Building embodied tools to
un-stick the stuck places
in your life and relationships.
Maybe you're exhausted from holding everything together. Maybe your anxiety has anxiety. Or you keep having the same fight with your partner, or you've spent years understanding your patterns and still find yourself doing the same damn things.
The ways we've learned to survive don't always help us live the lives we want.
Using a mix of body awareness, movement, and hands-on practices, we'll get curious about the brilliant ways you've survived. Together, we'll practice new ways of being with what is, navigating what's hard, and having more choices about what comes next.
I work with individuals and people in relationships, offering somatic coaching online and hands-on bodywork in Oakland.
Two decades ago, I was a perfectionist, workaholic youth organizer trying to change the world. A lot of what brought me to organizing came from my own experiences of childhood trauma. I had plenty of language for what I'd survived and how it had shaped me, but not many tools for doing something different with all that understanding.
I took my first somatics course because we wanted to bring an understanding of trauma and the body into our political education work. I wasn't expecting it to kick my ass personally. Suddenly, I was being asked to pay attention to my body instead of continuing to be a head on a stick. It felt like everyone else was talking about coming home to their bodies. Me? How do you come home to something you've never felt like you inhabited to begin with?
You deserve to live and thrive.
You deserve to live as much as you've survived.
You deserve relationships where you can stay connected to others without losing connection to yourself. With room for honesty, boundaries, pleasure, play, and love.
You deserve to get clearer about what lights you up, what you long for, and what you have to contribute.
You deserve more than getting better at managing the demands of a world on fire. You deserve the capacity, support, and freedom to move toward what makes you feel alive—and to bring your gifts to building a better world.
My values
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Body based
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Anti-Pathology
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Trauma Informed
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Rooted in Collective Liberation
“Bruin has been a catalyst for some of my deepest healing. The space that he creates has allowed me to unfold parts of myself that I hadn't previously felt worthy or safe enough to share with anyone. His gentleness, nuggets of wisdom, and ability to ask simple questions that help to reframe stuck thought patterns has been super helpful.
Bruin has helped me respect the power and strength of tenderness; the revolutionary struggle of slowing down and accepting guidance from my body.”
— WISE BODY CLIENT
