small women's circles

for big impacts

To those who have felt unheard or left out:

Own your story, connect to your body, and find belonging with other women.

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To women who have felt unheard and left out:

Own your story, connect to your body,

and find belonging with other women.

Our Work

We facilitate spaces where BIPOC women and their allies can boldly share their untold stories. We use somatic, nature-based, and creative practices to explore our complexity, embrace our unique narratives, and be who we really are. From this foundation of connection in community, we then explore how sharing our stories and artwork can inform, influence and inspire collective action.

Our Why

Why Stories and Creativity?

Art and stories are powerful. Stories reveal our souls' nature, show us what is possible, and give us strength and courage—especially when the stories are our own. Stories, poetry and visual art impact others. Stories offer resonance so that those who have been marginalized know we're not alone, and they offer a deeper understanding of systemic oppression to those less familiar with marginalization. We believe the stories and creative expression of marginalized women are critical to inspiring the social and planetary changes humanity is being called to steward and that finding our personal myths are essential for finding our truest niche in the vast ecology of our world.

Why Somatics?

Our bodies are the foundation of who we all are. They hold our stories, our creativity and the keys to healing. The more aware we are of our bodies, the easier it is to access our stories, our artistic capacity, to liberate our essential selves, and to be gently transformed by the mythopoetic wisdom of the natural world.

Why Us?

We are multiracial women who saw that we had similar philosophies, and decided to explore working together.

We learned that we have different backgrounds but key similarities—including the experience of not belonging and how this disconnected us from ourselves and others. We decided to embark on a creative journey of storytelling, somatics and creative practices to help us find wholeness together.

We spent over a year testing various methods and supporting each other in deep healing by breathing, moving, writing, communicating with nature, and sharing our stories, poetry and findings. As coaches, healers, movers and writers, we are committed to creating an eco- and soul-centric world where everyone can thrive.

About Us

Jamie Frank

I'm a Black/White/Filipina cis woman, a lawyer, and a personal and professional development coach. I grew up low-income in a predominantly white community in Idaho. The empathy I developed from being different and having less called me to a career of helping others. I've been doing social change work for a decade and coaching movement leaders since 2020.

Writing is essential to me. When I was a kid, it saved my life. It helped me survive isolation, depression, and cancer. In college, I was fortunate to study with award-winning novelist and poet Bill Carpenter. My studies culminated in a dystopian novel inquiring into the malleability and durability of identity. Right now, I'm working on a book of poetry dealing with belonging and purpose.

For me, the magic of writing is in the process, not the product. I see it as a portal to deeper connection with the world around me—both seen and unseen—and myself. I am honored to share this healing practice with you.

Lena Hyde Nuñez

My multicultural identity has been both a blessing and a struggle. A blessing in that I have creativity and diversity flowing through my veins, which allows me to travel in and out of many worlds. A struggle in that sometimes these worlds, and their corresponding parts within me, have been fragmented. This means I’ve had to relearn how to live connected to an inherent sense of belonging and worthiness. This is the blessing within the struggle—a journey which instills in me a commitment to helping others reconnect to this birthright of knowing we belong.

Born on an island off the coast of Honduras and raised by my Cuban grandparents and the healing waters of the Caribbean, I first learned to work as a healer from my grandmother. Later, I learned a Western approach to healing by studying psychology and working in women's community mental health for over a decade.

I then found a bridge between these often polarized systems of healing that brought me back home to my body, back to soul-consciousness. Since my introduction to Somatic Meditation, Feldenkrais, and Body-Mind Centering, I've spent the past twenty years studying and practicing a wide range of somatic therapies and working as a somatic therapist. I bring with me both traditional and academic approaches to somatics, mindfulness, healing and storytelling—as well as methods for collaborative action.

Laura Muñoz

I am a multidisciplinary artist, somatics practitioner, poet, educator and community organizer based in the unceded ancestral lands of Humboldt County.

I was born in Spain, where I started my formal training in dance, theater, and music. My practice is rooted in Eastern and Western somatics as a means to re-wild the body and spirit. After years in higher education, I now focus on high-impact collaborations with local indigenous nations, marginalized communities, and grassroots organizations.

As an artist in the community, my work transforms public spaces into living stages, weaving together social psyches and internal contemplation to catalyze collective action, bridging the gap between creative expression and social justice. My practice subverts dominant narratives to ensure the public sphere is a space of belonging for all, fostering a regional culture defined by reciprocity, liberation, and joy.

Diana Lara

I am a choreographer, performer, and somatic educator from Honduras. I graduated from the Center for Research and Choreography at the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, Moving-on Center Somatic Research and Participatory Arts Program in Oakland, and the Body-Mind Centering, BMC® certification in Berkeley.

My artistic work is rooted in my multiple migration experience from Honduras to Mexico and Mexico to the US, and the desire to preserve my Latinx and indigenous culture and ancestry. As a result, I create choreographies that explore the effects of coloniality, religion, and gender norms on the body to generate rituals that peel layers of oppression. My work is influenced by contemporary dance, contact improvisation, somatic training, and Latinx/indgenous culture. I have been choreographing and dancing with inspiring artists in Central America and the San Francisco Bay Area for 35 years. My choreographies have been staged in San Francisco Bay Area venues including ODC, NohSpace, Dance Mission Theater, Counterpulse; in Mexico City at Theater of the Dance, and Raul Flores Canelo theater; at Concordia University in Montreal, Spore Initiative in Berlin, and International Community Art Festival in Holland.

I have guided somatic workshops and movement exchanges with women recovering from domestic violence and older adults in the San Francisco Bay Area; victims of political violence and land displacement in Guerrero, Mexico; and during the last two years with Lenca indigenous women in Honduras. I teach regularly BMCÒ at ODC, Dance School in San Francisco.