A 5th generation visitor here on Turtle Island, I was born and grew up in Calgary, on the traditional territory of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy), including the Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani Nations, as well as the Tsuut’ina Nation and the ÃŽyâxe Nakoda Nations. Growing up there shaped me in ways I am still discovering. The vast skies, the changing seasons, the foothills and the particular intensity of the Chinook winds are woven into my earliest sense of home. Looking back now, I can also see how much of my life has been a journey away from the definitions of home I inherited and toward a more expansive understanding of what home actually means.
I come from a lineage of Celtic, Italian, Jewish, and Spanish ancestry, and I carry an ongoing curiosity about what has travelled through those lineages to reach me. I think often about inheritance: the stories we are given, the things that remain in secrecy, the ways our families learn to survive, the traditions they preserve, and the patterns they pass along without realizing it. My own becoming has involved learning to honour where I come from while also questioning what I want to carry forward.
Over the years, I have lived, loved, worked, created, danced, and wove with communities in different places, including Vancouver and Victoria. In Vancouver, I lived and and still practice and play on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Today, I am based in Victoria, on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples, including the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Naming these places matters to me because my relationship with land is becoming increasingly central to my understanding of community, responsibility, and belonging. I want to acknowledge that I live and create on stolen lands with histories, cultures, languages, and relationships that long predate my own presence here.
My spiritual path began to take shape almost two decades ago. What started with meditation and yoga gradually opened into neo-Tantric and Taoist philosophy. Shaped through breathwork, ecstatic dance, ritual play, conscious sexuality, embodiment, and psychedelic exploration and co-creation in Burner culture. Each practice offered another doorway into the same underlying question: what happens when we stop treating the body as something separate from spirit?
The body eventually became one of my greatest teachers.