hello, i am so glad you are here.

who am i?

a slow-healing journey and a curiosity about the nervous system paved the way for this work.

through s.l.o.w. presence®, i offer trauma-informed somatic healing, contemplative accompaniment, and transformative spaces for grief, renewal, and self-stewardship. my work emerged from years of witnessing how people carry stress, grief, disconnection, and longing in the body.

i created the s.l.o.w. presence® framework as a gentle way to pause, listen, and return to the wisdom already within. s.l.o.w. stands for sensations, listening to longings, orientations, and witnessing / wonderment.

i work as a university professor; in the past, i worked as a special educator, a community street theater artist, and a community health and education worker. transformative learning and justice through weaving in contemplative practices have been the foundation of my work. i also volunteer as a chaplain in the hospital setting and in the prison system.

with humility, i add that i am recognized for compassion-driven, insightful training facilitation regionally (portland, oregon), nationally, and internationally. i integrate modalities informed by contemplative somatic psychology, depth-focused practices, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic katha (story), and expressive movement arts (theater and dance).