What I Teach

I teach embodied structural literacy—the ability to recognize what's actually happening in your physical system so you can respond to reality instead of narratives that don't match what's structurally true.

This isn't about becoming more self-aware in the abstract. It's about learning to read the forces already organizing your experience—from the inside—so you can work with them intelligently instead of wondering if you're broken, behind, or spiritually failing.

Most people have never been taught how to recognize structure in their bodies. They feel exhaustion but interpret it as resistance. They hit capacity but wonder if they're avoiding growth. They experience thresholds but mistake them for moral tests.

The work is learning to read what's actually happening.

The Literacies

Symbolic Literacy
The ability to work with symbols, myths, archetypes, and narrative structures as meaning-making tools without mistaking them for objective truth—or dismissing them as "just metaphor." Symbols organize attention. They provide coherence. They shape how meaning gets made. Symbolic literacy lets you use these structures intelligently—astrology, mythology, archetypal language—without being colonized by them. You learn to recognize when a symbol is clarifying experience and when it's overriding what your body already knows.

Pattern Literacy
The ability to recognize what's repeating, what's cyclical, what's structural—so you stop mistaking patterns for pathology. Not everything that returns is trauma. Some things are seasonal. Some things are how your nervous system regulates. Pattern literacy helps you distinguish between what needs healing and what needs recognition.

Temporal Literacy
The ability to read where you are in time, not just what's happening to you. Time has structure. Cycles have demands. Your nervous system responds to seasonal pressure whether you're conscious of it or not. Temporal literacy—often expressed through astrology, but not limited to it—helps you understand when you are, not just who you are.

Somatic Literacy
The ability to feel the difference between stretch and strain, between threshold and collapse, between capacity and exhaustion—in your own body, not just in theory. This is physics felt from the inside. It's what lets you say "I am at capacity" and mean it structurally, not apologetically.

Attentional Literacy
The ability to track where your attention is being pulled versus where you're placing it. Consciousness organizes experience like gravity organizes matter. Attentional literacy helps you recognize which schemas are running, which meanings are pulling your focus, and how to work with—not against—the gravitational force of your own awareness.

Why This Matters

Right now, there's an overwhelming amount of language about transformation, awakening, shadow work, and collapse. Much of it sounds profound. Some of it is structurally irresponsible.

Embodied structural literacy gives you a way to assess what's true for your system—not what sounds spiritually elevated, but what matches the reality of your nervous system, your capacity, your actual constraints.

It's not about transcending your limits. It's about recognizing them so you can work with them skillfully.

This work is for people who are tired of being told they're resisting when they're actually at capacity. For people who want to understand their cycles instead of pathologizing them. For people who need grounded language that respects both the mystical and the structural—without collapsing one into the other.

You don't need more intensity. You need better orientation.

That's what literacy provides.