About
Hi, I’m Sheila
TRAINER, COACH, YOGA TEACHER, WRITER
I am a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), we are about 20% of the population. Sensitivity means our conscious mind can perceive outer stimuli at a heightened level, and we often feel very comfortable with animals and children.
When trying to find a coach, therapist, priest or shaman, we first need to establish trust. I’ll offer part of my story to assuage any fears that come up when we are seeking outside direction or help.
Exercise and meditation have always been my refuge. I always felt a very ordinary connection to the invisible. I didn’t call it spirit then, I called it God because my parents were Catholics. My mom died of breast cancer when I was 18 and I took refuge in hiking, biking and binge drinking. When my dad died at age 22 I started therapy and native american ceremonies. My father was Tex Mex. I needed help sobering up so I became an Aztec Dancer and was invited to the Native American Church. It was fashionable at that time to go to Peyote meetings so there were many and I could go every weekend. I was also addicted to cocaine as a by-product of my alcoholism. I didn’t drink coffee, so I needed some way to get to work! Joking aside, the long 14 to 17 hour ceremonies and 4 to 6 hours of dancing brought forward my deep appreciation for meditation. This was also the time I began to organize and work on campaigns for minimum wage relief, immigration and health reform and funding for education.
After I buried my father at age 22, I decided I wanted to go to Mexico. This was a watershed moment, my parents died and I was officially an adult. Campaign work is seasonal. I found that I liked learning about the law, contracts and training people.
My sister became ill with schizophrenia when my parents had cancer. I needed to be able to help her, get myself through school, and somehow remain sober. I continued to practice physical and mental exercises to keep myself sane. Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, native ceremony, Danza Azteca, sweat lodges and keeping sacred space in some part of my own home. Another turning point hit when my sister committed suicide in 2017. I realized I needed to dive deeper into my self-care practices. I dove into my own subconscious with Toltec dreaming techniques and Neuro Linguistic Programming. In those swampy waters, I saw that this place was very familiar to me. It was how I graduated with Honors from UC Berkeley. I used my subconscious when I learned other languages on my travels. I used it when I meditated. I used it when I danced or practiced yoga, allowing my body to move without my conscious mind. I used my subconscious when I visited my sister in the hospital for the violently insane. The term refers to the violence they commit on themselves. At this moment, when my sister liberated herself, I, too, liberated myself. I went from being a student to a teacher. I became first a reader of cards and astrology, then a lucid dreaming guide, now finally a coach. I’m a coach and teacher because I teach what cures me. I need to practice with my lungs in breathwork, with my mind in guided meditation and with my body in focused isometrics and stretching. My work is an ofrenda. It’s an offering, a service I provide to the world. I try to make it as accessible as I can while still being able to sustain myself and my company.
Any kind of movement is an important aspect of joy and self-actualization. Our will and fascia allow us to move. Organize the fascia, our connective tissue, and we train our energy.
My work is about the a clear connection between fascia and the energetic body. Yoga is a direct and wonderful way to reinvigorate our energy body. As a teacher, we only have to guide our students to focus on repairing our energy, fascia and vitality!
We have to feel safe in our environment and our own body to revitalize our energy, have good boundaries with interior emotional stability in order to create prosperity and balance.
It’s easy in such a fast-paced world to not have a wonderful, inspiring experience. Inspiration and curiosity are part of our human condition. Say, yes!
About Creating contracts
Healing Contracts Focused on
Self Care
In my political work I did a lot of coaching as part of managing and training the team. I gave public talks and trainings and interestingly, I used my intuition.
Making agreements with yourself is part of self management and self care. Intuition plays a big role in the kind of agreements we make.
Managing people or oneself isn’t easy. We don’t receive training for self care.
Our hearts are extraordinary motivators. Authenticity is powerful.
What is self coaching? We actively care, have clear boundaries, and remember people’s challenges and gifts.
How can we manage ourselves, and perhaps children, dependents or teams, and create healthy contracts?
The answer is complex yet simple, you actively care, have clear boundaries, and remember people’s challenges and gifts.
We must use Emotional Intelligence in building contracts for self care. We also need EI to deal with our inner tyrants and heal our ancestral patterns.
This pic is from my last campaign in 2018. We creating legislation to control candy-flavored tobacco product sales in California. We won!
I’m certified with the CCTA in London and the Association for Integrative Psychology in the U.S. I’m Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher. I’m a certified Neuro Linguistic Programming coach. I graduated Cum Laude from University of California at Berkeley.
I’ve noticed a coach and practitioner of dealing with our Petty Tyrants that the more mental activity we have, the greater the voices of our Petty Tyrants. If you feel that you have great potential or do amazing work, yet success evades you, a workshop in dealing with Petty Tyrants might be just the piece you are missing.
I’ve had great success with clients and in my own life with this practice. The breathwork will cultivate space, peace, stability to give you practical techniques to get you connected. The physical movement will help you move and release emotions and revitalize you. Facilitating your own wholeness is the best gift you can give yourself.
A new path may be right around the corner.