A tantric teaching on the experimentation phase of a couple’s sexual practice — trying new things with radical honesty, developing a wordless sexual communication, and learning to read a partner’s body to deepen connection.
An artwork exploring the idea that black holes may be gateways to other universes, drawing a visual parallel between a universe contained within a black hole and the all-seeing eye of a single cosmic consciousness.
A reflection on financial contentment — the stage of being debt free and steadily saving for one’s dreams — describing its everyday feel, the move into investing, and its positive effects on relationships and wellbeing.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Needs](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0733-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of connecting to your needs — honestly cataloging physical, mental, spiritual and professional needs across the body’s centers, and finding the strength to stand up for them without guilt.
A workplace teaching on connecting with colleagues — distinguishing friends, work-friends and colleagues — and using the stages-of-development model to help peers shift into the mindset their work requires while keeping conversation work-focused.
An introduction to a new approach to tantra centered on connection through sexuality — challenging old restrictions, affirming female and male multi-orgasmic potential, and outlining the phases of an evolving daily sexual practice.
An artwork exploring the idea of multiple universes — how one might be hidden inside another or lie unseen close by — and questioning how blind we really are to what exists within and around us.
![[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Experiences](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0816-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of connecting to and releasing past experiences — extracting their lessons, viewing them in the third person, naming and releasing their emotions, and carrying only the changed self forward.
A reflection on the experience of becoming debt free — the surreal first month without payments, the initial splurge, and the shift into purposeful saving toward dreams and eventual financial independence.
![[Guided Meditation] Trusting Your River](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0682-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation for the Stage One task of trusting the river of your life, or the divine — distinguishing what you can influence from what you cannot, and learning to let go and flow when the current is swift.
A short teaching essay arguing that choice is the one thing we truly make — that every action begins with a choice of mindset, perception and feeling — and that we come to understand ourselves through the outcomes of our choices.
An artwork depicting the interplay of human consciousness, the subconscious and the divine — shown as overlapping rectangles with the one consciousness radiating out to experience itself within each level.
A teaching on how partners ground each other — meeting a spun-up partner with calm presence, listening without interrupting, offering compassion when a situation cannot be fixed, and asking what they need.
A teaching on how spending patterns mirror self-image — tracing how debt reflects unworthiness and gambling reflects powerlessness, how we model money behavior on our parents, and why getting out of debt is part of learning to love yourself.
![[Guided Meditation] Trusting Yourself](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Meditation.png)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of trusting yourself, using breathwork and a body scan to distinguish true heart and gut intuition from the impulses of the ‘monkey mind’ so choices come from intuition rather than fear.
A leadership piece on connecting with employees as individuals by reading which developmental stage each person is in from how they speak, then meeting them there and guiding them forward without prying into their personal lives.
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of uncovering the true emotional roots of past major decisions, using detachment, self-compassion and repeated questioning to reach honest, non-judgmental understanding and release.
An essay on money as an extension of the self, contrasting spending that builds a better life with self-sabotaging retail therapy driven by unworthiness, and noting that spending on others yields more lasting wellbeing.
A participatory word-art project inviting readers to capture real moments from their lives in stories of exactly ten words, inspired by Hemingway’s famous six-word story, with example entries and simple rules for joining in.
A relationship teaching on building physical and emotional safety with a partner after trust, covering protection from outside threats, bodily autonomy, and honest conversation about each person’s touch preferences and boundaries.
![[Guided Meditation] Grounding Yourself – Connecting To Your Time, Attention And Spaces](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0639-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of honoring your own time and purpose, using a heart-centered practice to internalize that finding and sharing your gift is sacred and worth protecting each day.
A teaching essay on how the sentiments we speak ripple out to those around us and mirror back, affecting ourselves most of all, and why choosing loving, positive speech shapes what returns to us.
A motivational essay describing how progress toward a big goal often feels stalled before breaking through exponentially, encouraging persistence by focusing effort on the small cracks in whatever seems to be blocking you.
An exploration of three levels from which we make choices and manifest, contrasting conscious neocortex effort, subconscious beliefs that amplify or block our desires, and choices made from the connected One Consciousness.
An artist’s reflective project mapping the phases of her life to representative colors, with a white overlay for self-growth and the emergence of the true self, inviting readers to imagine their own life in color.