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About Astara

IFS and trauma informed coaching for individuals and couples. Yoga, Energy, Bodywork, Breath work and Meditation. Psychedelic assisted coaching and integration.

 

I love my humans brothers and sisters. I have been deeply fascinated and captivated by human nature for as long as I can remember. My studies have been focused mostly into the realms of the mind, body and spirit. When working with clients this trinity is ever present.

 

I spent a gracious amount of time in my youth in the untouched wilderness of Michigan exploring with one of my favorite teachers, Mother Nature.  By the age of 16 I was blessed to find a deep connection with the practice of yoga which has been a precious touch tone in my daily life ever since then. 

 

My formal studies, though began with Art, eventually lead me to find and hone my love of biology. I became a Registered Nurse and was honored to be asked to begin my nursing career in the Intensive Care Unite where I spent many years exploring the human body though a medical eye. A few years into my nursing career a travel assignment lead me to Arizona when a deeper connection to my love of holistic health, eastern medicine and studies were enriched.  Here I studied and taught more and more. I became a Teacher Trainer of yoga students, a licensed massage therapist and an emotional coach. This created an adjustment in my nursing focus to holistic cancer treatments which lead me to work and serve in Thailand setting up cancer clinics and experience a work life balance within health centers in the beautiful setting of northern Thailand and the electric city of Bangkok.

 

I have been coaching individuals and couples through the inner realms of their psychie in deeper and deeper ways over decades.  Adding layers to my approach that include the realms of the unconscious mind. The physical body’s somatic ways of communicating with the conscious mind though pain and sensation as well aa fine tuning my listening to hear in my clients what the spirit might be wisely whispering.

 

In my coaching sessions I interweave a non pathologizing container of acceptance and curiosity to all the parts of a person. Here we explore the shadow realms with a trauma informed approach and work with the plasticity of the mind and learn how to help the nervous system regulate into safer moments with polyvegal theory, yogic breathwork, visualization and re- parenting the parts of us that need it most with IFS (internal family systems) and IFIO (intimacy from the inside out) informed coaching. 

I'm am cisgender and identify as a woman.  I welcome all with love and a knowing that I have much to learn about each person's unique background and story. I am a mother of two and married to my chosen evolutionary partner. I love my work in this life and trust if we are meant to work together we will.

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