Psychedelic Chaplain, Somatics Practitioner
Rites of Passage, Death and Grief work, Earth-Based Ritual
Spiritual and Somatic Guidance
Training
Masters in Divinity Starr King School for the Ministry
Interfaith Minister in Good Standing The Chaplaincy Institute
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatics and Attachment Comprehensive Training, (two years) Mindful Experiential Training Association
Assistant for Hakomi Comprehensive Training Hakomi California
Relational Somatic Healing Embodied Touch Work
Somatic Resilience and Regulation Module 1 Kathy Kain, Steve Terrell
Integrative Somatic Parts Work The Embody Lab
Four Shields Model of Nature Based Therapeutics The School of Lost Borders
The UNtraining healing personal and social oppressions
Hospice and Bereavement Intern Providence Hospice, SoundCareKids
Death Doula Training, Death Companion A Sacred Passing
Member of National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) Proficient
Holistic Abortion + Pregnancy Loss Care training Molly Dutton Kinney, CPM
Certified Energetic Clinical Herbalist The Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine
Plant Medicine Spirit Apprenticeships Fire Rose Farm, Essence of the Desert & Luna Fina
I’ve learned that healing happens in relationship - within our own selves, with the loving presence of another, with our ancestors and guides, in the web of human community, and with the wild and tended earth. I offer compassionate, gentle relationship and guidance on your healing path, supporting your innate wholeness, inner healing intelligence and reconnection to the web of relationship.
Where I may be able to support you: trauma informed body-based, mindfulness, spiritual methods and tools that resonant with your unique self and circumstances - cultivating a practice of loving-kindness, radical acceptance, compassion and curiosity toward your inner world and in relationships with others - identifying and fulfilling your life's intentions and goals - reinvigorating your daily routines and transforming limiting beliefs and outdated habits - starting or deepening your spiritual practice - weaving rituals into your daily life + nature’s seasonal rhythms - rites of passage (ceremony for big life transitions) - connecting with herbal medicine and flower essences - preparing for and integrating expanded consciousness and psychedelic experiences + micro dosing protocols - end-of life emotional and spiritual care - support in grieving loss, death - existential anxiety, climate change despair and anxiety - grief rituals - post abortion and miscarriage care - burn out and trauma healing support for activists and front line workers - somatics with a social justice analysis - early childhood, relational developmental trauma, intergenerational trauma - ancestral reconnection.
In a trauma informed container, we weave together the work that is right for you, at a pace that is right for you.
I hold central that holistic transformation is not possible without the undoing of what womanist author bell hooks calls the "cisnormative, heteronormative, imperialist, capitalist, [ableist],white supremacist patriarchy" the systems and impact on our individual and collective bodies.
Walking my own trauma healing, neurodivergent, underworld initiatory path has led me to want to be in service to others in healing and the collective reclaiming of our birth rites as human beings:
A secure sense of self, interconnected with all beings and the Earth.
Access to fierce compassion, loving-kindness and equanimity.
Ancestral reconnection, sacred accountability, reciprocity and repair of cultural and ancestral wounds.
Relationship with Death - bringing us into deeper presence and intimacy with life.
Grieving well and with others.
Liberatory Joy, Eros, pleasure and play!
Let’s follow the call of remembering our belonging to the earth in this time of great change.
Psychedelic Chaplaincy
Spiritual retreats for individuals and small groups held in the San Francisco Bay Area and Yachats, Oregon.
Preparation + integration support for psychedelic journeys, including help with integrating "bad trips," traumatizing, and overwhelming experiences with psychedelics.
I offer support in creating a microdosing practice.
In special circumstances and depending on availability, I am able to travel to other locations around the United States for retreats, particularly for individuals unable to travel.
Spiritual and Somatic Guidance
I offer 60 minute sessions held over zoom, phone, or in person.
With compassionate, gentle presence, and non-judgmental curiosity, sessions are a process of self-discovery.
I offer assistance in learning trauma informed healing rituals and tools.
In session we may bring mindful noticing to the body, emotions, breath, imagery, memory, body language, parts of self, relationships, nature, ancestors, and spirituality. Reconnecting to your innate wholeness and following your inner healing intelligence, we may process and repattern limiting beliefs, outdated habits, and trauma held in the soma (Greek for the body living in its wholeness). With mindfulness, we have the opportunity to deepen relationship, insight and agency in the present moment. When appropriate, I’m trained in the use of healing touch in the context of Relational Somatic Healing - a method for healing relational developmental trauma, which is trauma that happens within the first years of life, within the child-parent relationship. 'RSH holds the intention of awakening through the experience of healthy, loving, authentic relationship. Embodying our humanity one relationship at a time.'
Sessions draw on the modalities of Relational Somatic Healing, Hakomi Mindfulness Somatics, Eco-Chaplaincy, Biodynamic Craniosacral, Internal Family Systems, the Work that Reconnects, Spiritual Direction and pagan earth-based ritual and Buddhist practice.
Friends of Death Collective
Rites of passage, death and grief support, ceremonies for living and dying, earth-based ritual, The Red Tent.
I offer compassionate and gentle guidance as an interfaith minister and chaplain specializing in end-of-life and grief support, as well as spiritual and emotional care.
With a heartfelt background in Hospice and bereavement care, coupled with my role as a death doula and ceremonialist, my intention is to offer solace during life’s biggest transitions. Whether you are seeking support during end-of-life, terminal illness, or navigating the complex landscape of bereavement after losing a loved one, I am here to sit by you.
I offer expertise in helping you create rituals and ceremonies to accompany any rite of passage or big life transition.
Contact Me
I welcome you to connect! Send me a message here with what you’re wanting support with - from there we can schedule a free 15 minute consultation to see how we might work together.
You can email me directly Laurenroellig@protonmail.com or call (541) 250-0434
I offer sessions online over Zoom or phone. Currently offering in person hourly sessions and day long retreats in the San Francisco Bay Area and day long retreats in Yachats, Oregon - Covid-19 protocols required. My hourly rate is 150. Please inquire about daylong retreat fees. Sliding scale and payment plans available.