Introducing the Center for Psychic Healing!

BODY ALIVE has changed it's name to the Center for Psychic Healing! And we've changed more than our name. We have a new space too.

 

I did a play at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in 95. It was a tremendous role with a fabulous playwright.  It was a great opportunity. But at the same time, I was energetically opening up at a speed I could not understand and I got stuck in pain.  

 

I did not know how to ride the wave of what I was experiencing, I only knew how to sit with one emotion at a time. My emotional life took over instead of me riding my emotions like a wave. 

 
Last month, I bought a surf board. Nope, I don't surf. The board is the new sign for the Center for Psychic Healing.  It's the perfect image for the ride we take when we decide to open to our spiritual information.  And at the Center, you learn how to have your growth in a grounded and healing way. Change always happens, so why not change your relationship to it? 

 

What change are you in the midst of? Are you stepping into the unknown and taking the ride? Or are you resisting your own change? When you sense change is coming you can focus on where you are headed and let the release be, releasing. 

 

Validate yourself. Come for a healing, a reading or step into the training.  We love to see people grow into their truth!

Here are some questions for you to take into your day: What are you ready to outgrow? What old intention are you ready to release? Imagine a new form and give it the blessings of Spring.

 

 

Sacred Sites and our Sacred Home

Happy 2013.

My family and I are in Santa Fe where the desert is timeless and sacred prayers ooze out of the earth.   There are many sanctuaries to visit in this area. I love spending time at sacred sites.  They remind me to bring the sacred into my daily physical life at home.  

When I traveled to Epidaurus in Greece to visit the ancient theatre there, I had an amazing experience with sacred geometry within the structure of the theatre. I stood on the stage, a dirt area beneath 20,000 seats built over 2000 years ago. I stood on one spot, a cement marker, a foot in diameter and I spoke in a normal voice.  

 

As I spoke,  I could feel the weight of the sound of my voice on my whole body.  I could feel my voice as it bounced back toward me from the seats and the immediacy of my words. And as I moved slowly from this spot the pressure from my voice lessened until I became aware of feeling my voice as I normally did in the world, as if the sound did not travel far, as if I was speaking into emptiness instead of fullness. 

 

Then, when I sat in the audience, as each person took this spot the sound of their voice was propelled throughout the 20,000 seats directly to me. It was as if they were sitting next to me casually speaking. The 500 feet between us became non-existent. And I know as an actor in present time theatres, you have to work hard to find the grace of a big voice that is unstrained.  And builders put a lot of money into creating spaces that do not compare to the natural acoustics at this site. 

 
The seats built into the mountain, the spot to speak from, the trees surrounding it all, they each supported the intention of the place. At Epidaurus, I was reminded how we can work with a place instead of against it.

So, do your physical surroundings support your voice and your intention?  What if this is the year you notice these questions:  Where is the experience of your essential self supported by your physical world?  What is sacred about your home or the land you live on?

Here is a simple video of a walk I did through the outdoor sanctuary at Lourdes, a sacred healing site for Mother Mary in France. This place on earth holds a different kind of felt power. A calling to come from your heart.

http://youtu.be/kx-t3O7j3fk

In 2013, may you bring your voice, heart and physical surroundings into union.

Michelle Pelletier
Director of Body Alive
A center for awareness and transformation

 

See my website for  upcoming opportunities to work together.  Our work is tangible, concrete, focused and ultimately about self love.  http://www.michellepelletier.org

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The Alchemy of Becoming a Mom

Birthing is a shamanic journey. 

When we want to conceive we're enveloped by love.  In order to make room for more love we need to let go of beliefs about ourselves that do not fit the mother we will become.

Let me give you an example. If we experienced isolation as a child and were unable to bond with a caregiver, as we try to conceive, our psyche can go into battle with our body. Our psyche can rebel and turn the energy of our body off. Because it knows love will bring up these forgotten sensations of our youth. And that can be scary.

The feelings we haven't acknowledged effect our ability to conceive and birth. Most of us who have experienced loss as a child have created a dynamic way of being that overrides our abandonment. It can be devastating to our ego to unearth our emotional truth.

How do we make room for our emotional truth so we can allow for conception and birth? 

One mom-to-be was so engaged in caring for her entire family; mother, sisters, brother and father, that there was no room left for herself. She had been the go to person in her family since she was about 8 years old.  In her session she was able to shift her perception of responsibility for the others back to herself. She could feel this release within her low back. After 8 months of trying to conceive, she became pregnant after her next cycle. She was ready for the change.

Many of the moms I have worked with regarding conception, pregnancy and birth know what is really going on. They know what the challenge is, and it's not usually what the medical diagnoses says.

When we validate what we know is working and what isn't working it's our first step as a parent. As we acknowledge ourselves, no matter what our experience has been, this knowing can create a base of acceptance and fertility. So no matter how we bring our child into our life we have made room for them.

The anxiousness, isolation or rebellion we may have felt as children does not need to take over our ability to create a family now. But we do need to listen to what we know is true. Once we acknowledge our true feelings and give them the light of day, the alchemy begins. This alchemy is our birth, it's our shamanic journey.

I raised my vibration now I want to sleep!

"Could yesterday's class have made me physically exhausted today? I can't get off the couch!," a second year student's text read.

Yes! Sometimes we underestimate the effect energy work has on the body.

As we release past time emotions and beliefs, the weight of these ideas dissipate and our physical body registers the subtle changes. After we release, we can fill in with our essence at gold and we raise our vibration. The body gets tired as it revs itself up to match a higher vibration. Rest is an important component of energy training; when we run energy, our body may need to play catch up to our spirit.

In class yesterday I had the students look at forgiveness- their idea of it, where did the concept originate and how long has it been on the planet.  They began by looking at the energy of the human body 60,000 years ago and slowly made their way through the ages to present time.

These are some questions they asked at each time period:

What was it like to be in the body then?
What was consciousness like?
What was the earth's energy like?
Was forgiveness around as a concept?

Each student had a series of awareness's about the path of humanity, the body's genetic transformations over time, and the role forgiveness played in consciousness.

Here is my question for you: Are you using forgiveness for yourself or are you forcing it upon a situation?  Forgiveness is like grace. It doesn't come through force. When you receive forgiveness from yourself,  as a pebble in a pond, it radiates through the world. Yet it starts with you.  It also raises your vibration. So be prepared to rest.

Listen: an interview

In June I was interviewed on WOMR by Dr. Paula Sperry. We had a sweet time gabbing about energy awareness, training and readings. Take the 25 minutes to hear whether you are intrigued by this work...and if you'd like to train but live far away, I am launching a Monthly training, the first Saturday of the month. You can either make the journey for the day or join us via skype. We will begin on September 8.


More details to be posted on 8/3 at http://www.michellepelletier.org


INTERVIEW 

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/womr/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=1016927

Enjoy

An Actor's Prayer

I had a wonderful dialect coach when I played Lady Macbeth. She lived within Shakespeare's world for decades as an actor and dramaturg.   As we sat quietly doing text analysis at her dinner table, she listened patiently when I chewed up the text and spit it out.  The text was bitter, hard to get my mouth around, like eating a mouthful of squid. 

I was nervous.  I was playing the wife to be reckoned with in Shakespeare's Macbeth.  So many actors had left their indelible interpretation of her words and I had to make them my own. I felt the pressure to be good.

My coach leaned across our dinner plates and touched my hand.  I stopped speaking. She pressed me to not talk until I could know and feel exactly what I was saying.  She said, "...read the words silently, see the words in your mind, say the words in your head. Only say them aloud when you mean it."

I had been skimming the words, picking fresh ice off the pond. Her direction was incredibly simple and technical. 
 
As I struggled with my many tentacled lines, my white haired teacher stared at me too deep for comfort.  My lack of commitment to my own words was glaring.  Lady Macbeth was a powerhouse of loss, grief and will.  I had to push to find her outrageous drive. I had to learn to command when I spoke. 

Dinner turned into weeks of rehearsal;  I continually repeated my silent mantra, "Find what you're saying, know it, feel it."

Eventually the focus it took to speak Lady Macbeth's words became a form of prayer.  Moment by moment my attention sank into each syllable and vowel sound.  I found the weight of my character's emotional truth was carried in between consonants. The punctuation held my breath.  The words carried me if I let them.  And I spoke when my soul connected with the archetypal energies of the words.

This is what we do when we pray. 

Each prayer has it's own cadence. We read others words, willingly,  blindly at times uttering the rhythm of another until we sink into the prayer's truth. Or we begin our own prayer and with patience our inner landscape finds it way to the surface. The right words resound on our tongue.  We say what needs to be said. We ask for what we truly want. 

We can change a prayer and make it our own. Being alert to our words brings us into the present moment. Sharing a story or a prayer is a form of communion.

Here is a version of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, Jesus' native tongue.  Make it your own. Rewrite it if you need to. Pray for what you want.  Friendship, sharing kindness, pleasure...

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos,
Focus your light within us- make it useful;
Create your reign of unity now-
Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms,
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight,
Lose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands
we hold of others guilt.
Don’t let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back,
From you in born all ruling will,
the power and the life to do,
the song that beautifies all,
from age to age it renews.
Truly- power to these statements-
may they be the ground from which all my actions grow:
Amen.

What was inhibiting her from becoming a mom?

I glanced up from the work on my desk and caught a glimpse of my boss, 5 months pregnant, as she walked by my office on her way to a meeting.  As she passed me I had a visual flash of her energy body:  there was no spirit attached to the baby's body in her womb. I knew she would have a miscarriage.

Her body was pregnant. Her spirit wasn't.

A few weeks later she miscarried. This was her second IVF conception and consequent miscarriage at 5 months. 

When we create what we want, we create two times. We create as spirit and then we experience our creation coming into being on a body level.

Ten years ago as I sat at my desk, I wondered how pregnancy could happen without the spiritual agreement with a baby being?  Something was amiss.  And then an idea landed with a thud in my awareness, "She was forcing her body to be pregnant."  This was a different phenomena than the baby, mother or father deciding after conception to end their agreement.

What is it to force your body to become pregnant? We can force issues, make people do what we want. We all do this at times, use our 3rd chakra to override a situation.

But by seeing her energy body I learned that we could override our spiritual information and make our body do something our spirit doesn't want to do. We could rev up our place of personal power and make something so on a body level.

But this is short lived, as with anything forced, what our spirit wants comes back into the picture. Our spirit sets the tone for our body.

Months later I did a reading for her. The theme was "What was inhibiting her from becoming a mom?" I found words to gracefully share what her life force energy was expressing. This is a synopsis:

Her ovaries were shut down. She had experienced sexual abuse as a young girl and this part of her had not healed.  This part of her did not want to be pregnant or become a mom. This part of her wanted to be listened to and did not want to share space with a baby or give up what little listening time the adult woman offered to this child inside, her first child, herself.

Her response was flat, unaffected. Denial of her pain placed her in the only seat she saw at the table;  she would try again as soon as possible to conceive. She was in the loop of IVF and wasn't going to stop.

Soon after, I left this job. I don't know if she became a mom.

This experience was the beginning of my understanding women's journeys into pregnancy. Since then I've watched many women heal and become pregnant, allowing their pregnancy and their healing journey to become one.

We can listen to our innermost truths. We can give ourselves the room we need to receive healing from within and from others. When we give ourselves room to grieve, our pain teaches us about our needs. Once we know our needs, we can address what we want to create in our lives.

There is always room to begin to have a genuine relationship with our self, our partner and to lovingly envision the spirits we can give birth to. We can ease into what a deep love for our self can bring us.

This Fertile Life is a series of workshops for mama’s and papa’s to be who want to take an intimate look at the energetics of conceiving and the healing that happens in order to do so. www.michellepelletier.org  Join our workshop this Saturday.