MEG’S ORIGIN STORY
I didn’t arrive at this work through a single path, but through a long unfolding one shaped by attention to what the body reveals beneath language, identity, and explanation.
At 18, I left home. While abroad, I received a package. A soft autumn breeze wafting through the length of French windows, the occasional fly sauntering in as if the space was their own, I was suddenly immersed in the most alive scenery I had ever seen. The photos were breathtaking! I don't remember how long I sat there entranced by the magic of these deep red stone creatures...
I flew home for the holidays, bought a bus ticket and moved to Sedona, Arizona, alone. I didn’t yet have a framework for what I was seeking - only a persistent sense that the body, and it's partner – the mind, held an intelligence far more precise than the language used to describe it. And I had an innate sense what I was looking for could not be found in an ordinary way....
In those early years, I entered non-traditional learning environments rooted in somatic awareness, perception, and cross-cultural healing traditions. What stayed with me was not belief, but observation - the way subtle shifts in breath, posture, tone, and presence consistently preceded visible change. What I did see, was how our beliefs altered all of these physiological processes.
I went on to study massage, bodywork and hydrotherapy at the Arizona School of Integrative Studies, where this observation became tangible. In direct contact with the body, I began to recognize patterns beneath structure - organized not only by anatomy, but by repetition, adaptation, and internal response to the structure of the mind.
From there, I moved into personal training through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, the CHEK Institute and various other organizations. This introduced a language of performance, strength, conditioning, and focus. But what became increasingly clear was that physical output was never purely mechanical. Beneath movement and effort, there were deeper organizing principles shaping behavior in real time.
During this entire period, beginning in 2005, I began training with Patrick Collard, who became my primary mentor for over several years.
His work in body language, behavioral observation, mental conditioning and relational dynamics introduced a level of perceptual precision that fundamentally reshaped my development. Through his apprenticeship and attention, I learned to perceive micro - shifts in physiology and expression as they were forming - especially in moments of pressure, interaction, and decision-making.
More than technique, what emerged from this training was a refinement of attention itself: the ability to witness behavior at the moment of its formation, before it becomes language or action. I learned to listen. And in that space of listening, of receiving, you enter a whole new dimension of connection and communication beyond conditioning, beyond the mental constructs that keep you separate from who and what you really are.
Woven through this perceptual foundation, I expanded into breathwork and somatic regulation through extensive training at the Philadelphia Rebirthing Center, where I became a conscious breathwork practitioner and facilitated group processes on body language and bodywork for many years. In this work, conscious, connected breahwork, I witnessed how directly breath influences perception, emotional state, and physiological organization - often bypassing interpretation entirely. And again, how the mind affects each of these processes with the utmost precision.
Woven throughout these years was also a quieter thread of study in perceptual and elemental awareness systems - training that refined my sensitivity to presence, attention, and embodied perception in ways that are not easily categorized, but consistently inform how I work. Most mystical and Shamanic apprenticeships are like that.
By 2012, this accumulated training was being applied in applied consulting contexts, including work with Fortune 500 organizations, and clinical settings where I was embedded in environments focused on communication, performance, and behavioral dynamics.
Alongside this, I continued, and continue, advanced study in craniosacral and emotional release-based modalities within integrative somatic environments focused on nervous system regulation, cranial rhythm, and fascial patterning. This deepened my understanding of the body as a continuously adaptive system - where emotional, structural, and physiological patterns are inseparable.
From this somatic foundation, I expanded into systems-based clinical nutrition, sourced from the edges of applied kinesiology. From 2010 to early 2012, I worked in a clinical nutrition office setting, applying structured approaches to physiology, input regulation, and behavioral outcomes. This phase deepened my understanding of the body as an integrated system where chemistry, structure, and behavior continuously interact and co-regulate.
In these settings, a consistent pattern became visible:
outcomes were not determined solely by strategy or effort, but by the internal state from which action emerged. And alignment, with, something, greater than the mundane operations of an office structure: a vision, and idea...or maybe more importantly, the Creative power behind all of it, was the backbone of every successful endeavor.
Across clinical, performance, relational, and organizational environments, one insight continued to deepen:
Most systems of change engage the body after experience has already formed - through interpretation, reflection, or regulation. The conditioned mind, the underlying force that operates all movement, is rarely challenged.
Very few engage the moment where behavior is actually generated, and catch conditioning before it creates sabotage.
Not conceptually. Not retrospectively. But in real time, through the body itself.
Evolutionary Somatics emerged from that recognition.
It is not a wellness practice, nor a model of self - improvement or emotional regulation.
It is a perceptual discipline focused on one capacity: the ability to detect and recalibrate subconscious patterns through the body, as they are forming. To access the power of Present Time.