Trenda Marie Loftin
Embodiment Coach | Co-operator | Artist
While she often finds herself working on various projects, she finds time to enjoy the sunshine, write, strum her guitar, and catch up with friends and family. She is grateful for those people who help to keep her feeling positive, hopeful, engaged, and motivated to stir things up.
While she often finds herself working on various projects, she finds time to enjoy the sunshine, write, strum her guitar, and catch up with friends and family. She is grateful for those people who help to keep her feeling positive, hopeful, engaged, and motivated to stir things up.
As an Embodiment CoachA Priestess of Pleasure & Play, grounded in intuition, ancestral guidance, and professional training - Trenda holds sacred space for clients to explore and expand their felt sense of wholeness. Through individual, partnered, and small group embodiment coaching and practices, she offers a range of access points to deepen understandings of personal and professional boundaries and standards, communication, and building capacity for play and pleasure. Every session invites curiosity, breath, and intuition into the room.
Trenda is a certified Authentic Consent Facilitator and has been studying at The Amina Institute (FKA: ATL Institute of Tantra and Divine Sexuality) since 2023. |
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As a co-operator
Trenda has always been excited by creative collaboration and since 2019, she has been deepening her understanding of just how essential the cooperative movement is. Prioritizing people over profits, centering the voices of those most impacted by decisions, and striving for the liberation for all of us- she is thrilled to dream into reality community-based systems that address the need of home, health, & creativity.
The Compost Co-operative, was the beginning of Trenda's work in the solidarity economy. She had the opportunity to collaborate with folx who've been impacted by incarceration. The Compost Co-operative provides food scrap pick ups for residential and commercial customers. She took lead on the Cooperative Affordable Housing Initiative in partnership with Oxbow Design Build Cooperative.
The Founding Director and President of Willow Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Trenda is honored to be working with an incredible team to develop this QTBIPOC founded and led, multi-stakeholder cooperative..This membership driven cooperative works to mobilize collective resources to develop community assets.
Find out more about that work HERE
Find out more about that work HERE
As an artist
With a B.A. from Smith College in Political and Social Theatre, Trenda has been working to integrate understandings of social issues and performance techniques since 2005. Some of her work includes acting in The Media Education Foundation Film “Flirting With Danger,” and the plays “Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money,” and “The Lonely Soldier Project.” She is the author of the short play “When The System Swallows You” and the children's theatre piece "And Then...A Quest For An Original Story." She is currently a governing member of Real Live Theatre Company based in Sunderland, MA.
She is committed to providing various strategies for critical thinking, self, community, and world reflection, and instigating positive change. She believes very much in the power of storytelling to not only to shed light on reality but as a way to envision the world we wish to live in. She believes that the most effective changes come through education, understanding how identities intersect to affect our experiences of the world, and a commitment to compassionate dialogue and effective action plans.