About Arlyn

My core values are integrity, presence, listening, and compassion. I'm on the path to greater Aliveness and love spending time with fellow travelers. It can be a tricky thing to be human. So many emotions, thoughts, sensations and perceptions. So much searching for pleasure and avoiding pain. So much conditioning.

If there was a way around the mess, a ticket out, I'd take it - I've spent some time looking for it. But again and again, I have found that the fastest and most effective way is Through. By honoring our wholeness and all the parts, by calling the tender places home, by finding healthy ways to be with our anger, to pay more attention to the information from our bodies, not less.

I have found that if we can live in right relationship with our bodies and hearts, everything in our world goes more smoothly and we are more alive. I also have noticed the power of thought and the way that if we can change our thinking, we can change our circumstances.

I invite you to live a life of purpose, openness, and respect for all life and if there's anything in the way of that, I can help. You'll know if there's anything in the way because it will feel like suffering.

I am so thankful to live a life filled with creativity, love, and an invitation to be kind to myself which I renew again and again.

The Training:

I am a certified Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach. I am a SomaSource Leader and have completed extensive dance training with Melissa Michaels of Golden Bridge in Boulder, CO. I am studying with the Self-Led Coaching Academy to safely integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS) into my coaching. I have completed Tara Mohr's The Coaching Way. I am a graduate of Matrix Leadership Institute’s Facilitator Training and earned my B.A. degree in Expressive Arts through Prescott College’s Adult Degree Program (with an emphasis on leadership and healing). I have completed a 9-day School for the Work of Byron Katie. I have studied herbalism with Alicia Michaelson of Paonia, CO and drumming with David Alderdice. I love to backpack and help others explore the wilds. I love process art, making pottery, music in all forms, collage, bookmaking, and sharing what I learn. I play cajon with Mama Lingua and look forward to helping you transmute old ways of being to live a juicier life.

My story:

I grew up in rural Colorado with parents who meditated twice a day. I was embarrassed at the time while now I know the dedication that requires. I'm an introvert and was extremely shy as a child, I didn't know the term highly sensitive person, but it does capture me pretty well. I grew up in personal development workshops and read self-help books obsessively. Now I finally feel that all the threads of my interests and training weave together and make sense. Parenting + music + movement + crafting + herbalism + gardening + hiking and spending time in nature= my life and I'm so thankful. I'm also sure the creative writing and art will circle back in more fully soon. I set out to become a life-coach to have a culturally approved stamp on the somatic work that I was already doing and got one better in a map and modality that I find really useful and love. I also love the way that life coaching can help in hard times as well as helping find greater and greater levels of integrity that are possible in a life that is already good. I love the way life coaching paired with somatic work can go deep into places that are stuck and gently unravel the tangle. I'm here in service of humanity and working to create a world that I feel good about my child growing up in. I'm here to help this social species that we are have other versions of culture in safe spaces where self-expression is celebrated, feelings are welcomed and authenticity is supported.

Let's Work Together