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Coaching Services

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Are you ready to invite rapid and lasting change into your life?

Doorway to Light

Coaching allows you to define and reach your personal goals, accelerate your growth, and achieve the life you most desire. Wherever you choose to focus, this work will impact your life globally, rapidly, and with powerful, positive, and lasting results.

“Lasara has developed powerful techniques for helping others to create new positive frameworks of thought. Her techniques are accessible and they work. I know that so many would benefit greatly from her teachings. She’s masterful.”
– Bridget C. McBride, Montessori teacher, artist, and mother of two

“Changing the focus of my career was super scary, and something I had to just jump into. I jumped into the wild blue of changing, and was delighted to be caught by Lasara’s net. I have made such wild progress–beyond what I imagined. Quick new ways of thinking about things–like; this isn’t hard, I can just DO this!”
- Ariel Gore, www.arielgore.com, author of the bestseller, Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

I’m a seasoned coach with a great track record and excellent references. My coaching services are phone-based, so location and distance are not an issue.

My coaching clients are hand-picked, and I only have room for four one-on-one, on-going coaching contracts at any one time. I offer coaching and personalized retreats for individuals, couples, families and groups Please get in touch if you think we’d be a good match. Contact me now at ms.allen@lasaraallen.com, or read more below.

“Lasara is patient and insightful. I did a kick-start session with her that helped me clarify some of my hopes and fears, and move forward into manifesting solid results.”
- T. Thorn Coyle author of Evolutionary Witchcraft and Kissing the Limitless

“LaSara is a master!  I had gotten bogged down in day-to-day tasks and e-mails, losing sight of my vision and becoming disillusioned with everything I was doing.  In just one short session with LaSara, I began to feel excited about my work and my life again.  LaSara is extremely skilled – working with her has the potential to change your life.”
- PJ Van Hulle, Real Estate Investor

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Areas you may want to seek coaching in:

Work and Career:

  • embarking on your life path
  • changing careers
  • values and integrity
  • transitioning from teacher, writer, educator, or advocate to coach

Life Direction:

  • turning points
  • health and well-being
  • personal values

Relationships

  • finding the relationship you want
  • maintaining passion and love in a long term, committed relationship
  • personal and shared values alignment

Spirituality

  • guidance
  • reflection
  • spiritual alignment

My Coaching Certifications:

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP):

  • NLP Trainer Certification, NLP International – Richard Bandler and John LaValle, 2007
  • NLP Master Practitioner Certification, Hawk Ridge Institute – Phil Farber, 2006
  • NLP Practitioner Certification, The NLP Institute of California – TIm Hallbom, 2003

Reiki:

  • Reiki I Certification, Terrie Wolfe-Lee, 2008

Other modalities and influences drawn upon include:

  • cognitive behavioral therapy
  • trance work
  • meditation techniques
  • embodiment, breath and presence practices
  • ritual and ceremony

If this appeals to you, please contact me at ms.allen@lasaraallen.com, and we’ll see if we’re a good match.

Tonglen Meditation as Self-Healing

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Tonglen meditation is a simple practice of transmutation. It’s the process of breathing in “dirty” energy, thoughts, or feelings, and releasing them with compassionate non-attachment as pure light.

As opposed to the idea of breathing peace and calm into the body and mind, in tonglen we breathe in pain and suffering (dukkha) and transform it into peacefulness through non-attachment.

Tonglen is a world-healing practice. But when applied to the self, tonglen can have nothing short of miraculous healing effects.

When in pain, this form of meditation may seem like a counter-intuitive process. To breathe in your pain may feel like the last thing you want to do. Instead of breathing in that pain or suffering, it may feel more natural to push it away, stifle it, ignore it, or resist it.

But resistance is attachment, and the more resistance grows, the more the suffering you’re trying to avoid does too.

As a method of self-healing, over time the practice of tonglen can become an – if not the – automatic response to stress, anger, a bad mood, or general funk.

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) there’s a tool called anchoring. An anchor is a link that is created either causally (naturally, or out of habit) or intentionally between an object and a state of emotion or consciousness, or between one state and another state.

Conscious, intentional anchoring can create the induction of a more positive state from a negative one, or it can be used as a way to remind you of tools that can help to transform that negative state.

In the context of application of tonglen as a self-healing practice, any negative emotion can be an anchor that will remind you to use breath to transform difficult emotions into pure compassionate release.

How To:
1. Notice your suffering. Allow this to be a reminder that you can release that suffering through practice.
2. Still or center yourself for a moment. With a breath or two, find a calm place in your experience of the moment.
3. Notice the negative energy (dukkha) as a cloud around your physical body.
4. With your breath, draw that cloud of suffering into your body.
5. Holding your breath in your chest for a moment, center yourself in non-attachment, and allow the suffering to transform into peace.
6. Release your breath as an exhalation of peace and clarity.
7. Repeat for as long as needed to clear your suffering.
Any practice of tonglen meditation is healing the whole. In the healing of the suffering of self is the healing of the world.

There is no self, and there is no other. As one of the innumerable sentient beings pervading time and space, the work you do to free yourself form your own attachment is work toward the liberation of all.

As you clear the skandas, aggregates, becloudings, the veils of illusion in your own life, the healing you create in your heart is truly the transmutation of the suffering of all beings.