Spiritual Training packages involve a minimum of six 90-minute sessions, scheduled either weekly or bi-weekly. In no case, however, will the sessions be more than two weeks apart. These sessions will be held in my totally awesome counseling space in La Mesa, California.
The first session is a “Spiritual Fitness Evaluation.” During that time, you and I will discuss your goals and objectives. What is it that you feel is missing from your life? Love? Joy? Freedom? Peace? Abundance? Prosperity? Health?
I will spend a little time exploring your story with you. Although we may not discuss astrology specifically in this session, my questions will be determined and guided by your unique, individual birth chart.
We will also explore your personal history with spirituality and religion, and your relationship with Spirit (in whatever form or name it takes for you). This will help me to customize the exercises and vocabulary so that we begin in your personal comfort zone.
Finally, I will assign your homework. You will most likely be required to purchase or borrow a book to begin reading on a daily basis. The majority of my clients begin with one of these four books:
Loving What Is by Byron Katie
Busting Loose from the Money Game by Robert Scheinfeld
Ask and it is Given by Jerry and Esther Hicks
Power vs. Force by Dr. David R. Hawkins
Your homework will also include an assignment for a brief, daily spiritual practice. The assignment will be analogous to 5-pound weights, designed to target one or more sets of your Spiritual Muscles—Awareness, Gratitude or Forgiveness.
You will agree to complete your daily spiritual practice every day for the next seven to ten days, until your next session. Because even working out with 5-pound weights can be deceptively challenging, I will be available to support you with up to two 10-minute phone calls and unlimited email support between the first and second session.
The second session is where the real work begins. During the previous week, every one of your challenges and mental, emotional and spiritual blocks will have shown up for you. Whatever resistance you have to letting go of your story and stepping into your greatness will be very present. Now that we know what the major obstacles are, I can support you in overcoming them and ultimately in dissolving them completely. This is where we map out the objectives for the remaining sessions.
Your homework will continue, as will your daily spiritual practice. Over the course of the six sessions, that practice will evolve and expand until you are comfortable enough with it and familiar enough with it that you are able to continue it on your own without ongoing support and coaching. It will become your spiritual practice.
Frequently Asked Questions about Spiritual Training Packages
I always begin with your unique birth chart. Astrology helps me to recognize the major themes and identify the most likely obstacles, stories and false beliefs that stand between you and your Good. Even though I may not walk you through your birth chart planet by planet, astrology is the underlying framework of everything that we do together.
The approach that I employ has elements of cognitive therapy, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Jungian archetypes, Shamanic healing, compassionate listening, and spiritual inquiry. I assist you in questioning your stories, and support you in reframing the context of your stories and the meanings that you give them so that you can experience relief from the negative, limiting and stressful thoughts. And, more importantly, I help you to develop the skills and the muscles so that you can begin to apply these techniques on your own, without my assistance.
I’m completely new to this. Why do I need your help?
Congratulations! You are embarking on the most wonderful and exciting journey you could possibly imagine!
A Spiritual Training Package is the ideal way to support yourself as you begin your journey. I will help you to become grounded in fundamental Spiritual Truths, and help you to develop your core Spiritual Muscles so that you will be well supported on whatever path you choose to follow.
I’ve been studying this stuff for years. Why do I need your help?
If you’re reading this, then you’re longing for something more in your life. As much as your studies have helped you, something is missing and you’re longing for something greater. There are several possible scenarios that could be at the root of this experience.
You know the Spiritual Truths, and you know how to use them in your life. The real question is do you actually use them? Knowing about spirituality is not the same thing as living it. Sometimes the value in having a trainer of any kind is that you are partnering with someone who will hold you accountable for your actions and choices, and therefore you are more likely to actually do the things that you know you need to do in order to feel better. By partnering with me as your Spiritual Trainer, you will have the extra support that you need in order to actually implement your daily spiritual practice. A Spiritual Training Package will help you to actually do the things you know you need to do to experience the healing, the expansion, and the joy that you long for in your life.
If you already have a consistent daily spiritual practice that you follow, and yet you’re not experiencing the results that you desire, a Spiritual Training Package will help you to refine and improve your practice. Spiritual muscles are no different than physical muscles. In order to experience the optimal growth and development, you must target all of the major muscle groups. It’s also essential that you vary your exercises and break up the routine. When you partner with me as your Spiritual Trainer, I will help you to fine-tune your spiritual practice, ensuring that the major spiritual muscle groups, Awareness, Gratitude and Forgiveness, are all being addressed.
Whichever scenario applies to you, it’s also important to remember that everyone benefits from a little coaching and support. Even professional athletes continue to work with trainers to keep them focused and motivated, and to support them in breaking through plateaus.
Even, Tiger Woods, the greatest golfer in history, still works with a coach.
A Spiritual Training package consists of six 90-minute sessions, for a total of 9 hours, or $900.
Committing to six sessions in a maximum of three months gives you a 10% discount.
The first two sessions must be purchased in advance. The initial fee is $275, which includes up to two 10-minute support phone calls and unlimited support email. The remaining sessions can be paid for at the start of each session.
Prepaying for six sessions in advance gives a 20% discount—only $720 for the series (save $180!). Note that all advance payments are non-refundable.
Why do I have to pay for the first two sessions up front?
Because I want to make sure you come back for the second session.
The first time you go work out at a gym, your muscles are sore for a few days. You may be in some discomfort, but you know it will pass, and you still go back to the gym.
It’s the same thing with Spiritual Training, except after the first session, your Spiritual muscles will be sore. This is an entirely different kind of discomfort than with your physical muscles. Old stories will come up, old resistances, old judgments, and new rationalizations. All of these tend to make it quite challenging to continue with the work. However, if you’ve already paid for the session, and you know you won’t be able to get a refund, that’s usually enough incentive to get you to do enough of the work so that you can at least feel that you’re getting your money’s worth. And that’s all that’s needed, because at this stage of the game, showing up is 90% of success.
In the second session, you’ll receive tools that you can use to address your individual challenges as they come up in the future. This makes it far more likely that you’ll come back for your third session on your own. If, on the other hand, you don’t come back for the third session, all that means is that you aren’t quite ready to claim the Love, Joy, Peace, Freedom, Abundance and Prosperity in your life.
There’s nothing at all wrong with this. This work can only be accomplished when you’re truly ready to make changes in your life. When you are, I’ll be here to assist you.
If you don’t do the homework, we won’t continue to work together.
The homework—reading the assigned books and following a consistent, daily spiritual practice that usually involves some combination of reading, meditation or contemplation, and/or journaling—is the most important part of the process. This is where you develop your spiritual muscles.
If you are unwilling or unable to be consistent with the homework, this means that you are not yet ready or willing to create the changes in your life that you want. Only you can make these changes; I simply guide and support you in the process.
If I determine that you are not doing the homework, I will discontinue our sessions. We can begin again in the future when you are more willing or able to follow the program.
If you need to reschedule an appointment, I ask that you give me at least 24 hours notice. If you are not able to give me at least 24 hours notice, I expect you to pay for the missed session.
If I need to reschedule and I’m not able to give you at least 24 hours notice, there will be no charge for the session.
I understand that life happens and that sometimes things come up unexpectedly. However, if unexpected things come up more than once, it’s a sign that you may not be ready to continue with this work at this time.
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