my background & training

My work is grounded in 20 years of personal healing and spiritual practice and training in multiple lineages and modalities.

I also have more than 25 years of supporting people impacted by trauma, violence, and oppression in finding their own truth and living from it - for their own healing and our collective liberation.

For a more detailed understanding of my experience, please check out the list below.

Shamanic & Spiritual Training

  • 20 years of Zen Buddhist practice

  • Initiated Korean shaman-priestess (mudang 무당) apprentice in Korean shamanism/indigenous folk religion (Musok 무속)

  • Apprenticeship for Advanced Shamanic Studies with BJ Brown

  • Curse Unraveling and Compassionate Depossession Basic and Advanced trainings with Betsy Bergstrom

  • Healing the Ancestral Lines and Energy Body Mastery courses at Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing

  • Space Clearing and Land Healing training with Sue Holmes

  • Energetic Cord Cutting workshop with BJ Brown

  • Clairvoyance Training with the Clairvoyance Center of Hawaiʻi

⠀Energy Healing & Trauma Survivor Care

  • Integrated Energy Therapy© trainings to the Master-Instructor level at Reiki Center of Greater Washington Area

  • Supported survivors of trauma and violence, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking

  • Supported people who have committed violence and harm in taking responsibility for their actions and finding a new path forward, including men who committed sexual assault and involved in gang violence

⠀Movement Chaplaincy & Coaching

  • Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy training at the Faith Matters Network

  • Co-Active Coach training at the Coaches Training Institute

⠀Anti-Oppression/Pro-Liberation Teaching & Facilitation Experience

  • Created multiple online courses and in-person trainings, including Healing from Internalized Whiteness, Collective Care Pods, Compassionate Activism, and Everyday Self-Love

  • Created and facilitated multiple online community healing spaces, including Centering Practice, Caring Circles, Grounded Gatherings, and Tea Time with Sandra.

  • Founded Everyday Feminism, an online magazine that taught applied intersectional feminism to daily life and reached millions of readers monthly at its height