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

rayleen has been a student of embodiment for nearly twenty years, began formal somatic study about a decade 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, and gradually coming to understand her mammalian nervous systems 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 staunch abolitionist, a former professional political operative, and a working-class minimalist.

rayleen's most potent medicines include ritual in the intertidal zone, sweating or/and crying on her yoga mat, befriending worms and stewarding vegetable plants, riding her motorcycle, cuddling with exposed tree roots, and dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing….