Tree works as a Spiritual Mentor, Kundalini Support, Certified Global TRE® Instructor, Transformational Bodyworker and a Healer from the Shamanic tradition. Tree believes healing trauma can precipitate spiritual awakening and it is from this precept she works. She works with the body releasing contraction and with the nervous system establishing balance - with the understanding that a disregulated nervous system can hold the beingness hostage. She believes enlightenment is achieved not by bypassing the body, but by going into the body. By addressing and releasing trauma bound in the flesh and stored in the nervous system. This is true freedom and the result is presence - embodied. Tree has been a devotee of Meher Baba since she was 21. She and her husband are establishing a Retreat Centre on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, Australia called Meher Farm Healing and Awakening Centre. Tree is the author of Hot Flush Dark Cave describing her healing and awakening journey through the portal of menopause. She is a devoted mother, grandmother and healer - her favourite past time is swimming in the river and the ocean and chanting to God. Website: awakeningthroughthebody.com.au Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded August 3, 2024 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:53 - The Correlation Between Consciousness and Neurophysiology 00:07:53 - The Loop of an Agitated Nervous System 00:11:35 - The Nervous System and the Flow State 00:15:38 - The Impact of Early Trauma in Human Beings 00:19:39 - The Importance of Healing the Nervous System 00:23:22 - Trauma and its manifestations 00:27:11 -  “Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance” 00:31:06 - Body Work and Spiritual Awakening 00:35:21 - Kundalini Awakening and Working with the Body 00:39:05 - Working through Impressions 00:43:00 - The Beginning of the Involution 00:47:13 - Understanding vs Realization 00:51:05 - Avatars and Spiritual Teachers 00:54:55 - Astral Exorcism and Healing Dance 00:58:44 - The Kundalini Awakening Process 01:02:31 - Kundalini Awakening and Spontaneous Movements 01:06:19 - Purging Negativity 01:09:54 - The Annihilation of the Apparent World 01:13:37 - The Final Destination and Different Planes of Existence 01:17:35 - The Journey of Awakening 01:21:44 - The Existence of Ego in Different States 01:25:51 - Kundalini Awakening and the Sacred Fluids 01:29:42 - The Value of a Life 01:33:33 - Different Types of Meditation 01:37:30 - Releasing Emotions 01:41:18 - The Presence of Benign and Caring Intelligences 01:45:17 - Healing Ceremonies and Nature Retreats 01:49:19 - Following Intuition and Divine Orchestration at 61 01:53:24 - Following the Synchronicities 01:56:55 - In Touch for the Next 15 Years