Nature Doesn't Overthink Itself
Cloud doesn’t apologize for changing shape
Cloud dances with Wind
Ocean doesn’t justify her depth
Ocean holds what she holds
Tide doesn't negotiate his return
Tide knows the way home
Natural systems relate
They move in response
They are attuned
Intelligent
In constant conversation
with themselves
and everything around them.
You
You are nature
You are Cloud
You are Ocean
You are Tide
About AV
Practitioner
Listener
An educator who came home through my body
My path into somatic work took the scenic route. From the boardroom to the classroom, I have worked across continents in the areas of organizational culture, employee wellbeing, leadership development, and experiential education. I spent the last decade working as an art and health educator, supporting children and youth in alternative education settings, empowering them find their way back one relationship at a time.
Everywhere I worked, the same thing became clear: people are rarely met as whole. And the part of us that holds what we've lived is the body.
What brought me home, in the end, was my own body.
Spinal Energetics is the practice where my work has come to rest. Slow, gentle, and consent-forward. A way of listening to the body that doesn't require it to perform.
I offers one-on-one Spinal Energetics sessions and free 15-minute consultations from Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples.
This work is for people who are curious about what their body already knows.
If that’s you, welcome home.
How I Work
My work is guided by a belief that presence is a practice, not a performance.
I'm interested in creating conditions where people can meet themselves with a little more honesty, curiosity, and care - without pressure to become anything other than what's already here.
I see identity as relational and evolving, and shaped through body, land, memory, and experience. Rather than offering answers or outcomes, I hold space for noticing, reflection, and meaning-making to emerge over time.
This work values slowness, consent, and attentiveness as ways of resisting urgency, productivity, and self-optimization in favour of something more humane.
On Energy and Intuition
I engage with energy and intuition as subtle forms of listening.
This isn't about diagnosis, fixing, transformation, or predicting the future.
It's about attunement to sensation, mood, rhythm, and what wants attention in the moment.
I work gently and responsively, using structured processes to guide pacing, transitions, and invitations rather than outcomes.
My energy-based practices are offered as supportive frameworks for grounding and integration.
✧ Spinal Energetics Level One Practitioner
✧ M.Ed (Health/ Outdoor/ Physical/ Experiential/ Somatic Learning) with First Class Honours
✧ RYT 200 YTT, YIN 50hr YTT
✧ B.Ed (Art/ English/ Business) Dean’s List
✧ Cert. TESOL
✧ B.A (Art/ Literature/ Business) with Distinction