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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.Â
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. Â
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. Â
Today, I run a private practice, events and retreats that help people come alive in their lives, to find their ‘dining room table’. Â 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. Â
Click the links on this website – they’ll take you to all kinds of offerings, that’ll help move you along your way.Â
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.

For 15 years, I offered in-person, deep-dive, personal growth and Tantric programs. Â Covid’s huge gift is the time to make it all available to you online, Â via podcast, courses and sessions. Â Ultimately, the deepest dives come from face-to-face, real-time embodied exploration. Â 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.Â
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, Â 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
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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