Meditating on Genderqueer and Tools for Healing

Last updated on: January 8, 2015 at 1:13 pm by Melissa Hill

Meditating on Genderqueer and Tools for Healing 2015-01-08T13:13:00-04:00 Melissa Hill

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Transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, intersex, non-gendered, third gendered, gender-fluid.

Read those words again. Let yourself feel how you react to them. Are they comfortable words or words that challenge you? Each tells a different but related story. All too often these words tell stories of pain and misunderstanding. Words have power and these words are powerful indeed. They have the power to kill, and the power to change a life for the better.

I have known a number of people who had a gender identity that was not either male or female, or that changed their identity in their lives. One thing I have seen, again and again is that these people are truly expressing who they are in a world that has no place for them.

To identify as genderqueer is to be excluded, silenced, hidden, hated. It is to be killed in the dark alone. It is to be unable to find a place to fit at work. Never mind the challenges of attempting to be honest about who one is and how one fits in the world when the honest answer is something that is so unacceptable to the average human.

I am not genderqueer or intersexed, but I have family and friends who are. One thing they’ve all had in common was pain and hurt from the misunderstanding and cruelty of their fellow man. Often from their parents and those who should have been closest to them. I was talking with my Joanna one day and I wanted to share what I had learned in my decades of studying mysticism and spirituality. I wanted to teach her the skills that I had learned because I saw how badly she needed them. I have used meditation, trancework, and devotional practices in my own life and shared them with many others. Even though I am not genderqueer I am a priestess and I can teach those skills to those in need.

Thus was an idea born, to teach the skills of the mystic to those who live in liminality every day.

And so, starting next month I will be teaching a monthly class at the Pagan Pathways Temple. I hope to create a safe space for all who are exploring a fluid gender, found a new one, or are just interested in meditation and transformation as an ally and a friend.

I will be running a six week course in Meditation and Trancework for Healing focused specifically on the needs of those in transition, who have transitioned or those who have experienced or are interested in gender fluidity.

We will be focusing on building fundamental techniques that are proven to create calm and healing. Each lesson will build on the last and will culminate in a healing ritual designed by the participants.

Participants will learn:

Counted breathing techniques

Anchoring emotional states

Multiple styles of grounding and centering techniques including tree of life and energy wheels.

Introduction into trance visioning

Galdoring and vocal entrancement

Astral body work including healing and protection techniques

Those who participate will be given access to recording of all guided meditations, copies of ritual work and handouts, and access to a class Facebook support group where at home practices can be shared and learning can continue. Please share this with anyone you believe might be interested in this work.

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