Unfolding Our Spiritual Path
Spiritual Direction & Introspective Breathwork
Unfolding Our Spiritual Path
Spiritual Direction & Introspective Breathwork
Hello
Welcome
I serve as a Spiritual Director and Introspective Breathwork facilitator in private practice. Spiritual direction/companioning is a nearly 2,000 year old tradition in Christianity. It offers a safe space to explore questions of faith and pathways to grow in deeper intimacy with God through Jesus Christ.
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Spiritual Direction in the Christian Tradition
Spiritual Direction in the Christian Tradition
Spiritual Direction in the Christian Tradition
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual direction is an invitation to deeper listening. Directee and director listen together for the movement of God in the directee’s life. Seeking out spiritual direction, a way of soul companioning, can be prompted by a number of experiences: feeling called by something or Someone larger than ourselves
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual direction is an invitation to deeper listening. Directee and director listen together for the movement of God in the directee’s life. Seeking out spiritual direction, a way of soul companioning, can be prompted by a number of experiences: feeling called by something or Someone larger than ourselves and wanting to explore this; spiritual questions that have arisen in the context of our relationships and work; a deepening of childhood faith; a sense of transition, sometimes precipitated by crisis or change; or a call from Christ to follow in a more committed relationship with Him.
Throughout life, we are called into an ongoing From…Through…To transformational process: we journey fromwhere we are, through the experiences of our lives and the call of God arising from within these circumstances, to a new and deepened sense of Divine disclosure and presence. Spiritual direction/companioning can support us in integrating these new disclosures into our present spiritual understanding. Direction can be one or several sessions to help us discern our path, or an ongoing monthly relationship with a director. It is taken for granted that the Holy Spirit is always present in our conversations.
The Breath
Spiritual Direction in the Christian Tradition
Spiritual Direction in the Christian Tradition
Conscious Connected Breathwork
Our breath is always with us.
A deep inhalation is the first thing we do when we enter this world at birth, and an exhalation of breath will be last thing we do as we leave this life. The Scriptures say that God breathed life into us at Creation, and Jesus imparted the Holy Spirit through His breath. When
Conscious Connected Breathwork
Our breath is always with us.
A deep inhalation is the first thing we do when we enter this world at birth, and an exhalation of breath will be last thing we do as we leave this life. The Scriptures say that God breathed life into us at Creation, and Jesus imparted the Holy Spirit through His breath. When utilized consciously, breath can renew and heal our mind, body and spirit, serving as a medicine that reconnects us to embodied presence, the deeper awareness of how we carry our emotions in our body. Breathwork can provide the following benefits:
• Restoration and recalibration of the nervous system
• Release of trauma patterns and responses
• Relief from anxiety and stress
• A clearer connection to the needs of the body
• Improved overall physical health, sleep and wellbeing
• A new found sense of self-worth, self-love and empowerment
• A sense of freedom, clarity, balance, peace, and the unitive love of God.
I am a trained trauma-informed Introspective Breathwork facilitator through One Breath Institute.
Weaving Breath into the Spiritual Life
Spiritual Direction in the Christian Tradition
Weaving Breath into the Spiritual Life
Neshama
In Hebrew, this is the soul, our spirit. It is often translated as Breath.
My interest and training in Introspective Breathwork comes from the impact that this modality has had in my own life, and the strong belief that the body, mind and soul are deeply connected and oriented toward our healing.
Spiritually, conscious connecti
Neshama
In Hebrew, this is the soul, our spirit. It is often translated as Breath.
My interest and training in Introspective Breathwork comes from the impact that this modality has had in my own life, and the strong belief that the body, mind and soul are deeply connected and oriented toward our healing.
Spiritually, conscious connective breathwork calls us into deeper, unitive levels of awareness, in which we may experience profound shifts within our heart space and sense of our relational field with others. We may experience a more deeply embodied knowing of our identity as loved and held in union with God.
You are invited into the journey of Breathwork, and its potential to catalyze introspective and psychophysical healing and integration on your unique path as a human being.
About Amy
Meet Amy
Amy serves as a spiritual director in the Catholic tradition. She was raised Presbyterian and spent deeply meaningful time in India and on the Navajo Reservation, so enjoys working with an ecumenically and culturally diverse clientele.
Education: Amy earned a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Master of Social W
Amy serves as a spiritual director in the Catholic tradition. She was raised Presbyterian and spent deeply meaningful time in India and on the Navajo Reservation, so enjoys working with an ecumenically and culturally diverse clientele.
Education: Amy earned a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Master of Social Work from Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work.
Certification: Amy earned certification in spiritual direction from the Epiphany Academy of Formative Spirituality in Pittsburgh, PA, and the Bon Secours Spiritual Direction Institute, in Marriottsville, MD.
She is certified as a trauma-informed Introspective Breathwork Facilitator with One Breath Institute.
Focus of Ministry: Amy also leads retreats and serves as the Director of Associates for the Sisters of Bon Secours, USA. A Secular Franciscan, the focus of her ministry is to provide a safe, healing space in which participants have the opportunity to discern the narrative of their own lives within the larger story of God’s abundant healing, grace and mercy.