your story is woven in your body

The origin story of Energy Archaeology and the Realms of Embodiment.

A decade of study, Reiki Master level certification, ancestral apprenticeship, and a certification in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy later, Energy Archaeology and the Realms of Embodiment were born.

Suddenly, years later, my Saturn Return coupled with a twin pregnancy catapulted me into postpartum PTSD, and I finally got the cosmic memo – you can't create belonging in your backyard if you're lost in your own skin.

After a lifetime of floating around like an untethered phantom in my own body, I dove into therapy, somatic experiencing, and energy work.

I was obsessed with one question: What gives us a sense of place in this chaos we call existence?


This deep love affair with ecosystems led me through Environmental Science, Ecology, and Studio Fine Art, then into Landscape Architecture.


I was born in 45 minutes from first contraction to wailing my little lungs out under an Aquarian sun and Cancer moon. Classic Mars in Aries move. But my body had other plans, landing me in the NICU with bradycardia and a confused vagus nerve (which unfortunately played the role of misunderstood villain for many years!)

Growing up on 45 acres in Appalachia, I was that kid who felt more at home chatting with trees than people. My chronically ill body and foggy brain made human connections feel like being handed a book I love, but in a language I don't speak. The forest, however? That I could understand.

I came into this world with my soul on fire.

Who has taught me and influenced my work? Expand for more.

Lineage, certifications, and apprenticeship

october 2016


1st Level of the Usui System of Natural Healing certification through Usui Shiki Ryoho, The Reiki Service Association. 25 hours of hands-on practice under Reiki Master-Teacher Helene V. Ramos.

March 2018


2nd Level of the Usui System of Natural Healing certification through Usui Shiki Ryoho, The Reiki Service Association. 50 hours of hands-on practice under Reiki Master-Teacher Helene V. Ramos.

september 2019


3rd Level of the Usui System of Natural Healing certification through Usui Shiki Ryoho, The Reiki Service Association. 90 hours of hands-on practice under Reiki Master-Teacher Helene V. Ramos.

Intuitive development mentorship under Lauren Aletta of Inner Hue

september 2017


February 2021


Completed certification for Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy through the Embody Lab. Instructors included: Dr. Peter Levine, Staci Haines, Nkem Ndefo, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Albert Wong, Susan McConnell, Deb Dana, Lisa Dion, Karine Bell, Kekuni Minton, Dr. Sara King, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Dr. Ruella Frank, Dr. Scott Lyons, Manuela Mischke-Reeds

may 2023


Began studying Integrative Anatomy under Gil Hedley. Participated in the Nerve Tour in January 2025.

january 2023


Began studying Hedgeriding and Spirit Work with Ren Zapotek

september 2022


Participated in the Shame Clinic* with Simone Grace Seol and David Bedrick

On my bookshelf

Programs denoted with an asterisk were for personal development and private use, but impacted my work or how I see people/the body, so I included them.

I'm a voracious reader, and while I'm sure every book I've read has influenced my work in one way or another, these are the ones that have specifically helped shape my understanding of my work and how I practice. And yes, it's a bibliography.

brown, adrienne maree. Emergent Strategy. 2017.

---. Pleasure Activism. 2019.

---. We Will Not Cancel Us. AK Press, 2020.

Clarke, Abigail Rose. Returning Home to Our Bodies. North Atlantic Books, 2024.

Dore, Jessica. Tarot for Change. Penguin, 2021.

Foo, Stephanie. What My Bones Know. Ballantine Books, 2022.

Jonathan, Reisman. The Unseen Body. Flatiron Books, 2021.

Kelly, Kerri. American Detox. North Atlantic Books, 2022.

Koch, Liz. Stalking Wild Psoas. North Atlantic Books, 2019.

Marya, Rupa, and Raj Patel. Inflamed. Picador USA, 2022.

Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands. Penguin UK, 2021.

Myers, Thomas W. Anatomy Trains. 2014.

Pert, Candace B. Molecules of Emotion. Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Peter, Levine. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. North Atlantic Books, 1997.

Phd, Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Women Who Run with the Wolves. Ballantine Books, 1996.

Phd, Stephen W. Porges. The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory. National Geographic Books, 2017.

Roisin, Fariha. Who Is Wellness For? HarperCollins, 2022.

Sebastiani, Althaea. Alive with Spirits. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2024.

Smith, Lane. 78 Acts of Liberation. Sounds True, 2024.

Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Taylor, Sonya Renee. The Body Is Not an Apology. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018.

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Through six interconnected realms, we revolutionize the healing journey, and how it ripples out to transform everything from your relationships to the systems we live within


Think of this as your body's reclamation movement away from disconnection. There's no new language to learn, no sacred guru wisdom to master; just you, finally hearing the conversation your cells have been having since day one.


Through Energy Archaeology, the modality I use to listen to your body, we explore the story of your lived experience through both anatomy and soma.

Anatomy splits you into systems and parts, which is useful for understanding the pieces, but terrible for remembering you're a whole being having a unique experience. The Realms of Embodiment bridge this gap, honoring both the intricate details and the magnificent entirety of you.


where inner revolution meets outer world rebirth

The Realms of Embodiment

You exist at the micro and macro, from the coding within your cell’s nuclei to your fingerprint within the quantum matrix of everything. The DNA Realm is where the smallest parts of yourself meet the largest, most expansive version of your incarnation. This is your past, present, future, your connection to all things, and how your transformation contributes to the evolution of everything.

Your soul weaves through your nervous system, wending along the outside and moving through neurons. The Nervous System Realm is your physical and energetic communication conduit within your body. It’s your connection to your guidance—both soul-inspired and instinctual. This is where your soul's mission meets your body's survival programming.

Your Organ Realm is where you embody and trust that, in its own way, everything belongs. It has multiple overlapping and interdependent ecosystems made up of autonomous organs that each have their own responsibility. Your organs awaken a deep trust in your body and how you find belonging within your life. Learning their language of interdependence gives you a blueprint for reimagining community care and collective wellbeing.

Your spirit engages with your physical body through your Fluid Realm, moving with your unique internal rhythm, the beat of your heart, through miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries. This flow of spirit is the movement of your life through the relationships of your Muscle Realm and the ecosystem of your Organs. This realm shows how your individual rhythm either harmonizes with or disrupts the collective beat.

This is the Realm where you resolve and evolve your relationship with resources and community. Muscle is made to rupture and repair, over and over. This is where your attachment patterns get real about how they're showing up in everything from your pantry, your closest relationships, and your community organizing.

These are the energies you've inherited and built your life on. Let your bones alchemize you towards what’s alive in your marrow and shift your life in truly ungovernable ways. Your ancestors' wildest dreams and deepest wounds live here. When your bones start talking, they don't just whisper – they howl for revolution, both personal and collective.

The Realms of Embodiment framework isn't another self-help band-aid, or shame packaged as healing. It's a radical reimagining of how personal healing catalyzes systemic change.

Your body's wisdom isn't for navel gazing, it's about contributing to the great unraveling and reweaving of our collective story. Every time you listen to your body, you're tuning into something that's bigger than just you.

Let's make some beautiful trouble together.


your body isn't just holding trauma, it's holding revolution and rebirth

Listen to what's personal so you can reweave the collective

book in and listen to your body