OFFERING
Out beyond the fence-line of doubt and disappointment is a forest teeming with miracles.
I offer 75 minute nature-based embodied parts-work sessions and half-day deep dives for individuals and couples who are ready to become steward-magicians of their inner and outer worlds. My mission isn't to help you slay your dragons, it's to help you unlock an ancient secret: they have been waiting to play all along.
Each engagement begins with the challenges, curiosities, and questions that lie at the center of your life. With these as our starting point, we will co-craft a series of sessions designed to help you meet your edge, integrate your shadow, and sustain your boundaries. Fierce courage, playfulness, and unexpected new capacity are a few of the gifts waiting on the other side. Sessions may incorporate elements of play, parts-work, conversation, dramatization, nature connection, physical movement, and ritual.
This is your invitation: step through the portal of somatic intuition. Let go of your ready answers. Recapture your golden thread.
WHY NOT
My work isn't for everyone. Here are a few reasons why:
It demands a high bar of self-awareness
My sessions assume an existing foundation of somatic awareness, emotional fluency, and self-responsibility.
It won't boost your material wealth
My work isn't designed to accelerate your career or make you rich.
It may disrupt your life
Working with me may challenge your existing values, beliefs, habits, and relationships.
It won't heal you
Although my work is trauma-informed, it does not seek to "heal" emotional wounding. Instead, it evokes the gifts these wounds contain.
It's uncomfortable
You may come face-to-face with darkness, fear, shame, disgust, and shadow.
It's a substantial investment
Participating in a journey of this depth demands a significant investment of time, energy, and inner and outer resource.
It's risky
Our sessions together will require courage, humor, self-warmth, and deep trust in the co-creative process. My work is not "safe" by most traditional definitions, and is not intended for those who are struggling with acute mental health issues or are in an otherwise highly vulnerable state.
WHY
Sometimes the right path appears at the right time. For those who are ready, my work offers an opportunity for profound reconnection with self and the world. In a culture replete with forces of alienation and acceleration, one of the most radical and meaningful things we can do is slow down and ask who, after all, we really are, and what this life is calling us toward.
ABOUT
My name is Carlin Gettliffe. I was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1986. I'm intensely curious about the myriad ways of being human, and have walked many paths.
I studied physics and religion at university. Since then I've been a physics researcher, startup founder, art/music festival organizer, bartender, hitchhiking vagabond, wilderness skills instructor, rite of passage guide, somatic parts-work practitioner, and kink/BDSM educator. I design and lead Shadowcraft, a rite of passage intensive that is the convergence and culmination of much of my work. I am also a co-founder of the School of Wild Belonging in Boulder, CO.
I've spent time as both a seeker and a finder. I know what it is to be rooted in the beating heart of one's own life, and also what it is to be stuck in the fog of doubt and self-recrimination. I'm fascinated by life as sacred play, an endless process of embrace and release in which we each have the opportunity to welcome ourselves home again and again.
My formal training includes relational somatic trauma therapy, Rolfing Structural Integration, and a nine-month nature instructor training at the Wilderness Awareness School.
I love to cook, especially ramen (from scratch), shakshuka, and buckwheat crust pies.
PRAISE
Potent. Exquisite. Intense. Cleansing. Exhausting. Liberating.
I am still integrating all that I learned in my work with Carlin. I didn’t know what I was signing up for exactly, but Carlin came recommended to me by trusted, dear friends. He led me gently into an incredibly held ritual to allow me to turn towards multiple facets of grief I didn’t even know I was carrying, many of which I had been ignoring for decades.
Carlin holds an exquisite container for transformative work. He knows when to nudge a little harder, push a little deeper, and also when to be soft and gentle - a unique and powerful combination. If you are open to discovering things about yourself you never expected, I highly recommend working with him.
- W.A.
Carlin is one of the most attuned humans I've met. All of him listens, and it becomes extremely important in sessions as his attunement picks up what is needed in the field for what happens next. My last session with him was vulnerable, sad, exciting, scary, and perfect. It gave me insight to ponder for days to come.
- K.H.
Carlin's strong intuition guided him to the edges that resided within me that were too much to access alone. Having these edges fully witnessed/respected and loved helped the parts of myself that I had exiled feel seen and heard and valued for their protective roles. I would recommend his work to those who are ready for true transformation and all the grit and beauty that comes with it.
- S.V.
GRATITUDE
These are a few of the people, groups, workshops, and trainings that have influenced my work. I owe them a deep debt of gratitude.
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Mariah Moser and the Opening to Grace somatic trauma therapy training
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The Immersion and Nature Instructor Training at the Wilderness Awareness School.
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Mukti and Adyashanti
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David Braun, founder of Naked Heart and the Emote-a-thon workshop
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The Heart-storm community of practice
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Josh Schrei and The Emerald podcast
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Various men's groups over the years
CONTACT
To Schedule:
Email somaticselfinquiry@gmail.com to schedule a free 30-minute consultation.
Standard Rates:
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$250 - 75 min embodied parts-work session (minimum of three)
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$1750 - 3-5 hr deep dive with prep and integration sessions
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$6500 - six-month package with recurring embodied parts work sessions and two deep dives
Note: I offer a portion of my work at a discount to those who are otherwise ready but unable to afford my standard rates. Please reach out if this applies to you.
