The life you have been living is not the one that is calling
This is the work I do. I accompany people who sense that something more is being asked of them than the life they have arranged so far, especially around work and vocation.
The constraints, failures and confusions of life are not obstacles to this work.
They are its very material
II you recognise something of yourself in this territory and would like to explore whether this work is right for you, I would be glad to hear from you.
Ariane's Thread
My vocation as a threshold guide and depth practitioner emerged slowly, obliquely, but when it found me, it seemed obvious all along.
It emerged when, in spite of my conditioning, I learned to trust the Imagination, not as fantasy, but as the ground of what is most real.
My path has been marked by two intertwined movements, one where limitation and confinement became the way to find truth under pressure, the other by stripping away of everything I thought I was.
My name, Ariane, carries its own thread. Ariandne held the thread that allowed another to enter the labyrinth, meet what was there, and find the way back. She did not enter herself. She held.
I work with people, who sense that something more is being asked of them than the life they have arranged so far, and who are willing to let what they don't yet know lead them toward it.
You may want to know about my credentials. But my power does not come from me. It comes through me. And that, no credential can hold.
The Work
Sometimes you very job becomes the place where transformation happens.
Other times, following your deepest stirrings may mean leaving it behind.
What I offer is to guide you through the messy terrain towards becoming more fully yourself.
You may recognise yourself here
You may feel the pull of something genuinely other than the life you have constructed.
Or perhaps it arrives as sudden clarity; the premise of your entire life has been built on the wrong foundation.
For some it is more violent than that. Everything implodes. Everything you thought you were is gone. You don't yet know what comes next.
The contours of your life have become less certain. You are no longer sure what is real, what is yours, where you end and everything else begins.
Or it may be quieter than any of this. A nagging feeling, imprecise, that can no longer be ignored. This is not you.
How the work moves
What this requires, from both of us, is a softening of attention. Not the focused, grasping attention of someone trying to extract meaning. Something more receptive. A willingness to wait for what is already moving to show itself; in an image, a dream, a bodily sensation, a word that arrives before you know where it cam from.
When an image arrives in this work; unbidden, unexpected, it carries its own weight and its own knowing. Not in any conventional sense. But no less real.
This is a knowing that has no fixed location, no time and no name. I have learned to trust it anyway.
It is not therapy. It is accompaniment; for people who are fundamentally well but sense that something more is being asked of them than the life they have arranged so far.
This work is, at is heart, a restoration of the Imagination