The Inner Pilgrim

An integrated pathway of self-awareness

Phase I · New Moon

The Inner Pilgrim

Who this is for

You might land here when…

  • You are longing for a deeper sense of peace and understanding
  • You’ve had an experience — psychedelic, somatic, or otherwise non-ordinary — and want someone who takes it seriously.
  • You’ve been doing inner work for a while and the next step is feminine, embodied, or pre-verbal.
  • You’re curious about womb-centred practice but don’t want a workshop that skips over the depth.
  • You’re a practitioner yourself and need a place where you can stop holding space and be held.

If you’re looking for clinical diagnosis or crisis support, this isn’t the right place — and I’ll happily point you somewhere that is.

How I work

Pathways

Three integrated practices, each with its own register. Most people find one of them is the door; many circle through all three over time.

Holistic Psychotherapy and Counseling

Pathway 01

Holistic Psychotherapy and Counseling

Integrate mind, body & spirit into a unified path of self-awareness

Holistic mental health at Inner Journey invites you into a process of self-discovery through self-awareness. It honors the meeting of psyche and soul, where insight and presence come together to support healing, integration, and authentic transformation.

When this helpsWhen you want to think and speak something through, with someone trained to notice what you’re not saying.

Heart-Womb Awakening

Pathway 02

Heart-Womb Awakening

An inner pilgrimage of the embodied feminine

Womb of the Heart is a living journey of remembrance, a community of women walking together in the sacred process of reconnection. Here we return to the wisdom of the womb as a center of creation, intuition, and power, and to the heart as the seat of awareness and compassion. Through shared practices, ritual, and deep presence, we soften the layers of separation and awaken the natural harmony between womb and heart. This work honors the cycles of life, the healing of generational patterns, and the reclamation of the feminine as a living, embodied source of guidance and wholeness. Leaving no shadow unloved and no wound without balm. A devotion to wholeness: where every part of the feminine is welcomed home.

When this helpsWhen the work that’s asking to happen is feminine, embodied, and won’t move through talk alone.

Yoga & Meditation

Pathway 03

Yoga & Meditation

The Yoga of Self-Awareness

Yoga and meditation are invitations to return to the stillness of your own being. Rooted in ancient wisdom, these practices cultivate presence, clarity, and devotion, awakening the natural intelligence of the body and the quiet radiance of the heart. Through breath, movement, and contemplation, we dissolve the illusion of separation and rest in the simplicity of awareness itself.

When this helpsWhen you’re ready to make practice the spine of your daily life rather than something done to you in a session.

What working together looks like

The shape of the work

Less a method, more an unfolding. Opening to embrace, through awareness, different aspects of ourselves, and to discover a deeper freedom.

A single session

A session usually begins with a few moments of arriving. We slow down, turn inward, and settle into the heart. There is no need to have the right words prepared. Sometimes you arrive carrying a clear question. Sometimes a feeling, a challenge, a recurring pattern, or simply a sense that something is asking for attention. From there, we listen together. Rather than rushing toward answers, we begin by noticing what is already present. We may follow the language of the body, the emotions beneath a story, or the quieter currents moving underneath what can easily be named. At times I may offer a reflection, a question, a guided practice, or a somatic inquiry. At other times, the work unfolds through silence, presence, and allowing something previously hidden to come into view. Each session finds its own shape. Some are spacious and contemplative. Some are practical and clarifying. Some move deeply into the body, while others bring language and orientation to an experience that has been difficult to understand alone. Towards the end, we allow time for integration. Together we gather what feels most important, notice what has shifted, and identify any simple practices, reflections, or next steps that may support the unfolding between sessions. The session closes gently, giving you space to land before returning to the rhythm of your day.

Across many sessions

Most clients work with me anywhere from three sessions to several years. The intention is not to create dependency, but to cultivate a relationship of trust, honesty, and friendship that can hold the unfolding of deeper layers over time. The work moves at the pace of what is genuinely ready to emerge. Sometimes a few sessions are enough to bring clarity and direction. Other times, the process benefits from a longer container where patterns can be witnessed across seasons, cycles, and life transitions. Sessions are usually weekly in the beginning, allowing momentum and continuity to develop. As the work settles and integration deepens, we often move to fortnightly or monthly rhythms. Along the way, there are natural moments of reassessment where we pause to reflect on what is changing, what remains unresolved, and whether the work continues to feel aligned for both of us. Each session builds on what has come before while remaining responsive to what is alive in the present moment. Rather than following a fixed programme or promising a particular outcome, the work unfolds through an ongoing conversation between intention, experience, and embodied practice.

What you bring, what I bring

You do not need to come prepared. You do not need to have a clear goal, a polished story, or an explanation for what is happening. You do not need to know what is wrong. What helps is a willingness to arrive as you are and to slow down enough to notice what is actually here. This includes setting aside the pressure to perform, achieve, or even perform healing itself. My role is to bring presence, attention, discernment, and care. I will listen closely, ask questions when needed, and help create a space where what is emerging can be met rather than rushed past. Your role is simply to show up honestly and remain curious about your own experience, even when it feels unclear, uncomfortable, or unexpected. The work is collaborative. Neither of us arrives with a fixed agenda for who you should become. Instead, we meet what is here together, allowing insight, practice, and transformation to arise from relationship rather than prescription. At its heart, the agreement is simple: your willingness to be present with what arrives, and my commitment to stay with it alongside you.

Practical things

  • Online (Zoom)
  • Between-session contact for short questions only — anything substantive belongs in a session.
  • I work in English
  • Sliding-scale spots open quarterly; just ask.

The Guide

Sandii Palermo

A pilgrimage of self-discovery and integration.

The Inner Pilgrim is an invitation to walk the path within—a pilgrimage of self-discovery, self-awareness, and integration. I accompany those who feel called to explore the inner landscapes of the psyche: the seen and unseen places that quietly shape how we relate, love, create, and find meaning and purpose in our lives.

My name is Sandii, and I accompany those who feel called to explore the inner landscapes of the psyche: the unseen places that quietly shape how we relate, love, create, and find meaning and purpose in our lives.

This work is grounded in a Heart centred holistic approach. It offers a safe and compassionate space for what has been held in the unconscious to come into awareness. Often, the patterns and protections that once kept us safe begin to limit how we connect and express ourselves. Healing invites us to meet these parts with presence, patience, and care, so they can transform rather than repeat.

Drawing from Process Oriented Psychology, Process work, contemplative practice, and somatic awareness, supporting us recognize the patterns, emotions, and inner forces that influence our choices and relationships. As we bring curiosity and understanding to these hidden dynamics, a deeper coherence begins to unfold allowing us to live with greater authenticity, purpose, and acceptance of who we are.

At its heart, this inner jounrey is a process of remembering our inherent wholeness, where psychological understanding and spiritual insight come together to support a more integrated and meaningful way of being.

“When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

Lao Tzu

Begin where you are

Three ways into the work

Each session below describes when it tends to help. Read for the one that sounds like yours; that’s the one to start with.

Holistic Psychotherapy and Counseling

Pathway 01
Holistic PsychotherapyDepth-oriented therapy that meets the whole of you — mind, body, and what lives beneath both.When the work that’s asking to happen isn’t in your head — it’s deeper than words.$9060 min
Holistic CounsellingA focused conversation to talk something through, with somatic awareness woven in.When something’s been on your mind and you want a clear-thinking partner.$9060 min
Psychedelic IntegrationTime to make sense of a non-ordinary experience, woven into the texture of daily life.When you’ve had an experience and want someone who takes it seriously — without romanticising it.$9060 min

Heart-Womb Awakening

Pathway 02
Womb of the Heart Guidance SessionOnly for participants of Womb of the Heart ImmersionFree60 min
Womb Awakening FacilitationA one-to-one session in the womb-of-the-heart lineage — ceremony, somatic inquiry, contemplative quiet.When the work that’s asking to happen is feminine, embodied, and won’t move through talk alone.$9060 min
Inner Pilgrimage — Individual SessionFor those who are in the 9 month immersionFree60 min
Womb of the Heart In-Person RetreatA 5-day in-person retreat in the Womb of the Heart. Limited to twelve.When you’re ready for a sustained container, not a single session.$45060 min
Womb of the Heart Online ImmersionA multi-month online immersion through the five bodies, held in a community of women.When you want sustained, weekly contact with the work — without leaving your life.$77790 min
Womb ConstellationsA group ceremony tracing ancestral and archetypal patterns through constellation work.When the next layer is ancestral — and you want to witness and be witnessed.$50180 min

Yoga & Meditation

Pathway 03
Hridaya YogaOne-to-one Hridaya Hatha Yoga, contemplative and slow, oriented toward the Heart.When you want practice you can refine in private — not a class, not a workshop.$6590 min
Group Hridaya Yoga ClassA 90-minute heart-centred group practice rooted in the Hridaya lineage.When you want practice in your week, not just in your life.$2090 min
Free Hridaya MeditationA free guided meditation drawn from the Hridaya tradition.When you want a way in that doesn’t cost anything but attention.Free60 min
MentoringA 45-minute one-to-one for guidance on the path — practice, transitions, integration.When you have a question that doesn’t need therapy but does need a real listener.$5945 min

More Sessions

Pathway 04
Test SessionPlaceholder test session.Use for testing.$160 min

Before you book

Questions worth asking

Most of what people want to know before a first session.

I’m not sure which session is right for me. What should I do?

Send a question through the contact section, or book the most resonant session and we’ll tune it together. Twenty minutes of conversation is usually enough to tell whether one of the pathways is calling and which one. There’s no pressure to continue.

What happens in a first session?

We start with what brought you here, and I do more listening than asking. You don’t need to come prepared. By the end, we’ll have a felt sense of whether continuing makes sense — and if it doesn’t, that’s a useful answer too.

Online or in person?

Most of the talking work travels well online. Womb-awakening sessions and yoga classes are deeper in person, though we can do online sessions where in-person isn’t feasible. Retreats are in-person only.

What’s the cancellation policy?

Forty Eight hour notice for a full refund. Inside 48 hours there is no refund. I understand life happens — if something genuinely unexpected comes up, just tell me and we’ll find the right thing.

How does payment work?

Payment at the time of booking by transferwise, bank transfer or PayPal.

What if I get sick or something comes up?

Reschedule. Don’t push through. Send me a message any time before the session and we’ll find a new slot — there’s no penalty for genuine illness or care responsibilities.

Can I message you between sessions?

For short, factual questions yes — by email or WhatsApp. Anything substantive belongs in a session, where I can be present with it. I don’t do crisis support; if that’s what’s needed I’ll point you somewhere it lives well.

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