I've been dancing and singing since I started walking and talking. I've utilized vocalization with movement my whole life not only as a form of play but more so as a legitamate self-healing mechanism.

 

After traveling the world with my family before starting kindergarten, it was soon-discovered despite my apparent intelligence, I had a learning disability. With a growing, difficult home life, this developed into complex trauma that manifested in depression and chronic illness. These challenges in school led to risky behavior - yet dance remained my only solace. In my teens, as a promising professional dancer, a near-fatal car accident changed my life forever. During the year of recovery from a traumatic brain injury and temporary paralysis, I taught myself breath-work, yoga, and meditation. These practices became a gateway to my deep understanding of real healing. My father, a physical therapist, was a great influence on my lifelong learning and natural abilities as a healer. The doctors told me I would barely be able to walk, let alone dance again, and within a year I was standing on my head.

 

Over the years, I’ve studied with many master teachers in a variety of modalities, working intuitively on both a physical and energetic level. I honor the body’s traumas, injuries, and pain through deep communication and release with breath, sound, stretch, core strengthening, and massage. Always with a deep listening to the body's signals as to what it needs to facilitate its innate ability to heal. I am a self-proclaimed empiricist, while I've trained in many modalities, the practices I use are the ones either I've developed naturally, or I've learned of after I had already been practicing through my own self-discovery.

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Massage Therapist Certification from IPSB, as well as decades of additional training: list available upon request. 

Certified Yoga Training: Eric Shiftman, John Friend, Saul Rae, Jivamukti Yoga Center, Yoga Studies Institute, Golden Bridge Yoga Center, Rama Institute.

Additional Training, Somatic Trauma Release work and Integration, Atira Tan.

Emotional Release Therapy, Huna Healing, Empowerment Inc. 

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