Chana Mason

Chana Mason offers somatic therapy and coaching from her home in Jerusalem. She works with people who are ready to go deeper, and she describes her work as a space "where you can finally stop performing and start feeling." It isn't a program or a protocol. She follows what wants to emerge in each person.

She has spent decades immersing herself in healing practices, including breathwork, Internal Family Systems, somatic practices, EMDR, the Work of Byron Katie, NLP, Jewish Spiritual Therapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy and Family Constellations. She says she pursued them to find her own way back to wholeness rather than to collect credentials, and that what she learns spills over into her work with clients. She also draws on what she has gleaned from parenting, friendship and intuiting energy.

Meditation is a steady companion in her life and prayer. She has translated it into hundreds of guided Jewish meditations, which invite listeners to come home to themselves.

Her Jerusalem home is set up for connected gathering: meals, music, healing and conversation. Shabbat is at the heart of it, with a full table of vegan food each week. She says watching people slow down together there has taught her more about healing than any training.

Her clients tend to have some experience with inner work. They come for a homecoming and an unfolding, not a quick fix. People who have worked with her describe a presence that is both tender and direct. A colleague also credits her books, teachings and meditations.