Somatic (Body Heart Mind) Psychotherapy.
–incorporating a kind awareness and attunement of the body-heart-mind, somatic experiencing, parts work, schema therapy, and attachment repair
–for folks in NJ & NY
Mental Health Medication Counseling.
–collaborative, holistic, and conservative approach to prescribing
–for folks in NJ & NY
Somatic Resourcing.
Somatic resourcing sessions support us with increased capacity in embodied awareness, befriending the body-heart-mind, attuning to the body’s wisdom and offering care for what is present.
These sessions can be held in stillness and/or movement.
(Also, they can serve as SE personal sessions for those working towards their SEP.)
Grief & Death Resourcing.
For these sessions, Lissa draws on their mindfulness of death practice, lived experience with grief and dying, and doula training to support folks and their loved ones as they navigate the living, dying, and grieving process. Lissa incorporates aspects of creativity, nature, embodiment, ceremony, and education as resources.
By bringing our attention to death, we can become more aware of the preciousness of life and reflect on if we have lived well and if we have loved well. We can feel into all the ways we can support increased capacity to live and love well.
Mindfulness Mentorship.
Lissa is happy to meet with folks 1:1 in 30 minute online meetings to support them with their practice. Common topics that can come up in mentoring sessions include answering practice questions around formal meditation practice as well as practicing in daily life, navigating interpersonal / work dynamics, working with challenging emotions and sensations skillfully, and how to practice during these difficult times in the world.
Embodied Practices ~ Video Library
Lissa shares trauma-sensitive practices to support offering embodied radical care for what’s present in the body-heart-mind. Lissa has over 200 videos in the video library and continues to upload new practices regularly in the following styles:
Mindfulness Meditation & Dharma Reflections.
–practicing with elements of meditation including attention, awareness, allowing, curiosity, and care
–reflections drawing primarily from Vipassana with Zen influences
Yoga, Qigong, & Embodied Play.
–gentle, slow flow, restorative, chair, physiyoga
–moving meditation elemental qigong flow
–intuitive movement, creative expression, mindfulness, sound
Embodied Journaling & Somatic Resourcing.
–mind-body-heart awareness & expression via journaling
–somatic resourcing via presence, release, grounding, & nervous system care
To make the video library accessible, there is the option to rent practices for the day offering what you can as well as to purchase a monthly membership for unlimited access to practices.
Standalone programs are available in the video library to allow us to receive more in-depth support in specific areas:
Mindfulness & Stress Resourcing 6-Week Series (the focus of Lissa’s doctoral project)
Participants reported the series being highly supportive in helping them to learn about mindfulness and the stress response as well as to learn skillful ways to tend to anxiety and stress.
Mindful Mat Pilates & Accessible Strength Care Package
In this collection of videos, Lissa offers practices that emphasize body awareness, mobility, stability, alignment, balance, strength, choice, and care.
Upcoming Community (Sangha) Offerings
Online & In Person
BIPOC Embodied Refuge,
May 17, 11a ET online
BIPOC Embodied Refuge, a sangha (community) for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, is held and guided by the teachings that liberation arises both from within the body and in community when cultivated and regularly practiced.
These gatherings are intended to support studying the dharma together alongside healing collective and intergenerational race-and oppression-based trauma via the body and in community as well as cultivating communal and intergenerational resilience and reclamation.
• Spirit Rock Rainbow Sangha
Apr 22, 8:30p ET online
• Spirit Rock BIPOC Voices
June 7, 12p ET online
• May 24-29 Spirit Rock Nature Retreat:
Finding Refuge, Finding Home
• July 12-17 Inward Bound
Northeast Teen Retreat
Dāna (Interconnected Generosity)
•Offering care to yourself and community is a form of dāna that means so much to Lissa
•If you feel so moved to support Lissa for their freely offered programs, you can offer dana to Lissa via the video library, venmo, or paypal. Thank you!
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