Tess remembers her first language not through words but through the body and intuition. She was raised in the thick woods of Connecticut, alongside the fish-filled streams and the many hands who raised her as she was privileged enough to have a multi generational family web around her. Tess has been fortunate enough to call many different places her home (from the four corners to the PNW) as she has found herself following her deeper longings over the years through travel.
Tess is currently teaching at the Waldorf School in Bend and has recently been a part of wilderness therapy work, girls’ and women’s groups, hospice work, grief work, and teaching survival skills and art in diverse school systems. Tess believes in (and uses) somatic based practices alongside creative thinking, community practices, compassion, play, curiosity, and awe. She moves through the world as a student, ever seeking from all the teachers and lands around her.
Tess is devoted to cultivating spaces where everyone feels resourced enough to be in the bowl of their truth and curious enough to deepen their intimacy with the world we live in. She is inspired by the liminal spaces and the pollinators. She is currently apprenticing with a beekeeper and finding herself immersed in learning Spanish. Much of her time is spent tending to her garden, farming, writing, dancing, fishing, and using her hands to craft with clay, wood, and beads.
