How This Work is Held

I believe meaningful change is rarely a single moment. More often, it is the slow weaving of insight into lived life, through the body, through relationship, and over time.

Long before working with psilocybin, I learned how to support deep processes without medicine. Through years of grief tending, ceremonial and yogic practice, and somatic and breath-centered work, I developed ways of supporting people to remain present with intensity, emotion, and truth, listening for what is arising, orienting toward what wants care, and moving without force.

The medicine may show what's possible; the deeper work is what is tended and woven afterward. My role is to help create the conditions where insight can take root, so what is revealed becomes part of how you live, relate, and choose going forward.

What Guides This Work

  • Consent & Clarity
    Every step is named and agreed upon, ensuring support aligns to your boundaries. Your “no” is welcome.
  • Embodied Presence
    Through breath, sensation, and embodied awareness, the work supports grounding, regulation, and deeper listening.
  • Grief as Soul Work
    Grief is held as a natural response to love, change, and belonging...personal, ancestral, and collective.
  • Ritual, Meaning & Reverence
    When included, ritual is simple, consent-based, and contextual, supporting the experience.
  • A Tailored Partnership
    Your process is yours. We work with what is ready, never forcing, always inviting. All of you is welcome.
  • Sovereignty & Inner knowing
    This work supports your inner voice, what is true for you. I am only a steady companion on your path.

Who I Am & Where I Come From

Training, Lineage & Professional Grounding
My work is informed by formal training, long-term mentorship, and sustained relational practice across psychedelic facilitation, grief work, somatic traditions, and Indigenous ceremonial lineages. These teachings are held with attention to context, consent, and ethical responsibility.
Psychedelic Facilitation & Professional Mentorship
I was trained and certified through SoundMind Institute, with ongoing professional development through mentorship with Claudia Cuentas, founder of Cora Center. As part of this work, I designed the curriculum and delivery framework for the Art of Facilitation Mentoring Program, which Claudia brings to life through her decades of experience as a facilitator and teacher. I now support the facilitation and delivery of the program while continuing to learn within the mentoring relationship.

I am a licensed psilocybin facilitator in the state of Oregon, working within approved service center settings and in alignment with state regulations and professional standards.
Corporate Life as a Teacher
Alongside my spiritual and facilitation work, I bring over 27 years of experience in the corporate world (Tech sector), grounded in learning and development, program leadership, and organizational operations. Living inside complex systems, while carrying responsibility, performance expectations, and the realities of earning a living became part of the training, shaping my understanding of how work and identity affect the nervous system, values, and capacity to listen inward.

This lived experience allows me to meet people with corporate identities in a way that is both practical and humane, supporting depth, meaning, and inner truth without asking them to step outside the world they are navigating.
Indigenous Ceremonial Teachings
My relationship to Indigenous ceremonial teachings has been shaped through over 20 years of learning in long-term relationship. My primary mentorship has been with Cherokee teacher Soaring Eagle Woman and Ken “Snowtop” Smith, alongside study with Sandy D’Entremont and Leslie Fleming, with a focus on sweat lodge traditions and ceremonial responsibility.

These teachings are held with humility, reverence, and clear boundaries. I do not claim ownership over them, nor do I offer them outside their appropriate relational and cultural context. I have been adopted into the Beaver clan and honor the gift of these teachings with gratitude and care.
Grief as Teacher and Threshold
My grief work is deeply informed by training with Francis Weller, including Entering the Healing Ground and The Five Gates of Grief, and through ongoing participation in a BIPOC grief circle rooted in study, witnessing, and practice.

As a motherless daughter and a daughterless mother, grief is not theoretical in my life. These lived experiences have shaped my understanding of grief not as pathology, but as a natural response to love, rupture, and belonging. In this work, grief is held as a threshold...personal, ancestral, collective, and ecological, that, when tended with care and witnessed in community, can restore depth, vitality, and connection.
Yogic, Somatic & Breath-Centered Practice
I am a certified Level 1 Kundalini Yoga teacher and have completed four of five Level 2 trainings. While my roots are in Kundalini Yoga, I offer these teachings through accessible language grounded in breath, embodied awareness, and nervous-system attunement.

Practices are adaptive, invitational, and focused on listening rather than performance.