Spirituality, Somatic Intelligence, and Gestalt Therapy
How Can I Cultivate Spiritual Alignment?
Spiritual alignment is a felt sense that happens in and through the body, and it emerges naturally from a regulated awake, aware state. It isn't something that we can contrive. It's not something that we can think our way into and it is not something that relates to...
How Can I Clear My Own Subtle Energy?
Welcome. My name is Harmony Kwiker, and I'm the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, where we offer ongoing learning opportunities for therapists, coaches, and anyone who's passionate about bridging the divide between traditional psychotherapy and...
Working with Emotional Energy
Hello and welcome. I'm Harmony Kwiker and I'm, the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, where we offer ongoing learning opportunities for therapists and coaches who are passionate about bridging the divide between traditional psychotherapy and coaching...
Guide Your Clients in Shifting Consciousness
Hello and welcome. My name is Harmony Kwiker, and I am the founder of the Institute for Spiritual Alignment, where we offer ongoing learning opportunities for therapists and coaches who are really passionate about bridging the divide between traditional psychotherapy...
Prevent Burnout by Working with Subtle Energy
If you are a therapist or coach who is highly sensitive to the energy, emotions, and even the thoughts of those around you, learning to work with subtle energy is a game changer for your work with clients. Around our body, there are 5 layers of a subtle energy body...
A Guide to Spiritual Alignment
Spiritual alignment is the energetic expression of the boundless energy of life itself moving through you undistorted and unthwarted. When the midline of your body is an open channel, the river of your vital force pulses through you in divine flow with the universal...
Feeling Stuck is a Normal & Valid Part of Your Transformation
People often ask me what to do when they feel stuck in their old patterns. When stuckness arises, it may seem like a barrier to transformation. Some therapists or coaches may even tell you that, "If you want to transform, you need to leave this part of you out of the...
8 *Essential* Qualities to Look for in a Therapist or Coach
As a therapist and a coach, I have been on both sides of the search for a good practitioner to help navigate old trauma and relationship struggles. Aside from 15+ years as a psychotherapist, I am also an instructor of transpersonal counseling and I train practitioners...
How to Facilitate the Deepening of Contact
The contact boundary is where we meet and withdraw from our environment. Contact Boundary Disturbance is a "habit in which a response (to avoid contact) manifests in the individual’s personality even though the original circumstances under which the disturbance may...
How do codependency and narcissism impact relationships?
Internal distortions are the birthplace of entanglement patterns. Two people simultaneously clinging to ego and rejecting aspects of themselves creates the entanglement. When we are identified with our conditioned self, and continue to reject parts of ourselves, we...
How Do I Heal My Attachment Wounds?
Attachment styles were an adaptive response to the experiences we had in childhood. Intimate relationships engage our attachment system. The vagus nerve is responsible for nervous system regulation through the social engagement system (see Blog post:...
How Do I Work With Trauma in a Spiritually Aligned Session?
As we support our clients in repairing their nervous system, we tend to the somatic expression of their experience. We also support clients in creating mental clarity as they talk through their past experiences. The more regulated and clear a person becomes,...
