Hi, I’m Ari
My practice serves those seeking relief from pain, stress and blockages. I especially love working with QTBIPOC, neurodivergent, fat, disabled and immigrant bodies.
I identify as filipino, gender multiplicitous, and disabled.
Relief and unmasking go hand in hand for me. From my lived experience as a brown, AuDHD person it is painful attempting to live up to capitalist and neurotypical standards. I have found relief through shedding as many of these standards as possible and by routinely seeking the he
I identify as filipino, gender multiplicitous, and disabled.
Relief and unmasking go hand in hand for me. From my lived experience as a brown, AuDHD person it is painful attempting to live up to capitalist and neurotypical standards. I have found relief through shedding as many of these standards as possible and by routinely seeking the help of body workers, mentors, and chosen family. My dreamiest dream and wish of all wishes is to share the gift of therapeutic presence and touch to help others find relief in unmasking too.
Skin to spirit deep relief
Maybe it’s my Taurus rising, but I like to take my time with touch. It’s a blend of intuitive, shiatsu, myofascial release, trigger/tender point therapy, swedish, cupping and more. Modalities aside, there is no, one formula because I am actively listening and responding to your body in the moment.
Most of my experience is with hypermobile
Maybe it’s my Taurus rising, but I like to take my time with touch. It’s a blend of intuitive, shiatsu, myofascial release, trigger/tender point therapy, swedish, cupping and more. Modalities aside, there is no, one formula because I am actively listening and responding to your body in the moment.
Most of my experience is with hypermobile and neurodivergent bodies and I ask for guidance from my well ancestors, land ancestors and your well ancestors (with consent) to crystallize a protective bubble of collaborative healing and safer space (think Steven Universe’s bubble).
Since I was a kid
I have offered massage to my elders, animal companions, friends and family. In 2013, during my lolo’s last months alive, I spent time with him in the Philippines. Before bed, I would massage his hands and feet. Even though he was bone-tired, something lit up in his eyes when he would thank me as he settled into sleep. Seeing his relief ma
I have offered massage to my elders, animal companions, friends and family. In 2013, during my lolo’s last months alive, I spent time with him in the Philippines. Before bed, I would massage his hands and feet. Even though he was bone-tired, something lit up in his eyes when he would thank me as he settled into sleep. Seeing his relief made me feel peaceful and cloudlike.
In 2019 and 2020, I studied massage therapy in so-called Santa Rosa, CA on the ancestral lands of the Pomo. For the next 6 years I deepened my knowledge through various learnings in Ayurvedic healing practices, hilot, traditional plant medicine, somatic psychology and more. Now I’m in the land of the two rivers, so-called Portland on the ancestral lands of bands of chinook and many others. I live with my chosen family chiku (the black cat depicted here), halo-halo (the torbie cat depicted here), vee (human) and leeno (also human).