ABOUT LEELA
Hi! I’m Leela (she/they). I offer integrative healing in a variety of ways, and mostly seek to support others through body-mind-spirit endeavors as a way to provide care, support, guidance, and integration for humans on their healing/wholeness paths.
I’m a bodyworker, somatic counselor, and astrologer. I’m also a dancer, animist, intersectional feminist, witch, poet, performer, folk herbalist, artist, tarot reader, and clown.
I’ve spent a lot of my life exploring the healing arts and learning how to listen - listening to the body, to the earth, to plants, and to the cosmos. My initiation into the healing arts came when I was kid when my mother attuned me to Reiki at the age of 8. Interested in witchcraft and the occult from an early age, I began studying tarot, astrology, and yoga as a teenager.
My love of embodiment and the healing that I found through my connection with my body led me to teach yoga for 10 years - yoga led to me meditation, meditation led me to contact improv, contact improv led me to somatics, somatics led me to bodywork, bodywork led me to somatic psychotherapy.
I've always been fascinated by Astrology - completely in love with the stories, symbols, and magic of connecting with the cosmos. I had been casually studying Astrology since 2006, but became a more serious student in 2018 when I discovered Ancient Hellenistic Astrology, and eventually started studying to be a professional astrologer, and have taken courses with Acyuta Bhava Das and Kelly Surtees.
As a child of Saturn, born under a new moon in Cancer and plenty of Mercury energy, my magic resides in the depths of my emotions and my ability to weave between worlds - a psychopomp between the realms of shadow and levity , body and mind, spirit and matter.
I am a Aquarius rising, Gemini sun, and Cancer moon. In Human Design, I am a 2/4 Emotional Manifestor with the right angle cross of Eden. My Human Design is geared towards activating emotional truth in others so that they come into deeper contact with their uniqueness while showing the way to find the lotus that blooms from the mud, or the beauty that is possible even within the pain.
About my Work
At the root of my work is the belief that deep attunement to our bodies, our stories, and our magic is a liberation practice, a pleasure practice, a practice in re-claiming sovereignty and re-membering belonging.
I am rooted in a compassionate, anti-oppressive, trauma-informed practice that celebrates queerness, and is gender-affirming. As a white person, I am engaged in the messy process of dismantling internalized white supremacy within my body & mind.
Work with me if you feel ready to get radically in tune with your emotions and your body. If you wish to remember your innate cosmic belonging. If you are ready to root out old stories and seed new ones of possibility. If you want to play in the shadow realms and find the life affirming fruit that grows there. If you want to grow. If you want to learn to listen to the wisdom within you and all around you.
Hi! I’m Leela (she/they). I offer integrative healing in a variety of ways, and mostly seek to support others through body-mind-spirit endeavors as a way to provide care, support, guidance, and integration for humans on their healing/wholeness paths.
I’m a bodyworker, somatic counselor, and astrologer. I’m also a dancer, animist, intersectional feminist, witch, poet, performer, folk herbalist, artist, tarot reader, and clown.
I’ve spent a lot of my life exploring the healing arts and learning how to listen - listening to the body, to the earth, to plants, and to the cosmos. My initiation into the healing arts came when I was kid when my mother attuned me to Reiki at the age of 8. Interested in witchcraft and the occult from an early age, I began studying tarot, astrology, and yoga as a teenager.
My love of embodiment and the healing that I found through my connection with my body led me to teach yoga for 10 years - yoga led to me meditation, meditation led me to contact improv, contact improv led me to somatics, somatics led me to bodywork, bodywork led me to somatic psychotherapy.
I've always been fascinated by Astrology - completely in love with the stories, symbols, and magic of connecting with the cosmos. I had been casually studying Astrology since 2006, but became a more serious student in 2018 when I discovered Ancient Hellenistic Astrology, and eventually started studying to be a professional astrologer, and have taken courses with Acyuta Bhava Das and Kelly Surtees.
As a child of Saturn, born under a new moon in Cancer and plenty of Mercury energy, my magic resides in the depths of my emotions and my ability to weave between worlds - a psychopomp between the realms of shadow and levity , body and mind, spirit and matter.
I am a Aquarius rising, Gemini sun, and Cancer moon. In Human Design, I am a 2/4 Emotional Manifestor with the right angle cross of Eden. My Human Design is geared towards activating emotional truth in others so that they come into deeper contact with their uniqueness while showing the way to find the lotus that blooms from the mud, or the beauty that is possible even within the pain.
About my Work
At the root of my work is the belief that deep attunement to our bodies, our stories, and our magic is a liberation practice, a pleasure practice, a practice in re-claiming sovereignty and re-membering belonging.
I am rooted in a compassionate, anti-oppressive, trauma-informed practice that celebrates queerness, and is gender-affirming. As a white person, I am engaged in the messy process of dismantling internalized white supremacy within my body & mind.
Work with me if you feel ready to get radically in tune with your emotions and your body. If you wish to remember your innate cosmic belonging. If you are ready to root out old stories and seed new ones of possibility. If you want to play in the shadow realms and find the life affirming fruit that grows there. If you want to grow. If you want to learn to listen to the wisdom within you and all around you.
Education
MA Counseling & Dance/Movement Therapy Antioch University (current)
Intro to Biodynamic CranioSacral with Dr. Kate Klemer (2021)
Ancient Hellenistic Astrology (Year One) with Acyuta Bhava-Das, 2021
Womblifting & Abdominal Massage with Baan Hom Samunphrai, 2019
Plant Spirit Medicine Year One & Year Two with the Gaia School of Health and Healing 2018
Integrative Positional Therapy with Lee Albert, 2017
Thai Yoga Massage & Ayurveda with the Bodhi Sangha School of Thai Massage, 2017
Certified Massage Therapist with the Florida School of Massage, 2017
500hr Yoga Training in Therapeutic Yoga with Integrative Yoga Therapy, 2015
Somatic Healing Process SomaSoul, 2015
BA Creative Writing & Gender Studies, University of Maine at Farmington, 2010
Reiki Level I & II with D'Vorah Kelley
& A smattering of trainings in Somatics, Astrology, Human Design, Axis Syllabus, Contact Improv, Body-Mind Centering, & Yoga.
MA Counseling & Dance/Movement Therapy Antioch University (current)
Intro to Biodynamic CranioSacral with Dr. Kate Klemer (2021)
Ancient Hellenistic Astrology (Year One) with Acyuta Bhava-Das, 2021
Womblifting & Abdominal Massage with Baan Hom Samunphrai, 2019
Plant Spirit Medicine Year One & Year Two with the Gaia School of Health and Healing 2018
Integrative Positional Therapy with Lee Albert, 2017
Thai Yoga Massage & Ayurveda with the Bodhi Sangha School of Thai Massage, 2017
Certified Massage Therapist with the Florida School of Massage, 2017
500hr Yoga Training in Therapeutic Yoga with Integrative Yoga Therapy, 2015
Somatic Healing Process SomaSoul, 2015
BA Creative Writing & Gender Studies, University of Maine at Farmington, 2010
Reiki Level I & II with D'Vorah Kelley
& A smattering of trainings in Somatics, Astrology, Human Design, Axis Syllabus, Contact Improv, Body-Mind Centering, & Yoga.
