I found somatic work at a pivotal time in my life. I was a few months into traveling through South America, one of my long held dreams, and despite the beauty and freedom around me, I felt a quiet knowing that there was something more I was meant to understand. The day before beginning my formal training, I sat with ayahuasca for the first time and received clear insight into how my body was holding layers of past experiences, some conscious and some beyond memory. I saw how these imprints were shaping emotional heaviness, survival responses, blocks in authenticity, and patterns in relationships.

As I continued my education and had space held for me somatically, I began to understand the intelligence of the body on a much deeper level. This understanding felt especially meaningful as I reflected on my early life. I moved frequently as a child, and a major move across the United States had a profound impact on me. I shifted from being an expressive, arts oriented child to suppressing my creativity in order to belong. From a young age, I experienced depression, anxiety, and periods of feeling deeply disconnected from myself and from God.

Just before graduating high school, I suffered a head injury that fundamentally changed how I related to my consciousness. Feeling its fragility clarified something essential in me. Shortly after, I made the decision to move to Hawai‘i, trusting it as a necessary beginning rather than an escape. There, I encountered God in a new way, separate from the religious frameworks I grew up with. I found community that spoke openly about spirituality, embodiment, and connection, and I began walking the path of yoga, meditation, plant medicine, and dream-recall/lucid dreaming practices.

I moved to Hawai‘i at eighteen and earned a BA in East West Humanities, where I explored the intersections of spirituality, psychology, and embodied inquiry. While my academic path offered language and structure, I increasingly felt that what I was seeking lived beyond textbooks and theory. I brought my questions to professors, studied deeply, and still sensed that true understanding required lived experience.

After spending a year as a writing teacher with over two hundred students, I left on a whim after receiving an invitation to live in the jungle and homeschool two gifted boys. At the time, I was on my way to complete a two hundred hour yoga training, and that decision marked the beginning of a more nomadic life. Since then, I have traveled through many countries and landscapes that have deeply shaped both my personal healing and my work.

I am a certified somatic facilitator and a trauma informed breathwork guide, and I continue my education with devotion and curiosity. I work in relationship with plant medicines, which have been among my greatest teachers, and I co facilitate ceremonies with my partner. I feel most connected and alive when I am playing music, singing, writing, and making art.

Somatic work ultimately became more than a modality for me. It became a way of remembering who I am, restoring trust in the body, and reconnecting with God through direct, embodied experience.