For over 25 years, I've been weaving together what seemed like separate interests. I'm now at a beautiful point in my life where I've integrated all of them into one practice, lifestyle, and community of care, a space I share with you here in Sebastopol and West Sonoma County.

My journey reflects what I believe about yours: we are prismatic beings, not single-dimensional problems to be solved. The complexity the world tells us to simplify is actually our greatest gift. When I work with you, I bring the full range of my experience, not as separate tools, but as one integrated understanding of how transformation really happens.

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I grew up in a family that cared deeply about community, and activism taught me early that healing is relational, not individual. Living across countries (Spain, France, Morocco, Peru, Cuba, and Israel) showed me that wisdom comes in countless forms, and speaking four languages opened my ears to how differently cultures understand the connection between mind, body, and spirit.

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That range shows up in my training. I studied Chinese Medicine and craniosacral massage, and for many years ran my own business as a chef, focused on foraging and wildcrafting, folding what I learned into food, nutrition, pleasure, and the systems that shape how we eat.

About six years ago, I began formally studying somatics and became a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, training directly with SE founder Peter Levine and Gabor Maté, alongside Ariel Giarretto, Joshua Sylvae, and Efu Nyaki. It was the piece that let everything before it click into one coherent practice, rather than the beginning of the work itself.

Alongside that, I've spent 15 years studying with Malidoma Somé and 12 years with Sobonfu Somé in the Dagara tradition, and I've studied with Martin Prechtel at Bolad's Kitchen since 2009, who has shown me how grief and beauty dance together. Keith and Shane Pashé, of the Dakota Tipi tradition, deepened my understanding of how ceremony creates healing.

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As a white, cis-gendered man, I've spent years examining my place in systems of power and privilege. This work has taught me that true healing must address not just individual wounds, but the collective patterns that create them. Your healing journey happens within larger webs of relationship: to community, to land, to the ancestors, to justice.

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I live in community with other parents and my daughter in Sebastopol, surrounded by the wild spaces that continue to teach me. Several days a week you'll find me hiking through redwood groves, tending my garden, or sitting in ritual with the land. This isn't separate from my healing work; it feeds everything I offer. I am also a parent, community member, grief worker, and partner.

Each teacher, each tradition, each certification is part of the larger tapestry of my life, and I love sharing it with the people who find their way here. I have faith in our collective capacity to build a world where each person's gifts are celebrated, and where healing serves the liberation of all life. The world is calling us to grow and be together in beautiful new ways.