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Aloha.
My name is Ashtara Kukuk.
I began Codes of the Muse LLC in 2019 in a moment that
serving humanity through my own channel of Spirit
became more important than anything else I could spend my time or energy on.
I had just returned to the United States after 5 months diving deep with
Master Plants in the Peruvian Jungle,
then a summer in Alaska working with the
Tlingit Tribe to protect the Chillkat River from the mining industry,
& finally to New York to continue studying with the Mamo's from Colombia's Teyuna Tribe.
Through these processes, I was having my own biggest personal breakthroughs around healing
Childhood Trauma, later-in-life Sexual Trauma, & feeling secure to rest in my own place of power.
I finally found my way home to myself.
Before those experiences, I was no stranger to this internal work, spiritual trainings, or personal discovery either.
After graduating from James Madison MSU in 2013 with a degree in International Relations,
I chose the path of spiritual & self-discovery as my primary interest (I am a Pisces to the core after all 🐠😉). . .
Living in Yoga Ashrams, studying ceremony in Central America, training as a counselor in Internal Family Systems (IFS)
& MANY other endeavors dedicated to what I call Gnosis (Self-Knowing).
These journeys led me to uncovering both deeper aspects of the Great Mystery within myself (& each of us)
& fueling my passion for serving the hearts & minds of others.
Because before all of this.... I had tried the working within "the system"
to make an impact towards the global change my heart knew was needed.
I had interned at various Global Agencies, such at the European Union, International Court Tribunals, and a non-partisan Think Tank called The Century Foundation in NYC.
Every place left me feeling that it wasn't the systems that would make the change our Western Culture needed,
it was that the people running the systems needed healing of their bodies, souls and hearts to be
the empowered leaders we desperately need.
Only those operating from wholeness can truly be beneficial leaders to our collective.
But unfortunately, I often saw that it was hurt people trying to lead others & it was so clearly not working.
So I knew that if I wanted to be a Great Leader, which I had felt since I was 3 y.o. {declaring I wanted to be the President of the USA way back then}.... I needed to focus on coming into wholeness myself.
After 10 years with this focus, while also training how to hold space for others, leading workshops, & teaching movement modalities
I felt I had successfully CALLED MY SOUL BACK INTO MY BODY . . . And was ready to Guide others in the process.
And so Codes of the Muse was birthed.
THE FOUNDATIONS:
Plants helped me re-instate my connection to Source and cultivate a true since of Belonging.
I had been making topical medicines for a number of years to help family, friends and myself heal from
injuries, surgeries and my aunties on-going arthritis.
It felt SO right & ancient to be hand-crafting these medicines from things I wild-foraged or grew.
The witch & medicine woman in me
remembered not only how to make the balms & tinctures,
but also how to truly infuse them with prayerful codes of healing.
So birthed the Apothecary Shop.
Dance was my lifelong hobby, turned side-profession, & overall greatest Passion for
moving my energy, writing new stories of empowerment, and praying with my body.
It was the mediation that brought me into myself rather than spiraling out to a million stories of pain & hurts.
It was the expression of those hurts turned into fuel for inspiration.
While I had turned professional dancer at age 16, & began to travel working for the Universal Dance Association at age 18, it was finding practices like Ecstatic Dance & Contact Improv at age 23 that truly awakened me to the healing and spiritual experience of community dance.
I dove into them fully; training and touring for this purpose alone.
I learned to feel safe being touched and touching others,
I learned intimacy,
& I first-hand experienced the power of these ancient practices of
Song & Dance that upheld societies from the beginning of time.
Movement is now a foundation to how I support people both individually & in groups.
And somatic psychology modalities helped me make SENSE of my internal landscape &
integrate my most traumatic experiences and wildest of events.
From disembodied stories of childhood pains, years of blacking out with alcohol in attempt to feel something, a very wound up sympathetic nervous system, & painful recalls of sexual assault; I needed a loving presence to counsel me back to Authentic Living.
I found this through what modern psychology called "Parts Work."
Understanding the many voices speaking simultaneously within myself & learning how to get these various "Parts" on-board with each other (rather than competing with one another in getting their needs and strategies met) has changed my life & sense of Self for the better.
In response to this positive impact it gave me, I completed my Talking Hearts Counselor Certification in the summer of 2021 and continue to assist for trainings with the program in Maui, Hawaii.
I also now confidently hold space for other's in the meeting of their many Selves to create coherent and organization within this internal system.
I love this work because an organized body & psyche is how we land in an organized world of equality & love.
By combining these 3 avenues,
Plants, Embodiment & Psychology,
Codes of the Muse found its foundation.
I am so passionate about the healing of our species.
The re-empowerment of our humanity.
The remembrance of our Conscious Creator roll in the fabric of existence.
I want to guide others home to this remembrance, this crystal heart of service, out of pain/trauma/victim into the fullness of who YOU are.
You are the answer to your greatest prayers.
Let's work & play together to remember what that truly means.
Send me an email today if any of my journey sparked remembrance of pieces of your story or if you'd like support in the process of Calling Your Soul Back Home.
I AM WITH YOU 100% through your darkness and your light.
All Is Welcomed.
xxx
Ashtara
THE FOUNDATIONS:
Plants helped me re-instate my connection to Source and cultivate a true since of Belonging.
I had been making topical medicines for a number of years to help family, friends and myself heal from
injuries, surgeries and my aunties on-going arthritis.
It felt SO right & ancient to be hand-crafting these medicines from things I wild-foraged or grew.
The witch & medicine woman in me
remembered not only how to make the balms & tinctures,
but also how to truly infuse them with prayerful codes of healing.
So birthed the Apothecary Shop.
Dance was my lifelong hobby, turned side-profession, & overall greatest Passion for
moving my energy, writing new stories of empowerment, and praying with my body.
It was the mediation that brought me into myself rather than spiraling out to a million stories of pain & hurts.
It was the expression of those hurts turned into fuel for inspiration.
While I had turned professional dancer at age 16, & began to travel working for the Universal Dance Association at age 18, it was finding practices like Ecstatic Dance & Contact Improv at age 23 that truly awakened me to the healing and spiritual experience of community dance.
I dove into them fully; training and touring for this purpose alone.
I learned to feel safe being touched and touching others,
I learned intimacy,
& I first-hand experienced the power of these ancient practices of
Song & Dance that upheld societies from the beginning of time.
Movement is now a foundation to how I support people both individually & in groups.
And somatic psychology modalities helped me make SENSE of my internal landscape &
integrate my most traumatic experiences and wildest of events.
From disembodied stories of childhood pains, years of blacking out with alcohol in attempt to feel something, a very wound up sympathetic nervous system, & painful recalls of sexual assault; I needed a loving presence to counsel me back to Authentic Living.
I found this through what modern psychology called "Parts Work."
Understanding the many voices speaking simultaneously within myself & learning how to get these various "Parts" on-board with each other (rather than competing with one another in getting their needs and strategies met) has changed my life & sense of Self for the better.
In response to this positive impact it gave me, I completed my Talking Hearts Counselor Certification in the summer of 2021 and continue to assist for trainings with the program in Maui, Hawaii.
I also now confidently hold space for other's in the meeting of their many Selves to create coherent and organization within this internal system.
I love this work because an organized body & psyche is how we land in an organized world of equality & love.
By combining these 3 avenues,
Plants, Embodiment & Psychology,
Codes of the Muse found its foundation.
I am so passionate about the healing of our species.
The re-empowerment of our humanity.
The remembrance of our Conscious Creator roll in the fabric of existence.
I want to guide others home to this remembrance, this crystal heart of service, out of pain/trauma/victim into the fullness of who YOU are.
You are the answer to your greatest prayers.
Let's work & play together to remember what that truly means.
Send me an email today if any of my journey sparked remembrance of pieces of your story or if you'd like support in the process of Calling Your Soul Back Home.
I AM WITH YOU 100% through your darkness and your light.
All Is Welcomed.
xxx
Ashtara
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