MariaK Counselling and Psychotherapy /Supervision- and Sound Healing

03/08/2024

God’s sweaty dance

On This razor’s edge
Awakes the calling to sacrifice
all longings and belongings

For the sharpness’s of this inner truth

Let the world name- call you
Selfish
Arrogant or
self centred witch

But don’t budge an inch

You are here to lit fire to this numb armouring malaise of a fainting cold regime
Under the debris of which you kept your heart hostage

You are free
To dance this wild dance
Naked

Like no one is watching

let this guttural ancient rage and scream
Dance you to the floor
in utter surrender
Let this ancient grief pour through your eyes , watering inner dried lands of forgotten worship

Watch
your life transform into a stage upon which
Gods dance in ecstasy
and swirl in sweat
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Let this wild cup of Jesus wine
Flush through your ancient veins
Resurrecting your inner flame

calling others to join
In this alive celebration called life
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No more armouring behind ancient screams ,
No more numbing of this alive fierce love
No more oppression of your innermost free self

Dance naked
Wilder still
Reclaim and re- vision your
Feminine fire

rising uprooted
Solid , like the mountains

And bow to this ancient knowing
In shared celebration

With these old silent nations that always surround you

Maria Kefalogianni poetry 2024

James R Eads Art

19/07/2024

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21/06/2024

New Blog on Parenthood

https://www.presencecenteredpsychotherapy.com/post/decolonising-parenthood-the-path-back-to-the-universal-heart

15/05/2024

Sound is our innate healing
Our birthright
Our engrained ways of anchoring in our essence

I listen to these guys daily
I m anchored in presence

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10/05/2024

RESISTANCE , in the parenting journey is a theme I keep hearing , especially from mothers women my age , called to fulfil their mission.

I d love to reframe resistance to Re-SIT- ance 😅just because I love playing with words and with life .What if resistance was precisely this : A golden invitation to RE sit with what experience we are having with different eyes .
How common is this in your parenthood journey ?in your life ?
It is like a dragon fire 🔥 it lights up the deeper we go into this journey of self awareness ,it appears that it “intensifies “so it keeps burning all that doesn’t serve .
It is a sacred fire .
Its intense but things are getting “better “ the deeper resistance we have . Paradoxically .
what appears to happen is that it reveals ALL of the ways we innocently reject life, and by life I mean the moment , this moment , not the next or any next
It is the only time we have
BUT , here we are navigating this tremendously sacred role full of conditioning , shoulds and shouldnts ,cultural wounding, ancestral buggage
I welcome it all...let’s let it all IN. It’s where peace resides .
If I asked you what keeps your resistance going , what would you say ? Share ⬇️
Naming the unconscious stories / beliefs / out loud we diffuse their power over us. I say name them to take them …
When resistance appears here sometimes is accompanied with a bag of stories beliefs narratives , ( parts / protectors that seek fulfilment elsewhere and seek to protect you from feeling pain)
This is the only reason we resist experience , to avoid pain.
The paradox is , that life / God/ Spirit , choose your belief , brought us here through the feminine portal which had to expand and bleed to endure pain to transcend pain in order to bring us to LIFE!

Pain is our name and surname!!!!

Yet we resist reject want to run away from it.

Yes ok, we have found ways to manage it cope with it and at times that is useful but soon enough these won’t feel enough.. IF the fire in your heart for peace and freedom is ignited .

But what this post s inviting us is to willingly welcome ALL or any of the resistance .

What messages does it convey for you ?

For me this journey we call life and as it’s unfolding is a continuous sacred journey of braiding surrender and power …. Weaving together the tapestry of my ever unfolding subtle discernment in the moment , my fire for expression , for the joy of expression, and my ego less serving at the feet of my kids.

It crucifies and resurrects me all at once
Upon its ashes what s burnt was the grief of the unfulfilled potential of women before me
The Unwept tears of women before me
The wounding of invisibility in my upbringing is melting into its fire
The sacred gift of my service is braided at my feet - the gift of my lineage too.

What does your resistance convey to you ?
What are its messages?

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08/05/2024

LAST CALL OUT FOR OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE GATHERING - IN ONE HEART

Heart Inquiry Group is starting soon . A trial of FREE 4-6 series , to continue if there is interest. Join us.

The Heart Inquiry Group, as its name suggests, is a space that embraces our shared humanity, our tender and fierce hearts. It's a space where everything is welcome, and we anchor ourselves in the light of our inner truth.
We start with contemplative meditation using Self-Inquiry and embodied awareness, an inspired short talk and an open sharing of our unfolding journeys to Freedom.

Engulfing stillness
May 2024- Poetry Maria Kefalogianni

Once my nectar touches your soul
Home will keep beckoning you

Don t you hear?
Stop resisting

Let me bite you open
Let me break you down
Let all of the layers that have made up your skin
Your memories
Your stories

Be burnt into my ashes.

In this ground, less ground
You are held by the stars

Nourished by life
Oiled by your Breath

Let me engulf you wholly, fearlessly
And discover

In the falling, you rise.
In the breaking, you are made

Again, and again, and again

Once this fire burns you down
There is no return
You discover there never has been a departure either

It is a spiralling of a wild dance
Of being undone

A deepening into the descent of your cells
Where your memories of pain seek release

Spiralling into spacious freedom that you ARE

Let me engulf you, beloved
And i promise you
You'll rest in my eternal embrace forever
In me,
Your bleeding heart will become your most gorgeous red dress
so you can,
BE danced in me

And set yourself FREE

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27/04/2024

NEW offering

https://youtu.be/iQKgKh1RJaQ?si=8G1oSsIrXhPAstjC

Heart Inquiry Collective, invitation.

(Thanks, Rachel for the prompt 🙂 I love being danced by life this way )

If you are at a place where your heart calls you to

* Slow down even deeper so you savour life fully
*find belonging in a group of like-minded, like-hearted people
* celebrate your inner light
*Discover yourself through the use of self-inquiry, which has been my life s practice for over 20 years
* Discover your free essence/truth, besides all efforts of trying to be more
* connect with your authentic purpose

then consider joining us. Drop me a message to express interest.

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12/04/2024

Do not misunderstand my vivacious nature my dear
It has taken me years to walk through the shadows of a haunted past and find my truth

I have been burnt many times before
Eons before me

And the scars still engraved me into the outed freedom there is

Do not look down on my loudness dear

I have delved deep in my soul and shed light to all rotten corners and dark howls that my smallness has gifted me

I have held space for the deep cuts of ancestral rage

The deepest of engulfing wounds

Do not fall in the trap of my “ my too much ness “
I have touched hell and delved in excruciated corners to reclaim my inherent power

I am your mirror dear , if you dare look within
The power of my vulnerability hides the truest treasures

I am honouring my blackness and weaving through it with golden threads , letting it wrap my waist like a velvet blanket

Do not think any less of my light 💡 dear heart

I have faced daemons of jealousy envy hopelessness and deep ancestral wounds thst wanted to limit my limitless being

Rising from the ashes has been my greatest crucifixion and resurrection of all times

Art by Aykut Aydogdu in the Cosmic Dancer page

Maria kefalogianni Poetry 2024

25/02/2024

As an ND myself ( ADHD) with a tormenting noisy brain 😅 that never stops , I’m chuffed that I feel ( mostly -90% of the time) FREE of all the angst and stress my “brain” was giving me…. The answer for me has been in true surrender ; alongside of course total acceptance of my brain wiring , understanding it and loads of self compassion …

In the end , my practice of non dual self inquiry / effortless meditation for many years has brought a lasting change - peace .

And it’s been a journey. The grief has been here that I had struggle for a long time to structure any research and have seen my brain as a block for growth - alongside lack of cultural/ societal recognition .

Research evidences the Default Mode Network changing and shifting with meditation practice , and in particular non dual meditation. And with this shift there are benefits : focus , productivity , performance , creativity .

https://lnkd.in/ekqx2isu.

( there s many articles I don’t have the time to provide but you can check for yourselves ).

I have personally felt these shifts , my brain wiring must have changed ? ( For a while I had symptoms of skull activity - clicking 🫣tingling for a long time - which mostly would bring a sense of deep bliss and peace over me.
Some of these are attributed to the side effects of activated life force activation / chi/ prana/ Kundalini ).

through the self inquiry practice and as a biprodict of the shift in the essence of “who I am “ I have never needed to take medication. OR utilise strategies to focus. This just never worked for me . I don’t reject any of this of course and am still remaining open if that shifts .
But the daily angst has vanished .
Surrendering to my mind and body has meant also surrendering who I believed I am..

all writing now emerges in a very spontaneous manner . No plan to sit and write . All I need is a visceral nudge and inner trust ; words are calling and words will come . May it be poetry ,prose , a blog pr a speaking creation/ video talk.
Essentially I’m pointing that we are in flow at all times BUT we get in the way by holding assumptions of who we are and even worse who “we should be”. For ND people this is a curse !
In the past year I have made a start to 2 books
3-5 separate pieces of writing , 2 new Facebook communities , 1 children s book alongside blogs and poetry and 3 children ; private practice and being a mum on maternity leave . Total chaos 🤣but I have trust structure will emerge to contain it when the time is right .
This is not to choose flow over structure but to point that trust plays a huge role in how we can cultivate our sense of creativity and productivity …

An interesting video below showing benefits of non dual practice ; and another one to celebrate your creative innovative ND brain 🧠🙌

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14/02/2024

https://youtu.be/4WbP18qcE78?si=S3jL0DJCR-h-_6pE

May our minds learn to let go in the Earths drumbeat ; in the centre of our chest

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03/02/2024

Hello
I’m Maria , a qualified psychotherapist / psychotherapist trainer / Supervisor / Supervisor trainer ( over 12 years of experience in training in the field )- mindfulness tutor / Sound healing practitioner with the voice
Above all , a human being with an open broken heart - all seeking has left me and what s here now is a full sense of completion without seeking more or anything extra to feel fulfilled. The only joy and fulfilment is to share this inner truth which isn’t personal at all, and help point people back to this .

This longing for
truth and freedom , peace and inner harmony is the corenerstone of the movement of ALL psychological healing - alongside an embodied spiritual transformation.

The era of the fixing of the identity we hold is fading- the era of seeking more to feel “complete” “worthy” or qualifying in more , is fast dissolving and all our previous strategies stop working . Is that familiar ?

we are awakening into a new dimension of consciousness and psychotherapy is also slowly catching up with this weaving.

A dimension of consciousness that is FREE of any need to be healed or fixed

We are arriving together as fellow travellers to honour discover and unravel into this love -
this is the path To discover a love that is not personal or conditional or has any expectation or agenda for any change … in every given moment

This group is a marriage of relational psychotherapy and embodied self realisation. Enough with the separation of spirit from matter and matter from spirit.

We are a community where we delve fully home , to feel safety in the experiencing of raw emotions - it is truly incredible to observe all the strategies we have utilised throughout time to avoid feeling the feelings/ these can involve spiritual circles and beliefs foo( i find these to be the subtlest and most stubborn ones ) . Through the use of self inquiry/ heart inquiry , heartfelt connections and the potency of spirit we will gather to untangle the knots that keep perpetuating the loop of Samsara, undo the beliefs we have held for so long about ourselves , we gather to feel , this truth in all cells of our body - and to question anything we have held to be true .

Things are never like the way they appear . In that space , we discover our true power and vulnerability .
We discover thst t these are not two opposing polarities but a union , a sacred marriage that is ever unfolding and ever developing into a co emergent rising in each given moment.

This is the path to embodied self realisation
Join us if you feel called in your heart

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Inbox me for details and for the zoom link
Meeting tonight at 8.30 pm

If you want to see more of what I offer : Presence Centred Supervision , presence centred therapy and sound healing you can visit me here

P*P Presence Centered Psychotherapy services offers a heart fuelled space to deepen in the presence of being so you can trust your own higher wisdom. It is a holistic service, integrating mind body and spirit. It offers: psychotherapy, supervision, sound healing with the voice, mindfulness, training...

29/12/2023

New ONline Group from January, "Attuning to Presence". inbox me for expression of interest or share in your circles, if you feel called

There is a quite revolution under way; One which points to all life being sacred; LIFE.
One which reveals the inherent love that we are, expressing through our unique personality. This group is about aligning the human with the divine by Surrendering to the fullness of our humanity . Together, through heart inquiry ( or as known spiritual self-inquiry, meditations Q & A ), we attune to presence, so our being supports the being of others. Through humility, compassion, playfulness, and presence, we make space to alchemise and transmute the shadow into gold.
In this group, you will gain a deeper understanding of the myth of separation from others and the world around you. The group is concerned with the most profound truth of who we are; inquiring this way involves letting go of all that doesnt serve us. The stories, beliefs, concepts, and ideas do t hold our fullness in perspective but perpetuate a sense of our suffering and victimhood in the world. YET are the very portals to discovering this essence. What we are is free of all bo***ge. This state does not eliminate our human experience; we meet what ever arises for what is, and simply using it as an opportunity and a line of inquiry, we embrace fully your humanity and cultivate deeper states of presence
Unconditional Love in its pure force intertwines with every facet of nature and being. In this group there is no guru, we are all teachers and students alike. My journey continues to deepen since the dissolution of this identity.( some call this awakening to the true nature ).
If you want to join reach out via email. We meet fortnightly ONLINE on a Saturday evening 8:30uk time starting January 20th. Click "group" below for more information.
ps: Fee is per session with a commitment in attending all 7. If post this group there s interest for more the fee will drop and we ll share the love!
Disclaimer: Though this group is NOT a therapy group , it can be utmost therapeutic, if not freeing. It might be helpful to have some meditative experience; if not, please email me to discuss further, as we will be building deeper into the "witness" part of ourselves and discovering the ever rooted presence behind all content of our experience.

https://www.presencecenteredpsychotherapy.com/
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P*P Presence Centered Psychotherapy services offers a heart fuelled space to deepen in the presence of being so you can trust your own higher wisdom. It is a holistic service, integrating mind body and spirit. It offers: psychotherapy, supervision, sound healing with the voice, mindfulness, training...