Hi, I’m erin.
Who am I? I’m an author, a guide, and an artist. A woman. Like every other woman on this planet who doesn’t know it yet, I’m a fierce feminine high priestess. I’m love. I’m one tiny piece of the pulsating fabric of the universe, the grand motion that inhales and exhales, grows, dies, and reinvents. I am birth life and death. I am you. I am me. I am us. And we are one.
My vision is an interconnected world.
I am a certified yoga teacher, craniosacral therapist, and entrepreneur. I hold a PhD in Policy, Planning, and Development from the University of Southern California. I studied Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia, served as the Director of Housing Policy with the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, and the Regional Coordinator for several progressive signature-gathering campaigns in California.
“By 2014, I decided to put all my stuff in storage and go to Bali for yoga teacher training for some self-care. The only thing that made sense at the time was my relationship to the soil, but I had no idea what to do about it. ”
Immediately after I graduated with my PhD in 2013, my world split open. I got displaced from two homes in a row in the gentrification rush in Venice, California. I started volunteering with a group that I helped co-create into what is now the non-profit Kiss the Ground, and learned about the relationship between soil health and climate change. I took several jobs that immediately fell through, and by 2014, I decided to put all my stuff in storage and go to Bali for yoga teacher training for some self-care.
The only thing that made sense at the time was my relationship to the soil, but I had no idea what to do about it. GROUNDED was born on the plane on the way from LA to Bali. My time in Bali launched my journey into healing, self-discovery, and spirit. Since then, I’ve continually deepened my studies and practice in the worlds of inner work and the metaphysical. Our relationships to spirit, matter, cycles, love, and storytelling, are the keys to untangling ourselves from patriarchal ways of thinking and birthing the new world. And I never cease to be humbled by the divine timing and unfolding of my path and GROUNDED’s manifestation in this time and place.