Hi! I’m Sylas and I am a trauma informed space-holder, a knowledge and practice resource, and a compassionate tracker and mapper of unique human somatopsychospiritual systems.
Using tools from somatic embodiment and mindfulness coaching I specialize in helping people who are preparing for, navigating, and integrating expanded states of consciousness for optimal mental and spiritual health and well-being.
How humans change, transform, and heal has fascinated me since I was a kid. This interest led to a career in learning how to help facilitate healing through hands on manual therapy and traditional herbal knowledge. It became clear through my experiences in this type of healing that the mind and body are not split but interdependent. This led to a deep interest in western psychology and the meditative spiritual traditions from the East.
Early in my career I considered myself a healer: a person who heals another. I now understand that great healers are exceptional at creating the conditions for healing to take place through their knowledge tools and compassionate presence, but that healing happens in those they serve. They are the healers.
I serve clients through several decades of learning and experience in many modalities of somatic healing, movement disciplines, as well as decades of experience navigating diverse states of consciousness and transformational process. I live with the intention to bring the poetry of my unique being into service of the creation emerging in every moment within this ceremony of life.
Being a lifelong student, the list of trainings, education, and certifications is extensive which, if your interested, you can see below.
B.A. Psychology, Arizona State - Magna Cum Laude
Deep Coaching Certification - Center for Transformational Coaching
Internal Family Systems Coaching - IFSCA
Neurodynamic Breathwork Facilitator Certification - Neurodynamic Breathwork Online
Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator - The Embody Lab
Addiction Recovery & Psychospiritual Integration Coach Certification - BTTY
Somatic Coaching Program - Coaches Rising
Neurobiology of Coaching Program - Coaches Rising
Positive Intelligence Coach Training
Archetypal Astrology - Renn Butler
PSIP - Psychedelic Somatic Institute
Many studies and retreats with various Buddhist lineages and other mindfulness-based practices.
30 years of experience in Chinese physical culture the last 20 being devoted to the Chinese internal martial arts, Qigong, and Taoist meditation.
Chinese medicine manual therapy & Traditional Bone setting Apprenticeship
Chinese Medicine Pulse Diagnosis and Herbology with Brian Laforgia. Esalen, Ca
180-hour Teacher Training Certification in Nuad Bo-Rarn Thai Massage. International Training Massage. Chiangmai, Thailand
Upledger Cranio Sacral I, II & III - Upledger Institute
NLP - Foundations of Communication & Change”. NLP Marin. Marin, CA
Muscle Release Technique TM with Michael Young, Concord, CA
900-hour Advanced Massage Therapy Certification - Heartwood Institute
Furniture Design and Build Immersion Program - Vermont Woodworking School
Current Courses of Study:
Ceremonial Guide Training - Rites of Passage Council
M.A. Psychedelic Therapy - Ubiquity University & Ecstatic Mysticism Program through AWE