In ideal communities, we would all have access to healing guidance and communal grieving ritual. Capitalist time, white supremacy, and the machine of modernity have worked to disconnect us from our indigenous and collective ways of interbeing, healing, and expressing. In my practice, I seek to co-create safe and expansive spaces and engagement opportunities for folks to utilize on their healing and revolutionary journeys.

Language use, physical ability, neurodivergence, and many other factors of health and wellbeing, should not be barriers to access. In agreeing to work together, we are agreeing to birth a revolutionary space for each other, and those who might use these spaces after us. I believe engaging with each other this way fuels the radical dreaming that actualizes better conditions, rest practices and care for each of us.

Language:

Through ancestral dislocation, my primary language of communication is English. Through the fortune of a multi-cultural and heavily communal upbringing, I am also able to speak in simple conversations in Spanish and Japanese, and am able to offer basic meditation instruction in these languages as well. If you speak a language in which I have no proficiency, or do not speak/hear at all, this is not a barrier to working together. There are countless rituals of meditation that were formed and are practiced in silence. The practice can communicated with the body, breath, and our interdependent nature. As an English-speaker raised in the states, I recognize the immense privilege I carry. Please reach out in whatever language or mode feels natural to you to inquire about ways in which we might connect, and I will do my best to translate, respond, and engage with you. May we remember that each verbal expression was once conjured from tongues, wind and ideas. Each dialect is formed in the bodies of living, relational beings. Language at its most potent can be a consensual act of co-creation, and a vehicle for understanding, discovery, and expression.

Physical Ability:

All of my sessions can be offered in-person, or virtually. On zoom, we have the tool of closed captioning, transcript recording, and chat communication at our disposal. Breath and body exercises have modifications, substitutes and alternatives to support each type of body engaging in practice. If you are local to Chicago, I am able to offer home visits for individual and group sessions or can offer spaces to host the session with accessible ramping, elevator/chair-lift service, and parking. For those of you like myself who experience chronic pain and/or illness, we may utilize ways to navigate our needs and co-create healing that do not further damage, restrict or place shame on the body’s natural state of being. Each of our ever-changing bodies, however they may be in the moment, deserve to be honored, cared for, and celebrated.

Neurodivergence:

Meditation practice can and has been presented as stiff, singular and without room for adaptation in many contexts. By exploring what feels meditative to you first, rather than focusing on a goal of making a set form (such as traditional silent, seated meditation) become a meditative experience you enjoy, we may circumnavigate many of the false barriers to true practice. By taking a trauma-informed approach to offering meditation, I hope to facilitate meditative engagement for all type of people. If we show up as our full selves, grounded in safety and in trust, we have every tool we need to discover the next breath in our healing journey.