Sacred Body Ayurveda and Somatics

Sacred Body Ayurveda and Somatics Somatic Ayurveda for women navigating postpartum and the wilds of Motherhood.

See me on substack ✌🏻
08/11/2025

See me on substack ✌🏻

"I want to teach young girls how to growl and go feral. I want to invite them to dance naked in front of the altar of th...
08/05/2025

"I want to teach young girls how to growl and go feral. I want to invite them to dance naked in front of the altar of their art."

"If the answer to that important question: "Must I write?" is "Yes, I must," then do not die at the feet of others' expectations. Do not die of emails. Live as if you do not care about being rude. Indeed, when you are actually dying, I suspect you will not care if they thought you rude, only if they thought of the things that you wrote and found in them beauty or hope or some mirror for the unsayable aspects of being human."

The Dark Mother Art Studio
Wednesday, August 13 from 10-11am Pacific.
$25, free your first time with code FREE

Stop making sense and come MAKE something.

Remember when Instagram was images and not sales pitches?
07/17/2025

Remember when Instagram was images and not sales pitches?

I’m so sad. It is nearly the only experience there is at present. It’s foggy. It’s dull. It creeps up the back of my thr...
07/01/2025

I’m so sad. It is nearly the only experience there is at present. It’s foggy. It’s dull. It creeps up the back of my throat and fills my mouth with a sound I can’t contain. The feeling is of being smothered.

What sound does a compost heap make?

I’m asking myself that question and listening for the answer as it pieces itself together in images and fragments of phrases and physical movements over time. This question is so alive and supportive to my spirit compared to, “what should I do next?”

To quote one of my favorite romantasy shadow daddies (it’s a thing, look it up if you’re not familiar,) I feel fear, but I am not afraid. Turns out there is a difference, and it’s more than just semantics.

Next week I'll be holding the Dark Mother Art Studio on July 9, offering up a question, some written fragments, and movement phrases to get us into our individual composting state of mind, and then let you loose for processing via your chosen medium, coming back together at the end to share. Free to join. Come be together in the soup. Details in the usual place.

Prayers for protection over all of us.

📸 The one and only

🌬️ I'm going on sabbatical. I will not be teaching or seeing clients until at least the autumn equinox, although I’m not...
06/23/2025

🌬️ I'm going on sabbatical. 

I will not be teaching or seeing clients until at least the autumn equinox, although I’m not really sure what’s coming next.

This is a break to grieve and to integrate the death of a path I thought I was on, and the death of a dream. I am putting my business to ground, to let the soil rest, and the seeds I am planting right now are questions.

Who am I if I'm not constantly doing?
What is my value if I'm not earning?
What do I want to give, and what is mine to have and to hold?

This is deeply uncomfortable, and it's exactly the work of The Dark Mother. In fact, she called me on the phone on Tuesday (you think I'm joking) and said, "STOP." I said to her, “but I think if I stop I’m going to die,” to which she replied, “well, you know how to walk with death.” She then asked me to ask myself, “What is it that’s going to take me out of pain right now?”

I will keep offering The Dark Mother Art Studio monthly with a looser flow - less teaching, more making and engaging with one another. These are communal creative spaces. An opportunity to check in with your body, your soul, your trajectory, and engage your creativity to make gentle and necessary adjustments. I love these sessions and they are for me as much as anyone.

It's so therapeutic to be messy and honest and together.

Elise Loehnen just wrote about creativity and making as the antidote to evil, a concept by Phil Stutz. Quoting Phil, she writes, "Through moving forward, through creating, you get in touch with the universe—no destination required. In fact, knowing the destination undermines the entire enterprise."

We are all scrambling for something remotely resembling sanity right now, and this is one way we might keep ourselves out of total paralysis and despair. The Dark Mother Art Studio will continue to be FREE your first time (that's the discount code, spread the word) and just $25 thereafter (so there's really no excuse not to come.)

We love you, You hold us steady, you keep the car full of gas and the laundry washed. You are there when it's hard and ...
06/15/2025

We love you,

You hold us steady, you keep the car full of gas and the laundry washed. You are there when it's hard and when it's joyful, when it's chaos and when it's bacon and pancakes on a Sunday morning. I'm so grateful for you and the man you are.

Fun fact: Ermes can just as easily sing every lyric to Pirates of Penzance as he can "Bring da Ruckus."

"There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our cultur...
06/13/2025

"There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul." Francis Weller

I built this altar after burying the blood and tissue of my nine and half week pregnancy today. On Tuesday I was pregnant, and by Wednesday night I was decidedly not.

I buried my shattered dream with motherwort and sage under my silver dollar eucalyptus tree - the tree I resource from daily and talk about with my clients.

In the center of my altar stands Brigid, the goddess and patron saint of Ireland, of the hearth, of poetry, and of midwives. She was also the first to teach the people to grieve after her son was killed in battle.

I've carried the name Brigid from my birth mother since the day she gave me away, and this new threshold of grief is an undeniable step onto a path I wish, on some level, I could refuse.

I wish I could give the grief of being given up back. I wish I could give the loss of my three babies back. I wish I didn't know so well the unmistakable feeling of loss and death in my womb. But I know it in my cells and there is deep medicine here.

And this is where you find me - beating the drum with the wind howling through my hair, wailing the unbearable pain of my soul through my body, making poems and altars to the goddess and to the earth.

I'm calling you, calling you, calling you in.

Don't be afraid.

These grief songs aren't the end, they are a bridge to what has been and whatever will be. Grief will show you what you love, and that will change you forever.

Slide #4 talisman, thank you thank you thank you

Did you know that expressive art therapy (aka doodling with some intention and trauma-informed support) reduces anxiety,...
06/07/2025

Did you know that expressive art therapy (aka doodling with some intention and trauma-informed support) reduces anxiety, improves confidence, memory, and executive functioning as well as drastically reducing symptoms of PTSD?

Did you also know that it achieves such results by changing your perspective and not altering in any way your experience, your needs, or your DNA?

You and your Motherhood are complex.
It's beautiful AND it's fu***ng messy, and that IS how it IS.

That tension is not the problem, it's the heat of transformation. Step into the fire with me and DANCE.

The Dark Mother Art Studio is happening June 11 at 10am Pacific (every second Wednesday.) Bring a journal and some s**t to make a mess with, I'll handle the rest.

Your first time is FREE, and that's your discount code.

All of you is welcome here.

The thing about Motherhood is that when you're in a dark place, the thought of changing anything or adding something new...
06/06/2025

The thing about Motherhood is that when you're in a dark place, the thought of changing anything or adding something new can be paralyzing.

It's like the last move in a game of Jenga (except it's your life and actually lives are at stake) where you're just dealing with the inevitability of everything collapsing and so to do nothing seems not only logical but necessary.

I've got you. I've got the structure. I've got a plan, and I promise you that you will feel better. Because here, when you tell the truth about what this (gestures aggressively) has been like for you, we get it. There is zero explanation needed.

You don't have to worry about anyone else's schedules or feelings here.

Come to The Dark Mother Art Studio and EXPERIENCE what it's like to get off the hamster wheel, to be HELD just because you exist. Experience what it's like to stop analyzing if what you're feeling is "right" or "normal."

When: second Wednesday of the month at 10am Pacific

Where: zoom, aka the comfort of your own space

Why: Because no, this is not just how it has to be now.

Cost: $0 your first time - use code FREE, $40 after, 🔗 in b!o to register

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I won a writing contest 💃🏻I'm not going to diminish this accomplishment with qualifiers about the size or competitivenes...
05/26/2025

I won a writing contest 💃🏻

I'm not going to diminish this accomplishment with qualifiers about the size or competitiveness of the contest, or other blah blah blah.

What I'm really celebrating is that I've dedicated myself to my practice of creative writing for over a year. I've called in the support of my family so that I could spend time "just writing."

This contest does not include money or publication. It's an opportunity to share something I made publicly. It's an opportunity to embody the fact that I have something interesting to say and to share.

The practice of making something does not need a contest or publication or money to be real. And. By submitting something for this contest, I took a stand on behalf of myself to say: I AM REAL. My art is real.

It has depend my relationship with my voice, my stories about "who" and "how" I am, my experience of my past, my confidence in myself. Dedicating myself and my time to making things with no expectation for what they do or become has been revolutionary.

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I got to be in session with a client today who was recently cast in a musical - a longtime passion of hers. She said our work together directly contributed to her having the courage to audition, to which I replied CONGRATULATIONS, and, what an epic testimonial.

I would love to contribute to your courage and your power shining through. I would love to celebrate your aliveness and discover ways to channel that into the world in ways that make you proud.

I'm taking new somatic clients for the summer (👀 in the bio for details.) Book a free consult with me and let's make big, beautiful changes together.

Come, let the not-so-soft feral f***ing animal of your body love what it loves 🐆🌬️ Yes, it is possible to tell the truth...
05/13/2025

Come, let the not-so-soft feral f***ing animal of your body love what it loves 🐆

🌬️ Yes, it is possible to tell the truth about your experience and not blow up your life.*I'll show you.

🔥 Yes, you can hold grief, rage, and resentment and devotion to your children at the same time.*I'll teach you.

⚡ No, your voice does not have to be pleasing to anybody else to be important / worthy of expression.

To borrow the words of a new teacher of mine, "We spend our whole lives trying to make sense. Let's make something else."

I'll riff on that for you. "You've spent the last however many months/years making dinner for everybody else. Let's make something else."

🌕 YOU - in your fullness - are essential 🌕

Wednesday, May 14 from 10am-12pm
$55, on Zoom
🔗 in the usual place

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05/11/2025

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