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About My Clients
Have you heard a lot about "mindfulness" but feel like there's a lot that gets left out? Increasing our awareness is a crucial first step... I specialize in contextualizing and translating that increased awareness into greater liberation and tangible action. Our bodies exist within larger systems — many of which serve to disconnect us from ourselves and eachother. I help you to learn to work with your nervous system thru embodied creative exploration including breathwork, movement, and narrative
My Background and Approach
My first professional career was as a professional musical theatre dancer. Thru my own journey of healing I found my way to Somatic Therapy and Restorative Practices — discovering greater wholeness and reconnection to our inherently interdependent natures through sitting one on one and in circle with folks, sharing authentically and exploring deeply, and coming to realize that all the parts of myself I thought so shameful, or felt so burdened by, were trying to keep me safe given the systemic beliefs and ideals I had subconsciously internalized my whole life. In our work together, I will invite us to explore, through the present moment experience of our bodies, all that we've taken in to try and survive, and what of that might be ready to be let go of and shifted in favor of more healthful and nourishing mechanisms. I work to balance emergent, deep exploration with practical, hands-on tools and skill building to help move you closer to your intended goals and greatest manifestation
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am a liberatory, nonpathologizing practitioner. I believe in the inherent healing power of authentic human connection. I believe we have all been deeply harmed by the violent patriarchal, ableist, white supremacist, hyper-capitalist systems within which we are entrenched — and that this harm has been experienced disparately across gender, race, ability, and other elements of positionality. I believe shame is corrosive and no human being is defined by their worst action. I believe that our collective liberation is bound up together, and in order to help heal the outer woundedness of our world we owe it to ourselves and each other to look deep inside— and to work together to heal what we find there. I believe in the words of Krishnamurti that "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" I seek never to ignore the sickness of the outer world, but to seek to cultivate greater resiliency and rebellious joyous connection for the sake of healing it.