ABOUT
Ashlin’s path to this work began in design school. She came to see that everything we make carries the inner life of whoever made it: their awareness, their sense of embodiment, and their relationship to themselves and to others. When people are deeply and healthily connected to themselves and the collective, what they create can have a deeply positive impact. That realization turned her attention toward the body, and toward the people doing the making.
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ashlin is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). She helps people reconnect with the intelligence of their bodies, and through it with a deeper sense of safety, presence and aliveness. Her somatic sessions offer a gentle, body-centered way to work with stress and patterns held in the nervous system, at each person’s own pace.
As an interdisciplinary artist, musician and writer, Ashlin works with found materials, performance, film and storytelling to explore memory, ecology and the power of listening. She brings that experience to her work with artists, creatives and people building something meaningful, acting as a doula and advocate through the inner and outer sides of making, especially when identity and work are closely woven together.
Voice, breath and birth work inform her approach, and improv keeps it rooted in presence, responsiveness and play. Underneath it all is a lifelong interest in repair, both personal and collective.
Ashlin offers one-on-one accompaniment for artists and creatives, somatic sessions, yoga workshops and classes in Santa Fe and online.
MA, Material Futures
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2022
BA, Studio Art & Film
Vanderbilt University, 2017
SOMATIC & TRAUMA TRAINING
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Somatic Experiencing International, 2025
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification
The Embody Lab, 2021
Embodying Equity,
The Strozzi Institute, 2021
PSYCHOLOGY & EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Jungian Psychology & Art Therapy Intensive
University of Limerick, Ireland, 2022
YOGA TRAINING
Breathflow, Theming & the Subtle Body
Meghan Currie, Bali, Indonesia, 2022
Katonah Yoga Mentorship
Abbie Galvin, New York, NY, 2021
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (RYT-200)
Amanda Harding, Prema Yoga, Brooklyn, NY, 2019 – 2020
BREATH, VOICE & EMBODIMENT
Transformational Breathwork Training
Lauren Morlock, 2025 - 2026
Fitzmaurice Voicework Intensive
New York, NY , 2026
Improv Training, Levels 1–5
Santa Fe Improv, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
BIRTH WORK
Birth Doula Training
DONA International, 2025
ENERGY & INTUITIVE PRACTICES
Theta Meditation Training
Lili Farga, 2022
Akashic Records Training
Christina Cross, 2020
Luz Ferruelo, 2022
Last Updated 24.10.31
Making things, whether that’s art, a business or a project you care about, is rarely just about the work. It brings up questions of identity, worth, visibility and belonging. When your sense of self is closely tied to what you do, the process can get complicated, and it helps to have someone in your corner.
I think of my role as a kind of doula: a supporter, ally and advocate who accompanies you through both the inner and outer sides of creating. That might mean listening closely to what you’re trying to make and why. It might mean slowing down and paying attention to what’s happening in the body. Or it might be practical: thinking through next steps and how to sustain a creative life.
I come to this as an artist myself, and as someone who has spent a long time paying attention to how people carry what they make. I’m interested in what helps people work from a place of curiosity and connection rather than pressure.
Every person and project is different, so I shape our work together around what you need.
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