My energy work lineage began with reiki training in 2001 as part of a reiki healing community in Charleston, SC. We held a weekly community free clinic that I was an active part of for six years. I completed reiki master teacher training in 2006 and began facilitating trainings. I’m heavily influenced by ethics of mutual aid and community care.
Reiki is a form of energy work coming out of Japan, where I have no cultural context or ancestry. It has been a vibrant and immensely impactful formative experience to my energy work practice. In my years long exploration of anti oppression and decolonization in healing practice, my energy practice has evolved. It is a weaving of influences including my relationship with the natural world and my animal friends, fostering deep trust and connection with intuitive senses, healing traditions in my lineage as an ashkenazi Jew, polyvagal theory, animism, biodynamics, psychology, Buddhism, years in social justice community, anti- oppression work and queerness.
I hold healing space with intention to provide deep care and recognition for the harm caused by trauma, racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, fat phobia, and other forms of structural oppression. I’m heavily influenced by ethics of mutual aid and community care and inspired by the healing justice movement.