Compassion-Based Resilience Course: Nov. 6th Start
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CBRT is a research-backed intervention from the Nalanda Institute shown to reduce symptoms of chronic stress, trauma, burnout, anxiety, and depression while also improving subjective well-being, interpersonal efficacy, emotion regulation, and self-compassion.
Tools you'll learn include mindfulness and compassion meditation practices, imagery, breath work, and postures along with a multidisciplinary perspective informed by research in neuroscience, positive psychology, attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and contemplation to improve overall wellbeing and your own innate capacity to self-heal and thrive. This comprehensive course combines skills typically taught across separate modalities and programs, giving you the tools needed to reduce stress and enjoy a more connected, resilient and purposeful life.
There will be 6 live Zoom sessions with me where we'll practice together and bring the lessons to life.
What You’ll Receive
- 8 online modules
- 6 weekly classes taught over Zoom
- Live meditations, breath-work, and embodiment practices in each class
- Material review and practical application in each class - beyond study and into the real wisdom with various new supplemental material and perspectives
- 17 pre-recorded lectures
- 22 downloadable guided meditations
- 130+ page student manual
Live Class Dates:
- Wed, November 6th @ 7PM ET
- Wed, November 13th @ 7PM ET
- Wed, November 20th @ 7PM ET
- Wed, December 4th @ 7PM ET
- Wed, December 11th @ 7PM ET
- Wed, December 18th @ 7PM ET
The course is offered to a limited group for FREE or donation only (this is a $250+ course otherwise!). You don't need to already know how to meditate as I’ll teach you all of that in the course.
Message me to learn more or with any questions. To register for the course, click through to add this to your shopping cart and purchase at no charge (or just email me!). We start Wednesday, November 6th at 7PM ET.
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"I’m still spinning from our reading yesterday. I wanted to reach out and say thank you. You really made me feel okay with embracing the unknown that is in front of me at the moment. Thank you for embracing my energy and what I brought into the session with me."
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"I had a wonderful experience. Your astrology is more than just a recreational use; it's empowering, eye-opening, and truly invaluable. I'm eager to schedule another session to dive deeper into other areas of my birth chart, as I found it fascinating and so applicable!"
"Susan did a solar return overview for me, which was very illuminating. I learned about aspects of my natal chart I had not been clear about before and these were so validating to me as I undergo a period of profound transition in all aspects of my life. Her insight imbued me with confidence in the direction I’m going and hope for a positive outcome. Understanding where I can experience flow instead of friction is key to empowerment and success."
"My reading was awesome. The information covered regarding my career path and timeline helped clarify a lot of what I was feeling and dealing with, and reduced my stress level on outcomes and timelines. I was able to see a much larger view of my situation and understand the timing of my plans, which allowed me to be more present and creative in my work. She even touched on an aspect of myself that was so new and recent to me that I was completely surprised she was able to see it so clearly. Overall, I gained much-needed perspective, and because of this, I am able to be more present with my projects vs worrying about the future. I now feel confident and at ease with my plans."
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What to Know / FAQs
Birth charts, also called natal charts, are the map of the cosmos at the exact moment and location of your birth - the energy and vibration the universe sounded at that very moment. It is your spherical coordinates in spacetime, and you are the celestial holographic projection of these coordinates here on Earth so infinity can know itself.
This is the archetypal map of your subjective awareness. Where most psychology or personality frameworks simplify who you are, astrology allows you to walk through your authentic manyfold complexity.
You'll need to have your date, location, and time of birth.
I'm an archetypal and evolutionary astrologer, both psychological and spiritual, using the western tropical zodiac and primarily whole sign houses. I also incorporate Ancient Hellenistic Astrology and Jyotish (Vedic) Astrology.
My approach is a fusion across these styles, from ancient to modern, esoteric to psychological, and technical and intuitive. I work with archetypal energies and cyclical themes, so actual astrology and not simplistic generalizations. I importantly take a mindful and holistic approach.
I use evolutionary astrology, but I don't concoct past life narratives (feel free to ask me if you want to hear my rant on this). I talk about your soul journey, your spiritual journey towards meeting yourself, and time/space fluidity and you can interpret & integrate that however you choose.
Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal or spiritual psychology developed by Roberto Assagioli, a lesser-known contemporary of Carl Jung. Unlike psychoanalysis, however, psychosynthesis is not a perpetual analysis of the psyche and unconscious, but instead seeks to synthesize our conscious and unconscious layers to create inner harmony and importantly expand to higher consciousness states. The emphasis is on parts work, purpose, direction, and authentic will.
"Psyche" meant "soul" in Ancient Greek, but we've separated the two and lost the connection to the latter. Psychosynthesis reclaims our soulfulness and reintegrates this into our very being for true mind-body-spirit based self-healing.
If you are familiar with Inner Family Systems (IFS Therapy), Psychosynthesis created an earlier framework that is very similar in terms of parts work. Psychosynthesis encompasses various other tools, however, and is a much deeper and spiritual based modality. I am not certified in IFS but have studied and taken courses on that practice as well.
At its most ambitious and for those on a spiritual path who are ready to detach, Psychosynthesis is a framework for Self-Realization.
You can read more about it here.
Breathwork can mean multiple things and I work with the breath from all ends of the spectrum.
First, Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS®) is a breathwork therapy targeted specifically for trauma release. BBTRS uses conscious connected breath, along with touch, sound, movement, to activate the body's physiological responses and experience either altered states of consciousness (psychedelic like) or, more precisely, heart-centered states that ease the defensive outer layers to consciously release tension from the autonomic nervous system. Importantly, BBTRS as well as my approach work with this delicately, appropriately, and in line with your needs in the present moment - the focus is real healing, not over-activation or temporary catharsis. This type of trauma release breathwork is more activating by design.
Secondly, if you're looking for a more gentle or corrective breathwork to regulate our emotional body and help ease anxiety, check out my private meditation training where I primarily use Buteyko breathing methods. Changing how we breathe, changes how our nervous system functions.
Lastly, I weave in various other breathing techniques from western somatics as well as a more energy channel focus. The objective is always the same, to regulate our energy bodies (a.k.a. our nervous system!) and revitalize our life force. You'll get a taste of this one in either of my sessions.
Yes! Please reach out and happy to discuss private groups, events, or corporate offsites for meditation and/or breathwork instruction. You can also reach out for in-person sessions (in NYC), either individually or for groups.
No, I am not a psychologist, therapist, or psychiatrist, and these services do not substitute for that medical care.
Coaching sessions are not talk therapy, so we may naturally explore some processing of past experiences as it arises, but we'll focus more on the present as well as your future and potential. Coaching is about moving forward and how to use the past as fuel to do so, rather than endlessly getting stuck in the past.
This is not the fluffy motivational kind of coaching though but is transformative work that taps into your own inner wisdom. You'll need to have an inner sense of motivation and willingness to do the work for sessions to be truly beneficial for you. And for any spiritual exploration, we'll make sure we have a sense of grounding first.
I work from a spiritually attuned perspective, which is the source of any and all healing modalities and why most trauma modalities today are not coming from traditional psychology textbooks or school programs. My work is about exploring who you are before anything that's happened to you or before life's conditioning and opening fully to all your complexity.
Check out the About Me page for just some of my trainings and certifications and the Contact page for my best practices.