On this
journey, I walk and weave many paths: bodyworker &
Soul Waves practitioner, body-centered therapist,
Ayurvedic educator, aromatherapist and European-trained
chef. As a Soul Embodiment guide, I offer personal
counseling sessions and also lead groups and workshops
on soul & creativity. Currently I am in the final
editing of a manuscript for a book I’ve written on the
somatic embodiment of soul.
I have spent the last twenty years studying and offering healing arts in many forms. Initially trained at the internationally recognized Boulder College of Massage Therapy (and later an instructor there) in the USA, my work first centered on Integrative bodywork. Neo-Reichian in origin, this approach uses breath, massage and movement to facilitate conscious integration of body, mind and spirit. Fascinated by the connection of body and emotion, I spent the next years studying Hakomi Integrative Somatics (now Sensorimotor Psychotherapy), diving deeper into the effects of trauma and its resolution via the nervous system.
Over the years, I developed a unique style of massage table-based work that I refer to as Soul Centered Bodywork. Using hands-on contact and verbal skills, the client is guided into a deeper connection with their psyche and inner landscape. Encountering their soul's deepest longing, a client often glimpses how they hold themselves back in life (manifested in the body as tension, energy blockage, etc).
Discovering Watsu® and WaterDance opened a whole new realm of possibility. Water offers a brilliant medium for all aspects of healing, not merely the physical but also the emotional, energetic and spiritual. Certainly, while floating in watery arms, one can brush against the mysteries of soul... and the possibility of deep transformation unfolds.
Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (USA), an instructor at three different colleges of massage, and a Watsu assistant instructor, I have trained hundreds of students and worked with innumerable clients over two decades. I bring a wealth of expertise and professional experience to this work, a gentle confidence manifested in a presence and rare quality of touch that contribute to the depth of healing possible.
I look
forward to meeting and floating you in the healing
waters...