Claudia VillaCova
My life is a living, moving, breathing, alchemizing ceremony. I have awareness of the power of my words, thoughts, emotions, actions and breathe - they are all living, moving rituals. What is constant is change and my commitment for my actions to reflect my love, deep passion and respect for all of life. I know everything is alive, breathing and with spirit. As sovereign beings we all have the right to have full access to our free will and self-determination. To be resourced and supported I believe it is imperative to have food and land sovereignty in right relationship; in reciprocity and mutuality weaving in ancestral timeless wisdom.
We are seeds with potent technology. I am a SEED and a knowledge carrier and it is an honor and a privilege to have the conscience and ability to serve and give back to my community. I am a life and water protector, weaving in my medicine passed down from my grandmothers and great-grandmothers who taught me through example how caring for my self is the same as caring for my family and community and caring for my family and community gives and support my health and well being; embodied ECO~logical consciousness.
We are inter-related sentient BEings. We are because of the relationships we hold and hold us - from the very beginning. In our work together, we honor and nurture what is emerging, allowing it to take form. We incorporate somatic practices, storytelling, and psychodrama to help clients identify and understand the stories and patterns living in their bodies, minds, and hearts. This process prepares the body's neurological centers to harmonize giving access to the inherent wisdom within. I help clients set intentions helping create a sense of coherence and harmony among the body, mind, heart, and spirit, facilitating the embodiment of emerging aspects of the self. As we learn to have access to ourselves more inner space is available to be at choice with imagination and creativity, strengthening our relational skills with loved ones and large circles we inhabit..
I have been practicing psychotherapy for 20 years. I ground my practice within the Medicine Wheel, trauma informed centering Liberation and sovereignty innate in humanity. Together we explore what narratives a client relies on to help understand themselves and the world and through active storytelling and other action methods we enter unchartered territories to find cracks where what is wanting to emerge to come through.
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Transpersonal Psychology
Storytelling
Circle Keeping
Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Sociometry
Anti-Oppression Work
Generative Conflict Modalities
Meditation and Sitting Practice
Yoga
Authentic Movement
Somatic Abolitionist Practices
Sensory Motor Integration
Neural Repatterning
Brain-Gut Intelligence
Sound Healing
Womb Activation
Plant Medicine
Energy Medicine
Acknowledgments
My first conscious memories of learning come from the natural world and my immediate family. I was blessed to have grown up in a spiritually resourced and culturally vibrant family. My grandmothers, Maria del Refugio and Maria Josefina (MiPina), were my first and most influential medicine mentors. Their living example lives within me and their spirit continues to guide me. My brilliant daughters continue to be my most influential teachers - what I do is for them and those to come after them. I have had the privilege of crossing paths with so many elders, old souls, teachers, oracles in many forms, not just human and not all visible to the naked eye. I continue to be humbled everyday by the beautify and life that surrounds me and offers me so much LOVE. The secret sauce as my brother Edgar often says. Another mentor once said…the best way to honor a teacher is to integrate their offerings, weave it into my medicine and express it with passion and love. This is my mantra…may my walk, my life and my offerings reflect the love I have been given and am so joyous to give.