Personal Development & Community

The healing aspects of my work with vocal improvisation students are informed by a long relationship with embodiment, community healing modalities, communication skills, work with grief, trauma, initiation, earth-based spirituality, and more recently, IFS.

2020-22 - Leading Zegg Forum community healing circles at Touch & Play Festival UK, and ISTA Community residential in Malta.

2022 - Cultivating Conscious Community - month long residency in IFS and conscious communication with Karl Steyart and the Cultural Catalyst Network, at Life Itself, Bergerac, France.

2018-20 | SomaSource Leadership Training with Dr Melissa Michaels | Improvisational arts, trauma healing, the body, oppression, initiation, transformation, Spiritual leadership

2018-19 | Sarah Thiesman supporting my own trauma healing and therapy.

2017 | Community Course at Tamera Healing Biotope, Portugal, one month

2015 onwards | Leading singing and participating in the Network for New Culture, U.S.

2014 | Mentoring and Vision Quest with Nunutsi Tenipe (Cherokee)

2012 - 2015 | Stepping Stones Project | Youth mentor & initiator, board member, fundraiser, Program Developer, Marin California

2012 onwards | Vocal Improvisation and depth work in The Elements quintet including Shay Nichols (Hakomi, RCS) and Christopher Kuntzsch (coach)

2013 - 2020 | My own depth work through improvisational movement with Melissa Michaels, Boulder Colorado

2013 | Ecology of Leadership | Year-long training at the Regenerative Design Institute, Marin California

2012 onwards | Attending and assisting in grief rituals with Sobonfu Some, 2012-15. 2018 onwards, leading grief rituals.

2017 | Qualified as Core Power Yoga instructor, California.

2000 - ongoing - Iyengar Yoga Practice, including a month at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, and several Iyengar retreats and years of weekly classes with Alaric Newcombe.