Hi, I’m Keirin.
“The most courageous thing you can do is be yourself.”
One of my first memories is being 3 years old in our Manhattan apartment and wearing a white tutu and losing myself dancing to Beethoven. I could shut my eyes and allow my body to guide me through whatever it needed it express. This is how, intuitively, at this young age, I was moving emotional energy. I began from a place of trusting the experience in my body. However, as so many children do in volatile environments, I quickly learned to deny what I needed. My only brother had severe autism, was non-verbal and violent. His needs dominated our lives and contributed to painful dynamics in the family. I became hypervigilant and unconsciously obsessed with being good. I survived by learning to abandon myself.
My Journey to Self-Love
In my adult life, this unconscious conditioning left me with severe anxiety, attachment issues, depression and feeling lost. I went through a divorce in 2014 from my then husband of 9 years and soon after plunged into a torturous on again/off again relationship. I was experiencing severe anxiety, crying constantly, obsessive, lost. I had bizarre physical symptoms that landed me in the emergency room more than once. Core wounds from trauma in my childhood began being unearthed. The lack of safety and abandonment had surfaced full-force. I had talked through these issues in therapy for years, but now my body was really calling out for integration of this healing.
Through Jungian therapy, somatic energy healing and spiritual study, I learned to listen to my body again. I discovered that the pain trapped in parts of my body was trying to guide me. I stopped abandoning myself, shifted my mean inner dialogue. I began to reparent my inner child and learn how to lovingly hold her, listen to her and make her feel safe. I created art to help me understand and process. I set boundaries and found acceptance with core family relationships. Finally fear and self abandonment didn’t run my life.
As I rebuilt a trust with myself, my intuition became strong. It was 3 years later that my intuition guided me to move to Mexico City. It made no sense to give up my established life, friends, business in LA to go to a country where I had nothing. But I learned sometimes logic comes later and intuition knows best. In 2017 at 36, I moved to Mexico City. From an outside perspective it was nuts. But today I have a thriving business, a beautiful home, a deep and conscious partner, two dogs and legal permanent residency in Mexico. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s mine. And now I know how to love myself through whatever emotion or life experience arises.
My professional background
I became a Certified Yoga Therapist from Loyola Marymount University’s Advanced Yoga Therapy Rx two year program in 2014. My focus was on mental health and emotional healing through the body. I am certified in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy from The Embody Lab. This somatic approach to trauma-informed care included a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual and cultural wounding and healing. My background is as an artist, having received my BFA in Acting from Rutgers University and studied at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. I received my 200 hour yoga teacher certification in Kundalini and Hatha yoga in 2008 from Karuna Yoga. I have studied spirituality and healing with world renowned spiritual teachers and coaches. Trainings include: Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Peter Levine and Efu Nyaki, Dr. Peter Levine’s Healing Trauma through Somatic Experiencing, Rich Litvin’s Coaching Intensive, Pema Chodron: Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change; Matt Kahn: Rewire Your Reality, The End of Anger, Entering Eternal Bliss, Transcending Your Patterns, Relationships & Soul Contracts, True Divine Nature Immersion, Angel Academy 13.
In addition to working one:on:one, I have lead groups through yoga, meditation and healing work in hospitals, museums, non-profits, theaters, acting studios, support groups, corporations and schools. Some clients have included: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, The Children’s Hospital LA, True Religion Jeans, St. James School, Marlborough School, Los Angeles Tar Pits, The Geffen Playhouse and Johnson Fain Architecture. I’ve spent close to a decade coaching clients to transform their lives through intuitive, embodied self love.
“Keirin helped me combine my traditional therapy and personal spiritual practice in a way I was able to use during a season of transition and growth. Feeling safe and seen was very important to me and Keirin creates just that. Being able to reflect on current and past similarities without the pressure of “fixing” anything and to recognize and honor my state of being perfectly imperfect... and we laughed a lot.”
— Laura