Serena is a coach, facilitator, parent and poet living in relationship with Coast Salish land. For more than two decades, Serena has been exploring mindfulness, intuition, meditation, yoga and other energetic and movement modalities. She’s offered a wide range of classes, sessions, workshops, programs, and retreats that center mindfulness, connection, compassion and liberation. Her background in academic research and teaching on race, gender, class, sexuality and other systems of power and inequity and her equity consulting with non-profit and public organizations enable her to bring an anti-oppressive and liberatory lens to all her coaching and facilitation. Living in a body marked white within transnational systems of globalization, Serena recognizes the ways multiple intersecting systems have shaped how each of us move through the world. Her coachind and facilitation opens up spaces for exploring how these systems work through specific terrains of family, schools, religious spaces, workplaces and other institutions and rely on us staying within the limited visions they offer of who we are and can be.

Serena is grateful to have received teachings in embodied mindfulness, viniyoga, trauma-informed yoga, Ayurveda, Qi gong, compassion cultivation, and Huna, including through the Embodied Social Justice Program, MNDFL mindfulness facilitator training, Roadmap to Liberation, Radical Dharma Conversations and Camp, Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), PointOne Coaching, Integrated Movement Therapy, The Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and Vipassana, Plum Village, and other Zen Buddhist lineages.

Along the way, Serena has had ample opportunity to learn from chronic health challenges that have invited her into deeper closeness with the physical body she inhabits in this lifetime and greater courage in unraveling and releasing limiting beliefs and old patterns of thinking and feeling.