Miriam Adler

" Power for me is being in the heart, it's being truthful, as well as being flexible and gentle with my process. It’s being who I am no matter if I disappoint people around me, but at the same time if I do, carrying love at the core and bringing a kind and loving attitude to all of it."

What is your offering?
What I do is a combination of constellation work, breathwork, and somatic movement. Layer by layer, we find these core negative beliefs that have been seeded from childhood, and we infuse that with love. We then go into the future and take a new emotional feeling with us so that you have the power in the future to react differently. It's a powerful reprogramming journey. I’m not afraid to be really out in the deep sea with people because on my own path I have gone really far. It is a transformative field of going out into the deep end of allowing emotional residues to make their way out.

How can people work with you?
My favorite way of working with people is in person and taking them through a journey that allows them to have a week off from your normal day and your devices.
Energy can transcend time and space for sure, but there's a difference when you're sitting in one room together and laying hands on somebody is very important, especially if we're doing deep transformative work. I also do one-on-one work where I offer three month containers, where we meet every two weeks on Zoom for a two hour session. 

Did you always have a calling for this work?
I did not because I had no idea what it was! I grew up in a very traditional academic family household where we didn’t have any sort of spiritual education so I was very focused on the mind. After I finished school, I had no clue who I was and no connection to my heart whatsoever and I ended up starting a modeling career. But the feeling of separation was still there and my spirit was really lost with a complete sense of unworthiness. I found my first entry point through Kundalini Yoga, and through breath, movement and sound, I started understanding what it meant to access my body. Once I did that, it was just layers upon layers of grief. That took me further into breathwork, and then into zen meditation and tea ceremony, and after that I went more into embodiment and tantric practices. So I started the journey very much for the intention of healing and finding myself. 

What is La Luna?
La Luna is about bringing different people together that have really touched me. I created these journeys originally for friends that I wanted to collaborate with, with the intention of wanting to inspire each other and just share what we love. The first La Luna journey was in 2019 with 28 women. After that, I really understood the importance of empowerment. It's transformative and once you feel and taste your power, it's an imprint. 

What is power to you?
Power for me is being in the heart, it's being truthful, as well as being flexible and gentle with my process. It’s being who I am no matter if I disappoint people around me, but at the same time if I do, carrying love at the core and bringing a kind and loving attitude to all of it. 

Is feminine embodiment only for women?
The feminine is often correlated with women, but it’s actually an energy. It is a sense of feeling into the heart space, which I think is just as important for men because they have often been taught to suppress their feelings. This is where the idea for La Luna Love (a co-ed) retreat for couples and singles came from. It is where we bring the work that we are doing separately together, and then there is real potency in the room to heal. 

Why is community so important to you?
There is this isolated feeling that we face our struggles alone and don’t talk about them, so community is a safe space where we are able to voice things and feel support behind us to transform certain limitations. Sometimes we don't see our own power enough to be able to transform - we all need mirrors that reflect us. I think community is also incredibly important to be able to hold each other accountable without judgment and criticism.  

What are some of your personal practices?
I’m a real lover of simplicity, so my practices are simple and pleasurable so that I can hold consistency. When I wake up I do something called womb listening, I put one hand on my womb and one on my heart. I tune in to my breath, the blanket touching my skin, and have a moment of sweetness with myself. I drink a glass of lemon water, then I sit with tea, which is my meditative practice, and then go into some creative writing or breathwork. I get my feet on the ground and listen to the sounds of nature to regulate my nervous system. 

What do you keep next to your bed?
I have some Polaroids, just some joyful moments that I like to remember when I wake up. I also keep a lot of body oils next to my bed for the smell or some self massage. There is always a beautiful, luxurious, good smelling candle. I have some pieces of nature that I have found like stones. Right now, I have a love letter from a friend who wrote these beautiful little memories and mantras about me.

What books do you recommend?
I base a lot of my teachings on Heal Your Wounds by Lise Bourbeau.
Love and Awakening by John Wellwodd. It’s all about how we can transform relationships into places that allow us to grow and become more of ourselves.

What is the best advice that you've received? 
I received some really potent advice from a friend a few years ago when I was in a big transition. It was that life is always going to find you. There is a higher intelligence out there that has what is meant for you. So to give ourselves permission to really lean into the wisdom that each moment offers us. Whether it’s a moment of grief or a moment in between, to not rush forward and try to get somewhere else, but to be in it and receive the lessons from it.