We are all here for a purpose.

i am here to help you attune to and embody yours.

My Lineages

I am the descendant of Tamil and Telugu ancestors from South India. I come from teachers, healers, pastors, musicians, mothers and fathers who loved and cared for others deeply and imperfectly.

My ancestors are from the brahmin (first) caste (maternal line) and vaishyas (third) caste (maternal and paternal line). In the past 3-4 generations, my ancestors converted to anglicanism from hinduism. Their conversion implanted a reverence for and assimilation within British colonial systems in India, especially the anglican church, english medium schools, and western medical institutions. 

Some ancestors’ allegiance to colonial institutions earned them high posts in the postal and railroad systems, while other ancestors heard a strong call to service and justice-making within christian teachings. They centered their medical practices, teaching careers, and spiritual leadership on those with limited access to western medicine, classroom-based education, economic resources, and social capital.

From many of these ancestors, I inherited a commitment to work hard and to be of service to others.  From many, I also inherited a colonized mindset that ancestral ways of being, knowing, and doing were outdated, and in the case of ancestral spiritual traditions, were ignorant and even evil.

Much of my healing work today is about reconnecting with ancestors who resisted and healed from the impacts of colonization, and bearing witness to their work of healing others in my maternal and paternal lines. My healing journey also includes somatic therapy, parts work, family and systems constellations, yoga, chanting, chakra balancing and reflection on the teachings and activism of queer spiritual ancestors Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Sylvia Rivera, and Marsha P. Johnson.

Through these healing modalities, I’ve developed a deep love for my body and her wisdom and power. My healing work also initiated a reclaiming of ancestral gifts which my bright ancestors encourage me to share in the world.

My Gift

My Gift

My most formidable gift is listening. Listening to the heartache and dreams of other humans.  Listening for themes and patterns that reveal truths we must acknowledge and address. Listening to the language of bodies – a language that some researchers suggest communicates 80% of what we are truly experiencing. Listening to what is not said, yet palpably present. Listening for seeds of songs, stories, and poems carried by the wind, embedded in memory, pulsating underground or whispered by our ancestors.

My gift of listening is a divine blessing and ancestral calling. One that has nurtured deep relationships, supported the settling of nervous systems, birthed songs, and catalyzed transformational life and organizational changes. My gift of listening has also been a survival strategy. One that has helped me understand implicit and explicit norms and related power dynamics so that I can keep my body and my loved ones safe within systems of dominance that have taken over Turtle Island.

My Approach

In my own coaching and facilitation as well as work with cherished collaborators, I bring a decolonial approach. Using this approach, my collaborators and I create spaces for intentional, authentic, rigorous, and self compassionate reflection on the ways that colonial mindsets show up in our life and leadership.

In addition to creating space for unburdening colonial legacies, our decolonial approach also centers the calling in of ancestral wisdom. For some of us, this is a reclaiming of traditions we remember practiced within our family systems. For others, this feels more like a re-indigenizing process where we embrace ancestral practices anew. In all forms, this calling-in can be joyful and a powerful antidote to the grief of conquest. 

My paths

My practice is shaped by 30 years of learning from and with movements
of healing, justice, and liberation.

In these years, I have served as:

✾ An organizer supporting community leaders in housing justice and health equity campaigns in urban Rhode Island communities and rural North Carolina communities

✾ A youth cultural worker designing artist residencies featuring Afro-Caribbean folkloric music as a model of cultural resilience for young people in public schools, after-school programs. juvenile detention centers, and re-entry programs

✾ A grant writer supporting BIPOC-led organizations to raise funds for power building campaigns centering climate justice, just and equitable housing development, and quality health outcomes for Black birthing parents

✾ A transformative justice practitioner holding space for teams seeking to transform unhealthy conflict into generative conflict and to build systems of mutual support and accountability

All of this herstory has led me to my purpose. 

I am here to nurture attunement to our individual and collective purpose in the service of healing, belonging, imagination, and liberation.

I embody my purpose using the modalities of liberatory coaching, facilitation, somatics, song channeling, sound healing, and writing. 

I believe that when we attune to our wisdom and desire, to other humans, to the Earth and more than human kin, we instinctively and intuitively act in ways that nourish healing, belonging, imaginative play and liberation for all.