Hey Folks,

Below you can read a little about my experience mentoring others, gain a sense of how I work, and gain a better understanding of my methodologies. There are alot of people offering all sorts of mentorship and coaching now a days. So below I’m offering a little insight into my background.

Mentoring Blossoming Entrepreneurs

For three years,I worked daily with 2-5 entrepreneurs who were beginning a secondary business beyond their current business, their Yoga studio. They had purchased a license from the Yoga school I previously worked for to bring either a 200 or 300 hour Yoga training to their town and studio. I discuss more about the business side of this experience in the Business About Section Here. For 8 to (preferrably) 12 months, I worked with these individuals on their personal apprehensions and tendencies that kept from from engaging in business and marketing protocols to publicize, promote, sell, and market their trainings.

Areas most commonly worked through together:

• Fear of Being Seen: Being big, perceived as too much, breaking from status quo “you” everyone else is comfortable with

• Imposter Syndrome: an unwillingness/fear of trusting one’s knowledge and experience base

• Co-dependence: The desire to have someone else supporting one’s success and the tendency to blame others for personal inaction

• Procrastination: The deep desire to avoid or distract one’s self from taking ownership of goals.

Growing up in East Tennessee, I spent much of my time in nature. I was an avid rock climber and naturalist. I was also brought up through the Baptist Christian faith; my grandfather was a preacher. I was taught to have my own prayerful relationship with God, later I learned that this practice molded me into the mystical practitioner I am today.

I graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2011 with a degree in Environmental Economics and Policy and a minor in French. I had an affinity for language and words and how language housed perspective. I studied abroad at the University of Accra, Ghana in West Africa for a summer. I later worked under an adviser on a grant from the EPA and traveled to Washington D.C several times to lobby for sustainable energy futures as a Futurist. Following this, I became a National Park Interpretation Ranger at Arches National Park.

In 2012, I moved to Nevada City, CA and spent seven years there. I worked with Sierra Seeds Cooperative for one season apprenticing and learning the wisdom of seed sovereignty and stewardship, was a farm to table cook at the Woolman School, a Waldorf preschool teacher at Sprouts Farm to Table Preschool and a supplemental environmental educator and science educator for home school and charter programs for several years.

My main work over this time was supporting the build out and growth of Vira Bhava Yoga School. Here I practiced and was in sadhana, taught Yoga classes, workshops, teacher trainings, managed a Yoga studio, administered daily operations of a multi state Yoga school, supported growth and built out content and curriculum, and much more.

Currently, I am a nanny and a substitute para educator (a teacher for severely handicapped and emotionally “disabled” children). I will be beginning a Masters Program in 2021 to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Upon graduation, my intention is to open a private practice offering Somatic Psychotherapy, EMDR therapies, conflict meditation, and hold space in support groups for those who FEEL and want to build a bridge from feelings to embodiment.

I was a highly empathic and clairvoyent child and didn’t have many resources, elders, or reflections to guide me as I was funneled through common core standards, popular culture trends, and materialistic values. This led me to having two very strong and dominate peoples within myself. A grand pleaser and a secret mystic.

Grace had it that I was able to manage externally and do “exceptionally well” by all rubrics I was judged…. It would be 19 years before I found embodied movement, 24 years before I began somatic psychotherapy, and 27 years before I began weaving those together with real world training.

I’ve dedicated myself to a practice of living and look forward to continuing to spend my years of living support the journey inward and the building of bridges from the depths out into our world. May we all feel deeply that our deepest yearns are purposeful and have a right to be here.

My intention with Evoking Reverence is to support and scaffold folks as they name, own, and weave together their calling, passion, and experience from the inside, out in to the world and its systems.

Education and experience

Shadow Work

Rachelle’s work is rooted in Shadow Work. Shadow Work entails identifying the parts of yourself, your perspective, and the world around you that you are averse to, disgusted with, enraged and threatened by, and then working to get to know them intimately. As we identify these shadows and become familiar with their stories, we can begin the work of coming back to ourselves and to society. Read More Here.

Othering

We live in polarizing times. Times where separating ourselves from those different from us feels safer that being around them. The unevolved or unknown shadow self (who we believe, consciously or unconsciously, protects us) drives this othering. Most of us are unaware and/or unable to dialogue with our shadows. Shadow Work enables us to be less shocked and intimidated by the others of society. It empowers us to do our work in the world with conviction rather than polarization or disgust.

Read More Here.