What is Mirror Embodied Transformation™ (M.E.T.)?
The Mirror EmbodimentTechnique™ (M.E.T.) weaves together mirror exposure, neuroscience, shadow work, and somatics, and archetypal embodiment practices to change how you experience yourself.
Your mirror creates a feedback loop, a living portal of transformation. Through eye contact, breath, and emotional attunement, you give your system visual, embodied proof of safety, love, and self-acceptance. Until your mind believes it... and your body lives it.
M.E.T.™ is not about thinking positively.
It’s about experiencing yourself differently: rewiring the brain and nervous system in real time, anchoring that shift deep in your cells.
It’s not conceptual. It’s experiential.
It’s not performance. It’s presence and remembrance.
Where science M.E.T.™ the Sacred
When you look into your own eyes with presence, something begins to shift inside you. Your mirror neurons: those tiny cells that let you feel empathy, learn, and recognize yourself — start to awaken. Every gentle gaze sends a message to your body: you are safe, you are seen, you are worthy.Each breath, each moment of soft eye contact, becomes medicine. Your nervous system starts to regulate. Cortisol drops. Oxytocin rises. DHEA supports repair and renewal. This is how your body begins to believe the love you offer yourself. When your breath deepens and you invite feelings like gratitude, love, and joy, something magical happens. Your heart and brain start to move in rhythm. You enter coherence. In this state, you see yourself with new eyes — less judgment, more compassion. Over time, your brain literally rewires itself. The old filter that used to look for flaws begins to look for truth, for beauty, for what’s real. You are not forcing change. You are remembering who you are. This is the science of self-remembrance. The biology of coming home. When you finally stop rushing past the mirror and you truly pause and meet your own gaze — something ancient wakes up. What looks back is not just a face. It’s your Soul calling you home. In that stillness, the mirror becomes sacred space. A quiet witness. A reminder of the love that never left. If you allow it, the mirror will show you everything you’ve been searching for. Not out there. Not in someone else. Here. Within you.
Why We Need This Work
Despite decades of self-help and empowerment, most of us still feel deeply disconnected from their inherent worth.
96% feel their appearance doesn't meet the narrow beauty ideal
71% doubt in their abilities.
We live in a culture of internalized capitalism, one that prizes productivity over presence, achievement over authenticity, and perfection over peace.
From childhood, we are taught to measure our value by how much we do or give, instead of who they are. This conditioning creates a deep fracture, a constant striving to be “enough,” paired with an inability to truly rest in self-acceptance.
The result?
Cycles of self-criticism, emotional disconnection, burnout, and shame.
Even the most “successful” woman often carries an invisible exhaustion ... outwardly capable, inwardly critical, running on performance instead of power.
The 6 M.I.R.R.O.R.™ Pillars
The Sacred Mirror Path: the Mirror Embodied Transformation (M.E.T.)™ is built around six stages that bridge science, somatics, and soul. Each pillar is designed for real, felt experience rather than theory. This is how we move from thinking about love to becoming it. 1. Meet the Mirror | Mirror Coherence & Law of Reflection It begins with a gaze. When we soften our eyes and meet our own reflection, our mirror neurons activate. These are the same cells that allow us to feel empathy and connection with others, but now we direct that empathy inward. Through guided breath and heart coherence, our nervous system learns that it is safe to be seen. The critic starts to dissolve and the sacred witness awakens. 2. Inhabit the Body | Mirror Somatics We cannot think our way into self-love. It must be felt. In this stage we bring awareness down from the mind into the body through breath, sound, touch, and movement, this week you'll learn mirror somatics. 3. Re-meet the Shadow | Mirror Exposure The parts we have rejected do not need fixing. They need seeing. Here we learn to face our inner fragmentation, that what we have hidden, demonized, locked away with compassion rather than resistance. Mirror exposure allows suppressed emotions and unmet needs to surface, while somatic awareness helps us hold them in safety. 4. Rewrite the Story | Mirror Rewiring Once the body feels safe, the mind opens. In this stage we rewire old belief systems through repetition, emotion, and embodied affirmation. As we look into our own eyes and speak new truths, our Reticular Activating System begins to notice reality differently. We start to see evidence of our worth everywhere, not as a trick of the mind, but as a new way of perceiving ourselves and the world. 5. Opening to Feminine & Masculine | Mirror Union The feminine is not one thing. She is many. Through guided embodiment of the feminine archetypes we reconnect to our natural rhythms, instincts, and inner power. We also call forth the Masculine, our Inner King, as protector, provider, and way shower. This integration balances our nervous system between receptivity and direction, flow and focus, softness and strength. From fragmentation to Inner Union. 6. Radiant Self-Expression | Mirror Play When love becomes embodied, expression follows naturally. In this final stage we bring play to the Mirror and bring our inner transformation out to the world. The mirror becomes a portal, helping us express ourselves with authenticity, power, and grace. We no longer perform love; we radiate it.
My Personal Story
Over the past four years, I’ve undergone big transformative initiations...burnout, depression, and big life decisions that led me to self-discovery, healing and transformation. In the end of 2023 a severe cystic acne outbreak challenged me to go deeper and confront my shame, self-criticism, and inner toxicity, forcing me to face my inner resistance and self-rejection. In that moment I felt I had a huge turning point, as I choose to respond with care, love, and healing... over shame and judgement.
Returning to the mirror work courses of @sister_shanti I still had in my library, the mirror became my altar. I went into the mirror, because this was the place I resisted most. Many tears, many breakthroughs.
I started to bridged my own practices as heart coherence, meditation, somatic practices, and archetypal embodiment and I began integrating these tools into the mirror. As my inner relationship deepened, confidence, love for my body, resilience, and authentic presence started to sprout... transforming my inner and outer world.
The obstacle became my path, the mirror became my place for emotional alchemy, a place for deep selfcare and connection. I discovered the path to embodied transformation: the foundation of M.E.T.™.
Love, xx Mariska Lisanne
Founder, Mirror Embodiment School
