Nurturing New Sprouts Budding, Others Passing, and the Transformation in Between...


Integral Gardening...
In Between the Sun and the Soil
Many cultures around the world see people as inhabiting three basic worlds:  the upper, the middle, and the lower.  Disconnected from our most aware self, the Sun, and cut off from our vital primary energy, the Soil, we in the contemporary world have become isolated from our essential nature.

Standing in the middle world, between the Sun and the Soil, we tend to take the processes of life for granted. By building relationships with the upper world of the Sun and lower world of the Soil, we can stand in middle as gardeners.  As active participants in our own unique flowering, we can also take positive steps towards nurturing the world we want to live in.

Integral Gardening works to re-establish these connections which are necessary for us to grow and transform into our most natural selves.  Blending time honored shamanic practices with a contemporary practice called the Hummingbird Way, Zayin introduces clients to Spirit and Life, the Sun and the Soil.  

In order to live out our natural lives, we must travel through and with all three of these worlds.  By building relationships with the upper and the lower, we become gardeners of ourselves and the middle.

The Sun...     
Through deep listening and direct connection, an Integral Gardener acts as a mediator between our everyday experience, spiritual realities, and the natural world.  The practitioner creates the sacred space for us
to re-establish and grow new relationships with the upper world, Spirit, the Sun.

The Gardener...
Become your own soul gardener.  Integral Gardening is not meant to act as a path, but rather a means to empowering you to become your own best resource.  Working with Zayin you will learn to nurture your connection to Life, to the Sun and the Soil, providing you new tools as you to continue your own process of healing and transformation.

The Soil...  
Integral Gardening starts where we are - the body.  Based on the work of Ramon Albareda and Marina Romero, Zayin's work utilizes the simple presence of touch to facilitate a process of inquiry, integration, and transformation from the body up.  Growing deep roots in the lower world, in Life, and in the Soil.

When Should You Go See Zayin?
In moments of transition...  birth, death, dis-ease - both literal and metaphorical
In moments of inspiration...  new paths, new projects, new relationships, and new homes
Routine checkups...  shamanic practitioners are the original general practitioners.

Spiritual dis-ease can cause physical and emotional symptoms, while physical and emotional dis-ease can cause spiritual symptoms.   

Monarch Integrative Health Center
Zayin works at Monarch, a community of practitioners from a diverse array of backgrounds coming together to explore traditional paths towards health, while exploring new avenues towards growth and transformation. You can learn more about the center on the Community page a few tabs over

You can also check out what people have said about Zayin's work at Yelp.com!

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