Before the name. Before anything was formed. You were you.
The Threshold
Before the name. Before anything was formed. You were you.
The ThresholdThe Practitioner
"I facilitate from inside my own ongoing search. Not from a place of completion."
For eighteen years I held space behind the chair. People would sit down, exhale, and something would open. Not because of what I did to their hair. Because of what happened in the room. They felt seen. That is where I learned to hold space for a human being in their most unguarded moments.
I am a practitioner of the shamanic arts based in Richmond, Virginia. My journey cracked open in Tulum. My formal training was in Portugal. I studied Reiki here in Richmond. All of it woven together into a practice built around one thing: facilitating the conditions for your own remembering.
The Caul is the veil that sometimes covers a child at birth, believed across many traditions to mark the soul as one who can move between worlds. This is the lens through which I work. Pain as teacher. Threshold as medicine. The body as a map of the unfinished.
I am a queer man. This work holds space for anyone who feels the pull toward something the western world never had a name for. You do not have to explain yourself here. You only have to be willing to cross.
The Offerings
You reach out. We start with a discovery call to understand what you are bumping up against and find the right door together.
Before our first session you will complete a short intake. This helps me understand your history, your intentions, and what the body has been holding.
We work together. The space is fully held. Nothing is forced. We follow what wants to move.
The work does not end when the session does. Reflection and integration sessions exist to help you work with what has surfaced.
The Sessions
30 minutes — $11
Something is moving in you. You can feel it but maybe cannot name it yet. Let us sit together and find out what you are bumping up against, what your body already knows, and whether this work is the right door for you.
30 minutes
Thirty minutes. Just you and me. We talk about what has pulled you off your own axis and find the thread that leads you back through practices you can carry with you, or through deeper work we begin together right here.
60 minutes
Using drum rhythm and visualization, I guide you into your own inner landscape. What you find there is yours. Guidance, connection, questions answered from the inside, animal and spirit encounters, soul retrievals. You lead. The drum holds the door open.
60 minutes
Through Reiki and shamanic energy work, we create movement where things have gone still. Blockages released. Chakras brought into balance. The nervous system reminded of what calm feels like.
60 minutes
The session is not where the work ends. This is the time to bring what surfaced back into the light. To sit with it, understand it, and let it land. I use felt sense counseling to help you work with what is alive in you after the journey.
Honor-Based Pricing
These tiers exist so this work stays accessible. When you choose your tier you are trusting yourself to choose honestly. Your choice helps fund access for those who need it. No explanation is required. No judgment exists here.
60-Minute Sessions
30-Minute Sessions
Discovery Call — $11
The discovery call is $11 and is non-refundable. For Seeker tier clients this $11 applies toward your first session. For all other tiers it does not carry forward. If you are a Seeker tier client and miss your discovery call without notice, that $11 is forfeited.
Cancellation Policy
A cancellation is not just a calendar event. It is lost time, lost energy, and lost income. Please honor your commitment to this work and to yourself.
48 hours or more notice — no charge.
Less than 48 hours notice — 50% of the session cost.
No-call no-show — 100% of the session cost.
Payment is required to confirm your session. Please send payment via Venmo or Zelle within 24 hours of booking. Your session is not held until payment is received.
Voices
I felt safe and aware that I was not alone and being cared for. I can let go and trust the process. The past is the past. Head up and keep moving forward.
— David, Journey Participant
It grounded my spirit and brought a quiet sense of peace, affirming that I am walking the path meant for me. It is where you find your true self. A gift.
— Zee, Journey Participant
The Circle
There is a threshold most men never cross. Not because they lack the courage. Because no one ever held the door open for them.
This is that door.
Built by a queer man. Held for queer men, queer adjacent men, and any man who feels like the boxes were never built for him.
We are not here to perform masculinity. We are here to remember it. The kind that lives beneath the armor. Divine, not dominant. Present, not proved.
I know what it is to move through a world that was not made for you. I know what it is to sit in a men's circle and still feel unseen. This space exists because that experience deserves an answer.
You do not have to be queer to belong here. You just have to feel like this was made for you.
If you feel that pull, it was.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Let me know you are called. I will reach out when the next circle opens.
The Doorway
You do not need to be ready. You only need to be willing.
Booking for a Retreat
Interested in bringing this work outside of Richmond? I am available for retreat facilitation, ceremony holding, and group journey experiences. Reach out directly to begin that conversation.
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