Breath, Somatic Experiencing &
Psychedelic Somatics
Liberation is in the compassionate space between our selves and our conditioning. In that space we can see that nothing is fixed, that everything is connected and that the healing is relational.
It’s not that we suffer. It’s how we hold it...
with the weathered hands of grace.
I work with people as multidimensional beings to support liberation as a practice of unraveling our conditioning into the truth of who we really are. I work in the field between us, the relational field, to build a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind - the implicit and the explicit - allowing longstanding patterns to emerge and be supported, held and felt in a new way - in relationship with the loving witness and the vast web of relations.
I teach practitioners/healers how to harness the breath for collective liberation and I offer Relational Somatic work (with and without psychedelics). The Breathwork Practice and Apprenticeship emerge from the intersection of science and spirituality as I weave Somatic Experiencing with ancient practices that draw from quantum physics, Vedic philosophy, Chinese medicine, Buddhism and my direct experience with trees, fungi, bull frogs, and many other sentient beings that walk my path with me.
I am committed to personal sovereignty, regenerative practices on my tiny pollinator sanctuary, local community resiliency and loving ourselves and each other back to wholeness as an act of collective liberation.
My practice is located on the unceded land of the Tuscarora and Piscataway Nations commonly known today as Frederick, Md.
“the next Buddha is the Sangha”
Thich Nhat Hanh
As Thich Nhat Hanh predicted, awakening is a collective process. Our true nature, our Buddha nature, is found in and through the relational.
My work is centered around sacred community (sangha) as the path to liberation. Through connection and seeing ourselves in and through each other, we can shift our energy away from the cultural shame of being human and toward collective liberation - a liberation that includes all beings.
The awakened heart does not transcend the body. It embodies to transcend. It knows that it is through pain that we liberate. It knows that liberation is a birth process, a process of expansion into edges and dancing with the threads that bind us.
It’s through the dancing, the holding, the unraveling and the unfolding that the awakened heart stokes its aliveness, its capacity to sit in the fire and breathe love.
Butterfly photo: Erik Karits