Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.

What I share here grows from what has supported me in practice, as life unfolded and I began asking a different kind of question:

Am I seeing my life through who I actually am , or through trauma, suffering, and identities formed by years of unexamined belief?

Much of what I once trusted, societal norms, family patterns, inherited ways of thinking wasn’t questioned. It was simply how things were done.

No one was at fault. At the time, I didn’t yet have the discernment or the capacity to see otherwise.

What followed was unlearning.

Not as self-improvement, but as release. Letting go of what I had absorbed without knowing it. I reached a point where I was tired of fixing myself, tired of analyzing myself, tired of feeling broken. It was exhausting. It made my eyes hurt.

Practice became less about changing who I was and more about learning how to look honestly at my experience — and at the experience of those around me. Especially the people I cared about, where there had been misunderstanding or fragmentation.

These tools offered me a different way to meet life.

As the saying goes:

“I respect your faith, but doubt will give you an education.”

Wilson Mizner

My path has included many forms of practice: long study of martial arts, spiritual discipline, plant medicine ceremonies, and years of working honestly with suffering,(optional), and grief(natural), and the natural changes that come with being human.

Each of these taught me to see myself, and life, through a lens different from what I once believed myself to be.

What’s offered here grows from that kind of practice: learning to meet experience directly, without turning away, and to live more fully within the conditions of life as it is.

The forms are simple: the making and playing of Native American style flutes and drums, sound based meditation, Japanese psychology, mindfulness, and Buddhist practice.

Not as solutions. Not as fixes. But as ways of returning to what is already here.

Nothing to fix.

Nothing to change.

except perspective.

Take what’s useful.
Leave what’s not.
You’re welcome here.