Holding
Lightly

companioning in curiosity

sharing pluriversal practices

embracing the complexity of being

Holding Lightly

Holding Lightly is about striking a balance between

honoring our brilliant brains’ needs for frameworks, patterns, structures, systems, and familiarity
and
the fluid paradoxical nature of being, which thrives from meeting life’s experiences with flexible, adaptive responsive availability

Holding Lightly offers spaces that embrace the pluralistic reality of being human in this time space, while also maintaining awareness and practices that defy coloniality by disengaging from bypassing, individualistic, urgency, and other flattening perspectives that infiltrate contemporary ‘wellness’ spaces.

If you want to work together, reach out, introduce yourself, - much less convenient than a single click, yet it allows us to practice living new realities and ways of being, slower, more relational, and maybe some discomfort included. Together can discuss the logistics and a custom design our collaboration for you.

A central theme in this work is that of consciousness. That our body, mind, spirit, heart, all know ‘things’, deep in our unconscious, that our conscious being has not yet registered. I facilitate practices that help excavate what is ‘unknown’ into a space it can be intimately experienced & tended, expressed & integrated.

Additionally the belief that to meet is to be changed deeply informs the work. This is well expressed by Octavia E. Butler who wrote

“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God* is change.”

*God could stand for source, spirit, universe, life, whatever works for you - the point is not the creator, the point is the constant, remarkable, miracle of change. Holding Lightly intends to be a ripple of awareness for how we go about changing and impacting another life in each moment of meeting. These moments extend beyond human interaction, I have been deeply changed meeting sunset at ocean, or meeting wind in tree.

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Education, Experience, & Ethics

My life is guided by limitless curiosity and care. I cannot think of a time in my life where I have not been part of a group of beings gathering with a commitment to co-learning.

I hold deep reverence for the devotional act of learning and I do not conflate degrees & certifications with qualification. My qualifications are born from my quality of being - who I am and the values and ethics I choose to be accountable to, the commitments I make to life affirming epistemologies and practices.

Currently I am enrolled in a PhD program that centers decolonial studies alongside ‘Jungian’ depth perspectives by uplifting community, liberation, indigenous, and eco -psychologies. My current explorations are centered on the intersections of pluriversal spiritual practices and how they do (or do not) contribute to a sense of community belonging. Separately from my work at Holding Lightly I work in Community Mental Health as an associate level psychotherapist.

Education & Trainings

MA Counseling, Depth Psychology - Pacifica Graduate Institute

Somatic Breathwork Facilitation - Soma + IQ

EMDR - The Center for Creative Mindfullnes

Fools’ Journey Tarot Intensive - Cosmic Cousins, Jeff Hinshaw

SEER Flower Essence Mystery School - Saewon Oh

The Womb Facilitation Development Intensive - Jovinna Chan

Various Community Dreamwork Trainings - Ariella Daly

Individual Mentorship - Aja Daashuur

Trauma Informed Therapies, Three Year Training - SCCC

*this is a limited selection of my education and experience identifying only the most relevant or most frequently utilized

Guiding Values

Life-Affirming Practices - Raising consciousness and critique of cultural norms that threaten the sanctity of life on earth. Recognizing manufactured crisis from distorted values of domination and hyper-independence, re-orienting to Interdependence which is a system of shared thriving based on understanding of dependence on each other.

Love - As bell hooks expressed it, an ability to extend ourselves for each other’s spiritual growth. My heart is absolutely my compass and default mode of being.

Relationality - Valuing the experience of relationships between two or more, rather than the outcomes, things, or objects.

Accountability & Restorative Action - Rupture and repair is a valuable cycle for deepening trust. I want to hearing other’s perspectives on harm I cause and find restorative action.

Pluriversality - There is no one right way or one right truth, holding a pluriversal frame through the work allows for organic emergence and diverse experiences to be valued and celebrated.

OFFERINGS INVOLVE

Opening

Expansive practices to increase radical imagination. Might include; consciousness raising, candle magic, guided meditation, parts work, internal resource strengthening, ritual ceremony, flower essences
Processing

Integrating and understanding. Might include; intuitive inquiry, tarot, guided meditation, clarifying questions, psychometry, EFT tapping, action planning, values articulation, dialogue
Embodying

Grounding, body, and earth based practices. Might include; somatic breath work, authentic movement or dance, gestural expression, muscle testing, vocal activation, ritual arts
Gathering

All work is elevated when placed into a community context. I teach open classes at various studios and can collaborate on a custom weaving of pluriversal practices or ceremony for your private or public space or group.

Let’s Connect :)

If you found this little corner of the internet, it means I would probably really enjoy hearing from you. Send a message to let me know how you might want to collaborate or simply just say hi and let me know what you are thinking or feeling these days