‘The grief and sense of loss that we often attribute to a failure in our personality is actually a feeling of emptiness where a beautiful and strange otherness should have been encountered.’ Paul Shepard
Is my soul asleep?
Have those beehives that labor
at night stopped? And the water-
wheel of thought,
is it dry, the cups empty,
wheeling, carrying only shadows?
No, my soul is not asleep,
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,
its clear eyes open,
far-off things, and listens
at the shores of the great silence.
-Antonio Machado
Soul and Sanity ~ Mentoring sessions
with Azul Thomé
Egalement en Français
Azul-Valerie Thome
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Hello dear apprentices to Grief, Love, Death and reBirth.
As well as the ceremonies and collective apprentices I offer throughout the year I also long to offer one~on~one and small closed group of soulful mentoring and grief composting counselling sessions in the SOULand Way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 22nd Oct 2021 I can feel a new dawn singing, in my work and offerings to our worlds. As many have sensed and observed, we have passed the time of preparation. The mentoring I offer has matured and ripened, as I have, in the last two years - through hosting the virus, loosing all - home, money and work and now finding myself in France after 34 years in England. Like many I have been tempered, smithed by the hands of soul now apprenticing to placing my forehead to soil , heart above the head, humus making, in endurance and entanglement . When I have the privilege to mentor and accompany people, as they themselves passage, I bring the whole council of all beings with me. I bring the well and wise ancestors. I also bring the artist, the alchemist, the visionary, the medicine of the one in exile, trained since birth to the natural laws of seasons, cycles, patterns, in how to adapt and belong to the present moment. I will listen to them in you. People and small group who seek to eat at my generous and abundant table are welcome and legitimate. What we always start with is feeding life. We also meet the four sisters - Grief, Love, Death and Rebirth There are 3 spaces freeing themselves, for individuals or small group. If you wish to explore if we are to walk and work together for a while, email me to have a 30 mins free connecting zoom. I work in English and French My email Soulandinfo (at) gmail.com with attentivenss, Azul Thomé I also hold a Person Centered Counselling Diploma, an Art Therapy Certificate and a MA from Schumacher College. |
Before we embark on a journey together I will give 30 minutes free on Zoom for us to meet, for you to ask any questions and feel into the work I offer.
I am not a psychotherapist neither am I 'qualified' psychologist. I offer deep creative soul work informed by a tempering life and 25 years of deep personal and community work as a dedicated soul activist, ritualist, animist and artist.
Once we agree to work together we will agree on the number of sessions to start with to be reviewed at the end of the cycle. I might send you on soulful tasks like seat by a river, make an eARTh object or visit a particular tree or plant...
My hourly fee ~ your investment:
£70 to £120/hour (depending on what you can afford, how many you are) I always have one space as a gift to someone who has lost everything.
Once we agree that we want to work together i will ask for the agreed fee to be transferred before we begin.
I ask that you commit to a minimum of 4 sessions.
Email me if you are interested : soulandinfo@gmail.com.
I look forward to hearing from you!
with gratitude and attentiveness.
Azul Thome
PLEASE NOTE: I will require 48hours notice if you need to change your session. Thank you for your understanding.
I am not a psychotherapist neither am I 'qualified' psychologist. I offer deep creative soul work informed by a tempering life and 25 years of deep personal and community work as a dedicated soul activist, ritualist, animist and artist.
Once we agree to work together we will agree on the number of sessions to start with to be reviewed at the end of the cycle. I might send you on soulful tasks like seat by a river, make an eARTh object or visit a particular tree or plant...
My hourly fee ~ your investment:
£70 to £120/hour (depending on what you can afford, how many you are) I always have one space as a gift to someone who has lost everything.
Once we agree that we want to work together i will ask for the agreed fee to be transferred before we begin.
I ask that you commit to a minimum of 4 sessions.
Email me if you are interested : soulandinfo@gmail.com.
I look forward to hearing from you!
with gratitude and attentiveness.
Azul Thome
PLEASE NOTE: I will require 48hours notice if you need to change your session. Thank you for your understanding.
Azul Valerie Thome possesses an extraordinary ability to give voice to those pieces of soul that have been marginalized in our modern frenzied culture. Her counsel is a form of re-membering where we recall what we instinctively know, but have forgotten. She helps reknit our lives back into the ongoing conversation with the green world, with air and water, light and color.
Insightful, intuitive and deeply sensitive to the connective tissue that binds soul and world, Azul’s One2One offerings invite us back into an intimacy with the surrounding and enveloping earth. Listen and find yourself entering a larger, more animate world.
Francis Weller
"This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness”
- Mary Oliver -
'Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outwork of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys.
For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.'
Rainer Maria Rilke, August 1904 ~ Letters to a Young Poet
with love