What if the most under-utilized intelligence we have isn't artificial, but energetic? And what if our human bodies are better guides through life's challenges and thresholds than we've been taught to believe?

I'm a somatic educator fascinated by energetic intelligence — the capacity to consciously work with energy in our bodies and environments for greater ease, impact, connectedness, and wellbeing.

I come to this work as a former professor of communication and social change, Fulbright grantee, and the author of Youth Power in Precarious Times (Duke, 2020). These days I'm the co-founder of the Energetic Literacy Project and creator of Body of Fire, a rite-of-passage program for the peri/menopausal journey.

I'm also a cisgendered woman partnered with a gender-expansive person, a mother of two, and a descendant of European settlers living and working on the unceded lands of the Abenaki peoples known as Vermont.

I'm glad you're here.

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