Taylor “Unjaara” Bratches is an embodied mystic, trance channel, lifelong dancer, poet, DJ, psychedelic guide, and the founder of Somatic Channeling.

She had her first spiritual awakening at the age of 17, in 2004, and has been devoted to a spiritual path ever since.

Taylor first received—or awoke to—the sacred energy art of Somatic Channeling in the mountains of Colorado in 2016. After hours of dancing on psychedelics, she sat to meditate alone on a mountain outcropping in the middle of the night. There, something unexpected happened: her arms began moving automatically, beyond her conscious control, into what resembled yogic postures and energetic gestures. The experience resulted in a profound energetic clearing.

It felt like coming home.

As a lifelong dancer, a DJ for over a decade, and a longtime psychedelic user and “legacy” psychedelic guide who had spent years guiding others underground, Taylor was intimately familiar with altered states, trance, dance, and psychedelic experience. She knew that what had happened on the mountain was something different.

And this initiation with Somatic Channeling came after many other initiations.

At 21, Taylor experienced a full Kundalini awakening, during which she merged completely in divine union with another human being—without touch—before astral projecting and experiencing herself becoming one with the Godhead: the culminating moment of the Kundalini rising through the Sahasrara.

Over the years that followed, many cosmic and spiritual knowings revealed themselves to her spontaneously. At 23, she underwent an initiatory near-death experience in the desert, completing a chapter in which she had uprooted herself from the material world to live off-grid and immerse herself in nature, adventure, and spiritual journeying.

By the time Somatic Channeling arrived, Taylor had spent over a decade immersed in spiritual seeking and study. She worked deeply with divinatory practices including the I Ching and tarot and explored numerous spiritual traditions experientially, including Zen Buddhism, Krishna Consciousness, Tantra, Santo Daime, and more.

Her extensive psychedelic exploration—within both traditional ceremonial and recreational spaces—her lifetime of dance training, her education in writing and poetry, and her complex personal history with depression, anxiety, CPTSD, and family trauma all became part of the ground from which Somatic Channeling emerged.

After her first initiation with the practice, Taylor devoted herself to a year of deep meditation, years after having first trained within a Zen sangha. Her intention was to understand whether she could access the same intelligence consciously, without plant medicine.

In 2018, on Swami’s Beach in California, just outside Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship, she experienced Somatic Channeling fully sober for the first time. At the time, she did not know she was outside of the Self-Realization Fellowship, and realized the synchronicity of this years later.

During this period, Taylor was completing her Master’s in Poetry at UC Irvine, which she received in 2019. After graduating, she reached the height of a decade-long DJ career that included playing clubs, festivals, and underground raves throughout the United States.

Over the next several years, she devoted herself to honing and developing the practice—learning its language through her own body and gradually synthesizing her experiences into a clear and structured modality while protecting what she understood to be its essential foundation: channeled surrender. While living in New York City during COVID lockdown, she devoted herself completely to Somatic Channeling, and began working on others during this time as well, after nearly 4 years of SomChan practice for herself alone, sharing the practice with almost no one.

Through years of devoted practice, Taylor underwent a profound process of personal healing. She healed from depression, anxiety, symptoms of CPTSD, and excessive recreational drug use as well as prescribed medications, while deeply processing the death of her father, who died from addiction. Much of this healing unfolded directly through the body and energy field via Somatic Channeling, alongside the process of writing a therapeutic memoir about her family trauma, rooted in themes of sexual abuse, addiction, and severe mental illness.

As Somatic Channeling continued to awaken within her, Taylor was formally initiated into the Kriya Yoga tradition. She later began channeling the Kriya masters Paramahansa Yogananda and Sri Yukteswar. She also channeled (and channels) many other beings, including “The 11th Dimensional Collective” who first connected with her through the practice, as well as the Pleiadians, Arcturians, and gods/goddesses/dieties from the Egyptian, Hindu, Buddhist and Judeo-Christian pantheons.

After years of underground or “legacy” psychedelic guiding, she also completed formal psychedelic facilitation training through SoundMind Institute. She became known nationally for her work within the psychedelic field and has spoken at major psychedelic conferences, including MAPS Psychedelic Science in 2023 and 2025 and Chacruna in 2026.

And yet, increasingly, Taylor’s work has moved away from psychedelic tools as a primary means of consciousness expansion.

Her devotion is to awakening through the body itself.

Somatic Channeling is that path.

Today, Taylor runs a thriving energy work practice in Boulder, Colorado, where she works regularly with private clients. Her clients and students have reported profound transformations—from spontaneous physical healing and intense somatic release to major identity shifts and powerful spiritual activations.

Central to Taylor’s work is her ability to awaken the practice in others through direct transmission. Through Somatic Channeling, energy healing, channeling, and mentorship, she helps people access capacities and forms of intelligence that she believes are already present within them.

Increasingly, however, her work has shifted from individual practice toward community, teaching, and stewardship. She now teaches students around the world through the Somatic Channeling Mystery School and mentors emerging Somatic Channelers in developing their own relationship with the modality. The Mystery School is entering its third year, and has grown to become an international school & community.

Her deepest passion is not simply giving people answers, but helping them awaken and hone what they already know—opening more deeply to the Divine intelligence moving through them.

Taylor’s orientation is both grounded and deeply mystical, with an emphasis on nondual consciousness, embodiment, and balance. She understands Somatic Channeling not only as an individual healing practice, but as a potential vehicle for interdimensional communication, collective and cosmic expansion, and planetary gridwork. Her own exploration has included working with sacred sites around the world, including using Somatic Channeling as energetic gridwork inside the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

Through Somatic Channeling, Taylor also awakened to verbal channeling—including communication with Spirit Guides and other nonphysical energies—as well as mediumship, light language, and other mystical capacities, with her strongest gifts being her clairsentience and ability to enter nondual consciousness at will.

Yet Somatic Channeling remains the center of her work.

She believes it to be a profound healing and awakening modality capable of revealing the dormant Self beyond the ego—an intelligence already alive within every human body.

In 2024, during a deep Somatic Channeling self-work session, Taylor received the name Unjaara from her Spirit Guides. She experiences the receiving of this soul name as akin to receiving a name from a guru: an initiation that revealed an even deeper level of commitment to the work she had already been called to steward. Unjaara her true name.

She feels it is part of her sacred responsibility in this incarnation not only to offer her own gifts as an energy worker and channel with the highest possible integrity, but to steward Somatic Channeling on Earth—to protect its essence while guiding and training the practitioners who feel deeply called to carry the modality forward.

Taylor credits Somatic Channeling with much of her own healing and transformation. Her path has ultimately become one of healing herself deeply enough to help others remember their own innate capacity for healing, awakening, and connection with the Divine.

She continues to consider herself a humble servant of the sacred intelligence—and the living technology—of Somatic Channeling.