A guide who has walked
into his own darkness.
- Doctor of Chinese Medicine (DACM)
- 30+ years meditation practice
- 20+ years shadow work facilitation
- Kashmir Shaivism lineage
- Author, Born to Heal
- Eugene, Oregon
Chinese Medicine Practice
lukeadlerhealing.com →Most men who find their way to this work have already tried everything else. Therapy. Meditation. Self-help. They've read the books, done the retreats, understand their patterns intellectually. And something still won't move.
I know this because I was that man.
I've spent more than three decades sitting with the parts of myself I most wanted to avoid — the rage, the shame, the grief I'd learned to function around rather than feel.
"The shadow doesn't disappear when you ignore it. It just runs more of your life from the dark."
My approach to shadow work was shaped by over two decades of direct study with some of the most rigorous practitioners in the field of psychospiritual integration, including Arnold Mindell (Process Work), Terry Real (Relational Life Therapy), and Paul Muller Ortega (Kashmir Shaivism).
Why men. Why this work.
Men are taught early to close down. To perform competence. To keep moving. We build elaborate structures that let us function without ever having to feel what's underneath. And it works. Until it doesn't.
How I work.
My approach draws on depth psychology, somatic practice, and over thirty years of dedicated meditation in the Kashmir Shaivism and Vedic traditions. The work is body-based — the shadow doesn't live in your thoughts, it lives in the places you tighten, numb, and brace.
Work with Luke →This work stands on real shoulders.
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