You are not broken.
You adapted.

What kept you safe once may now be holding you back. ConcordiaSpring helps you gently release what no longer serves you, and return to the ease, connection, and aliveness that was always yours.

Finding membership in the body of life

Rooting Walks are guided nature experiences blending somatic movement, breathwork, stillness, and shared presence. Set in the forests and trails around Asheville, these walks offer a gentle space to return to your body, your breath, and the earth — together, in a small group. No experience is necessary — just bring yourself, comfortable shoes, and an openness to presence.

Each walk is slow-paced with frequent pauses, including simple practices like grounding, breathing, and noticing. We move in and out of silence, sometimes sharing reflections, sometimes just walking side by side. It’s a space for realness — to feel, to rest, to reconnect with the ecology of your own body and the living world around you.

These walks are an invitation to stay right here — to meet yourself and the moment as it is. Rooting Walks aren’t about fixing anything — they’re about remembering what’s already whole and finding belonging in the richness of now.

"Presence grows like a tree that finds far reaches of canopy and the kiss and warmth of the sun by being so devoted to the soil that it roots deep into stable ground, pulls up clean water and dense minerals, and expands into such beauty and elegance, sharing space and making room for the brethren that surround it at the heights of the overstory."

In 2022, I left the US for several years, seeking clarity and answers about why it was so hard to be in relationship with people, why work was so incredibly stressful, and, most importantly, why I felt constantly “chased out of my body,” with persistent distractions, social anxiety, a sense of failure, and an underlying fear rooted in feeling like a stranger in my own skin.

I traveled the world: Greece, the Caribbean, Colombia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and other countries. I found a form of transformation that came not through intensive therapies, courses, workshops, books, or any other established system.

What I learned is that healing comes through presence; bathing the tensions and unloved parts of ourselves in the fullness of abundance that we encounter when we root ourselves into life through the portal of our bodies. The parts we call negative or problematic, which we tend to silence or escape from through entertainment, consumerism, work, or by establishing more controlled and hyper-specific identities (often reinforced by denser, more contrived symbols and lifestyles), all carry an invitation into greater intimacy and coherence.

I learned that stillness, silence, and experiential, embodied rooting are processes of bringing our awareness into this present moment, into reality itself, so that we can metabolize our holding patterns, our wounds, our psychological conditioning, and find resolution for our deep cultural and multigenerational adaptations.

And it starts with safety and presence, making space for the signal behind the patterns and symptoms to rise into conscious, relational awareness. Listening to the call instead of silencing it. Gently sinking into the fears, the stories, and the pain that emerge, bringing them into loving presence, and metabolizing them into newfound strength and wisdom.

I am a facilitator, trained yoga instructor, freediving instructor, writer, and coach, bringing together embodied practices that support presence, healing, and authentic relationship with ourselves, our community, and the larger body of life unfolding around us and through us.

Get in touch with me

I'd love to hear from you. Whether you're curious about coaching, interested in joining a RootingWalk, or simply want to connect, feel free to reach out.