artemisia shine

Transformational Ally, Somatic Therapist, Chingona

(she/her, they/them)

Wild Heart Healing Arts

artemisia shine helps people and communities get free.

She is a cis-woman, queer, multi-racial Latinx, healer, single mamma, and coyote medicine maker living on the central coast of California on the unceded lands of the Chumash people. She has a lifetime commitment to examining and interrupting systems of oppression around gender, race, ecology, mental health, and ability. artemisia has 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 she’s had a private practice as a trauma-focused healer, somatic therapist, and counselor. artemisia also works as a community organizer, gender justice advocate, social justice activist, lead a climate action community education team, and is a former yoga teacher and violence prevention workshop facilitator within the criminal justice system.

As a lighter-skinned, multi-racial woman of color, she is an “in-between” person. She doesn’t sit on either side of the fence but on the fence itself which gives her a unique perspective, with both the advantages and disadvantages that entails. Her combination of life experiences as a childhood abuse and intimate partner violence survivor and her role as an “in-between person” holding both oppressed and oppressor identities deeply informs her liberation work with people across many different identities.