🌈 ABOUT ME
TL;DR
I’m a neuroqueer intuitive artist, movement teacher, and somatic therapist-in-training, with certification in yoga, kids yoga, and reiki. I spend most of my life in coffee shops. My day job is copywriting for Disney and my night job is understanding the body through art, music, and movement.
My mission
My healing began with dancing in my bedroom. I had no idea how much my body wanted to express.
As I got to know my body for the first time, I saw something humbling — my body could actually do very little of what I wanted it to do. I was tight and weak and injury-prone.
Yoga helped, but many classes left me feeling more tight than when I walked in.
As I learned more about neurodivergence and C-PTSD, I realized that many forms of exercise can be very dysregulating for bodies with sensitive nervous systems. They move faster than breath and intuition, leaving the body vulnerable to injury and dysregulation.
I thought about what my body really needed. It needed to slow down. It needed to learn to breathe again. It needed both strength and rest. It needed to express itself. It needed to soften to intuition and be listened to. It needed to feel free!
Like any good ADHD brain, I went down all kinds of rabbit holes to learn more supportive ways to move my body, and work with conditions associated with neurodiversity including hypermobility and POTS. I learned how to get in touch with my intuition, and embrace my neurospicy nervous system. I learned to embrace my body’s natural impulses (stimming) as a direct path to spirit.
In my heart, I always felt like a free spirit. But my reality didn’t look that way. I realized that until my body felt free, my spirit would not feel free either. My mission is to free my body and free my spirit — and to help others do the same.
Why “And Rainbows”?
I’ve always been drawn to rainbows.
Rainbows show up in my art.
Rainbows represent my queerness. 🏳️🌈
Rainbows represent my neurodiversity. 🌈
I have always struggled to define myself. I am so many things at once. I am an artist. And an intuitive being. And a writer. And a teacher. But all of that doesn’t really fit on a business card.
“And Rainbows” represents the spectrum of aliveness — it’s a reminder that we don’t have to choose a single color, and that our most authentic self includes all of the “ands” of our identity.