the sequoia circle
You were never separate from the earth. You were just taught to live as if you were.
For people done performing for a life that was never quite theirs. Ecosomatic coaching and organizational advisory — rooted in the body, the land, and what you've always known.
Something in you knows things aren't quite right.
Maybe it's anxiety that won't settle, or anger you can't fully explain. A heaviness in the chest. A body that's been braced for a long time. You're holding yourself to a standard that keeps moving — never quite enough, never quite there. The creative work that used to feel like yours has gone quiet. You're going through motions you can't remember choosing.
Or maybe you know exactly what you want. You've known for a while. But making it real would mean so much change that you've been standing at the edge of it, unable to quite step forward.
Either way, you've been giving a lot to systems — workplaces, relationships, institutions, roles — that weren't built with your full humanity in mind. You can feel the gap between who you actually are and who you've been showing up as. Between what your body knows and what you've been living. And you're depleted in a way that rest alone doesn't fix.
You're tired of navigating it alone.
Imagine this.
You move through your life unhurried. Not because nothing is hard, but because you know how to come back to yourself when it is. You make decisions from somewhere deep and true — not from fear, not from what you're supposed to want, not from the pressure of systems that were never built for your humanity.
You take up space without apologizing for your magnitude. You hold complexity without collapsing under it. You know the difference between what's yours and what you've been carrying for everyone else.
Your roots run wide and deep — into your own body, into the living world, into relationships that hold you the way trees hold each other. You are not alone in this. You never were.
You are not fixed or optimized or finally performing well enough. You are rooted. Alive in a way that creates conditions for other life.
That is what becomes possible here.
The answer probably isn't more information.
It's a different kind of knowing.
The sequoia knows this. Living for thousands of years, unhurried by what surrounds it, it is the grandmother tree — holder of memory, wisdom, and the long view. For all its magnitude, it does not stand alone. Its roots spread wide and interlock with every other tree in the grove. Sequoias hold each other up. They cannot thrive in isolation, and they do not try to.
This is the philosophy of The Sequoia Circle. Not striving. Not optimization. The slow, deep, interconnected work of becoming rooted enough that your full magnitude becomes possible.
The body holds something older and more reliable than the stories we've inherited — a wisdom that predates the conditioning. One that knows when something is off, when a path is right, when we've drifted from what's true. It holds the grief and the rage and the reclamation — and joy alongside all of it. Expansive, playful, sometimes overwhelming in its aliveness. The body remembering what it feels like to be fully animate.
This work lives at the intersection of body, earth, and the systems we've been living inside — guided by grandmother tree wisdom, held in community, moving at the pace of what actually lasts. When something truer takes root, the old begins to lose its hold. Nature shows us this.
Meet Naomi
I spent twenty-five years inside educational systems — as a middle school teacher, professor, researcher, and state-level specialist. I kept watching brilliant, capable people get ground down by structures that were never designed for their humanity. Eventually my own body made it impossible to keep performing.
The land brought me back. Slowly, through practice and presence and the particular strength of trees, I learned to hear what my body had been saying all along. That work changed everything — how I move through the world, what I'm available for, and what I'm not.
Now I work with individuals and leaders at the intersection of somatics, land, and systems. Not to help people survive what's extracting from them — but to help them build something truer. The natural world is always part of that work. We are nature. When we remember that, the path home becomes clearer.
The WORk
Three ways to work together — each rooted in the same philosophy, each shaped to a different need.
One-on-one ecosomatic coaching for individuals ready to access a fuller way of knowing — through the body, the mind, and relationship with the natural world.
Reroot coaching
Ongoing organizational advisory for leaders ready to build a culture where people can be fully human and do their best work.
taproot advisory
keynotes & workshops
Facilitated experiences that move people from performance into presence.
start here:
the free reroot practice
A simple 5-minute daily practice to help you drop out of your head and back into your body's wisdom. This is where everything begins.
Trusted by Leaders, Educators, and Practitioners
Twenty-five years of working inside real systems — alongside the people and organizations doing work that matters.
What People Are Saying
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"[Naomi] had us in tears. [Her] message was engaging, powerful, and needed. What a beautiful reminder of how to shift the path of your own narrative. I plan to use this with students, but I think I needed to hear it myself. And in talking with my co-workers, they did too. "
— Katie, 9th grade ELA Teacher
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"Anchoring ourselves — grounding ourselves — requires a solid connection with self, with the non-technology driven world around us — nature, breathing, and intention are all powerful tools to keep us anchored."
— Lawton, Co-founder & CEO, Literal App, on a nature-based workshop with his team
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"Naomi calmed the noises and brought me to a place of stillness, presence, and deep awareness of my connection with the more than human world."
— Jesse, former client