About Leela

Leela is a somatic healing practitioner, bodyworker, grief tender, and contemplative movement facilitator with over 15 years experience working within the embodied healing arts.

Like many healers, she was drawn to somatic healing practices due to her own struggles with anxiety, body dysmorphia, disembodiment, and grief.

What motivates her is the desire for all humans, and especially women and queer folks, to have more access to radical self-expression, compassion, resilience, joy, creativity, and pleasure. These things she sees as the fruits of the labor.

Leela weaves together a diverse background as a bodyworker, therapist, energy worker, dancer, buddhist meditation practitioner, and therapeutic yoga teacher to create spaces where people feel held and supported on their embodied healing journeys.

As a facilitator, Leela holds transformational and embodied groups and retreats, with a focus on contemplative practices, ecosomatics, and embodied aliveness.

Her work is rooted in an intersectional ecofeminist anti-oppressive framework of collective and personal liberation. Her practice aims to be queer and trans inclusive, anti-racist, body-positive, and sex-positive.

In addition to being a somatic practitioner, Leela dabbles in performance arts, clown, and creative writing.