Cusu
Cusu (pr. ‘koo-zoo’) is Sicilian for “I stitch”. This 3-month container of one-on-one soul-centered support. I approach this as a shared space of embodied inquiry, deep listening, and transformative arts.
Courtship with Soul
In this space we are entering courtship with Soul. The process we engage is intended to make the soulful threads that have always been present in your life more vivid, tangible and integrated. We are normalizing the numinous into an empowered stance of rooted presence, deeper self-knowing, self-trust, and wholeness.
My approach is based in:
Multiple ways of knowing - Our rooted presence of being is awakened through building trust in our multiple ways of knowing. In this container we are honoring: Embodied, Intuitive, Intellectual, Analytical, Imaginal, Relational, Sensory, and Dream-time pathways of knowing.
Compassionate Awareness - Often the journey of Soul is a descent into encounter with disowned parts, painful memories, and longings. This is an opportunity to retrieve bound up, and really vital parts of our self. This process requires a powerful stance of self-compassion. Here we cultivate our steadfast inner sanctuary.
Body as a Vessel of Wisdom - Our body is a vessel of memory, instinct and knowing. It carries the wisdom of nature that always orients towards healing and wholeness across generational time. By learning it’s language, we can be guided in how to pace our lives gently, how to heal ourselves, and how to trust ourselves in major life choices. Approaching our bodies with greater reverence and curiosity is transformative and revolutionary.
Arts-Based - For me, the creative process is a doorway to tremendous inner resource, empowerment and self-knowing. It opens new pathways of access to stuck places. My personal arts and ritual practice has been essential for my own journey of healing, and for opening pathways of communication with my Ancestral Spirits and Allies.
My approach is responsive to who I am working with, and can include any of these:
Embodied awareness practices
Self-reflective journaling and art
Dream-tending
Ritualizing
Animating through art, story, and gesture
Ancestral tending
Altar tending
Systems analysis
Interpersonal and compassionate communication coaching
Visioning for purpose
Song medicine
Plant medicine
·Animist, Nature-based practices
Articulating personal Values and Vows
About
Since 2006, I have been engaged in trauma-informed, embodiment-based circle practice. These healing spaces, rooted in the Divine Feminine principle, have held me through the journey of relational-Ancestral trauma transformation, Motherhood, Womanhood, and Soul-self becoming. As an individual, I have a lifelong, engaged contemplative practice, through journaling, song-writing, rhythm and movement, dream-tending, and animist relating with the more-than-human world. As a scholar-practitioner, I have sought understanding through the lens of Cultural Anthropology, Anti-oppression, Decolonial and Feminist pedagogy. In my MA in Applied Ethnomusicology, I engaged embodied, arts-based research methods. As an initiated woman, I have been guided and held by my Mediterranean Ancient Mothers and the South African ubuNgoma Ancestral Spirits that claimed me, by way of the Waters, the Honeybees, and the Drum. I know myself in the context of my Ancestral storylines, my home habitat, and my devotion to my family and friends. I tend these living root systems daily. I am a Mother, Auntie, Sister, Daughter, and loyal friend. I’m a 12th-house heavy Gemini Sun, Virgo Moon, Cancer Rising.
The Architecture-
3 months
2 sessions per month
1 hour sessions
Reciprocity -
$633 - in full (6 sessions)
Payment plans available.
To take next steps, write to me: Mandorlaarts@gmail.com
My Values
What I attune to and practice:
Reciprocity
Generosity
Justice
Compassion-based
Consent-based
Breaking down binaries
Body as Wisdom Vessel
Ancestral Rooting
Tracking power dynamics that are impacting the relationships
Racialized consciousness
Cultural Humility
Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Learning Space
Mutual Accountability
Gentle Pacing and arriving at things honestly, authentically
Process-oriented, not outcome driven
Our shadows are our allies, wearing masks and bearing gifts
Protecting the Dignity of our vulnerability, honest learning process
Ready to jump in?
An Individualized 3-month container of soul-centered support through transformative change.
An Individualized 3-month container of soul-centered support through transformative change.
