To apply for Lifeways Counsel, please download, fill-out and return

Counsel Application Form

To apply for an Herbal Consultation:

please write Kiva to inquire about availability and receive an intake form.

The Anima Healing Arts Health & Herbal Clinic provides online and on-site care on a per donation basis, with no one ever turned away for lack of funds. Integrating multiple healing modalities in order to provide optimal wellness, we offer lifeways counseling, herbal consultations, nutritional healing & other holistic therapies. We deeply desire to foster a life-affirming, grassroots and common sense approach to healing based around the unique needs of each individual and informed by the wisdom of the natural world.

The Mission of Anima Healing Arts:

* To provide accessible healing services to those who need it.

* To gift the local and larger community with tools for caring for themselves and each other.

* To empower individuals to take charge of their own health and healing.

* To restore a vital connection and integration between the person, their body and the living earth.

* To support the emotional, physical and mental well-being of human beings in order to contribute to the health of the planet.

Lifeways Counsel Sessions are inspiring, transformative private exchanges with Jesse Wolf Hardin or Kiva Rose, either online or in person at the Animá Healing Arts Health & Herbal Clinic. Our work is focused on facilitating authentic living, greater self-knowledge, emotional integration and real life well-being, rather than settling for surface level functionality or fancy coping mechanisms. In keeping with our emphasis on caring for the whole person, counseling may also include overlap with other healing arts, such as herbal medicine and nutritional guidance.

Sessions consist of trusted sharing and deep dialogue, providing powerful insights, tools and practices including:

• Ways of perceiving that are both life affirming and life enhancing

• The ways of nature, and what they tell us about ourselves

• Clarity that can contribute to new direction or decisive action

• Help to face our fears, and to use them as fuel for change

• Support through difficult times in our lives

• Assistance discovering our true gifts, and retiring our illusions

• Help with recognizing obstacles and resolving quandaries

• Assistance identifying essential criteria for important choices we need to make

• Encouragement to sense, savor and celebrate

• Inspiration to intensely live our dreams, realize our visions and hopes, and fulfill our most meaningful purpose

"I just treasure this counsel. thank for the true awakening of myself. in years of asking myself questions that mattered, for the first time I am getting answers from inside. first time in years I am speaking with myself, Wolf!"
-Yana

• Seeking a deeper understanding of any concepts, patterns and processes you find significant

• Desiring a reality check free of typical dogma and judgmental guilt trips

• Resolving practical, emotional or spiritual quandaries

• Facing difficult or simply momentous decisions with unclear criteria, options or possible consequences

• Approaching a pivotal juncture or passage, often precipitated by such things as the loss of a lover or career, the sudden appearance of unanticipated responsibilities or unexpected blessings, or an identity crisis surfacing when the last of one’s children grows up and leaves home

• Wrestling with issues of self worth or self love

• Wracked with anxiety, confusion or doubt regarding any aspect of your life

• Standing up to oppression, manipulation, injustice or simple adversity

• Feeling called or driven, without a clear sense of direction

• Trying to heal old wounds, or learning the lessons of any ongoing pain and suffering

• Encountering an impasse, or feeling frozen in place

• Facing a move, or trying to figure out where on earth we belong

• Struggling to save or taking the initiative to improve an important relationship, or perhaps trying to determine whether or not to continue with it

• Starting a relationship, or launching a new venture, business or service

• Knowing what you want, but with no clear strategy of attaining it

• Reconsidering, reevaluating, re-envisioning, reinventing

• Making peace with the past, or looking ahead to a more meaningful and fulfilling future

Online Sessions involve an initial in-depth email exchange with detailed response and advice, plus 1 substantial followup exchange. In-Person Sessions at the Sanctuary last up to 1 hour or more, plus 1 followup email exchange. Applicants receive in advance an Intake Form featuring exploratory questions that need to be answered prior to the first Session.

As with all Animá services, there is a suggested sliding scale donation, found on the

Counsel Application Form

A core goal of mainstream psychotherapy is to return someone to emotional and social “functionality,” by offering techniques for coping with dispiriting or unfulfilling situations. Therapists tend to stress acceptance and compromise, fitting in and conforming to rules and norms, acceding to existing authority or position, adjusting to what we don’t like, lessening risk, calculating benefits and “making things work.” To the contrary, Animá encourages us to listen to and through our hearts and our bodies, our intuition and instincts, our natural hungers and personal vision... and then to adhere to our own authority, recognize every moment as a decisive moment, make every effort to change what needs changing, reduce our distractions and lessen compromise... to pay the cost of transforming our lives in ways that nourish our spirits and afford satisfaction, that both help us grow and make possible our worthy goals.

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You can request Lifeways Counsel from either Kiva Rose or Jesse Wolf Hardin, or you can ask for a session with both together. If gender isn’t a factor, you can feel out whom to request by reading their biographies on the Faculty page.

An online Session is a convenient way to access deep personal Counsel and support, without traveling many hundreds or thousands of miles to the isolated Animá Sanctuary. The process is both simple and effective, with steps as follows:

• Download and fill-out the Personal Counsel Intake Form featuring important exploratory questions designed to reveal your quandary, situation, need or hope

• Return your completed Intake Form doc as an attachment to an email

• After carefully considering your replies, explanations and questions for us, we will write you with our detailed Counsel including comments, insights, advice and possibly further questions

• Following your Session, you then have the option of 1 follow-up exchange, writing with remaining concerns, progress reports or questions that will also be thoughtfully considered and answered

We welcome you to apply for a series of additional Sessions whenever you are moved to seek our help and support.

There is, of course, nothing like On-Site Counsel at the Animá Sanctuary, a powerful sharing and advice while Retreating in a place that seems able by itself to amplify our feelings, dissolve our walls, and awaken both our real needs and long neglected dreams. Counsel is helpful not only for those trying to clarify current quandaries, problems, choices or chances, but also for anyone coming to the Sanctuary for the first time, to orient themselves through the amazing story of the land and an overview of programs and opportunities.

While you can schedule to arrive for On-Site Counsel and leave the same day, most Counsel Sessions are booked along a Retreat at the Sanctuary of anywhere from 2 to 14 days duration. A day or more in a cabin by the river before the Session can help with increasing presence and grounding, and a quieting of the mind and opening of the heart. Time here after the Session allows for integration and synthesis, writing down commitments and plans for putting your new insights into action. For information on types of retreats and lodging, please go to the Retreats Page.

The steps for On-Site Counsel are as follows:

• Unless you are coming and leaving in a single day, decide on your ideal length of stay, then download and fill out the Retreats Application Form

• Download and fill-out the Personal CounselIntake Formfeaturing important exploratory questions designed to reveal your quandary, situation, need or hope

• Return your completed Intake Form either as an attachment to an email, or snail-mailed to: Animá Lifeways & Herbal School, PO Box 688, Reserve, NM 87830

• Once we receive your Retreat Application, we will email you with confirmation of Retreat dates

• Return your completed Intake Form a week or more before your scheduled arrival

• Once here, we will decide on a time for a Session of 1 hour or more

• Following your Session, you then have the option of 1 follow-up exchange, writing with remaining concerns, progress reports or questions that will also be thoughtfully considered and answered

You are welcome to apply for up to 2 Sessions per Retreat, and to apply for a series of return Sessions anytime you think we can be helpful.

Retreat Application

Counsel Application

• Kiva and Wolf are distinctly not psychiatrists and don’t pretend to practice therapy or adhere to the standards and customs of that profession

• We guard the privacy of those we counsel as a matter of practice not regulation

• Though we pledge to give nothing but the most honest and helpful assist we can, the responsibility for understanding and utilizing is yours alone. We will not tell you what to do and insist you make your own decisions regarding every aspect of your life, thereby accepting neither blame nor credit for what you as an empowered entity choose and do

• We are happy to provide a continuing long term series of Counsel Sessions to those who benefit most, but we also reserve the right to end a Session or email communications for any reason

THANK YOU very much for your consultation and all the kind words! I’m really impressed with the report and I must say I feel very privileged to work with someone who is so deeply connected to the healing art as you are.
-Marko

Medicine Woman, Healer and acclaimed Herbalist Kiva Rose is available for private healing consultations.Therapeutic goals of an herbal consultations include increased personal wholeness, innate vitality and vibrant wellness, with an understanding that the meaning and manifestations of these qualities are different in each individual. Kiva's healing consultations have the capacity to assist in the healing of a wide variety of illnesses and imbalances. They address not only the physical health of the client, but also the interconnected emotional, mental and overall well-being of a person. For this reason, Kiva works with constitutional imbalances as well as immediate complaints, through herbal medicines as well as nutritional and lifestyle therapies.

Kiva practices an Animá system of wellness that is as dynamic as it is wholistic, drawing on the accumulated natural healing knowledge of ancient cultures worldwide, but more importantly combining personal experience and integrative insights to create a new model of healing and wholeness for these times. During an Online or On-Site Consultation, she will first discuss your feelings and observations about your health with you, noting any patterns or cycles that have either benefitted or detracted from your overall well-being. She will then recommend shifts in those patterns through nutrition, herbs and lifestyle changes to help you not only recover but thrive. Your Consultation includes 1 followup exchange, where you can share your progress or ask for help with continuing difficulties. You can then apply for further sessions as needed or desired, something we recommend for those dealing with chronic imbalances. There is a suggested sliding-scale donation, as described in the Application. The steps for a Consultation are as follows.

• Write Kiva to inquire about availability and to receive an intake form.

• Return your completed Intake Form doc as an attachment to an email

• After carefully considering your replies, explanations and any questions you have, Kiva will write back with detailed comments, insights, advice, specific herbal and nutritional recommendations, and possibly with further questions as well

• Following your Session, you then have the option of writing with remaining concerns, progress reports or questions that will be thoughtfully considered and answered by Kiva... with 1 further follow-up.

Please note that while an online consultation does not replace the need for an in-person health care provider, it can fill a need for an overall look at an individual's life, feelings and patterns and provide accurate information, support and assistance.

We welcome you to apply for a series of additional Consultations whenever needed or desired.

• Unless you are coming and leaving in a single day, decide on your ideal length of stay, then download and fill out the Retreats Application Form

• Download and fill-out the In-Person Consultation Intake Form

• Return your completed forms either as attachments to an email, or snail mailed to: Animá Learning Center, PO Box 688, Reserve, NM 87830

• Once we receive your Retreat Application, we will email you with confirmation of Retreat dates

• Return your completed Intake Form a week or more before your scheduled arrival

• Once here, we will decide on a time for a session of 1 hour or more

• Following your Session, you then have the option of writing with remaining concerns, progress reports or questions that will also be thoughtfully considered and answered... up to 2 further follow-up exchanges

For information on types of retreats and lodging, please go to the Retreats Page. Additional Consultations can be scheduled as needed or desired.

Kiva Rose makes no claims to being a licensed doctor, a consultation does not constitute a diagnosis of any kind, and is not a replacement for medical treatment. Herbal medicine is primarily supportive and nurturing, and as such, it often takes time and effort to see results especially in cases of chronic disease. This consultation is dialogue between you and I, and together we will formulate a workable plan to nourish you personally and to heal you as a whole person in whatever ways possible.

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