefit from obtaining this view; to experience our own and other’s Authentic (eagle) nature.

This can be challenging on difficult days, or on days where the news is so horrific we rapidly connect with a dark and hopeless view. But it is during difficult times that we need to connect with this more spacious view, knowing that good is there, just hidden. When we lose this more graceful view - -“See how without confusion it is all that it is, and how flawless its grace is. . .,”  we lose touch with the grace that is everywhere. (Those who cause great harm to themselves or others are out of touch with this grace).  Fortunately, there are practices we can use to help us obtain and keep this view and feel the omnipotence of the eagle-presence all around us.

Running or walking, the way
is the same. Be still. Be still.
“He moves your bones, and the way is clear.”

A regular meditation practice, where you still the mind and are able to watch and let go of your thoughts, will allow for this graceful view of the world. This can be done sitting quietly and stilling the mind through mindfulness meditation, where you rest your awareness on your breath, or, it can be done sitting quietly in nature and listening to her breathe.

Another great practice includes conscious journal writing (spiritual journaling). This writing practice holds within it an intention to increase your awareness through writing. Spiritual journaling helps see what is hidden inside yourself. Many books and classes encourage this type of journaling. An exercise you can practice this spring is to go out into nature for fifteen minutes. Listen to the sounds in nature. Have your full attention be on the sounds in nature. Then first write about the sounds you heard. Secondly, using these sounds write about what you don’t remember.  Repeat the line “I don’t remember . . “ instead of stopping your pen to think. Thirdly, create a poem from your journal entry.

I also rely on the I Ching to help me experience a more graceful world and to get the eagle-view. This ancient Chinese oracle offers me a way to see more clearly into the truth of a situation, giving me a more universal understanding of my experience. Some people use nature as their oracle or animal cards. Some rely on reading uplifting words from a book. Whatever widens your view and lifts you up is a good oracle.

“The woods is shining this morning” – may you find peace in her.

Recommended reading:
The Search for the Real Self: By James F. Masterson, M.D.
Wake Up to Your Life: By Ram Surya Das
Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers by Julie Tallard Johnson

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