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Sweetwater

One of our incredible coping strategies developed to survive through overwhelm is numbing in our emotional and sensory bodies. I imagine it as a hardened sheet of ice. When we can’t feel anything or feel less, we can function enough to survive in the overwhelming world. When we begin to integrate our experiences, the ice begins to melt, moving e-motion through our bodies. I know that the thawing water trickling through us after a deep freeze must be sweet. Sweetwater exists in service to our belonging, kinship, and eco-liberation. Through our work together, I hope you gain a deeper awareness of your integrity, your wholeness, and a sense of grit to fight for the life you desire.

Meet dallas

Hi and welcome, I’m glad you’re here! I found my way to this work through years of struggle reintegrating my own fragmented self. Through collaboration with many gifted healers and teachers, including horses and the natural world, I have found opportunities for wholeness that I wouldn’t have found alone. I am honored to be a part of your journey.

 

I am an Organic Intelligence Certified Coach, and have been a devoted student of embodiment with a variety of teachers and modalities over the past 5 years. I feel on a cellular level that our liberation is intertwined, and we need to practice and connect with one another now more than ever. I have over 10 years of experience working with horses, and have a lifelong commitment to growing my skills of horse stewardship as well as stewardship of the natural world.

 

Courses of study & relevant experience:

  • Current student of the Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies - a 2 year training in Gestalt Equine Psychotherapy (one year completed)

  • Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with the Education for Racial Equity & Resmaa Menakem

  • Embodied Ancestral Inquiry with Marika Hendricks of wildbody somatics

  • Foundations Course with the Strozzi Institute

  • Aibado Clinic with Mark Rashid

  • BA in Sociology & Gender Studies from L&C College

 

A note on place and lineage: 

I recently relocated to the homelands of the Squaxin and Nisqually, at the edge of the Salish Sea (Olympia, WA) and I have made a life with the lands and people of the Pacific Northwest for over a decade. I grew up on the oak savannah homelands of the Chumash in southern California, near to the Pacific ocean. My people came to Turtle Island primarily from Ireland, Wales, England and Scotland in the early-mid 1800s, migrating from the east coast to the west coast over time. Connection and relationship with land, lineage, elements, and animals are a north star in my days, alongside laughter and playing with friends and family, swimming, snacking, spending time with horses, and sewing fun clothes.

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