Hello. I’m Josie. My pronouns are (she/her/hers). I am a queer mystic, somatic therapist, somatic yoga teacher, trauma informed educator, tarot teacher, and retreat facilitator.

I am passionate about curating sacred experiences for earth conscious and soulful people to be together in the name of love and liberation.

The vision that moves me is a healed and joyful world.

A connected world.

Through my classes, workshops, rituals and retreats, I have had the beautiful honor of teaching students from all over the world how to reconnect with their body’s natural wisdom and guided by their wondrous and innate capacity to heal, grow, and transform.

My work and teachings are rooted in:

• feminism and collective liberation

• earth-based spirituality and nature reverence

• science with a special focus on ecology and neurobiology

• trauma informed care

The values that guide me are respect, dignity, safety, love, curiosity and connection. 

I am an independent scholar of Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown and other feminist works of liberation. 

I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling and Psychology in Education with an emphasis on Human Development. I also have formal training as an educator.

I have been practicing embodiment my entire life, but intentionally for the past 11 years and teaching for 8 years. I completed my 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher trainings at Happy-U Yoga Center with Karson McGinley and I studied trauma-informed yoga with Hala Khouri and Kyra Haglund of Collective Resilience.

With a background in education, I have the invaluable experience of developing school culture around trauma informed practices and wellness. I co-developed a trauma sensitive wellness program for a high school prior to my transition into heart-centered entrepreneurship. Though I no longer teach in the classroom, I continue to learn alongside of and collaborate with a group of educators and academics that are dedicated to wellness and shaping transformative culture in communal spaces and at the institutional level.

My formal training in education and specialization in trauma sensitivity, equip me to offer high level teaching and conscious space holding. I have assisted and led numerous yoga teacher trainings and mentored dozens of yoga teachers.

I am committed to divesting from appropriation. One way I practice this is by teaching outside of the Westernized capitalist studio model. I currently teach online and in community centers. I also mentor teachers and space holders and facilitate workshops and retreats online and in person.

I am the founder of Starlit Soil an online embodiment space for visionaries, teachers, healers, and therapists to be held in personal and community care.

When not teaching, you can find me reading in my hammock, exploring nature with my 2 dogs, and enjoying live music with friends.

I live and work on unceded Kumeyaay territory, also known as San Diego, California. I offer my deepest respects to the living land that I call home and its original stewards.