Rebel Sage was born out of sheer frustration. I was working with my first coach and all I had was a vision. Literally - an image in my mind's eye - that wouldn't leave me alone. It also had a feeling that went along with it - nostalgia mixed with expansion mixed with excitement and a feeling of BIGNESS. Way bigger than me and what I could imagine creating. I felt like the coaching was just going around and around and we weren't getting anywhere.
I stopped talking so the steam could vent out of my ears. That's when my coach suggested I write from this very place of "stuckness". So I did. That's where Rebel Sage was born. I could feel a rebel part in me that wanted some airtime and the opportunity to let me know that my life had gotten too, well, conventional. That it was time to shake things up. There was this other part in me that felt like ancient wisdom, like earth, just patiently observing and making space for all of my stuckness. I wrote and wrote and gave them both airtime. I realized I wasn't stuck. I was trying to move forward without these very important energies that actually define the vision I had been receiving.
It changed my whole experience of what I call stuck. I realized that feeling is what shows up when we need to get something so important for our journey that it won't let us go forward without it.
[goes in the blue box at top: The Details:
When: November 16 - 17th, Saturday & Sunday 9:30am - 5pm (lunch and snacks provided)
Where: HorseLink Farm in Bastrop, Texas (45 minutes outside of Austin). Directions and more details given after registration.
Register by September 30th for a bonus extended payment plan:
This is payment link thru square for power of pause retreat (set up as subscription)
After September 30th, the payment plan will be $600 x 3 monthly payments. The investment you make in yourself by attending the Power of Pause has the added benefit of supporting the mission of HorseLink - a nonprofit organization! 10% of your tuition is tax-deductible and will be donated to HorseLink to support the care of the magnificent horses you will partner with in this journey. You'll receive a receipt after the retreat. Questions or want to see if this is a great next step for you? I'm happy to connect - send an email here.
Your Guides
With 48 years of combined coaching experience, including working with clients through Equine-Assisted Learning, Lisa and Julie are delighted to share in your journey to discover how the power of pausing can impact your life in tangible & magical ways.
Investment (from RS Poolside Retreat May 2021)
Option 1*: Retreat Only
$847 pay in full OR $439 deposit at registration and $439 due on May 7th
Option 2*: Retreat + 2, discounted 60-minute 1:1 Integration Sessions (sessions to be used by July 5th, 2021)
There is 1 work exchange scholarship available! If interested, fill out the application and include "I'm interested in the scholarship" in your application.
*Retreat investment is non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you have 6 months to apply the investment towards another Rebel Sage retreat or 1:1 work.
From ABOUT page:
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I recognize patterns. This shows up in relationship - to yourself, other people, to love, your business, money, success, and how you perceive your world. I see when your pattern isn't working for you anymore and you're ready for an upgrade. This often comes in the form of feeling stuck, finding yourself in the same, unfulfilling spots, frustration, going through the motions and even physical symptoms. Through our work together, you gain AWARENESS of how to recognize the intelligence in the old pattern, appreciate it and step into a whole new energy. This new energy is HOW you take the next step to manifesting your vision.
I hold space - for all of you. Even the sticky, icky parts that are tough to look at. Those are layers of energy just waiting to be liberated. It takes VULNERABILITY to step into this space. I've got you.
I'm a curiosity catalyst. CURIOSITY is what creates an opening in your mind so you can perceive opportunities and possibilities that you may never have considered or seen before. Even when they're right in front of you. This is a necessary ingredient for a rebel to bring their special perspective to life.
I know what's next for people. This can come in the form of images, sensations or a knowing. I see what's possible for you, without the filters or limitations that you see for yourself. As you step into EXPANSION, it requires surrender to the unknown. This is a vital step in your journey and one that requires courage and faith. It's also what makes the process magical.
I'm a connector. I CONNECT you to resources, experiences, the natural world, people and most importantly, yourself. I see where there is disconnection which always leads to the opportunity for more connection.
I caught a man at Cha Cha Cha's in San Francisco as he fainted.
In the midst of my advertising career convincing Fortune 500 companies they needed to be on this thing called the World Wide Web, I was visiting our HQ in SF. We were going to dinner at Cha Cha Cha's and were waiting for our table in the bar. As if a spidey sense got activated, I was drawn to a man standing at the bar and without thinking, ran to catch him as he fainted. I didn't know what to do with him. In fact, I thought his pants were too tight and maybe he wasn't getting enough blood flow (obviously not medically trained. Yet.). It woke something up in me that had been a restless discontent until I realized in that moment - I wanted to help people in a hands-on way. Sometimes the universe is super literal in its nudges.
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Alta Vista helped me find my way (even with dial-up internet).
I was following the feeling that I was meant to help people, but had no idea what that actually looked like. One night I found myself online searching for alternative medicine schools in Denver where I lived, and the only one I found was a Traditional Chinese Medicine school.
I'd been curious about alternative medicine since high school, and had started undergrad as a pre-med major. However, I found myself in organic chemistry a week before the first test without having opened the book. It was literally that anxiety dream - the one about not being prepared (at all) for the exam - but happening in real life. I promptly dropped the class and changed my major to advertising the same week. Phew!
When I showed up to my first night class - Philosophy of Chinese Medicine -I fell in love! Nature-based medicine, non-linear thinking and interconnectedness - I felt like I was coming home.
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I loved making people bleed.
Seriously - blood-letting was one of my favorite techniques in the history of my 15+ years-long Chinese medicine practice. I created my own alchemy of medicine combining functional medicine, muscle testing, Hakomi (mindfulness-based somatic therapy) and spiritual guidance to work with my clients. Seeing how the mental, emotional and spiritual patterns show up physically in the body, and empowering my clients to make choices that created more health, better relationships and fuller lives was a joy.
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No more poop!
Not one more description of bowel movements or the occasional offer to show me a picture of a BM. Enough!
When the fascination of what came out of my clients' orifices (a hallmark diagnostic tool of Chinese medicine) started to wane, along with a growing restlessness like something didn't quite fit, I knew I was being led in a new direction. I now had a deep understanding of the interconnectedness between the physical-mental-emotional-spiritual realms and had seen it played out in myself and my clients for years. I knew that what manifested in the physical started in the energetic-spiritual realm and where I could be of most service was to work in those intangible realms.
To work with people at the soul level. To help them listen to and honor that calling. And that's what I do today through retreats, group programs and 1:1 mentoring.
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Following a calling is the
WILDEST
ride you'll ever take.
ABOUT Section:
I believe that everyone has unique medicine to be shared with the world and I love to conspire with heart-based coaches, healers and service-based leaders whose medicine ruffles feathers and disrupts the status quo. I guide my clients to follow their calling and own, design and share their unique medicine so that they can create businesses and lives that light them up.
And quite frankly, to live an inspired, lit-up life, sometimes you have to blow shit up. Especially when life has gotten too conventional, your business doesn't reflect who you are anymore or you feel something more true calling to you.
I encourage you to follow that calling - what lives on the other side is more YOU, more LIFE and more of what's NEEDED in the world.
Here are some of the breadcrumbs I've followed on the path to my calling and what lights me up ("official" experience here):
I work at the intersection of personal transformation and your professional expression.
In order to create a business that feels like it's coming from your deepest offering, lights you up because it draws from your innate gifts and feeds you financially, it requires doing the inner work and aligning your energy & the outer work. An integrated approach of Heart + Energy + Smarts!
That's where we conspire together to navigate through the places that can get sticky (or have even stopped you in the past). I'm there to remind you of the power of your vision when you forget. To guide you through the parts you don't know how to do (yet!), and help you claim your unique medicine, design it in a way that fits you and highlights your genius and sell it to your ideal people.
Having founded 3 businesses, I'm on my own journey of transformation and have followed my calling into the Unknown over and over again, designing and structuring businesses that answer that calling and support me and my clients. I have also experienced the growing pains of being complete with a business or modality, taking the time to 'winter' until the next calling forms and taking steps to transition into what's next.
I encourage you to follow that calling - what lives on the other side is more YOU, more LIFE and more of what's NEEDED in the world.I'm proud to say that in my many years of guiding people to follow their calling, no one has gotten lost AND all have found parts of themselves they are no longer willing to live without and have created businesses that feel like a genuine expression of their unique medicine.
Ready to follow your calling?