About Heidi
My path into embodiment has never been one straight line. It’s been a thread I’ve followed through different seasons of my life, always returning to the same question: what does it mean to feel fully alive in a body?
As a kid, I dreamed of being a singer, actor, and dancer… or the first female president of the US, but that’s another story!
I was drawn to the expression before I had words for why.
That pull led me to study music therapy, major in mallet percussion, write songs, and perform in the band Maya Rides Away in my twenties. I spent a year studying expressive arts therapy in graduate school and eventually found yoga, first as a student and later as a teacher. These days, I sing with the Wild Asheville Community Chorus, practice QiGong and study the Five Element Theory and am learning to play the mandolin.
Alongside this creative path, I’ve spent the past twenty years as a somatic therapist, supporting people healing from trauma, eating disorders, and disconnection from their bodies. I became a Certified Body Trust® Specilalist because I wanted to better understand how identities that have less power and privilege in our culture can be supported in feeling safer to inhabit and experience their bodies. This exploration deepened my own healing and embodiment. Over time, both my work and my own life began to shift. I started to see how much energy went into tracking how I was perceived and shaping myself around that. Learning to live more from the inside out has been one of the most important changes in my life.
For me, embodiment is about access including sensation, movement, voice, and choice.
As I’ve expanded that access in myself, life has become more nourishing, more creative, and more my own.
This path is what led me to Wild Beauty Embodiment Coaching and to training as a Chi for Two® embodiment coach. My work is relational and experiential. It focuses on what happens between people and how that can open up new patterns of safety, expression, and aliveness.
Outside of my work, I feel most grounded in nature, where I can listen and reconnect. I love pulling tarot cards, watching scary movies through a psychological lens, and am still inspired by my childhood heroes Wonder Woman and Miss Piggy.
At the core of it all, I do this work for two reasons:
I deeply honor the courage and slow, steady unfolding it takes to move toward greater embodiment, and I know the freedom that becomes possible when we come home to our bodies and begin living from them.