What Actually Happens in a Splankna Session
I get asked this question a lot- and honestly, it’s one of my favorites, because it means someone is actually curious enough to want to understand what they’re walking into. So let me walk you through it.
What does a Splankna session look like and feel like physically? It’s a little bit of a hard question to answer, but I’ll walk you through the experience of what happens, and the physicality piece will kind of fill in the blanks as we go along.
We always open in prayer. Obviously, you come into the session already having an idea of what we want to talk about. The client has filled out an intake form specifying what they want to cover in the session. When we meet, I always go over that again, because sometimes things have happened or changed between the time they book the session and the time they actually show up and meet with me. But we always open with prayer- surrendering the entire session and our lives to God, looking for His guidance, wisdom, intercession, and direction.
From there, during the opening of the session, we’re always asking God to mark out where He wants to work today. God is not a magic genie in a bottle, and it’s not a “tell me what to do” situation- that’s not how the session works. We’re asking God to mark out- in the inner body- where it is He wants us to work, and then to show us, responsively, what that looks like.
Since I do listening prayer, there’s a lot of really leaning into the Holy Spirit with extra intention- looking for and feeling responsiveness. For me, when I’m doing listening prayer, I close my eyes a lot so I can focus inward and hear and feel His guidance clearly. What I get is kind of like a lever as I’m working through the list- Okay, are we doing this? Are we doing this? Are we doing this? It’s kind of like a game show board that will either light up or go “donk,” or a lot of times I’ll see a lever in my mind- like press this button to go here, press this button to go there. That’s what it looks like for me. It can be different for everybody else, and it can change at any time. But basically, I’m asking and then looking for that response, over and over. And we have already asked God to mark out in our body, in our mind, in our spirit- in a way that we can see and hear and feel Him- so we know what we’re looking for.
So we’re asking: Are we doing healing work? Or are we doing creative work?
Healing work is where we’re looking at an issue- or issues, or moments of trauma, big or small- that have left a mark on us. When I say “a mark,” I mean usually a vow or a lie. A vow is a decision- either conscious or unconscious, to respond or behave in a certain way because of a traumatic experience. A lie is something we have come to believe that also shapes how we behave. So in healing work, we’re getting to the root of that- working through it, disavowing the lie, or breaking the vow in order to help change our patterns.
Creative work is basically God just pouring in- Here’s where the goodness is. Sometimes you can’t see the goodness in the mess you’re in, but He can show it to you. So we go in asking: Are we doing healing? Are we doing creative?
Throughout the session, there’s a lot of the person touching their own body points. We acknowledge and address an emotion, its timing- when the event occurred- and where in the body that emotion has been stored, in order to acknowledge and release it. The client will be touching a point on their body- maybe their head- and thinking about that emotion and the experiences that caused it to get coded in them.
So physically, what it looks like is a client sitting quietly and comfortably- in a chair, at a table, on a couch, wherever- somewhere quiet. And I would be on the other end. If we’re meeting in person- if it’s a live-in coaching experience and I’m working with someone in a session- then we are face to face in the same space, looking at each other and talking through it. Otherwise, it’s virtual- usually via Google Meet, on a video call, doing this together.
I hope that answers your question.
If you’ve been curious about Splankna- if you’ve wondered whether it might be for you- I’d love to talk. You can book a session or just reach out with questions. There’s no pressure and no script. Just an honest conversation about where you are and whether this is a fit.
