Training & Lineage

My work has been shaped by the AWE Ecstatic Mysticism program, a three-year initiatory training in psychedelic integration, ritual process, somatic inquiry, and relational ethics. My teachers have included Lila Vega and Mar Alzate, Alejandra Soto, Ramiro Peralta, Kylea Taylor, Ben Malcolm, Charlotte James, Jennifer Jones, Dr. John Price, and others who have helped refine my sense of responsibility in this work. I have also had the honor of learning in relationship with the ceremonial peyote traditions of the Wixárika people, which has deepened my understanding of medicine, ritual, and prayer.

I have been deeply shaped by Esalen and by the Gestalt lineage that lives through it. I carry gratitude for that lineage, and for the many minds and bodies who have carried it forward as a way of working that honors presence, contact, the body, relational truth, and the intelligence of what remains unfinished.

I was born in San Francisco, on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, and my ancestral lines come by way of Italy, Ireland, Britain, France, and Germany. Years of living, studying, and traveling abroad have shaped my sensitivity to place, belonging, displacement, and the humbling art of being both guest and outsider. Pilgrimage is a way of life: a practice of letting the road loosen our certainties, shake us out of dogma, and return us to wonder, humility, and direct encounter with the sacred.

My orientation is further informed by lived initiation through illness, including breast cancer at a young age, and by an ongoing inquiry into the genetic, ancestral, and soul-level dimensions of illness. That path has deepened my capacity to remain present with uncertainty, grief, and identity rupture without rushing toward resolution.

Further influences on my work include James Hillman, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Richard Rohr, Christina & Stan Grof, Joanna Macy, María Sabina, Tsultrim Allione, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and William Faulkner.

Somatic & Embodied Practice

I work in reverence to the body. This way of working has been shaped by over a decade of teaching yoga and a lifelong study of movement through dance, contortion, theater, and circus arts. I am also beginning training in Esalen Bodywork, a modality rooted in presence, contact, attunement, and responsive, trauma-aware touch.

Relational & Community Ground

I have been shaped by global communities of artists, healers, activists, mystics, and visionary practitioners working at the intersection of healing, justice, and expanded consciousness. I believe the divine can be encountered directly across traditions, and that eros, in Audre Lorde’s sense, is a force of intimacy, truth, and creative transformation.

Education & Formation

• AWE Ecstatic Mysticism Program — three-year initiatory training in psychedelic integration, ritual process, somatic inquiry, grief work, and relational ethics (2024–2027)
• Freie Universität Berlin — M.A. in North American History
• Middlebury College — B.A. in American Studies
• Fulbright Award — Fulbright ETA in Matera, Italy
• Tribe Yoga — 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
• Yoga Nidra Certification
• Esalen Institute — Work Scholar