About me ...

Hi, I’m Erin

My work began with cities.

I pursued a PhD in Urban Planning with a focus on Sustainable Cities at the University of Southern California, drawn to questions of how environments shape human possibility, and how we can design systems that support life rather than deplete it.

After graduating, I joined a small volunteer initiative that would eventually become the nonprofit Kiss the Ground. As its first Executive Director, I helped co-create an organization devoted to soil health, regeneration, and the profound intelligence of the earth.

But in 2014, I burned out.

Despite meaningful work and outward success, something inside me was exhausted. I traveled to Bali for yoga teacher training, seeking restoration and perspective. There, my love for the earth deepened into something more embodied, a relationship not just with systems, but with stillness. With Yin. With the quiet intelligence of restoration.

Here, my journey as an author began, as I started to understand the soil’s relationship to the divine feminine, where life gestates in the darkness before re-emerging. My academic writing began to evolve with me into the next chapters of my life. 

Teaching yoga and practicing craniosacral therapy brought me closer to the subtle layers of healing: the nervous system, the stories we carry, the patterns we repeat. 

Over time, coaching emerged as the natural integration point: where insight meets strategy, where healing meets forward movement.