Is This for Me?

Through learning to listen in new ways, you will increase your awareness and understanding of what your body knows and is telling you. Change begins in the first session. Through these new skills you will get your thoughts, emotions and reactions to work together, so the whole you is moving in the same direction... cooperating in your choices. You will work with missing stages of development and get the support you need to grow. You will learn ways to "Whisper" yourself down when you get anxious, restless, disoriented, angry or scared. You will learn to step away from "Drama" and normalize your experience so that you walk with more dignity, self-acceptance, empathy, compassion, reverence and self-possession.

Are you ready for this?

Through experience, Coquelicot has found the people best fit for this work are those who wish to deepen their embodiment of authenticity, impeccability, honesty, mindfulness and being present to the moment. In example:

Individuals and couples with an inner drive to change, purify, simplify, or sanctify their lives.
Those who have some awareness or curiosity about their own conditioning, and its limits.
Those wanting to reinvent themselves, their relationship with their bodies, and broaden their fluency in how the body speaks without words.
Those willing to work with spiritual defense patterns that keep them from fuller embodiment and attunement with Spirit.
Those exploring the relationship between intimacy and betrayal, turning toward fear and learning to rest in a state of active surrender.
Those willing to embrace shadow, and grow beyond it.
Those with an interest in cultivating greater self-compassion and kindness.
Those who need guidance through major life passages such as a birth, death, marriage, divorce, accident, surgery, etc.

Have you cultivated these resources?

Do you:

Already have a sense of your own spiritual path?
Have a desire to feel more at ease in your own skin?
Want to safely feel more of your own innate power?
Want to develop more tools for self-soothing and emotional regulation?
Have some interpersonal skills?
Want to do the work to embody life skills such as grounding, balance, centering, sensing boundaries, and setting limits?
Want to explore the living labyrinth of body sensation, intelligence, and wisdom?
Have the ability or desire to tolerate and explore some discomfort, fear, and "not knowing" for the sake of your evolution?
Have one or more friends and an extended community?

"The whole creation must advance more and more towards the Divine, because it is its ultimate goal. But, "she continued," it is a peculiar movement, for one takes three steps forward and two backward; one takes two steps forward and one sideways!" The trajectory of evolution is not straight but spiral, "and in this spiral there are innumerable points, and at each point a progress in the vertical line is achieved. But one has to make a whole round in order to come back once more to the same point, but at a slightly higher level." Until one completes the round, the movements may seem retrograde. Perhaps, when the current round of the evolutionary spiral is complete, we will see that the overall movement has been upward. "
- From the article "The Mothers Evolutionary Vision" by Peter Heehs -
- from the magazine EnlightenNext

"The beauty of this situation is that it's completely beyond my own capacity to perform, and only in a perpetual giving fully of myself in every moment and surrendering all else to God is any of this possible. But in the very surrender of the moment there is no longer any concern for any outcome, no conclusion is sought, and therefore no loss is possible. Since there is no effort to win there can be no failure, and things find their completion without effort, magically as it were."
- Jim Estabrook

"Do you miss life's red flags because you are wearing rose-colored glasses?"

-Martin Webb, Planet Solar

"It is what it is, until it isn't."
-Byron Katie

Inspirations

"I am going somewhere and that somewhere is everywhere, and it is important to be exactly on time at every instant. Because if I am not on time here, I shall never be on time anywhere."
- Satprem, By The Body Of The Earth
"The most visible creators I know are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible -- without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt -- their medium is Being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see and don't have to draw. They are the artists of being alive."
- Jay Scott
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
"And bit by bit I was overcome by a strange impression that was almost an emotion. Did it emanate from those high walls or the sand carpeting the street? No, it was subtler than that: it was linked to something in the air, a familiar resonance, almost an odor. Then I closed my eyes; feeling the small warm hand in mine, and searched, prodded that wall of memory, groping my way through an obscure fragrance peopled by presences; it was there, just on the other side; I could feel it, smell it still--a rare emotion which I had known many times in many different lands."
- Satprem, By the Body of the Earth
"With great love, sensitivity, and a profound capacity to elicit and model intimacy, Coquelicot provides a safe and conscious environment for me to explore and practice open-hearted communion."
- U.F., artist
"By finding pathways to 'rewrite the body script,' we can -- with kindness, mindfulness, perseverance, and patience -- learn to embrace and embody more of our potential as human beings."
Coquelicot
"The clear bead at the center changes everything. There are no edges to my loving now."
- Rumi
"The direct route is the sum of a million indirections."
- Satprem, By The Body Of The Earth
"I will not live an unfulfilled life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blosson goes on as fruit."
- Dawna Markova, The Open Mind
"It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, as the ore lies alone. I am such a long way in. I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You be the master. Make yourself fierce, break in. Then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to you."
- R.M. Rilke
"I enormously appreciate your integrity. I benefit a lot from the importance you place on slowing down, or walking (experience) in small steps/increments, and on identifying the most subtle beginnings of experience, sensation, and emotional reaction."
- M.S., obstetrical nurse in San Francisco
"But you are something very old.... Listen, my child, destiny is not an enemy, there are no 'enemies' in the world. Everything is here to help us find the way. There is no 'misfortune,' everything leads us exactly where we must go, by all the necessary detours. When one opens one's heart, every moment is a miracle...."
- Satprem, By the Body of the Earth
"All sickness is homesickness."
- Rumi
Coquelicot teaches didactically, experientially and by example. She brings to each session a lifetime's worth of tools, exercises and practices that I use at home to further my own development. Her genius combines intuition, sensing and a comprehensive knowledge of human emotional and biological development. What I've learned from her has not only given me a deeper understanding of my own patterns, dynamics and behaviors, it's also enhanced my understanding of others. I am a far more compassionate person thanks Coquelicot. In fact to the degree that I am a more evolved being in any regard, Coquelicot was instrumental in my transformation.
-L. M. Artist and wellness ally