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Single Online - $200

Single In-person - $250

7-Sessions Online - $1155

7-Sessions In-person - $1386

1 hr 45 min Small Group Private Breathwork or Meditation (NYC in-person, up to 5 people) - $450 for groups & $333 for couples

All in-person prices shown including group sessions include the cost of the space which is in Chelsea. Online sessions are available anywhere in the world.

The above prices do not include my:

• end-of-life emotional and spiritual support (death doula) - limited number of slots at any one time outside of my weekly volunteer work but sliding scale offered and vigils are no charge as long as I am available

• astrology offerings

• personalized 3-month integrative container

• custom group events

• courses

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I do not accept insurance, or rather insurance does not accept me. I am not a therapist and do not treat symptoms or pathologies. I work with fellow humans who have goals.

Physical products, including journals, are eligible for exchange or return for any damaged product within 30-days of purchase from The Cyclical Seed® site.

All service-based offerings, digital products, sessions, and courses are considered final sale and refunds are not accepted.

Appointments must be rescheduled more than 24 hours in advance of the appointment or booking will be forfeited. Within 24 hours of the session, you will need to re-purchase and order a new appointment to schedule.

Yes, for somatic or breathwork sessions, I offer in-person sessions for those in the New York City area and who prefer to meet in person. These sessions, along with my other offerings, are also all available online from any location.

If you're in the New York area and interested in group work, please reach out and I'd look forward to discussing private individual sessions, private groups, or events for meditation and/or breathwork.

In-person sessions have a higher rate as it is increasingly more expensive to rent space in NYC.

I teach trauma-informed practices that can be adapted to a range of experiences and needs. Thus, I can work with anyone on meditation, mindfulness techniques, and functional or corrective breathing exercises, going as gently as your history and present moment experience requires. We can even begin with more active or dynamic practices, so there is a range of ways we can approach this work.

For somatic and trauma-release oriented breathwork, there is a health history form you will need to complete, including reviewing contraindications which may determine that it's not a safe fit for you. We will always begin by discussing this form and what work and approach suits you best. You should always consult your primary care physician if unsure about your specific medical situation of course.

Sessions and pacing are always unique to each client and their own nervous system, so I work with more stabilizing somatic techniques like Somatic Experiencing before moving into breathwork or brainspotting if and as needed.

Please reach out using the contact form above for any questions and I'd be happy to help!

No, coaching and therapy are separate modalities. Coaching has more of an emphasis on conscious action and goals. My sessions are not the fluffy motivational kind of coaching though and my foundation is psychosynthesis, so is not superficial or just about hyping you up. 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 and letting your intuition guide you.

Psychosynthesis in particular is about integrating the lower unconscious shadows and traumas with the higher unconscious ideals and future aspirations, and this is largely my approach.

I am not a psychologist, licensed therapist, or psychiatrist, and these services do not substitute for that type of medical care. The Cyclical Seed is alternative and contemplative, holistic healing, so not traditional by design.

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 a sense of real grounding and healing before true spiritual exploration, or it's just a delusion.

If I don't think we'd be a good fit working together or there is something out of my scope of work, I will be up front and kindly let you know.

Check out the About page for just some of my trainings and certifications, as I take working with clients and continuous learning seriously and ask me about my self-implemented best practices and client confidentiality.

The body is the vehicle for us to experience, to live and to feel.

Somatic healing is an approach that focuses on the connection between the mind and body to help release trauma, stress, and emotions. It works on the idea that our experiences, particularly the ones that are hard to be present with, are stored in the body, or rather create layers of defense, protection, and compensation patterns that keep us in a sense of feeling stuck.

Healing can come from addressing this through the power of physical sensations and emotional feelings. Emotions that we allow ourselves to feel, using the body as the vehicle, flow through us and complete on their own. Notice how you get butterflies in your belly when you’re nervous, teary eyed when sad, flush when angry, etc. These are the body’s physiological responses to emotions moving through us.

Trauma overwhelms the nervous system and prevents our natural physiological response to the experience to complete. This makes the autonomic nervous system rigid, stuck in the experience of the past, and the life force of the individual unable to freely express. So somatic healing empowers our innate ability to resolve and release trauma on its own, shedding those defensive blocks and returning to our true self.

Somatic healing like somatic experiencing and breathwork are bottom-up methods, rather than top-down methods like talk therapy.

Trauma is not a pathology but rather an adaptive, self-protective response designed for survival. Healing trauma is about restoring a sense of safety—so you can be present with yourself and your experiences. Presence is the gateway to returning to your true self, as trauma creates barriers to the heart, which is inherently self-healing.

Trauma can be acute, arising from specific events ("big T trauma"), but what we often call "trauma healing" is, at its core, the essence of all true healing. If it's not trauma healing, it very likely falls under personal development or coaching, even if you’re seeing a therapist for it.

Trauma fundamentally involves an inability to be fully present, with layers of protective identity forming in response—survival strategies that cover the heart. "Small t trauma" is often rooted in developmental experiences from early life, which can be subjective or objective. For many, childhood experiences contain both "big T" and "small t" trauma, but the impact remains the same: a disconnection from presence and one's authentic self.

Our natural impulses in response to trauma need to be expressed, just as the emotions we've suppressed deserve acknowledgment. When these impulses are given space, the autonomic nervous system can complete its cyclical process. Completing this cycle requires feeling what was originally suppressed—and we do that through compassionate presence.

By releasing stored impulses, discharging physical tension, and resolving repressed emotions, we shed layers of identity and reconnect with the heart—our true self, which is both self-healing and resilient.

That said, not every aspect of ourselves is merely a trauma response, and it's unhelpful to label everything that way. Instead, let this understanding be liberating. Recognize that your nervous system and attachment responses once worked to protect you. And now, if you're ready, you can choose something new.

Note: Whether or not you resonate with the term "trauma," you may connect with the effects of chronic stress, repressed emotions, unprocessed grief, or overwhelming experiences. No matter the framing, healing is about returning to the body, to presence, and to your capacity for resilience.

Everything.

Healing is a spiritual process and not a clinical one. Trauma disrupts the flow of life force and disconnects us from our true self at our heart. Grief, the loss at the core of so much trauma, is very often a spiritual crisis of meaning. Ultimately, all ways of healing have roots in mysticism and contemplative self-healing practices. This is the universal and eternal wisdom of compassionate or loving presence and aligning with the will of your authentic heart.

Healing is finding loving presence and resilience is finding the will to be.

The religions and spirituality are meant to be psychological, and psychology and therapy are meant to be spiritual. Both have lost their way.

If you are not what happened to you, if you are not what you had to be or how you used to feel, then who you are?

Importantly, spirituality is not a means of escapism, future fixing, nor compulsivity; that’s delusion. Spirituality, to me, is you connecting to the reason you are here, your heart’s will. That’s the way.

Your use of this website indicates your understanding of the following: The information and resources contained on this website are for informational purposes only and are not intended to assess, diagnose, or treat any medical and/or mental health condition.

I am not a psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor and these services do not substitute for that care. I offer alternative healing and growth services and support.

Mindfulness, meditation, breathing exercises, breathwork, reiki, coaching, astrology services, somatic experiencing, yoga, psychosynthesis coaching, brainspotting, or any other services provided by The Cyclical Seed or Susan Reis do not diagnose, cure, prevent or treat disease. The services offered are not intended for medical treatment. Please consult with a professional for medical or psychiatric care. Please consult a licensed therapist for licensed therapy care.

The Cyclical Seed offers alternative, spiritual, and somatic based growth sessions, relying largely on spiritual practices that are innate to the human experience. This work is not about medical treatments nor treating medical conditions. Instead, this work depends on your own desire to create change in your yourself.

If you have a medical condition or concern, please consult a licensed health care professional. The business is not qualified to give legal, financial, business, medical, psychiatric, or any other specialist advice.

By booking any session with the business, you agree you understand this disclaimer.

Last updated April 12, 2025