About

Sherika is passionate about helping people re-connect to the most honest versions of themselves by bringing their conditioned beliefs and reactionary ways of being into the light of consciousness. She creates space for this vulnerable – and at times, painful – process using a combination of gentle humor, penetrating discernment, and nonjudgmental witnessing.

She seeks to remind each of her students that *they* are the source of their own power and inner authority, connected to a deep well of their own inner knowing.

In a world that constantly teaches us to trade our connection to ourselves for the approval and validation of external sources, Sherika guides her students back to a reclamation of who they really are, once they’ve shed the skins of who they became to survive in today’s world.

As a member of the Southern Sierra Miwuk First Nations tribe, Ahwahneechee Grizzly Bear Clan, and a direct descendent of Chief Tenaya – whose name she carries as her surname to honor his powerful legacy of resistance and which means “to dream” in her Native language – she has seen firsthand how systems of oppression enforced by colonizer culture have greatly stolen the sovereignty of not just indigenous people, but now all of us who grow up in the aftermath of that system, built as it is upon undigested and unresolved oppressive energies.

Like her grandfather’s name suggests, she desires to dream into existence a nation of people who remember the importance of tribe and put the work into developing the skills it requires to maintain it, who remember their place in the web of ancestral kinship with not only their human relations, but also their plant and animal relations – and most importantly – their interdependent relation with the Earth and Her sacred waters, air, soils and fires. 

It is this remembering of our connection – first to ourselves through the vehicle of developing our own sexual sovereignty, then to each other by developing the skills for authentic and intentional relating in community, and finally to all living beings – that will liberate us from a world that distracts us, numbs us, and pits us against ourselves and others. 

This is the essence of what it means to decolonize one’s body|mind|spirit.

It is this process of decolonizing (still underway) that has allowed for the greatest spiritual growth in her life, informed and sustained by a deep connection to her indigenous roots, nourished by the wellspring of wisdom taught to her by her elders and tribal community as well as the practice of somatic archeology (remembered and taught by indigenous leader Dr. Ruth Gibson), which is a process of unearthing and remembering the stories of wisdom stored in one’s own body.

Sherika’s unique gift is to share this process, to the best of her ability, with any who wish to learn from her.