Crossing the
Threshold
1 on 1 mentorship with Stefana Serafina
For you standing at the edge of what has been and what must come next
If you are here, I imagine you find yourself in the tunnels of change....
Perhaps you are navigating the unraveling of a long-held identity—a career transforming, a life phase shifting, (peri)menopause arriving, a younger version of yourself coming to completion, or a dream that never came to pass and must be grieved and released so another one can bloom.
Perhaps you are gestating a new vision that will take all of your power and courage to bring into the world?
Or perhaps you find yourself in the aftermath of loss—leaving a role, a home, a relationship. You may be letting go of a life you once built with devotion, or a certainty you once held, surrendering now to the change that must take place, and calling in the new life that you can't yet see but you know you belong to.
Some changes don’t even have a clear name—only the quiet knowing that something must shift, that a deeper truth is trying to take root.
Some transitions arrive unbidden, shaking the very ground beneath you. Others have been whispering to you for years, waiting for your courage.
But true change can only come when you fully honor and complete what has been—so you can become a true home for what is calling you forward.
True change, taken consciously, is a rite of passage. A metamorphosis. A tour de force.
And you don't have to walk alone.
The Mentorship
At the intersection of endings and beginnings, your sense of self is fiercely tested and, with that, a powerful opportunity for realignment emerges- if you dare to take it.
But transitions are not only difficult; they can be painful, prolonged, and disorienting. They can bring us to that mythic and practical rock bottom, and leave us there for a long time, often in isolation.
There’s a reason big change can feel like a tunnel, or a dark night of the soul…
My role is to hold the lamplight for your passage through. To help you see the essential keys to your journey that may have become invisible to you. To help you access the most powerful resources of your deep body, psyche, and spirit, that you may have forgotten or never fully claimed. To help you tap into the web of ancestral and elemental earthly support that is already holding you, so you don’t dwell endlessly in the tunnel– or veer from the path that’s truly yours. And to stand with you in the doubts, fears, and uncertainty of the threshold—without letting them take you hostage.
As a change doula, I am honored to walk with you all the way to the other side—to officiate your crossing of the threshold and welcome you into your next chapter.
When you choose to step into the mentorship, a powerful container is cast for the crossing of the threshold– for the claiming of your new chapter
Once you accept and step into this intentional journey with me, a powerful ritual container is cast– and it has its own intelligence. As I guide you and support you to move through your passage consciously, you take a deeper seat within yourself. You cut through old stories and narratives that you’ve been loyal to for too long. You shed the skin that once fit you well, but is too tight now. You listen with your whole body to the powerful intelligences guiding you forward.
With deep care and respect, I help you lay to rest and honor the woman you have been thus far—to complete the roles and duties of your younger self—so you can welcome a deeply mature and aligned selfhood and take the steps that have felt impossible or elusive until now.
Hi,I'm Stefana
For over 15 years, I have guided women from most every corner in the world through deep body, soul, and nature journeys, helping them reclaim their embodied authority and personal genius, so they can cross important thresholds in their lives.
The single most common phrase in testimonials from those I’ve worked with? “This changed my life!”
But are WE a good fit? I would say yes if the following resonates:
How I work
I don’t tell you how to change—I help you access the unmistakable guidance of your body and deeper psyche, and embody one by one the small changes needed for the greater metamorphosis.
I don’t just help you navigate change—I support you in fully embodying it, so that alignment isn’t a fleeting moment, but a way of being.
Embodied change is my craft. The Deep Body method, which I developed and which is now practiced by facilitators worldwide, is above all a method for creating—and allowing—the change we need.
Simply put, I work with the body as the wisest one here. At every stage of your journey, I guide you into its many intelligences– the physical, emotional, sensual, expressive, intuitive, and mythic/collective—where the guidance for your next steps already resides.
Our work together is not done in isolation. My approach is deeply connected to the lands, waters, the bones of our ancestors in the ground– the animate web of life to which we belong. We call upon all of these intelligences—and I am committed to helping you live rooted in their support.
I don’t rush you to claim what is not yet ripe. The true gift of this work is to honor and fully complete what has already been, so the new fruit can grow.
I don’t tell you where to go—I help you see the path already forming beneath your feet.
My tools include a unique blend of Deep Body Movement & journeying, archetypal and ancestral psychology, the expressive arts, nature work, and down-to-earth ceremony– and I call this work Deep Body work.
I know thresholds are both initiations and reckonings. I have stood in their raw uncertainty not just once, and emerged more whole each time.
See a few more strokes of my personal story and qualities
Carina L’yall,
Denmark
“Working with Stefana has changed my life. The shift was not simply talked about– It was moved. Felt. Embodied. Lived. It is infusing into the way I teach. The way I love. The way I speak. And what she offered feels so true to me, it is not a system I've had to master. It was opening up to life. So simple. So powerful. So real.”
Alexandra Almond,
Australia
The mentorship with Stefana has been one of the most deeply impactful experiences of my life. Stefana in her subtle, safe, compassionate yet strong way of showing up and her body based methods supported me through through many personal struggles including family sexual trauma, relationship dynamics and fertility and miscarriage struggles. I grew more whole and began experiencing a greater depth of love and respect for myself. This has impacted the outer expression of my life in many profound ways including my work, my marriage, where and how I have chosen to live, and the transition in between.
Myrthe Steenweg,
the Netherlands
Stefana travelled with me into the deeper layers of my bodily wisdom and my subconscious world. No one but Stefana could travel with me there, where I felt mirrored by her depth. She could see me and acknowledged me in places where I have never been acknowledged. Her intuitive intelligence showed me different angels of the stories I'd been telling myself so a whole new story could emerge.
Marija Shanta Bjørgeseter, Oslo
"What Stefana transmits and teaches has been the missing part for me. She makes it complete in a way that no other has done."
Results You can Expect
This passage is not just about surviving change—it is about claiming your fullest life, standing wholly in who you are meant to be.
Expect to emerge from the mentorship:
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Clearer and more deeply rooted in your truth.
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More aligned—which often translates to ease, harmony, and simplicity.
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Most simply put, you are experiencing the change you have been seeking, be it an exit from a situation, an entrance into a new one, or an all-around reform that is reshaping your life.
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No longer second-guessing yourself or your decisions.
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You can now make a choice that has long felt elusive. You take the step (or the leap!) that once terrified you or felt impossible.
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You have confronted and unraveled long-held emotional patterns that kept you limited
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Liberated from the cords of an outdated identity, situation, or narrative that held you back, your life force flows freely toward what is aligned now.
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Calibrated to a new rhythm—restful and sustainable— but without sacrificing your visions or goals
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You experience a deep sense of having acting powerfully on your dreams, desires, and truth.
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Rooted in a web of living, interconnected intelligence—earthly, animate, feminine, ancestral, and communal—that makes you feel whole again.
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Expanded in your body and nervous system capacity to hold what you truly desire.
Focuses of Mentorship
I offer three distinct focuses of the mentorship:
Threshold Change Mentorship (classic mentorship, as described above): Focusing on powerful change and your rite-of-passage journey into a wise and aligned selfhood.
Alternative Focuses
Sensual Root Threshold Mentorship: A journey of healing and reclaiming the power of your feminine body and sensual anatomy. We work to transform the stories, wounds, and transgressions imprinted on your fem anatomy, and restore your innate sovereignty and fem power.
Business & Leadership Threshold Mentorship: A creative vision and business mentorship for entrepreneurs in the healing and embodiment arts, designed to help you cross the threshold into deeper expression, sustainability, and impact.
Format: How it Works
This is a high-touch, high-priority mentorship, in which I am available to address any of your needs and material arising on an ongoing basis for the duration of the membership.
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We meet bi-weekly for in-depth zoom sessions
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I am available to you for unlimited voice, text, and call support in-between sessions, as needed
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I provide continuous and detailed guidance for your transformative self work in nature (near you) throughout the mentorship
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I provide mentorship for the preparation of the Threshold space and ritual, as well as for the integration of the work beyond the mentorship
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You get access to our digital library of audio/video practices and pre-recorded journeys
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A monthly live online Mentee Circle (optional)- to meet and be supported other women going through big change & the mentorship at the same time as you
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Free access to What Our Bodies Know– our community program
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I will recommend additional resources and reading when you want and need them
Change and transformation are my profession, but also at the foundation of my personal path
Following my sense of purpose and my heart has often meant freefalling into trust—rarely the easy road, but always the true one.
I’ve moved my life across an ocean—twice. I left a powerhouse career in journalism at its peak to be truer to my heart and create a body of work from scratch. I’ve traveled alone to stay in shaman’s huts deep in the Amazon jungle, in Maya villages that only recently had contact with the modern world, and in the remote desert of Death Valley, without food or shelter, “to cry for a vision”, as the indigenous people of those lands would say.
I have plenty of credentials and training, but I have learned most of what I know from my aching sensitivity and my body's ability to tune into the subtleties most people ignore, from a lifelong diagnosis on my womb that took me on a journey of reclaiming my femininity, and, more than everything, from the women I’ve worked with around the world, and their powerful, wise bodies.
I am– in indigenous terms– an initiated woman. (If you know, you know- or feel free to ask)
And I believe a woman should know when it's time to claim her sword...
Anna Rebecca Harris, El Cerrito, California
I can honestly say that Stefana's instruction has changed the course of my life, given me tools to positively influence my health and spirituality, and expand my self expression as an artist and facilitator. The Threshold container allowed me to get in touch with an inner wisdom and authority that made all the difference!