Courage
Bodywork & somatic practice · Denver
Do you feel
a call?
You may not have the exact words for what you're looking for. But something in you — some quiet, persistent part — has been orienting toward more.
You may not have the exact words for what you're looking for. But something in you — some quiet, persistent part — has been orienting toward more.
Perhaps you seek to reduce pain in your body and find greater mobility.
Perhaps you have been feeling a stirring, a desire to be seen, a hunch that your needs could be met — even the ones that involve pleasure.
Maybe you are curious what it feels like to actually be in your body, rather than managing it from the careful distance of your thoughts.
These instincts are worth following. You found this page. Keep reading.
This is bodywork, somatic practice, and experiential exploration — sometimes in the same session, depending on what you're carrying and what you're reaching for.
Sessions can be deeply therapeutic, genuinely playful, and both. Breath, touch, movement, presence, roleplay, fantasy — whatever is most alive for you becomes the material we work with, always within clear agreements and at a pace that feels good to your body.
You don't need to know which category you're in. We start where you are.
I came to bodywork through movement — years of acrobatics and weightlifting led me to study the body so I could understand and care for it, to be the athlete I desired to be. I've grown highly attuned to my body, and subsequently others as well.
Alongside fitness, I've been a cellist for 24 years. The cello is a pressure-sensitive instrument. When I play, I am constantly reading feedback through my fingertips and ears, adjusting in real time, in order to make the instrument sing.
Touch in bodywork works the same way. What I bring to a session isn't just technique — there's a trained sensitivity that knows how to listen through contact, how to follow what a body is saying, what it is asking for. You will feel the difference.
Add to that training in the Tamura Method (using touch and presence to access emotional patterns held in the body) and years of working with people in vulnerable and expansive states — and what you get is a practitioner who has devoted a significant portion of their life to understanding how to be present and provide healing.
Tension you've stopped noticing becomes readable. Desire becomes clearer, more spontaneous, less tangled up in old stories. The body stops feeling like something to manage and starts feeling more like you.
Roleplay and fantasy can be dimensions of this work when that's where you're drawn. The imagination is part of the body. Exploring it in a held, consented space can be liberating, surprising, and sometimes revelatory.
For some people, what shifts most is something quieter: the ability to receive. To let go of ‘control’. To stay present with a sensation long enough to actually feel it. That, too, is significant.
I'm a somatic practitioner and bodyworker based in Denver. I've worked with hundreds of people over the years, in therapeutic settings, in ceremony, and vulnerable spaces. My training is ongoing and built on years of lived practice.
I take this work seriously, which is maybe why I don't take myself too seriously in it. There is room here for humor, for strangeness, for things that don't go the way either of us expected.
Courage is the name I carry in spaces of openness — in exploration, in expansion. My spirit name. It's a quality the universe (as I experience it) has kept asking me to embody.
And I've watched what courage actually looks like in a session. It's not always dramatic. It's the small act of staying present with a sensation instead of leaving it. Of asking for something you want or need. Of letting yourself be seen. That willingness is the beginning of newness.
If something here felt like recognition, the next step is simple: a conversation. You may text me, but a free discovery call is the ideal way to connect.
Book a free call →Or text me directly at (720) 256-5270.