My name is Maya Muñoz-Tobón (they/she/ella/elle). I am a gender-fluid Latine immigrant—a Colombian living in diaspora in Oregon. I am a devoted advocate for community arts, community health, and environmental justice; in addition of being a place-based, political, and sensorial facilitator.

In the last two decades, I’ve worked as a community educator and facilitator in the areas of public health, immigrant rights, environmental justice, and community-rooted cultural development. These experiences have taught me the transformative power of connection—the kind of healing that happens in relationship with others, and the collective capacity to imagine and build the worlds we want to live in. Across my varied roles, I have witnessed how deeply we all need systems and spaces that support resilience, self-care, and our ability to keep showing up—for ourselves, for each other, and for the movements we care about.

I believe that none of us exists in isolation. We live within structures that have exploited, extracted, and marginalized both our humanity and the natural world—and this has caused profound harm. My work is a response to that harm: a practice of return. Returning to ourselves. To our bodies as home. To the wisdom that lives within us and can guide us in creating safe, dignified, and liberated lives and communities. I invite people into that reconnection through imagery, movement, sound, self-reflection, ritual, and more.

I am a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (through ISMETA), and my work is grounded in the understanding that our cellular, social, and political realities are inseparable from our physical, mental, and spiritual health. Through body-based awareness and nervous system integration, I support people in moving through trauma, accessing ancestral knowledge, and reconnecting with their inherent creativity. I honor the deep relationship between our bodies and the environments we inhabit—and I believe in the healing power of art and movement to regenerate both personal and collective vitality. Together, we can cultivate the creative force needed to build the world we all deserve.