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About Kristen

Living the life you were born to live takes courage.  I know, from experience.  But when you align with your life force, it’s the difference between rowing upstream and gliding down–warm breeze at your back.  It means living your purpose, heart open to love and awake to the mystery of life.  No small feat.  But oh, so worth it. 

True story.  At 20, I was on my way to medical school when I had a health crisis that changed my life.  I learned the difference between medical intervention and healing.  I had definitely been rowing upstream, no idea who I was.  

With no medical answers, the doors to the healing arts opened.  I began to learn about Eros.  Conscious love, dance, body-awareness healing practices and Tantra became the ‘medicine’, that had me dancing on the diningroom table til dawn — healthy, alive and thriving.  

Today, I run a private practice, events and retreats that help people come alive in their lives, to find their ‘dining room table’.  No matter what part of the world, race, religious, ability, gender orientation — if you’re ready, there’s a place for you on the table.  

Click the links on this website – they’ll take you to all kinds of offerings, that’ll help move you along your way. 

There’s a lot of upstream rowing going on right now.  We’re all being called to make deep changes.  The world needs your gifts now more than ever before.  As each of us learns to move with Eros, we heal from the inside out, as the world heals around us.

Retreats

 Post Covid -TBA

By encountering the depths of your being with curiosity, presence and love,
you can build capacity to experience new expanded possibilities for your life.  Your longing sets the direction, as intuition guides the pace —  
each step along the way is skillfully guided. 

For 15 years, I offered in-person, deep-dive, personal growth and Tantric programs.  Covid’s huge gift is the time to make it all available to you online,  via podcast, courses and sessions.  Ultimately, the deepest dives come from face-to-face, real-time embodied exploration.  Once Covid’s gone, you’ll find that this online community and coursework beautifully dovetails, with an amazing series of face-to-face, retreats where you can sink into the teaching’s, be guided by skilled facilitators, and soak in the magic of an open-hearted, community of like-minded souls, learning and growing their relationship to Eros. 

A Call to Thrive
body reclamation and the art of love
~ 2023 – TBA

On Being Human
a tantric primer in the wilds of Costa Rica
~Jan 28-Feb 4,  2023 – Costa Rica

Sexuality & Spirituality
healing the split between the sacred and the sexual
~Feb 6-12 2023 – Costa Rica

Keep me in the loop! I want to know when you're face-to-face programs are back!

Credentials

EXPERIENCE

Somatic Therapist
Director Somatic Center
Private practice, events and international trainings since 2010

Teacher of Himalayan Tantra
Student since 2005 w/ Swami Ravi (Rudy Ballentine)

Bodyworker / Trainer
Since 1990

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Trainer
Since 1994

Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist
certification grand-mothered in 2016

Wilderness Guide and Educator
1980-1996

 

TRAINING

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP

ISMETA certified, Somatic Movement and Education Therapist

Massage Therapist, LMT

Core Energetics + Process Therapy Training

300+hrs of Yoga Teacher’s Training

Vipassana Meditation Retreats

Art of Loving, Leadership Training @ Shalom Mountain

Wisdom School Training in the Kabbalah @ Shalom Mountain

Shamanic Training with Malidoma Some

ISTA 1 + 2

Source Tantra CT1

Deep Ecology Intensives with Joanna Macy

MS in the Ecologic Sciences and Systems Theory

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