Yoga & Somatic Movement: Returning to Yourself
Body-based healing can be a powerful tool to reconnect with yourself, especially when traditional wellness spaces have not always felt safe or welcoming. My approach centers queer, Black, larger-bodied, and historically marginalized people through trauma-informed movement, body liberation, and nervous system support.
What This Work Supports:
Reclaiming body autonomy
Supporting nervous system regulation
Reducing anxiety and dissociation
Practicing gender-affirming embodiment
Building self-compassion and body peace
Moving toward personal and collective liberation
Movement as Medicine
This work is not about fitness, perfection, or performance. It is about homecoming.
Through trauma-informed yoga and somatic movement, we practice reconnecting with the body in ways that feel safe, supportive, and self-directed. Yoga creates a space to practice remaining calm during physical and mental stress, which supports building resilience and allows you to develop skills to navigate everyday life stressors without feeling overwhelmed or shutting down. Together, we use breath, gentle movement, and choice-based practices to help restore calm, agency, and trust.
What is it?
Traditional yoga is a holistic practice that originated in India and Africa and includes multiple “limbs” to support individuals in their day to day life. Although the Western view of yoga typically focuses on the physical postures (asana), the core of yoga is about cultivating awareness within the body, restoring safety in the body, and building a more compassionate relationship with yourself and others. Yoga is a space to connect your body, breath, thoughts and emotions. Trauma-Informed Yoga adapts the yoga practice to be a space for EVERYONE and EVERYBODY, which creates opportunity to make choices from a place of self love instead of self judgment, foster a greater sense of embodiment, and creates space for curiosity with ourselves and others.
Personal Healing, Collective Liberation
Healing is not only personal. When we learn to honor our bodies, we also challenge the systems that taught us to disconnect from them. My teaching is rooted in the belief that liberation is collective, and that we move together so we can all be free.
My Qualifications & Roots
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MSW, University of Southern California) and a Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher (OG Yoga & Yoga Alliance). My background in community mental health, child welfare, and school-based therapy has deeply informed my vision of a "whole-person" approach to healing.