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 — psychologists, psychics, social workers, writers, devoted meditators, guardians and caretakers — and my curiosity and inquiry into their vocational and personal work has been a consistent force throughout my life. With their support and guidance, I began to engage directly with a wide range of therapeutic and somatic modalities, and approaches to body and energy work from childhood onward.

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 Technique, Klein Techniques, and Feldenkrais, and felt deep resonance in their focus on subtlety, integration, and self-study as I began to untangle my embodied experience from my earlier movement training.

In 2011, writing became my central focus 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. From 2018 - 2021, Sema comprised a poetry-focused reading & workshop series, a group of micro-interviews, and a podcast of grief conversations with writers. During this time, I also began receiving intensive intuitive mentorship from a family member, as well as training in death care, and continued facilitating group workshops and consulting with individual writers on their work. 

As these areas of experience and education continued to weave together, a more synthesized approach to group facilitation began to emerge. Named for Pauline Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation,” TUNING is a somatic modality whose 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 collective difficulty, and has since comprised in-person workshops that explore pathways to group & individual creative work, engagement with environment, and connection with others. 

1:1 somatic 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. More information about these modalities, as well as grief & death support, intuitive reading, and creative facilitation offerings can be found here.