Hi,
I’m Alycia
I’m a women’s circle guide, gardener, and urban homesteader who believes that nature is the oldest teacher we have, and that when we recalibrate to her rhythms, we recalibrate to ourselves. I teach people how to grow their own food and understand their land through hands-on garden coaching, the same way I guide women in circle through practical embodiment skills, earth-based ritual, and honest reflection. Everything I do is rooted in helping people reconnect to their own inner knowing through co-regulation with nature, whether we’re tending a bed of soil or the parts of ourselves we’ve neglected for too long.
I know what it’s like to forget, because for fifteen years after a series of life changing reconstructive surgeries, I lived in a body I couldn’t fully feel. I was disconnected, exhausted, and constantly trying to out-run discomfort while pretending everything was fine. And while I still managed to build a beautiful life during those years, I could never fully inhabit it. Anyone who’s lived with chronic pain knows how it erodes the parts of you that once felt vibrant.
Eventually I found my way back to myself through a combination of the garden, meditation, ecosomatics, plant medicine, and ritualized participation in spirit based community circles.
The garden called first as I was seeking health though nutrition and didn’t trust what was happening to our food system, so I taught myself how to grow my own. But somewhere along the way it stopped being just about tomatoes and zucchinis. It became the one place where my nervous system relaxed and I could actually hear myself again.
And when I heard loud and clear how much I longed for community and sisterhood, I was serendipitously invited to my first women’s circle where I found real connection, accountability to my own truth, and seasonal, restorative practices that fortified me to engage in my life with more joy and purpose.
Together, those practices started pulling me back into my body, inch by inch. And when plant medicine finally broke the hold of the pain, I suddenly had a deeply intimate understanding of the symbiotic relationship humans have to all the more than human spirits we share this experience we call life with. I couldn’t ever go back. That’s why I do this work now: because I’ve lived inside disconnection, and I’ve lived through the long crawl back to presence, and I know the power of nature, community, and honest reflection to bring a woman home to herself.
