Rachael is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner (CHP) and Certified Mind-Body Coach dedicated to embodiment as a creative and healing force on the path toward liberation and wellbeing for all life.

As a life-long dancer and movement educator, Rachael brings a reverence for the body to all her endeavors. Her individual sessions and group workshops draw on a range of somatic traditions including Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy, Mind-Body Coaching, contemporary dance and performance, improvisation, aerial arts, ballet, Feldenkrais, Pilates, Qi Gong, Body-Mind Centering, and professional bodywork.

As an entrepreneurial mother of two, Rachael has a depth of knowledge about recovering from burn-out and cultivating life-work balance. With over a decade of professional experience as an urban designer and community engagement specialist, she brings expertise in human-centered design, communications, team leadership, and strategic planning to her coaching work, helping clients to navigate professional growth and development.

Rachael was born and raised in Oakland, on unceded Ramytush Ohlone land, and continues to call this place home. She started dancing and performing as a wee one and hasn’t stopped, falling in love with the learning and unlearning of various movement-based techniques and traditions. Her performance practice considers constellations of being (more than) human, asking questions about power, identity, intimacy, wilderness, and belonging. For more about her work see here.

Rachael is a student of wilderness, and offers this practice in honor of all her teachers, ancestors, and our living earth. Rachael studied ecology and landscape architecture at the graduate level, and worked for a decade designing and managing large-scale urban design projects. She firmly believes that it is within the context of our built environment and its legacies of discrimination that we must negotiate and actuate matters of human health, safety, and dignity.

Rachael offers an approach that is contemplative, nourishment-based, and life-affirming. Her practice is grounded within a social justice framework to catalyze practical and systemic change for individual and collective liberation.