Michael Casteel , founder of SOULutions, is a transformational life coach specializing in the field of transpersonal, or spiritual psychology. He began his full time Atlanta practice January 2000.  Unlike other schools of psychological thought, transpersonal or spiritual psychotherapy works to fully integrate the mind, body, soul and spirit by getting to the root of the challenges people face; healing on a soul level. In Michael's practice, he works to move people beyond the limitations of their ego to meet and utilize their authentic self, their essence.

Michael's qualifications include a formal education in psychology and theology and over 30 years of study and teaching of spiritual healing and transformation. In addition to being an ordained minister, Michael holds professional certifications in Life Coaching, Breath Theapy, Hypnotherapy and Energy Medicine.

Michael, the son of a Baptist preacher, decided that a traditional Christian education to seminary wasn't his path.  Michael decided to study healing with spiritual practices instead of pursuing the ministry. Michael has studied the schools of religious faith from all over the world and in the process, learned the commonality they all have, which is a desire for wholeness.  Michael then began his studies of healing practices from all over the world.  Michael's additional professional training includes meditation techniques,  neuro-linguistic programming, sound therapy, couples therapy techniques, shadow work the enneagram and emotional release therapies.

In addition, Michael has studied with numerous master-teachers and researchers including Stansilov Grof, Richard Moss, Hal and Sidra Stone, Enneagram Institute, and Fernand Poulin. Michael has done extensive research into the work of Carl Jung, Ken Wilbur, Martin Seligman, John Ruskin, Arjuna Ardargh, Martin Seligman and Deepak Chopra.  He has further studied in great depth the writings and philosophies of Carl Jung, Father Thomas Keating, Thomas Merton, Teihard de Chardin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Eckhart Tolle.

What I'm most passionate about is guiding people on their unique individual hero's journey from a life limited             
by fear and doubt to one of freedom and purpose -- becoming a "Modern Urban Hero!" 
The Modern Urban Hero knows that life has given each of us a core wound to be healed and a core purpose to be fulfilled. This is the soul-work that we're here to do! 
It's both our greatest contribution to Life and where we find our deepest joy and greatest wholeness.

Michael

While Michael has helped hundreds of people find authentic healing experiences in his private practice, he has also developed numerous programs for both groups and individual therapy.  His programs for individuals include the Awakening to Radical Wholeness Personal Transformation Process, Embrace your Shadow, MAPSS to Radical Wholeness and The Transformational Wisdom of the Enneagram. These programs are designed to move individuals beyond what Eckhart Tolle refers to as the pain body to find their Soul or spiritual self.   

Michael is the creator of  Conscious Integrative Breath Therapy that has guided over 6000 people around the world to spiritual breakthrough experiences  both privately and in groups through his Breath of Life Experiences.  Using a combination of breathwork, meditation and guided, hypnotherapy, Michael is able to release the repressed emotional energy stored in the body to help facilitate healing and accelerate the therapy process.

Michael's imaginative blend of meditation, modern neurological and bio-feedback techniques, along with guided hypnotherapy has helped people break through destructive behavior patterns and create new and healthier lives for themselves. By combining these guided meditations with his Breath of Life process, Michael has been able to help people heal from depression, anxiety disorders, sexual trauma, panic disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, weight management and eating disorders, anger management, social dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, destructive behavior patterns, repressed memories and numerous other treatment-resistant conditions.

"Traditional therapy breaks down in that it negotiates with the ego to give up behavior that was created to protect the individual from more hurt. The ego's job is to protect the individual from physical and emotional pain is not going to give up the strategies it uses to do its job, no matter how self-destructive they may be. To truly heal and change the behavior patterns that have prevented you from living your fullest, deepest, most conscious life, you have to stop negotiating with the ego and stop working from your Essence, or Soul," explains Michael.

To help his clients accomplish their goals, Michael has created several therapeutic processes such as the Core Wound to Core Purpose, Integrated Strengths, and the principles of radical wholeness.  These original therapeutic techniques first help clients identify the most painful moments in their life that created destructive protection strategies.  Then Michael gently helps create an awareness of both the pain and the positive that resulted from these ego protection strategies.

All of the methods used in Michael's practice and programs have roots in solid, proven research from the leading experts in the fields of transpersonal psychology, positive psychology (the use of behavior management to create positive life strategies) integrative psychology (blending the body, mind and spirit to a state of wholeness), energy release medicine and healing (yoga, meditation, prayer practices and breathwork). All of Michael's programs create safe and sacred environments for people to experience an authentic intimacy with the deepest and most sacred parts of themselves and Spirit.

Michael has created a number of group healing workshops and seminar series.  The FIRE of Wholeness Breakthrough Experience was designed to move people quickly from their core wound to core purpose saving years of therapy. This new transformational program challenges individuals to move beyond our ego's need to either suppress (the fear of not being enough) or desire to impress (becoming separate by feeling superior) and guide them to the soul's deepest longing: To fully express our uniqueness in service to Spirit and Life - In other words, Wholeness.

In a world full of negativity and pessimism, The MAPS to Wholeness program was designed to ask the question, "What is right with me?"  Using powerful tools of positive psychology, Michael helps participants find their strengths, gifts and true purpose.  To live the kind of life we all want, first we must understand our individuality and our true calling.

One of the most effective tools today for changing self-defeating behavior and creating a life of unlimited potential is through shadow work.  Shadow work is integrative psychology that diagrams the individual personality structure and looks at all the parts of the ego that has been disowned, buried or hidden. Examining these parts of our personality that cause us shame gives us information about how we over compensate to avoid having them exposed. In Michael's program, Embrace Your Shadow, Finding the Light Within, participants learn self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. It is impossible to ever truly love someone else until we have learned to love ourselves.

All of Michael's programs have one goal in mind and this it to combine the trinity qualities of strength, compassion and Spirit with the ever growing and deepening experience of Peace, Passion, Purpose, Power and Presence. It is only when we create an aware ego connected to our spiritual self, or Essence can we fully take possession of our body and our life.  It is only when we have combined our mind, body and soul can we begin to live our deepest, fullest life of purpose and passion.

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