Reclaiming Relationship
with the Animate World
We all come from beauty, wisdom, and reverent relationships with the Earth.
It is in our bones.
Tova Fleming | she/her/we
This site is comprised of things that I carry with me at all times: a love for words and story, magic, performance, yoga, music, animism, ancestors, and the earth.
I am an animist who tends to the world through ancestral lineage healing (certified practitioner through Ancestral Medicine), psychopomp (Red Earth Healing), writing, ritual performance and music, and Tantra-inspired yoga (500-Hour CYT).
I earned my master of arts in interdisciplinary social science from Humboldt State University’s Environment and Community Program. My bachelor’s is in English with an emphasis on creative writing from Sacramento State University. I earned my associate of science in “so-called” natural resources from American River College.
My blood and bone are roughly half Scandinavian and half Scottish. My mother immigrated to the U.S. from Denmark and my father’s people came to Turtle Island from Scotland in the late 1700’s (to the best of my knowledge). Culturally, I am “hella” Northern Californian as I was born and raised here. I love this place and the collective of other-than-human kin that adopted, loved, raised, and tended to me as if I were their own regardless of the history of my people. My gratitude is fathomless.
For the past 25 years, I have been healing from complex PTSD, chronic anxiety and depression, and unravelling and reweaving intergenerational trauma into something new, ancient, and beautiful.
I currently reside on Washoe homelands in South Lake Tahoe, California.