Embodied SPirituality
Embodied spirituality is a contemplative and psychospiritual approach to healing that understands the body as sacred ground—the living field where awareness, compassion, and transformation unfold.
In this approach, spirituality and psychology are not separate paths—they are two expressions of the same movement toward wholeness. Through mindfulness, gentle inquiry, and embodied presence, we learn to sense the aliveness beneath our thoughts and the quiet wisdom that lives within our flesh. Each breath, sensation, and moment of awareness becomes an invitation to return home to ourselves.
Drawing from contemplative psychology and Buddhist wisdom, this path invites us to turn toward our direct experience with curiosity and care. When we meet the body with kind attention, emotions soften, the nervous system settles, and deeper layers of presence emerge. Over time, we begin to trust the intelligence of the body as a teacher—a source of insight, compassion, and spiritual knowing.
Embodied spirituality is not about transcending our humanity; it is about inhabiting it fully. Through this integration, awareness becomes lived, and spirituality becomes intimate—expressed through our relationships, actions, and the quiet grace of being at home in our own skin.
Helping you return to your body as sacred ground
A little bit about my path….
For much of my adult life, I have been devoted to the study and practice of contemplative traditions, particularly Vajrayana Buddhism. Rooted in the Mahayana, Vajrayana is sometimes described as an “extraction” or flowering of that tradition, carrying forward its vision of awakening through compassion and wisdom. Vajrayana offers direct methods — meditation, ritual, visualization, and embodied practices — to recognize the luminous nature of mind and the sacredness of body and world.
Central to both Mahayana and Vajrayana is the path of the bodhisattva — the vow to awaken not for oneself alone, but for the benefit of all beings. This path anchors us in life and relationship, asking us to embody compassion not as an ideal, but as a lived reality in our heart, mind, and body. The bodhisattva path reminds us that every moment — in healing, in struggle, in daily life — is an opportunity to cultivate presence, open-heartedness, and care.
I spent more than a decade living and studying in Nepal, completing over three years of traditional meditation retreats. These retreats were a profound training in presence and compassion — learning to rest with the mind as it is, to open the heart in all circumstances, and to experience awakening as inseparable from the body.
This grounding in Vajrayana and the bodhisattva vow continues to inspire and guide my work. It is the thread that weaves through my somatic practice, yoga teaching, and psychotherapy — reminding me, and those I work with, that the body is sacred ground, and that healing and awakening are paths of compassion walked together.