WILD HEART Men’s Retreat

I’m a Certified Professional Men’s Coach. I have a BA in Education from San Jose State University and spent 10 years as a teaching artist working with young people who suffered from different social & emotional challenges. I’ve trained with Challenge Day, Lincoln Center Education in NYC, Bi-Jingo, Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), and EVRYMAN. I’m currently in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing 3 year professional training program.

In 2017, I delivered a TEDX TALK about the need for young people to have trusted adults in their lives. Through the work I’ve done, I quickly realized that we need more healed adults to help heal young people. And in 2018 I quit my corporate job and became a full-time men’s coach. I’ve partnered with companies like DropBox, LinkedIn, Google, Kaiser Permanente, TATLAB, Saje Wellness, Rhone, and Men’s Health Magazine.

Since 2017, I’ve been facilitating retreats and it’s a huge part of my life’s work. Retreats really energize me and I’m excited for you to experience this one. When I’m not working with people 1:1, hosting virtual programs, or at a retreat, you’ll most likely find me hanging with my husband and dog either in the kitchen or in our garden.

I’m a licensed clinical massage therapist, energy healer and Reiki Master practicing and living in Oakland, California.

My one-on-one healing sessions and group workshops are designed to create a container of safety for anyone who struggles to feel safe in their body, with emphasis on the BIPOC community and those who have been historically othered. My practice is centered around discovering what the body wants and needs in order to encourage its natural ability to heal.

I intend to empower each client to be in full agency in their own body and to trust in self, in the body’s wisdom and in the ability to assert boundaries. Working with the chakra system from the root to the crown, I teach my clients to ground their energy within a safe container, and to come into greater self expression, joy, sensuality and vitality. I focus on grounding meditation, healing breathwork, stimulating the parasympathetic autonomic response with deep tissue integrative work, range of motion opening, pain relief and rocking: all designed to feel good in the body off the table.

Through my JEDI work, I share knowledge and practices to liberate the Black body, heal the nervous system and release identification around systemic injustice. I graduated from the San Francisco School of Massage & Bodywork with over 850 hours of clinical training, I’m a certified Reiki Master, and a leadership facilitator.

I’m a certified breathwork coach, meditation teacher, sound practitioner, and co-creator of Spirit Camp. Since 2012, I’ve facilitated, assisted and organized retreats internationally.

My purpose is to guide creative entrepreneurs to become conscious leaders for their communities. I love to study and share traditional knowledge and healing practices that empower people to create more meaningful work and healthy relationships.

My healing journey began in 2009 when I learned Vedic Meditation and it changed my life—reduced anxiety, insomnia, and stress to levels I didn’t know were possible. Called to share this powerful practice, I paused my engineering career to train intensively in India and in 2014 began teaching meditation to busy folks with creative lives. After seeing big results, I expanded my offerings to include breathwork and sound meditation to guide clients deeper into healing work.

In 2021, my partner Nathaniel and I created Spirit Camp for people to experience the magic of retreats in the redwoods.

Margaret Mead's timeless wisdom, "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world," has been the driving force behind my life's work. I hold a BA in Organizational Communications, a degree that has paved the way for a career focused on mobilizing campaigns and grassroots movements. Notably, I spent over five transformative years as an HIV advocate in Mozambique, where I played a pivotal role in catalyzing a national movement that reshaped perceptions of HIV, ushering in collective change.

In my professional journey, I have cultivated a unique talent for tapping into collective energy, guiding the creation of organic, emergent spaces for collaborative healing and growth. My toolkit encompasses a rich array of modalities, including family constellations, quantum healing, reiki, astrology, Vedic meditation, and extensive training in Neuro Linguistic Programming-based techniques.

My personal healing journey has led me through a labyrinth of modalities and experiences that I now seamlessly integrate into my work with individuals and organizations. Movement and somatic healing have become integral to my daily rituals, and wherever I travel, I immerse myself in the local ecstatic dance and 5 rhythms communities, infusing the joy of dance into my healing facilitation.

Breathwork has played a transformative role in my life, offering profound clarity on my soul's desires and aiding me in shedding addictions and habits that obstructed the realization of my heart's desires. To make this potent practice more accessible, I completed extensive training with David Elliott and obtained my breath practitioner certification through Yoga Body.

Currently, I am actively pursuing certification as a Gene Keys guide, an endeavor that fills me with enthusiasm. I relish the opportunity to introduce people to this remarkable body of knowledge, which has rekindled my hope for the positive changes unfolding within humanity.