Gina is a returning guest. You might enjoy checking out Gina’s previous session — #352, #348, #343, #323, #322, #309, #299 and #297 — in the archives.

ABOUT GINA

Gina Rose DiGiovanna is a professional clairvoyant, basd in the Kansas City Metro area. She's been a freelance reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and her work has appeared in magazines and other newspapers. She currently also makes use of her years of experience in fundraising, nonprofits, and working with great causes -- doing contract work as a grant writer and specialist in philanthropic communications. 

She began her journey with spirituality as a kid.

People always ask me how I "came to know" that I was a psychic. I tell them about my women friends in Kansas City. So many of them are proud that their grandmothers taught them knitting and sewing. And -- my grandmother taught me astrology. It was what we did. I was raised in a family of New York City lawyers, judges and politicians. I grew up listening to political speeches, studying...and doing readings, like a drill, for every family member. Spirituality, psychic work and hard-core intellectual study all went hand in hand. My eclectic grandmother cast charts by hand (not an easy task). She started her yoga practice in the 50s, and embraced everything from Voo Doo to the work of Joseph Campbell. Her library introduced me to the Ascended Masters, and so much more. I learned at an early age that the psychic could be spiritual, and that the spiritual was practical. 

After graduating from Columbia University in 1988, Gina joined an ashram in New York City. 

I did a Kundalini breathing practice with my first spiritual teacher. I'd go to his store in the East Village, where he sold ancient art. He'd work with me, jump up and talk to a customer, then sit back down and work with me! I did whatever it took to sit and practice because I just didn't want to suffer anymore. 

She found Shinzen’s work in 1989 and has since studied and practiced in numerous places and traditions.

I practice Shinzen's current techniques as well as the versions I learned when I first began studying with him. Other practices to which I still return include Nichiren and Tibetan meditations and chanting; Vedic chanting; the spiritual tools of Berkeley Psychic Institute; Jin Shin Jyutsu; Ashtanga and Bikram yoga; the work of the Ascended Masters; Reiki; and more. While I have many practices that are like old friends, I've learned to focus on one at a time for prolonged periods. I've learned some interesting things about how each practice benefits me -- and how my needs change.  I work with the practice that I seem to need the most. I always return to mindfulness because it's like going to a gym that makes you get in your body and decompress your nervous system. That's the hardest thing in the world for me. It's the best thing in the world if you do psychic work. 

You can learn more about Gina and her work here.