The Self doesn’t take holidays. But sometimes it asks you to walk.
I’ve just returned from two weeks in Tuscany, hiking daily, reading poetry aloud, letting the vive images on the path land without immediately understanding them. Actually ‘understanding’ was something I deliberately did not do. Letting nature, scents, colors, tastes, letting life … have its own impact on me, that was what I deliberately chose.
Our companions on the trail were Rilke, Mary Oliver, John O’Donohue, David Whyte, Neruda and Machado. Each one a different kind of knowing. Each inviting towards the Quiet One inside.
Jung wrote that the psyche speaks first in images, then in feeling, then slowly…in meaning. Poetry is that process made visible.
I return to the work carrying what the path gave to me. A scent of presence, a sharp focus on this step and then this one, and this one. Endurance. We simply keep going. Eyes wide open. For the unending beauty around us. Grief. And being with it – honoring the passing of each day, and also the passing of loved ones and the dance of such pain and sorrow alongside the celebration of life and its impermanence.
Aleksandra
She, who remembers.
I work at the threshold, where psyche speaks in symbols, and the soul remembers. Rooted in Jungian depth psychology and Internal Family Systems, my work invites women and seekers into the quiet, often forgotten places within: the underworlds of grief, the wild terrain of desire, the sacred chambers of the inner child, inner mother, the Shadowlands, and Self.
With a background in women’s heath research, in ritual, and in lived experience spaces, I do not offer diagnosis or treatment, I offer devotion to the unfolding Self. On the threshold of becoming- where we always are.
Through dreams, parts work, myth, and the body, I walk beside those ready to meet themselves fully, fiercely, and tenderly.
This is not fast work. It is sacred work.
It is not about fixing, it is about remembering.
I do not promise certainty.
I promise presence, and a deep trust in the wisdom already within you.
My work is rooted in the wild: in the seasons and the body, in the wisdom of the land, and in the deep ecology of the soul. I honour the personal as political, and the psychological as inseparable from the cultural. Feminism, ecopsychology, and embodied awareness are not add-ons here, they are the soil this work grows from.
I offer one-on-one soulwork sessions, women’s circles, and immersive psychoeducational experiences that weave together depth psychology, parts work, and embodiment. Some of this work unfolds indoors, some in wild places—always with reverence for the wisdom of nature, the nervous system, and the feminine psyche.
Welcome to the HORÓ nest.
I think you might just be ready to re-member your Self.
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Aleksandra Staneva, PhD - Internal Family Systems & Jung 