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Dream Class Series: Mandala of the Self - October 11, 18, 25 & November 1 Tuesdays 6P - 8P PT/ 9P- 11P ET $60 - $150 Sliding Scale https://www.amykisei.org/event-calendar/lotus-in-the-fire-awakening-into-your-life monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://www.amykisei.org/event-calendar/towards-a-new-way-spiritual-training-for-deep-adaptation monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://www.amykisei.org/event-calendar/grasses-trees-and-the-great-earth-sesshin monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1655490531532-VAFMZ4J3BGMU4TSTB3NW/1158AFA1-FE18-441D-BDC7-9BB9DFB55B43.JPG Event Calendar - Grasses, Trees and the Great Earth Sesshin - Earth body, sky heart. Rooted and flowing. Luminous and open. We are made of earth and sky, of wind breath and rain song, our lives woven from the teachings of the natural world. This retreat is an opportunity to re-connect and relax into the wild, ancient, wisdom of the Grasses, Trees and Great Earth. We will spend time learning from each of the five elements, as they manifest in our experience. Deeply exploring and releasing into our interconnection with the living, breathing body of the Earth, waters, energizing air, bright fiery sun, and vast spacious sky. https://www.amykisei.org/event-calendar/earth-medicine-retreat monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1655489473136-N0YCYPXEDAMHWNOJ1HP9/755E05D3-7186-4F20-8FD9-9FA61D058C06.JPG Event Calendar - Earth Medicine Retreat at Great Vow Zen Monastery - A Zen teacher once said, medicine and disease heal each other. The whole earth is medicine. What is the self? This weekend retreat is designed to encourage us to directly face the Climate Catastrophe. This retreat is for those who may be on the front lines of climate activism to those who are empathetic yet unsure what to do and everyone in between. https://www.amykisei.org/event-calendar/qciwfwoipb7zoi7gpst7pqnvs832gh monthly 0.5 2022-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1655488255557-YTOWYYB3TWAI1YRG28V6/CBEBF6BD-BE87-403F-8580-2A5CCC00A94E.jpg Event Calendar - Pause Creativity: An Online Meditation Gathering - On-going Wednesdays 9A - 9:30A Creativity is an innate capacity and a skill that can be trained and strengthened in every one of us. This class will help you explore how to release fixed perspectives, create S P A C E to engage your life freshly, and choose new, creative responses to areas where you feel stuck. As you open to new realms of possibility, you’ll cultivate an inner reservoir of strength, motivation, and happiness. Kisei is sharing leadership with one other teacher from pause meditation and will be teaching every other week. 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I had the opportunity to lead sesshin solo for the first time this past June. The theme of the sesshin was Loving Kindness Practice. What unfolded was an appreciation of how the teachings of emptiness / spaciousness support loving kindness / compassion. You can find links to all the talks from the retreat on this link. https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/everyday-is-earth-day monthly 0.5 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1651075590031-1DGSCHSTXYUA3RGA49CH/FAF33CEA-7F0E-4B41-A772-DC1F3ED89D39.JPG Earth Dreams Blog - Everyday is Earth Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1651075466159-6RMCYF0FG2JMU6R7IF7H/0FDBCEA7-4585-4FAB-AB4F-B0116886BB3E.JPG Earth Dreams Blog - Everyday is Earth Day - Do you live in a living universe? What makes it so? I am taking a class right now through Schumacher College and the Animas Institute called Awakening the Planetary imagination. I joined the class because I am interested in the role of the imagination, dreams, art and creativity in meeting the reality of the climate crisis. The teaching that I come back to, that is an essential part of Buddhist Mahayana teachings is the teaching of the Three Bodies of Buddha–the Dharmakaya, Sambogakaya and Nirmanakaya. Kaya simply means body. https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/following-the-fallen-flowers-an-invitation-to-praise monthly 0.5 2022-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1649733089312-QEJ5N932ZT3H8UMOEJZE/IMG_1693.JPG Earth Dreams Blog - Following the Fallen Flowers: An Invitation to Praise - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1649733196897-GESO4EX6X1GCOQ0K9147/FD827233-3DAE-4E84-8953-015365824FA1.JPG Earth Dreams Blog - Following the Fallen Flowers: An Invitation to Praise - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/entering-the-dream-gate monthly 0.5 2022-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1647898350526-MWBFRG8VC16KHZQTP9EB/IMG_1464.JPG Earth Dreams Blog - Entering the Dream Gate - Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. Imagination stimulates process and gives birth to evolution.–Albert Einstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1647898037589-68UNFUJQ3V17M5J8MOO6/JPEG+image.jpeg Earth Dreams Blog - Entering the Dream Gate - In all matters, I have relied on the interpretation of my dreams.–Keizan Zenji Everywhere at all times, in all cultures and races of which we have record, when the greatest meaning, the highest value of life needed renewal and increase, the process of renewal began through a dream.-C. G. Jung https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1647269488294-U9O0R6YQRAG8I09WCSEL/unnamed.jpg Earth Dreams Blog - Entering the Dream Gate - Dream Body; Earth Body Which body are you in? In the meditative traditions of modernity, we tend to emphasize consensus reality and the essence level. Consensus reality is limiting, this is where suffering is found; the essence level is pristine, unbounded awareness; this is where freedom is found. They are ultimately inseparable so find freedom in your everyday life. This is a common narrative that you might find in a mindfulness program, or a class on meditation. Dreams, images, emotional and visionary experiences, spirits, extrasensory experiences are considered makyo, “delusions” not to be entertained, for they are just diversions on the path. https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/ayzzpve8ry9btdv65j0dx1sq09t4xy monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/in-love-with-the-earth-reflections-on-earth-wisdom-human-love-amp-meditation monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/the-ecology-of-the-universe monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1642955699352-UPKE4DXIVAVA3OB8S3I7/thich-nhat-hanh-death-744x1024.jpg Earth Dreams Blog - The Ecology of the Universe: Exploring Our connection to the cosmos - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/dharma-talk-practicing-with-the-3-poisons monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://www.amykisei.org/earthdreams/what-is-transpersonal-spiritual-counseling monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1644101199018-0I9SYNH0YYXE31UUSPP7/IMG_1417.jpg Earth Dreams Blog - What is Spiritual Counseling? - In my one-on-one Spiritual Counseling Practice, I bring together what has been considered spiritual work (transcendent experiences of oneness, no-self, emptiness, awakened awareness, god, the sacred) with what has been considered soul work (dreams, creativity, ceremony, ritual, embodied imagination, visionary experience, premonition). I feel this is an approach that is integrative of the whole human process. For as humans we are evolving, we evolve into a greater appreciation of our sameness, our interconnection, the peace within–and we also simultaneously evolve into our unique expression of this precious life. As someone who was trained as a Zen priest / monastic for over a decade, I appreciate the depth of the meditative traditions in revealing the fundamental nature of being, our freedom, compassion and awakeness. We all have access to this freedom and love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1641318693695-1SS1VJ9P6B7D75BF8IP6/JPEG+image+20.jpeg Earth Dreams Blog - What is Spiritual Counseling? - Make it stand out The moon goddess wears star clothing on her journey around the earth. What goes unseen in your daily travels? Who are you taking with you? What help is there? 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In my Spiritual Counseling Practice, I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. Spiritual Counseling can help you: Companion Grief + Loss Clarify Life Purpose Heal Relational Conflict + Inner Conflict Work with Shadow Material Heal your relationship with Eating, Food or Body Image Spiritual Emergence Integrate Psychedelic or Mystical Experiences Move Through Creative Blocks, Career Impasses and Burnout In addition to my Zen training, I am trained in Buddhist Psychology, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy), Process Art and Mindful Eating. My approach also has a deep Jungian influence. I am not a licensed mental health worker. I have had a long standing interest in cosmology, myth and what the placement of the stars might say about our soul’s unfolding. I am trained in Hellenistic and Evolutionary Astrology. 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I currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through Mud Lotus Sangha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/d871f523-63d4-49de-a983-9519a6479b9a/Image+-+no+preview+-+square+%284%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/e3b766a8-83dd-4204-ad1a-cafb8c712291/80BFF180-F349-4FB3-88BD-3AB22DC9B328+2.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/412c0183-3198-4487-b82e-72d118f11832/IMG_3976.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/df5671e3-5c02-4e3f-9f57-346e8fd3efe5/IMG_3190.jpg Home https://www.amykisei.org/contact daily 0.75 2021-11-22 https://www.amykisei.org/aboutme daily 0.75 2025-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/1631639637486-QHH34IWSCTCBGUS71A4R/JPEG%2Bimage%2B14.jpg About Amy Kisei Sensei - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/141132a1-25e5-4d4d-814a-7052ca9014d0/IMG_4096.jpg About Amy Kisei Sensei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/a5df0f41-d9ed-4749-b0cf-bf68051ec370/70267694174__52A6B276-B13A-48CA-958D-5D02D9D2F07B.jpg About Amy Kisei Sensei - Make it stand out Sasha Kitty Bodhisattva deep at work saving all beings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/f97139c1-ea22-4abe-9438-285014f8e0ec/KiseiDrawing.jpg About Amy Kisei Sensei My years as a nun included art practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/f98950bd-46cb-4301-b653-679709ddc5c2/KiseiLaughs.jpg About Amy Kisei Sensei Taking the opportunity to dance, whenever I could at the monastery. 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In my Spiritual Counseling I practice using IFS and Hakomi to help heal inner + outer conflict, liberate fixed beliefs, move beyond fear + anxiety and transform out-dated conditioning. In my experience, healing and awakening happen in relationship, we need each other to change and open to wholeness. My approach to spiritual counseling involves deep listening, mindful-presence and compassionate inquiry. Spiritual Counseling can help you if you are interested any of the following: Companioning Grief + Loss Clarifying Life Purpose Healing Relational Conflict Working with Shadow Material Healing Inner Conflict Healing relationship with Eating, Food or Body Image Spiritual Emergence Integrating Psychedelic or Mystical Experiences Moving Through Creative Blocks, Career Impasses and Burnout My work is supported by the methods and practices of Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Therapy (Hakomi), Buddhist Psychology, Expressive Arts and Dream Work. 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In the Zen tradition I come from, heart to heart encounters with the teacher are an essential aspect of Awakening. While a teacher can’t give you anything, they can help us see through our confusion & fixed beliefs; and reflect for us the freedom, spaciousness, clarity and compassion of the nature of being. I provide 1:1 Zen practice discussions / sanzen through zoom. These encounters are meant to help you in your Zen practice. I have experience in various modalities including samatha, breath-work, concentration, inquiry, open-awareness, loving kindness, shikantaza & koans. Contact me if you would like: Direct heart to heart practice instructions from an experienced Zen Teacher To inquire into fixed or core beliefs To explore the nature of mind through Koan-work Guidance / support in your meditation practice or daily life practice Support in integrating insights, non-ordinary states or retreat experiences into your daily life Sanzen or Meditation support occurs online through zoom and last between 20 - 30 minutes. This service is offered by donation. Consider ($15 - $40 per session). https://www.amykisei.org/astrology daily 0.75 2025-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/a1dc85f4-36ce-4c52-95f6-134bdd02a902/IMG_3103.jpg Soul + Spirit Astrology - The Great Work of your Life Reading For most of us the work we do in the world occupies a lot of our time and life energy. Astrology can help us reclaim the definition of work and connect deeper to our heart’s aspiration in this life. For many people there often isn’t one thing that we do as our life’s work, but instead our work changes as we change and come to realize our talents and gifts. The natal chart can show us the planets and houses that are connected to our life’s work. During this special focus reading we dive deeper into questions of work, meaning, values, talents and the movement of your life energy, using your natal chart as a template we will also consider transits and progressions. I use the Whole Sign system and read with both a Hellenistic + Evolutionary Astrological lens. I incorporate Tarot correspondences as well as story, symbol and myth to help you connect more deeply with your chart and your soul’s dream in this life. I also read with a parts-work lens and offer follow-up spiritual counseling sessions (for those interested) to help you work with the energies in your chart in a more embodied and personal way. Readings take place on zoom. You will receive a recording of the reading. Cost: $108 / 60 min reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/f8c1585c-bba0-4b47-b009-0b4034b5511c/Being+Witnessed.jpg Soul + Spirit Astrology - Special Focus Reading For returning clients who have a specific question or area of their chart that they would like to spend more time exploring. Readings take place on zoom. You will receive a recording of the reading. Cost: $108 / 60 minute reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/4ca970e6-6867-4616-ac9d-9facca38f7c1/IMG_3274.jpg Soul + Spirit Astrology - The Year Ahead Transits Reading As the planets appear to move through the zodiac they interact with our natal chart, awakening potentials, creating opportunities for growth and change. A year ahead transit reading can help you understand the planetary weather for the next twelve months. We will look at major transits, solar return chart, yearly profection house and lord and your progressed chart to assess the planetary allies, themes and alignments for your up-coming year. A Year Ahead transit reading can also be explored in follow-up spiritual counseling sessions using parts-work to understand the embodied experience of the various planetary energies as they interact with your natal chart. Readings take place on zoom. You will receive a recording of the reading. Cost: $108 / 60 minute reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/c4ac7cdc-029d-4dbd-a1c4-d911ee9b7cbc/IMG_3976.jpg Soul + Spirit Astrology - Dream of the Soul Natal Chart Reading This natal chart reading explores the dream of your soul as expressed at the moment of your birth. The nativity is your soul’s intention mapped in the stars. Each planet expresses part of the myth of your life, inviting you to see your life as mythic, as a flower continuously opening, as a piece of music that you get to play and dance to. Our lives include the light and the dark, each planetary placement offers gifts that we learn to open and challenges that we learn to navigate. Natal chart readings can help you: Connect to the myth of your life, your sense of purpose + direction Navigate life’s challenges Awaken your talents and your planetary allies Deepen your connection to yourself and your unique gifts Receive guidance around questions regarding relationship, career, creative expression, family and/or areas of challenge in your life Experience the sacredness of your life’s unfolding I use the Placidus/Whole Sign systems and read with both a Hellenistic + Evolutionary Astrological lens. I incorporate Tarot correspondences as well as story, symbol and myth to help you connect more deeply with your chart and your soul’s dream in this life. I also read with a parts-work lens and offer follow-up spiritual counseling sessions (for those interested) to help you work with the energies in your chart in a more embodied and personal way. Readings take place on zoom. You will receive a recording of the reading. Cost: $108 / 75 minute reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/c48125cb-0f4f-4ef3-b9fd-32dcdd13f529/IMG_4134.jpg Soul + Spirit Astrology - Astro Counseling Package This four session package starts with a 75/min Natal Chart reading where you can specify an area of focus if you wish. Each additional session will last 60 min. This is an opportunity to dive deeper into your chart and explore through spiritual counseling and astrology deeper answers to questions, this could include: Deepening understanding of Life’s Work Exploring creative blocks, career impasses or burnout Moving through a major life transition Exploring relationship dynamics Support in understanding the deeper dimensions of your chart and how they play out in your life We will look at transits, profections, your progressed chart and natal chart. We can also use IFS and somatic work to deepen your relationship to the themes in your chart in an embodied way. You will book your first reading here, and after we meet I will share a link to book additional readings. The four readings must take place within a 12 month period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e4d9b814013e74b9ff823b/9f4337fe-9836-4c30-9851-78e006e0c102/IMG_4193.jpg Soul + Spirit Astrology - To know one’s heart is to connect to the wild, mysterious heart of the cosmos. We are of soul and spirit. We have the drive to transcend, to know ourselves beyond our ordinary identity markers, thoughts, beliefs and views. We are made of light. Something in us longs for the simplicity and clarity of spacious presence—to rest in the oneness of our essential nature. The contemplative paths of spiritual practice meet us in the heart of our mystical longing—and provide a map, a set of practices to help us navigate our way back to spirit. And while we have the drive to transcend. We also long to embody, to create, to know our fullness, to feel, to blossom and share our unique gifts and talents with the world. For, though we are light and one with all beings, we are simultaneously embodied, earthly, creaturely, full of feeling and alive in a world of grace and pain, beauty and challenge. How we walk our path, how our lives mature, what shape they take and what we dedicate ourselves to is the soul’s dimension of our heart’s unfolding—let’s call it the dream of the soul. My astrological readings are a way of connecting and celebrating the movements of soul + spirit in your own life. 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