Cool Things I've Done

Over the years, I have held space for different types of transformational work. At residential retreats, in nervous system workshops, in men's groups, in women's groups, hosting storytelling events, organizing trauma trainings, facilitating medicine work through music and ritual and ceremony and art. I am multifaceted in how and where I offer my work. The common thread? I believe in our full human potential. And I believe that we get there together. And I live my life in such a way that supports and cultivates such a reality. I serve where it feels right, when it feels right. I am guided by something bigger than myself and have faith and determination. My community is a global one and I am at home in many places. I live what I preach and I teach what I know deep in my bones. Everything I have done, and everything I have yet to do, I do with heart, curiosity, and devotion.

TEDx Speaker January 2026

Thanks to my Gainesville, FL community, on an unusually cold January day, I stood on a stage in a beautiful auditorium at the University of Florida and delivered my experiential talk sharing the practice I call Somatics of Belonging.

The talk was not in typical TED fashion as I delivered it without a script, channeling from the wisdom of my bones. It was less a talk and more of an experience. Together with the audience, we felt what it means to belong, as emotions moved through the room and we all remembered together.

Official TED video coming soon. https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/59733

The Great Mother - Ritual Theatre Transmission June 2024

Rituals are commonplace in indigenous cultures across the world. They are an ancient tool of transmitting collective and historical knowledge. I use ritual and performance art as portals of remembrance and spaces for alchemical transformation.

I curated and delivered The Great Mother deep in my pain around the state of the world. A world that has forgotten how to tend to the mother, how to protect the children, and how to live in communion with all of nature. It serves as a reminder that we must return to the village and learn how to center the children.

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The Rage Inside This Cage - Experiential Art Piece April 2023

This is a cultural performance art piece I created to invite the audience to witness the rage I carry for the shackles of my culture and to then participate in the safe expression of rage together. It was powerful, and very moving.

I was inspired to deliver such an experience because we have, as a collective society, shunned rage and anger and suppressed these natural and necessary aspects of our human experience. As a result, they come out sideways and show up in violent acts of all sorts. Witnessing rage on a stage serves as an embodied reminder for the rage that lives inside us, in its very own cage. A lot gets to move simply in witnessing, and even more in choosing to embody rage along with the performer.

I bring rage into the social conversation as an invitation for us to learn how to be with and integrate our rage into the full spectrum of the human experience. It too belongs. It is key to our fullness and our thriving as a humanity.

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Somatic Experiencing Professional Training Organizer

Since 2020, I have been supporting the wonderful work of the Foundation for Human Enrichment, which is the nonprofit that organizes Somatic Experiencing trainings all over the world. I successfully helped facilitate over 100 trainings in my time with them. To say that this work changed my life would be an understatement. As a training organizer, I get to act as the liaison (aka glue) of the training programs, supporting the faculty, the assisting teams, and the student cohorts on their professional training journey to becoming Somatic Experiencing Practitioners. I love doing this work because it allows me to support professionals who are doing the important work of healing themselves and supporting their communities in meaningful ways. It has also allowed me to learn alongside some of the best Somatic Experiencing teachers in the world. I am humbled and deeply grateful for the wisdom I get to receive and apply to my own life.

To learn more about Somatic Experiencing, check out their website here: https://traumahealing.org

Path of Love Transformational Retreats

In the fall of 2018, I attended my first seven-day residential Path of Love Process. The experience was life-changing, as less than 6 months later, my life looked completely different from how it had been prior to the retreat. It felt as if I someone had shaken up the ant farm that was my internal subconscious structure. All the familiar neural pathways had been refreshed, wiped clean, giving me an opportunity to start anew. For the weeks following the retreat, I kept finding myself at the crossroads of choice points, choosing intentionally, no longer running out a conditioned program or pattern, no longer asleep behind the wheel.

After my experience as a participant of the program, I traveled the world (from India to Italy to Canada and the U.S.) to support these retreats as a staff member and assistant facilitator. These experiences expanded my capacity for profound presence and helped me gain greater understanding for the diversity of human experience. I am greatly moved by the work that happens in these containers and am forever grateful to the community that makes this work available all over the world.

To learn more about the Path of Love Process, visit the nonprofit organization's website here: https://pathretreats.com

U.S. Immigration Specialist

It feels like it happened in a past life as it was so long ago, but it is actually what I did for a decade, through my twenties and into my early thirties. This is the work I felt called to do first as an immigrant in this country. It was a dream come true in so many ways - as I got to help fellow immigrants build their American dream by making it their home. While I worked on many types of visa processes, I was best known for my high-skill and proclivity for what is known as the Superstar Visa, reserved for people of extraordinary ability, those at the top of their field. I was basically a legal storyteller who blended organizational and storytelling skills into well-crafted legal arguments for specialty visas. In the process, to tell their story well, I also became a micro-expert in their field, with a unique window Into their life and story. From water scientists to dancers to athletes to mathematicians and AI ethical experts, I got to see it all, and I loved it. It was great fun to learn so much about the world's intricacies and to support people craft their story of expertise and passion. Hanging out with such cool people inspired me to also hone my craft and share my gifts.

While I no longer do this work, I host storytelling workshops and experiences for fellow immigrants, encouraging others to share their stories of immigration and belonging.

Motherhood

I became a mother at the age of 20, a few weeks shy of my 21st birthday. Nothing could have prepared me for the inner transformation that happens when we cross the threshold from child to mother. I was still a child, in many ways, when my son was young. Thankfully, my ancestry and lineage is full of great mothers, so I felt bolstered and supported by their wisdom that came through in the form of intuitive knowings, but I still made many "mistakes" along the way. To date, motherhood is the greatest transformational process I have ever experienced and my son is one of my greatest teachers. Unconditional love has been the subject of this portal, and I have grown a lot through its fires. Although it has not been easy, I am very grateful for having taken the path of motherhood to learn these lessons at such a young age.

Apart from mothering my son, I have also developed a loving relationship with little Ayna - my inner child. During the day, I treat her to play and fun and adventure. At night, she snuggles up to me in the form of a round pink stuffed pig otherwise known as miss piggy. Yes, I go to sleep with a stuffed animal. My son gifted her to me when he was 13. She reminds me that we are all children, underneath it all. I love her dearly.

Last but not least, my own mother is a great example and model for the beauty of motherhood. She is one of a kind. I am extremely lucky to be her daughter. I have learned a lot from her.

In short, everything I do is infused with the Great Mother. I serve the collective soil in her name and honor.