Establishing a safe, comfortable, and potent hypnotic environment
is our first step in Trancework.
Trancework allows you to discover what underlies the problems you are experiencing - the root causes that reside deep in your subconscious mind. Through the use of individualized Trancework - hypnotherapy, ancestral healing, animist journeywork, as well as preparing for and integrating your psychedelic ceremony/therapy* - you’ll be able to remember, shift, reframe, heal and release what has become stuck; and has been acting as an obstacle or burden in your life.
By resolving the causes - the primary motivations that fuel problematic symptoms, habits, or behaviours - you’ll experience new freedom.
Your subconscious mind - your deepest nature - truly wants your deepest concerns to be understood, released, and healed. When a person is consciously unable to understand or remember for any reason, the subconscious mind continues to turn up the volume dial until it has our full attention; and you begin to experience symptoms that interfere with the daily enjoyment of your life.
By directly addressing and resolving the concerns of your subconscious mind, your conscious and subconscious become more aligned, integrated, and unified; the people I support often feel a sense of peace and internal calmness that they have never known before.
For local in-person psychedelic preparation and integration work, Eshu works in partnership with Marnie Roper, who maintains an independent counselling and energy healing practice in Duncan, BC at Ancient Origins (scroll down). You can arrange a consultation or sessions with Marnie through her Ancient Origins Booking Page.
about eshu RCH LNLPP
Allow me to be your guide and companion - a friend in the wilderness of your own subconscious mind.
For most of my life I've been fascinated by the power and capacity of the mind, and how human beings can intentionally utilize non-ordinary states of consciousness to bring about transformation and seemingly miraculous changes in how we experience our lives.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been interests of mine since childhood, and it is an honour to guide and witness the transformation that Trancework creates in the lives of those I support.
Trancework through meditation, ceremony, and ritual has been a significant part of my life. I have been exploring my own consciousness as an ordained Rinzai Zen priest and authorized teacher for 25 years.
Spiritually, I identify as an Ancestral Animist, as I believe that the foundation of reconciliation is coming to know ones own origins, and from a place of deep rootedness, building reciprocal relationships with all beings; human and other-than-human.
Transformative states of consciousness at the end-of-life is also a lifelong interest for me, and for 6 years, I was the Spiritual Health Coordinator for Victoria Hospice. Hospice is also where my interest in psychedelic therapy began by exploring the use of psilocybin at end of life. Wanting hands on experience, I trained as a mentee, and became a facilitator and mentor for the Roots to Thrive program (RTT).
Entheogenic (psychedelic) Therapies are an area of particular interest to me, and while most of these powerful medicines are currently and unreasonably illegal, I am able and delighted to provide preparation consultation and integration support for individuals who choose to engage with psychedelics for personal healing and Spiritual development.*
In my personal life, I am a father of two amazing young adults, and a Great Dane dad. I am an actor, a singer, an avid reader and storyteller, and a Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) language and culture reclaimer. I value communication, honesty, integrity, and commitment bordering on zeal. Most of all, I value magick; and for me, the transformation that is possible through the power of the human mind is the most magickal thing of all.
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Eshu was trained in Hypnotherapy at the Horizon Centre School of Hypnotherapy in Victoria, BC and is a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist with CACHE (Canadian Association of Counselling Hypnotherapists and Educators)
Eshu is a Licensed NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner with the Society of NLP; founded by NLP co-creator Richard Bandler.
About Marnie
For local in-person psychedelic preparation and integration work, Eshu works in partnership with Marnie Roper, who maintains an independent counselling and body work practice in Duncan, BC at Ancient Origins (scroll down). You can arrange a consultation or sessions with Marnie through her Ancient Origins Booking Page.
I raise my hands to the Quw’utsun First Nation and their ancestors, on whose traditional and unceded land I live and work.
I’m a descendent of early settler colonialists from Gaelic, Nordic and Germanic lineages, whose traditional cultures, languages, and relationships to land were largely lost to my family. The learning and living of decolonization, reconciliation and anti-oppression is a heart-commitment underlying my work. Integral to this is finding and uprooting in myself stories of separation and hierarchy that give rise to fear and harm – e.g. separating bodies from minds, hearts and the environment, and dividing people into a hierarchy of races and classes.
I want to work with others to call forward our ancient, earthly and cosmic stories – and co-create new ones for healing, transformation, reciprocity, kinship. Stories that open our sense of magic and beauty, that tell of the multidimensional and sacred nature of life. Stories that inspire us to build safer, sustainable, harmonious and loving social systems, which celebrate diversity and culture. Stories which invoke our reason for being, and guide us to live and die well.
Over the past 20 years I’ve trained in hospital-based spiritual care (formerly “chaplaincy”), shiatsu, reiki, therapeutic touch, gestalt and transpersonal psychotherapy, trauma-recovery, anti-racism and cultural safety, psychedelic assisted therapy, craniosacral therapy, plant spirit medicine and spirit guide collaboration. I weave these ways together using my hands, intuition, and dialogue with you, tracking and supporting your inner healing intelligence to bring good stories into embodiment.
Offerings at Ancient Origins
Free 15-minute initial greeting
Integrated Counselling and Body Work Sessions (in-person or online; 6-session discounted packages available)
Body Work (only) Sessions
Microdosing Consultations and Guided Programs
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*DISCLAIMER: Monarch Trancework does not provide psychoactive or illegal substances.
“My goals of the therapy were reached in a short time. My sleep problems and symptoms of depression were much improved and my feelings of low self-worth were dissipated.”