about rebecca
rebecca
I didn't come to this work through training. I came through loss. Through not fitting anywhere. Through the kind of childhood that leaves you fluent in shame before anything else.
What I found — slowly, and then all at once — is that the wound is also the door.
The teachers found me as much as I found them. Ashrams in India and Nepal. A jungle retreat center outside Angkor Wat. Q'ero elders. Hawaiian practitioners. The land in Bavaria, Wales, and England — my own ancestral ground. Years inside Ram Dass' world changed how I listen.
There is a thread connecting us to generations of wise beings who lived in far more uninterrupted contact with the greatest teachers: silence and the natural world. I carry transmission from many of these lineages, and that presence moves through the spaces I hold.
I have sat with hundreds of people in grief. Walked beside some on their way home. What I know from that work is that the essential part of a person — however buried, however battered — remains intact. That is what we are always moving toward.
The people who find their way here move through even the grimmest circumstances with something that looks like grace — playful, fluid, unbroken at the core. They are porous. They feel the state of the world not as background noise but as something that belongs to them. And they are ready to stop carrying it alone.
Aotearoa. Hana. The mountains of Telluride. I live near land I love. I am still learning from it.
I practice what I teach.
"Rebecca's ability to create a sacred, safe container during ceremonies allowed me to access my vulnerability, rawness, and inner voice. The goddess archetype was awakened within me and I was able to feel the freedom and power of letting her move me. I want to specify that I identify as a male — the idea of embodying the more feminine side of me was pretty terrifying. But Rebecca's way of grounding ceremony in the sacred is what allowed me to move past doubt and fear and into more freedom through movement."
– CRAIG, MSW, SAC
"There was a period of time where I felt alone in my spiritual path and without community. Rebecca came into my life as a spiritual advisor — she met with me consistently and allowed me the space to explore my edges and boundaries. Her guidance to move into and through the body led me to peace within my vessel and gave me daily practices that still inspire me now. Her love and kindness meant more than she can know."
– VICTORIA, UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Ground
The essential part of you — and of the wild world — is pure, innocent, beautiful, loved.
In the midst of the chaos and the devastation, that is the truth we keep moving toward.
That is what the descent is for.
You have been in rooms that asked you to transcend what lives in your body.
You are sensitive to what is happening — to land, to culture, to what you carry. That sensitivity is not a wound to manage. It is the most honest thing about you.
You are here because something in you knows the personal and the ecological are the same crisis — and the same restoration.
AltarD begins there.
You did not arrive here by accident. And you are not the only one.
Many spiritual spaces ask you to rise above the world.
AltarD descends into it.
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True rest — not as reward, but as ground. The nervous system was not designed for this much noise. We learn to return to ease, and find that ease generates more of the same.
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Sadhana — regular contact with what is alive in you. What feels potent shifts person to person, season to season. The work is to find what is genuinely yours — and build a relationship with it that lasts.
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Bringing what is disowned into conscious awareness is not the enemy of awakening. It is how you stop bypassing the parts of you that are actually trying to help.
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There is a thread connecting us to generations of wise beings who lived in far more uninterrupted contact with the greatest teachers: silence and the natural world. That transmission is real, and it moves through the spaces we hold together.
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With what is real in you. With the forces of nature moving through and around you. With others who are willing to stand for the same things.
my Approach
You stop disappearing.
And the world gets someone who is fully here.
This is for you if
You have never quite felt like you belong — and you are beginning to wonder if that is a wound or a doorway.
You have moved through great loss. You know what it opens.
You are overworked, overfull. You can no longer hear your own voice beneath it all.
You have walked into spiritual spaces and felt the performance — the gap between what was promised and what actually landed.
You want true rest. Not as escape. As ground.
You know that nothing outside will save you — and you are ready to stop looking there.
You care about what is happening to the wild world, and you feel it as something personal. Because it is.
You have a sense of humor about the whole thing.
You are here to follow your own curriculum. And you are ready to do that alongside others who are doing the same.
The altar is you.