Philosophy of Somatic Movement

I believe that healing is not just something we think through—it’s something we live, move, and feel through.

In my work, I help men, women & queer+ people reclaim lost parts of themselves through somatic, dream, shadow, and ancestral healing—integrating mind, body, and spirit for deep transformation. The body holds memory. The soul holds story. And within each of us lives a deep knowing, waiting to be reawakened.

I draw from a multidisciplinary background in counseling, expressive arts, somatic education, theatre, and dharma practice. These teachings have shown me that the healing journey is not linear. It's cyclical, creative, and deeply personal. It moves through emotion, sensation, breath, image, movement, silence.

I honor that many of us carry inherited burdens—trauma from our lineage, wounds from early life, and shadow material that gets buried beneath performance, productivity, or survival. I create spaces where these pieces can be gently seen, felt, and welcomed back into wholeness.

This is not about “fixing” you—it’s about listening to the parts of you that were silenced. It's about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.
My approach is trauma-sensitive, body-honoring, and rooted in reverence—for the sacred in you, and the sacred in this process.

Together, we work with:

• the wisdom of the body, which carries many (often contridictory) truths
• the imaginal realm—dreams, symbols, creative play
• the shadow, where your disowned gold lives
• the lineage, where pain and power both travel
• the now, as a doorway to transformation

I don’t believe in rushing the process. I believe in building containers of safety, play, curiosity, and deep respect.

Healing is integration, integration is healing.

I honor my movement lineage:

Developmental Movement Re-Patterning, (Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, My mother: Darlene Tataryn), B. Pat Burns (Academy of Acting), The Voice Intensive (David Smuckler, Judith Koltai, Gerry Trentham) Authentic Movement (Mary Starks Whitehouse), Darlene Tataryn, Laura Simms (Wheat Institute), Kate Donahue (Wheat Institute), Rebecca Gibson (Academy of Acting), 5 Rhythms), Jeff Erbach (Academy of Acting, Chekov), Meisner, Jazz, Ballet, chi gong, Kundalini Yoga (Hari Singh, Nirmal Kaur) Rachelanne Kosatsky (My partner in this work. She is a master of her own body and sees and appreciates the depths of the body-mind exploration). Some of these folks died before I was born, some of them were people that I have studied through books or through their students.