FAQs

Yes! If you're in the New York area, please reach out and I'd look forward to discussing private individual sessions, private groups, events, or corporate offsites for meditation and/or breathwork.

Please reach out for in-person sessions before booking a slot on the calendar. For somatic or breathwork sessions, I encourage meeting in-person over online for those in the area.

In-person sessions have a higher rate as it is increasingly more expensive to rent space in NYC.

I teach trauma-informed practices that can be adapted to a range of experiences and needs. Thus, I can work with anyone on meditation, mindfulness techniques, and functional or corrective breathing exercises, going as gently as your history and present moment experience requires. We can even begin with more active or dynamic practices, so there is a range of ways we can approach this work.

For somatic and trauma-release oriented breathwork, there is a health history form you will need to complete, including reviewing contraindications which may determine that it's not a safe fit for you. We will always begin by discussing this form and what work and approach suits you best. You should always consult your primary care physician if unsure about your specific medical situation of course.

Sessions and pacing are always unique to each client and their own nervous system, so I work with more stabilizing somatic techniques like Somatic Experiencing before moving into breathwork or brainspotting if and as needed.

Please reach out using the contact form above for any questions and I'd be happy to help!

No, coaching and therapy are separate modalities. Coaching has more of an emphasis on conscious action and goals. My sessions are not the fluffy motivational kind of coaching though and my foundation is psychosynthesis, so is not superficial or just about hyping you up. My work is about exploring who you are before anything that's happened to you or before life's conditioning and opening fully to all your complexity and letting your intuition guide you.

Psychosynthesis in particular is about integrating the lower unconscious shadows and traumas with the higher unconscious ideals and future aspirations, and this is largely my approach.

I am not a psychologist, licensed therapist, or psychiatrist, and these services do not substitute for that type of medical care. The Cyclical Seed is alternative and contemplative, holistic healing, so not traditional by design.

You'll need to have an inner sense of motivation and willingness to do the work for sessions to be truly beneficial for you and a sense of real grounding and healing before true spiritual exploration, or it's just a delusion.

If I don't think we'd be a good fit working together or there is something out of my scope of work, I will be up front and kindly let you know.

Check out the About page for just some of my trainings and certifications, as I take working with clients and continuous learning seriously and ask me about my self-implemented best practices and client confidentiality.

The body is the vehicle for us to experience, to live and to feel.

Somatic healing is an approach that focuses on the connection between the mind and body to help release trauma, stress, and emotions. It works on the idea that our experiences, particularly the ones that are hard to be present with, are stored in the body, or rather create layers of defense, protection, and compensation patterns that keep us in a sense of feeling stuck.

Healing can come from addressing this through the power of physical sensations and emotional feelings. Emotions that we allow ourselves to feel, using the body as the vehicle, flow through us and complete on their own. Notice how you get butterflies in your belly when you’re nervous, teary eyed when sad, flush when angry, etc. These are the body’s physiological responses to emotions moving through us.

Trauma overwhelms the nervous system and prevents our natural physiological response to the experience to complete. This makes the autonomic nervous system rigid, stuck in the experience of the past, and the life force of the individual unable to freely express. So somatic healing empowers our innate ability to resolve and release trauma on its own, shedding those defensive blocks and returning to our true self.

Somatic healing like somatic experiencing and breathwork are bottom-up methods, rather than top-down methods like talk therapy.

Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive and self-protective or survival response. To heal trauma is to restore a sense of safety.

Our impulses to traumatic experiences need to be expressed and the emotions realized so the autonomic nervous system’s cyclical process can complete. By completing these impulses, feeling what needed to be felt through compassionate presence, and shedding layers of false identity, we can reconnect to our heart and true self which is innately healing and resilient.

Trauma can be acute/shock based that’s from a specific event, developmental based from our early life experiences, or from chronic stress and repressed authentic emotions overtime.

From my perspective, all trauma science and trauma healing is about actual healing, so although not everyone has experienced or identifies with explicit trauma, the inability to be present and be your authentic self is something far more universal.

Don’t get caught up in calling every part of you a trauma response though as that’s not helpful. Instead, use this knowledge as liberation to understand your nervous and attachment systems had initially been responding in a way to protect you. And now, if you’re ready to change, you can do something new. I’d be honored to support you on that journey with this work.

Everything.

All ways of healing have roots in mysticism and contemplative self-healing practices. This is the universal and eternal wisdom of loving presence and aligning with the will of your authentic heart.

The religions and spirituality are meant to be psychological, and psychology and therapy are meant to be spiritual. Both have lost their way.

And without a spiritual perspective, healing will always be temporary, because you will never be able to be something other than your trauma, something other than what happened to you, or other than the defensive patterns you’ve picked up. You are pure will, a center of awareness in an endless state of becoming, and contain an infinite reservoir of loving and compassionate presence. Those are the ingredients in which we heal, not some clinical framework that will ‘fix you’ as you are not just a series of attributes nor pathologies.

Conversely, spirituality is not a means of escapism; that’s delusion. Spirituality is you connecting to the reason you are here, your heart’s will.

Physical products, including journals, are eligible for exchange or return for any damaged product within 30-days of purchase from The Cyclical Seed® site.

All service-based offerings, digital products, sessions, and courses are considered final sale and refunds are not accepted.

Online sessions can be rescheduled up to six hours in advance using the link in the confirmation email. Within six hours of the session, you will need to re-purchase and order a new appointment to schedule.

In-person sessions can be rescheduled up to 24 hours in advance using the link in the confirmation email. Within 24 hours of the session, you will need to re-purchase and order a new appointment to schedule.

I am not a psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor and these services do not substitute for that care.

Mindfulness, meditation, breathing exercises, breathwork, reiki, coaching, astrology services, somatic experiencing, yoga, psychosynthesis coaching, brainspotting, or any other services provided by The Cyclical Seed or Susan Reis do not diagnose, cure, prevent or treat disease. The services offered are not intended for medical treatment. Please consult with a professional for medical or psychiatric care. Please consult a licensed therapist for licensed therapy care.

The Cyclical Seed offers alternative, spiritual, and somatic based growth sessions, relying largely on spiritual practices that are innate to the human experience. This work is not about medical treatments nor treating medical conditions. Instead, this work depends on your own desire to create change in your yourself.

If you have a medical condition or concern, please consult a licensed health care professional. The business is not qualified to give legal, financial, business, medical, psychiatric, or any other specialist advice.

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Last updated April 12, 2025