Sessions

About Working with Us

Below, we attempt to describe some of the “vibe” of our one-on-one sessions. If you have never done any work with us before, you are going to want to read the Blue Heron Circle and Art of Inner Communication pages. These, plus a review of some of our talks, are going to give you a sense of our psychospiritual orientation and priorities and whether we are a good fit for you or not.

In terms of how we approach one-on-one work, here is a brief review of some of our key points of emphasis:

Putting You Back In Your Inner Authority

Like many animistic traditions, we see the dilemmas of life - particularly those that chronically repeat - as symptoms of power or soul-loss. What does that mean?

It means that there are certain facets of our lives where it has become a habit to abandon ourselves in favor of a conditioned strategy. Essentially, it is a place in our lives (be it a specific person, or type of situation, or other trigger) where Self-Trust was ruptured. Instead of hearing the whisper of the inner parent (true nature), we hear the incessant looping of conditioned points of view that have been internalized from our family lineage, collective environment, and deep karmic past.

One feature of conditioned points of view is that they are very noisy. They are noisy because they are not rooted in truth and love, and anything not rooted in truth and love has an intrinsic instability and insecurity in its expression.

This is really something to contemplate! If that voice in your head telling you that nobody ever gives you the right kind of attention or recognition were 100% rooted in truth, would it need to spend days justifying, arguing, rehashing, picking apart, manipulating and blaming? Does truth ever behave like that? And conversely, when you ask your heart to show you a moment in your life where you were clearly accessing truth, what does that feel like? How did the truth manifest in your felt-sense, in inner image, and in the inner voice?

In taking these questions seriously, you are actually beginning to re-awaken your inner knowing in a place where it has not been allowed to function 100% clearly in this lifetime.

This is what "retrieving your power” means in practice. Within your most stubborn fixations and afflictive states, you have the ability to actually hear yourself. It is faint at first, and often accompanied by doubt, confusion, and lots of distraction. But with training, prayer, and repeated conscious shifts of attention, true inner authority dawns.

Shepherding this process of reclaiming inner authority where it has been lost is a good way to summarize our major priority with you across all the tools, techniques and approaches that we might use in sessions.

“Bottom-Up” or “Top-Down” Processing? Both

If the root of healing work is to let Presence and Being operate where an aspect of the conditioned mind has been dominant, where do we start? Have you noticed that people love to fight about this?

Some will say that the root of the issue is in the nervous system - that “the body keeps the score,” and unless our relationship to the somatic is fundamentally transformed, nothing you do at the cognitive level is going to really stick. Others will claim that there are often extraordinary stubborn, persistent and tightly coupled cognitive beliefs and worldviews that, unless surfaced and subjected to sustained inquiry, will keep putting the body and nervous system back into the state that the somatic work temporarily unwinds.

Our view on this is straightforward: you are going to have to do a lot of both, and one of our jobs is to support people in accurately sensing the nuances of that.

On the one hand, it is very, very important when working with most afflictive states to work with the content of the issue, not simply its underlying somatic/sensory signature. Our main tool for doing this is inquiry.

Inquiry is the art and practice of having a direct dialogue with Presence & Being around the questions that are vexing, stressing and overwhelming the conditioned mind. Through inquiry (dialogue with the inner parent), the mind (the child) becomes oriented to the situation and solid in its role and its approach (what is ours to do/focus on/say, what is not ours to do/focus on/say, etc.).

This is really what intuition means in mature psychospiritual work.

It is not fortune telling or some kind of regressed desire for omniscience and control. It is the moment-by-moment unfolding of your wisdom-intelligence in the form of precise and applicable guidance that addresses the exact contours of the issue you are facing.

Now here’s what’s interesting - in our experience with thousands of people, the overwhelming problem is not people’s inability to hear their inner guidance system. Mostly, with a little help, they can. The problem is that the energetic information doesn’t really land or integrate because their mind and nervous system are too unstable, unreceptive or unavailable.

This of course is a direct output of the conditioned mind having inner authority over that issue or area (and often for years or decades). When the Self isn’t home in the body in some area of life, the body-mind system is going to disorganize in some way, either toward being stuck in activated states (anxiety, vigilance, anger, blame, resentment, etc.) or dissociative states (distraction, boredom, depression, low affect, etc.) or a mixture of both (as in complex trauma).

What does that look like in practice? It looks like your inner voice telling you not to drive to your ex’s house but disregarding it because you are unwilling to make direct contact with the actual energy of co-dependent longing as it’s manifesting in your body.

In that moment, as in many others, the intuitive guidance is pointing you back to what is unprocessed in you and telling you to make space so that it can energetically process. This processing, which lies at the heart of silent sitting practice, is basically a training in getting out of the way of the movement of sensation and energy in the system. This is done through the cultivation of present-moment awareness (the ability to stay with your experience as-it-is) and equanimity (the ability to let experience come and go without grasping or avoidance). The basic practice is to support the body for being a grounded conduit for energy and information. The view is that - as a complex system - our body has the capacity to organically resolve (bring to rest) that which is held in the system at the levels of thought, sensation, emotion and energy.

The main thing this process asks of us is that we come home to the body by slowly renegotiating our attitude toward feeling.

This is principally done through noticing when we are fixating, avoiding, distracting, burrowing and compartmentalizing as a defense from making intimate, direct, felt-sense contact with our experience. It also involves a significant amount of time attending to both neutral and pleasurable/enjoyable body sensations and states.

In addition to this being a prerequisite for processing intense thresholds in the nervous system, feeling subtle enjoyment is the overlooked “missing basic” in accessing all deeper spiritual states. The only thing more taboo than making the space to feel your pain directly is to consciously allow yourself to feel as good as possible for no reason! This leads to the final point we wish to make about sessions with us.

What About When The Problem Drops Away or Doesn’t Want To Be Approached Yet?

As we hone the tools of intuitive inquiry and self-observation, we become much more honest and precise in identifying what is in the way of fully inhabiting ourselves, expressing our wisdom, and contributing our gifts.

But sometimes nothing is in the way. Sometimes, as we are aware, connected, and available to Reality, there is a sensing that there is nothing being asked of us intuitively.

In our way of working, this particular kind of moment is given sacred importance. Why?

Because the point of becoming better at listening to our inner knowing and processing our psychological and energetic experience is that we become increasingly available to the sense that we can be complete in any moment. We can be complete, resolved, whole and deeply available to our experience even if at the level of our life situation, everything remains (as it always does) in a perpetual state of flux or incompletion.

We can do this because Self-Trust has taken hold, and with it, a confidence that we are being intuitively guided through life. This realization (and it is not a single realization, but a lifelong unfolding) allows us to risk letting go into the heart of silence and aliveness without having to always keep one foot in the neurotic mind.

This alive, loving, vibratory silence of essence is always “peaking through” in sessions.

Sometimes it peaks through after we fully “let in” an inner knowing that we have been confused about or resisting. Sometimes it peaks through as we are just beginning to inquire into an issue, as if to say, “just rest here for a few mind-moments before you turn toward this.” And sometimes the silence and stillness just take us over completely, wiping out the entirety of what we thought we were working on and even what we thought our problem was.

What does this look like in practice? It looks like two people on Zoom listening to presence, tone, energy and sensing that there is nothing in particular to say and no particular move to be made, and just electing to sit there in the energy with each other until there is a clear intuitive impulse to do something. 

It is not “forced eye gazing.” It is not a guru trip. It is the simple (but endangered) understanding that consciously inhabiting a space where we don’t need to make anything happen, or making anything stop happening, produces incredible feelings of support, connection and possibility. It is also the ground for actual intimate (vs. avoidant, confused, or co-dependent) contact with other sentient beings!

Scheduling & Logistics

2026 Updates

Neither Megan nor Chris are currently accepting new clients from outside our practice community. Make sure you are on our mailing list if you want to receive announcements about future openings for new clients.

Chris will be on a sabbatical from one-on-one work from July 2026 to early 2027. His schedule is currently full until then. If you are a returning client and want to get notified of any last minute cancelations, sign-up on this list.

Megan is seeing a few folks a week on an as needed basis. If you are a returning client or Blue Heron member, email her if you are in need of a session.

Cancelation & Rescheduling Policy

When you book, you will receive a confirmation email that includes a link to cancel or reschedule your session. Our policy around this is simple: you can cancel (or reschedule) up until the 24-hour mark and receive a full refund. After the 24-hour mark, sessions cannot be moved, and refunds cannot be given.

Format, Timing, Cost & Frequency

The work Megan and Chris both do one-on-one ranges from the occasional sessions with folks to consistent, weekly work that spans a period of years.

If we do not know you and have not worked with you before, the best way to proceed is just to sign up for a session with either of us. If you do not know which of us to work with (or you are torn and want to talk to both of us), simply make an initial intuitive choice. You can switch and/or move back and forth between us whenever you want. 

As we talk and get a sense for where you are in your life and inner process, a sense of how to move forward, at what frequency, will organically emerge.

Clients have access to two different timing formats: 1 hour ($150) and 30 minutes ($75).

Finally, it is fine if folks want to gift sessions to others; just email us and we can set that up for you.

Supportive Resources for Sessions

As an orientation to newcomers, many (but not all) of the folks we work with are members of Blue Heron Circle - our weekly practice and embodiment group. If you are looking for ongoing support for your practice from us, this is where to find it.

In addition to Blue Heron, the foundation courses on this site can be very useful aids to the somatic, self-observation and intuitive inquiry work we will be doing with you in sessions.