About Me
Extreme empathy contributed to depression in my younger years, but it opened me to understanding and intuitive insight for my clients’ deepest blockages. I now see this sensitivity as a gift, enabling me to recognize and untangle the root causes of their unhappiness, anxiety, or hurdles in their spiritual development.
My highest goal is to guide my clients to the truest, purest, immortal part of themselves, so that they may forever experience themselves as whole. I seek to teach my clients to engage their healing power of empathy––which arrises from tragedy, trauma and challenge––and to live at ease with life.
My training began with my massage therapy program after college in 2002-2003 at the Mountain Heart School of Transformational Bodywork. This included primarily somatic mind-body therapy, reframing techniques to heal trauma, and neuromuscular work to heal the body’s tissues.
My personal experiences, which cultivate my ability to lead others to profound healing and spiritual development, began with a chronic illness that went undiagnosed and misdiagnosed for many years, a cycle that lead me through desperation, the gamut of holistic and western medicine, and finally to a place of trust in life that only shows up when we learn how to surrender and trust in our body’s ability to heal.
It is also through this experience––and the ever deepening and profound trust that I have in life––that I am able to guide my clients and students through their most challenging moments into their greatest strength, their greatest love, wisdom, and the actuation of their best life.
I am blessed to have trained with John F. Barnes, the founder of Myofascial Release. My training and experiences continued with energy work, shamanic work, and years of therapy, as I learned how to integrate and heal from childhood traumas and how being an empath can be an empowering strength instead of a burden.
I attained my 200 hour yoga and meditation teacher certification from the Kaivalya Yoga School at the Mahadevi Ashram in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. During this program, I surrendered my personal will to the discomforts and routines of ashram life, received deep teachings in the science of yoga and tantra, and participated in my first silent meditation retreat. This experience gave me the true knowing of the nature of the universe, the human condition, and the deep longing that we all hold for connection and perfection, and ultimately the path to finding it.
This journey culminated in my complete healing as I gained a mastery of meditation and my own Self Knowledge. After 20 years of yoga, 4 years of meditation, and 7 years of practicing myofascial release work, which requires being in a meditative, allowing and witnessing state, I feel spiritually awakened.
Though there are tens of thousands of paths to enlightenment, there are several commonalities. I teach from this perspective and guide my students and clients to not just a relaxing state, but to a true state of meditation, where the potential for true transformation and connection resides.
Through this practice and experience, I found my own spiritual freedom and an un-conflicted knowing that anxiety and depression would no longer threaten my life. I know what it is to feel hopeless, disconnected, and lost. And I know how to guide people out of that to their own spiritual experience and to the truth of their wholeness and connectedness to all that is.
Body and energy work are vital for breaking the physical pain cycle, releasing trauma from the body and allowing the body’s posture to reflect a different relationship to life. It also peels back layers, allowing us to access and witness the holding patterns and limiting belief systems operating inside each of us. Pain is a great teacher.
I do not believe that everything happens for a reason. Tragedy and pain come to undeserving people. Karma is not a system of reward and punishment. I do believe we can learn to take every challenge in life as an opportunity to learn to open our hearts more and surrender more fully to life.
What we resist persists, so I teach my clients how to find stillness and learn from their experiences to find a greater capacity for healing. I don’t tell my clients to “Let go.” Rather, I teach them to integrate the greatest wisdom from the greatest challenges and to heal themselves.
My highest goal is to guide my clients to the truest, purest, immortal part of themselves, so that they may forever experience themselves as whole. I seek to teach my clients to engage their healing power of empathy––which arrises from tragedy, trauma and challenge––and to live at ease with life.
My training began with my massage therapy program after college in 2002-2003 at the Mountain Heart School of Transformational Bodywork. This included primarily somatic mind-body therapy, reframing techniques to heal trauma, and neuromuscular work to heal the body’s tissues.
My personal experiences, which cultivate my ability to lead others to profound healing and spiritual development, began with a chronic illness that went undiagnosed and misdiagnosed for many years, a cycle that lead me through desperation, the gamut of holistic and western medicine, and finally to a place of trust in life that only shows up when we learn how to surrender and trust in our body’s ability to heal.
It is also through this experience––and the ever deepening and profound trust that I have in life––that I am able to guide my clients and students through their most challenging moments into their greatest strength, their greatest love, wisdom, and the actuation of their best life.
I am blessed to have trained with John F. Barnes, the founder of Myofascial Release. My training and experiences continued with energy work, shamanic work, and years of therapy, as I learned how to integrate and heal from childhood traumas and how being an empath can be an empowering strength instead of a burden.
I attained my 200 hour yoga and meditation teacher certification from the Kaivalya Yoga School at the Mahadevi Ashram in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. During this program, I surrendered my personal will to the discomforts and routines of ashram life, received deep teachings in the science of yoga and tantra, and participated in my first silent meditation retreat. This experience gave me the true knowing of the nature of the universe, the human condition, and the deep longing that we all hold for connection and perfection, and ultimately the path to finding it.
This journey culminated in my complete healing as I gained a mastery of meditation and my own Self Knowledge. After 20 years of yoga, 4 years of meditation, and 7 years of practicing myofascial release work, which requires being in a meditative, allowing and witnessing state, I feel spiritually awakened.
Though there are tens of thousands of paths to enlightenment, there are several commonalities. I teach from this perspective and guide my students and clients to not just a relaxing state, but to a true state of meditation, where the potential for true transformation and connection resides.
Through this practice and experience, I found my own spiritual freedom and an un-conflicted knowing that anxiety and depression would no longer threaten my life. I know what it is to feel hopeless, disconnected, and lost. And I know how to guide people out of that to their own spiritual experience and to the truth of their wholeness and connectedness to all that is.
Body and energy work are vital for breaking the physical pain cycle, releasing trauma from the body and allowing the body’s posture to reflect a different relationship to life. It also peels back layers, allowing us to access and witness the holding patterns and limiting belief systems operating inside each of us. Pain is a great teacher.
I do not believe that everything happens for a reason. Tragedy and pain come to undeserving people. Karma is not a system of reward and punishment. I do believe we can learn to take every challenge in life as an opportunity to learn to open our hearts more and surrender more fully to life.
What we resist persists, so I teach my clients how to find stillness and learn from their experiences to find a greater capacity for healing. I don’t tell my clients to “Let go.” Rather, I teach them to integrate the greatest wisdom from the greatest challenges and to heal themselves.
My Training
- BFA in Interior Design and a Minor in Collaborative Leadership from the University of Charleston, WV
- 850 hour Massage Therapy Certification from the MountainHeart School of Transformational Massage and Bodywork.
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Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Holistic Doula Training 64 hours
- Holistic Midwifery Introductory Training 420 hours
Meditation and Yoga
- Thai Yoga Massage 42 hours
- Meditation and Mindfulness for Massage Therapists 7CEs
- Mindfulness for Educators through Mindful Schools Organization
- Kaivalya Yoga School Certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher 200 hours
Myofascial Release with John Barnes
- Myofascial Release I 20 hours
- Unwinding I 20 hours
- Fascial Pelvis 20 hours
- Women's Health Seminar: The Myofascial Release Approach 25 hours
- Pediatric Myofascial Release 12 hours