Our team
Moni is a queer, non-binary, white-bodied nervous system therapist. They have been in private practice since 2006, facilitating healing through nervous system regulation and supporting systemic coherence. In addition to their work as a somatic practitioner, they spent 6 years as Assistant Faculty and Lead Mentor with Organic Intelligence (OI), mentoring students and co-teaching the three year HEART program with both Steve Hoskinson and Robin Craig. Prior to that they spent nine years assisting in the Somatic Experiencing (SE) three year programs
Moni practices coming from the belief that every body has an intrinsic impulse towards being whole and healthy. They feel that compassionately tending, witnessing, and reflecting this impulse with positive reinforcement helps individuals get to a place of integration, wholeness and feeling fully alive and engaged in this world.
Moni has a particular interest in supporting the LGBTQIA+ community and is working to address and support collective liberation from systemic oppression
Moni Kuhel LMT, CNMT, SEP
they/them
A Latin woman who not only grew up in a poverty stricken area exposed to crime and lack of resources, but also became a teen mother under the same circumstances - Lynette has lived experiences with the stresses of parenting and hardship.
Understanding what it’s like to feel worried for the future of yourself and your child.
Trudging through overwhelm, feeling alone, and deeply needing support.
Wisdom Blooming was founded to fill a gap in support for the Tucson community with the understanding of reaching back a helping hand to those who are trying to rise out of similar situations.
As the daughter of a worker’s rights activist, dedication to positive change within the community is deeply rooted in her family’s way of life. As a teen mother and a member of an underserved community, Lynette had to face some difficult choices - repeat the same cycles of overwhelm, internal disorganization, and stress that would set her children up for continued cycles of suffering or seek out empowering opportunities to catalyze positive life changes.
She chose to seek solutions and began to study and practice healing. With every yoga class, meditation workshop, and coaching series the break in overwhelm expanded into a spaciousness that grew her capacities and skill set for managing stress. The practices that changed the course of her life and those of her two children, are the same practices that became the foundation for the children's social emotional curriculum she developed. Wisdom Blooming exists as a liberation movement to rise together by giving people the skills that empower confidence, resilience, compassion and mental wellness.
Lynette Maya OIC
(she/her)
Lee is a European-ancestored, white bodied settler living and working as a somatic practitioner of the Organic Intelligence lineage and as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist in private practice. Ancestral lineage repair and animist psychology deeply inform their practice as well. For them, somatic awareness is more than a therapeutic tool; it is a way of connecting and seeing beyond the survival programming that is insidiously instilled through socialization under the current iterations of empire, white supremacy & colonization. In her private practice she centers folks with various backgrounds - in particular LGBTQ+ - seeking to come home to their human bodies, lineages, and desires.
Lee’s background carries the currents of many streams; that of frontlines organizer, community facilitator, grower and lover of plants & herbal medicines, and abolitionist. She was raised in a highly conservative, fundamentalist Christian sect & her work as an adult has been deeply informed by the practice of deconstructing and repairing internalized white supremacy, childhood trauma & the crossover of the two.
Lee believes fiercely that for any of us to be free we must all be free and that healing work is community care work; healthcare and wellness support must become accessible to all.
