Depth Soul Ecology

Exploring Mindscapes and Landscapes

Life is a journey of the soul.

We have all made choices to travel in certain directions and sometimes life presents a path that is steep and difficult, like climbing a high, alpine mountain with no end in sight. We visit expansive vistas and luminous old growth forests that replenish us on the Long Trip. We also enter into deep, dark caverns and meet ferocious beasts of our Nature that tempt us to turn around and go back.

But if we choose to travel onward…

We will need a sturdy walking stick to provide us with strength and an assured step along the way. We come to meet authentic people who know the way and will accompany us on our journey. We go to sacred places that hold us and remind us of who we are. And we take in special plants that nurture us and become our allies. There is a part of Nature that genuinely cares and wants to help us on our way.

All we have to do is ask…

It is a journey of remembering who we are

Being moved through our hearts

And becoming the seat for our soul

What is Depth Soul Ecology?

Depth Soul Ecology is the exploration of what it means to be alive and flowering, and understanding the influence of our internal and external environments upon us. It is the study of our deepest, innermost caverns, and discovering how our thoughts and emotions take root within our bodies and move us through our lives. It is becoming aware of the outer world that shapes us, and cultivating the soils that help us sprout into being. It is healing the wounds of clear cut forests we acquired along our journey and tending to the parts of us that have been neglected and left fallow, so that we may plant the seeds to remember who we are, to be fully alive and flourish.

Unlike the height of a mountain range, and the width or span of a valley, the depth of a landscape depends entirely on where we are standing within that landscape. And as we move, bodily, within that landscape, the depth of the landscape shifts around us.

David Abram – Cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, author

Healing is a multi-dimensional journey that touches in on all aspects of our being – physical, mental, emotional, energetic, soul, and spirit. Oftentimes when we have illness or dis-ease, it is because we are out of alignment in a part of our life, and there is a trickle-down effect that can manifest physically to get our attention. This can stem from deeply held beliefs we picked up in our childhood or can be from traumas we experienced along the way. In our most formative years – from the womb to around 10-12 years of age – imprints are made on our worthiness and sense of being supported and cared for. If we have lack in these things, we can feel we do not deserve a good life and can feel abandoned or unloved, and we begin to live our lives looking for these things in material goods and our relationships. If there is trauma in our life, we develop ways to protect ourselves and close down our openness to the world. The habits we pick up along the way to cope with difficulties in life can also begin to impress on our body, mind, and spirit, and lead to imbalances in our health and well-being. Illness is a way to get our attention to look at our life and how we are living. Healing is returning to our true essence and rediscovering our purpose in life.

Illness has a great many functions. It teaches us to be aware, to know ourselves, to understand how the world around us affects us each minute of our lives. It teaches us how to alter the fabric of our lives in order to become whole again… and how to remain that way. Illness also teaches us about the darkness that each one of us must face sometime during our lives. In the process, we learn how to enter the darkness and endure its touch. We learn about the territory of illness, the depths of depression that often accompany it, and struggle to face our own mortality. We acquire, often slowly and with great resistance, the qualities of character necessary to survive the journey.

Stephen HARROD Buhner – Master herbalist, author, and Earth poet

I am an explorer of the Terrain of Life incorporating practices and traditions from the East to the West. I utilize the knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sacred Plant Medicine, Taoist, Buddhist, and Native American practices, Deep Ecology, Depth Diagnosis, and Western psychology to draw a map to follow.

The manifestations vary from person to person, but the quest for wholeness is the same.

Tools I work with:

  • Plant Medicines
  • Inner Child/ Inner Council work
  • Body talk
  • Nervous System Regulation
    • Meditation
    • Breathwork
    • Bodywork – massage, acupuncture, craniosacral
    • Movement – yoga, qi gong, tai chi, stretching, walking, dancing
  • Visualization/ Imagination/ Art Creation
  • Ceremony
  • Journaling
  • Conscious Communication
  • Higher Self/ Intuitive Self integration
  • Diet and Nourishment
  • Environmental influences and connecting with Nature
  • Habits of mind and body

DEPTH SOUL ECOLOGY – Consultations

Initial Consultation: 2 hours, $400 – includes 1 hour follow-up consult 2 weeks after initial – 1 hour follow-ups after that are $200

Reach out to me at depthsoulecology@gmail.com if you are interested in scheduling and to see if we are a good match to work together.

Please include:

  1. One full body photo (clothed)
  2. List of all symptoms: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual – no matter how small or trivial it might seem
  3. List of all medications, herbs, supplements currently taking
  4. Any injuries, trauma, surgeries

Thank you for your interest and I am honored to be part of your journey.