स्वधर्म ~ SVADHARMA “One’s Greatest Potential Path”
Mikayla is a somatic shadow work guide, ceremonialist, and founder of Snake Skin Medicine, a body of work devoted to the reclamation of the parts of ourselves we were taught to exile.
Her work is rooted in somatic psychology, shadow work, parts work, ritual, hypnosis, and the ancient wisdom of the body. She is fascinated by the places where psyche, soma, lineage, relationship, and the unseen meet, and by what becomes possible when a woman develops the capacity to hold the full range of who she is.
Mikayla believes shadow work is a practice of aliveness.
A descent beneath conditioning, performance, and inherited ways of being to meet what has been waiting underneath. The grief. The rage. The desire. The tenderness. The protectors. The contradictions. The parts of us that learned who we needed to become in order to belong.
Her own devotion to this work has continually transformed the way she relates, loves, creates, grieves, desires, and inhabits her body. Rather than seeking a final version of herself, she is interested in becoming increasingly intimate with the mystery of being human.
Through ceremony, somatic inquiry, journeywork, and deep relational exploration, Mikayla guides women into greater emotional capacity, self-trust, discernment, and range.
She believes our bodies carry a primordial intelligence beneath the noise of who we have been told to be. When we learn to listen again, we begin to live from a place that is more soulful, embodied, and entirely our own.
Our healing ripples beyond the individual.
What we are willing to meet within ourselves changes what we carry into our relationships, our communities, and the generations that come after us.
My professional and therapeutic work revolves around returning to the intelligence held in our physical form and getting curious about the sensations that arise in our daily lives. I have found that every sensation we feel holds a pulsing opportunity to experience our body in a new way. There are codes woven within our cells and tissues that offer pathways into more expanded states of being. When we play with the range we are living within and voluntarily go to our edges, staying curious and open to what lives there, we begin to feel the sensitivity and tenderness underneath it all. I call this our essence nature. That which we are born embodying, and get further and further away from as we adapt and absorb the energy of our primary caregivers, home-life, educational environments, etc. To me, this path of rememberance feels like a coming home to this ancient, familiar cadence of our Soul Self.
I have found that the intimacy available to us in life, begins and is embedded in our relationship to our own life force energy. This can spark a gradual yet monumental shift in how we perceive and experience our reality, relationships and the natural world. All hold this same life force energy, so naturally when we become deeply acquainted with our own, we’ll see our reflection all around us. Expanding our capacity to recieve life and develop somatic awareness takes time, so devotion and commitment are essential to begin this sacred work. The voluntary act of going into those dark, shadowy aspects of the mind and familiarizing our self with the potentially outdated belief systems and stories that are at play, is a pivotal aspect of this journey towards remembrance.
We have all grown up in such a deeply disembodied society that this return to wholeness and retrieving those lost parts of self can have a drastic shift on the planet. I deeply believe in this work and hope to offer my clients various embodiment practices and intuitive guidance to offer another pathway out of the mind and into the primal, intuitive creatures we truly are. There is so much nuance and complexity to holding so much power that it can be scary or intimidating to even begin this kind of work, but once we take that leap and find someone to hold space for us to journey through the darker terrain of ourselves, we can move into a deep reverence for the power and beauty held in being completely alive.