Secret Garden Practices

The Medicine Woman’s Prayer

I will not rescue you,

for you are not powerless.

I will not fix you,

for you are not broken.

I will not heal you,

for I see you in your wholeness.

I will walk with you through the darkness

as you remember your light.

Author Unknown

Spiritual Direction, or Spiritual Companionship, offers conversation and discernment about how Spirit is at work within one’s life. This is especially helpful when engagement in a contemplative practice brings about a new level of awareness.

Diving deep into soul work can be a vulnerable experience that I believe deserves and needs holy listening and witnessing. My goal is to provide warm, nourishing encounters informed by the Jungian principle of reciprocal individuation – enhancing our own personal development as well as building and sustaining kinship with all of creation.

One-to-one dreamwork is a unique process, from person to person, from session to session. Though Carl Jung said, “A dream is its own best interpretation,” we can work together to invite the dream to reveal itself by building relationship with the images, symbols, and narratives offered. All dreams come from the collective unconscious/psyche–a deep, expansive source I hold with great reverence. Dreamwork can be incorporated into spiritual direction sessions as a regular practice or as needed.

Sessions are typically one hour long and are usually scheduled monthly. Sylvia’s hourly rate is $75. Your first 1:1 session free of charge, non-obligatory, and completely confidential. I’ll be glad to listen to whatever is present for you at the time, answer any questions, and we can discern together about continuing conversation. Feel free to email me with any questions.