Founder, Director of Education
Human Design found me in 2014. I was initially overwhelmed by the information and vocabulary, but could decipher enough truth that I was intrigued to schedule a reading. A few months later I had that initial reading, and was left shaken by how clearly I was seen. In a mere hour a complete stranger unpacked the major themes of my life…from the innate potential I could sense to the mental stories and challenges that kept me stuck. I relistened to the reading again and again, each time gleaning new insights about my design, slowly reminding me of who I really was.
Even after many years on the awareness path, the depth of Human Design wasn’t immediately accessible to me. Despite heart openings, glimpses of non duality, psychotherapy, emotional catharsis, and years of cutting edge inner work, I was still fundamentally frustrated, trying to live up to an idealized version of myself, navigating life by mental principles rather than my body’s intelligence. As is so often the case, my body wasn’t a safe place to live — it was like a foreign land, alien to me, filled with anxiety and overwhelming sensations.
Surrendering to my body’s intelligence was a gradual process that required supplemental trauma release work. It often felt like two steps forward, one step back. Finally, catalyzed by a personal crisis, I had a shift in which I found an even deeper relationship with myself, and a single minded focus on trusting my own inner authority. I was finally able to fully receive Human Design. This is why I’m so passionate about Somatics and Trauma Work, because I experienced firsthand how somatic awareness and nervous system regulation are the preliminary step to recognizing inner authority and reading the body’s many other navigational signals.
I began a coaching practice in 2016 with the intention of offering a number of services, none of which were design related. To my surprise, I found myself almost exclusively talking about Strategy and Authority, the cornerstone of living as ourselves. This was the moment when I finally had a response to not just live my design, but to study the system in order to help others wake up to their unique nature. The chart that was once so intimidating suddenly became the most interesting thing in the world!
Along my path I’ve had the pleasure and good fortune to learn from many of Ra’s students. I was trained as a Living Your Design Guide by Mary Ann Winiger. I did extensive experimental work combining Human Design with aspects of art and psychotherapy with Rosy Aronson. I also completed the year long Transformation Course with Dharmen and Leela, where I was guided through experimentation and observation of each of the Four Transformations. I studied keynoting with Alokonand Diaz in PTL1. And I received my professional Analyst Certification from the Austrian school, where I was taught by Martin Grassinger, Susan McMurray, and Ilse Sendler. And finally, and of most significance, I have spent over 100 hours of deep 1-1 work with Kumud Kabir.
With this range of experience, I offer a thorough understanding of the system from the surface to the substructure. I haven’t just studied it, I’ve lived it, been guided through what I’ve experienced by many experts, and carefully observed the mechanics in all areas of my life.
When working with clients, at times my role is that of an analyst and at other times more as a coach — offering supportive conversations where we meet what’s arising throughout the deconditioning process. Awareness is primary in my approach. I’m not here to tell you to ‘do’ something differently, I’m here to point your seeing in the right direction — to show you how your design works when your mind is interfering, and how it works when you’re allowing your body to operate correctly. Then I help you anchor in that seeing without becoming engulfed and blinded by external conditioning, or identification with your own thoughts, feelings, sensations, and energies. I am here to help you meet what’s arising with awareness, and recognize the energetic qualities of your design as you can know them directly in your body. The watching is the experiment. What happens as a result of that watching is realignment back to your nature.
If something in you resonates with these words, please get in touch. I look forward to meeting other travelers on my fractal.
