Since 2011 Mentor, Educator, Practitioner and Trainer of the Hakomi Method.  Assistant of Ron Kurtz, founder of the Hakomi Method, in Trainings and Individual sessions and supervisor of Hakomi Practitioners from 2000 to 2011 when he passed. I facilitate individual sessions, children and family sessions and direct and facilitate Trainings to become Practitioner and teacher of the Hakomi Method as well as Certification Trainings and Advanced Trainings for Practitioners and Teachers. I also enjoy developing curriculums to bring the Method to diverse institutions and businesses and somatic resources to teachers, psychotherapists and parents.  
 

Being drawn as a child to Movement Arts and Martial Arts I started, as a teenager, training as a Shiatsu practitioner, as part of my formal Soto Zen Practice. I continued my journey studying Chinese Medicine, Eutony, the Feldenkrais Method and becoming a Certified Somatic Counselor, a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Teacher and studying Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, which gives my approach a trauma informed lens. I also have a life long experience working with children and families being also a Certified Child Space Practitioner, a Method created by Chava Shelvah, with a developmental oriented approach based on the Feldenkrais method that works with children and families. I continue to work with Yehudit Silver, Feldenkrais Trainer from the lineage of Alon Talmi, who founded the Talmi Method, envisioning and systematizing the application of the Feldenkrais Method in the field of trauma and mental health.

Educational Director of both Hakomi Cascadia International, who holds a home and practice space for a diverse group of practitioners from Hong Kong to Europe, UK, USA and Canada, and Hakomi Madrid, Spain, with residence in Spain.

 

I also facilitate Advanced Feldenkrais Trainings and Advanced Trainings integrating Feldenkrais and Hakomi Methods for Practitioners, Psychotherapists and Bodyworkers.

I hold immense gratitude to all my teachers, alive and passed, and their teachers, and to my students and their students to be, and not one day goes by without me being moved by their vulnerability and courage and feeling honored to become part of their lineage.  

 

The approach I have is held in a spirit that resonates with what feels to me like a sacred, wholly, rightful human way of being and becoming in the world and with the world in relation: a grounding in deep listening with an embodied knowing of the way we are whole and at the same time open and constantly impressing each other with our presence, spaciousness and basic kindness to hold experience, trust to follow the rhythms of life's unfolding and healing. 

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I bring an inclusive, non judgmental presence, a lifelong practice of mindfulness through zen Buddhism; mothering, dance, the visual arts, gardening, and cooking healthy meals have shaped me and I embody the lightness and sense of humor that a committed life and its journey through grief and loss can cultivate in us if we give room to it.

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My passion for social change is evoked by my desire to nurture an environment that brings to light the unconscious processes and embodied habits that limit us and hold us back in relating deeply and creating authentic intimacy.

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If you are interested you can contact me here.