Hello! Thanks for dropping in.

I am a coach, writer, and facilitator living in a body marked white within transnational systems of globalization. I sit on lands stolen from the Duwamish, Stillaguamish, Suquamish and Muckleshoot Coast Salish peoples. I am a parent, a challenger of binaries, and a poet. I love the trees who teach us how to root steady and deep, the water that reminds us how to move with ease, the fire that keeps us in action and transformation, and the wind that rustles our branches and leaves.

Intersecting systems of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, ableism, nationalism, and ageism, among others, have shaped the ways each of us move through the world. Working through specific terrains of family, schools, religious spaces, workplaces, and other institutions, these systems rely on us staying within the limited visions they offer of who we are and can be. Trauma experienced in and through these systems thwarts our abilities to live into our fullest truths.

Through coaching, workshops and retreats, I support people on a path of exploring what’s holding us back and how we can move into greater expansiveness and truth.

For more than two decades, I have been a student explorer of mindfulness, meditation, yoga and other energetic and movement modalities; intuition; and systemic change. I have offered courses, workshops, programs, and retreats that center mindfulness, connection, compassion and liberation. I’ve also studied, researched and taught about systems of power and oppression and systemic change as a PhD student in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies with a focus on race and immigration and as an adjunct professor teaching courses on race, gender, power, immigration and culture within and outside the U.S.

Along the way, I’ve had ample opportunity to learn from chronic illness, which has invited me into deeper closeness with the physical body I am inhabiting in this lifetime and greater courage in meeting and learning from discomfort, stagnation, and challenge. 

Who have been the biggest teachers on your journey?

What stories of limitation have you been taught to carry in your body?

What kinds of expansiveness are you ready to open into?