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WHAT CLIENTS SAY ABOUT ALIVENESS & RELATIONSHIP COACHING
Harmony is a magical teacher. She teaches without words.
But her language is more powerful and more effective than words.
Here is an example one of many, many, many lessons that she taught me through embodied movement.
One day I was telling her about feeling a bit vulnerable about entering new groups and being sensitive to the dynamics and how I would show up; what will happen, should I ever?.. some hesitation.
Harmony simply invited me to stand up. She said, "stand up please and hold my hand and close your eyes."
So I did. I held her hand. I closed my eyes. I became aware of soft music playing in the background. She said, "just follow me." She started walking backwards forwards, to the side; changing the direction very gently, sometimes swaying. She invited me to follow her lead.
In the beginning it was difficult for me. I was not even aware of the difficulties, but she was, and she would facilitate, by asking me to relax my shoulders, my arms, my grip, my step, the way I touch the surface of the floor, the way I move and react to her cues.
I was becoming more and more relaxed and it took just few few moments before I felt a wonderful feeling that was new to me. I realized that I was entering the zone where I completely trusted her. I was in tune with her. And I could follow her lead without thinking, without judging. And it felt wonderful. I'd never felt this before. This was the first time. It felt like a revelation in my body. There was joy emanating and permeating my body and coming from the center of me. It felt like a warm, gentle sun inside my stomach, and resulted in a giggly kind of sensation. I felt like a child.
And then I realized, at the level of my body, that trusting this way, is so giving and nourishing. This embodied experience changed my relationship to the world.
That lesson was a catalyst for a shift in me on a huge level. It allowed me to see how to relate to the world with less control, or how to give up control when it's needed. It showed me this balance of when I should give and when I should receive; and when I can trust, and how to trust, and how to recognize when to trust. It's very complex and profound. And yet, the lesson itself seemed so simple and brief. In my interaction with Harmony, it took only a few minutes to land this.
That experience happened a few years ago. And since then, I can say the the lesson is still very vivid in my memory and so profound that it continues to guide me.
-Elena Gold- Artist, Artist Retreat Center Director
Whenever I am with you Harmony, physically proximate or via satellite, I feel gently invited into my own being, my body and self-awareness. Especially since we are internet-only for the time being, I can really appreciate the quality of connection, the power of your present-ness. It is always so that I experience your support, not in any way a demand, that I come into a mode of self-centered-ness that is a pleasure, and even an oasis inside my own skin.
-Paul Bogle- Astrologer
Since Day 1, Harmony has helped me differentiate and identify my false ego, the one that contorts for approval from what i think i should be for people to like me, from my real self, a tender/awkward/tired/no bullshit/much more “i don’t give a fuck, this is me” type of being.
With the biggest realization “it’s a lot of work just to hold it together” In her coaching and facilitation, i’m able to drop in towards more acceptance of who i am and how i communicate.
This translates to how i hold myself in my own community facilitation circles and how i come across in my relationships.
Harmony’s presence is best described as sharp, heart open, eager, enthusiastic, receptive, strong, safe, and open.
Her coaching style allows people to come out of their shell and be able to speak up to what is true in the moment. With her laser sharp focus and attention, she’s able to call it out when you’ve checked out, peaked, or tuned back into mutual understanding. This allows whoever is listening to be able to identify their own level of attention and awareness of how they show up.
I personally benefit from ongoing conversation and enjoy the process of being witnessed in my unfolding with Harmony as my ally. I come to her in times of distress and when i’m just frankly tired of all the bullshit that surrounds this reality. She’s always a positive source of real and raw connectivity, and is very generous with giving me the quality presence and attention that I now hold as my standard of communication for all of my relationships.
-Tiffany Lin- LGBTQ APEX activist, Event Producer, Performance Artist
Harmony has a unique capacity for deep listening both verbally and non-verbally. A skill that she has refined through exploring and learning to trust movement as a vehicle for personal growth.
When I first came to her studio, (in person,) I was able to express parts of myself that were difficult for me to share. She welcomed everything
without judgement and showed me that I could transform self doubt and self criticism into personal strength.
When I returned to my home in Europe, I asked Harmony to continue coaching with me by Skype.
Each month we had a one hour Skype session where I shared the
difficulties I was encountering in my family life and in my life in general.
Harmony always helped me find some pathway that led me to grow through those difficulties. This strengthened my sense of self-responsibility, my freedom, my autonomy and my capacity to accept myself.
Sometimes, even though we were not together physically, Harmony would find some analogy with body movement, and together, watching each other through our Skype cameras, we would both stand and experiment with particular postures or movement patterns.
If I had to summarize the help Harmony gave me I would say : Harmony helped me to welcome my unique life, in my own perfect originality.
Although I’ve paused our regular monthly sessions, I feel secure in knowing that she is still available. I know I can return to her for support and coaching, and that she will be there to help me to reconnect with my essential self.
-Agathé Crispel-local and long distance client (US & France)
Harmony your impact is that you’ve given me continuous validation and accurate reflection. you have a capacity to track me on the dance floor especially in my leadership role, and this has been remarkably important to me.
Especially you track me when I’m on stage you witness me and reflect me you help me see the moments where I become shy and this shows me how to create a more solid core. You do this and did this While I was on stage at ecstatic dance leading the closing. you embodied and demonstrated to me your quality of presence . While on stage I could regulate myself based on your embodied presence helping me to maintain the connection with the embodied core in myself.
Harmony helped me many times when I was emotional and not in my body on the dance floor. I didn’t even really know I was in my body. I just knew I was really uncomfortable. She would move near me titrating her distance so that I would feel safe and then incrementally with touch and then with pressure helping me to recalibrate and re-find my core. I offer Harmony a deep bow Harmony.
-Shannon Puja Sahaja- Ecstatic Dance Leader, Yoga Teacher, Coach
Harmony you hold a deliberate quality of attention, sharp like a fox, subtle and powerful like an owl. Your ability to detect bullshit is impeccable. You don’t settle for less than the truth. And even then you hold a compassionate heart for accepting where people, myself included, are at. Like an Energy Jedi Master; quality discernment with masterful skills in meeting, giving, receiving, and coming back to self.
You’re able to notice someone based off of their energy and what is said and what isn’t.
This calls out a deeper level of presence in others as well as permission to be silly and show up as who we genuinely are.
Because of the vast depths and ways you are so comfortable at expressing yourself, we can all benefit learn and entrain from you.
On another personal level, through our Marco Polos back and forth, you’ve greatly helped me go from “performer” to “presence”
Not to mention the coaching work that helped me with preparing SensAsian. That has given me the conscious awareness to be a bolder presence in my Asian community- and from that the whole world benefits. Thank you for existing in this earthly plane! Your sheer tenacity to learn technology and how to share your message to our communities inspires me !!
-Tiffany Lin- LGBTQ APEX leader, Event Producer, Performance Artist
Harmony guides and models allowing yourself to slow down, sense yourself, and move from your own internal and physical support; from your true powerful center, exploring relationship with another, from a conscious, grounded confident place of self-trust, leading to you increasingly becoming able to invite, sense, and trustingly accept the genuine support of others.
- Lisa Detloff- High School Science teacher
I was again reminded of your soul generosity: to take a risk, to reach out and share your love, passion, and the fruits of your rapier self-scrutiny. Each and every experience I had with you is like a living stone, tossed in the pond of my beingness, sending ripples of light through my life. Each and every day I make different choices with how I connect to the earth, carry my body, and how I engage with my thought process. I carry you in the cells of my body and I relish with anticipation when we can connect again.
-Richard Corvin-
“Yeah, it's sometimes quite unnerving to be on the receiving end of another's traumatic reaction, but you truly handled yourself with great dignity. I don't think I would have been capable of being that open and non-defensive, if in your shoes. It was truly an inspiration to behold”
(regarding my participation in a mediation, where she served as mediator between myself and another)
-Pamela Beck- NVC Practitioner & Mediator, “Street Giraffe”
But her language is more powerful and more effective than words.
Here is an example one of many, many, many lessons that she taught me through embodied movement.
One day I was telling her about feeling a bit vulnerable about entering new groups and being sensitive to the dynamics and how I would show up; what will happen, should I ever?.. some hesitation.
Harmony simply invited me to stand up. She said, "stand up please and hold my hand and close your eyes."
So I did. I held her hand. I closed my eyes. I became aware of soft music playing in the background. She said, "just follow me." She started walking backwards forwards, to the side; changing the direction very gently, sometimes swaying. She invited me to follow her lead.
In the beginning it was difficult for me. I was not even aware of the difficulties, but she was, and she would facilitate, by asking me to relax my shoulders, my arms, my grip, my step, the way I touch the surface of the floor, the way I move and react to her cues.
I was becoming more and more relaxed and it took just few few moments before I felt a wonderful feeling that was new to me. I realized that I was entering the zone where I completely trusted her. I was in tune with her. And I could follow her lead without thinking, without judging. And it felt wonderful. I'd never felt this before. This was the first time. It felt like a revelation in my body. There was joy emanating and permeating my body and coming from the center of me. It felt like a warm, gentle sun inside my stomach, and resulted in a giggly kind of sensation. I felt like a child.
And then I realized, at the level of my body, that trusting this way, is so giving and nourishing. This embodied experience changed my relationship to the world.
That lesson was a catalyst for a shift in me on a huge level. It allowed me to see how to relate to the world with less control, or how to give up control when it's needed. It showed me this balance of when I should give and when I should receive; and when I can trust, and how to trust, and how to recognize when to trust. It's very complex and profound. And yet, the lesson itself seemed so simple and brief. In my interaction with Harmony, it took only a few minutes to land this.
That experience happened a few years ago. And since then, I can say the the lesson is still very vivid in my memory and so profound that it continues to guide me.
-Elena Gold- Artist, Artist Retreat Center Director
Whenever I am with you Harmony, physically proximate or via satellite, I feel gently invited into my own being, my body and self-awareness. Especially since we are internet-only for the time being, I can really appreciate the quality of connection, the power of your present-ness. It is always so that I experience your support, not in any way a demand, that I come into a mode of self-centered-ness that is a pleasure, and even an oasis inside my own skin.
-Paul Bogle- Astrologer
Since Day 1, Harmony has helped me differentiate and identify my false ego, the one that contorts for approval from what i think i should be for people to like me, from my real self, a tender/awkward/tired/no bullshit/much more “i don’t give a fuck, this is me” type of being.
With the biggest realization “it’s a lot of work just to hold it together” In her coaching and facilitation, i’m able to drop in towards more acceptance of who i am and how i communicate.
This translates to how i hold myself in my own community facilitation circles and how i come across in my relationships.
Harmony’s presence is best described as sharp, heart open, eager, enthusiastic, receptive, strong, safe, and open.
Her coaching style allows people to come out of their shell and be able to speak up to what is true in the moment. With her laser sharp focus and attention, she’s able to call it out when you’ve checked out, peaked, or tuned back into mutual understanding. This allows whoever is listening to be able to identify their own level of attention and awareness of how they show up.
I personally benefit from ongoing conversation and enjoy the process of being witnessed in my unfolding with Harmony as my ally. I come to her in times of distress and when i’m just frankly tired of all the bullshit that surrounds this reality. She’s always a positive source of real and raw connectivity, and is very generous with giving me the quality presence and attention that I now hold as my standard of communication for all of my relationships.
-Tiffany Lin- LGBTQ APEX activist, Event Producer, Performance Artist
Harmony has a unique capacity for deep listening both verbally and non-verbally. A skill that she has refined through exploring and learning to trust movement as a vehicle for personal growth.
When I first came to her studio, (in person,) I was able to express parts of myself that were difficult for me to share. She welcomed everything
without judgement and showed me that I could transform self doubt and self criticism into personal strength.
When I returned to my home in Europe, I asked Harmony to continue coaching with me by Skype.
Each month we had a one hour Skype session where I shared the
difficulties I was encountering in my family life and in my life in general.
Harmony always helped me find some pathway that led me to grow through those difficulties. This strengthened my sense of self-responsibility, my freedom, my autonomy and my capacity to accept myself.
Sometimes, even though we were not together physically, Harmony would find some analogy with body movement, and together, watching each other through our Skype cameras, we would both stand and experiment with particular postures or movement patterns.
If I had to summarize the help Harmony gave me I would say : Harmony helped me to welcome my unique life, in my own perfect originality.
Although I’ve paused our regular monthly sessions, I feel secure in knowing that she is still available. I know I can return to her for support and coaching, and that she will be there to help me to reconnect with my essential self.
-Agathé Crispel-local and long distance client (US & France)
Harmony your impact is that you’ve given me continuous validation and accurate reflection. you have a capacity to track me on the dance floor especially in my leadership role, and this has been remarkably important to me.
Especially you track me when I’m on stage you witness me and reflect me you help me see the moments where I become shy and this shows me how to create a more solid core. You do this and did this While I was on stage at ecstatic dance leading the closing. you embodied and demonstrated to me your quality of presence . While on stage I could regulate myself based on your embodied presence helping me to maintain the connection with the embodied core in myself.
Harmony helped me many times when I was emotional and not in my body on the dance floor. I didn’t even really know I was in my body. I just knew I was really uncomfortable. She would move near me titrating her distance so that I would feel safe and then incrementally with touch and then with pressure helping me to recalibrate and re-find my core. I offer Harmony a deep bow Harmony.
-Shannon Puja Sahaja- Ecstatic Dance Leader, Yoga Teacher, Coach
Harmony you hold a deliberate quality of attention, sharp like a fox, subtle and powerful like an owl. Your ability to detect bullshit is impeccable. You don’t settle for less than the truth. And even then you hold a compassionate heart for accepting where people, myself included, are at. Like an Energy Jedi Master; quality discernment with masterful skills in meeting, giving, receiving, and coming back to self.
You’re able to notice someone based off of their energy and what is said and what isn’t.
This calls out a deeper level of presence in others as well as permission to be silly and show up as who we genuinely are.
Because of the vast depths and ways you are so comfortable at expressing yourself, we can all benefit learn and entrain from you.
On another personal level, through our Marco Polos back and forth, you’ve greatly helped me go from “performer” to “presence”
Not to mention the coaching work that helped me with preparing SensAsian. That has given me the conscious awareness to be a bolder presence in my Asian community- and from that the whole world benefits. Thank you for existing in this earthly plane! Your sheer tenacity to learn technology and how to share your message to our communities inspires me !!
-Tiffany Lin- LGBTQ APEX leader, Event Producer, Performance Artist
Harmony guides and models allowing yourself to slow down, sense yourself, and move from your own internal and physical support; from your true powerful center, exploring relationship with another, from a conscious, grounded confident place of self-trust, leading to you increasingly becoming able to invite, sense, and trustingly accept the genuine support of others.
- Lisa Detloff- High School Science teacher
I was again reminded of your soul generosity: to take a risk, to reach out and share your love, passion, and the fruits of your rapier self-scrutiny. Each and every experience I had with you is like a living stone, tossed in the pond of my beingness, sending ripples of light through my life. Each and every day I make different choices with how I connect to the earth, carry my body, and how I engage with my thought process. I carry you in the cells of my body and I relish with anticipation when we can connect again.
-Richard Corvin-
“Yeah, it's sometimes quite unnerving to be on the receiving end of another's traumatic reaction, but you truly handled yourself with great dignity. I don't think I would have been capable of being that open and non-defensive, if in your shoes. It was truly an inspiration to behold”
(regarding my participation in a mediation, where she served as mediator between myself and another)
-Pamela Beck- NVC Practitioner & Mediator, “Street Giraffe”
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