Thank you !

For eighteen years, I lived in the monastic community of Plum Village and I'm now finding my way back into a different kind of life; the one where I need to pay rent, buy groceries, and build a livelihood from the ground up. It's a good transition, one I chose and it's also, practically speaking, a steep one. Eighteen years is a long time to be outside the systems most people spend a lifetime learning to navigate: credit, insurance, retirement, the basic economics of living in this society.

This time is tender. I'm being asked to redefine what a right livelihood looks like for me in this society, and that kind of discernment can't be rushed without losing something essential. My hope is to stay aligned with the purpose that has carried me this far, offering spiritual support in service of collective healing, rather than making decisions out of financial urgency.

If this work of offering spiritual support for individuals and for collective healing matters to you, and you're in a position to help, your support would mean a great deal as I get my footing. Every contribution, of any size, goes directly toward this life transition: housing, essentials, and the space to keep building "Somatic Wisdom & Sacred Awareness" without that foundation being in question.