A Somatic Spiritual Approach
Remembering Wholeness
Enter a sacred, body-oriented, soul-directed conversation with your body and spirit, inviting yourself to feel, embody, and honour the inner wisdom already present.
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The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved.
It simply wants to be witnessed – to be seen, heard, and companioned exactly as it is.
~Parker J. Palmer
Key Concepts
This is an introduction to how we will work together—learning to listen to the body, honouring the spirit, and nurturing the bridge between them.
Somatic
The body as living presence, the seat from which we experience consciousness. Through it, we sense the seen and unseen, the subtle currents of life. The soma (body) is our compass of safety, desire, and action, the vessel through which we move, feel, and respond—anchoring awareness in the present moment.
The Bridge
The approach is the process of holding space with gentle witness and support, offering encouragement, guidance, and experiments. It honours your strength and wholeness while helping to form and strengthen the bridge between body and spirit, cultivating balance, harmony, and flow in your everyday life.
Spiritual
The unseen, subtle fabric of existence—the intelligent, loving design of the universe. Spirit is life force, love, soul, the memory of eternity, extending beyond time and space, connecting all that is, and guiding our evolution and removing obstacles to love..
I will not rescue you, for you are not powerless.
I will not fix you, for you are not broken.
I will not heal you, for I see you in your wholeness.
I will walk with you through the darkness as you remember your light.
- A Medicine Woman’s Prayer
Judi Blum
I support individuals to connect with their deepest wisdom by harmonizing the head, heart, and gut brains, integrating thinking, emotions, and sensations beyond the limits of the mind alone.Through the use of gentle, proven, neuroscience-based techniques, I create a safe and expansive environment for you to explore and embrace your wholeness.Drawing from more than 30 years of experience and training in personal growth and wellness, I am well-equipped to guide you on this transformative journey.
Services
Step into a space that fosters integration, growth,
and the embodiment of wholeness.
Private Sessions
Allowing Wholeness is an opportunity to enter into a space where you can slow down and listen to what your body and spirit know about what needs to be felt and integrated, and what wants to emerge in the creation of your meaningful life.
Resources & Tools
Wired for Wholeness is an online forum offering support between sessions and for anyone who wants to explore. Discover our eleven Wholeness Companions, Rewire for Resilience, The Embodiment Experience, and Anatomy of Wholeness.
Workshops
If you'd like to organize an in-person or online group to meet our Wholeness Companions, we can explore both the intellectual concepts and the embodied experience of our neurological partners that support and guide us all.
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Allowing Wholeness
Coming home to your body. Coming home to your Being.
In our one-on-one sessions, we slow down and listen with compassion to what your body and spirit are ready to reveal.Together, we create a brave, grounded space where curiosity replaces judgment and wholeness can emerge.
Why You Might Be Here
You may feel a longing that’s hard to name — a desire to live from a deeper place, to ease inner tension, and to feel more at home in your body, your relationships, and the world.You might wonder, Who am I, really? What am I here for?You sense there’s more to life than constant doing, and you’re ready to listen differently.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you~Rumi
The Forgetting
Our culture prizes independence, logic, and productivity — but this often disconnects us from what truly matters.We’ve learned to trust our minds more than our bodies, to chase perfection instead of peace.We think our way through life when what’s needed is space to feel.Over time, the body tightens, the spirit quiets, and we forget what it means to simply be.There is another way — softening, slowing down, and letting the body and spirit guide the mind.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.~Carl Rogers
The Process
Allowing Wholeness invites you to come home to yourself.Through somatic spiritual coaching, we explore the language of the body, the wisdom of Spirit, and the patterns ready to shift.In each 90-minute session, we tend to your soul and create practices that help rewire your system toward calm, resilience, and embodied wholeness.You are not broken and do not need fixing. You are whole — remembering.Ready to begin your journey?
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.~Lao Tse
Wired for Wholeness
Four free programs to support your process in coming home to Self.
Our Wholeness Companions
Befriend and harmonize with your eleven neurological partners through interviews, audio-visual files and playlists.My heartfelt appreciation to Jill Bolte Taylor, Jan Winhall, and Richard Schwartz (IFS) for their inspiring work and foundational teachings, which have greatly influenced the development of these Wholeness Companions. Their contributions have been instrumental in shaping and enriching this program, and I am grateful for the wisdom and insights they have shared.
Rewire for Resilience
Discover easy-to-use and readily available tools that can help rewire your nervous system.Whether you're looking to cultivate tranquility or boost your energy levels, this collection offers everyday resources to optimize your system. Additionally, explore techniques to enhance resilience, foster connections, and sharpen your focus, all aimed at influencing your nervous system in positive ways.
The Embodiment Experience
Ten practices to connect with yourself from within.The Experiences
-A meeting with our Backbone Parent: Core Values and Virtues
-A of cup of tea with our Grandmother: Heart-Belly Breath
-A conversation between Backbone Parent and Grandma: Core Desired Feelings
-A playdate with our Old Friend and Innocent Child: Body Sensations
-A Family Reunion: Resources
-At the park with our Scared Child and our Grandmother: Building Resilience
-Getting to know our Old Friend: The Felt Sense
-When things work: Wellness Tools Assessment and Plan
-Self, others, the world, and Something Greater: Connection
-Putting it all together: Reflections on a life event.
Anatomy of Wholeness
Here you will benefit from a comprehensive library of the psychoneurology underpinning this Somatic Spiritual approach.You can learn about:The Brain in the HeadPolyvagal TheoryThe Brain in the BodyInner World in the WorldGlossary of Terms
Workshops
Come together. Explore Wholeness. Embody your fullest self.
Gathering is an essential part of our Wholeness practice. Life expands in ways that are not accessible when we are alone. Your participation in these workshops is valued and fundamental to our emergence as a connected, well community. Thank you for your courage to circle up, to trust, and to fully show up.
Wholeness Circles
We gather to explore and experience our Wholeness Companions. In an intimate circle, we share how these neurologically-based partners impact our lives and how we might embody balanced expressions of these integral parts of ourselves.
There are currently no active circles. If you’re interested in forming one — online or in the Eastern Townships of Quebec — please email me, and we’ll explore creating one together.
The Longing
What you seek is seeking you
You will meet the three faces of The Divine:
The Infinite Face
The Intimate Face
The Inner FaceThrough contemplation, poetry, movement, and art, we sense into our understanding and embodiment.The Intention
This is a space to repair, begin, or deepen your connection with Something Greater.
Workshops are offered throughout the year and can be scheduled to suit your needs of your group.
Judi Blum
Somatic Spiritual Coach
During our time together, you will discover that you have inner wisdom, connect with the experience of it, and validate it so you can move forward living the life you want.
My work is like that of a doula as I have come to understand that it is of your doing, not mine when your insights emerge, when your attachments are released, when new ways of being are discovered, and your body reshapes around more realistic, nourishing beliefs. You are doing the work. My role is more like that of a doula. I partner with you to support the natural emergent process through exploration. Ultimately, it is you who looks inside, contacts the mystery, suspends old reactions, gently experiences the pain, and considers how to integrate your wholeness into your everyday world.
MY CREDS
Life-long learner
Remembership, The Somatic School, 2023-24Certified Body-Oriented Coach, The Somatic School, 2022Deepening Practice, Center for Transformational Coaching, 2022Certified Deep Transformational Coach, Center for Transformational Coaching, 2021Certified Inter-Spiritual Counsellor, One Spirit Learning Alliance, 2019Certified Chiropractic Wellness Practitioner, International Chiropractors Association, 2008Active Chiropractic Practice, 1997-2021Doctor of Chiropractic, Palmer College, 1994 (retired, 2021)Member, Academy of Naturopaths & Naturotherapists of Canada, since 2021
WHAT MAKES ME SPARKLE
My inner fairy
My three adult children who teach me so much about trusting life and following one's calling.My friends who are my biggest cheerleaders and my collaborators in unpacking this mystery of Life.Communing with natureAuthentic movementDeep dives into psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and quantum physicsAnything about wellness and holistic living'A-ha' moments, my own and others'Creation storiesRipe, juicy mangosPotty jokes
MY DEEPEST VALUES
In no particular order
Integrity
Finding meaning
Love
Familly
Self-awareness
Authenticity
Reverence
Compassion
Trustworthiness
Dignity
Community
Freedom
Devotion
MY WHY
The Longing
For almost 4 decades, I have passionately explored various spiritual and intellectual paths, motivated by an inexplicable longing to better understand why we are here, where we come from, and where we are going.My life, like yours, is a multi-faceted gem. My jewel's different faces have included, or include: Jewish roots, biology graduate, born-again Pentecostal Christian, new ager, agnostic, holistic chiropractor, mother, student of A Course in Miracles, Inter-Spiritual Minister Training, Shamanic explorations, coach, entheogenic journeys, deep somatic direct experience of the divine (Mysticism), Rosicrucianism and the Essene Tradition. I have profound gratitude for all these turns on the spiral of my life of acquired wisdom. Each one has brought me greater awareness to how I navigate the world of form and formlessness simultaneously. My journey continues to release me from the tyranny of 'either/or' into the freedom of 'both/and'.As a holistic chiropractor for 20+ years, I observed many of my clients struggling with physical dis-ease, unsatisfied cravings, unhealthy relationships, etc. Upon deeper inquiry, I sensed that many had a yearning for deeper meaning in life. I wondered if developing the connection to Self, others, the world, and Something Greater, would increase ease, wellness and joy.These personal and professional experiences inspired me to unearth my own wholeness by exploring both my shadowy parts and the divine spark within. My trainings as an Inter-spiritual Counsellor, Deep Transformational Coach, and Body-Oriented Coach, were not simply about how to support other folks; fortunately, the teachings were experiential. In other words, I had to do my own work. As a practitioner, I only suggest what I have applied to my own life. This continues to be my practice. I show up whole for you.
What is Deep Transformational Coaching?
According to the Center for Transformational Coaching, together we “create a sacred, enlivening space in which a revolution & renewal of one’s self-identity can unfold naturally, and with the greatest amount of ease & joy. We drop below the thinking mind & into the realm of our innermost intelligence: the intelligence of the heart (our spiritual heart) & the life force or evolutionary consciousness that is alive within all of us.”
What is Body-Oriented (Somatic) Coaching?
According to The Somatic School, body oriented coaching makes available the whole spectrum of the bodymind, allowing creative and spontaneous ways of working that are rooted in experience, deeply felt, engaging and transformative.
What is Spiritual Companioning?
According to One Spirt Learning Alliance, a Spiritual Companion offers “support to spiritual seekers in cultivating their inner wisdom as they explore the meaning of life, love, compassion, and inner peace; seek clarity about their purpose and place in the world; and nurture their relationship with the Divine, known by many names.”
What is Spirit?
According to Leon VanderPol, the Founder of The Center for Transformational Coaching, “... I use the word (with a capital S) as an umbrella term, a label to denote the greater consciousness, presence, or evolutionary intelligence that guides us on our path and sustains our very existence. Depending on your belief system, Spirit could go by any of a number of names: God, the Divine, Source, Brahman, Creator, Supreme Being, Universal Consciousness or Mind, Divine Presence, Ground of Being, Breath of Life, Guiding Light, and more. All of these are generally pointing to the same thing, and so you are free to decide and define what Spirit means to you.”
What if I do not believe in Spirit or God?
It is not necessary to believe in Spirit, God, or anything outside of yourself to take this journey. You may consider how you feel about having a Higher Self or Soul, a part of yourself that knows what is best beyond the everyday stressors, past traumas and future worries.
How should I prepare for my session?
I invite you to come as you are and encourage you to be as comfortable as possible.
Please consider these tips for online sessions:
-Grab any essentials (water, journal, tissues)
-Arrive well-hydrated & in comfortable clothing that you can move in
-Find a quiet space that offers privacy and comfort
-Remove distractions and silence device notifications
-Check your device connectivity and power supply
-Assure that Google Meet is set-up for use
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For in-person sessions:
-Arrive well-hydrated and in comfortable clothing that you can move in
-Silence device notifications
-Bring a favourite item(s) if you feel led to co-create the sacred space
-Bring a journal to note down your important take-aways.
If we meet online or in-person, please assure some quiet time after our session to journal, contemplate or rest. This is important for integration into your nervous system.
What happens during an Allowing Wholeness session?
Our sessions flow through this general format:
Welcome We (re)connect with one another & our previous work, if applicable
Centering We slow down to deepen presence & connection to Self, each other & Spirit
Intention We create space to listen & speak from our hearts
Exploration We explore what is ready to emerge & be known
Close We acknowledge what was learned & experienced
Whether we meet online or in person, I encourage you to stay present with your heart by keeping your eyes closed when needed. We may get up to use the space we are in, as well as objects within it. Please assure a private and spacious environment free of distractions. Our session can last between 60-90 minutes, as needed.
What happens after a session?
-You are encouraged to take some quiet time to sit in silence or journal about your insights & shifts.
-I will direct message you your session notes for reflection. This is also where you can ask questions or seek clarification.
-Please sign-up (free) and log-in to Wired for Wholeness! This is your hub of resources:
-Exploring our Wholeness Companions will support the insights of your session. Knowing that the voices in our head are a normal part of our neurology allows for more agency in creating new choices. This information allows for the formation of a healthy team within.
-The Embodiment Experiences offer support in deepening the internal dialogue with your True Self.
-Rewired for Resilience practices offer short moments to continue to shift your nervous system to greater ease and adaptability.
How many sessions do I need?
Our journey together will be customized to fit you, your goals, & your life.
We all know that going to the gym only once does not create long term change. The same is true with our work together. Although one session can be transformational, to create real lasting change practice is needed. For optimal results, it will be important to commit to a coaching plan—one that helps you make lasting changes through consistent practice & dedicated support.
How do I schedule?
Feel free to click here [https://tidycal.com/judiblum] and schedule online. Contact me if the times you see do not suit you. I will do my best to find another time.
You can schedule directly with me:
514-806-7292
Once you schedule, you will receive an email confirmation with a form to fill out before your first session.
A pre-session form is also in your email for subsequent sessions. Please take the time to complete this in order to arrive with more clarity of what is alive for you in your exploration.
What are your payment details?
My professional fee for a 90 minute session is 125 Canadian dollars.
-3 sessions, to be used within 12 months, (10% discount): $337.50 CAD paid in advance.
-15 sessions, to be used within 12 months, (15% discount): $1593.75 CAD, paid in advance.
Cash & checks are welcome in-person.
Canadians will receive an invoice for a bank transfer payable to [email protected]
International clients will receive an invoice to settle via Stripe.
Receipts will be issued under Naturopathy (N.D.). Please let me know if you need a receipt.
What is your cancellation policy?
You may cancel up to 6 hours before our session start time.
I have a no refund policy; your payment will be applied to a future session or can be gifted to someone within 1 year. If you cancel late, forget to cancel, don’t show up, or show up later than 15 minutes without notice, your session will not be eligible for rescheduling and you will lose the paid value of that session. I will make exceptions to this policy in the case of medical or family emergencies.
I also reserve the right to cancel sessions due to any serious issues on my end and will coordinate with you to reschedule if this occurs.