Presencing Facilitator

As a former Zen Buddhist monastic, I’ve been educating and counselling individuals, educators, medical practitioners, therapists, and parents on the joys of incorporating mindfulness and meditative practices into their personal and professional lives since 2011.

During that time, I’ve also been applying Theory U (developed by Otto Scharmer at the Presencing Institute at MIT) to community and organizational transformation.

The facilitation work that I do is moreover deeply trauma- and anti-oppression informed, and backed by trainings in somatics, attachment theory, Right Use of Power, the Wheel of Consent, diversity and inclusion (DEIB), and emotional freedom technique (tapping).

Resilience Coach

I earned my BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2010 and have over a decade of professional experience as a dancer and actor (stage, screen, and voice).

This background made me particularly attuned to the body – the personal human body, but also the group body, the pain body, the social body, the spirit body. Embodiment has been a fundament of my spiritual research, and so a natural outcome of that is my pursuit of becoming a resilience coach and trauma recovery guide.

My method is a research-based, polyvagal- and trauma-informed set of somatics exercises and facilitation skills designed to tonify the nervous system through self- and co-regulation.

I additionally offer the NADA protocol for addiction and trauma recovery, as well as treatments from East Asian medicine for sensitive systems and immune tonification.

Somatics Educator

I’ve been practising intuitive healing since 2009, when I received private Reiki transmission, through apprenticeship. I went on to receive Shiatsu training from the Ohashi Institute in 2011.

As a somatics educator and facilitator, I credit long-term intensive trainings in Klein technique, Alexander technique, Kinetic Awareness, Body-Mind Centring, functional anatomy, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, as well as Chinese medicine (channel theory and meridian therapy) with much of the theoretical and experiential backgrounding of my unique methodology.

A certified facilitator of the Resilience Toolkit, I have added on the so-called “therapeutic tremor” to my repertoire, as a fundament of my facilitation and therapeutic approach.