About Me
Life continually calls us into deeper participation with our unfolding.
I’m in the practice of listening for that invitation and calling, and learning to respond in ways that move toward more love.
As a child, I heard Life’s call while singing with my family around the piano, making up stories about Wild Cat Friend with my dad before bed, riding waves while swimming in the ocean with my mom, or standing barefoot in the grass, gently petting a bumblebee as it gathered pollen from a flower.
What I offer today resonates with what I experienced during my first cello recital, as I felt the aliveness of my creativity moving through the room, impacting others. Playing taught me that my body and hands could become a creative extension of my heart and the music of my soul.
Half a lifetime before I understood healing, I was learning to listen, to co-create, to improvise, and to allow the deeper currents of Life to move and express through me.
In 2016, I went through my second divorce and stopped ignoring the call to turn inward toward my pain and reactivity. I deepened my meditation practice, explored breathwork, attended and formed men's groups, went to talk therapy, and started receiving craniosacral therapy.
Through daily interoception practices, I began sensing the subtleties of my body's inner qualities and movements—tuning in to the flow of my aliveness as well as to areas of numbness, distancing, fragmentation, and contraction.
When a friend died, in a moment of deep grief and grace, my heart cracked open, revealing memories of childhood sexual abuse that had lived beyond the edges of my conscious awareness for decades.
These core wounds carried such intense imprints of fear, pain, shame, and abandonment that my inner protections withdrew these experiences deep inside into isolation and aloneness. My unconscious strategy to avoid feeling the pain became, "Do not tell anyone about this."
That strategy translated itself into many other traumatic experiences throughout my life, including numerous physical accidents, concussions, and emotionally overwhelming moments. These experiences became trauma not only because of what happened, but because I kept them in isolation without compassionate witnessing, loving support, and co-regulation.
Through many years of training, practice, and commitment to my own healing in settings of communal presence, I came to trust that my body knows how to heal itself when given the right atmosphere, context, and relational support.
The heightened capacities for attunement and sensing groups I developed as a child in service of keeping me safe gradually became free to serve in other ways.
Attunement shifted from self-protection into devotional presence and the generative power of love
When I feel into devotion, my whole body becomes more still.
I rest in the core of my heart, where I often experience what I describe as living stillness—a profound stillness that is simultaneously empty and vibrant with aliveness.
I don't believe healing is about fixing ourselves or becoming someone new. I experience it as a restoration of original movement and a remembrance of wholeness. Everything I don't yet perceive as part of my wholeness becomes an invitation to discover our wholeness further.
Today, I accompany people through Crossover Guidance, Presence Touch, and group explorations of the relational field. While I love working one-on-one, my deepest calling is in collective spaces, where I've witnessed how shared presence and communal listening can reveal a wisdom greater than what any one of us could access alone.
My primary guide and teacher in this work (alongside my formal training and experience) is the wisdom of my body in relation to Life, the blessing of my ancestors, and the light of my soul.
My relationship with my wife, Miriam, continues to be one of my greatest teachers. I am blessed to be with her as her partner and co-creator, and grateful that we have chosen to make our relationship a conscious space for healing, growth, creativity, purpose, play, and continual discovery.
I am proud of my two adult children, and happy I now have the space and capacity to meet them with rooted presence, as I wished I could have when they were small. Continuing to become their father is an honor and a gift.
I want people to know how powerful and vast they are in their capacity to become living transmissions of loving presence.
I'm here to listen to the voices of aliveness seeking to be heard in the quieted places of the collective, to make space for them to be heard, and to respond with the specificity of love most needed so our voices can flow more freely in the beauty and truth of our collective song.
If our paths have crossed here, welcome.
It would be an honor to meet you.