For LGBTQ+ & BIPOC Communities
The Radical Act of Coming Home to Your Body
Embodiment is not a luxury. For those of us whose bodies have been sites of violence, erasure, and reclamation — it is liberation work.
Why Embodiment Matters Here
For LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people, the body is political. It has been legislated, pathologized, policed, and commodified. We have been taught through systems designed to extract our labor and silence our pleasure, that our bodies are problems to be managed rather than homes to be inhabited.
Somatic work in this context is not neutral. It is an act of resistance. To feel pleasure in a body that has been told it is wrong, to experience safety in a nervous system shaped by intergenerational and personal trauma, to reclaim desire that has been shamed or suppressed — this is the work of liberation.
I come to this work as a Black, queer transgender man who has spent the majority of my life navigating the world in a body that others sought to define for me. I know what it is to be estranged from your own flesh. I also know what it is to find your way back.
Your body is not the problem. The systems that taught you to abandon it are.
A Masculinity Made of Lines and Curves
I am actively engaged in deconstructing the injected systems of dominance that shaped how masculinity was modeled for me, and for so many of us. The masculinity I embody is not the one handed down through patriarchy. It is something I am building in real time, informed by having spent the majority of my life moving through the world as a woman.
It holds softness and edges. Tenderness and power. It makes room for grief and for joy, for stillness and for fire. It is a sacred masculine that does not require the suppression of the feminine, it is made richer by it.
This is the kind of embodiment I hold space for in my practice: the full, complicated, gorgeous truth of who you are becoming.
How This Work Is Held
Trauma-Informed
Somatic work that honors the specific ways racial trauma, gender dysphoria, homophobia, and systemic violence live in the body, without pathologizing expected responses to an unjust world.
Identity-Affirming
A space where your gender, sexuality, race, and embodied experience are not just tolerated but centered. You do not need to translate yourself here.
Liberation-Centered
Rooted in the understanding that personal healing and collective liberation are inseparable. Your reclamation of pleasure and safety is a political act.
Practitioner-Led by Lived Experience
I am a Black, queer trans man doing this work on myself and with my community. This practice is built from the inside out.
You Deserve to Feel at Home in Your Body
Whether you are navigating gender transition, have been impacted by racial trauma, reclaiming your sexuality after religious shame, or simply learning what it means to be present in your own skin, this work is for you. You do not need to have a specific problem to benefit from this work. Many clients come simply because they want more. More presence, more pleasure, more aliveness, more connection to their bodies. You do not have to earn your way into your own body. You belong here.