The only way to deal with
an unfree world
is to become so absolutely
free that your very
existence is an act of rebellion.
-Albert Camus
Datura Somatics
Nervous System Support
Lee Datura OIC, BCST
I offer one-on-one coaching & embodiment sessions to transform trauma & help individuals move beyond coping. I also offer group facilitation, classes & workshops.
My work is about shifting the paradigms of traditional trauma interventions and orients around our biology and physiology’s own inclination to heal from the nervous system up through talk and touch work.
Somatic & craniosacral work differ from traditional psychotherapy or counseling modalities; rather than isolating one’s emotional or mental experience, we work to build integration between the physiology, the nervous system and our lived experiences of mental health to find whole system healing.
I believe that healing, in order to be effective on the individual level, must be a tool to grow systemic resilience within community. In the face of an oppressive culture, collective healing can return us more and more to a state of harmony within our greater world.
This work is about opening internal pathways of connection to ourselves, our communities and the world around us so that we may feel better and more at home in our bodies.
About Me
My professional path is one born from seed. I completed the advanced somatic coaching Human Empowerment and Resiliency Training through Organic Intelligence in 2021 and the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy training through Body Intelligence in January 2024. These lineages have profoundly influenced my work and my life.
I have over four years of experience working as a somatic coach & opened my practice in 2019. Prior to this incarnation I had my hands in many other pots, working as an organizer within community & on the frontlines, providing humanitarian aid & supporting community Search & Rescue efforts. I also worked as an organic vegetable farmer. Although I no longer grow for production, growing food and herbal medicine is still a cornerstone of my life.
I am living and working on the lands of the Tohono O’odham & Yaqui peoples of the Sonoran Desert, so called modern day Tucson, Arizona. I believe that any and all healing work must center the land, the original people’s of the land and the ancestors, human and non-human. My people originally hail from Western Europe & I am grateful to be a guest on these lands.
I believe fiercely that for any of us to be free we must all be free and that healing work is community care work. That healthcare and wellness support should be accessible to all.
Current Offerings
My first cohort for a class offering entitled Somatics, Trance & Coming Home to our more-than-Human Kin begins June 2024 and registration is currently open.
At this time I am accepting new somatic coaching clients in my online practice. Sessions are 50 minutes and we meet via a videochat platform.
I am currently on a waitlist for low-income sliding scale sessions. I prioritize BIPOC folx for this sliding scale. If you’d like to be added to this waitlist please be in touch.
I offer a number of free monthly sessions to asylum seekers, refugees as well as the people indigenous to the lands on which I live and work. If you or someone you know would like to apply to receive these free monthly sessions, please be in touch.
During the months of April, May & June I am offering $50 first sessions to new clients in my Biodynamic Craniosacral Practice. My office is currently located north of Downtown Tucson at a private & peaceful healing center.
I offer group facilitation and an interactive somatic workshop entitled Individual Agency and Collective Power for community and organizing groups as well as non-profits.