What does
“Reclaim The Matrix”
Mean?

I first heard about steaming when I was about 16 years old.
My mom was into alternative healing modalities most of my life and a friend of hers recommended Bajos to her and she told me about it to see if I had interest as well. She never actually tried it then, but I always remembered it as something our ancestors must've used and I had an interest in learning more, just didn’t get around to it on my own.
Fast Forward to 2021, I'm a grown woman, a wife and a mother, and just made friends with a postpartum doula in my area (Hey, Shannon!) She recommended steaming as a postpartum healing modality. I was all about it, but I had just become pregnant with my 3rd pregnancy so I was waiting to try it for my Postpartum. I ended up miscarrying at week 10 and my friend was so sweet that she offered to do a closing of the bones ceremony and facilitate a steam session for me and support me during my healing period.

That experience honestly changed my life.

Not only was it incredibly releasing for me, concerning my miscarriage, but it was a moment and degree of self care I had never experienced, and that felt like it was something missing from my life. Not long after that I became pregnant again with my second child, 4th pregnancy, and first daughter. That was a big shift for me and I felt called to bring in more healing and intentionality for the sake of my lineage. So, during that pregnancy I researched V steaming like crazy. I came across Steamy Chick through Instagram and I just HAD to learn from Keli. I was struck because of the way she spoke about steaming being something of a cross cultural significance and the vision of women everywhere used to do this, it just further solidified my instinct that myself, and now everybody, needed to learn about steaming for their pelvic health and especially women for their feminine wellness!
I finally enrolled at Steamy Chick Institute in August 2022 after being incredibly inspired from #SteamyAugust and getting to utilize steaming throughout my postpartum after the birth of my daughter. Steaming is a beautiful and reconnecting self care practice for me. I share it with others primarily for that reason. I believe much of our society today is disconnected from the body and much of our discomfort in our bodies is due to a lack of knowing how to
care for it, how to be present in our own skin, and a lack of nourishment
in one way or another. Steaming hits all those boxes.
I also believe that through sisterhood and community we can make long lasting change for the benefit of the future generations.
Breaking chains of habits that do not serve us, breaking stereotypes, breaking through the shame we feel surrounding our bodies...in place of those things cultivating self love, loving our neighbors, cultivating and witnessing ourselves and others into the best versions of us.

I currently reside in Las Vegas, NV with my husband Aaron and our two children. My work is offered in the Las Vegas Valley and spans into Pahrump, Moapa, Overton, Sandy Valley, and Boulder City, as requested. I am very involved in my local community and attend/host mother circles and other events for women.
I grew up in a homeschooling and naturally minded community, surrounded by mothers who had their babies at home, breastfed, were homemakers or had a very strong calling to keep their children close and chose to lean into their roles as Mothers. Through this community, I attended homebirths and worked with mothers during the postpartum period. I look at the birthing year as a rite of passage and have been honored to support women in what is called Matrescence. Personally, I have had 4 pregnancies: 2 miscarriages and 2 full term births, my son in 2020 and my daughter in 2022. I had the honor of being supported by midwives during those experiences, and being on the receiving end of this care has truly shaped me through these past 5 years as a woman. I believe that it is the biggest reciprocal gift, in our roles as women, to be sisters and support other women in our communities as the cycles go on and on and on during our lives.
I am looking forward to all the friends I have not met yet! Hopefully, that includes those who read this, like you!