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“I’m going through a time of profound healing and Barbara’s Soul-Centered Coaching is a large part of that. I’ve realized that my body and energy are tense which leads me to react to situations in fear and anxiety rather than openness and love. Barbara’s coaching has helped open up my body and energy, allowing me to release patterns that no longer serve me. I feel supported and held in each of our sessions.”
“I’m very grateful for Barbara and the support she has provided me. I have had an astrology reading and soul-centered coaching sessions with her. Barbara’s understanding of the psyche, her ability to tap into the field and offer guidance, and her capacity to hold compassionate, clear and safe space is truly exceptional. Her medicine runs deep and the sacredness she approaches the work with can really be felt. I’m a therapist, breathwork facilitator and space holder myself, and am pretty discerning about who I work with…and Barbara is the real deal. Thank you, Barbara!”
“I felt very safe and supported working with Barbara and Tami, which is the same high level of safety and professionalism I’ve come to expect and appreciate from holotropic breathwork facilitators. Being in an intimate small group for this experience was very special and allowed me to go deeper in a different way. I really look forward to doing more holotropic experiences with Barbara and Tami in the future!”
“Being new to breathwork and the power of it, I was not sure what to expect when I signed up for a retreat facilitated by Tami and Barbara. They are such a welcoming and warm pair of facilitators! If you are seeking opportunities to engage in a guided breathwork experiential and also seeking personal insights, sharing transformational stories, and expanding realms of creativity – participating in their guided breathwork retreat is a direct match! I valued how both Barbara and Tami offered insightful guidance throughout the retreat, thoughtful reflections, and held space for me with such delicate attention to detail.”
“Barbara is beyond amazing! I remember the first time I casually met her. I was welcomed not just with a smile, but a genuine warmth conveyed through her eyes and words spoken with wisdom and love. Since that time, she has led me through the uncovering of buried memories which were controlling my life in unhealthy ways. Through her depth of knowledge across multiple modalities, she has guided me to healing and the yearning to know my soul’s purpose. Barbara’s guidance is focused on steady forward movement through the muck of life’s experiences. Her words have been like a prod to keep me moving toward joy and the path of light. I absolutely recommend journeying with Barbara into the space of awareness and growth.”
Escaping the “world” seemed to have been my way to go since the beginning. As a very young child, I was very connected to the magical, the imaginal, and the “other side” as they call it. I used this connection, very skillfully, to escape a terrible childhood, and a disjointed world that didn’t make sense. As I grew older and was “civilized” into society, I was sort of forced to renounce this wilder, magical side, and fit in. I am adaptable so I achieved this very rapidly which pleased the adults around me and cost me another great loss. This impulse towards “transcendence” combined with my need to escape which had only been stored out of sight took me to all kinds of excesses as a teenager and a young adult. I moved continents a few times which further uprooted me but also gave me the gift of perspective.
Then the first dark night of the soul knocked on my door. I tried escaping, adapting, making a few superficial changes but I wasn’t going to cheat my Soul’s intention this time. Everything that I was holding onto and escaping into was either being removed or not providing the juice it used to. I started looking inside again. The impulse to transcend was present yet I wasn’t going to be handed that without the descent.
And so it was, just like in any hero’s journey, all kinds of allies and helpers started to show up to assist me in the way. The way took me into getting instructed in shamanism which led me to sit with plant medicine for a while back in 2014. It was impactful in the sense that it reconnected me with that part of myself that was lost in childhood through socialization. The wildish, magical, spiritually inclined part of me started to emerge and with it the realization that there was no way back anymore but only further into the forest of my soul. The recovery of all the pieces that have been shattered, repressed, stunted by trauma, shame, and guilt was going to be a long path needing endurance and patience.
Even though plant medicine had provided an amazing initiation for me, I felt that I wasn’t able to fully distill the richness of the experiences and integrate them back into my life, so I left. I left and went on training and learning as much as I could. By then, I knew that not only I was on this path for myself, but that I was called into service to others. I wanted to companion and help other midwife their full-whole-soul-selves into their lives.
As a child growing up in the southern hemisphere, I was fascinated by the stars. My grandfather and uncle were astronomers-aficionado and had telescopes that they used to teach me about the constellations, the stars, the stories behind them. So, when I found psychological astrology that felt like a natural fit for me. The deep study of Astrology led me to work of Carl Jung, Transpersonal Psychology, and Stan Grof (founder of Holotropic Breathwork).
A new cycle of deep transformation hit again as I found myself starting Holotropic Training in 2018. Another descent was in the way, this time I knew what it would require of me, and this didn’t make it easier, just more familiar. In Holotropic training I learnt how to navigate non-ordinary states of consciousness, how to be fully present and witness anything that emerges within me and others, how to facilitate difficult processes and companion others in their journey of self-discovery. During these years many new connections leading to new expanded paths were made while most of my life as I knew it was falling apart. One of these connections made me become a Soul-Centered Coach and go into yet another deep journey of healing, deepening, and self-exploration while becoming a guide to others.
It was also during this time that I felt the call of grandmother (plant medicine) once again and by now I knew I had more navigational skills and tools to work with it.
I learnt that once you start walking and seeking authentically that IT will find you, that the way will appear, the mentor and teacher reveal themselves to you. That at some point we all need to heed the call to “adventure” into our souls, our hearts, and the depths of our psyches. That the only way out was through all the muck, the wounding, the recovery of the shattered pieces. That you will need courage and endurance, but you don’t and probably can’t do it alone. I also learnt that if you embark on this journey, you will be challenged but the promise of it all is that you will be whole, full of meaning, and poetry at the end.
My job is to accompany my clients, to offer the safe container, the witness, the guidance that I was offered with the wisdom that was passed onto me, and to help you midwife your Soul-self into the world. I combine a strong academic background with esoteric wisdom, and a balancing of the masculine and feminine.
