balancing the mundane + the magical through energy alignment

if you’ve ever once felt, thought, or said “the vibes are off;” congratulations. you are energetically aware! 

the resonance of unfavorable energy permeates. if it’s something you’re picking up on someone else, or in a place or situation, your intuition is at work, guiding you away for some reason, perhaps best not to question. 

but… what if it’s you? what if you’re the bad vibes?

working in spiritual spaces or with healers is a sacred contract. the seeker, by nature of this contract, is opening up their field with trust to their healers. in return, the healer filters the information they gather from guides, intuitive nudges, + divination to bring clarity. 

here’s the key word: filter. 

in an age of social media psychics + fear-mongering prophecies, who you allow to divine on your timeline is up to you; but it’s also an unspoken agreement you’re making for this “guide” to be the way in which you are willing to receive information about astrological transits, tarot pulls of the day, or whatever hashtag love and light gets sent to you by the algorithm. 

technology + healing do not have to live outside of one another, nor should they. there’s so many beautiful ways to merge communities + open platforms and access to those who need more accessible connections. the true integration, with a filter of growth + help, is divine. 

but even in a zoned-out scroll state, those bold, attention-grabbing, + sometimes stomach-churning reads can stop us in our tracks, emotionally hold us hostage, burn us out from panic that our fate is sealed//save this post//follow for more. 

i calmly urge you to put down the phone, take a breath, + create a boundary, an affirmation: i will only take on guidance from who feels aligned.

those in positions of power, real or imagined, that lead others through fear are certainly not acting in alignment. the purpose of any of *this* is to seek wisdom + possibility; not to be crushed by what will happen (absolutely decided), but to integrate our free will into action with the highest of what could happen (purpose-driven potential). in consciously choosing a healer, consciously choosing the source from which they receive spiritual guidance, the seeker inherently trusts not just what, but how this clarity comes in. that the spaces in which the healer is actively healing karma, doing work to benefit the community, speaking to the potential of the collective, is more beneficial than activating + exhausting others to platform themselves. 

so before it was time for me to begin my spiritual guidance practice in a larger way, i knew i wanted to clean up some of my own energetic “debris,” working with someone whose heart-mind connection aligned with mine. someone who could honestly look at what i aurically had going on without judgment, do some minor energetic “surgery,” + release any conscious or subconscious attachments that were no longer mine. to step out of fear loops + anchor into intuition. 

to practice + guide in true inner knowing. 

to trust another healer to hold my hand in stepping into this space, in walking together on a new road.

i’m going to come out + say that if you’re new to exploring your spirituality or expanding your healing modalities, this is going to sound like a tall order. 

i get asked a lot about healers: “how do you find these people?” + for that, the answer is both mundane and magical. 

i truly believe that when you’re ready, what you’re calling in appears. that’s the magic of intuition, that the right thing or thought will show up at exactly the right time. (and of course, the mundane supports the magic with the help of the algorithm.) 

i didn’t even know i was calling in “energetic alignment” by name when kathleen funk, artist, tcm doctor, + intuitive practitioner, crossed my path. but when i saw her work, it clicked. 

prolifically visual, calming, collectively attuned, respectful, knowing. a guide not just in the energetic realm, but in the physical; oscillating from each side to tap into imbalances + strengths alike. supporting the needs of what’s unseen with aid in the somatic. 

and, drawing a really cute pic of your chakras so you can really visualize what you’ve got going on. 

SOME NOTES ON WHAT TO EXPECT

if you’ve been doing “the work,” + find yourself at a new crossroads; this is definitely for you.

kathleen describes her work as “an integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, energy medicine, somatic practices, and intuitive insight to help interpret the physical, emotional, and energetic patterns you’re experiencing… explor[ing] what your body and spirit are communicating, identify any areas of energetic block or disconnection, and create a cohesive, intuitive framework to support your healing and growth [while] capturing the patterns, messages, and visions that arise in real time.” 

i would describe it as, allowing the aha moment; when you can intuitively sense you need to clear the energetic decks + are open to welcoming alignment through visibility to the subconscious blocks you may not even know are holding you back. 

when it’s time, you’ll just know. 

energetic alignment is an invitation to welcome you back home to yourself.

that which is ready to be brought to light is going to come forward; and it’s… a lot.  

so when i talk about finding a guide that you feel safe with, whose voice + presence you trust to be the spiritual filter of what’s coming from beyond the veil, this is why.  

in this modality you are at your most vulnerable. the trust you must have for someone to “hold your hand,” to move through the most intimate spaces of your energy, experiences, dreams, fears, pain, triumphs.

to receive + share this information with love + compassion. 

to express the ways in which you are immense beyond what you can see.

make unrestricted time + allow yourself to immerse in the depths of what’s to unfold. 

from a practical standpoint, i’d explain that this experience starts as a friendly consultation to align on intentions, concerns, + opportunities, followed by a scheduled alignment session + debrief with spiritual + somatic insight and guidance; 15 minutes to consult, followed by a session + regroup covering a couple of hours. 

from a more personal place, i’d share that the pre-work and day-of alignment are recalibration on many levels. one of my specific goals was to detach from energetic “debris” leftover from doing a lot of intuitive + healing work, to clear any sludge away that was more in line with old thought + behavioral patterns. getting a fresh start before going to work for others. 

this is no small ask, + while I had given myself a lot of time the day-of to be extremely present in the session, i was grateful to have the space into the days afterward to move through the emotional, spiritual, and yes - physical - cues that arrived. 

even remote, this experience transcends space to show up in the somatic.

and the cues are wildly + undeniably physical. 

kathleen worked on my energy alignment remotely, while i used that time to rest + meditate in my home. during our pre-session, we had chatted about some of my symbols + guides, both of which we were calling in in our individual spaces. 

though my experience was mostly silent + peaceful, i did have a few physical sensations come up throughout the session that i could feel a flow through my chakras: relaxation in the root/pelvic floor, warmth in the heart center… but nothing like what showed up towards the end. 

what i’d first describe as similar to “whispers” of acid reflux became very quickly + curiously a full-on burning through my throat, accompanied by a dry cough. clearly a lot of debris that been accumulating in this chakra. 

and what’s somatic can be a guide to how to physically support what’s spiritual. 

i won’t get into the hours of alignment + debrief work that we did together, but one of my favorite parts of this experience is the divine interconnection and alignment among all realms to best move forward in harmony. 

the throat chakra blockage? very much tied back to what was able to be relaxed in the root. so not only did we unpack all that came up in those two very different spots - and how very much they were connected - but kathleen guided me through some breathwork + somatic exercises that intricately released tension from them both. 

for some of the intuitive gifts + abilities i am working with, we discussed how to support through increased GABA. 

the integration was incredible. 

alignment really means being ready to hold both the deeply sacred with the beauty of the mundane.

if you’re of the mind that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, then you know we are at once weighing immense paradoxes of holding space for things so much greater than us, collective grief, processing karma, deep soulful searching, while also showing up as a human every day. 

we’re not just here to heal, and transcend, but also to see the ecstasy in the everyday. 

to find light, but also, to sometimes just lighten up; lighten our load, laugh, exist. 

there’s incredible depth in this modality while also integrating what we need to move through the joy and pain and terrestrial tasks of this life. we are always planting seeds for what’s next, but cannot miss out on what’s now. 

it’s all about balance.