Hi, I’m artemisia shine.

Transformational Ally, Somatic Therapist, Chingona

(she/her, they/them)

I help people and communities get free.

I am a queer, cis-woman, multi-racial Latinx, healer, single mamma, liberation warrior, chingona and coyote medicine maker living on the central coast of California on the unceded lands of the Chumash people. I have a lifetime commitment to examining and interrupting systems of oppression around gender, race, ecology, mental health, and ability. 

I have a passion for bringing conscious movement, nonviolent communication, and body-based mindfulness to oppressed and repressed communities including incarcerated populations and trauma-impacted people. For over 10 years I’ve had a private practice as a trauma-focused healer, somatic therapist, and counselor. 

I also work as a community organizer, gender justice advocate, social justice activist, lead a climate action community education team, and am a former yoga teacher and violence prevention workshop facilitator within the criminal justice system. 

As a light-skinned, mixed-raced woman of color, I am sort of an “in-between” person living on the borderline of racial and ethnic ambiguity. I don’t sit on either side of the fence but on the fence itself which gives me a unique perspective, with both the advantages and disadvantages that entails. I don’t sit on either side of the fence but on the fence itself which gives me a unique perspective, with both the advantages and disadvantages that entails. My combination of life experiences as a childhood abuse and intimate partner violence survivor and my role as an “in-between person” holding both oppressed and oppressor identities deeply informs my liberation work with people across many different identities. It is my deepest desire to work with you to co-create the kind of support that is most resonant with your unique body, mind and heart.