rayleen courtney is
a somatic educator & practicing witch,
rooted in so-called oregon.

rayleen has been a student of the meditative body for nearly twenty years. she began formal somatic study about twelve years ago, and has complicated feelings about her list of certifications from the Healing Industrial Complex.

she has been a practicing witch for over half her life, first conversing with elemental & tarotist archetypes as a teenager, gradually coming to understand her mammalian nervous system as her primary source of magickal craft.

rayleen is an addict in longterm recovery, a second-generation sworker, a devoted herbivore, a femme dyke, an antimisogynist killjoy, a former professional political operative, and a working-class minimalist.

rayleen's most potent medicines include crying on her yoga mat, befriending trees and stewarding vegetable plants, riding her motorcycle, putting her body in waning tides, and pole dancing for nobody but a mirror.