WEAVING WILD MEDICINE

Somatic Coaching │ Ceremonial Healing

Man with a beard sitting indoors, looking out the window at the trees outside.

My name is Soar (he/him). Michigan. Chicago. New York City. The Pacific Northwest. Tradesman. Art. Technology. Hiker. Mountaineer. Wanderluster. I came to this work through all of it.

I know what it is to grow up without guidance, to be shaped by trauma and religious control, to learn self-reliance because there was no other option. I also know what it costs. And I know what it feels like when the forest holds you when nothing else will and when the mountains see you before you can see yourself.

That is what I bring into the room. Not a method. A life. Twenty years in circles. Six years in men's work. Ritual and ceremony that have taught me how to turn toward what is hard and be with it. A quiet stillness and wide perception are the medicine I carry.

I work in person and remotely with men hungry for authentic connection and ready to move out of isolation and into something real. I work with women reclaiming a living relationship with the masculine: not performing it, not fearing it, but meeting it from a place of inner power and authority.

I am working toward my Hakomi Licensed Therapist credential and I maintain being grounded in regular supervision and mentorship.

If you are ready to stop navigating alone, I am here.

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My Approach

This work is rooted in the belief that healing is not something done to you; it is something that unfolds through you, at the pace of your own system, in the presence of someone who knows how to wait and how to witness.

Specializations:

Trauma & Wounding

  • Childhood trauma and wounding

  • Religious and spiritual trauma

  • Family estrangement

  • Abandonment and attachment wounds

Men's Work

  • Isolation and disconnection

  • Purpose, identity, and belonging

  • Breaking old patterns of self-reliance that no longer serve

  • The hunger for authentic brotherhood and real connection

Women & the Sacred Masculine

  • Reclaiming a living relationship with the masculine

  • Holding masculine gifts without losing feminine ground

  • Mirror work and self-relationship

  • Inner authority and integrated power

Connection & Relationship

  • Relational wounding and healing

  • Missed experiences and developmental gaps

  • Loneliness and the hunger for real connection

  • Intimacy and conscious relationship

Expanded States & Spiritual Growth

  • Psychedelic preparation and integration

  • Spiritual emergence and development

  • Shadow work

  • Animist and nature-based healing

Somatic & Body-Based

  • Nervous system dysregulation

  • Trauma held in the body

  • Somatic awakening and embodiment

Earth Grief & Loss

  • Solastalgia — the grief that arises when the land you love is altered beyond recognition

  • Personal and collective grief around witnessing environmental destruction

  • Loss of wild spaces and the erosion of reciprocity with the natural world

  • Climate anxiety and ecological despair

  • Finding meaning, ritual, and restored relationship with the living world in the face of loss

TRAINING AND MODALITIES

  • Hakomi Level 2 Training — a body-centered, mindfulness-based approach that listens beneath language, tracking sensation, impulse, and the places where the body holds what the mind has not yet found words for. Currently working toward Licensed Hakomi Therapist credential in late 2026.

  • Animism — the spiritual ground beneath everything. The understanding that the forest, the mountain, and the river are not backdrop but teacher, and that belonging to the natural world is not a belief but a practice.

  • Accountability — supported by ongoing clinical supervision and mentorship.

experience and lineage

  • Nearly twenty years sitting in circles, holding space for men and women to bring forward what keeps them from real connection.

  • Five years co-facilitating men's circles; a container built on prompting, reflection, acceptance, and stillness.

  • Formal wilderness guide certification with five years leading and accompanying people through the Pacific Northwest; mountains, forests, and waterways as container, medicine, and mirror.

  • Eight years as an alpine mountaineer; carrying the knowledge that comes from high exposure, physical demand, and the stillness that arrives far above the tree-line.