Hi there! I’m Ryan. I’m a somatic guide and an instructor of meditation and Qigong.

Here are a few of my qualifications:

As a young adult, a personal history of trauma and illness led me to explore a variety of healing systems. This path began with a couple years in a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York, studying meditation.

From there, I traveled to Oregon for training in Heiner Fruehauf’s rigorous Traditional East Asian Medicine doctoral program at the National University of Natural Medicine. Here, I studied with masters of acupuncture, herbalism, and Qigong. Upon graduation, I was awarded “Best Capstone Project” for my work on the treatment of trauma with traditional medicine.

For the next decade, I practiced traditional East Asian medicine in Maine, North Carolina, and Georgia. During that time, I also immersed myself in the world of somatics, which is the practice of regulating the nervous system through body-based awareness.

These days, somatics has become my primary focus. I help clients untangle chronic stress and trauma by using the somatic techniques of the Somatic Experiencing and Tao of Trauma systems.

To learn more about my sessions, click here. To book a session, click here.