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🪷a tender return to your body🪷
link in bio 🌌 qtbipoc trauma-informed bodywork
tmj • intraoral • deep myofascial • neuromuscular
📍oakland

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‼️This week, a devastating storm hit the island of kaua’i. Book a session with me on 9/27 from 11- 6pm to help me raise funds for storm recovery efforts to send directly to families and farming communities impacted. When you book a session with me on that day, your funds will be directly supporting families and farms affected.

You can also head to the l⛓️‍💥nk in @a.tender.return ‘s bio to book directly. 30 - 90 min sessions available. Some sliding scale slots are also available as well.

If you have ever visited the Kingdom of Hawaii, you have received the profound medicine of the land and of aloha. Due to the extractive nature of capitalism, climate change, mismanagement of lands, tourism and gentrification, our global community is being devastated by cumulative crises unfolding every which way you turn. These systems we live under are hell-bent on collapse, and require us to build systems of care with greater capacity and compassion. It will be imperfect, messy and may not seem like it’s ever doing enough. But these times call for us to strengthen our practices and skills of building community power and solidarity to make it through life and all its storms.

My heart breaks for the Kānaka Maoli and our black and brown communities near and far being disproportionately impacted by compounding crises due to the negligence, erasure, and violence of our governments. As a former resident and farmer on kaua’i, I really want to pour back into the community from afar. Please consider booking a session for you or a loved one, circulating this post, donating or learning how you can activate mutual aid in the communities that need it. by @a.tender.return

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mutual aid fundraiser + raffle 🧵 for my little brother jun during a difficult time. Enter our raffle for a chance to win one of these amazing offerings from my loved ones.

donations will be used for jun’s car repair + recovery after losing his brother in may. our goal is to alleviate some of the burden of this moment. together, our mutual efforts make a difference in disrupting the ongoing cycles survival, burnout, guilt, grief and isolation around receiving care or asking for help.

if you want to pour into that vision with us, please donate to enter our raffle for a chance to win prizes that we hope will pour back into others. you can also make a non-raffle donation and/or share this fundraiser with your peoples.

🌀how to enter:

💙donate at least $10 to (venmo / cash app / dm me for zelle).
💙every additional $10 qualifies for another raffle entry.
💙entries can be distributed across multiple raffles if specified.

in the the payment field please list the following:

𓆟 name + ig handle / email
𓆟 number of entries
𓆟 raffle id(s) #

📍 raffle #1 - #9 must be local to bay area
📍 raffle #10 + 11 can be shipped

📅 raffle will close on 8/1
and winners will be announced on 8/2. by @a.tender.return

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as the winter months draw nearer, i am welcoming sessions w folks seeking to reconnect with their body in a restorative and tender way.

thank you so much for uplifting this dream 🪷
a labor of love 🫀the first 3 months at my private practice location has been nothing short of transformative and tender—booked and slowing down to offer care. supporting this practice has looked like sharing, booking, and connecting me with loved ones in your community who may need some tending. some days it makes me weep that i have connected with so many wonderful people through this practice of listening and holding space. being in your care network is a deep honor.

if you or anyone you know are navigating transitions, burn out, grief, chronic pain, training recovery or the restlessness of capitalism, i would love to support 🤲🏽

booking link in b!o🌀 by @a.tender.return

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hi 🪷 with a humble, warm, achey, grateful heart, i welcome you here.

thank you for being here in this life where we are tasked with holding and moving through so much beauty and loss. may this be an invitation to listen and connect with y(our) body's wisdom and breath.

my books are open at my new private practice location for body care that supports your tender return to listen deeply and live more freely with your body.

to celebrate, i’m running a series of specials for my offerings if you or someone you know may be in need of tending the cobwebs.

our physical, energetic, mental, and spiritual bodies need tending. in the spirit and blessing of my practice growing amidst so much grieving, i am offering discounted rates for sessions with me as a thank you to the universe.

🌀sessions with me are intentional co-creative spaces to support your healing process, improve range of motion / function, unwind chronic patterns of pain, tension, grief, stress and restlessness.

🌀each session is consent-informed, tailored to your body’s unique needs, and moves at the pace of your nervous system.

🌀my style is a blend various modalities and education ranging from structural integration, myofascial release, neuromuscular, lomi lomi, somatic tools, movement arts, compassion, grace and life experience.

🌀may we rest. may the care we need and deserve be accessible and able to reach us as we navigate the waves of life. may we keep growing in our capacity to be generous with our love and care to each other. by @a.tender.return

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