About my own developmental and healing journey
I’m a psychosomatic practitioner and movement teacher with over a decade of experience in therapeutic movement modalities, meditation, breathwork, and leading-edge somatic and psychotherapeutic and coaching techniques.
In my late teens, a strong spiritual seeking took hold and I dropped out of school to immerse myself in psychedelic ceremonies, long silent meditation retreats, and the teachings of various wisdom traditions—from Christian mysticism and Advaita/Vedanta through Tantra and Buddhism. These teachings brought about profound insight and states of awareness, but I found that I couldn’t fully live them. Some essential things were missing.
I came to understand that healing was required and it doesn’t come from reaching higher, it would come from sinking deeper. Deeper into the body. Into relationship. Into history and philosophy. Into the places we’ve armored, avoided, or forgotten.
That realization led me to train in the Hakomi Method, dive into nervous system regulation, and begin to make sense of our complex world through frameworks like Integral Theory and the conversations of different contemporary philosophers. Over the years, I’ve studied and practiced therapeutic movement, bodywork, and inner parts work as a path of living in integrity with the body and with the world.
Now based in Asheville, NC, where I live with my wife and young daughter, my work integrates ongoing study in spiritual lineages and somatic depth work, and is rooted in the simple truth that presence is medicine, and that healing happens in relationship, when we are met fully with curiosity, compassion, and attunement.
I offer three primary pathways for this work:
Hakomi Psychosomatic Healing sessions
Yoga & Functional Movement Coaching
I look forward to working together!
There are of course many more experiences and teachers that have deepened and expanded my understanding. To see a list of other formative experiences I’ve held or participated in over the years, and the teachers & mentors I give thanks to click here.
Healing is a process of untangling inner psychosomatic knots that halt natural human development. It is both an intimately personal and collectively shared process. The interiors and the exteriors are truly not separate. I hope everyone I work with feels three steps further along, with a friend, advocate, and resources beside them, as they evolve towards a more integrated, empowered, and authentic life.
More information about working with me can be found here.