A
Lifetime
of
Embodied Practices
gift me with an agility to hold space for individuals, couples, and groups to explore not only a hardship at hand but also what brings my clients to life in order to live into any variety of wild or mundane transition.
At the core of my work are three major threads: holistic living, soulful somatics, and sacred intimacy. I am committed to the liberation of all bodies and offer a grounded, heart-centered, approach to my work. I have professionally explored the erotic intelligence of our bodies for more than twenty five years in both teaching workshops and in private practice with clients.I believe challenging times illuminate a path none of us need to travel alone.
While I’m not a therapist or counselor, my practice is therapeutic.
My work began in social services in the 1990’s when I worked in community health centers, abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters for women, and in rape relief efforts at multiple agencies in Seattle. My work as a sex educator for Toys in Babeland put me on the front edge of a sex positivity movement where I had the opportunity to teach physicians how to better help patients by addressing their own internalized shame about sex. I also had the privilege of coordinating the LGBTQ health program Sappho Health Services at The Country Doctor.
Encountering The Body Electric School in the 90”s solidified the threads of embodiment and eros into the fabric of both my personal healing path and my work with others. My varied experience and education includes social work, somatic sex education, meditation, yoga, couples work (with Terry Real and Dr. Diane Poole), anti-racism work (with Resmaa Menakem and Grief to Action) and the art of ritual and ancestral healing with Malidoma Some. My in depth study of Tantra began in 2001 with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati (aka Rudolph Ballentine MD). This path offered me foundational wisdom weaving together all aspects of mind, body, spirit and the potential for sexuality and spirituality to coexist in the body.
In my years of becoming a practitioner I have used all the tools I’ve found along the way in trainings such as a coaching certification program with the International Association of Wellness Professionals ( https://iawpwellnesscoach.com/), The Body Electric School (https://bodyelectric.org) and my Tantra Teacher Training (https://www.dancingshivatantra.com) too develop my own deep practice of using the body as a laboratory for transformation.
My life’s work is sharing this multitude of frameworks so my clients can slowly and deeply clear their pathway forward to live their lives with more aliveness, authenticity and conscious embodiment.