A somatic healing practice in Boulder, Colorado, where bodywork meets sacred ritual and ancestral wisdom. For 20+ years Selina Borquez (they/them) has guided clients home to what their bodies have never forgotten—creating containers for transformation, embodied rest, and spiritual reclamation.

A Practice Born from Memory

Selina's work lives at the intersection of body wisdom and spirit memory. Trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy, Alchemical Alignment and Ancestral Healing she bridges ancient wisdom with modern nervous system science. They hands remember the way—weaving together lineage, land, and the body's innate capacity to heal.

Who This Work Serves

The Living Altar welcome all and centers BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities—those seeking healing spaces that honor their full identities. Selina's clients are artists, healers, activists, educators, and change-makers navigating life transitions, spiritual awakenings, and cultural reclamation.

They arrive seeking:

Embodied presence and nervous system regulation
Spiritual practice that feels authentic, not appropriative
Support through identity shifts and life transitions
Connection to lineage and ancestral memory
Spaces where complexity is honored without spiritual bypassing
Sacred slowness and ritual woven into daily life

The Work: Two Pathways

HEALING CONTAINERS: Sacred Bodywork Sessions

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy - Exceptionally gentle work (about 5 grams of pressure) that supports the nervous system's natural regulation. This profound modality encourages the body's innate healing without forcing or fixing. Perfect for stress relief, chronic tension, life transitions, grief support, spiritual integration, and deep rest.

Integrative Massage & Bodywork - Therapeutic touch including Swedish, deep tissue, myofascial release, prenatal massage, and CBD integrative options with local woman-owned Moon Mother Hemp Company. Body-positive and gender-affirming with specialized protocols for transgender and non-binary bodies.

Alchemical Alignment- This specialized session addresses the most overlooked survival pattern: freeze. I offer this evidence-based somatic modality that works with the full spectrum of nervous system states — health, fight, flight, freeze, and double bind. This approach supports your body's natural capacity to move from survival patterns into embodied presence.

Ancestral Healing Sessions - Deep 1:1 lineage work addressing inherited patterns, family dynamics, and spiritual reclamation through connection with benevolent ancestral guides. Honors sovereignty and maintains strong boundaries.

All sessions are 90 minutes, available in-person (Boulder) or remotely via Zoom.

SACRED PATHWAYS: Altar as Anchor Educational Programs

The world's first justice-oriented sacred space curriculum—ceremonial education teaching altar practice and ancestral reverence as embodied medicine.

Level 1: Altar as Sanctuary - 6-week journey into creating altars as anchors for nervous system regulation and spiritual practice. Learn elements, sacred objects, and sustainable ritual rhythm. No experience required.

Level 2: Ancestor Reclamation - 7-module program teaching ancestral honoring through altar building and offerings—healing lineage disconnection through reverence. For those with adoption stories, cultural loss, broken family threads, or anyone honoring ancestors while creating healthy boundaries. No mediumship required.

Available self-paced or in intimate live cohorts, blending anthropology, nervous system science, and embodied wisdom.

The Philosophy

The body as our first altar - Healing begins with embodiment. Your body holds the map home.

Sacred slowness as resistance - In a culture addicted to productivity, rest and ritual are revolutionary acts.

Sovereignty in sacred practice - You maintain complete autonomy. Your boundaries and "no" are sacred.

Decolonial practice - Reclaiming what colonization tried to steal while refusing appropriation. Your lineage, your practices, your way.

The altar as living technology - Ancient wisdom meets modern neuroscience. Altars are nervous system anchors, not decoration.

The Space She Holds

Selina creates containers where nervous systems exhale, ancestral patterns transform, and soul medicine emerges. They holds space for those navigating life transitions—career shifts, relationship changes, creative emergence, spiritual awakening. For those seeking to break patterns and become ancestors of deep care and tending For those ready to build altars that anchor their lives in beauty, rhythm, and sacred remembrance.

They doesn't just offer healing—they offer remembrance. They don't perform spirituality—they embody ceremony. They witnesses your becoming.

Training & Credentials

Registered Massage Therapist (RMT), Licensed & Insured - Colorado, 2004
Certified Tui Na Practitioner (CTT) - Oriental Healing Arts Institute
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy - Colorado School of Energy Studies (ongoing)
Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training - Dr. Daniel Foor (2023-2024)
Somatic Psychotherapy & BodyMind Centering - Brooks Institute
Alchemical Alignment - Heart & Soul-Based Somatic Training
20+ years of continuous practice and embodied learning

The Living Altar

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