Guided by a deep curiosity and reverence for the human experience,

I am constantly learning and integrating holistic philosophies and modalities and crafting them into transformative shared experiences. When you spend time with me in a class or conversation, the philosophies of Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda inform the intuitive movement, breath practices, self-massage, and meditation experiences that I have studied and practiced for nearly twenty years. Over the course of my career, I have had the honor of creating and facilitating relaxation journeys in various capacities and environments for thousands of people.

 

     I am, as you may be, too, no stranger to anxiety. It's nearly impossible to avoid at this point in time, and we all have plenty of reasons for that. Personally, mine has taken many different forms over the course of my life, and sometimes, at it's worst, it prevents me from eating, sleeping, or even thinking properly. And once I began working with people, I learned that they, too, were experiencing their own unique symptoms of anxiety or depression, (or some lucky folks experience them both) and everyone is essentially walking around with this huge, burdensome load of stress that causes us suffering, disease, or pain in one way or another. For a long time, I devoted myself to helping people ease the suffering they felt in their physical bodies through the facials, massages, and body treatments I offered for nearly 15 years. And yet, no matter how many massages or energetic clearings we receive, if we do not examine the source of stress in the first place, it will persist. So while I have been treating the effects of stress on the body for a long time with the somatic healing tools of massage, breath, yoga, and herbal concoctions, I now also offer meditative practices that aim specifically  at deeper layers of ourselves where the source resides: the subconscious mind. I believe that through a meditation practice, we begin to redefine our relationship with ourselves, and it's through this redefinition that we start to relate to ourselves and others with more compassion and forgiveness, thus shifting our relationships and the ways that we perceive and relate to the world.

   A Certified Massage Therapist since 2002, and a Certified Ayurvedic Health Educator through the California College of Ayurveda since 2006, I am also a licensed holistic Aesthetician, an RYT 200 Yoga Teacher, Certified Yoga Nidra teacher, iRest Level 2 Certified Teacher, Certified Tantric Meditation Teacher, and a Master Gardener in Davison County, TN.  My teachers include but are not limited to Sri Mata Amrtanandamayi Devi, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Pratima Raichur, Dr. Claudia Welch, Kimberly Ann Johnson, Tracee Stanley, Richard Miller, and Mary Thompson.

  I  have lived on a suburban Californian cul-de-sac, in a tiny guest house in Santa Barbara, in a Presidio officer's mansion in San Francisco, in a stuga on a permaculture farm in Sweden, in a castle-turned-ashram in southern France, in a farmhouse on a vineyard in the Napa Valley, in a Brooklyn brownstone, and in a Canadian cabin that sits on a lake. Now I live a slow life, growing herbs and creating at my cottage home in Nashville, TN, with my husband and two beautiful kiddos.