Sam is a life-long dancer, a cultural explorer, and an outdoor adventurer. He originated in the creek beds and urban daydreams of Eastern Pennsylvania before moving out West and re-meeting the land. He has been a wilderness guide since 2017, a rites of passage guide a la School of Lost Borders since 2020, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with a private practice since 2025.

He is a queer gender expansive gay man, and deepening into the practice of his ancestors through Earth-based Jewish spirituality. His mission as a participant in this life is to serve as a conduit of healing and restoration for human and non-human landscapes to achieve flexibility, sovereignty, liberation, and wild vitality! He wants us to know that we are animals, that we are the same land that we belong to and love.

He comes to this work in service to queerness, liberation, and community, to the unknown, to the land, and to our bodies. Through wholeness in being, authentic expression and embodiment, ceremony, celebration and joy, through wildness and through darkness, through action and through dance… He finds his niche and joy of participation and service in this life.

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