Tier 1 of The Way of Grace
Meditations for Healing and Awakening
- Cultivating Calm, Curiosity, and CompassionParts -
Participation in this tier builds a fundamental capacity: the ability to notice when you are in a part, and to find, even briefly, even imperfectly, the quality of awareness that is not the part.
The theory sounds simple, but the practice is not!
Understanding IFS conceptually is not enough, one needs the repeated, rhythmic, bodily experience of unblending: a part stepping back, and something more spacious becoming available. The Parts Meditations create this experience, again and again, until your nervous system entrains it as a pathway. This is the foundation everything else is built on. It cannot be skipped, and there is no rush through it.
This speaks to the familiar experience of accessing Self energy in held containers (1-2-1 therapy, workshops, retreats) but finding that the glow fades, the old patterns creep back in, and maintaining and truly integrating the shifts you experience is not guaranteed regardless of how profound the glimpses are.
This membership bridges this gap - meeting yourself in the many ordinary moments between the glimpses, you learn for yourself the pathway to integration and embodiment by practicing the move from the default mode to accessing your Self.
This practice is compatible with most other inner-work, and aims to deepen, support, and integrate alongside so that you can make best use of those containers.
Accessing Self is for you if:
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You are new to experiential parts work, or new to working with Kripa, and want to begin gently.
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You are in 1-2-1 IFS work or other healing work with Kripa or another practitioner/therapist and would like to integrate with parts work between sessions.
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You understand IFS conceptually but want an experiential and embodied practice of it - to actually feel it.
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You are not yet sure you can hold group space, but you want to work towards it, or are in a season of preferring solo work.
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You have been through something significant (an awakening, a loss, a collapse) and want structured containment to come home to yourself at your own pace.
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You were in Tier 2: Integrating Self or Tier 3: Self in Service and want an integration pause, or to meet current financial or life demands, yet want to keep the thread alive.
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You are interested in Tier 2 or 3 and would like to dip your toes in first.
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£33 per month is affordable.
If you already have a felt, reliable relationship with your parts and consistent access to Self energy and are ready for transformation you belong in Tier 2: Integrating Self.
What's included
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Guided Parts Meditations
Three live guided Parts Meditations per week, three weeks of the month, in a pattern that leaves space for integrating this into an independent practice, (3 months per year with no live calls where you're encouraged to use the growing library of all past meditations) designed to meet you in many of the moments of life where you need support.
Each meditation offers a self-led container to build and strengthen relationships with the parts in your system who need it most. Meditations may focus on supporting you to build relationships and trust with protectors, to check in with and nurture recently healed exiles, to map out connections and relationships between parts, to unblend from parts so more Self energy is available, and to support more harmony in your overall system of parts and Self.
Meditations are approximately 15 mins, I recommend budgeting 30 mins of your time as calls may offer optional contributions to choose the focus of the meditation and an optional chance for reflection meaning live calls can be up to 30mins long.
You will be welcomed into the member community space in the app - you can book all your calls from the app, and check in there for updates and to contribute.
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Access to book PAYG group calls
PAYG access to selected Tier 2 live sessions is also available, so the door to deeper work stays open without requiring commitment before you are ready.
Check out Tier 2, Integrating Self to read about the group calls you can access with a discount as a Tier 1 member.
What shifts: confusion to awareness
Not awareness in the intellectual sense. Awareness in the embodied, real-time sense.
You begin to notice that something is happening before you are already inside it. A small but reliable gap opens between activation and reaction. You begin to feel the difference between being identified with a part and being present with a part.
When that gap opens, everything else becomes possible - the ability to choose new responses, to stay present in sticky relational moments, to orient with integrity to your values... all of this requires that gap - that gap is where the meaningful relationship with your inner world happens. Building relationships with your parts can change your entire operating system to be more supportive of your intentions.
Before this capacity can be engrained and easeful we often need co-regulation through resonance, being in the presence of others who can attune to you and support you to regulate teaches your nervous system how.
Through repeating the embodied experience of unblending from parts that enact survival strategies and accessing Self energy, you entrain the experience of safety here and now. Once you have enough practice of this, where things not only feel better but actually go better, your parts, and your nervous system, start to trust it, believing that it is safe enough to soften the self-protection. This is where true healing begins.
When you are ready for more
You will know you are ready for Tier 2 when you have a felt sense, not just an intellectual understanding, of what Self energy is. When you can sometimes catch yourself in a part before you are fully inside it. When group space feels like an opportunity rather than a threat.
There is no timeline - just rhythm. Take however long you need here until you have a solid foundation.
With that foundation in place, you are also welcome to stay with Tier one until the external circumstances of your life (the affordability, time spaciousness, and available attention) are also supportive of Tier 2. Tier one can go with you as deep as you like - while the main aim is accessing Self, with Self accessed there is no end to how you can use the meditations to curate your inner system, support your inner family, and do your inner work.
These are not "beginner" meditations, and each re-listen can bring new gems. Enjoy it as long as it feels supportive!