Much like his musical performances, Tristan weaves together myriad and diverse threads of wisdom, training, and practice from his personal and professional journeys. Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, an extremely rural upbringing offered him an exceptional template through which to process and navigate modern culture from an uncommon vantage point. His unusual journey out of the Alaskan wilderness has taken him to years of study in bodywork and Gestalt Inquiry at the Esalen Institute, coursework in Non-Violent Communication, studying curanderismo and plant medicine in the Peruvian Amazon, and a lifelong interest in non-dual philosophy and energetics first informed by Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu traditions. He has extensive experience with somatic psychotherapy techniques, trauma recovery, and other frameworks of self-inquiry such as Internal Family Systems Therapy and Jungian Analysis.

He has extensive training in various modalities of bodywork, being certified in Esalen Massage, as well as Deep Bodywork, a deep and targeted therapeutic practice very similar to Rolfing. He has trained in the traditional Hawaiian bodywork art of Lomilomi, as well the Chinese medical massage art of Tui Na. Tristan loves teaching principles of bodywork, as he believes it is a beautifully direct and visceral representation of all human contact and expression - a method through which we can bypass all of the narratives and obstructions of both language and the mind and immediately feel the quality and nature of ourselves in relationship to another being.

Currently, his focus is on teaching and transmitting what he calls Authentic Language: The Art of Speaking Truth. Working with group classes and individual coaching, this is a distillation through language of all his life’s lessons thus far – a method of illustrating the language almost all of us use that is inherently inauthentic and untrue at the highest and deepest levels, understanding the implications of speaking and thinking in these outdated patterns, and most importantly, how to begin to replace that with language that is in greater alignment with both inner and universal truths. He looks forward to sharing this transmission with any and all who are ready to liberate themselves from the old trappings of thought and word that once but no longer serves us, and to embrace language that speaks only with honesty, sovereignty, respect, and compassion.