About
Diné (Navajo) and Creole somatic healer, executive coach, potter, and sound practitioner.
From Window Rock, Arizona.
Where I come from
I grew up on the Navajo Nation. My earliest memories are of sheepherding with my great-grandmother, a chantway singer. Ceremony was never taught formally. It was just life: corn pollen in the mornings, prayer and song in the evenings, the rhythm of her batten on the loom.
Between two worlds
At eight, I started moving between the reservation and Northern California, where I lived with my father. At thirteen I found pottery. At fourteen, yoga. They were the places I felt most like myself.
Burning out, turning back
In my twenties and thirties I worked in startups, then corporate America, eventually as a Senior Client Executive at Verizon, ranked 4th in the country. I was also burning out: migraines, anxiety, a sense that I'd drifted far from anything real. So I turned back to what had always steadied me: yoga, breath, sound, clay.
Coming home
That turning became a long education, and it brought me home to Diné Bikeyah, back to Window Rock, to share what I'd learned with my community.
"What my people call Hózhó: balance, beauty, being in right relationship with life."
Training
- Yoga teacher training, Rishikesh, India
- Family Constellation
- Internal Family Systems
- Grief doula work and soul retrieval
- Reiki Master
- Breathwork facilitator
- Sound healer
- Executive coach
Teachers
- Gina BreedloveGrief doula work and soul retrieval
- Dr. Jaiya JohnWhose writing shaped my own voice
- Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-MikiZen teachers and students of Thich Nhat Hanh; Family Constellation
Today
I work with leaders, people in transition, and people carrying grief. Sometimes that's coaching. Sometimes it's sound, breathwork, or ceremony. Sometimes it's making horsehair pottery.