TUNING: 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 Technique, 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.

After receiving a BA in philosophy as an undergraduate, in 2011, writing became my central focus, and alongside my own practice, I began to combine elements of experiment, procedure, movement, ritual, collaboration, chance, attention, reflection, and presence in generative workshops geared towards dancers and writers. Alongside these explorations and my own experiential study, I completed an MFA in poetry, then started Sema, an experiment in shared attention and community-making across time, form, and place. Since 2018, Sema has comprised a poetry-focused reading & workshop series, a group of micro-interviews, and a podcast.

In the years after my MFA, I 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 various areas of experience and education continued to weave together, and a more synthesized approach to facilitation began to emerge for me. Named for Pauline Oliveros’ “Tuning Meditation,” TUNING is a somatic, intuitive, and creative modality that works to support presence, ease, and attention in embodied experience. Group 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 facilitate expansion of creative process, engagement with environment, and connection between individuals. 

1:1 somatic|intuitive work developed in tandem with these workshops, 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, and creative facilitation provides somatically rooted entry points into writing, making, and collaborative + community work. I continue to learn and evolve my practice through work with clients and ongoing study with mentors and fellow intuitives.

More information about current facilitation offerings can be found here.