Kumi has a deep passion to help people live well and over her career, has created an extensive toolbox to help her clients achieve this. She is a Los Angeles based bodyworker, yoga teacher, somatic practitioner, holistic health coach and educator, with over 20 years of experience helping people find more ease, comfort and connection within their body and the world around them. She believes deeply in the body’s innate ability to heal when supported by the right conditions, and over the years, has helped hundreds of people resolve chronic physical, mental and emotional pain.

Kumi views the body through the lens of the nervous system and believes that our bodies hold the tension and the ease of our life story in it’s muscles, bones and behaviors. She views symptoms like pain, discomfort, fear, anxiety, depression, and insomnia as the body’s messangers communicating that something needs attention. She leads with curiosity and uses different techniques with each client depending on their needs; ranging from touch work, movement, breath work, meditation, nutrition and the Somatic Expericencing model to help reestablish function to a dysfunctioning system and restore presence, coherence, connection and ease within the body. When a felt experience of safety happens internally the nervous system switches from survival mode of fight, flight, or freeze into the healing mode of rest and repair. It is here, in the space of the parasympathetic nervous system, where connection is experienced, goodness is felt and the body can heal.

Her practice is fully inclusive. She works with all ages, demographics, conditions, and sydromes ranging from general healthcare maintenance to prenatal, postpartum, traumatic events, injury recovery, surgery recovery, mental health, disordered eating, addiction, grief, heartbreak, phobias, major life transitions and more. Everyone is welcome. Come as you are.

Education

Anusara Yoga Certication - 2002-2005

The Body Therapy Institute; Massage Therapy - 2004-2005

Body Tuning Apprenticeship with Physical Therapist Dr Shmuel Tatz -2005-2007

Structual Integration Levels 1&2 and extensive Anatomy Trains Trainings with Thomas Meyers - 2006-2010

The Institute of Integrative Nutrition; Certified Holistic Health Coach - 2008-2009

Katonah Yoga Certification - 2015-2021

Somatic Experiencing; 3 year Certification Program: Beginning 1,2,& 3; Intermediate 1,2 & 3, Advanced 1 - 2024-2026