Initial sessions create space for being heard, seen and understood as I guide you through the iRest process of identifying your life's resolutions. Resolutions are comprised of three aspects: 1) Your deepest Heartfelt Desire or Mission, 2) Intention(s), and 3) Inner Resource. These three, together, form clear definitive commitments that you are absolutely determined and committed to accomplish. They also give value, purpose, and meaning to your life, and take you to your goal. Once put into action, nothing can stop them. They entail full and committed determination that focuses all your mental and energetic resources. ​

During body and breath sensing I will guide you to rotate your attention throughout your physical body and observe physical sensations that are present. I will welcome you to share what you are noticing and provide supportive questions throughout your iRest experience. During Body and Breath Sensing, as in all phases of iRest, you aren’t trying to “change” or “fix” anything. You’re simply observing and experiencing what’s present. If sensation is especially strong, you are learning to simply observe it, as it is. I will be right here with you throughout the process. During iRest, you learn to welcome and allow everything to arise just as it is. Body Sensing and Breath Sensing are soothing to the nervous system and help (re)train the body to experience deep relaxation. 

I will spend at least one session guiding you through the co-meditation process of welcoming your feelings and emotions.  You will be invited to acknowledge and welcome the legitimacy and necessity of your feelings and emotions as messengers. To recognize the variety of feelings and emotions you experience and to welcome them and understand their purpose. This process promotes healthy, happy, and well-adjusted human beings.  Through your willingness to meet, greet, welcome, and experience your emotions, you go beyond them.

At least one session will focus on welcoming your cognitions through an iRest co-meditation dyad. I will ask supporting questions to guide you through the process. You will learn to welcome your cognitions — thoughts, beliefs, images, and memories — as messengers that are designed to help you respond, rather than react to our life circumstances. 

Pairing Opposites. During iRest we bring to light and explore negative and positive beliefs, which divide and limit us when we refuse to listen to them as messengers. When you locate a belief, iRest asks you to pair it with its opposite. “I’m unlovable” might be paired with “I love and value myself.” “I’m not good enough” might be paired with, “I’m always doing the best that I know how. I will be right here with you as you explore some painful beliefs and invite you to consider their opposites. This process develops a sense of equanimity, ease and wellbeing.

Our search for an object, circumstance, or experience that will bring us lasting happiness always misses the mark. Ironically, it is our search for happiness that takes us away from the inherent peace, well-being and joy that are always already present within us. Through the iRest dyad process you will discover unchanging inner joy. iRest reveals that joy is always present, although sometimes hidden behind the veil of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. True joy exists independent of all objects, beliefs, images, and memories

During this stage of the iRest process you will be invited to step back and be a witness, or observer, to all you experience. As a witness, you’re invited to welcome sensations in the physical body, breath, feelings, emotions, beliefs, images, memories, joy, wellbeing, and anything else that is present. There is no need to fix or change anything. You are simply witnessing your experiences as they occur.  During iRest you are invited to rest in the experience of simply ‘being,’ and to notice that, as being, you feel spacious, outside of time, beyond lack and need, and complete and whole just as you are. When you melt into “being” Awareness, you experience the unbreakable and unchanging aspect of yourself that is always at peace and at ease, no matter your circumstance.

The last step of iRest emphasizes the Integration of iRest into all moments of your daily life. While core principles of iRest are learned, and practiced during individual sessions, or at home with an audio recording, iRest is most effective when it’s integrated into every moment of your life. As you complete your practice, you reaffirm your Intention, Heartfelt Mission or Desire and Inner Resource. And, if you are so inspired, you also affirm intentions that will help to further actualize your heartfelt mission and inner resource during future practices, or in your daily life.