As long as I could remember, I have always felt a simple, innocent and ordinary availability towards the Divine. In my teens I had two major spiritual experiences which threw me into the grips of an insatiable hunger for Truth & the Real. They weren’t only internal experiences of Oneness but came with actual physical shifts of this perceived reality. These experiences hold a kind of energetic blueprint within my soul that have guided me, not in a logical or linear way but from the place of feeling and sensing. The moment these experiences were revealed, my life became a ceaseless offering to their depth. I had/have no choice in the matter; meaning that “This is what I love, this is what I am, this is what Is”.

Driven by this hunger the last 15 years have been filled with countless transformational groups, meditation retreats, classes, workshops, therapies and healing modalities in the context of spirituality and psychology. I’ve sought after the Truth I had tasted by traveling to different parts of the world, going to temples, ashrams, mosques, churches, holy places, and holy mountains, meeting with holy men and women. Even though I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had close mentorship with mature & awake human beings and been led to study with some of the great, spiritual teachers of our time, my most profound and foundational awakening comes from a solitude, a reckoning with my own humanity. I continue to learn, grow and immerse myself in whatever takes me to the edge of my own unfolding and challenges me step forward into this mysterious life.

In this process there has been a natural ripening of capacities, which are not only gifts from Spirit but avenues for Spirit to stream through. With Presence felt and known as my very nature, I’ve been given to support people on the journey of awakening & embodiment, healing & transformation, integration & fuller emergence into their unique life.

Background in inner work:

• I’ve worked with three main mentors throughout the last 15 years, two of which I meet with weekly to this day. I call them mentors b/c they have supported me, are elders, and have backgrounds in spiritual work, and work in the world for 40+ years. They each emanate certain qualities of True Nature and support the deepening and emergence of those and many other qualities in me.



• Adyashanti 2014-present Adyashanti has been one of my core teachers. I’ve done multiple week long, month long, two month long and three month long online retreats and in person intensives. I’ve read and studied much of his work and his methodology. His direct teaching has made the most subtle experiences and intuitive knowing discernible and clear. He has encouraged a grounded-ness through the ongoing investigation of “How does realization express itself in my everyday life?”.

• Jeannie Zandi 2016-present I’ve participated in many online events, month long courses, multiple in person week long retreats, in person intensives, and one on one sessional work. She has taught me how to meet incredibly difficult states, greater acceptance of all that is and a profound tenderness and love for everything that arises in my experience. 


• Completed Post Traumatic and Somatic Therapy Training in 2019. What led me to this training and its therapeutic approach was a recognition of the trauma that I’ve experienced and held. I find it incredibly useful, for trauma healing work can penetrate more deeply into the physical. It helps the spiritual and mystical dimensions of experience to ground and imbue more deeply into my simple, everyday life.


• I worked with a Jungian based Counselor between 2008-2013. He helped me approach my inner experience differently and encouraged my curiosity for shadowed aspects of my self. Although I had a dozen or so one on one sessions with him the majority of the inner therapeutic work I did was in the Groups he put on. I attended these Groups weekly for 3 or so months at a time, and did about 3-4 of them throughout the years. What led me to this therapy was my interest in depth, the sacred and my own healing process. 


• I did a lot of processing around shadow work, masculinity, father, mother and childhood wounding in Mens Groups 2010-2016. I sat in mens group weekly and attended many workshops put on by ManKind Project. An incredible rawness and vulnerability was valued in these groups. I saw men of all backgrounds & statures coming together to tell the truth and do their work. This inspired an incredible realness in me and a persistence to tell the truth even when it was uncomfortable. These groups encouraged a maturation, curiosity about what true masculinity is, tools and skills to work with patterns, challenges, hurts, and a continual discovery of my own autonomy. 


• A Course in Miracles: 2013-2018 A deep self study of ACIM evoked many experiences, openings, profound shifts and a more thorough connection to my inner guidance emerged as a result. The Voice of ACIM still resonates and resounds in me.


• David Pz(Hilda Charlton & Sri AroBindo Lineage)2020-present Weekly group meditation practice, in person retreats. Much of our work with David is spent in “The Great Silence”. He has a powerful transmission and I’m learning how to step forward into my direct experience, into whatever content arises and see it all the way through. This tends to reveal an ongoing unfoldment that opens into different aspects, qualities and dimensions of our True Nature.

• I’ve been working with a Diamond Heart Teacher for the last 3 years, taking their courses and deepening my experiential understanding of the Diamond Heart Approach. I’m a student of The Ridhwan School and am thrilled to continue in their method of discovery. I feel completely aligned with DHA and so much of it mirrors my direct experience.

• I’ve done many more solo mediation retreats, Vipassana retreats, Holotropic Breathwork, Vision Quests, experiential personal growth seminars, Dark Retreats, tantric intimacy retreats, in person intensives, online courses with other teachers and in other systems. It would be too much to include them all. The ones I’ve written out are the major ones that have had the greatest influence.

Practices:

Contemplative Journaling and Somatic Inquiry - I spend hundreds of hours writing each year. This has been a natural process which has developed in me for the last 15+ years. In an hour contemplative journaling session I may spend up to 2/3 of the time in silence, feeling, sensing, being. In this space profound shifts, integrations, insights, openings, and revelation of countless streams and dimensions of our Essential Nature arise. To read some of these explorations check out my Blog.

Meditation - Although I’ve explored many meditation practices in depth over the last 15 years, my current and consistent meditation practice throughout the last 5 years has been listening, receiving, and opening to our Essential Nature. It has similarities to Adyashanti’s “True Meditation” and David Pz opening to the “Great Silence”. I meditate consistently, and have taken the time for many 1 week, 2 week, or month long solo meditation retreats. I have a sense of how to work with my system and use more grounding, somatic meditations when those are needed and more concentration based meditations when something is wanting to come forward or develop in my being and person.

Collaborative Somatic Inquiry and Presence Based Exploration - About 10 years ago I had one of my most powerful awakening experiences. A lot opened with this awakening, some of which was a non interrupted sense of Presence… a Presence which never left. This Presence became an availability in which other people could open to their own sense of Presence also. I naturally began sitting with a receptive few exploring our direct experience together. I’ve spent thousands of hours in this kind of deep, presence filled space with others. Apart from working with clients, I meet with peers & mentors in this vein for 10+hr a week.