Welcome. I’m Holly Forest and I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I’m continually awed by the miraculous ways we’re guided to connect with kindred spirits along our journeys and the ways in which those alignments so often lead to magnificent gifts and blessings.

The practice of compassionate awareness has led me through a process of personal healing and transformation that has been grace-filled and profound. At the age of 18, I was in a severe wreck that resulted in a traumatic brain injury and near death experience that led to the loss of my ability to walk, talk and use the prefrontal cortex functioning of my brain. Already aware of our ability to influence reality through our consciousness from witnessing my mother overcome a cancer diagnosis years earlier, I spent the next nine months slowly recovering the use of my legs, speech, and brain despite doctors’ predictions to the contrary. However, unattended trauma from the wreck sent me searching for relief through traditional therapies, pharmaceutical anti-depressants, sugar, cannabis and alcohol; it wasn’t until I discovered meditation, yoga and energy medicine that a path of true healing opened for me. Slowly, I began to witness my own conscious transformation, and to this day, I’m in awe of the levels in which I’ve healed physically beyond what the medical community ever thought possible and mentally and emotionally beyond what I ever imagined possible.

There are few to no limits on how we can heal and what we can create; limiting beliefs are the products of the ways in which we’ve been taught to think, and they can be unlearned. There is an invisible and loving force within each of us that is benevolent and powerful and can be engaged to create miraculous transformation in our lives. The practices of visionary alchemy and mindful embodiment allow us to come into full and mature compassion with ourselves and others, which catalyzes the reality-shaping abilities encoded in our evolutionary blueprint. So much of healing is about the reconnection with our true natures as the pure, wise and loving source energy that we are, and consciously engaging our humanness with our expanded spiritual natures can open doors where we didn’t even know they existed.

I’ve been nourishing my passion for individual and planetary transformation through a lifetime of training in body-informed therapeutic healing. My studies in Ayurvedic Psychology, Hakomi psychotherapy, Kundalini Yoga, Cranialsacral therapy, grief counseling, addiction recovery, plant medicine and the shamanic arts have graced me with an ever-deepening appreciation for the power we all possess to influence personal and universal wellbeing through intention and practice.

As a queer person, I love working with the LGBTQIA+ community as well as with anyone interested in creating a just world for all, and I serve from an eco-spiritual, intersectional framework. I believe that connection with the natural world is integral to our global wellbeing and personal health, and I embrace nature as one of our greatest resources for healing and learning. I've been blessed to dwell in the deep beauty and grace of myriad wild places on the Earth, where I’ve spent much time listening to the seen and unseen, learning from the elements, and honoring the sacred wisdom of the natural realms. I’m honored to share this fusion of blessings with my fellow travelers in support of a more compassionate and harmonious world for all beings.