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In a Nutshell
Brenda Ramos is a foul-mouthed, spirit-led, stardust-and-light-filled being carrying the sacred legacy of her Jíbaro ancestors from Borikén (colonially known as Puerto Rico). She works as a mindfulness-based mentor and coach, meditation teacher, and intuitive movement guide. Her Framewerk, The Art of Radical Being℠, is rooted in decolonial and Indigenous praxis, oriented toward one North Star: Living Balance.
She doesn't provide people with prescriptive solutions. She doesn't tell them who to be. She creates conditions for people to remember the wisdom already living within them and to remember that they are part of something larger: connected to their ancestors, the land, and the living world around them. From that remembering, they can build lives, relationships, and communities rooted in reciprocity that feel aligned, alive, and self-defined.
Her work draws from Buddhist studies and dharma, Radically Engaged Buddhism, mindfulness, trauma-sensitive practice, Internal Family Systems, nonviolent communication, transformative healing, JourneyDance, Reiki, positive psychology, and decolonial practice. Her teachers and study lineages include Lama Rod Owens, Lodro Rinzler, Adriana DiFazio, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, David Treleaven, Roxy Manning, Oren Jay Sofer, Toi Marie Smith, Gieselle Allen, Dra. Rosales Mesa, and many others who have shaped her practice.
Brenda holds intersectional identities as a first-gen, queer, working-class, white-presenting woman of Borikua heritage. She lives on unceded Mohican and Munsee Lenape land (colonially known as Hoboken, NJ), where she and her brother care for their 96-year-old mother living with dementia. She's also a sister, titi, dark chocolate snob, proud goofball, and unapologetic night owl.
If you're done living out of alignment and ready to come home to yourself, Brenda is here to walk with you.
Deep Dive
Brenda Ramos is a foul-mouthed, spirit-led, stardust-and-light-filled being, a complex system of atoms, neurons, and soul navigating a full human experience in a world shaped by Racial Empire Logic, patriarchy, and extraction.
Her bloodlines trace back to the Jíbaro mountain people of Borikén (colonially known as Puerto Rico). She carries the sacred, sensual, and spiritual legacy of her ancestors, rooting her life and work in ancestral knowing, embodiment, and resistance.
Brenda is a mindfulness-based mentor and coach, meditation teacher, and intuitive movement guide. Her Framewerk, The Art of Radical Being℠, is a decolonial and Indigenous praxis oriented toward her North Star: Living Balance.
She doesn't provide people with prescriptive solutions. She doesn't tell them who to be. She creates conditions for people to remember the wisdom already living within them and to remember that they are part of something larger: connected to their ancestors, the land, and the living world around them. From that remembering, they can build lives, relationships, and communities rooted in reciprocity that feel aligned, alive, and self-defined.
At the heart of her work is the Window of Living Balance, her original language for the embodied state of harmony we move in and out of throughout our lives. It isn't a destination or something to achieve. It's a living relationship, a rhythm, and a practice of returning.
Her work draws from Buddhist studies and dharma, Radically Engaged Buddhism, mindfulness, trauma-sensitive practice, Internal Family Systems, nonviolent communication, transformative healing, JourneyDance, Reiki, positive psychology, and decolonial practice. Her teachers and study lineages include Lama Rod Owens, Lodro Rinzler, Adriana DiFazio, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, David Treleaven, Roxy Manning, Oren Jay Sofer, Toi Marie Smith, Gieselle Allen, Dra. Rosales Mesa, and many others who have shaped her practice.
For nearly two decades, Brenda taught hundreds of people across the world to access their sensual power through salsa dance. Today, she supports quiet disruptors, observant creatives, and deep-feeling thinkers who have begun to see through the emptiness of dominant culture in coming home to the wisdom in their bodies, in the land, and their unique rhythm and purpose.
She also holds seasonal Witnessing Circles, small virtual sanctuaries of 5 to 6 people who meet weekly for 8 weeks, not to be fixed, not to perform okayness, but simply to vent, laugh, curse, celebrate, lament, and mourn together without judgment. Some rooms only exist because someone who needed them decided to build them.
She understands, bone-deep, that how we care for ourselves shapes how we show up in relationship, community, and the systems we participate in. Inner care is never separate from collective care. It is what makes collective care possible.
Brenda is a first-gen, queer, working-class, white-presenting woman of Borikua heritage rooted in her lineage. She lives on the unceded Mohican and Munsee Lenape land (colonially known as Hoboken, NJ) with one of her many brothers. Together, they care for their 96-year-old mother living with dementia, an everyday practice of dignity and love. She’s also a program director at a nonprofit in education advocacy.
She is a sister, titi, best friend, sensual lover, committed student, dark chocolate snob, chocolate chip cookie devourer, random drooler, proud goofball, and unapologetic night owl. And she carries all of it into her work without apology because caregiving, in every form, is the practice.
When she's not caregiving, she's chillin with her son and cats, streaming her favorite shows, or dreaming and scheming toward liberation.
If you're done living out of alignment and ready to come home to yourself, your body, and your truth, Brenda is here to walk with you.
Connect with Brenda:
Website: Authenticwholeself.com
Instagram: @authenticwholeselfliving
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