Spirituality Embodied means listening to what your body has to teach you.
Who we are.
Northwest Wisdom is a nonprofit retreat center and space for embodied healing. We help people learn to sit with their trauma in a spiritual way. We specialize in spiritual trauma, religious trauma, and racialized trauma. We work with anyone on the healing path. All are welcome.
We offer retreats, spiritual counseling, one-on-one and group yoga sessions, guided meditation walks and hikes, energy healing, reiki, and spiritual embodiment practices — including methods for visualization meditation techniques to restorative healing.
We understand that people come from all kinds of pasts. We’ve encountered so many stories of people who have been hurt by their religious upbringing, and we’re here to help. We recognize that there are so many beautiful facets of all religions, but we also recognize that a lot of people have been hurt by their religious upbringing, which can create what we call “religious trauma” within the body. At our core, we were meant to connect to the divine within ourself.
In Christianity they call this incarnation. In Hinduism they call this Brahman. In Buddhism this is referred to as Bodhicitta or even Bodhi. It’s an awakening to the Divine within us that allows to find the gentle healing that we need. This gentle healing leads us toward compassion, kindness, and an understanding that we are all connected, and all in need of healing.
When we sit with the body, and learn to listen to it, we can develop skills that teach us to listen to the inner-knowing that is the Divine. This inner-knowing can be taught through meditation, yoga, contemplation, breathing techniques, movement, being out in nature, listening to our bodies -
At Northwest Wisdom, we help you develop these techniques and skills so that you can heal from whatever spiritual or religious trauma lies within you, so that you can fully become who you are!
