The Living Map
Come home to your authentic voice, choice & rhythm
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If you struggle with somatic stress, draining your energy, and pressuring yourself to conform, you don't need more of any approach that requires you to disown parts of yourself. What you need lives in a real, embodied, relational orientation toward what is already in you. The way through is orienting to each aspect of your experience as part of a larger whole.
I’m Rhonda (she/her), and I guide spiritually and socially awake beings who are ready to connect their inner and outer worlds home to their wholeness. |
The Living Map brings you home to the truth your body holds. Not just how you feel inside, but how you show up in your relationships, your communities, and what matters most to you. So you can make the contribution that only you can make.
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The Living Map is a live online program that runs for six months total:
September 17, 2026 – March 11, 2027. Enrollment is offered on a sliding scale. Enrollment for this cohort is now closed. |
Navigating this page:
* The problem * What doesn't work * How this is different * How The Living Map works * The 7 Gateways within The Living Map * What becomes possible * What's included & Schedule * Is this possible for me? * Why Now * About Rhonda * Recognition for Rhonda's guidance * Your Investment * Begin your adventure * Q&A *
* The problem * What doesn't work * How this is different * How The Living Map works * The 7 Gateways within The Living Map * What becomes possible * What's included & Schedule * Is this possible for me? * Why Now * About Rhonda * Recognition for Rhonda's guidance * Your Investment * Begin your adventure * Q&A *
The problem
While you've already grown and moved through a lot in your life, some patterns persist:
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What doesn't work
Many methods carry more of the same: trying to get rid of, fixing, forcing, controlling. Survival strategies in disguise.
You don’t need more of any approach that requires you to disown parts of yourself. For example: 'mind over matter,' get rid of emotions you don't like, get rid of your thinking or beliefs, deny your body experience or your sensitivity, or spiritualizing what's happening to escape your experience.
You don't need to navigate your healing as a solitary, do-it-yourself enlightenment project.
You don't need a cookie-cutter program that tells you who you are or who you should be, or one that disregards your lived experience and wisdom.
You don’t need more of any approach that requires you to disown parts of yourself. For example: 'mind over matter,' get rid of emotions you don't like, get rid of your thinking or beliefs, deny your body experience or your sensitivity, or spiritualizing what's happening to escape your experience.
You don't need to navigate your healing as a solitary, do-it-yourself enlightenment project.
You don't need a cookie-cutter program that tells you who you are or who you should be, or one that disregards your lived experience and wisdom.
How this is different
You need an empathetic, systematic, practical, grounded, thorough way to connect directly with your experience. What is happening now is simply a step on your path, and any next steps unfold from here.
You need to know that you are human, you are natural, and your present experience ~ body, emotion, history, sensitivity, longing, calling ~ is the very ground through which your way forward becomes available to you. Your problems are a step in a process. What you need lives in a real, embodied, relational orientation toward what is already in you. The way through is orienting to each aspect of your experience as part of a larger whole.
You need to know that you are human, you are natural, and your present experience ~ body, emotion, history, sensitivity, longing, calling ~ is the very ground through which your way forward becomes available to you. Your problems are a step in a process. What you need lives in a real, embodied, relational orientation toward what is already in you. The way through is orienting to each aspect of your experience as part of a larger whole.
How The Living Map works
The first thing you learn is how to refine your listening to what's happening in your body, not as a problem to fix, but as fundamental information you receive and relate with. When you receive a reflection of your experience with warmth and precision, something clicks that you already knew but couldn't quite make sense of.
Your whole body and your whole system is included in The Living Map: your physical experience and sensing, your emotions and what you believe about yourself, what you carry from your past and your people, what you're longing for, and how you interpret the world around you.
This is an innovative approach which allows you to connect with The Living Map in your own body and discover your own way through, where your questions can meet your answers. Not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach, but a way through which honors your unique creativity and experience along with enough structure, guidance, and sequence so you're not lost. Whatever important pieces you tend to skip over will become more visible and accessible. This means you get more contact with life moving through you in a way that is totally doable for you.
The path you'll take looks like: learning how to orient to what is happening in your body which brings more self-understanding, settling (release of stress), and self-acceptance. The Living Map is a gentle, sequential, methodical approach that supports you to access your inner wisdom. Your authenticity comes out of something already here, not something that you have to effort towards. What's most consistent across clients is less effort and a new relationship with survival strategies ~ such as tightening, slogging through, pushing, shrinking, criticizing, constricting, or running on empty trying to get there ~ which gently loosens the grip of these patterns.
It works because you discover:
The Living Map supports you to include more of your whole self. You come to understand yourself better and find your way forward, where your body signals you, your feelings unfold meaning for you, and you choose and take action how and where you want to express yourself.
Your whole body and your whole system is included in The Living Map: your physical experience and sensing, your emotions and what you believe about yourself, what you carry from your past and your people, what you're longing for, and how you interpret the world around you.
This is an innovative approach which allows you to connect with The Living Map in your own body and discover your own way through, where your questions can meet your answers. Not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach, but a way through which honors your unique creativity and experience along with enough structure, guidance, and sequence so you're not lost. Whatever important pieces you tend to skip over will become more visible and accessible. This means you get more contact with life moving through you in a way that is totally doable for you.
The path you'll take looks like: learning how to orient to what is happening in your body which brings more self-understanding, settling (release of stress), and self-acceptance. The Living Map is a gentle, sequential, methodical approach that supports you to access your inner wisdom. Your authenticity comes out of something already here, not something that you have to effort towards. What's most consistent across clients is less effort and a new relationship with survival strategies ~ such as tightening, slogging through, pushing, shrinking, criticizing, constricting, or running on empty trying to get there ~ which gently loosens the grip of these patterns.
It works because you discover:
- What is available inside you from your body experience,
- how to orient with various kinds of experiences and places in your body,
- and through relational mirroring.
The Living Map supports you to include more of your whole self. You come to understand yourself better and find your way forward, where your body signals you, your feelings unfold meaning for you, and you choose and take action how and where you want to express yourself.
The Seven Gateways within The Living Map
The Living Map draws on one of humanity's oldest maps of inner life: the seven energy centers of the body, held within the living Himalayan tradition I was initiated into in 2003. Each center is a gateway to many aspects of experience, including specific gifts:
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Root ~ grounding, belonging, the ancient ground of being. Sacral ~ flow, feeling, aliveness. Solar Plexus ~ empowerment, dignity, capacity to meet your experience, meet life. Heart ~ compassion, courage, interconnection. Throat ~ voice, listening, authentic transmission. Brain Center ~ vision, discernment, witness consciousness. Crown ~ surrender, timelessness, interbeing.
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You don't need to have studied these centers or believe anything about them. Through the course, you learn to connect with your lived experience in your own body. Each gateway connects you to its own gifts and messages as something you live into, not a concept you carry. In The Living Map, you'll be supported to connect with your body, through each center, in a grounded and loving way. You're supported to grow your capacity to:
- inhabit your body
- tend well-being at each center
- respond to your embodied experience
- navigate choices and expression authentically
What becomes possible
If you step fully into this transformation, what becomes possible is an experience of more coherent flow and fulfillment, agency, and connection with your unique voice. Your orientation to your day-to-day experience becomes more deeply fulfilling.
What opens is a new relationship with whatever is challenging. You feel more grounded and present, with a greater capacity to navigate your choices in a new, more empowered way.
You can meet yourself and your experience more reliably, even when things get difficult. There is less avoiding emotions or states. You access your inner strength. You can take deeper breaths, feeling lighter and clearer. Your rest deepens. You can pause. Ask for support more easily. Choose… your yes, your no, your maybe, your not yet. Head held high, with a greater sense of peace, purpose, and impact.
What opens is a new relationship with whatever is challenging. You feel more grounded and present, with a greater capacity to navigate your choices in a new, more empowered way.
You can meet yourself and your experience more reliably, even when things get difficult. There is less avoiding emotions or states. You access your inner strength. You can take deeper breaths, feeling lighter and clearer. Your rest deepens. You can pause. Ask for support more easily. Choose… your yes, your no, your maybe, your not yet. Head held high, with a greater sense of peace, purpose, and impact.
The Living Map supports your capacity in these areas:
- Moving towards your values and goals in a more grounded way: pausing when a recharge is needed, choosing when you move into action, and taking the next doable step.
- Growing your capacity to follow your energy when it’s here, more reliably investing yourself in what you deeply value, not draining energy towards what’s not essential for you. You notice what lights you up and can respond in life-affirming ways.
- Feeling proud of your capacity to simply feel what you feel. Less avoiding your emotions, as when they show up you know how to orient to receive their messages, which provide meaning and clarity.
- Paying attention to how you experience different environments and making choices about your well-being, including how much, enough, and time to rest.
- Less trying to prove yourself. When you engage your drive and commitment, it’s by choice.
- Softening across your chest, more compassionate and self-accepting. More expansive outwards, with less effort in your expression. Deepening connection, belonging, safety, and contribution connected with your uniqueness.
- A simpler, clearer way to reflect about and sort out problems. Less thinking "about" with stressed “fix-it” and more being "with". More safety, space, and possibility to learn and choose.
- Visioning and imagining as a call forward, not as something you use to escape or blame yourself for something in the past. When confusion comes, you know how to sit with it until clarity comes.
What's included
24 Live group calls (90 minutes every week) so that you have guidance, companionship, self-inquiry, relational practice within the cohort, a place to bring your questions to Rhonda, and to share your experience with the group.
The Living Map curriculum (received within the live group calls) so that you have a structure to connect so fully to the system of your whole and natural self, that what seems like stuckness becomes a doorway to your authenticity which is interesting and totally doable for you to make empowered choices about.
The LITRA Method so you can orient sequentially and methodically to your experience of The Living Map in your body, empowering you to meet yourself wherever you are.
Two Live 1:1 Somatic Sessions with Rhonda (55 min Zoom calls) so that you receive personal attention, support, reflection, and guidance for your process.
Recorded content from the live calls where you can watch or re-watch any meetings, so you will not miss the guided practice and curriculum which builds week to week.
Written homework that you receive, complete, and optionally share with Rhonda, so you can deepen your reflection, share your experience, and be witnessed in your unique process.
Practice pods within the live group calls so you can bridge your inner practice into relational space and build your capacity for bringing what you are integrating into your relationships and life.
The Living Map curriculum (received within the live group calls) so that you have a structure to connect so fully to the system of your whole and natural self, that what seems like stuckness becomes a doorway to your authenticity which is interesting and totally doable for you to make empowered choices about.
The LITRA Method so you can orient sequentially and methodically to your experience of The Living Map in your body, empowering you to meet yourself wherever you are.
Two Live 1:1 Somatic Sessions with Rhonda (55 min Zoom calls) so that you receive personal attention, support, reflection, and guidance for your process.
Recorded content from the live calls where you can watch or re-watch any meetings, so you will not miss the guided practice and curriculum which builds week to week.
Written homework that you receive, complete, and optionally share with Rhonda, so you can deepen your reflection, share your experience, and be witnessed in your unique process.
Practice pods within the live group calls so you can bridge your inner practice into relational space and build your capacity for bringing what you are integrating into your relationships and life.
The Living Map is an experiential educational course, not therapy; see "Is this therapy?" in the Q&A section.
Bonuses
- Mini course on Attention so you can build the capacity to choose where and how your attention rests. You receive a beginning map of attention, including open and one-pointed attention, along with a practice you can carry into any ordinary moment.
- Mini course on Relation so you can bring your embodied experience into your relationships and life. You receive a simple map of inner and outer coherence, along with three practices: coming home to yourself, sensing another, and attuning to what is here between you.
Schedule
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Weekly 90 minute live group calls are on Thursdays.
8am Pacific Time / 10am Central Time / 11am Eastern Time / 5pm Central European Time. The course follows daylight saving time in the Central Time Zone. European participants: the October 29 call meets one hour earlier local time due to differing clock-change dates. Dates for 24 live group calls (September, 2026 - March, 2027) September 17, 24 * October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 * November 5, 12, 19 * December 3, 10, 17, 31 * January 7, 14, 21, 28 * February 4, 11, 18, 25 * March 4, 11 |
Enrollment for this cohort is now closed.
Is this possible for me?
You already value authenticity and walking your talk. You recognize that in order to express what's true for you, you need to know and be connected with what's true for you. You've already grown and moved through some difficulties. There are things that used to sidetrack you which don't in the same way as before. You already know something about healing, growth, and change. The Living Map will help you recognize your innate process more clearly, which empowers you going forward. Healing is not random. Understanding your healing process allows you to more effectively create the conditions that nurture and allow you to thrive.
People who have done this successfully include: people who have struggled for a long time before working with me and people who were afraid they could never change. Most clients have already tried therapy, spiritual practice, or coaching, and what was missing was something that connected across all of those.
Nothing here is out of reach. You just need to be shown how, and walked through The Living Map within your own body. Step by step. The Living Map helps you shift from ideas about your experience to your actual experience, bringing it into a warm, exploratory connection.
People who have done this successfully include: people who have struggled for a long time before working with me and people who were afraid they could never change. Most clients have already tried therapy, spiritual practice, or coaching, and what was missing was something that connected across all of those.
Nothing here is out of reach. You just need to be shown how, and walked through The Living Map within your own body. Step by step. The Living Map helps you shift from ideas about your experience to your actual experience, bringing it into a warm, exploratory connection.
Why now
When you hold more than your share of responsibility towards others, and when you control yourself to fit into someone else’s mold, you miss out on the fulfillment that comes from showing up as your actual self. That means you miss out on some relational warmth in your connections, since your authentic self isn't fully there. Not showing up ~ however you define that on your own terms ~ is a deep loss.
When you are authentic from the inside-out and on your own terms, you experience energy and aliveness and creativity.
If you’re not sure about whether to sign up or not, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m happy to connect and support you in your choice that you feel clear about, whether that's signing up for The Living Map or not signing up.
When you are authentic from the inside-out and on your own terms, you experience energy and aliveness and creativity.
If you’re not sure about whether to sign up or not, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m happy to connect and support you in your choice that you feel clear about, whether that's signing up for The Living Map or not signing up.
About Rhonda
I guide spiritually and socially awake beings ~ who are ready to connect their inner and outer worlds ~ home to their wholeness. I bring decades of experience and training in somatic presence and movement, trauma healing, coaching, group facilitation, and embodied leadership.
But more than any title, what I offer is presence, deep listening, and orientation in meeting the truth of your experience. With warmth and precision, I mirror your wisdom back to you, helping you understand yourself and your situation more clearly so you can navigate from the inside out based on your innate values, needs, and calling.
Over the last 20+ years, I've coached and trained hundreds of executives, teachers, parents, couples, therapists, ministers, and healers. I've created and led certifications trainings for embodiment coaches and yoga teachers in the U.S. and Canada, and am an experienced trainer and group facilitator who has led hundreds of groups on topics such as personal development, spirituality, emotional literacy, compassionate nonviolent communication, conflict resolution / relational healing, transformational leadership, embodied integrity, creative expression, inner wisdom, meditation, conscious movement, eating disorder recovery, global social witnessing, and racial identity. My experience includes working in organizations, community groups, churches, in-patient recovery centers, schools, as well as online. Currently, I am co-leading an international, year-long collective trauma integration group on the topic of women healing collective gender wounds.
To learn more about me, check out my about page, read about my lineages, and reach out to connect if you have any questions.
But more than any title, what I offer is presence, deep listening, and orientation in meeting the truth of your experience. With warmth and precision, I mirror your wisdom back to you, helping you understand yourself and your situation more clearly so you can navigate from the inside out based on your innate values, needs, and calling.
Over the last 20+ years, I've coached and trained hundreds of executives, teachers, parents, couples, therapists, ministers, and healers. I've created and led certifications trainings for embodiment coaches and yoga teachers in the U.S. and Canada, and am an experienced trainer and group facilitator who has led hundreds of groups on topics such as personal development, spirituality, emotional literacy, compassionate nonviolent communication, conflict resolution / relational healing, transformational leadership, embodied integrity, creative expression, inner wisdom, meditation, conscious movement, eating disorder recovery, global social witnessing, and racial identity. My experience includes working in organizations, community groups, churches, in-patient recovery centers, schools, as well as online. Currently, I am co-leading an international, year-long collective trauma integration group on the topic of women healing collective gender wounds.
To learn more about me, check out my about page, read about my lineages, and reach out to connect if you have any questions.
Recognition for Rhonda's guidance
"Your ability to get to the bottom of a complicated situation and help me sort it out was so empowering. I was able to let go of blaming myself for what was never mine to begin with. I am grateful for your guidance, and showing me how to treat myself, value my inner knowing, and trust myself. I feel a lot freer!" -- C.T.
"Rhonda's work helped me get in touch with my body and accept myself. I learned to express myself in a way I never could before." -- L.S.
"The spacious way Rhonda was present with me allowed me to recover a part of myself that I knew was here, but couldn't find the words for, couldn't really touch. I feel more whole." --A.M.
"It will increase your awareness of the energy systems in your body and allow you to express your experience of exploring them with others. It will help you know yourself better!" -- J.S.
"Rhonda's sessions helped me connect with my emotions and make sense of my experience. Where before I felt pressured and confused, after I became clear about what was happening. I was able to make a very important life decision with full clarity and confidence." -- K.D.
Your investment
Sliding Scale ~ You choose one of three options based on your self-selected ability to pay.
Self Selected based on your ability to pay
- Contributing (helps make reduced rates available for others) — $1,020.00 USD
- Sustaining (the sustainable cost of the offering) — $900.00 USD
- Supported (needing support with basic needs) — $780.00 USD
Click on any "Begin Your Adventure" button to enroll.
Enrollment for this cohort is now closed.
Enrollment is non-refundable. This course is a live, relational container with limited spots, and your enrollment reserves your place for the full six months. Because of that, all payments are final. If you're uncertain whether this is the right fit, please reach out before enrolling; I'm glad to help you get clear either way, including if the answer is not to enroll.
After enrollment, you will be directed to the confirmation page, which includes:
Within a week of enrollment, you will receive a Google Calendar invitation for all classes with the Zoom link embedded.
- Zoom link for live group calls
- Scheduling link for two 1:1 sessions
Within a week of enrollment, you will receive a Google Calendar invitation for all classes with the Zoom link embedded.
Q&A
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Still have questions? Drop me a message and I'm happy to connect and support you to find out if this is a good fit for you.
