About Rhonda Mills
Rhonda Mills - she/her - is the founder of Embodied Witnessing. She is a trauma-informed healer, coach, group facilitator, and trainer who is deeply engaged in cultural healing and transformation. Her work is informed by healing principles, mysticism, and principles of nonviolence and social justice. Rhonda's ongoing commitment to her own individual, ancestral, and collective / systemic healing journey provides the ground for all her work.
Since 2001, Rhonda has coached and trained hundreds of executives, teachers, parents, couples, therapists, ministers, and healers. She has organized and led certifications trainings for embodiment coaches and yoga teachers in the U.S. and Canada. She is an experienced trainer and group facilitator who has led hundreds of groups on topics such as personal development, emotional literacy, compassionate nonviolent communication, conflict resolution / relational healing, transformational leadership, embodied integrity, creative expression, inner wisdom, meditation, conscious movement, eating disorder recovery, and racial identity. Rhonda has experience working in organizations, community groups, churches, in-patient recovery centers, schools, as well as online. |
I connect with what's essential which facilitates connection and emergent creativitity. I find my greatest reward in being: my path brings me more and more deeply home within myself. I consider my greatest contribution is my capacity to see and sense deeply. Principles of nonviolence inform my work, opening space for compassion, discovery, and inner freedom.
My Path
After an international dance career, I discovered yoga, ayurveda and meditation in 1999. A new focus emerged which included my lifelong spiritual connection, the ancient tradition of yoga, and creative movement. In 2003, I was initiated into the Himalayan tradition of Sri Vidya by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. I continued to study yoga and assist my teachers through 2009, gaining a 500+ hour teaching certification. After discovering Nonviolent Communication in 2005, I completed my Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer certificate in 2009. By 2010, I also completed certifications as a Big Leap Embodiment Coach and a 2-year Transformational Leadership Training from The Hendricks Institute. Throughout the 2000’s to the present, I have worked with individuals and couples, led Nonviolent Communication Trainings and Conscious Living Learning Playshops, and created and led mutliple year-long trainings to certify Yoga Teachers and Facilitators of Embodied Transformation (Coaches).
I’ve been studying trauma healing since 2018. As an ongoing student of Thomas Hübl, I study and incorporate the Transparent Communication relational process into my life and work. I completed the 2-year Timeless Wisdom Training in 2023 and am a current Core Group Member, as well as a student in the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. From 2020-2024 I began co-evolving Global Social Witnessing small group practice and facilitation along with the Meta Team at World Witnessing. Global Social Witnessing was initiated by Thomas Hübl in 2017. From my experiences, I founded Embodied Social Witnessing (ESW), which supports groups to deepen their embodied presence while turning towards challenging world events and topics such as racism and colonialism. Since 2020, I create events to bring the Embodied Social Witnessing practice to various communities, such as the Nonviolent Communication trainer community and community groups engaging in racialized healing.
I became a NARM-Informed Professional in 2021 which now is a foundation for my Somatic Coaching work. NARM stands for Neuro Affective Relational Model for working with complex trauma.
In the last several years, I’m actively focusing on the collective traumas of systemic white supremacy and colonialism. I participated in a St. Louis YWCA Witnessing Whiteness Class Series in 2019 and volunteered to co-lead sessions locally in 2020. In the summer of 2021, I earned a 50-hour certificate for Embodied Social Justice led by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams.
Becoming informed about how racialized trauma has impacted my life, I became inspired to reconnect with my ancestral lineages: a mixture of English, Irish, Scottish, and Chickamauga Cherokee. I am an enrolled member of The Chickamauga Sac and White River Bands Tribe. In 2023 I completed the Historical Trauma Masterclass, certifying me to offer Somatic Archaeology(c) sessions. I also practice ancestral healing supported by an Ancestral Medicine course with Daniel Foor and my ongoing studies with Thomas Hübl.
Facing into my mixed race heritage has deepened my understanding of the interconnection between inner and outer healing and restoration, and strengthened my resolve to contribute to peace within me and in our shared world.
I believe each of us is sacred. Whatever our vision, we begin where we are. We all carry a piece of an answer.
I’ve been studying trauma healing since 2018. As an ongoing student of Thomas Hübl, I study and incorporate the Transparent Communication relational process into my life and work. I completed the 2-year Timeless Wisdom Training in 2023 and am a current Core Group Member, as well as a student in the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. From 2020-2024 I began co-evolving Global Social Witnessing small group practice and facilitation along with the Meta Team at World Witnessing. Global Social Witnessing was initiated by Thomas Hübl in 2017. From my experiences, I founded Embodied Social Witnessing (ESW), which supports groups to deepen their embodied presence while turning towards challenging world events and topics such as racism and colonialism. Since 2020, I create events to bring the Embodied Social Witnessing practice to various communities, such as the Nonviolent Communication trainer community and community groups engaging in racialized healing.
I became a NARM-Informed Professional in 2021 which now is a foundation for my Somatic Coaching work. NARM stands for Neuro Affective Relational Model for working with complex trauma.
In the last several years, I’m actively focusing on the collective traumas of systemic white supremacy and colonialism. I participated in a St. Louis YWCA Witnessing Whiteness Class Series in 2019 and volunteered to co-lead sessions locally in 2020. In the summer of 2021, I earned a 50-hour certificate for Embodied Social Justice led by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams.
Becoming informed about how racialized trauma has impacted my life, I became inspired to reconnect with my ancestral lineages: a mixture of English, Irish, Scottish, and Chickamauga Cherokee. I am an enrolled member of The Chickamauga Sac and White River Bands Tribe. In 2023 I completed the Historical Trauma Masterclass, certifying me to offer Somatic Archaeology(c) sessions. I also practice ancestral healing supported by an Ancestral Medicine course with Daniel Foor and my ongoing studies with Thomas Hübl.
Facing into my mixed race heritage has deepened my understanding of the interconnection between inner and outer healing and restoration, and strengthened my resolve to contribute to peace within me and in our shared world.
I believe each of us is sacred. Whatever our vision, we begin where we are. We all carry a piece of an answer.