“I know what it’s like to feel disconnected, so you don’t have to find your way back on your own.”
Embodied Wisdom, Heart Led
I am a Advance Somatic Practitioner and Space Holder for Embodied Connection, walking in rhythm with nature and her seasons, carrying tides of knowledge from years of life experience, study and deep embodied exploration.
I am a mother of 5 spirited humans. Each of them has been a teacher in presence, resilience, and love. My work is shaped by a life lived in deep relationship with the natural world and the cycles of birth, growth and becoming the true essence of me.
My Path to This Work
My journey into this work began long before I had words for it.
I came into this world a month early, spending my first 30 days in an incubator at a time when science didn’t yet understand how essential touch and connection are to a newborn’s nervous system. That early separation quietly shaped how I experienced safety and belonging in my own body and the world around me.
I didn’t understand this then.
I only knew that, throughout my life, there was a quite longing to feel more deeply connected to myself.
As I walked my own path, I searched for that connection in many different forms of support, talk therapy, retreats, reiki, nature immersion, cranial sacral therapy, acupuncture, nervous system support, and ultimately somatic work.
Each offered something meaningful.
Yet the common thread was always the same.
The deepest shifts happened when I learned to listen to my body.
Life Became My Teacher
Life continued to deepen that understanding
As the years unfolded, I experienced loss, divorce, the challenges of raising neuro-diverse children as a single mother, long-term Lyme disease, and the relentless pace of the modern world.
Like so many women, I spent years carrying these lived experiences in my body without realizing how profoundly they shaped the way I related to myself and to the world around me.
As a highly sensitive and deeply attuned person, I eventually realized that talk therapy alone could never reach the places within me that longed to be met, the embodied, felt-sense places where my nervous system had stored what words could not express.
For much of my life, I felt separate from my own true self, unaware of the deep inner resources that were already within me, waiting patiently to be discovered and trusted.
What I came to learn was that my felt sense, my innate wisdom, was the bridge back to myself.
Nature Remembered Me
It was during my years mentoring children and adults in nature connection that another part of my own journey began to unfold.
As I guided others into relationship with the natural world, I found myself reconnecting with my own inner child, creativity, and sense of belonging.
The woods.
The tides.
The quite tracks in the snow.
They reminded me of a time when I felt safe, alive, and deeply rooted in a way I had long forgotten.
As I immersed myself in the gifts of the natural world as both mentor and apprentice, tracking became one of my greatest teachers.
Perhaps not simply in learning to follow footprints of animals, but in discovering that the same quite awareness could be turned inward.
I began to recognize the connection between tracking the outer landscape and tracking our own inner landscape, the subtle cues of the body, the whispers of the nervous system, and the places where lived experiences had quietly left their mark.
That understanding continues to shape the way I work today.
The Wisdom I Bring
Somatic Practitioner-Supporting nervous system and body awareness.
Founder of Wild Gaia Reiki- Intuitive earth based energy work rooted in presence and possibility
Founder of Ways of the Woods- Where young children learn through curiosity, connection and nature based rhythms and play.
Mentor of the Natural World-guiding both children and adults into a deeper relationship with nature and with themselves.
Naturalist and Tracker-reading the language of the land, birds, and animals, guided by subtle signs and sensory awareness.
Birth and Postpartum Doula-honoring the sacred threshold of new life and parenthood.
Aromatherapist-blending scent and plant wisdom to support calm and supporting care.
“My practice continues to evolve, just as I do.”
My gifts, and my understanding, and the way I hold this work continue to deepen with time.
At it’s heart, everything I offer is about creating a space of deep presence where people can reconnect with themselves, trust what their bodies are communicating, and return to living with greater connection, authenticity, and alignment.
And I Walk With each Day in Gratitude,
This Work is Not Mine Alone.
It has been shaped by the wisdom, generosity, and presence of many who have walked before me and alongside me.
I am deeply grateful for my children who continue to teach me presence, resilience, and love.
To the he land itself, It’s forests, tides, seasons, and wild creatures, which continually reminds me what it means to belong.
To My teachers, mentors and guides, who have shown me the value of listing deeply, honoring what the body knows, trusting intuition, and walking with curiosity rather than certainty.
And to the women, elders, authors, and communities who have shared their stories, wisdom, and courage.-
Each has left a imprint on the way listen, the way I hold space, the way I walk beside others.
I carry their gifts with gratitude every day.