What We Do

Community-Centered Growth

Within our AoH community, we learn about The Self. We seek to understand our own biology and psychology via education about our minds and bodies. This better equips us to interface with other humans, nature, the earth and the cosmos with understanding, compassion and love. 
We are taught (via professional practitioners and facilitators) resources and practices that are vetted with history, practice and/or science. These resources and practices are taught through the lens of non-pathology, enabling a sacred space in which participants can become curious and inquiring about their own biology, physiology and psychology. Agency, sovereignty and governance of self are paramount in our endeavors. 
Architecture of Humanity is currently based in Southern Oregon, with offerings both in-person and online.

Meet the Team

  • Leslie Boyd, M.S., P.P.S.

    CHIEF VISIONARY OFFICER, CONTENT CREATOR AND FACILITATOR

    Leslie is a Somatic therapist specializing in trauma resolution. She sees clients privately in-person and online. Her formal education is in psychology: a BS in psychology and an MS in counseling psychology. She worked for 10 years as a school counselor. In 2017, she finished a three-year certificate program in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and now sees clients based primarily within this modality. SE is a body-oriented therapeutic model and practice based on the lifework of Dr. Peter Levine. It is the leading practice of trauma resolution.

    Moving away from the pathological standard in traditional psychotherapy, Leslie uses a psycho-biological approach which empowers individual sovereignty and agency. Primary methodology include: nervous system and attachment Theory education, Polyvagal Theory, Kundalini Kriya, coherence (HRV) via nature-cycle syncing, unconscious patterning awareness (Depth Psychology) and comparative animal behavior.

    In addition, Leslie has over 1,500 hours in training and teaching yoga, including Restorative Yoga and Pranayama (breathwork). She has completed the level one training in Cranial Sacral Therapy as well as Yoga Nidra iRest, a trauma-researched guided meditation program.

    Over the last five years, Leslie has facilitated over 40 workshops and events, ranging in attendance from intimate yoga studio trainings (10-12 participants) to large group education sessions (up to 50 participants). She currently runs monthly intensive groups under the brand “Sisters of the Forest,” which focuses on the idea of finding personal freedom from “Global Codependence.”

    Her most recent work of passion lies in the creation of a manual called Primal Partnering©. It utilizes all the above-mentioned bodies of research and work, and seeks to provide a new language, lens and paradigm to the old-guard methodology of couples therapy and addiction.

    Globally-speaking, Leslie believes - via personal and professional empirical research - that by learning our nervous systems (organism, mammalian, Homo sapiens and individual), we can begin to release the constriction of protection of fear. This transcendence will allow us to find our True Nature and bespoke Soul’s purpose.

    Witnessing first-hand the power of a sacred community and presence of a teacher fully embodied in integrity, she seeks to share space and land with others where safety, spirit and action are viewed as paramount elements in healing.

  • Emily Ziegler

    DIGITAL CONTENT WIZARD

    Emily is the social media, marketing, event coordinator, event manager, and digital content wizard at Architecture of Humanity.

    She holds a BA in English from Royal Holloway, the University of London, an MA in English from Claremont Graduate School, and is currently pursuing doctoral study at Claremont.

    Her interests lie in the intersection between narrative and life: why do we tell stories? What stories do we tell ourselves? Where do these stories come from?