Ninaki Priddy, born and raised in Los Angeles, earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Growing up in a creatively rich environment surrounded by musicians and artists, she attended the vibrant Hollywood Little Red School House and the culturally progressive Immaculate Heart High School. Ninaki fondly recalls her time at Immaculate Heart, where rebellious nuns inspired her to challenge conventional norms. Initially pursuing a degree in biology with plans for a career in pediatric medicine, she eventually transitioned to architecture. Her pre-med experience unexpectedly became a recurring theme, influencing her work in architecture, sculpting, and jewelry design. Later, she integrated her early medical training into her career as a certified holistic practitioner and somatic therapist.

Ninaki’s transition into architecture marked a significant turning point, coinciding with her discovery of stone sculpting. Encouraged by a Jungian therapist, she explored and honed her creative expression through stone carving. Her sculptures, inspired by gross anatomy and biomimetic designs, represent a fusion of her fascination with medical journals and architectural forms, seamlessly blended through her intuitive sense of proportion and form. These stone sculptures later became the blueprint for her jewelry designs, launched under her namesake brand, NINAKI.

In 2007, NINAKI, a collection of anthropomorphic, organic jewelry designs, was launched. Characterized as primordial, whimsical, and elegantly oversized, Ninaki's designs reflect a refined blend of her backgrounds in pre-med and architecture. Her innovative approach to jewelry quickly captured the industry's attention, earning her the Accessories Designer of the Year Award in 2008 from GenArt's International STYLES. NINAKI has been prominently featured in publications such as Elle, WWD, Angeleno, InStyle, Allure, Marie Claire, Glamour, Real Simple, Zink, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Until 2016, Ninaki continued to innovate with her distinctive style, blending artistry with contemporary design sensibilities, before returning to medicine with a focus on holistic care and somatic therapy.

Since 2016, Ninaki has dedicated herself to studying functional and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, achieving certification as a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST®) with the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America (BCTA/NA). She has accumulated over 2000 hours of training in the healing arts and completed a rigorous 700+ hour Biodynamic Craniosacral Training with Body Intelligence. Ninaki is also a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, proficient in Horary and Archetypal Astrology, specializing as a Western Tropical astrologer.

As a trained Craniosacral Therapist, Ninaki offers transformative sessions integrating diverse somatic therapies to promote personal growth, community building, and sacred rites of passage. Using a structured and metaphysical approach, she guides individuals through personal trauma, health-related ailments, and spiritual blocks, fostering enhanced personal development and community connection. Her unique, process-based framework ensures each session is meaningful and impactful.

Ninaki is focused on a transpersonal and Holotropic approach to healing and recovery.
Her own personal healing journey was greatly influenced by the Holotropic perspective and she feels deeply dedicated to sharing this work with those seeking healing.
Passionate about the ethics and integrity needed in facilitating expanded-state work, she deeply supports the integration of Holotropic and psychedelic sessions through somatic resourcing, and creative expression. In addition to natal chart and transit analysis, she works with psychedelic integration and transit timing for Holotropic Breathwork sessions and psychedelic journeys.

“Experience is fundamental to reality.” As Alfred North Whitehead wrote, the “final real things of which the world is made up….are drops of experience, complex and interdependent.”

If you are interested in working with Ninaki in a therapeutic capacity, her diverse training makes her uniquely qualified to guide your personal journey. She specializes in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, transpersonal psychology, archetypal astrology, and the integration of transformative experiences. This multifaceted approach enables her to support you in exploring and deepening your own consciousness, offering a holistic path to personal growth and healing.

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