some of my story
If there's a thread running through my life, it's a growing relationship with movement, plants, and place.
I found my love of the natural world at a young age. Solitary adventures through the sagebrush-lined canyon creek near my home, an off-grid activist upbringing, and years of dance instruction shaped the values I continue to live by today. I'm an experimenter at heart who rarely settles into one style. I thrive in the ever-shifting space where research, wildcrafting, dance choreography, gardening, and attentive listening to plants continually inform one another.
I have been fortunate to learn from many wonderful teachers. Each has helped me remember my place within the living patterns of the world around me. More than information, they have shown me how to observe, how to listen, and how to stay in relationship with a place over time. My teachers have come in the form of parents, elders, mentors, activists, and, of course, my 11-year-old daughter.
One of the most formative chapters of my journey came under the late naturopathic physician Todd Schlapfer, NMD, at Coeur d'Alene Healing Arts Clinic, where I served as Lead Patient Liaison for more than nine years. Working alongside Todd taught me as much about listening and supporting people in their healing as it did about herbal medicine itself.
Over the years, I have continued my studies with herbalists and wildcrafters throughout Idaho and Washington, including Darcy Williamson, Suzanne Tabert, Barbara St. Dennis, Michael Pilarski, and Saja Popham. In 2017, I was introduced to WildCore™, a dance-based movement practice that immediately felt like home. More recently, I've been studying with Kaila June through the School for Somatic Groundwork™.
Each experience and teacher has shaped me in different ways. More than anything, they have helped me cultivate trust in the inherited intelligence of the body—its natural capacity to relate, respond, and learn through direct experience.
Spending time with plants and reconnecting with the wisdom of my body has been a source of renewal during some of the most challenging chapters of my life. It feels natural that my work now brings these two practices together. Today, those experiences continue to shape the way I teach, write, and create opportunities for people to experience plants, movement, and place.
I'm still learning from this place. My hope is simply to share what the plants, the body, and the watershed continue to teach me.
If this raises more questions than answers, know that I'm always happy to talk and help you determine whether one of my offerings is a good fit.
In light,
Korrine
