Primordial Love
Spiritual Counsel with Maren Aspaas, MA, MDiv.
Private one-on-one guidance, mentorship, and support.
Welcome! I am glad you have come across my work. My name is Maren Aspaas, and I offer spiritual counsel in private one-on-one sessions. Sessions are on-line, or in person (and in-person I also offer energy healing). In these sessions, we listen and share regarding experience, meaning, and life direction. Our time together offers a place to pause, reflect, and practice. This isn't therapy or life coaching--it's a space to look with compassion at your life as you understand and experience it, and as you hope it can be. Please spend some time exploring this website to learn more about my approach and philosophy.
Let's begin with a free 20-minute conversation. I will personally respond to your email inquiry. I look forward to hearing from you.
If your life is full, yet something essential might feel like it is missing.
If you do not need escape, but long to inhabit your life with intent, wisdom, and compassion.
If you are not lost, yet search for a more satisfying map— This is for you.
Spirituality and the art of living a spiritual life is very human, and part of a whole life of relationships, responsibilities, life experiences and dreams for the future. We are embodied souls, living life on a round rock in space. You are in the world, yet also a curious, conscious being not of the world. You are doing okay, but maybe searching for more--more connection, more healing, more meaning, more resilience and more love. Me, too. I can relate to all that, and these longings of humanity fuel me and my excitement for this work. To paraphrase the poet John O'Donohue, I aspire to encourage a place where your heart will brighten, your presence will unclench, ease will find you, and a new world will open before you.
What this work is
You are whole. This is a fundamental principle of mine-- that all of us are whole and not separate or broken from our true nature, which is physical + nonphysical, or in other words: Love. On this ground, we begin our work together.
We will explore your sense of self and orientation to life. We will explore how meaning emerges and meets your life.
We will explore how inner and outer life might stop feeling separate.
Spirituality is not an ascent, but an intimacy.
Spiritual practice and a spiritual life that is well attended to is not an act of escape, but an unfolding of presence.
We do not fix what is already whole.
We move toward recognition, allowing, and clarity.
We are not becoming someone else.
We are realizing who we already are.
What this work is not
This is not dogma. I will not tell you what to believe.
This is not about bypassing your humanity. It is about entering it more fully.
This is not exclusively energy work or intuitive inquiry. These tools may be present, but they are not the whole of the work.
This is not mental health treatment. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace clinical care.
Orientation
My work sits at the intersection of:
• Spirituality
• Philosophy
• Embodiment
• Psychology
I ground my work in a non-dual orientation that comes from the knowledge that all things come from a common source, which is Love. As embodied humans, we are Love, and an intimate part of life on Earth.
How it works
Sessions are conversational, contemplative, and practical.
I love humor, deeply appreciate intellect, and adore story.
In sessions, we will attend to the moment and to the sensations that arise so that the practice of presence is nurtured.
I am interested and committed to attending to your history, context, and experience, as these things have formed you. I will share counsel that is in alignment with what is uniquely you.
Mostly, we will attend to what is appearing. Some traditions point to this as the 'display,' or ever-changing landscape that we are aware of and within. Morpheus calls it the Matrix. Our path is to learn how to allow and love the experience of life, to be deeply present in it, yet not captured by it.
