About Us
A Homecoming to the Body, the Earth, and the Ancient Wisdom Within
Some things are not created—they are remembered.
The Somatic Wisdom Institute has long been whispering through the cracks in culture, through the ache of longing, through the quiet remembering in our bones. It’s not just a space—it’s a return. A return to what has always been true: that real healing happens in your body, in relationship, and in connection with the living Earth.
We created the Somatic Wisdom Institute for those who are ready to walk a different path. A path not paved with logic and productivity, but with breath, ritual, sensation, and the wild, undeniable intelligence of your body. For those who are done bypassing. Who are done performing. Who are ready to feel deeply, to reclaim your innate wisdom, and to remember that you belong.
Our Approach: Healing Through Embodiment, Earth, and Ancestral Wisdom
At the heart of the Somatic Wisdom Institute is a deep reverence for the body as a vessel of knowing. Our work is grounded in the belief that healing is not something we think about—it is something we live into.
We weave together:
✨ Somatic processing – to gently unwind the blocks and stories the body carries
✨ Ancient wisdom traditions – honoring what our ancestors knew about healing, transformation, and wholeness
✨ Earth-based practices – returning to the land as mirror, teacher, and medicine
✨ Liberation work – acknowledging and dismantling systems of oppression within and around us
✨ Community healing – because transformation is never meant to happen in isolation
This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. It is a remembering—a weaving back together of all the parts we were told to forget.
Why Somatic Work? Because the Body Has Been Speaking All Along.
Trauma is not just a story—it is a sensation. It lives in the breath you hold, in the tension that won’t release, in the instinct to numb or flee. It’s the heaviness you feel for no reason, the disconnection you can’t name.
Somatic healing invites you to turn toward the body—not to fix it, but to listen. To honor the ways it has protected you. To unwind the past it still carries. And to rebuild safety, aliveness, and trust from the inside out.
The Earth as Mirror, Medicine, and Ally
In a culture that has taught us to dominate and extract, the Somatic Wisdom Institute is a place to remember reciprocity. The Earth is not separate from our healing—it is our healing.
From wilderness retreats to earth ceremonies, we guide you back into relationship with the natural world. Because when you learn to listen to the rhythm of the seasons, the strength of stone, or the grief of a forest after fire, you begin to hear your own soul again.
The Earth teaches us how to root, how to flow, how to let go, how to begin again. We are not separate from her. We never were.
Remembering What Was Never Lost: Ancient Paths to Wholeness
Long before therapy rooms and diagnoses, healing happened in ritual. In community. In song, in movement, in prayer. Across traditions, our ancestors practiced ways of tending to grief, celebrating life, and moving energy through the body.
At the Somatic Wisdom Institute, we are not recreating the past—we are remembering what was never lost. We integrate ancestral practices not as spiritual performance, but as a deep honoring of what still lives in our blood and breath.
Through ritual, myth, storytelling, and ceremony, we connect to something larger than ourselves—and remember that we are not broken. We are becoming whole.
Liberation as Healing. Healing as Liberation.
The pain we carry is not just personal. It is woven into our systems, our lineages, our very cells. For those who have lived within the margins—women, queer folks, people of color, gender-expansive beings—healing cannot happen without acknowledging the ways we have been shaped by oppression.
Our work is not about adapting to systems that harm us. It is about releasing what was never ours to carry. Reclaiming our bodies as sovereign. Rebuilding safety where it was stolen. And creating new ways of living that honor the full truth of who we are.
Healing is resistance. Healing is remembering. Healing is freedom.
Integration: Living the Work
To truly heal is to embody the truth. Not just to understand it—but to live it. In how we breathe. In how we move. In how we rest, grieve, speak, and connect.
Integration is not a final step. It is the ongoing practice of living in alignment with your body, your truth, your aliveness. At the Somatic Wisdom Institute, we offer the support you need to make healing sustainable—with movement-based practices, breathwork, sacred daily rituals, and community integration spaces.
Because transformation is not a weekend workshop. It is a way of life.