Hello! I’m Misha (she/her), and I’m embodiment facilitator. I co-conjure trauma-informed learning spaces at the intersection of presence and practice.
As a long-time social dancer, performer, and movement facilitator, I aim to help folks feel more like themselves through trauma-informed embodiment tools. This is informed by my experiences in recovering from extractive academic and corporate spaces as a Black, neuroqueer, Filipina chronically ill survivor.
Through my business, Ritual As, I’m available to consult for individuals and communities looking to gather in ways that center comfort, support, and ease through trauma-informed somatic facilitations and embodied movement. Specialties include:
• planning, administrating, producing, and hosting trauma-informed somatic facilitations for groups and individuals
• embodied stress navigation facilitations for groups and institutions
• guest facilitation and creative projects.
I also directly offer 1:1 and group support for cultivating everyday skills to navigate stress in ways that orient us towards liberation.
I am certified in The Resilience Toolkit, as well as in facilitation for Dance from the Heart. I am particularly invested in offerings by and for folks who still take precautions for COVID and other airborne illnesses.
I am a witch, an eldest daughter, a writer, a ritualizer, and a gaming gremlin who also navigates AuDHD, PMDD, and cPTSD.
I currently live in the Netherlands, but my roots are in southern California.
Extended Bio
Misha (she/her) is a Black, Filipina, queer, neuroexpansive* "multi-hyphenated witchy badass and embodiment practitioner."** She co-creates trauma-informed learning & embodiment spaces with the goal of helping folks feel more like themselves, experience more of their time as their own, and to explore being enamored with the language of our own bodies. She aims to create spaces where people can remember that, just as we can bring physical offerings to our earthly altars, so too can we bring offerings of rest, restoration, and reclamation to the altars of mind, body, spirit, and communities. After 8+ years developing training and curricula for tech start-ups, Misha burnt out from writing the same resignation letter every 12-18 months to organizations committed time and again to the relentless exploitation of Black employees and patrons. After experiencing much of the same in her early freelance endeavors, she served as the Director of Projects and Story Stewardship at We Still Move, as well as a limited column series writer for the Oxygen Tango community. Currently, she facilitates within the somatic practices of Dance From The Heart and The Resilience Toolkit (with certifications in each). As a long-time social dancer, performer, dance instructor, and pole dancer, she is fascinated with how spaces of connection, leisure, and pleasure can cultivate community practices that orient us to collective liberation--constantly asking: "how can we craft communal spaces that connect folks with day-to-day practices of dismantling of systems of oppression within ourselves, our communities, and the world at large?" She thrives most in collaborative, co-creative partnerships in which asking the right questions informs how we allow the answers to emerge with equity, experimentation, and the willingness to be new at things as needed.
When she's not making a living, her life is also filled with writing, interest-spiraling, video- and tabletop-gaming with friends and family, tending to her cycles of PMDD, emoting intensely, tango dancing, healing from cPTSD, resting, exploring new ways of compassionately accommodating her own yet unidentified patterns of neuroexpansiveness, giggling, mourning, indulging in any scrap of nonverbal time she can snatch, home cooking with her partner, ensuring her enthusiasm doesn't get the best of her capacity, describing the physical sensations of words or phrases, wondering where the time went, reminding her anxiety that she is not in fact forgetting something, emitting startled sounds, rebuking the white supremacist construct of 'professionalism' any chance she can, convincing myself with mixed success that I don't need to rearrange the furniture again, and occasionally lamenting over how her bios feel outdated almost immediately after she writes them due to her wildly fluctuating identification with an ever-emerging sense of 'self'
*term coined by Ngozi Alston intended specifically for use by Black disabled people
**as often described by platonic beloved and also multi-hyphenated YO! Cali wonder, Gabs Garcia
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