ABOUT THE LIVING ALTAR
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The Living Altar is the culmination of a lifelong calling to bridge ancient wisdom with contemporary healing. As a non-binary practitioner rooted in indigenous healing traditions, I offer decolonial, earth-honoring approaches that recognize healing as both deeply personal and inherently communal.​ My practice weaves together the folk medicine knowledge passed down through my family lineage with formal therapeutic trainings and 20 years of experience as a Licensed Massage Therapist. This unique foundation allows me to offer several distinct healing modalities that honor the interconnectedness of body, mind, spirit, ancestors, and earth.
MISSION
I believe that true healing happens in relationship—with our bodies, our ancestors, our communities, and the living world that sustains us. My work is committed to creating culturally affirming spaces where BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folx can experience transformation that honors their full identities and lived experiences.​Every session is an invitation to arrive just as you are, an invitation of your inherent wholeness. We understand that individual liberation and collective healing are inseparable, and our practice reflects this understanding in every aspect of our work.
APPROACH
Every session begins before you arrive. Each day, I ritually clear the space and tend my altar, grounding myself and calling in my well ancestors to fortify gentle boundaries around our work together. This practice ensures you step into a container already held by intention and reverence.​Your autonomy is sacred here. There is always an open invitation to express your boundaries and share your 'no', and I will ask for your consent or permission in mindful moments throughout our work together. Your felt sense and agency guide every moment of our session.​
Whether in ancestral work, an online session or bodywork, we honor 'your way' by moving at your pace, working with doable pieces and weaving in stabilization and/or ritual safety along the way. This present approach allows your wisdom to lead, creating space for sustainable transformation rather than overwhelming you/your system/your integration.​
Depending on what your session calls for, we'll begin and close with prayer, meditation, or grounding practices that honor the out time together. This isn't just bodywork or ceremony—it's a co-creation held within relationship to the ancestors, the land, and your own deep knowing.​
As we complete our work together, I may offer suggestions for integration practices or self-care that support the healing we've witnessed—gentle ways to tend the seeds planted in our time together as they continue to root and grow.​
You are invited to arrive exactly as you are, trusting that this space has been prepared to hold whatever emerges in container of cultivated care, rooted stability and sacred confidentiality.
rooted in tradition, growing in community
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