About Teresa

I am a lover of beauty, wonder and awe - a seeker of grace, connection and loving presence. My greatest teacher is Life and my pathway to understanding is my Body.

As a child there was nothing sweeter or more natural to my “Be-ing” than dancing. I was often found moving through meadows and fields, across dance floors or recital halls. Movement was my sanctuary - the place I turned to, again and again, to reconnect with the vitality of free expression and the deep peace of BE-ing in my body. Read more...

In my late 20s I began a journey that would take me into the depths of embodied healing, spiritual inquiry, earth-based wisdom, community engagement, and movement as a path of liberation. I came to realize that my perception of life deepened and transformed through direct experiences that were grounded in life, in the body, in relationship.

As the visionary and steward of Rooted and Rising, I serve individuals and communities by weaving my love of dance, somatic inquiry, archetypal and depth psychology, earth based wisdom, and whole systems healing into simple yet powerful explorations of embodied emergence. I trust that each individual and group body has a natural rhythm - an organic intelligence that longs for harmony and coherence - and my role is to attune, guide, and co.create with these rhythms; make space for vital intelligence to arise; and weave threads of integration that are current, compassionate, and congruent.

I bow to the teachers and lineages that have shaped my relationship to Life and my capacity to serve with humility, integrity and compassion for the complexities of the human experience. I devote myself to practices and rituals that deepen my capacity to listen, be guided by curiosity, and contemplate rather than claim to know.

It would be my great honor to dance alongside you as we grow and learn and step onto paths of greater freedom, aliveness, and creative potential…alone and together. Join me for group classes, workshops or individual coaching sessions in St. Paul/Minneapolis or online via Zoom.

Education + INFLUENCES:

• The Movement of Existence (2024-2025) - Bree Greenberg

• Organic Intelligence, Coaching program (2021-2023) + Biology to Cosmos (2023) - Steve Hoskinson

• Somatic Experiencing, Beginning I, II, III (2021) Intermediate I (2022) - Alicen Halquist and Joshua Silvae

• Contemplative Dance, Year 1 (2019-2020) - Alton Wasson and Daphne Lowell

• SomaYoga, 500 hrs (2018-2019) - Ann Maxwell and Molly McManus, Yoga North

• Soul Based Coaching (2017- 2018) - Annemiek van Helsdingen, Academy for Soul Based Coaching

• Open Floor Teacher Training (2015-2017) - Andrea Juhan, Lori Salzman, Kathy Altman, Deborah Lewin

• Global Somatics: Breathing Freely, Following Flow, Knowing Bones (2013-2014) - Suzanne Rivers, Green River Dance

• Dancing Freedom Facilitator Training (2012-2014) - Samantha Sweetwater

• Yoga Study, 230 hrs (2012-2013) - Yoga Center of Minneapolis

• Therapeutic Massage, 600 hrs (2002) - Health Enrichment Center

• Nursing and Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1993-1995) - Northwestern Michigan College

Additional InSPIRATION:

• Coaching - Clean Coaching (David Grove); Constellations (Bert Hellinger); Symbolic Modeling (Penny Tompkins, James Lawley)

• Dance - 5Rhythms (Gabrielle Roth); Authentic Movement (Janet Adler and Mary Starks-Whitehouse); Body-Mind Centering (Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen); Butoh (Gadu Doushin)

• Healing and Justice - Adrienne Maree Brown, Dr. Leticia Nieto, Elder Kaia Svien, Layla Saad, Resmaa Menakem, Sharon Day, Susan Raffo, Winona LaDuke

• Somatics - Moshé Feldenkrais and Thomas Hanna

• Teachings, Writing and Presence of - Adyashanti, Andrea Gibson, Bill Plotkin, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Christopher (Hareesh) Wallace, David Whyte, Francis Weller, Joshua Shrei, Marion Woodman, Mary Oliver, Pema Chodron, Peter Levine, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rupert Spira, Sophie Strand, Stephen Jenkinson, Toko-pa Turner, and Tyson Yunkaporta.

Organizational Memberships:

• International Conscious Movement Teachers Association