Hello and welcome! I’m so glad you are here! I am Simon or Shimon (they/he), a white, antiracist, antizionist, queer, trans, disabled, neuroqueer person of the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora living on Nipmuc and Pocomtuc land colonially known as Northampton, MA. My people are from Lithuania, France, Germany, and Eastern and Northwestern Europe. I identify as a politicized healer, ritualist, and artist stewarding one-to-one and small group somatic and ancestral healing for the sake of collective liberation. I love working with fellow politicized healing practitioners, therapists, clergy, ritualists, caregivers, as well as people working toward collective liberation as organizers, activists, political educators, artists, and movement leaders. It is an honor to offer radical care to people living with disability, neurodivergence, and/or chronic illness, including long covid and autoimmune conditions. I understand firsthand what it is to recover from burnout, addiction, and codependency through somatic and spiritual healing. My practice centers queer and trans folx and I work from intersectional feminist, disability justice, and body and sex positive frames.
Training, teachers & lineages that inform the work:
Resisting Fear through Discernment somatic workshop with MawuLisa Adeyemo Thomas and Eliana Rubin | 2025
For Times Such As These Ritual Leaders Yearlong Course with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg | 2024/2005
Luminous Ancestors of Earth, Sky, and Sea course with Taya Shere | Sept/Oct 2024
Embodied Racial Justice Level I with Dara Silverman & Cari Caldwell | May 2023
Ruach Jewish Embodied Healing Course with Wendy Elisheva Somerson | Fall 2022
Embodied Racial Justice training with Dara Silverman and Ream | May 2022
We Will Dance With Mountains Course with Bayo Akomolafe | Fall of 2021
Three year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training and mentorship with Sage Hayes | 2018-2021
1:1 and group somatic coaching and intuitive arts mentorship with Dr. Vanissar Tarakali | 2018-2021
Jewish Lineage Repair work with Taya Shere | since 2017
Ancestral Medicine Practitioner training | 2020/2021
Earth-based Jewish ritual and study with the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute | 2020-2023
Cultural Somatics / Embodied Antiracism / Somatic Abolitionism practice as taught by Resmaa Menakem | since 2018
15 years of antiracism organizing and facilitation - originally trained by Crossroads Antiracism | 2014
Over 20 years of social and ecological justice organizing and facilitation
Yoga student since 2003 and 700 hours of Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, current student of Susan Elena Esquivel
Intuitive/creative movement and modern dance since age 12
BA in Human Development & Social Relations from Kalamazoo College | 2004