PRIVATE MENTORING AND CONSULTATIONS
COURSES AND RETREATS * GUIDED JOURNEYS TO SACRED NATURe SITES * FINNISH SAUNA TREATMENTS
* MENTORING & CONSULTATIONS * CULTURE PRODUCTION * CULTURAL RESEARCH
WITH HELENA KARHU, GUIDE AND MENTOR, M.SOC.SC., BA
I offer private mentoring and consultations. I have been providing private consultations and mentoring for 7 years as my main profession, offering guidance for hundreds of individuals at my home country Finland and abroad. I offer the consultations in English either online via Zoom anywhere in the world, or locally in-person in Joensuu or Koli, Finland.
Holistic and natural methods are suitable for a wide range of life situations, as support and guidance on the path of life. It can be part of your journey of discovery of strength and inspiration. The basis of the work is on deep listening.
“I can highly recommend Helenas insights. Though many years ago, some of the themes we started working on still emerges in my life, and I remember a certain picture from our last session, which helps me once more.”
Consultation brings towards natural well-being:
• Compassionate presence in all life situations
• Support with insecurity, sense of direction of life, sadness, fear, hopelessness, depression, or anxiety
• Support in life crises or spiritual emergencies
• Support in meditation practice or other spiritual practice by providing rooted and practical support in your daily life, work, and relationships
• To elevate the joy of life, creativity, strength and the journey of discovery
• Insights and relevance to projects and life tasks
My starting points for meetings:
• We look at well-being primarily through embodiment, and how emotions, spirituality, and the mind are in a balanced relationship with our bodies.
• Our well-being is based on our connection to nature, and together we look at what elements of nature can be there to help your well-being right now.
• We return to an accepting presence and inner peace within ourselves.
Appointments are completely confidential and safe. They are meant to be pragmatic so that they support you in your daily life and tasks. I often give exercises and practices to continue with at home. The goal of the exercises and consultations is, above all, to embody and be physically present in everything that happens. I walk beside you on your own journey.
These methods serve as holistic and natural methods that are profitable and maintain well-being. They are no substitute for the work of professional psychologists and psychotherapists.
For the international consultations, we will use Zoom as the online meeting method.
“I can recommend a session with Helena. She is so wise, intuitive, and powerful shamanic healer.”
The purpose of House of the Bear is to offer courses, retreats, and other services in connection with nature and culture for well-being and inspiration. We have special expertise of North Karelia.
“This was the first time that I tried a shamanic consultation. I didn't expect anything, was just open to whatever might come, and was so deeply touched and gifted. It is impossible to put in words what I experienced during our session. Afterwards, I felt lighter, freed, and touched in the soul. I got a lot of strength and support for my life path from our session. Also, the words and energies that came up have been etched in my mind and are a compass for my path. From the bottom of my heart thank you!”
- Feedback from a German client
CONTACT:
Helena Karhu
info@karhuntalo.com
Tel. +358405148788
What is the ancient cultural tradition in North Karelia about?
According to the Finnish folklorists, the oldest form of Finnish culture and folklore is shamanistic, animistic wisdom culture. By studying rock paintings and carvings, we can travel back thousands of years in time. The latest evidence of the shamanistic practice is the 4,400-year-old shaman wand found in Humppila in June 2021 by the archeologists of University of Turku. It is a ritual artefact dating from the Neolithic Stone Age. North Karelia is an archaeologically significant area, and here you can find, for example, Heinävesi rock paintings, as well as numerous footsteps and table stones. The ancient power place of Koli mountain and the sacred lake of Pielinen offer world-renowed destinations of spiritual awakening and renewal.
Nature-mindedness means deep respect for nature. Each entity of nature has its own purpose, its own life, and its own soul. So has each human being. Finding one’s own nature and true essence is a process in which a human being experiences wholeness. Integrity is found and arises from respecting and nurturing the well-being of the body, emotional life, spirituality, and mind.
How to book a consultation?
To book an appointment, send an email to info@karhuntalo.com
Please send a few options at a date and time that suits you (please provide the information checking out the time zone of Finland). The booking is confirmed by paying via the link below. The duration of the consultation is an hour. There is no need to prepare specifically for the meeting. You are warmly welcome as you are.
You can confirm your booking through this link. Please find the language button on the top right corner as you open this link.
Helena Karhu, Your guide and mentor
As the retreat guide serves a 44-years old Helena Karhu, M.Soc.Sc. (with advanced studies in Tourism Science), a North-Karelian retreat guide, culture producer and reasearcher. Helena’s life project is Karhun Talo (House of Bear), which aims to promote self-awareness through folk cultures and wisdom traditions. She is born in Joensuu, North Karelia, Finland, and both of her parental lineages have deep roots in North Karelian soil. For the travelers, she wishes to show the beauty and wisdom of her ancestral land and culture, and to invite to rest in nature.
Helena is currently writing a Ph.D. research on Cultural Anthropology at the University of Eastern Finland. She is a chairwoman of a local association called Pielisen Tietäjäkeskus ry., which aims to promote, strengthen, and live the ancestral wisdom traditions of North Karelia. Helena has about 15 years of experience of meditation and mindfulness practices, and she has guided meditation for groups about 10 years. She has experience of cultural production for over 20 years.
Helena has vast international experience, as her international career took her to live over 13 years in Denmark. Besides her long-time residence in Copenhagen, her world journeys have taken her across the Northern and Arctic regions in her quest for life. She has lived in Greenland and in Fairbanks, Alaska. Helena’s passion is to bring forth the light-increasing, co-operative, and empowering aspects of the ancestral practice, where everyone can rest as they are, yet have freedom to become who they are. Helena is known for her inspiring and positive guidance, where simplicity and naturalness of life are the key focus.
“I hope that our retreat time together will bring you closer to the essence of this land, the beauty, and balancing strength of North Karelia. The purpose of retreat is that the effects and practices can be integrated to your home environment and everyday life.”
“Captivating teacher, who delivers from the depths of the heart. The contents of the retreat were wide-reaching. I discovered the joy and freedom of being, that everything necessary is already here and now. I feel relaxed and inspired. ”
“Helena is magical teacher, who is able to guide everyone the way they need.”
Photo: Helena in Outokumpu, North Karelia, Finland.
CONTACT
Helena Karhu
+358 (0)40 5148788
info@karhuntalo.com
Based in Joensuu, Finland.