Somatic (Body Heart Mind) Psychotherapy.
–Kind awareness, attunement, processing, and resourcing of the body-heart-mind with elements of nature and dharma as well as utilization of modalities including mindfulness and somatic approaches, compassion-focused interventions, and recognizing and transforming limiting core beliefs as well as our wounded, stuck, or highly critical parts
–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. They can be held in stillness and/or movement. To make them more accessible and inclusive, they are offered outside of the medical/mental health model which allows Lissa to offer these sessions to folks in any location using an offer what you can sliding scale model.
Mindfulness/Dharma Mentorship.
Mindfulness/Dharma mentorship is rooted in Insight Meditation and informed by Lissa’s almost 20 years of both dhamma practice and nursing/therapeutic work. These mentorship meetings are intended to be a source of compassion, care, and guidance in both formal meditation practice and daily life practice; they are offered outside of the medical/mental health model.
These meetings are offered with dana (a reciprocal offering of generosity that honors a tradition started by the Buddha 2600 years ago) and folks can offer what/if they can.
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
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,
Sept 20, 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
Sept 16, 8:30p ET online
• Spirit Rock BIPOC Voices
Sept 27, 12p ET online
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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