About Me

I'm Mona (Mun-na), a student of gentleness, tenderness, of the elements and all living beings, an explorer, and a somatic healing practitioner.

I have immense gratitude for the path I get to walk each day. When I consciously committed to my personal healing, I had no idea what I was embarking on, but what I’ve discovered is that it is a return to the woman I am, a return to my roots, my ancestors, and the wisdom and medicine they carried that is held within my DNA, within my bones. Through this journey, I have learned that there is no linear path to healing, and that healing is a return to my divine self, without the layers of oppressive systems and patterns the “modern” times have convinced us we need.

My body has been my guide through this journey. It began with me having intense physical reactions to being at my workplace, and it became increasingly impossible for me to ignore what my body was yelling at me - that the life I was living wasn’t working, that it was out of alignment. No longer was it this subtle message in the back of my mind, the guidance was being felt within my whole body. Since leaving that space and committing to a path with an undefined destination, my body has guided me every step of the way. In learning to trust my body more, I came up against new and different edges and challenges, and really had to learn how to listen and discern what my body was trying to tell me. 

One day, I sat in meditation and certain words kept coming to me. The next day I found a Somatic Therapy program whose focus was on touch and from there I surrendered to what my mind couldn’t even fathom, but my body already knew. I gave myself permission to participate in reclaiming our relationships with our bodies, individually and as a collective. Along the journey of becoming a Certified Somatic Therapist, I couldn’t help but feel that something was missing. In this exploration I found my teacher and have been blessed to walk this path and learn from her for the past 3 years. She has helped me reconnect with my ancestral lineage and see what I knew was missing in my personal and client practice.

Thanks to my spiritual path, my offering has expanded, and I imagine will continue to expand and deepen as I continue on my path and in my learnings of the sacred mysteries. Through the expansion, one thing remains in the center - the body is the path of devotion. The body is the way we decolonize, remember, and reclaim the wisdom and medicine within us.