Somatic Bodywork

Somatic Body Work

Growing up a homestead kid, life was always more about work to survive that the experience of thriving. I can now understand that I was born to traumatized humans and they did the best they could although I struggled to meet my needs for connection with them. My need for connection was met by my constant relationship with plants and animals. I learned at a very young age how to witness the needs and energetic shifts in the animal bodies I was around and how to listen with my fingertips and with
my heart. The animals I worked with somehow knew I was there to listen and to support them and even the most difficult would eventually drop their guard and pursue me for help. My knowledge of animal husbandry, anatomy and physiology as well as my innate gift of listening and moving energy in animal bodies made me certain I wanted to be a healer of animals and I pursued a career in Veterinary medicine that

lasted for 15 years.
 

When I heard the voice of spirit telling me I was meant to work with people, I knew I had a journey of finding the modality that most explained my natural gifts that had worked so well with animals but never needed a name or credential. I also spent many years healing my own trauma so that I would no longer be afraid to share my gifts.
 

Today I cry with such gratitude that my path led me to heal my own traumas first and that I found the courage become the healer I always felt called to be. I have studied a wide variety of modalities and I employ them as needed but it was my experience receiving Somatic Body Work while studying Aikido and Embodied Leadership at the Strozzi Institute in Petaluma, California that provided a clarity of how I would be working with people. It was the closest modality to what I was naturally doing since I was young that I had ever experienced and after that I was committed to the path of becoming a Somatic Healer. I realized that the real healing is in the art of listening, listening in a way that the being I am working with can listen too and supporting the body to release tension, pain, and
emotion on its own. I have never seen us as bodies with spirits but spirits with bodies and my work is supporting spirits to inhabit their bodies
in the healthiest and most natural way. In 2020, I birthed Body Wise Mount Shasta and began working with people 1:1. It was so rewarding that I continue to this day to support spirits in my ecosystem, spirits who visit the area from time to time and groups who visit Mount Shasta during the warmer retreat seasons.