Meet the woman behind Essence of the mA

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Rachel BLUME

An intuitive counselor and spiritual advisor dedicated to helping people achieve sacred self-love mastery throughout their lifetime.

As a spokesperson of the Divine, Rachel brings forth channeled information to assist individuals in healing and discovering their unique gifts by living a life rooted in pleasure, deep-seated love, and purpose.

Rachel celebrates the significance of taking care of oneself on a spiritual level. She emphasizes that we all possess an abundant source of infinite potential and life force energy that can help us foster a loving relationship with ourselves, others, and life. This can be achieved by showing ourselves deep care and respect, which includes taking care of our physical, intuitional, and emotional needs. Doing so allows us to fully embrace the multifaceted aspects, including our spiritual essence and the desire to live a fulfilling love affair with the spiral of life. Moreover, when we prioritize our wellness in the most profound sense, we contribute positively to the larger community. We embrace the medicine of love and gift back to life from such love.

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Rachel holds expertise in the healing metaphysical arts, sacred ceremonialism, and intuitive counseling.

She is a channel and has been practicing the healing arts for 15 years. Her journey into Spiritual - Self-development started during her adolescence when Rachel became aware of the language of energy in all things. This awakening is commonly known as A Kundalini awakening. From there, Rachel started seeing life differently; for instance, flowers began speaking to her while hiking in nature, activating her body, intuition, and consciousness. She then took to her own path of Self-healing under the apprenticeship of her Spiritual mentor, with whom she continues to work with to this day. This opening led Rachel to start a practice of holding people's hands sacredly and gazing deeply into their Soul in Portland, OR, where she would receive visions, read their energy field, and channel information about one’s current and past lives, individual karma, subconscious pattering, and higher self-recognition to support the individual upon their path of Self-realization, healing, and Divine remembrance.

Rachel has naturally cultivated a sustaining body of life’s work, where those who work with her feel safe to explore beyond their limitations, traumas, egoic structures, and karmic entanglement. Her practice is strong, and those who find Rachel will likely journey within her realm of holding for many years. She is devoted to her craft, and supporting others in loving themselves to their full potential is her most profound pleasure.

 

GRATITUDES AND TESTIMONIALS 

Rachel is the Teacher of Love, a rare being on our Earth that has come to bring a very special energy of Creator's Love. She radiates the purest healing light, a true authentic Earthen Angel. She is one of the most gifted, talented and hardworking students of life, at her young age, Rachel has the wisdom of the Ancients. She has the purest heart, a channel of the Goddess, love flows to heal and uplift anyone she works with. It has been my utmost honor and amazement to participate in observing the enlightenment of Rachel Blume. I recommend anyone to sit with this great intuitive healer, counselor, guide and medicine woman.

— Brenna Iset, College of the Mystic, Founder, Intuitive Counselor

 

Rachel, as you were speaking, invoking, doing your thing at the full moon tea ceremony on Thursday night, I thought: "So THIS is what a priestess is." You were truly a channel, a bridge to the divine. I saw you in a giant marble temple like the Acropolis, deserving of that space; but then again your cathedral would be Nature. I wish for a temple worthy of you. Anybody who wants to know who Rachel really is, I recommend you show up for one of her ceremonies. I've been to many church services in this lifetime, but I've never experienced one as powerful, sacred and healing as the one that you laid down for that circle of women.

— Hermine Hayes-Klein, Directer at Bynkershoek Institute Research Center for Reproductive Rights, Founder and Program Directer at Human Rights in Childbirth

Rachel is a once in a lifetime teacher, guide, crystalline channel and pure being of love. I have been working with Rachel in Sacred Space for Six years now, and my heart has been transformed. To be held in Rachels embrace is to be held and seen in your highest light. Time and space melt together as we walk hand and hand through the temple of the heart into a space of pure healing. Divine remembrance flows through, and we explore all aspects of Self that are asking for attention and love. I have had some of my most life expanding “ah-hah” moments in Session Land with Rachel, and I always end our sessions feeling more whole, more brave, and more willing and able to love every aspect of my self. Radical self love is her gift, and her ability to help us traverse the often painful internal landscape back home to this love is her medicine. Her deep devotion to self care, self nurturing, MAGIC, raw truth and endless healing has been unwavering in each moment that I have known Rachel, inside of Session Land and out in the world. I have truly never met a being so embodied in their lifes work, so playful, wild, wise and bright.

If you work with Rachel, you will be loved and cared for in the purest, most unconditional form. Feeling her love alone is healing. I love you eternally Rachel, thank you.”

_ Olivia Ashton

I have been working with Rachel through virtual phone sessions for three years now. From my sessions with her, I have come to know and trust myself more than ever before. Throughout my life, I’ve caught glimpses of my highest self, and from consistently meeting with Rachel, I feel I can sustain that version of myself beyond small glimpses, but live as her, my fully confident self who feels strong in approaching the shadows as well as the light within. Rachel uniquely guides her clients with personalized care, never “advising” but intuiting the right questions and insightful comments that unlock the doors within. The answers come from within yourself; Rachel just skillfully leads you there. In my time meeting with Rachel, I have supplemented our sessions with therapy from PhD and license holders. I have been amazed that the things a therapist will tell me end up being the very same things Rachel spoke about when we discussed the same topic. My confidence in her wisdom has been reaffirmed time and time again in this way. Beyond the logic and knowledge Rachel shares, the feeling of being heard, cared for, and emotionally held is more than anything I’ve felt through counseling and therapy. Finally, the way Rachel weaves meditation, guided imagery, and the metaphysical into sessions is individually tailored and based on the particular scenario you find yourself in. The sessions when she leads me in a meditation to integrate a discovered truth have been truly magical. I have recommended Rachel to several of my friends and will continue to do so. I feel more like my true and highest self than I have yet in my life. I’m so grateful to this sage woman for leading me to myself. 

- Kendall Blake

I just had my first session with Rachel and I am beyond excited to keep working with her. She is the real deal, and I’ve worked with many healers and seer’s in my life. Her work is profoundly powerful, surprising, heart opening, and filled with love and guiding clarity. I was struck after our session with such deep appreciation to get to work with someone who embodies her gifts so fully. This work is gentle yet not for the faint of heart, it is bold, ancient, wild, and freeing. Her sight is clear. Her energy work is powerful and had me shaking on the table. Her holding is with so much love and wisdom. We are all blessed to have such a divining rod in human form in our midst.

- Kiana Reeves

Rachel, you are clearly a gifted Spirit Body healer. The space that you held for me felt so safe, so attuned and focused. You were able to dial into some pretty potent energy and events that are going on in my life. How did you do that?! The accuracy and insight was just mind-blowing. I could have sat with you all evening. It was a place that existed both here on earth and in another realm of this planet. There really are no words that can describe what you offer, the skills that you have. They are rare. You have such deep respect and clairvoyance for the guides and teachers in our universe-plant and ancestral. My vision is so much clearer. I felt so brave and prepared this week because of our session together. You have given form and voice to the medicine that I need... all while revealing that it's within me! More sisters need to know your name. You are a rare vehicle of Spirit and a deeply nourishing presence to be around. Deepest gratitude I'm so looking forward to meeting with you again and continuing to incorporate you into my therapy and healing.

— Chelsea Schmidt, Sacred Birthing Community Doula

Rachel's support and stewardship these last 4 years has been absolutely crucial on my path of living at my growth edge, healing myself, and stepping forward with clear, big vision in my life and business. I came to her at a time of deep transition, leaving a full-time job and moving into my life's work, my authentic calling as a coach and consultant. I was confused, pretty terrified of myself, terrified of KNOWING myself, and unsure of where I was headed. I was hiding out from my own light. After working with her throughout the years in group and 1.1 mentorship, I have stepped so fully into my authentic self, confident in my expression, SO rooted in my vision of what I am creating and where I am headed, and guided by an abiding self-love and advocacy that she's helped me illuminate and stabilize from within. I've stepped into my worth and calibrated to new levels of confidence and competence, taking my business from $2k to over 10K per month during this time. I have experienced an emergence of service and programs from within myself that are SO spot-on what I'm here to be offering and sharing with people; my purpose has become clear, and I am excited to claim it today. I am completely comfortable with being seen, and can hold space at a new level for others, thanks to Rachel's role modeling and magic that she offers me and so many. 

She brings a flowing, pure sense of love, openness, empowerment and possibility in all that she weaves, and I'm grateful to receive her presence and gifts all these years, across such a range of pockets of my own becoming. She is a teacher and embodiment of true love, one that's truly distinct in the healing arts space. If you're looking for a space holder to support you with your own courageous becoming, and to honor all aspects of yourself while also holding you to your vision with deep empowerment, then you'll LOVE Rachel and her flavor of support.

- Jess lipman 

My sessions with Rachel have been the most profound catalysts to my spiritual evolution. The space she holds is safe, supportive, and heart opening. Rachel truly sees the divine spark in me, and through her work enables me to see it myself (to love myself).

Since I have begun sessions with Rachel my life has taken incredible leaps forward. She has facilitated my healing on so many levels and has been there to celebrate with me. The Universe has responded by bringing in new and amazing opportunities for me.

Rachel's gift to channel messages from the cosmos, guides, and my higher self continually stuns me; every message is accurate and exactly the thing I most need to hear. Energy work while I'm on the table moves to many blocks, while at the same time calling in new openings. The visions I receive while the work is being done are empowering and deep. At the end of each session Rachel sends me home with a custom made flower essence. It's like a little bottle of love and self care until our next meeting!

I feel like Rachel has truly found her calling in life and because of this she is able to help me find mine."

— Nicole VanGorden, Massage Therapist

 

Captivated by the depth and radiance of this beautiful woman. Filled with gratitude for her and her practice. She has impacted my journey of self discovery, helped shape life decisions and enriched my essence.

— Kate Rutter

To have a session with Rachel is to delve deeper into myself and my heart than I ever thought possible. This work has helped me in every facet of my life and has guided me to live my true authentic self. I never thought my dream life was possible until I started working with Rachael. It has been a peeling of the layers into living heart connected to my true inner self. This has been challenging work for me and it never ceases to amaze me how supported and empowered I feel from these sessions. Rachel sees you and holds the deepest heart light space for growth to happen. I am forever grateful for her wisdom and guidance always expanding into the higher realms in this lifetime. 

- Carrie Brewster

Rachel is amazing! Her readings have helped me to know myself better, focus on blocks in my path and how to dissolve them, and heal in both emotional and spiritual ways. The dedication she has to her work shows in her practice and the space we share together at readings. When meeting with her I feel comfortable talking about deep issues, yet also light and playful in the ways that we approach them. I highly recommend Rachel's readings to anyone seeking to heal and learn more about themselves."

— Nick Ecks

 

I just wanted to express my deepest gratitude for the work you do Rachel! You are so very valuable. I am honored to work beside you and grow into the powerful beings we are, and are becoming! YOU INSPIRE! Thank you so much for last night's ceremony. I have never been able to tap into the spirit of a plant so strongly and really just listen to what it had to speak on, tell me and teach me. And wow! What a powerful plant to do that with, SUNFLOWER! You rock...in so many ways. I just can't praise you enough my loveliest sister. Here’s to many more mystical ceremonies, ridiculous synchronicities, and standing in our strength.

— Alley Bloom

 

TEACHERS

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"Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self--this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF."

— Sri Anandamayi Ma

“We as a human group have a very dark past. Wars, oppression, control, and cruelty to each other. We are afraid of that which is inside of us. The way to evolve from this lower consciousness is to understand our humanity. To practice allowing compassion and unconditional love to flow in from our Higher Self, into that which is our lower nature. God touching Human on Planet Earth! It is the perfect recipe for Enlightenment, which is eternal Peace and Freedom for our souls.”

— Brenna Iset

"Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation."

— The Natural world