A healing arts practitioner since 2003, my practice synergizes Osteopathic Lymphatic, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapies. I have consistently trained with the Chikly Health Institute since 2010, for which I am currently a teaching assistant.  I completed my certification training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, with the STAR Institute and have studied and mentored with Gary Peterson since 2017. 

I recently spent 10 years, until 2023, in practice focused on these modalities in Sebastopol, California where I had the opportunity to work with many dear people, going through potent and often intensely challenging times in their lives.  I had the honor of collaborating with Dr. Chris Holder, an ND trained at Bastyr, who specializes in supporting patients diagnosed with cancer and neurological conditions. I served as adjunct support for many of for his patients with a variety of conditions, particularly patients with cancers of the breast and thyroid, and often their diverse choices of treatment included surgery.

In 2014, I co-founded the Bay Area Breast Health Collective with Dr. Chris Holder, Vladi Starkov, LAC, and Renee Russo, of the Thermography Center of Sonoma County, offering workshops and care, focused on fostering breast health. I also had the opportunity to mentor with and work alongside DeAnna Batdorf, Ayurvedic Practitioner, in her Women’s Health Clinics and at the Women’s Herbal Symposium, where in 2015, I served as part of her team offering hands-on breast wellness treatments to 180 women as well as self-care education.  I completed my first trainings in Lymphatic Therapy for the breasts in 2010, as part of the Chikly curriculum and later that year, with Daya Fisch, LMT, who offers a wonderful resource with The Breast Health Project.

More recently, I had the joy of receiving referrals from another ND, Thea Rabb, as well as Daciana Iancu, MD (Anthroposophical Medicine Specialist) who started sending young people, including babies with their families, to me for treatment.   Offering support for the breastfeeding relationship is a service that I have been pursuing training for since the early 2000s.

Offering hands on therapy has been a transformative gift from the very first Thai Massage practice session I gave, in my first training in India, in 2001. I felt the support of a vast Love, a fundamental Goodwill that felt like it was the real basis of life, show up when I simply prayed to connect with the forces of healing available to this being in front of me.  This experience coupled with attending a Vipassana retreat where I sat and felt my nervous system unwind for ten days, deeply shifted the way I saw and experienced reality and my life, these were my ignitions as a practitioner, and together with an overwhelming awakening to the electrical aspect of my body at 16, set me firmly on my path. I’ve been pursuing skills and knowledge ever since, to understand the amazing phenomena of healing, and to gain skills and knowledge to keep my own and my clients’ minds and senses interested enough to be willing to slow down, make space to allow healing to happen and allow Life to flow through us.

Born in Ojai, California, I have lived up and down the West Coast, and am a recent transplant to the PNW, drawn by the abundant rainfall and accessible wilderness. Having grown up in small towns in California and Oregon, I am a daughter of Chaparral, of orange groves and hot mountain streams, the powerful Pacific, dense pine forest, and stony rivers.

Educated as a philosopher, artist, farmer, yogini, meditator and hands-on therapist, I have learned and experienced something of the power and possibility of cultivating our perception.  Growing up attending Waldorf and Krishnamurti schools, I gained a deep orientation to truth seeing, reverent relationship with nature, and appreciation for the formative forces of physical and cultural environments and systems.

Later as a Visual Arts major at UCLA, I found myself in good company, past and present, for aesthetic and critical dialogues around perception. My mind loved the mind-bending discussions, yet my work turned me back to my powerful experiences of color in a Waldorf Kindergarten.  I reveled in communion with color, which led me to Goethe and his approach to observation of en situ forms and phenomena in nature.  After becoming a mother, I feel very grateful to my family for supporting me to attend Foundation Year Training and the Biodynamic Farming series at Rudolf Steiner College.  These programs were nectar for all my heart’s deepest interests and the teachings continue to be part of our lives through our children’s school journeys and our efforts at farming.

My family and I are learning from land along the Samish River, where we are cultivating and wildcrafting food and medicine, and developing a contemplative refuge for local and visiting animals and people.  More than half of the land we live on is rich wetlands, abundant with many forms of life, and many lessons about the movements of water. We hope to be able to improve the health of the waters, the land and all the beings who visit.