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Traditional Soulwork
A Path To Embodied Change
"I've stopped trying to fix myself. Stopped being at war with my life and started being part of how it's shaping me. " ~ Kathleen, Portland OR
There are moments in life when we sense that something deeper is trying to shape us through what we are living. Yet many of us have lost our relationship to the deeper meaning and underlying movement shaping our lives.
Perspectives
Drawing from indigenous wisdom, Eastern philosophy, archetypal psychology, and ancestral ways of relating to life, we view your path as something living... an unfolding relationship between your inner world, your wounds, your gifts, and the deeper intelligence moving through your life.
We call this path your Suk’waya... the living thread of your becoming.
“Sometimes the path we are walking is also the path that is shaping us into who we are becoming.”
Where therapeutic work may help address distress, patterns, or trauma, our work explores how life experiences are also gateways into deeper meaning, transformation, and our Suk'waya.
Rather than asking, "What needs to be fixed?"
We explore:
How is your current experience inviting you into new relationship with yourself... your gifts and wounds... with what you're here to truly live?
We ask, "How has the life you've lived and the experiences therein shaped you?
What is seeking to emerge through your present season of life?"
“At some point, many of us begin to ask a different kind of question... not just ‘How do I get through life?’ but ‘What is my life trying to shape within me?’”
The Methods
Through skilled inquiry, reflective dialogue, storytelling, ritual, and symbolic understanding, we help you recognize the archetypal patterns, mythic themes, and unconscious beliefs influencing your journey.
Together, we work with timeless maps and embodied practices that help you walk your path consciously... not as a passive recipient of fate, but as an active participant in your own unfolding.
This is not about becoming someone else. It is about learning how to walk in deeper relationship with who you already are becoming.
becoming.
“Chivito’s questions shift my perspective so completely I can’t go back to the old pattern.”
— Bill S., Tucson
What Change You'll Feel:
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Old stories loosen their grip; clarity rises
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Anchored in the Story being lived through you that is yours alone
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Healing, Integrating and Becoming Whole
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A sense of clear direction and a map to follow
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Deeper connection and belonging to your life path
Your Session Entails:
Sessions are typically 60 - 90 mins and are either in person or by phone. Others are held in nature. Each session is unique and greets you with where you are.
CORE ELEMENTS OF OUR METHODOLOGY:
🔹 Rooted in Lived Initiation
This work is grounded in direct experience—not theory.
Practitioners have undergone traditional rites of passage, wilderness vision fasts, grief rituals, and long-term mentorship with elders. We don’t speak about transformation—we’ve walked it.
🔹 Professional Depth & Embodied Practice
Certified in Psychology, Eastern Medicine, and Facilitation, this work goes beyond academic credentials. Every tool offered has been tested in the field—through guiding others, and through living it ourselves.
🔹 Mythic Orientation
We don’t pathologize.
Instead, we track your personal myth—following patterns, symbolic cycles, and developmental thresholds. You gain language and perspective for the deeper story shaping your life.
🔹 Ancestral & Earth-Based Framework
This work honors the unseen world, the land beneath us, and the old ways that remember life as intelligent and sacred.
It is ceremonial by nature, and rooted in something far older than self-help.
TESTIMONIALS
"There is expression vs words that are deeply felt when being guided by Chivito Cowa. I have come home to my remembering in such an intimate way that no other guide has been able to offer, until I met Chivito. I've experienced many programs (journey's rather) under his guidance and each one has unlocked doorways within my soul that I never thought possible. He truly shares from a well of wisdom and celebrates you every step of the way. Anyone looking to explore their inner and outer landscape would benefit grateful from Chivito's guidance and teachings. There is so much more I can share, but trust that you are in good hands and will be deeply grateful for the work you experience with him."
Delia Spirit Bear
"I whole-heartedly and soulfully recommend working with Chivito Cowa. He is a true gem and a living embodiment of spirit. He has a powerful, unique gift of intuiting what people are missing and deeply yearning for in today's society and is magically (I can think of no other word to describe his process) able to provide a path to reclaiming that in the form of horizontal guidance. It's a totally empowering, inspiring "we're in this together but each have our unique journey" vibe. His ability to cultivate a sangha while also providing concrete suggestions for moving through all that comes up in the soul-spelunking deep dives that you are in for when you sign up for this ride is truly saving the world by helping souls reconnect with their essence- the ultimate calling. I'm so glad I answered and got Chivito on the other end"
Laura Tousaint
"I encourage anyone who struggles to find the beauty in life to consider any of Chivito’s Courses. It is salve for your soul. The stories, the struggles, the heartbreaks, they are the medicine of your life. This was news to me. Awakening the sage within changed my life. I now have a new lens with which in interact and receive the world. Chivito is a gentle, insightful teacher and guide. He is connected with nature and ancient teaching and uses these tools to walk you inward, to find the magic that is inside of you, inside your life."
Jennifer Pledger
"I’ve been a mentee of Chivito’s for the past 14 years, and he is by far, the more impactful person I’ve had in my life. His wisdom, teachings, and writing, have helped equip me with powerful tools that shaped me into the leader I am today.
His craft is vast, his applications are enjoyable to hear/read/experience, his heart is pure, and he literally LIVES what he preaches.
Chivito is an extraordinary example of ‘how to live a life connected’. I’m so excited for him to publish, so more people may be nourished by his wisdom and all his many years’ dedication to being of service to others."
Deep Bow Chivitoji & My Deepest of Thanks!!
Niene Pugliano