We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
Just like Nature, our inner lives are changing, evolving, and transforming. Our unique evolutionary journey through life – our breakdowns and breakthroughs – is not separate from the evolution of our cosmos. As we become more conscious of ourselves and actively participate in our unique evolution, we can actively and consciously participate in the evolution of our world.
When we direct our attention inward, we bring together opposites in us – conscious and unconscious, known and unknown, light and dark. This sacred practice gives us access to our spontaneity, creativity, authenticity, and intuition. The spontaneous, creative force in us is not only what facilitates the expression of our unique gifts (art, vision, purpose, etc); it is the driving force of the universe.
Our aim is to facilitate a consciousness of union so that, as a human species, we are conscious of our inherent connection with Nature. By teaching the art of going within and facilitating a deeper understanding of the inner experience we endeavor to fulfill our mission.
We serve those who know they have a calling, vision, artistic expression, purpose, or life path but don’t know what it is yet. We serve those who may know their calling but feel challenged in embodying it.
Through sessions and stand-alone courses, we facilitate psychospiritual unfolding by guiding the outer expression of the inner experience.
We believe that our mental health symptoms are very much a part of our unique evolution. We guide our clients in exploring and becoming conscious of those wounds as well as discovering the deeper purpose within that pain. There’s an archetypal relationship between pain and deeper purpose, and this is what we aim to discover.
Our clients receive support with becoming aware of themselves, healing, and accessing their deep creativity, with the ultimate goal of discovering their unique personal expression.
We welcome and stay curious about everything arising inside, even the difficult parts of the inner experience because the only way to transform what’s difficult is to become aware of it. Each of us carry an individual dose of collective pain. Through our transformation, we help transform the world.
Everything that arises inside has its purpose. We allow the unfolding of the inner experience so that we can become more conscious.
We do not pathologize or label you. We see you as a unique individual yearning for self-expression and self-actualization. We see you as an expression of life!
We believe the psyche is inherently creative. By expressing ourselves creatively, we facilitate our psychospiritual development.
When you participate in psychotherapy, you participate in a spiritual process.
Since beginning to meditate in 1998, Adriana has had great interest in the inner experience. She has spent decades exploring the hearts and minds of her clients as well as her own.
A combined practice of meditation and writing became the vehicle for Adriana’s inward journey, facilitating many of the deep insights you’ll encounter on this site.
Along the way, Adriana has studied and practiced Insight Meditation, Zen Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, and the Christian Mystical tradition. In addition to these formal practices, Adriana had the remarkable opportunity to sail across the Pacific Ocean (from Hawaii to Canada) in the Summer of 2001.
This profound experience was the beginning of a love affair with Nature and opening to the miracle of our aliveness within the splendor of Creation. Adriana uses this sailing voyage as a metaphor for the great adventure that unfolds when we look inward and actively participate in our unique lives.
Mallory is an affirming, holistic and person-centered therapist utilizing depth/spiritual, attachment, somatic, narrative, and mindfulness modalities.
With an impressive 26-year track record in life coaching, Bennie now serves his clients as a Marriage and Family Therapist.
In 1998, I was about as far away from a true calling as I could be. I was working in the automotive industry as a corporate field manager for Ford Motor Company. I was lost, unconscious, anxious, and depressed.
When I began to meditate that year, my life began to change. Within a month, I was shedding tears that had been locked up inside. Within a year, I decided to leave the corporate job and travel.
I wanted to visit a part of the world where no one knew me. I wanted to discover myself not as a daughter, sister, student, employee, or citizen of society, but instead as a human being.
Who was I as a breathing, sentient organism alive on this planet?
I wanted to discover my humanness.
In December of 2000, I flew halfway around the world to the South Island of New Zealand.
As my meditation deepened, a quiet knowing began to stir—whispers of purpose I had never felt before. In the early 2000s, glimpses of a future not yet lived glimmered at the edges of my awareness. Slowly, I began to sense that writing wasn’t just a pastime, but a thread woven into the very fabric of my path.
In 2004, while working on a book, a friend and I began to write every weekday morning. Writing and meditating at the start of each day led to a profound and life-changing experience that is the foundation of all my work today.
This profound inner experience made it unmistakably clear—I had to study the mind and learn more about the deeper powers in the human psyche. Studying Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute not only launched my career as a psychotherapist, it helped to affirm some of the deep insights I experienced in 2004.
Still, I wish I had a mentor, a spiritual guide of some kind, to point out the pitfalls and encourage my path. I wish I had a roadmap for the soul.
What I didn’t know in 2004 is that there is an archetypal path for soul growth, a journey common across cultures. While everyone’s path is wholly unique, all of us will experience the same developmental stages when we travel inward.
The Art of Going Within is the practice of entering into sacred intimacy with the creative life force—a living current that shapes both our personal evolution and the unfolding of the collective. It is a descent into the soul’s terrain, where your unique path begins to reveal itself—not only as a source of personal transformation, but as a gift that ripples outward as a blessing for the world.
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