Balanced support
for cultivating authentic engagement
in every day life.
MINDFULNESS • MEDITATION • MOVEMENT
Hello.
I’m Stephanie.
I’m glad to meet you here.
Yoga, meditation, and somatic movement practitioner and teacher.
Somatic therapist, mentor and coach.
Mother, mover, listener, maker.
In all of these roles, I am interested in the places and practices that offer a steady ground for holding the complexity of our experience: where insights and inspiration bump into the grit and messiness of everyday life.
My lifelong passion and interest in the body animate and inform all of what I do…
What can the body tell us about the truth of our experience? What becomes possible as we come into contact with the truth of our experience, with what moves us? How does what we experience inside shape how we move and show up in the world?
I work with folks in a variety of ways - individual and group coaching support, mindfulness and embodiment support circles, group classes, workshops and retreats, in-person and online.
In addition to my meditation and movement offerings, I am also a somatic psychotherapist in private practice.
My perspectives on spiritual/life practice and embodiment are informed by decades of immersion and formal training in
Dance and Somatic movement
The Indian and Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism & Yoga
Contemplative Neuroscience and Somatic Psychology
After years of international travel and study, over the past 14 years I have found myself growing roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. I live with my greatest teachers: my son, my partner, and our canine companion, Blue.
There is something here is that is calling for attention…
Finding stability. Facing difficulty. Navigating relationships. Meeting emotion. Feeling intensity. Enduring uncertainty. Trusting ease. Turning towards truth.
Land, Lineage & Inspiration
LAND. As I try to locate myself within the web of countless beings who have shaped and informed how I relate to myself and the world, I am reminded that, every day, I do so from stolen lands. The place I currently call home is also located upon the ancestral lands of the Anikituwagi, more commonly known as the Cherokee. I am reminded that all of the places I have called home in North America are also currently home to Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island who continue to live and thrive here despite contending with the issues of colonization, oppression, discrimination, appropriation and erasure. More info on Indigenous land history here.
LINEAGE. I owe a debt of infinite gratitude to the teachers and lineages who came before me. As I consider my place within the nexus of these intersecting lineages - intergenerational, creative, social, educational, etc - it feels particularly important here on this site to name some of the spiritual teachers and traditions from which I have had the great fortune of learning from:
Over the years, I have had the honor of receiving teachings from many teachers including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Reginald Ray, Lama Sumati Marut (Brian Smith), Cindy Lee, Doug Veenhof, and B. Alan Wallace. I am engaged with ongoing studies with Kimberley Theresa Lafferty, Lama Rod Owens, Glenn Mullin and Jhampa Shaneman. I am also a student in the Nalanda Diploma Course, an in-depth program of study in Buddhist Philosophy offered through the Tibet House in New Delhi, India, taught by Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdrul. Additionally, I am currently mid-way through the Contemplative Psychotherapy Program at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.
My practice includes a commitment to staying awake to the interconnections between my present experience and what came before me, and an eye on how I can best serve and transmit the gifts I have received with care, appreciation and respect.
INSPIRATION. As I further contemplate the depth of my spiritual roots, I also want to mention some of my dharma brothers and sisters who are doing amazing work in the world and from whom I draw a well of inspiration: Michael Johnson, Emily Horn, David Gluck, Kendra Rickert & Ben Kramer, Mira Shani & Jarret Levine, Nicole Nichols Vespermann, Michael Hewett, Chris Wolfgang Mauch, Kelly Ann Lindsey, Kelly Morris, Abby Allen, Haley Dawn, Angelica Kushi, Lindsay Dorr-Niro, Pamela Johnson, Jackie Sumell, Gosia Over & Jonas Over… (to name but a few).