I was recently divorced, team “no days off” overachieving & AuDHD burnout’ing my way through a career as a professional performance artist, in no way had a grip on my substance use & escapism, and was trying to unpack a lifetime of gender & dominant culture conditioning in my “spare” (lol) time.
The pandemic induced a deeply needed karmic life reset and put me on a path of having to take the space to actually slow down for once. The space that opened up when I began to deeply listen to the wisdom of my body, nervous system & emotions, naturally helped me detangle my internal patriarchal conditioning, and I set myself up with consistent, somatic practices & patterns that supported & aimed me my healing goals and life values.
The institutionalized norms I grew up around never set right with me and the radicalizing I experienced guiding countless others for a decade to create their own art, stories & movement via an art form with roots in political satire, gender & sexual liberation, body autonomy & positivity made me the type of somatic guide ready to buck those patriarchal norms right out of the Collective Nervous System.
And if you’re here, it’s because you’re ready to buck these norms out of your nervous system & life too. Let me show you how...
The Revolutionary Somatics I offer are a weaving of body & sense based exploratory movement & nervous system practices, Radical Dharma teachings, revolutionary astrology and systems change that interconnect at the three levels of healing:
Composting the intergenerational trauma & patriarchal psychological warfare that has us abandoning our own bodies, hearts & minds.
Re-pairing our connection to others & community by moving healing beyond the conceptual and into real relationship praxis.
De-siloing dominant cultures’ isolation tactics by making Collective Resilience part of our lifelong healing toolkit.
“The welcome into the space immediately made me feel comfortable and safe to exist in any way I needed to.”
"Being able to give my soma a seat in my present moments and listening to the signals I can use in real-time for determining what actions I need to take (or not take) has been the most beneficial."
"The most beneficial thing I’ve learned so far has been not trying to fix. Creating a container that provides somatic safety to sit through difficult emotions and not seeking an exit from them has been a HUGE up-level for my practice."
"I have learned to use my breath and other senses to regulate my nervous system throughout the day which allows me to not burnout or use up all my energy with social interactions. At my job as physical therapist, I am open and receptive to my patients' concerns but do not take them on as my own. In personal life, I have more acceptance, humility, and ease...I don't have to have all the answers."
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In addition to being a Somatic Guide, I’m also a plant parent, huge Star Trek nerd, retired performance artist, former sex worker, Aquarius Sun, Virgo Moon & Leo Rising. I identify as queer, nonbinary, a trauma survivor, in recovery and live with chronic illness. I’m based in St. Louis with my partner and our two cats Ben & Jerry (foster fails), and can usually be found reading epic, queer faentasy in a nearby park. I facilitate STL QUEER SANGHA a monthly, Radical Dharma & meditation group for all LGBTQIA+ folks and co-conspirators, and serve on the Advisory Circle at Empowered Spaces, a trauma-informed, holistic, healing collective.
I'm accredited to teach Insight meditation through The Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California at Berkeley, with guiding, internationally recognized Theravada Buddhist meditation teachers, authors & psychologists, Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. I've studied politicized somatics with Staci Haines of the Stozzi Institute, and receive mentorship guidance from Saraswati Pottekkatt who is in Buddhist chaplaincy, is a Certified NVC Trainer, has studied Somatic Abolitionism (Resmaa Menakam) & Somatic Extimacyⓒ (Dr Kesha Fikes), and leads systemically informed mindful relating & conflict groups.
Somatics means more than just “a body based practice,” it is a field of relation involving the 5-senses, felt-sensations, emotions, thoughts, narratives, relationships with others, external conditions, actions & non actions, your historical timeline and our historical timeline.
What it is exactly is a collection of practices that invites us into relation & context with our body & lived experience. Or metaphorically, our body & nervous system’s own “GPS.”
I also utilize the definition developed by Politicized Somatics founder Staci Haines: "Somatics is a practicable theory of change that can move us toward individual, community, and collective liberation."
-LGBTQIA+
-BIPOC
-Femmes & women
-Neurodivergent/neuroexpansive
-Activists & justice seekers
-Trauma survivors, folks who experience anxiety, depression or addiction
-Folks who experience chronic illness & pain
-white & European identified folks engaging in anti-racism
-Perfectionists, overthinkers, caretakers, fixers, outcasts
- Folks exiting the nonprofit industrial complex or influencer capitalism
-Sex workers, eroticists, sensualists, and non-normative relationship & family structure folks
-Spiritually inclined but not religious folks
-Rawthenticity (imperfect realness w/out masking or pretense)
-Boundaries / agency
-Agency, choice, voice, power
-Intention / intuition
-Self esteem / deep connectivity
-Rage / despair / grief
-Shame / blame
-Generative conflict & abolitionist, restorative accountability
-Weaving systems theory into practical somatics
-Social media/electronic device detox
-Burnout recovery
-Cultivating life purpose & social impact
-Divine sensuality
-Revolutionary Astrology
I am committed to living in Right Relationship with somatic & Dharma technologies that integrate sociopolitical analysis at their core. I am committed to co-weaving healing spaces that center radical inclusion, joy, and the grounded audacity to know that a better world is possible because we create it together. I will know this has been achieved when my community has 3rd spaces to connect, play, dance, eat, laugh, cry, rage, grieve and grow together, untainted by capitalism & imperialism.
Visit my Substack! I share writings that cover all kinds of topics related to somatics, embodiment, meditation, Radical Dharma, Revolutionary Astrology and social justice.
A good spot to start is my article "Meditation, Embodiment, Somatics: Your Decoder Ring, Interface & GPS System."