Soulwave Founder Kathryn Darling has been working with private clients and groups for more than 20 years. She had a successful private practice for 15 years before starting the Motherwave training. Inspired by teaching the current year-long practitioner training, she has started a small practice again.

Kathryn Darling was born to British physicists who worked on the bomb to stop Hitler, and then founded the English anti-nuclear movement which met in her living room when she was growing up. She has been professionally involved in teaching and consulting in the arenas of personal, psychological and spiritual growth for her whole adult life. In her 20s she travelled the world as a monk, spreading the news about meditation for an Eastern teacher; in her 30s she descended into the body and became a therapist, consultant and seminar leader of many modalities (see her interview for more details); in her 40s she hit a wall, and in 1994 experienced dissolving into the oneness of universal wave motion. This experience gave rise to the 7-level Motherwave trainings taught to over 1000 people for ten years. Kathryn has travelled with her work to many places and been a speaker at events such as the International Conference for Science and Consciousness in New Mexico, and as Keynote at the Nondual Wisdom in Psychotherapy Conference.

In 2004-5 her Motherwave trainings--and her life--underwent a radical evolution, and the teaching re-emerged as Soulwave Trainings. She lives in the S.F. Bay Area where she maintains a small private practice, teaches Soulwave Trainings and is working on a series of books about the work. You can contact her via Soulwave Institute.

Letter from Katie

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Soulwave. I could tell you about the practical benefits and life changes available to you through the Soulwavework, but only you know what you deeply desire. Instead I will ask:   How would your life improve if you were living in your human body as only your own soul?

Let me explain how this work came into being:

In 1994, I melted down. Unlike the uncomfortable meltdowns that many people talk about these days, it was all good. I experienced dissolving into a kind of ocean of love, that showed me how to surf inner waves into my source and come back out again, on waves, recreating my reality with a little more choice each time. The experience told me to call it "motherwave," and I birthed the 7-level Motherwave trainings that have been taught for the last ten years to more than 1000 students.

In 2004, I experienced another profound awakening as the "shift hit the fan" in my life. Everything suddenly changed radically, many illusions were shattered, and I found myself abruptly separated from most of the people, places, things and activities that had defined me. After many years of creating and manifesting realities with some (limited) success, I now found myself guided to surrender completely, and let go of everything. Surrender to what? you may ask. To the Divine; to God (or whatever you prefer to call it-- source, the Field, Goddess, etc.) as a real, palpable, personal-yet-impersonal presence. Something I could and can feel in my body. I had been experiencing this presence through the motherwave experience for many years, but now it was different. It came alive with an intensity and immediacy that became more real to me than the old reality of my so-called self with all its accoutrements of relationships, roles and ideas.

Soulwave incorporates all the best of the Motherwave teachings and evolves them to a new level, in a shorter, sweeter format. It is called Soulwave because I discovered that there is a living bridge between my personal self and my infinite source; and that bridge or portal is my own soul-- again, not as a theoretical object, but as a dynamic, living experience! I discovered, to my surprise, that my soul is a wave of a particular frequency, and that my life purpose is to live in a human body as my soul . Or to put it another way, to consciously surf the wave that is my soul all the way home. Of course, home isn't some ending place, but an infinitely expanding experience beyond my wildest dreams.

One morning in bed I saw an inner home movie that clarified what I was going through: It was as though I had been traveling, as a soul, on a superhighway through time and space, on a cosmic evolutionary journey. At some point my journey had taken me off the highway onto a side road that led to a village. There I entered a certain feeling, like a trance or a frequency band-width, that I soon became familiar with. The people, houses, customs and ideas of the village became my whole reality, my world, my "self." Some parts of this felt good, but other parts felt horrible, and I called out for help, vaguely remembering the experience of freedom, spaciousness, joy and love I had felt on the superhighway.

Although I didn't know it, my calls for help were heard, and one day I found that the doors of the village were closed. Although this was painful, I soon noticed that I was back on the side road, heading towards the superhighway. For some time I felt lost and disoriented, but also strangely exhilarated by a sense of moving towards home, a place I had been passionately missing.   Home is turning out to be me, my essential self, my soul... which is turning out to be not a thing but a movement of consciousness that I am either flowing with (happily) or resisting (miserably).

The trick to making this journey home to our own soul is to learn to flow with life, to catch its waves, so to speak. The biggest skill we need–and lack–is the art of total surrender, which is much more than a word or a concept in the mind. There is an actual, multidimensional practice that facilitates a successful surrender, and I am offering this work to share the simple, yet profound methods that you can incorporate into any kind of life, to experience the wave of your own soul, and all accompanying benefits, hopefully without the need for difficult lessons and painful awakenings.

The Soulwave Trainings are designed to wake you up, heal you, give you real, practical access to your guidance and your source, and allow you to melt down the false identity you have accumulated (the village), so that you can return home to the moving experience that is your own soul. In the Soulwave Advanced Training you will learn how to bring that authentic self into the world as a Soulbased Elder or Planetary Leader, into your relationships as a Soulbased Lover, and into your creative expression through your Soulbased Muse.

There is also a 6-month Soulwave Practitioners' Training that will teach you in detail how to do this work with other people for service and abundant right livelihood.  

To sum all this up: the goal of this work is to live as your own soul in a human body, which gives you the best of all possible worlds. That superhighway I spoke of is your own soul, a potent wave with a unique destiny, being drawn forth by the soulwave of the universe, the mother of all waves, into your highest possible future, ever-more-joyful, creative, loving, fulfilled and free.

After a long hiatus I am returning to teaching these trainings personally, and I will be delighted and honored if you choose to journey with me.