Hi, I’m Sammah༄.°
I consider myself to be nature, leaning into the mysteries, terrors, and beauties of our times with joy as my lighthouse. I carry with me a career as a community social worker in tending to re-entry, refugee resettlement, grief, and critical mental health resource access, though now I stoke warm hearths as a witness for transmutation and trauma alchemy. I believe that the strength of our collective humanity resides in our access to our own bodies, and I am rooted in a commitment to promote the radical re-imagination of our lives. Some of my favorite pathways are through song, dance, deep listening, and the art of looong, winding, ecstatic conversation.
I was brought to my practice through a series of psychic and physical collapses; I intimately know life beyond the veil and feel that there is nothing to fear. The field of Love is always available to us.
As a student of many spiritual paths and compassionate inquiry, I move through my life in song, story, and intimate acquaintance with all life present in the seen and unseen realms. Amongst the rustling leaves, I feel most at home in the poetics of wind and the posture of witness. I am devoted to lifelong inquiry of liberation mechanics ~ from how we first allow ourselves to even consider it for our own lives, to how we might achieve it, to any degree, with one another. My role as a facilitator is that of a gentle and igniting mirror. My present dreams are to laugh more, to let go of every lie I’ve taken on as truth, and to find myself amongst a chorus of song. I am dropping seeds everywhere.
My philosophy is most fruitfully fed by my meditation teachers, earth-based mentors, uninhibited songbirds, ancestors, and the cellular brilliance of my human body.
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. But my daughter, when I told her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said,
‘Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.’
That visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
- Audre Lorde
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