Together We Heal
I am committed to providing a welcoming environment that promotes and embodies diversity and inclusivity to all.
Giving a Little to Make a Big Impact
Donating a little money can positively impact and empower the lives of our fellow brothers and sisters of the global community. Thus, as an immigrant and a supporter of transformative justice, I understand the importance of donating funds to organizations that protect and promote human rights.
During the entire year of 2021, $4 of every individual session were donated to our local community of immigrants and refugees who are fleeing from violent conflict or persecution in their countries; served by Refugee Services of Texas (RST) and Casa Marianella. To learn more go to: www.rstx.org and www.casamarianella.org
During the entire year of 2021, $4 of every individual session were donated to our local community of immigrants and refugees who are fleeing from violent conflict or persecution in their countries; served by Refugee Services of Texas (RST) and Casa Marianella. To learn more go to: www.rstx.org and www.casamarianella.org
In the year 2022, $4 of every individual session went towards actively supporting The Center for Survivors of Torture (CST) and Doctors without Borders. The goal of The CST program is to assist survivors of torture and their families in the process of healing and recovery so they can attend to their health, begin the recovery process, discover and build new support networks, and lead productive, meaningful, and fulfilling lives. To learn more go to: cstnet.org. Doctors without Borders is an independent, global movement providing medical aid where it's needed most. To learn more go to: www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Racial & Ancestral Healing and Integration Resources
"The medicine is already within the pain and suffering. You just have to look deeply and quietly. Then you realize it has been there the whole time."
~ Saying from the Native American oral tradition
~ Saying from the Native American oral tradition
Racial Healing: Connect, Build Relationships, and Bridge Divides
The World's Soul - Dr. Eduardo Duran
Native, Indigenous Cultures and Healing Trauma by Eduardo Duran, PhD
Mindfully Together with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Love and Justice are Not Two: Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Graduate Gallery 2020: Hope as Practice | June | 2020 | Newsroom | Teachers College, Columbia University
Home (drangelacosta.com)
Insight Meditation Society: BIPOC Sangha, Indigenous Insight, Insight Recovery Sangha, and Monday Night Meditation
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social – (MALCS) Women Active in Letters and Social Change
How to Move from Trauma to Resiliency, Rewriting the Future: Radical Imagination & Transformative Justice by Charlotte Nguyễn
The World's Soul - Dr. Eduardo Duran
Native, Indigenous Cultures and Healing Trauma by Eduardo Duran, PhD
Mindfully Together with Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Love and Justice are Not Two: Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
Graduate Gallery 2020: Hope as Practice | June | 2020 | Newsroom | Teachers College, Columbia University
Home (drangelacosta.com)
Insight Meditation Society: BIPOC Sangha, Indigenous Insight, Insight Recovery Sangha, and Monday Night Meditation
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social – (MALCS) Women Active in Letters and Social Change
How to Move from Trauma to Resiliency, Rewriting the Future: Radical Imagination & Transformative Justice by Charlotte Nguyễn
Embrace Race: Raising a Brave Generation Together
Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People by Maria P. P. Root
What Mixed Race Asians Will Never Tell You
Multiracial American Voices: What Are You - Pew Research Center
Multiracial American Voices: Identity - Pew Research Center
Resources on Arab, Muslim and Middle Eastern Communities by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement
Healing Collective Trauma - A New Book by Thomas Hübl (collectivetraumabook.com)
Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth: Peter Levine & Thomas Hübl - You Tube
Race Healing | Milagros Phillips
Healing America’s Racial Karma: with Larry Ward - YouTube
About Us — The Lotus Institute
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Tirzah Firestone
Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People by Maria P. P. Root
What Mixed Race Asians Will Never Tell You
Multiracial American Voices: What Are You - Pew Research Center
Multiracial American Voices: Identity - Pew Research Center
Resources on Arab, Muslim and Middle Eastern Communities by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement
Healing Collective Trauma - A New Book by Thomas Hübl (collectivetraumabook.com)
Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth: Peter Levine & Thomas Hübl - You Tube
Race Healing | Milagros Phillips
Healing America’s Racial Karma: with Larry Ward - YouTube
About Us — The Lotus Institute
Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Tirzah Firestone
"We will either learn to love each other as brothers and sisters, or we will perish as fools." ~ Martin Luther King
Healing the Soul Wound
“That which hunts us will always find a way out. The wound will not heal unless given witness. The shadow that follows is the way in.”
~ Rumi
~ Rumi
Our souls have been on a primordial journey, as evidenced by our DNA, and our cellular memory that remembers all and denies no one of what is rightfully ours, expresses our human wholeness and interconnectedness. Soul Wound is a universal concept that is defined as historical trauma by the Native American communities of the United States; Dr. Eduardo Duran, after his work as a therapist with this population, coined this term to share this ancient wisdom.
Would you like to:
Would you like to:
- Feel more at ease in your body, in your skin, just the way you are
- Speak freely about negative core beliefs that you grew up believing about yourself or others because of your and/or someone else’s race or ethnicity
- Expand your ability to imagine a better future for yourself and for all
(c) 2022 Lina Návar
Historical trauma is quite a broad term that encompasses intergenerational and transgenerational trauma in a family, passed down from one generation to the next, and it doesn’t just refer to our family of origin, our tribe, our culture, our country, etc. The Soul Wound also pertains to the family that we call humanity. All over the world, and especially here in the United States, we are now more than ever, experiencing great discomfort, strife, pain, and disconnection from ourselves and others as a result of this collective soul wound.
It is time to awaken. We are all being called to make a positive change by becoming actively and fully engaged in our individual healing processes, so that we may live the life we were meant to live, and proactively effect the whole.
It’s time to question the status quo of our minds and hearts that have for far too long accepted the conditioned ways of a painful past, that is no longer tolerated in a country with pernicious polarization. Know thyself, as Socrates said, encourages us to consider contemplative self-reflection and a mindfulness practice as a way out of Plato’s Cave.
It is time to awaken. We are all being called to make a positive change by becoming actively and fully engaged in our individual healing processes, so that we may live the life we were meant to live, and proactively effect the whole.
It’s time to question the status quo of our minds and hearts that have for far too long accepted the conditioned ways of a painful past, that is no longer tolerated in a country with pernicious polarization. Know thyself, as Socrates said, encourages us to consider contemplative self-reflection and a mindfulness practice as a way out of Plato’s Cave.
In this work, balance is key. Thus when you are ready, I invite you to go beyond self-contemplation; trying to do this work all on your own can be difficult and lonely. Instead, please consider the possibility of learning how to fully and completely, engage with yourself and others from an embodied contemplative spaciousness and expansiveness as a way to stretch, far and wide, the confines of your own perceptions and belief system. From this grounded and centered place, remembering who you are, a microcosm of the macrocosm, you are able to then decide how you may want to further support your own healing, and as a result, the healing of the greater collective. Join me in this exploration!
Race healer Milagros Phillips, supports that healing racism is the missing link to our interpersonal and national discourse, and that this healing takes us to a new awareness of self because it treats the whole being: body, mind, spirit, and emotions.
Is it possible that because you are reading this, deep inside, you know that you are essential to the change that is happening?
Are you ready to embark on this Soul Wound healing journey? If so, and if you would like to explore that possibility with me, let me know.
Race healer Milagros Phillips, supports that healing racism is the missing link to our interpersonal and national discourse, and that this healing takes us to a new awareness of self because it treats the whole being: body, mind, spirit, and emotions.
Is it possible that because you are reading this, deep inside, you know that you are essential to the change that is happening?
Are you ready to embark on this Soul Wound healing journey? If so, and if you would like to explore that possibility with me, let me know.
Past Community Events
Council Healing Circle
Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 2 PM - 4 PM at Unity Church of the Hills - Room 204 Unity Oaks
Inspired by Native American Councils, this listening circle invites us to go into our hearts for deep listening and deep sharing. It provides an opportunity to be known in ways that lead to a sense of belonging, support and meaning within the human race community.
The Council Healing Circle, led by Lina Návar, will consist of several rounds of sharing. Everyone will have an opportunity to share from the heart about their personal experience of what’s going on in the world today as well as to connect with their vision for a world that works for all.
Guidelines will be in place to ensure that the space is safe and life-giving. This is not a space for debate or cross-talk. It is truly a healing circle for sharing from the heart.
Lina was inspired to offer this Council following the recent mass shooting in El Paso. Having friends and family in El Paso, she experienced deep sadness and a need to do something that would bring people together. Join us!
Inspired by Native American Councils, this listening circle invites us to go into our hearts for deep listening and deep sharing. It provides an opportunity to be known in ways that lead to a sense of belonging, support and meaning within the human race community.
The Council Healing Circle, led by Lina Návar, will consist of several rounds of sharing. Everyone will have an opportunity to share from the heart about their personal experience of what’s going on in the world today as well as to connect with their vision for a world that works for all.
Guidelines will be in place to ensure that the space is safe and life-giving. This is not a space for debate or cross-talk. It is truly a healing circle for sharing from the heart.
Lina was inspired to offer this Council following the recent mass shooting in El Paso. Having friends and family in El Paso, she experienced deep sadness and a need to do something that would bring people together. Join us!
Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 1 PM – 7 PM
Come and enjoy a blend of psychology and spirituality via Expressive Arts activities!
Personal Transformation Activities:
1 PM Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls and honoring the healing process employing Gong Therapy and Día de los Muertos discussion
2 PM Expressive Arts 101: What are the expressive arts? Talk on how to explore multiple mediums for healing and transformation
3:15 PM A Mindfulness Halloween Experience
4:30 PM Ceremony as a Tool for Healing: Talk on stages of transition, ceremony design and tips on how to design your own ceremonies
5:45 PM Defining what Body Psychotherapy and Movement Therapy are and how they complement Spirituality, emotions, and thoughts in Holistic Psychotherapy
6:30 PM Closing and Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls on Día de Los Muertos
Come and enjoy a blend of psychology and spirituality via Expressive Arts activities!
Personal Transformation Activities:
1 PM Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls and honoring the healing process employing Gong Therapy and Día de los Muertos discussion
2 PM Expressive Arts 101: What are the expressive arts? Talk on how to explore multiple mediums for healing and transformation
3:15 PM A Mindfulness Halloween Experience
4:30 PM Ceremony as a Tool for Healing: Talk on stages of transition, ceremony design and tips on how to design your own ceremonies
5:45 PM Defining what Body Psychotherapy and Movement Therapy are and how they complement Spirituality, emotions, and thoughts in Holistic Psychotherapy
6:30 PM Closing and Remembering and reflecting on the lives of departed souls on Día de Los Muertos
Lina Návar, Holistic Theracoach (Counselor & Coach), Certified Psychospiritual Life Coach, LPC, Body Psychotherapist, Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist, PsychoEnergetic & Psychoshamanic Facilitator, and Registered Kundalini Yoga Teacher.
I sometimes offer holistic theracoaching & other holistic healing events that are created to serve specific needs of a community. Set up a free 20-minute meet-and-greet video consultation, and let me know how I can support your group in their healing process.
Lina Návar, Holistic Theracoach (Counselor & Coach), Certified Psychospiritual Life Coach, LPC, Body Psychotherapist, Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist, PsychoEnergetic & Psychoshamanic Facilitator, and Registered Kundalini Yoga Teacher.
I sometimes offer holistic theracoaching & other holistic healing events that are created to serve specific needs of a community. Set up a free 20-minute meet-and-greet video consultation, and let me know how I can support your group in their healing process.
