Here we are, in this moment of great uncertainty and fresh possibility. We meet at the crossroads. The choices we make, the skills we build, the relational work we do now - it matters.

Let me tell you a bit about myself.

I carry a dream in my heart; it guides my work and life. I dream that we remember the wonder and poetry of being alive. That my people find our way back home to our bodies and learn to live in kinship with all Life. This dream grew out of chronic illness and a life-long concern for justice and the ecological crisis.

Illness has been my most humbling and powerful teacher. For years, I lived mostly bed-bound, cared for by bio-family and friends. I learned to listen to my body (for the first time!) and became intimate with the grief, pain, and possibilities of disability. Eco-somatics started as a path of personal healing and eventually a vocational calling. Like so many of us, I feel the call to participate in the Great Turning.

Before that, I spent a decade as a research scientist studying social, ecological, and health impacts of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. This inter-disciplinary work was rooted in complex systems thinking and the participation of local communities - earning me a PhD and a post-doctoral appointment. Later, I consulted on international climate adaptation and social development programs. I was both excited and challenged by working within these institutions, but ultimately they didn’t fill me with the meaning my heart longed for. Eventually, illness laid out a new path.

Soil to Sky began to take form as I engaged in learning that was embodied and more connected to story and heart – this meant choosing to train outside of the university system and to not seek licensing as a therapist or councillor. My PhD taught me the importance of knowledge, rigour, and ethics, which I carry with me in this work and my selection of training.

I am a life-long student, and eco-somatics continues to challenge, surprise, and open me. My work emerges from various living lineages. There are countless named and unnamed people keeping this work alive and responsive to our times. Learn more about my training and lineages.

As a practitioner, I am also shaped by my experience as a middle-class, white-bodied and neurodivergent person. I owe much of my growth and learning to groups with queer/trans, disabled/chronically ill, and spiritual affinities. I am also a co-founder and board member of the long-standing artist collective and community non-profit, Earthbound Futures. I am a child, sibling, devoted friend, and community organizer. I caretake two elder cats and a jungle of plants at my home-studio in Tio:tia’ke (Montréal).

These lifeworlds teach me about inter-being, solidarity, radical imagination, and the slow, messy work of embodied transformation for our collective futures. They teach me about visioning, dreaming, and dancing with Life. Without them, I would not exist. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who have helped me on this path.