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About Kimba

 

My work has grown through years of listening — to the body, water, rhythm, sound, nature, and the living relationships that shape us. 

This expression emerged from a lifelong knowing that body, Earth, spirit, and the living world are not separate.

As a child, my communication with the living field came through movement and sound. I did not dance with nature — I danced as nature. Under trees, beside water, and with animals, there was no separation between myself and the natural world around me.

When I was taken out of this innate merger with nature and entered into the constructed systems of culture, education, and professional ballet, my body step by step became a place of confusion, fragmentation, pressure, and struggle.

The very instrument that had once allowed communion with life became something I tried to control, perfect, and overcome.

What followed was a long period of physical pain, emotional fragmentation, and profound inner searching — a kind of dark night that lasted many years.

 

Even within that darkness, something remained.

 

My first spiritual teacher had been a quiet ballet teacher who taught through merger with rhythm. Even in the darkest periods, in his classes, something in me still remembered.

I could feel light moving through life, through people, through nature, and at times within myself — though I did not fully understand it, and often questioned whether it was even real.

A serious injury and surgery eventually brought everything to a halt. The structures I had relied upon collapsed, and I was left, lost.

 

First, I tried to heal myself through familiar systems of control.

When those failed, I eventually found teachers who listened.

Some helped me soften.

Some helped me remember.

Some taught me to listen differently.

As I continued searching, I began to sense that even within many healing systems and spiritual practices, subtle layers of disconnection still remained — places where the body was being corrected, controlled, transcended, or separated from the living intelligence already present within it.

Over time, this sensitivity became its own form of guidance.

More than methods or belief systems, I found myself searching for what felt deeply true — for the wisdom already living within the body, the Earth, and the rhythms of life itself.

My relationship with shamanism emerged through direct experience and listening — through what revealed itself within the body, nature, rhythm, and the living field of experience itself.

 

 

Through deeper shamanic practice, an experience unfolded that profoundly reshaped the way I understood the body and the living world.

I came to know what I recognized as the White Shell Woman —
not as a fixed figure,
but as a living presence moving through many forms:

woman,
child,
ancestor,
animal,
tree,
water,
rhythm.

Through this embodied experience, I began to understand the body as living water —
always moving,
responding,
expressing,
and reflecting relationship.

 

I began to feel that all natural movement and form emerge from water itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I had once experienced intuitively as a child slowly began to return through direct embodied knowing.

Again and again, I found myself returning to the same essential understanding: that the body is not separate from spirit or nature, and healing is not about fixing what is broken, but remembering relationship.

Over time, this understanding became the foundation of my work.

Today, this work has become a way of guiding people back into relationship with body, nature, rhythm, and the living intelligence already present within them.

Through touch, movement, breath, sound, awareness, and relationship with the living world, I support spaces where listening, embodiment, and natural coherence can begin to return.

 

  

The land and waters of Belize now deeply shape the way I live, listen, and work.

Moonflower Farm & Sanctuary has become a place where body, nature, rhythm, and presence can be explored together through direct lived relationship.

The animals around me — especially the horses — continue teaching me through sensitivity, resonance, rhythm, and presence.

I continue learning through direct experience:

through people,
through silence,
through movement,
through water,
and through listening to the living world itself.

  

Experience & Training

 

My work is also informed by more than three decades of study, practice, teaching, movement, bodywork, and somatic exploration across multiple disciplines.

 

Movement & Bodywork

  • Graduate of the School of American Ballet, NYC
  • Professional Pilates Teacher (since 1994)
  • Graduate of Aston Patterning Bodywork and Movement
  • Graduate of Brenneke School of Massage
  • Certified Franklin Method Educator

 

Healing & Somatic Practice

  • Certified BodyTalk Practitioner
  • Kundalini Yoga Certification
  • Gong Healing Studies with Mark Swan
  • Certified Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher

 

Teaching & Leadership

  • Director of Shaman College, International College of the Shamanic Arts (2017–2025)
  • Ordained Minister in Sacred Living Interfaith Ministry
  • BA in Anthropology, University of Washington
  • Founder of White Shell Movement Medicine

 

Light on the Water

 

A reflective guide exploring body, rhythm, water, and relationship with the living world.

 

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