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Depth Psychology in practice is open to the exploration of the subtle, unconscious, and transpersonal aspects of human experience. Healing is akin with allowing what has been repressed, abandoned, denied or ignored to emerge or re-emerge so that the individual can relate to the psychic content, explore its significance and integrate it, allowing for a transformation in consciousness. Depth Psychology also recognizes the way unconscious processes express themselves in society and culture, and how the collective affects the body/psyche. Depth psychology encourages us to explore and honor our connection to the earth as a means of healing and self-discovery. Practices such as ecotherapy, dreamwork, and engaging with nature-based rituals and symbols can help individuals reconnect with their innate sense of belonging to the natural world. By recognizing ourselves as integral parts of the earth’s web of life, we can cultivate a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and wholeness in our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/1665812736369-QXC4KWYE3ONTWP2FOLAY/unsplash-image-0XwIIcaM5wA.jpg Body Psyche - Why decolonial Depth? In this container of reverie we can be with multiple channels of conscious/unconscious processes. It gives us an opportunity to commune with complex psychic and affective experiences within the context of personal and social change. In this imaginative space we can address suffering, subtle ways of relating, deepen self reflection, dream into new possibilities, and open to emergent ways of relating to all of life. “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/59d23d6e-2dc6-454f-b8ad-2e3af4b16e74/3493823787_ac3121b413_o.jpg Body Psyche - It can look like… Applied Mythology Imaginal Work Archetypal work Dreamwork Body Soul exploration (adapting from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms©) Exploration of complexes and shadow work Spiritual exploration https://tierrasoma.com/somaticexperiencing daily 0.75 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/bfaa7c99-63a9-40b5-8fe2-759f5780941c/GettyImages-824663476.jpg Somatic Experiencing - Integrative Somatic Therapy In this holistic framework, I implement attachment theory, neuroscience, somatic techniques and practices that support nervous system regulation, attachment healing, and trauma resolution. Through this body-centered approach, you will gain deeper connections, a fuller understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental, relational, social, environmental, spiritual, and cultural rupture & repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/294b56bd-d417-40eb-970f-51694db945c6/IMG_9894.jpg Somatic Experiencing - Somatic Experiencing Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma and other stress-related disorders. SE™offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been helping individuals find release and healing from trauma & stress for more than four decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/2d7d394a-4840-46b3-aca7-6c31c1846e14/Maryem+cosmic+DSC07001.jpg Somatic Experiencing - Somatic Touch Informed by my SE™ advanced training and Somatic Touch Skills by Kathy L. Kain, I implement tactile skills, somatic awareness, and other touch-related skills for the purpose of supporting nervous system regulation and resolving trauma. Touch is an extremely effective way to connect with your nervous system, and SE™ Touch work is an important aspect of the three year SE™ training. In a session, you can expect to be encouraged verbally and/or through light touch to become present in your body, and to simply notice the presence of, and any changes to sensations, thoughts, feelings, images, or any way in which you experience yourself. As I observe and facilitate physical nervous system responses, you are able to gradually develop an increasing tolerance for challenging bodily sensations and suppressed emotions. The discharge process that has been suppressed often for years can be completed, integrated, bringing restoration and health to the body. https://tierrasoma.com/home daily 1.0 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/c599468f-f626-4bc9-9397-dbcd72d1487b/TS_COLLAGE_1.png Home - An Invitation Thank you for being here. Perhaps you are in a holding pattern, in the throes of suffering, wanting to deepen your spiritual life, be more intimately connected to Earth, or have more flow in your creative life. I am honored to tend to your unique threshold of the many initiations on your soul’s journey. Together, we will explore the winding landscape of Psyche. You will safely engage with and develop a more satisfying relationship with disembodied and disowned parts of yourself. In this sacred relationship, I hold the knowing and vision for you to fully come into a better relationship with all of life. Through our work together you will cultivate resources to navigate your inner swamplands & grasslands, develop a higher capacity for intimacy with self and the more than human. If this all resonates, I invite you to read further about my offerings. ~Maryem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/fc6231c6-f807-4204-a2a8-6a8e470a74bc/Photo+Jun+03%2C+5+45+33+PM.jpg Home - Maryem Irias, MA, SEP I’m Maryem, healing arts practitioner, somatic experiencing practitioner, educator, emerging scholar and most importantly, your fellow human kin journeying alongside you in the spiral of life. I am committed to a cross-cultural, decolonial framework for healing that re-imagines our relationship to self, others, society, and the natural world. I honor divergent ways of knowing and empower you to contact your innate healing function. My work is rooted in my studies in Depth psychology, Somatic Experiencing®, eco-psychology, eastern spiritual teachings, attachment theory, neuroscience, indigenous wisdom/healing practices from the Americas, rites of passage, and my embodied wisdom. Through our collaboration we can return to the well of our birth waters, reclaim belonging to our cosmic earth bodies and our place in the family of all things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/3226110f-2239-41a4-8ca9-3e5fc6996438/TS_ILLUSTRATION_FLOWER_TONALFOR_7f8470-01_cr.png https://tierrasoma.com/ecotherapy daily 0.75 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/dd0cfd08-ceef-434e-8100-ac28191095a2/TRICIAMOGENSEN_lakewoodequine-227.jpg Ecotherapy - What is Ecotherapy? Ecopsychology is an emergent, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary field within Psychology that focuses on studying the emotional relationship between humans and the Earth. Rather than centering human experience within the context of family and culture, it expands to recognize the more than human world. Ecotherapy is applied ecopsychology, integrating tools and techniques in a therapeutic container which includes earth beings and place. In this container, you are invited to slowly surrender human centered ways of knowing and open to sensuous, embodied, imaginal, and emergent experiences to meet ourselves and the world anew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/435a2554-ae7c-41a3-8528-212f9d22698b/TS_COLLAGE_3.png Ecotherapy - Ecotherapy addresses the following issues: Hopelessness Ecological grief Climate anxiety / distress Disconnection from self, community, and nature Loss of connection to spirituality Supported through: Eco-Somatic practices Centering Earth & Earth Beings Practices for reconnecting with Earth Nature Based Meditations Medicine Walks Equine-Assisted Therapy (coming soon…) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/db7dd195-3a59-4140-b138-fb0f58bd8632/TRICIAMOGENSEN_lakewoodequine-164.jpg Ecotherapy - Ecotherapy invites you to remember and reclaim your essential nature Since we are nature, we have the ability to commune and deeply relate to the natural world. By expanding our range of sensory awareness we can reconnect to ourselves and all of life, unearthing pleasure, harmony, respect and love, benefiting our entire ecosystem. ~~~ “Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.”~Joanna Macy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/3d3c1e68-d691-4e87-abe7-a38d33423023/untitled-86.jpg Ecotherapy - Medicine Walk A Medicine Walk is a conscious time for deeply exploring a question, to enter a state of deep listening and reverie, to be in relationship with nature as a mirror to your internal landscape. Medicine Walks are conducted outdoors in a surrounding natural area. You will walk, hike, take rest, observe the environment and your relationship to the land. You will be guided to observe your embodied connection to yourself and nature by paying attention to your lived sensory experience. These sessions facilitate a harmonizing of your body and psyche to the rhythm of nature, and may also reveal insights about where you are on your journey, current life issues, transitions, etc. “The land knows you, even when you are lost.” ~Robin Wall Kimmerer https://tierrasoma.com/plant-spirit-alchemy daily 0.75 2023-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/f749f168-0126-4cf1-b74c-7d9ec8ae96b6/maryem+cosmic+dsc07859.jpeg Plant Spirit Alchemy - What is Plant Spirit + Floral Alchemy? We gather in ceremony, in a warm, nurturing space where you will commune with Elements, Plant Spirits, and Guides that will support you on your healing journey. These sessions include meditations and communion with Plant Spirits and Flowers, personalized ritual + somatic practices for integration, and flower essences or essential oil blends for medicine and deepening relationship with Self, Plant Spirits and Earth Body further integration of the medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/7bec1aa3-4796-4d99-adf6-eaa837e2aaf2/ED1D6338-1356-44B5-AF32-944825084472.jpeg Plant Spirit Alchemy - Who is it for? Plant Spirit Alchemy is for anybody drawn to working with earth medicine, wanting to develop and deepen their relationship to plants, flowers, and the Great Mother. Their energetic signatures support the journey back to the Self. The spirits of Flowers and Plants carry the infinite archetypal patterns found in the human and more than human world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/9181fe9b-919a-4942-a7f8-34cba4b1fc48/RNI-Films-IMG-5168BF8F-0D34-40F0-9FB5-4FBC558866C4.jpeg Plant Spirit Alchemy - What does a session look like? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/8dfc8cf1-bac9-4de5-9809-7045a3cf086a/maryem+cosmic+dsc07884.jpg Plant Spirit Alchemy Plática (Talk) Somatic + Energy work to support receptivity to the medicine Guided meditation with a Plant / Flower spirit Plant communion Craft medicine (flower essence blend and/or essential oil blend) Receive ritual practice for home play + integration https://tierrasoma.com/integrative-alchemy daily 0.75 2023-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/f18506c6-cbb8-4588-8496-1b234e2eca25/Photo+Mar+07%2C+9+40+25+PM.jpg Integrative Alchemy - Integrative Alchemy: Body Soul Sessions Integrative Alchemy: Body Soul Sessions are a field, a container that holds you in an alchemical process of reclamation and remembering. In this space you will be held and seen in your wholeness, where you are invited to surrender to the Mystery. Weaving together teachings and practices from wisdom traditions, somatic practices, energy work, along with what emerges from soul, you will receive an individualized ceremony created uniquely for your needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/1666332550705-9E1U1CBVRH9E4FB3AHC4/GettyImages-117832961.jpg Integrative Alchemy “To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.” ~ Terry Tempest Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/101f883f-976f-4497-9d77-f997e45f8bfa/E7FCA697-32EA-46B0-AA1A-B0D804373947.jpeg Integrative Alchemy - It looks like… Consult / Set Intention for Work Communing with Spirit/Ancestors/Guides/Angels Energy Somatic practices Sound Healing Rituals practices for integration of medicine https://tierrasoma.com/integrative-hypnosis-circle daily 0.75 2023-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/bbbfc790-38b4-4803-bdcf-40f456f0ac66/05DD3C17-6FDD-4A50-9CCC-84654033E7BC.jpeg Integrative Hypnosis Circle - What is an Integrative Hypnosis Circle? These ceremonial outdoor workshops facilitate psycho-spiritual development via the alchemical synthesis of the following methodologies: hypnosis, sound therapy, somatic work, journaling, discussion, plant allies, and more. I facilitate these circles in collaboration with the gifted Julie Weingarten, Cht at a private location in Altadena. Themes vary monthly (i.e. boundaries, forgiveness, grief, wildness, descent to the dark mother, body image, self love, etc.). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/340ddc95-92b6-4058-878c-e5535b72629e/2FF172C3-7445-42FF-9F63-3409A7425874.jpeg Integrative Hypnosis Circle - Integrative Hypnosis is for you if you want to… Catalyze and deepen psychological and spiritual transformation no matter where you are on your path. Be held in a strong container Explore depth, eco-psychology, & hypnosis Explore different modes of healing with experienced, trauma-informed wellness practitioners Learn about Julie’s Hypnotherapy and Somatic work here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/501bdb42-01a8-49db-8aec-49bea9d36c82/9A3C9515-3F85-44CA-AC16-593BA3C33818.jpeg Integrative Hypnosis Circle - It looks like… Every month we choose an emergent theme that arises from our 1:1 sessions. Meditation + Somatic Practice Journaling + Plant Communion Sharing + Witnessing in Circle Hypnosis + Sound Journey https://tierrasoma.com/integrative-hypnosis-circle-copy daily 0.75 2023-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/0e0c0bd8-663d-42ae-bda8-450e9c3504d6/IMG_9775.jpg Dreaming Women's Circle - What is a dreaming women’s circle? A sacred container where women tend to their dreams from an animist and depth psychological perspective. Through ritual, earth-based practices, somatic movement, sound, and breath we prepare the body to work with the images from the unconscious. This is series open to 8 women for the purposes providing an intimate space of reverie inviting dreamers to share, process, and begin integration. We will meet in person twice a month for 4 months. Aug-Nov 2023 | $100 per session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/1666371610711-M9D7UOT3VSMHG6NV6X4X/unsplash-image-rAqzj79GUmA.jpg Dreaming Women's Circle - Dreaming Women “She is intuition, she is far-seer, she is deep listener, she is loyal heart. She encourages humans to remain multilingual; fluent in the languages of dreams, passion, and poetry. She whispers from night dreams, she leaves behind on the terrain of a woman’s soul a coarse hair and muddy footprints. These fill women with longing to find her, free her, and love her. She is ideas, feelings, urges, and memory. She has been lost and half-forgotten for a long, long time. She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/f7bd03dc-4a4b-4db4-a80b-3bfb865b2e2b/image1.jpeg Dreaming Women's Circle - It looks like… Open circle / Prayer / Movement Each dreamer shares dream Participants reflect back, aesthetically respond to the dream Weave the collective essences of the dreamers and dreams Close circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/3226110f-2239-41a4-8ca9-3e5fc6996438/TS_ILLUSTRATION_FLOWER_TONALFOR_7f8470-01_cr.png https://tierrasoma.com/about daily 0.75 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/e1df8d78-c712-424a-a50d-61257ef58df9/TS_COLLAGE_8.png About - Maryem Irias Pronouns: She / Her / Ella I was born on the ancestral, and unceded territory of the Kizh nation, “Tovaangar” presently known as Los Angeles. Grateful to the Tongva/Kizh ancestors, elders, relatives, past, present, and emerging who continue to steward this beautiful land. I have spent most of my life here learning, living, creating, being in community, being of service as a public school secondary English teacher, a yoga/meditation teacher, and the past decade serving as a healing practitioner and integrative psychotherapist. One of my greatest joys and honor is to mother three humans, three dogs, a cat, and mare alongside my partner. I am humbled everyday by the complexity and beauty of these relationships. My mountain is the beautiful San Gabriel range which creates a formidable backdrop to the San Gabriel Valley. My water place is the Arroyo Seco, literally a dry rivulet and the magnificent Pacific Ocean. My parents immigrated to the US from Nicaragua and Ecuador—I carry within my bones the lands they left behind, dreams deferred, illumined hope, their awe inspiring resiliency, their devotion, service, and above all, their love. My ancestors are Indigenous Meso-American, Iberian, Mediterranean, North and West African, as well as West Asian. I am called to serve Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Bodies of Culture, LGBTQIA+ communities and any group living on the margins. I honor the relationship between issues of injustice, systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, personal/collective mythology, psyche, soma, spirituality, and ecology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/d9934114-c890-4ef9-8fd3-5557a652ba02/Photo+May+23%2C+7+24+12+PM_sm.jpg About - Providing Treatment for those wanting support with: Trauma Anxiety Depression Spirituality Ancestral Creative Blocks Life Transitions Motherhood Grief Bereavement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/80a1f8ec-398c-4cea-a919-5dc43991c7cc/TS_COLLAGE_10.png About - Serving: All bodies *Somatic Experiencing and Integrative Healing sessions are offered in person and virtually. Sessions are offered in both English and Spanish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/fbd7311d-1e7f-4000-aaf5-e75d122895cc/dsc07519.jpeg About - Approaches / Ways to Integration: ecosomatic therapy Depth /Jungian Imaginal/Archetypal Dreamwork Transpersonal Somatic Experiencing Somatic Touch Work Equine-Assisted Learning Ecotherapy Integrative Healing Earth Based /Animistic Practices Ceremony/Ritual Shamanic / Expressive Arts Contemplative Practices Plant Spirit Medicine Flower Essences Intuitive / Energetic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/bb084262-a5b7-4c8f-a653-a4401d8663f6/65304CE7-4D2F-4278-9586-29DCD11830AF.jpeg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/daef22e7-f0f8-4fa3-85c9-109208ffcdd4/dsc07580.jpeg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://tierrasoma.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c4bf66c2bf88772c8b24fc/b50e4eec-3564-432c-982c-1d71667d66b6/959BA547-D78C-4211-85D5-3EC188A8FB8F.jpeg Contact - Make it stand out I serve the communities of East Los Angeles, including: Los Feliz, Silverlake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Glendale, Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Mount Washington, Elysian Valley, South Pasadena, Pasadena, and Altadena. https://tierrasoma.com/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2025-03-22 https://tierrasoma.com/shop daily 0.75 2022-07-22 https://tierrasoma.com/shop/p/relationship-with-youothers-xxfsp monthly 0.5 2019-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ced8e1d5fd4c700018dd761/1560190004400-XTA0DF0S9WOZJUG994C8/Stocksy_txp824ffa5crXt000_Original_845035.jpg Shop - Relationship with You+Others https://tierrasoma.com/shop/p/relationship-with-others-77trf monthly 0.5 2019-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ced8e1d5fd4c700018dd761/1560189982811-KFAJF1TCUH1SXZ827UMC/Stocksy_txp824ffa5crXt000_Large_844923.jpg Shop - Relationship with Others https://tierrasoma.com/shop/p/relationship-with-you-y4hn7 monthly 0.5 2019-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ced8e1d5fd4c700018dd761/1560189874730-3B0TSLDUHTQ93497V3L8/Stocksy_txp824ffa5crXt000_Large_844934A.jpg Shop - Relationship with You