sound familiar?
You dream of LIVING FREE
You dream of embodying your own truest nature, or being free to be more and more yourself. You want to live in balance and reciprocity within yourself and in relation to all things. You want to embrace joy, but also have space for grief. You know there is no escaping, or bypassing, life’s struggles or difficulties.
YES YOU DREAM OF FREEDOM
You want to live in reality, the reality of the earth, of yourself, and of your fellow men and women. You dream of emotional fluidity and resilience, of authentic ancestral connection, and community creativity and reciprocity.
Maybe you’d even like to overcome a stubborn pattern that sits between you and living your calling in this world.
has the time come?
embrace this moment &\ surrender your will
step into your AUTHENTIC UNFOLDING
If you’re like most healing souls, you probably find yourself feeling discouraged by the lack of transformational paradigms that offer true and good and lasting relief from pain and suffering. You may find yourself spending thousands of dollars on remedies and processes that either don’t work at all, or don’t last.
.You know you are meant for more, you can just feel how things would change if the patterns and obstacles were removed, but you feel stuck. You’ve probably followed gurus who suggest you overcome your difficulties with the power of your will. You are promised a life of pleasure, ease, and abundance if you are just able to control your thoughts and attract the perfect life.
Well, now is the time to embrace the moment, surrender your will, and step into your authentic UNFOLDING.
You wonder what’s wrong with you, why you can’t just follow the program. For now you just accept your flaws and work to make peace with them even though your heart knows it must be possible, that your creator didn’t make a mistake. Despite your pure intentions, effort of will, and humble prayers, you’re still feeling stuck, or despairing, or plain ole hopeless.
we’re here to help . . .
you know what? It doesn't have to be that way.
Imagine knowing and feeling that you had a line of good men and women standing behind you generations back, that each and every one of them had made peace with the last and the next, that each stood in their proper place of belonging. As a result, you have a felt sense of security and well-being. You no longer have to strive, nor prove, nor impress. Instead you are free to express, to invite, to share and to live in honor. You know how to offer balance, make repair, and as a result you rest in dignity . . . beauty and belonging are yours.
WHAT IF participating in a constellation COULD:
- Release you from psychic patterns even if you've tried everything in the past
- Stabilize you in a profound web of kinship
- Make sense of your wounds as personal mythology rather than failure or brokeness
- Dissolve barriers to love in your life
- Give you perspective that inspires others
- Contribute to the greater healing of Anima Mundi - the soul of the world
- Release you from feeling trapped and exhausted
- Bring you peace about the state of the world
i've found another way and so can YOU!
From about the time I was 19, I searched the world over for something to relieve the pain, the obsessing, the self-hatred, the invasive thoughts and the numbness.
I TRIED SO MANY THINGS
Conventional therapy, alternative healing paradigms, positive psychology, spirituality, veganism, and so much more. By the time I was 30, I had given-up. I had found poetry and prayer and decided it would have to be enough. I tried to just get on with my life. I got married . . . I had a baby.
PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH CRACKED ME OPEN
I could no longer let things sit in the status quo. I was in LOVE and . . . I was devastated. I was overwhelmed. I was grief-stricken . . . and afraid.
I REALIZED I HAD TO FIND ANOTHER WAY.
Instead of revisiting the tired old paradigms of therapy, or even the New Age methods of manifestation, I began my search anew. I was desperate to heal so I could offer my child something more and I did find something new, and another, and another. I reached deep into my life experience, my body, my ancestors’ call and my Elders’ admonitions . . . I added them all to a magical basket of wonders and wove them into a very special process.
I CALL IT MYTH MENDING
After years of refining the Myth Mending process, I stumbled upon Family Constellation work. It wasn’t well known and hard to find, but my gut told me to pursue it. I practiced on myself. Eventually I trained to be a facilitator and added it to my basket.
CONSTELLATION CEREMONY IS RESTORATIVE
I want to share this very special and sacred process with you so you can disentangle, rearrange, and unfold in the direction of your truest and most authentic dreaming, and live a life in the flow of love.
I’m HERE TO guide you
that’s why i started hosting
constellation ceremony RETREATS
Constellation Ceremony is a gathering of repair and restoration, of personal healing, and community transformation. We gather to witness, sense and cultivate among-ness.
We honor our regular selves as we also initiate, activate and inspire each other. We do this through many small things, eating together, sitting knee to knee, and repairing the ruptures that keep us entangled and un-free.
YOU WILL BE HELD
This is not just a gathering to share medicine and/or skills, though this will be an element of our time together. This will be a time to stand in the center and ceremonially, with utmost care, investigate and unearth what holds us back from our dreams & obligations.
WE WILL CARRY EACH OTHER
We will invite sacred world and our most regular, vulnerable, selves to visit, explore and mend . . . We will slowly and with presence, be witnessed as we unfold within the space/place/call to heal and transform.
EVERYONE DESERVES HEALING
There is a necessary order across generations that allows love to flow between individuals in families and friendships, between nations/cultures, and between generations. And when it doesn’t flow, our energy gets bound up in intergenerational ruptures and entanglements, so that we cannot be free.
WE FORGET WHO WE REALLY ARE
We begin to identify with patterns of behavior and coping strategies that… work. But also that bind us.
LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT’S POSSIBLE
It is possible to repair these ruptures. It is possible to unravel our entanglements so that the stories of our lives can unfold in a way that feels congruent with our deepest calling, our passions and our dreams – as individuals, as kin, as communities in relation.
are you willing to make a start?
constellation ceremony
HOW IT WORKS
It may seem awfully abstract and maybe even woo woo, but it really isn’t. It is so much more that just knowing there are ruptures and analyzing them or telling the story of them. It is focused and profound and somatic and cosmic and deeply ceremonial.
Actually, there is a very specific process I use to locate and actually mend ruptures that existed before you were born.
First we meet and gather in a circle. We introduce and invoke our selves and our immediate ancestors: parents and grandparents. We then invite all our ancestors to join us in the room and make our offerings of reciprocity to them.
Next, in order to create a ceremonial space, we start with some small gestures to ground us in connection to our individual and collective body’s somatic understanding and wisdom. These gestures also help us understand the difference between intuition / felt sense and invasive thoughts / unresolved-trauma driven interventions / ideology. This also connects and weaves us together as ceremonial relations, so that when we move to the deeper work, we can rest upon and gather support from this root.
We then “move to the floor” and one of us starts out in the center of the process of ancestral trauma resolution or lineage repair. This process begins with the naming of both an individual intention or often an obstacle, stuck-ness or stubborn pattern. Then as a group we make contact with our somatic wisdom and connection to archetypal patterns to enact, materially and symbolically, a ceremonial image of where things are.
As this pattern is seen and felt, we trust our bodies to shift ever so slowly from the pattern of damage and blockage toward one of liberation and flow. We ask, “what is needed here for love to flow.” I will facilitate this process, drawing on my decades of experience in ceremony and trauma resolution. As we move slowly, we pay attention to the larger relational/knowing field for clues and new images for liberation, becoming, and world soul healing.
As each individual ceremony comes to a close, we move to the next individual, and then the next, until everyone (who comes into one of the center spaces) has had a turn in the center. We then shift toward closing the circle and gradually begin to process the larger group experience and vision that invariably visits us as we work and unfold in this somatic and imaginal process of healing ceremony.
Not everyone takes a place at the center. Some participants come as supporters and they work to hold space and contribute to the whole. Though these spots may seem to be exclusively service roles, they are more than that. As each person heals themselves, everyone in the room who shares a similar traumatic imprint heals at the same time. We are not separate. Furthermore, the social nervous system itself is liberated and made more cohesive for all – extending out of the healing space.
Finally, we send each other off into the world where the work continues to unfold and emerge in us and we stay in touch for a lunar cycle. This is where we take our first step in “walking it into the world” – what my spiritual father, Basil Braveheart, teaches is essential after any spiritual ceremony. Our insights and visions still need tending and care so that they become integrated into our selves and families and kin communities.
you can live authentically & FREE
You don’t have to sit through endless hours of therapy, You don’t have to blame yourself, or others, or the world, You don’t have to rely on willpower and mental tricks . . . What if I told you I have a secret . . . just for you.
Whether you’re young or old, professional or artistic, introverted or extroverted, Constellation Ceremony is a powerful paradigm for becoming more and more of who you really are, who you dream you are, who you desperately want to be.
I have been working with beautiful and visionary souls to release them from the entanglements that hold them hostage and interrupt the flow of love for nearly two decades. These Constellation Ceremony workshops are designed to allow us to become our highest selves . . . together.
You are just a few clicks away from joining a group process you will never forget, and that will shift your world toward LOVE!
I’M HERE TO HELP YOU get there
hi there . . . I'm Krista
Myth Mender, Threshold activist
I am a Constellation facilitator, Somatic Experiencing & Archetypal Psychology practitioner, and Theater of the Oppressed facilitator. I also facilitate Temazcalli Sweat Ceremony and other rites of passage.
ok, you've inspired me! what is the COMPENSATION?
Portland workshops
dates
april 26-28 (space available)
may 17-19 (space available)
times
friday: 6-8pm
saturday: 9am – 8pm
sunday: 9am – 2pm
*all times are approximate
*onsite accommodations & omnivorous meals provided for additional donation
*discounted myth mending preparation or integration sessions available
take a turn at the center or join as a support
You can join any one of the workshops as a center participant or as a support participant. *Early Bird rates apply up to 2 weeks before each workshop.
If you’d like to join, just click the button and send us an email and let us know what dates you’d like to attend and if you need meals/accommodations and we will get you all set up!
center participant
add series of 3 myth mending sessions
what others are saying!
Most rapid & dramatic healing
I found Krista’s work to provide the most rapid and dramatic healing I’ve ever experienced. Her work really mends the body-wisdom gap we all experience by living in this distorted disconnected culture. It helps release historical trauma without having to talk it out in therapy hour after hour after hour. Krista is compassionate, connected, and present.
– chelsea ackerman
Deep & beautiful changes
I’ve experienced deep and beautiful changes in just a few sessions working with Krista. Her intuitive and heart-centered approach is gentle and genuine, guided by a belief in the wisdom that the body never lies. Krista brought her kind spirit, vast knowledge and desire to grow personally to every meeting, guiding me gently and capably. She truly is a “wise woman of the tribe,” a healer who is part of the community she serves
– Ann Dorn Seregow
what is it worth to YOU?
There are so many healing paradigms out there for you to choose from so we understand your hesitance. What’s special about Constellation Ceremony and Myth Mending is that they aren’t processes you need to engage in regularly to maintain the benefit.
Not with Constellation Ceremony which is a deep rearrangement at the core of your being, and along the lines of your ancestors. Once this rearrangement is made and the resulting image is imprinted on your soul, a beautiful unfolding is irresistible.
I promise!
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
frequently asked questions
Though I do have a Master’s degree in Depth Psychology, no, I am not a therapist. Constellation Ceremony simply assists the human organism to connect with its natural healing momentum. It assumes the essential integrity and wholeness of each one of us. I have consciously avoided engaging in paradigms that diagnose and treat disease and mental illness. I don’t do the healing. We do it together.
Tierra Soul is a private membership circle and all our salons are offered under this umbrella in the private domain.
I have done fecilitator training with Brigitte Sztab as well as Fancesca Mason Boring. I completed my full facilitator trianing with Jane Peterson. I also have a Master’s degree in Depth Psychology, fecilitator training in Theater of the Oppressed, and am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I also lead temazcalli ceremony and my experience with traditional ceremony informs all my work.
That is a great question. As you can see above, I have trained in a number of powerful modalities. While it is true that I bring all these skills and paradigms together whenever I am working, Myth Mending tends toward Somatic Experiencing, and Constellation Ceremony tends toward Bert Hellinger’s family constellation work.
Yes! You can add a series of 3 Myth Mending sessions at a discounted rate up to the time your workshop begins. Get in touch to find out current donation amount.