What this work means to me
I am deeply passionate about an interdisciplinary approach to health + wellness, and nervous system regulation, that honors the mind-body-spirit connection, invites inquiry, and encourages exploration. I view the body as a delicate ecosystem, each part in dynamic relationship with the whole. I believe in doing less and being more.
Through lived experience, I understand how life-changing accessible care can be. Trauma-informed movement and somatic healing have both helped me recognize how trauma shapes the mind and body. These practices, which I now share through Move Soma, have supported me in reconnecting to my own aliveness and building the tools needed to navigate a society that increasingly challenges embodied connection with ourselves and with each other.
Abolition, deep listening, post-modern dance, spirituality, science, poetry, and the natural world all inspire and contribute to my personal and professional movement practice. My experience as a trans man also brings a unique perspective of its own into this work. By accessing the deeper parts of ourselves, cultivating genuine self-trust, and reconnecting with our innate wholeness, we create a strong foundation for living with presence in our relationships and decisions.
In motion, we are always transformed, always transforming. And because we are always in motion, it is our capacity to meet this movement that defines our experience.
“How do you quiet the mind? You meditate. How do you open the heart? You start to love that which you can love and just keep expanding it.” - Ram Dass
Healing is relational, like everything else in this world. And so, we are here together.
With love and warmth,
Zachary