Bhavana
DESERT
with
Our Team
Cultivating Being
Holly Bennett RN, BSN
Holly Bennett-Judson, RN BSN, is a seasoned healthcare professional with nearly two decades of nursing experience across specialties such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, end-of-life care, and trauma-informed support. Her work is grounded in both scientific understanding and a deep respect for the inner healing process.
Holly’s approach centers on integration, helping individuals make sense of profound or peak experiences, whether through breathwork, deep meditation, or other states that awaken insight and emotional depth. She offers thoughtful, structured support for those navigating the space between breakthrough and embodiment.
Clients often describe Holly as both steady and spacious. With her strong presence and natural empathy, she creates a safe and nonjudgmental container for exploring the layers of human experience. Her communication style is clear, down-to-earth, and anchored in deep listening, allowing others to feel genuinely seen, heard, and supported.
Her devotion to preparation and integration is more than professional, it’s personal. Having studied ancient breath and meditation practices during time spent in India, Holly brings lived experience to her work. She draws from a wide range of disciplines including integrative yoga, psychology, and somatic awareness, weaving together tools that support lasting change and embodied transformation.
Holly is currently pursuing advanced practice education in psychiatric mental health, deepening her ability to bridge clinical care with contemplative wisdom. She remains devoted to learning and refining her craft, with particular interest in how nervous system regulation, trauma healing, and meaning-making intersect to support long-term wellbeing.
Whether supporting someone through grief, life transitions, or the integration of a spiritual opening, Holly holds space with compassion, curiosity, and professionalism. She walks alongside her clients with steadiness and care, offering guidance rooted in experience, insight, and heart.
Steve Judson
Certified Transformation Recovery and Integration Coach
Steve Judson is an integration coach and facilitator known for his calm presence, deep integrity, and skillful support of clients before and after transformative experiences. Whether someone is preparing for or integrating a peak state, through breathwork, somatic exploration, or deep emotional process, Steve helps ground the experience in safety, consent, and meaning.
He brings years of personal and professional growth work to his practice, drawing from a variety of powerful training modalities that inform the depth and nuance of his support.
Steve completed the Hoffman Process, an intensive weeklong program that guides participants in identifying and transforming negative patterns rooted in childhood. This work helped refine his ability to hold space for core emotional healing with compassion and clarity.
Through PSI Seminars, Steve developed tools for self-leadership, effective communication, and personal responsibility, skills that now allow him to support clients in stepping into their own agency with courage and integrity.
He is certified in Being True to You, a transformational coaching model that emphasizes trauma-informed care, values-based living, and integration across emotional, spiritual, and behavioral layers. This certification sharpened Steve’s ability to support clients in making lasting changes that align with their values and lived experience.
Steve is also connected with F.I.V.E. (Facilitators of Integrity, Vision, and Ethics), an ethical framework that supports safe, responsible facilitation work. His ongoing study and engagement with this community strengthen his commitment to consent-based practice and ethical care.
Steve’s work is deeply informed by his years supporting justice-involved individuals through his former role as a peer support program director in this space. His passion for this often-disregarded population has shaped his understanding of what it means to offer truly ethical, dignified care to those navigating systems of punishment, stigma, and survival. This experience continues to inform the empathy, advocacy, and presence he brings to all his work.
What clients often notice about Steve is his presence: grounded, steady, and deeply human. He holds a strong yet non-imposing masculine container, allowing clients to explore vulnerability while feeling safe and respected. His integration style is always attuned to nervous system capacity, personal pacing, and the importance of informed choice.
At the center of Steve’s work is a commitment to supporting the whole arc of transformation, not just the peak, but the integration that allows real change to take root. He helps clients navigate the tension between insight and action, holding space for both the mystery and the mechanics of healing.