Healing and art are acts of defiance. They reject the idea that suffering is inevitable or that we must be bound by our wounds. They call us to confront what is broken, unearth what has been buried, and imagine the unimaginable. They are radical acts of reclamation—of agency, identity, and power.
But real healing isn’t about numbing symptoms or bypassing discomfort. It is a reckoning—an unflinching confrontation with the trauma that lives in our bodies, the stories we inherited, and the systems that have shaped our suffering. It is a revolution of both soul and culture because healing is not just personal—it is collective.
We are living in a time of profound rupture. The weight of history is pressing in, and the fractures in our world mirror the fractures in our bodies. Generational wounds inscribe themselves onto our nervous systems, shaping how we move, how we breathe, how we live. The chronic pain, anxiety, and despair we carry are not just our own—they are echoes of the past that live on in the present.
But we were made for these times. This reckoning is not a punishment; it is a call. We are being asked to evolve, to grow, to meet this moment with open eyes and open hearts—to alchemize pain into power, wounds into wisdom, and loss into liberation.
For two decades, I lived in that fracture—trapped in chronic pain, anxiety, and depression, disconnected from my body, my creativity, my queerness, and myself.
Eventually, I stopped running. I turned inward. I listened.
And in that listening, I found something unexpected beneath the pain—power. Beneath the suffering was something intact, something wise. The trauma I thought had broken me held the very blueprint for my liberation.
I unraveled a severe curve in my spine. I healed pain that doctors told me I would have for life. I no longer suffer from chronic pain, anxiety, or depression. And for the past 20 years, it has been my honor to guide thousands through this same radical process of transformation. Through BodyTalk, somatic and mindfulness-based practices, connective tissue and manual therapy, lymphatic drainage, and trauma resolution, I help people mine the gold of their unresolved trauma—to reclaim the parts of themselves they thought were lost and to live with more truth, power, and aliveness. See my education here.
This is the work of returning to ourselves. Not through force, but through love, tenderness, and deep respect. Because healing is not about fixing what is broken—it is about remembering our wholeness.
And my art is an extension of this journey.
It is a portal. A raw, visceral expression of thought, emotion, memory, and spirit in motion. It traces the choreography of rupture and repair, the tension between despair and hope, alienation and belonging, fragmentation and wholeness. Each piece mirrors the healing journey—wild, unpredictable, and alive.
Both art and healing challenge us to step beyond what we know—to enter the unknown not as something to fear, but as a gateway to liberation. They invite us to let go of what has confined us and reclaim the life force that is our birthright.
This is the work of liberation. It is a commitment to defy the odds, dissolve the illusion of separateness, and build a just, humane world. Because healing is not just personal—it is collective.
As Fannie Lou Hamer said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
I’m here to help you reclaim what was stolen. To remember who you are. And to create something new.
I’m a faculty member with The Shift Network and I’ve spoken at The Institute of Noetic Sciences, The California Institute of Integral Studies, the California Academy of Sciences, and Hive Global Leaders.
I’m a contributor with Mass Appeal Magazine and have written for Elephant Journal. I was featured in Gay In America and San Francisco Bay Times and I’ve appeared in Mantra Wellness Magazine and 24Life.
I’ve presented for The Breathe Network and I’ve been interviewed by Montana Public Radio and dozens of podcasts.
As a queer, cisgender male, I am deeply committed to restorative and transformational justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and evolving anti-racist practices.
I stand in solidarity with BIPOC, AAPI, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, refugees, immigrants, and survivors of sexual assault and abuse.