background & approach

My exposure to facilitation, care & intuitive work, and somatic/attention practice began when I was very young. Many of my family members are practitioners of one sort or another — therapists, psychics, social workers, guardians — and my curiosity and inquiry into their vocational and personal work has been a consistent force throughout my life. This early observation and support led to my own lived engagement with a wide range of approaches to practice and therapeutic modalities. Throughout late childhood, adolescence, and into my early 20s, I was also absorbed in ballet and contemporary dance training, as well as rigorous instruction in Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga practice and Pilates. Later on, I encountered Gaga, Alexander and Klein Techniques, and Feldenkrais, and felt deep resonance in their focus on subtlety, integration, and self-study, as I worked to untangle my way of being in a body from its earlier movement training. 

In 2011, my focus shifted to writing and I began to combine these elements — experiment, procedure, movement, ritual, collaboration, chance, attention, reflection, presence — in generative workshops geared towards dancers and writers. Alongside these explorations and my own experiential study, I completed an MFA in poetry in 2018, then started Sema, an experiment in shared attention and community-making across time, form, and place during 2018 - 2021. During this time, I also began receiving training in death care work, as well as intensive intuitive mentorship.

As these areas of experience and education continued to grow and weave together, a more synthesized approach began to emerge for me in the form of a group somatic modality. Named for Pauline Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation,” TUNING’s primary objective is to facilitate ease, connection, engagement, and making through deep attention with and beyond the body. TUNING began in 2021 in a virtual space with the hope of offering care, support, and pathways to nervous system regulation during a time of great difficulty, and has since comprised in-person workshops that explore group & individual creative work, engagement with environment, and connection with others. 1:1 somatic & intuitive work developed in tandem with TUNING, individualizing the group approach to support and deepen individual embodied experience through somatic balancing and release, subtle body work, creative visualization, breath practice, deep rest, and intuitive insight. Work with spaces applies these lenses to rooms, homes, and other areas of inhabitation.