A path back
to the body

I spent years in the U.S. Army learning to override the body — to push past what it was telling me, on someone else’s schedule, for someone else’s mission. It taught me discipline. It also taught me how far a person can drift from their own body before something has to give.

What gave, eventually, was everything I thought I knew about healing. The path that followed wasn’t linear — it took me through more than a decade in the healing arts, and into initiatory lineage I didn’t so much choose as arrive at: the Mestizo Vegetalista tradition of the Amazon, Missoko Bwiti practice from Central Africa, and the Yungdrung Bön lineage of Tibet.

Three continents, three very different traditions — and underneath all of them, the same teaching: the body is not a problem to manage. It is a living system that already knows how to heal, if you give it back what it’s missing.

Everything I teach now is downstream of that. Not a protocol borrowed from any one tradition, but what I’ve come to trust after walking all three roads at once — earth, body, rhythm, and stillness, offered simply, without ceremony required to access them.