My background includes 2.5 years of art school at the University of Michigan's School of Art and Design, with an emphasis on digital art and photography. After my first of several "quarter life crises", I dropped out of school to march across part of the country with an activist group passionate about slowing down climate change- The Great March for Climate Action. The years following that involved lots of travel through mostly North and South America, learning about permaculture and intentional community living. During this period were my first encounters with ceremonial psychedelic medicine, sitting in ceremonies of San Pedro, Peyote and Ayahausca, and participating in temezcals and tobaccoo ceremonies. I had had many psychedelic experiences prior and had tried the gamut of illicit substances in my early 20's. While I always viewed these experiences as educational and spiritual, not just party drugs, stepping into the depth of intention and prayer of ceremony space made them that much more impactful and revealing.

In 2017, I trained in Hatha Yoga at the 200 hour level in NYC while at the same time working as a stretch coach. Some years later, I attended Hill College's Holistic Wellness Pathway, taking in-depth classes on holisitic nutrition, biology, herbalism and health coaching. In 2019, I experienced my first ever Hakomi session with a friend of a friend who was looking for practice clients. I showed up having no idea what this modality entailed and was blown away by how deep and healing of an experience I had, one that put me in contact with my body and psyche in a way I didn't know was possible until then. I was struck by how no other form of conventional therapy I had went through as a kid and a young adult came anywhere close to the experience I had with Hakomi, plus it required ingesting no substances at all. From that point on an obsession with somatic therapies was born and I would spend the next several years researching and exploring various forms of it, including TRE, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Emotional Freedom Technique, EMDR, Sensorimotor Therapy, and Schema Therapy.

In 2022, I found myself with enough money saved to take on training in Hakomi and spent the next two years pulling back the curtain on the alchemical elements necessary to elicit such profound and healing experiences. Not only were we learning how to facilitate, but of course we were also regularly on the receiving end. These two years were filled with such deep personal transformations and unfolding of greater and greater levels of awareness. It was also in 2022 that I realized something important was missing in my life, and that was a serious and committed meditation practice. I began practicing various forms of meditation as guided by a close friend of mine, along with other influences such as Reggie Rays somatic meditations. That in combination with Hakomi blasted me wide open in many ways. So I began my process I refer to as "re-sensitization". In learning to detach from my overactive thinking mind where I'd primarily spent the last 30 years, and landing deeply in my physical, emotional and energetic bodies, I re-awakened long dormant parts of myself. Realizing I had been numbed out and dissociated much of my life, I began to actually FEEL myself and others! This was another revelation.

In 2023, at the same time I was immersed in Hakomi, I also joined Dr. John Churchill's year long program on the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Calm Abiding, also known as the Elephant Path. If year one of Hakomi and meditation showed me how to feel myself, year 2 showed me how to HOLD my feeling self (amongst many other things). The emphasis of this program was on learning to deeply settle our bodies and minds so that we may hold attention on a chosen meditation object- thus beginning true meditation. To do this we were taught various metacognitive skills, injecting subtle seeds of intention into our practice to morph our relationship with it into one conducive to maintaining uninterrupted focus. What made John's teachings unique from the standard teaching on Calm Abiding practice was his skillful weaving of eastern practice with his knowledge of Western transpersonal psychology, attachment theory and developmental trauma. This seamless blending was another mind-blowing revelation for me, and I hope to eventually publish blog posts here going into it in more depth.

Ever since, I have continued to connect dots between eastern meditative practice, developmental trauma healing, and the human journey of rememebring what we truly are and the limitless nature of reality. All this has culminated in a unique approach to somatic inquiry into our present moment experience. It is here- deeply in the now and the immediacy of our bodies- where we find what's holding us back, as well as our path towards liberation.

With that summation, I stand here now with all that I've experienced in my travels, studies, personal explorations and deepening into the nature of myself and reality (of course, an unending journey), rooted in curiousity and compassion, holding a field of loving awareness, ready to receive you as you are so that together we may guide you back to an innate sense of wholeness.

Welcome!

To a beautiful voyage, intimately human and entirely unique to you.