Being from a family of builders, brooke grew up underneath houses as a way to spend time with her family. Listening to water, provided insight into how to work with the elements and harness their strength. It wasn’t until she got her hands in the earth that she really connected with the act of building, and is passionate about the healing it provides self and community.  

“My dad grew up with a sign that was passed down from his dad.  It said “Plumbers protect the health of the Nation.”  I believe that that artists do too - not only protect our health - but manifest ways to improve it. I became a California General Contractor, license #980256, as my way to bring integrity to working with the earth.”

Grounding in Indigenous relationships to land and Somatic Education, I invite people of all ages, abilities, and cultures into collaborative spaces of learning. I begin first by introducing what body and earth based practices are available to slow down, to listen, and heal.  Working as a community to remember the history underneath us, we discover messages - true to that place and true to our bodies - that want to come forward, not just from past or present, but what wants to be carried on into the future.  

Teaching people how to build - be it a new earth marker, or skills to build a home, a playscape for children and adults alike - inspires our bodies to be curious again, to play, to crawl, to touch and be touched, or be quiet and practice how to relax.  It is an empowering life long skill that people take with them and are able to pass on to their families.  

What I appreciate about being with the earth is that when you’re in contact with it it brings out a truth. Gathering around a circle, and building ring by ring, brings us in touch with an intelligence that is deeper than our own. Creating an experience for our bodies, which wouldn’t normally exist in society, offers a space where we can meet, hear each other and learn something new.  What seems like the hardest work, building and getting dirty, getting wet, becomes the most joyous, and brings people together despite our differences or hardships we may be experiencing.  

Working in both natural and urban spaces, the communities I have had the pleasure of working with include 

• building a sanctuary for the Tarahumara women to recover from birth with the municipality of Guachochi, Mexico

• a sweat lodge with the Havasupai, people of the turquoise waters at the bottom of the grand canyon

• eight immersive playscapes outside the Hayward Gallery and Queen’s Hall on the Southbank in London celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee

• a life size Venus of Willendorf on Anapamu “Rising Place” in Santa Barbara with mud from the mudslides offering people permission to heal.   

Superadobe has been sought out by NASA, received the Aga Khan award for architecture, and has been featured in Vogue and HGTV amongst more.