About Me
Hi, I’m Ky-
My work sits at the intersection of body-based learning, contemplative practice, and a politicized understanding of how social conditioning shapes the nervous system.
With a background in teen mindfulness, Buddhist meditation, activism, and peer support facilitation, I bring compassion and presence to my clients’ experiences.
I believe that unlearning — the slow, embodied work of loosening what we were taught to do with ourselves — is one of the most honest forms of liberation available to us.
My Story
I didn't find this work because I had it figured out. I found it because I didn’t.
During a major career shift almost ten years ago, I first came into contact with somatic work. In learning from my body, I found a sense of self, and an intuition that set me on a path to uncover more about healing, abolition, and somatics.
Years later, when I encountered the Grinberg Method, I was captivated by how, for the first time in a therapeutic setting, I wasn't being asked to talk about my history or my emotions. I was being asked to feel them, clearly and honestly, in real time, as energy flowing through my body. The work of Peter Levine, Resmaa Menakem, and others came to mind and the shared wisdom of these practices continues to carry my curiosity.
I bring this curiosity and humility into the room with every client. I'm not someone who completed the journey and now guides others from the far side of it. I'm someone who knows this territory from the inside — who is still walking it — and who has trained to help others find their footing in it too.
My path here wound through mindfulness and contemplative education, training in non-violent communication, and a growing understanding of how much of what we carry in our bodies was never really ours to begin with — absorbed from families, institutions, and systems that shaped us long before we had words for any of it.
These patterns, however long they've been running, are not the whole of who you are. And the body — the very place they live — is also where they can begin to loosen.
That's what this work is about. I'd be honored to explore it with you.
My Mission:
breaking free from our conditioning
My goal is to bring people back into their bodies.
For centuries, we’ve been taught that thought determines the individual: I think, therefore I am.
Many of us have learned to look down at our bodies as these things that we inhabit from the control towers in our minds, while indigenous people, folk healers and wisdom holders the world over have continued to speak truth to the centrality of the body and all of its senses.
In arabic the word human also means, “the ones who forget”. There’s the belief in Mahayana Buddhism as well that we are divine beings who have just forgotten our divinity, and need to remember to find our way back home. There’s no striving or efforting in this framing, but an allowing and letting go into something deeper.
I envision a world where people can access their innate wisdom and their own version of divinity, and where pain and discomfort aren’t numbed but embraced as guides to self-growth.