About Courtney

My Story

Hi, I’m Courtney. I teach women to heal their depletion, resolve their trauma and cultivate the vitality, power and community to raise the sons our world needs.

In my late 20s I had a physical breakdown. From a young age, I was passionate and driven, aiming for perfection. My life was fueled by stress. I felt the suffering and injustices of the world and I set to “saving it” through social work and academia. I teetered on the brink of burnout for many years. After finishing graduate school and moving to San Francisco in 2005, my body finally gave in.

I then discovered Ayurveda, healed myself, and became an Ayurvedic Practitioner. I soon realized my patterns and symptoms weren’t the outlier – they were the norm: women driven to depletion, riddled with digestive issues, anxiety, anger, fatigue, hormonal imbalance, and autoimmune conditions.

In 2021 I discovered Somatic Experiencing, an added layer of nervous system healing that became a powerful symbiotic companion to Ayurveda – giving myself and my clients practices to digest trauma, understand their nervous system states, and feel safer and more empowered in their bodies and in the world.

Through my years of working with over 1,000 women, I can no longer view their symptoms as just an individual issue. There is something far more systemic damaging women’s health and sense of safety, but we’ve come to internalize the systemic issues, and believe our bodies – the canaries in the coal mine – are inherently broken. We’re medicated, numbed, frozen and sliced open by billion-dollar industries that have convinced us we’re victims of our female bodies and the ticking of the clock.

The world is designed around the needs of the hormonally male body, and the rhythmic female body will suffer when we become disembodied and disconnected from our cycles and the powerful wisdom they reveal to us. This is where our vitality and power lie. It’s my most deeply held belief that when women reclaim this connection to our bodies – especially how our own cyclical nature is a reflection of Mother Nature’s rhythms – we can access our innate vitality and power that will change the world.

Yes, we have powerful forces shaping our health and reality. But we also have agency and responsibility.

Now having two sons, and seeing them develop in a world marked by depletion of the female body and the Feminine Principle of life, I began to explore the connection between this and the culture nurturing our boys. Culture defined by dominance, extraction, and destruction. Culture dependent on our disconnection from our bodies, from Mother Nature, and from each other. Culture that needs us as mothers to dissociate from ourselves and our needs. Culture that requires our sons to repress their emotions and need for intimacy, and severs their ability to repair relationship ruptures once they happen.

Culture making us less human, more machine.

My work is both personal and political. The collective depletion of the feminine body is not a personal failing – it’s a cultural emergency. And the next generation of men is being shaped by whoever shows up first. I want that to be you and me (and your sons do too). And I believe the nucleus of the movement for a more human, more humane, and just world starts with the female body at the center – the human manifestation of Mother Nature and her creative potential.

My work is teaching women how true vitality isn’t just the absence of depletion. It’s the restoration of your full aliveness – including your creative and erotic force. When you come back to your body, you don’t just change your own life. You change what your sons inherit.

Credentials

Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist with over 15 years of experience in holistic health

Certified Advanced Ayurvedic Practitioner member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association

Advisor, Educator & Practitioner, AURA Fem Health

Master of Arts Degree from UC San Diego

Bachelor of Arts Degree from Colgate University

Study under renowned teachers, including Dr. Claudia Welch, Kimberly Ann Johnson, and Dr. Vasant Lad

Certified Yoga Teacher

Certified Health Coach

Pancha Karma Specialist

Mother of two boys

Testimonials

“After only twelve weeks I feel more balanced, nourished and rejuvenated – with improved mental clarity, steady energy, decreased inflammation, improved sleep and no allergies. I had no idea this was possible.”

~ Dana

“I am more deeply connected to the needs of my body and no longer ruled by my mind. I want to do more and be more and now I can serve in ways I never thought possible for my family and my community.”

~ Ashley

“When I started working with Courtney, my energy was below 1. After only three months, my energy was at an 8 most days. I’m now six months in and my energy is still that high! Now I finally have the vitality to work full-time and show up more fully as a mother.”

~ Lauren