Embodied Life

Family Constellations help us to see - we are all descendants and ancestors in the making.

Anxiety is future, fear is present. I viscerally learned the difference after a cougar encounter.

Meeting vulnerability with courage is humbling before it’s freeing. We can face the fire, or turn and face the shadow.

There is a Great Being outside my studio window. She looks at me while I look at her, day after day in the decade since we met. She is made of bark and needle, formed as root, trunk and branches. She houses multitudes I can sense more than see.

Our language is filled with terms like “I knew in my gut” or “that gives me chills.“ These phrases point at the inseparable connection between heart, mind, and body. I’ve been exploring creative movement since early childhood. For more than a decade I’ve been learning to deliberately cultivate a still point within, where my awareness attunes to somatic cues. I am on a journey to integrate somatic intelligence alongside mental and emotional ways of knowing, and to share this w