Mind Body Soul Retreats

A shamanistic guide in the holographic field of human consciousness. 

The art of healing through non-allopathic methods is long-standing, valid and steeped in ancient traditions. The healing sessions with Maya Michelle involve  a combination of modalities that each recognize the mindbody’s essential need to find harmony by completing all trauma cycles for peaceful and fluid existence. Trauma cycles can manifest and be described in many ways…

• Primary/Direct Trauma
• Inter-generational Trauma
• Familial Dysfunction Trauma
• Social-Cultural Trauma
• Racial Trauma
• Womb Trauma
• Collective Trauma
• Ancestral Trauma
• Secondary/Vicarious Trauma
• Parental Wound Trauma

When the body and mind are laden with unresolved stress, physical and mental imbalances can manifest. We also may endure unpleasant repeated life experiences. Stress wounds and related symptoms can form due to an inability to fully process traumatic events that were witnessed or directly experienced.  These symptoms and imbalances can even appear in the body as chronic pain or patterns, as the body attempts to find relief and reestablish a sense of safety, harmony and control. What are you suffering from, that seems irregular, unwarranted, or doesn’t seem to want to heal?

• Joint pains 
• Repetitive injuries to the same body part
• Repetitive life patterns/experiences
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Mood Swings
• Incessant Crying
• Addictions
• Obsessive Behaviors
• Skin problems
• Psoriasis
• Back pain
• Digestive discomforts and diseases
• Ear, Nose, Throat pain and illnesses
• Vaginal problems
• Weight problems
• Prostate issues
• Asthma

The list of chronic pains and illnesses we manifest, resulting from stagnant stress and trauma ladening the mind-body-soul is endless. With metaphysical anatomy sessions these imbalances can be corrected and healed. How? By locating, identifying and releasing obstructions and kinks in the mind-body-soul system to restore healthy equilibrium and alignment. With the goal of creating peace, neutrality, and connection, these sessions reveal the possibilities for expressions of optimum health and highest human potential.

Trauma in Families and Chronic Pain

Womb Trauma

Womb trauma can take place from the time of conception to the very last moment that fetus is in the womb. The most obvious womb trauma is characterized by the direct stress or distress incurred by the fetus, but there are many additional forms of womb trauma. 

When the mother endures stress or shock during pregnancy, trauma or stress also occurs in the mother’s womb. The baby experiences the mother’s stress or shock, as a form of trauma transfer. This is also referred to as womb trauma. 

Womb stress and trauma can also occur when the mother experiences repetitive negative emotions such as anger, isolation, uncertainty, grief, fear and many other intense emotions. 

When the mother experiences direct physical pain or trauma, fetal development can be affected during any period of the gestational stages from 1 – 9 months. During this time the fetus can also experience the mother’s emotional stress at the time of the pain or trauma. 

When the mother is in her last trimester (6 – 9 months of pregnancy) the fetus is even more sensitive to how the mother is feeling towards herself, her environment and relationships. As such, womb stress or trauma endured by the fetus during this stage can be particularly intense. 

Trapped Emotions

Repressed trauma can masquerade in our lives as another problems, for example, showing up as repetitive unpleasant events or as chronic pain and suffering. It can appear as strong and impervious, but can damage use in our inability to connect with others in our relationships. It is important that we heal trauma wounds and metabolize repressed emotions. By doing so, we not only make life easier and enjoyable for ourselves, but we also create possibilities for ease and joy and true connection in our relationships.

When Healing Needs a Competent Witness

It is natural to seek solutions autonomously. Society is constantly telling us what we can and should be processing and releasing easily. We are both directly and indirectly told how long it should take to grieve, and encouraged to contain it. With these culture guides, it’s no wonder we often try to heal alone in private. We need our sanity, and sometimes the best place to feel relatively at ease and safe is when we are alone. We may often use mind body therapies like marital arts disciplines or yoga to access painful emotional points in the body and to process. But sometimes this just isn’t enough.

When well-intentioned friends and family try to help us “get over it” or insist we just “let it go” or try to make us focus on how “trauma made us better or stronger” these seemingly positive attitudes can actually create deeper levels of stress and be further traumatizing. Very often surviving emotional stress and living through trauma can be eviscerating, it can hollow us out, whittle us down and wipe us out. That’s okay. It’s a normal response to trauma. It is not a weakness to acknowledge this. To feel depleted, confused, overwhelmed, helpless, unable to get it together, disoriented, chronic illness, these are only a few outcomes from surviving trauma and long-endured stress. Sometimes we need a qualified coach or therapist to help us to heal. We must find a safe and competent witness to help us process an unresolved pain. Competency and safety are keys to prevent retraumatization.

Healing from trauma and suffering is different for everyone. And sometimes our families or cultural support systems are inadequate or unhelpful. It is true that we may appear better or stronger after surviving a traumatic event. But this improvement or strength isn’t because of the trauma, rather it is in spite of it. It is not always up to us to understand the pathways, tools and requirements to heal. Sometimes we need professional assistance. Sometimes we must accept the witnessing and support of a safe and competent healer, coach or therapist.