// EMBODY YOURSELF //

Hi, I’m Eryn (she/her). I’m here to help you feel your feelings, get into your body, and open your heart - so you can embody your real self. 

I’m a full moon baby (Libra sun, Aries moon, and Virgo rising). + an ENFP and Enneagram 7. Some of the things that have shaped me: love and loving. belonging. lack of belonging. sexual trauma. being raised in southern baptist christianity. queerness & the repression of it. harm that i caused and the ways i’ve hurt people i’ve loved. joy. an intense desire for freedom & knowing that i had to create it for myself if I ever wanted to live as myself. feeling unseen. feeling like not enough & too much. desire. big friendship. big love. wanting to fit in. wanting to be liked oh yes & wanting to be loved. losing love. feeling home in my body. poetry. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

I have traveled a ton alone & it gave me space to play with being myself, embody myself, before I could really do that in real life with the people I know and love.  

I’m a big fan of stargazing, pole dancing, shaking my ass as spiritual practice, sunsets, incense, Justin’s dark chocolate peanut butter cups, little rituals, park hangs, reading books, storytelling, and listening. 

As a breathwork facilitator, energy worker, and healing guide my intention is to help you reclaim yourself as whole and worthy of being loved.

So many of us are taught from a young age that who are are is somehow bad/wrong/too much/not enough. We learn this from our families, our friends, the media, religion, systems of oppression like patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, abelism, homophobia, diet culture and more. 

And when I say “we,” I mean me, too. I always felt like the weird one —  I never quite belonged and I learned early on to abandon parts of myself, hide parts of myself in order to fit in. And I believed that I should — that I was unlovable and unworthy as I was. I was grateful to my friends to even let me be part of their group when I knew I didn’t deserve to be there. The least I could do was try not to embarrass them or annoy them — the least I could do was try to be more like them.

I was researching colleges by the time I was in middle school, believing that college was my ticket out — the place I could go to finally be free to be myself and express myself (including my lack of religious belief even by that time, even though I was still haunted by the idea of hell).  

There was never anything wrong with me, and I believe there is nothing wrong with you, either. We are programmed from a young age to forget the truth of who we are so we can “fit in” - so we can belong. But you deserve to embody yourself, to invoke and express your essence, to come back to your power. Your magic. Your heart. Back to who you were before everyone told you who and how to be. 

My work is intended to hold space for you and guide you in that process of healing yourself, returning to yourself, welcoming the rejected parts of you home, embodying yourself. 

Embodying yourself is no joke. To me, it’s being able to be seen, to truly be vulnerable with the people in your life (and maybe even strangers on the internet if that’s your thing). It’s rooting into your heart and your truth, taking action and creating boundaries from that space. It’s trusting yourself, it’s finding love and belonging in yourself. It’s being able to ground into pleasure and your desires. It’s being able to claim your needs. It’s being able to stand in the truth of your inherent worthiness, your inherent lovability, your inherent magic. 

And, none of this can happen by working with the mind alone. My healing work rooted in reverence for the body — a deep belief that the body is sacred, the body is magic, the body is a portal to deeper presence and wisdom. The body is ancient, the body is wise, the body doesn’t lie - it doesn’t have to be our enemy, it can be our ally, our teacher, our friend.

It’s not that being in your head is a bad thing - it’s that being in your head is default for most of us in a world where we've been taught the body is something to be transcended, overcome. Where we've experienced trauma that leaves us disassociating. Where we've been taught not to trust the body, its desires, its hunger. 

I say no. I say being in the body feels like reclamation.  

Body work is heart work. It’s trauma work. It’s anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-capitalist work. It’s feeling your feelings work. It’s fuck the system work. It’s shame work. It’s human work. 

It’s the work that can finally allow us to be ourselves in a world that has never allowed us that privilege.

And speaking of privilege, so much of the healing work out there is incredibly inaccessible and only able to be accessed by those with a lot of privilege. Let me be clear: we ALL deserve to heal. I’m committed to offering work at different access points including scholarships and sliding scale offerings, while also working to dismantle the systems of oppression in our society (and in myself) that create this problem in the first place. Systems of oppression ARE trauma, and need to be dismantled in order to create a world where it is safe for ALL of us to exist and be ourselves.

If you’re down, I would love to be your guide on this journey. Get started here by downloading my free 8-minute breathwork meditation (I’ll also send you love notes, support, rituals, meditations, offerings and more to help you heal) or by listening to my podcast, the Living Open show for mystics and seekers.

Love,

Eryn

LINEAGE & STUDIES

Officially, I’m a Reiki guide, breathwork facilitator, and tarot reader. My work has been birthed from studying the healing arts extensively across different modalities and my intuition and healing journey. I would like to share some lineage here, while also acknowledging that my teachers are imperfect and there are some things taught (and not taught) in different trainings I’ve taken that I do not support. I’ve studied…

Reiki 1 with Meg Townsend (3 months) and both Reiki 2 (three months) & 3 (Master level, 6 months) with Alexandra Kurowski at The Reiki School in Philadelphia

Tarot with Lindsay Mack

Breathwork with David Elliott and Alexandra Roxo

Trauma-conscious yoga with Liberation Prison Yoga

Restorative yoga with Angela Boltz at Yoga Home,

Hatha Yoga in Rishikesh, India with Yogi Dinesh Chander Ji

Trauma-informed care for practitioners through The Breathe Network

Among countless other healing courses & workshops! Some other teachers who have had a big impact on my healing journey are Ev’Yan Whitney, Luna Dietrich, Dana Balicki, and Aja Daashuur.

Currently, I’m focused on studying trauma-informed care, dreams & dreamwork, and poetry.