For much of my life, I was searching. Like many people, I believed happiness, peace, and fulfillment could be found through achievement, success, relationships, knowledge, or spiritual attainment. I spent years climbing the corporate ladder, building businesses, studying personal development, psychology, healing, and spirituality, always seeking a deeper understanding of life and of myself.

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Life eventually brought me to a crossroads.

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A series of profound losses and challenges stripped away many of the things I had built my identity around. Physical injuries, financial loss, the end of important relationships, and a deep period of suffering became an invitation to look inward and ask questions that could no longer be ignored.

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That journey led me around the world and into the study and practice of meditation, yoga, dreamwork, coaching, shamanism, somatic healing, and the wisdom traditions of many cultures. Along the way, I spent years working with dreams, participating in ceremonies, studying consciousness, and learning from teachers, indigenous elders, coaches, and mystics who generously shared what they had discovered.

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What began as a search for healing gradually became a search for truth and eventually, even the search itself came to an end.

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In 2022, a near-death experience transformed my understanding of reality and of who I believed myself to be. The years that followed were devoted primarily to silence, integration, contemplation, and wonder. During that time, many of the questions that had guided my life simply dissolved. What remained was a deep love for life, an appreciation for mystery, and a growing recognition that many of the answers people seek are already present within them.

 

The work shared through Altered States emerged from that realization.

At its heart, Altered States is an invitation to remember.

To remember the wisdom of the body.

To remember the intelligence of the heart.

To remember the guidance available through dreams, intuition, and direct experience.

To remember the deeper harmony that exists beneath fear, confusion, and separation.

The teachings, practices, coaching, and self-apprenticeship program are designed to help people cultivate a deeper relationship with themselves, their dreams, their soul, and the Mystery that gives rise to all things.

This work integrates dreamwork, professional coaching, nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, consciousness studies, archetypal psychology, contemplative practice, and wisdom teachings from both Eastern and Western traditions. These approaches are woven together into a practical path of self-discovery, integration, and transformation.

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The intention is simple:

To help people know themselves more deeply.

To help them heal through awareness, understanding, and love.

To help them cultivate harmony within their body, mind, relationships, and lives.

To help them discover that the guidance they seek has been speaking to them all along.

The support and teaching offered here is not about following another person, belief system, or philosophy. It is about cultivating an intimate relationship with your own heart, soul, and direct experience.

The greatest teachers in my life have ultimately been silence, love, dreams, beauty, wonder, and the Mystery itself.

Everything shared through Altered States is offered in service to those same teachers.

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Background & Training

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• CPC Professional Coach Certification (iPEC)

• 25+ years studying consciousness, psychology, healing, and spirituality

• Dzogchen dream yoga and Jungian dream-informed coaching

• Extensive work with indigenous traditions and Shipibo teachers

• Ceremony facilitation experience

• More than two decades of personal practice and study

 

 

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