About Gena

Hi! I am Gena. I’m a spiritual embodiment guide who’s here to help you awaken, transform, and heal. My life’s story has prepared me for this work.

My Certifications & Training

Certifications Trillium Awakening Teacher VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing Practitioner Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) Practitioner Realization Process Teacher (Embodiment and Healing Ground) Certified Reiki Level 2 Practitioner Other Training Metatronic Life and Healing, Step 1 & 2 Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM), Level 1 Havening Techniques Inner Relationship Focusing (based on Gene Genlin’s work) Self-Study Human Design Gene Keys

My Story

My spiritual awakening journey started in childhood. I always felt very connected to the Divine and like I didn't belong here on earth. I remember crying when we sang hymns in church, feeling I was directly communing with Divinity. At the same time, I experienced a lot of emotional pain growing up, which reinforced my sense of being in the wrong place. After some serious traumas at age 15, I experienced a near death experience in which I merged into the “Heart of God” and knew I was God. That was blasphemous where I came from, so I had to hide this realization, which resulted in a fractured psyche and body and even more pain.

I spent much of my life trying to escape that pain through various ways of numbing myself, such as striving to be successful and jumping from one adventure to the next. In my 40s I tried to find my way back home to the Heart of God through transcendent spiritual practices, which certainly helped me feel like I was getting closer. I’d go away on meditation retreats by myself with the intention of reaching “moksha” – liberating myself from the body and not coming back.

Finally, I had an epiphany in 2008 when I realized I didn’t need to leave my body to find my way back to the Heart of God.
I could embody and live as that Heart in this life.

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About that time, I met my husband, who introduced me to Waking Down in Mutuality (later named Trillium Awakening).

When I walked into my first gathering, I knew I’d found my way back home and that my epiphany was about to become a reality, with a spiritual community that would support me into the embodiment of my realization.

Certainly, my process into embodiment has been challenging. The realized Divinity landing in my body-mind bumped up against childhood trauma and lifetimes of patterns and conditioning, which had manifested as chronic illness, emotional pain, and a seriously dysregulated nervous system. This led me to explore different modalities over the years (see My Certifications & Trainings) that have helped me deepen in my embodied awakening and helped me to meet, integrate, and heal the pain I didn’t have the capacity to feel most of my life.

I’ve experienced tremendous transformation and encounter more wholeness and wellbeing every day. Ultimately, though, I consider awakening and embodiment to be an ongoing process with no end point, as long as we are in form. Every day I practice tenderly meeting my humanness and whatever conditioning comes up while also not identifying with it. I know I’m Divinity playing with the experience of separation and ultimately already whole. And yet paradoxically I’m drawn to bring loving presence to whatever is blocking more Divine Light-Love-Awareness-Intelligence from integrating in my body-mind so I can make different choices as an awakening human, and I can bring more of this to the planet for the good of all beings. It’s my calling and the longing of my heart in this life.

Along the way, it’s become really clear that my life has prepared me to be a guide for those who are on an embodiment path. So here I am! Ready to connect with you. I know the amount of commitment and courage it requires, and I’m honored and humbled to assist and guide you wherever you might be on your journey.

I believe all of life is one unified Being—or One Body—that's comprised of unique expressions of Divine Source, including you and me. The Divine forgets itself as this One Body, and then awakens and remembers itself through our individual human awakenings.

Though we, as unique expressions of soul, have always been one with Divine Source, we've lost awareness of our True Nature. As a result, we experience a sense of separation from Divinity and all of creation.

Our humanness has been shaped by this process of forgetting. The perceived separateness leaves lasting imprints, affecting us on all levels—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. This creates a complex web of issues and identities that condition our bodies, minds, and emotions.

Most of our external challenges in life mirror inner struggles, which are rooted in this network of conditioning that causes us to repeat the same issues over and over again. Our thoughts become trapped in repetitive loops, hindering new creative expressions and our ability to find purpose. Our conditioning creates blockages and deeply ingrained patterns within our energy system, leading to emotional suffering as well as physical pain and illness.

Paradoxically, we are already whole. Even while experiencing perceived separation, the essence of who we are remains untouched and doesn’t need fixing. The One Awakening Body embraces all experiences, welcoming everything that arises. Everything that happens supports our individual and collective awakening and evolution.

Divinity, manifesting as us, is calling itself home.

"Healing your conditioning supports you in realizing you’re the embodiment of Divine Source, your True Nature."

How I Approach My Work

What Clients are Saying

I approach healing work and spiritual awakening as a collaborative and empowering partnership between you as the client, myself, and Divine Source. My role is not to impose anything on you. Rather, as your Spiritual Embodiment Guide, I walk alongside you on the journey of remembering,

I use a body-based, heart-centered, and trauma-informed approach to healing and awakening. I’m committed to creating a safe and loving container, to meet you wherever you're at, and to help you connect with whatever needs to be met within yourself so you can bring it all back to Divine love.

Establishing safety is essential. I help you establish absolute safety by tapping into your fundamental Divine nature – that which includes everything while simultaneously is untouched and unaffected by it. From there, I guide you to inhabit your body and the core of your Being, so you also experience embodied safety.

I also assist you in cultivating additional resources for your Embodiment journey, such as tuning into Divine qualities within your body and uncovering your unique gifts.

To support your transformation, I use a variety of energetic and somatic healing techniques to loosen and unravel your conditioning, which can manifest as physical, emotional, relationship or spiritual issues. I ensure that some of these tools are ones you can utilize independently to support your healing and awakening process.

“Gena is a loving and awake presence and her work is both gentle and profound. She has a healing touch, keen insight, a deep well of expertise, and a beautiful generosity of spirit. The depth and breadth of her healing repertoire and gifts are truly amazing. I highly recommend her offerings!”

Cathy

There is "Spiritual Star Power" in Gena Netten--the authority of authentic and well-expressed clarity of experience, combined with genuine humility.

Eli

"Gena is a gifted and extraordinary healer; one whom I trust, one who really listens and is able to discern and address the most important issues in the present moment."

Fred H.

I would recommend Gena Netten and Vortex Healing to anyone who finds themselves overwhelmed by physical, emotional or mental issues. As a result of our sessions, I was able to give consciousness a greater space around issues that were holding me captive. I learned to recognize old patterns and attachments without judgments and relaxed them. Seeing the bigger picture in the comforting presence of Gena during incredible difficult issues has given me back my will to live.

Maria

“This retreat fed and expanded me way beyond my expectations! The people, the container created, and the skillful facilitation by Gena and Alan made for a deeply transformative weekend experience. I definitely recommend working with them!”

Rachel

"I have been attending retreats with Allan and Gena for years, and always find them to be filled with wisdom teachings, opportunities for self reflection, and deep dialog with other participants. A combination of structured exercises plus unstructured creative flow time allows freedom for many different aspects of the self to emerge and be witnessed in a safe container.”