About
Koa is a healing practitioner, facilitator, artist and educator inspired by the beauty and resilience of the human spirit and natural world.
Koa carries fifteen years of training in craniosacral work (read more: Honoring Roots & Lineage). She has also received in-depth teachings from indigenous wisdom keepers, mystic spiritual leaders, and the initiation of her own healing journey starting at the age of 16 (concussions, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury and near-death experience).
Koa has held a private practice since 2016, and in 2021 began teaching her own curriculum with The Breath of Life Course — a series of immersions synthesizing craniosacral biodynamics, somatics, meditation, ethics, embodiment, and trauma-informed touch. The first course was held in New Mexico and has quickly grown to become an international offering to a growing global community.
A multi-disciplinary artist, Koa has worked professionally as a photographer and writer since 2010. Attuning to the eye of the heart, Koa invites beauty and evokes essence in both imagery and the written word. Notable clients include For the Wild, Living in the Light, Edible Magazine, and Fibershed (who she has worked with as a contributing photojournalist for a decade). For more, see Devotional Arts.
A lover of the Turkish frame drum, daf, and stringed saz, in 2022 Koa was invited to compose and record a song in Jimi Hendrix’ Electric Lady Studios.
The song she improvised, “Flight to the Sun” was eventually released as part of the Grammy-winning Birdsong Project, a benefit for the Audubon Society, featuring over 200 artists.
Following the footsteps of her maternal grandmother, Koa weaves on her loom as a form of prayer.
For more, see Weaving Gallery.
A first-born American on her mother’s side, Koa carries lineages from Lithuania, South Africa, Sardinia, Wales, Germany, and the Meditteranean.
Born in the Pacific Northwest, many landscapes have since called her home. All of the places that she has had the privilege to connect to are woven into the landscape of her being.
She currently resides between the unceded lands of the Tewa and Coast Miwok peoples.
