MY convictions

Living with the effects of trauma is a testament to strength and resilience. Traumatic events lead to nervous system dysregulation that can reduce one’s sense of safety and belonging in the world. Traumatic imprints may be created because something was too big, too frightening or happened too fast. Sometimes the roots are in the lack of support during or after an experience, leaving a lasting effect on relationships and our ability to trust. Seeking help from a practitioner is a move toward healing and thriving.

Societal conditioning has led to harmful body-objectification. Dominant assumptions perpetuate the belief that certain bodies are not correct, preferred, appropriate or worthy of care. We are also often conditioned to treat our bodies as vehicles for our minds. I propose we cultivate an environment that liberates us from the cultural biases and oppressive power structures that privilege certain bodies and ways of knowing over others. Your lived experience is essential to our work, and we will focus on the sensorial present-moment and body-as-process to guide the session.

Mind, body and spirit are inseparable and shaped by the process of living. Through embodiment practices we affirm our wholeness, as well as our commonality with the animal and the ancestral. Somatic connection may provide a portal to the numinous or transcendent, as well as the messy, joyous, subtle, vulnerable and sacred aspects of corporeality. Tapping into other ways of knowing, both ephemeral and elemental, confirms our interconnection and interdependence with the human and non-human world.

Direct sensory engagement is an antidote to modern malaise. Western culture tends to privilege analytical thinking, and bodily experience is frequently overlooked as the site of perception. While this primacy has contributed to technological advancement, it has also left many of us “stuck in our heads,” feeling unfulfilled and confused by the emptiness of interfacing with flat, lifeless media. Tactile engagement, exteroception and play reorients us to the wonder of life itself.

Diversity is evidence of human flourishing. Neurodivergence and variations in sensory processing and engagement are welcomed and supported in my practice. All gender expressions are celebrated and affirmed, as are all complexions, abilities, intersectionalities, shapes and sizes. I facilitate a common space of disenthralment with normativity so that we may all inhabit our unique aliveness. It is through our amazing bodies that we come into direct contact with our own distinct generative potential.