The Healing That Remade Me

In 2010, a near-fatal car accident became a profound initiation into my own medicine path. Two doctors told me I would never regain full use of my left arm. I chose not to believe them.

Western medicine mended my bones.
But it was my devotion to daily spiritual, emotional, and somatic practices that restored my body and transformed my life.

I didn’t just heal

I remembered who I was.

By 2013, through invitation from Camille Cimino and in collaboration with Katrina Zavalney, I co-founded Cross Pollinate, a vibrant container for women’s empowerment and community in Los Angeles. Our gatherings became a home for creative, soulful, visionary women -spaces where collaboration, ritual, and collective healing flourished.

After completing my 8th transformative year as a Moondancer, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, of a Mexica/Lakota lineage, I stepped into deeper ceremonial leadership - guiding sweat lodges and carrying forward the sacred teachings of the Rainbow Tribe, an honoring rooted in unity, ancestry, and collective evolution.

I am honored to carry the pipe in the Ollintlahuimetztli tradition and have served as a fire keeper since 2012, tending inclusive, heart-centered fire circles in Los Angeles.

On Sweat Lodge (Temazcal / Inipi-inspired Work)

I was initiated to pour for sweat lodge, a profoundly cleansing and purifying ceremony practiced in many Indigenous cultures across the world. While I honor and respect the Native peoples whose traditions have shaped and safeguarded this medicine, I also recognize that purification lodges, steam houses, and heat-based rites of renewal exist across many human lineages - including my own Balkan and Mediterranean ancestry. I come from a culture that was also ethnically cleansed and colonized by the Ottoman and Roman Empires, that stripped my Albanian ancestors from their Sun Worshiping ways.

The way I pour is rooted in humility, prayer, and deep respect:
for the land, the stones, the elements, the teachings I’ve been entrusted with,
and the people who protected these traditions long before I arrived.

My lodges are held with consent, cultural awareness, integrity, and reverence - spaces where individuals of all lineages are welcomed to release, remember, and return to themselves.

On Retreats

Alongside my ceremonial work, I guide transformational retreats for women around the world.
I’ve co-led intimate immersion retreats in Costa Rica, weaving fasting, ritual, somatic healing, and earth connection.

I also co-lead Soul Refuge, a yearly retreat in Manitou Springs, Colorado, a deeply restorative, earth-rooted pilgrimage devoted to healing, sisterhood, ancestral remembrance, and feminine rebirth. This retreat has become a beloved sanctuary where women come to soften, shed, and rise into a more authentic version of themselves.

These retreats are an extension of my life’s devotion:
creating spaces where women feel spiritually safe, deeply seen, and powerfully held.

Bringing Ancient Wisdom to Modern Life

In addition to my ceremonial offerings, I bring these ancient teachings into contemporary spaces - supporting individuals, teams, and organizations seeking deeper clarity, connection, and purpose. My work bridges the old and the new, the mystical and the practical, helping people ground into truth while expanding into possibility.

To live in a feminine body that is free and sovereign is a sacred privilege.

And it is my deepest honor to walk beside women as they reclaim their power, remember their truth, and rise - fully, fiercely, and radiantly - into the women they were always meant to become.

Thank you for taking time to get to more about me. ;)