I teach somatic (body-based) life skills to individuals and groups and working out of Portland, Oregon. I’ve had a lifetime fascination with approaching the body as a vehicle for creative expression, self-awareness, and exploration of life. I am passionate about helping myself and others live more joyful, conscious, curious, embodied lives.

After becoming a licensed massage therapist in 2001, I have studied and practiced various structural, energetic modalities as well as mind/body/spirit work, including brainspotting (a trauma processing modality), mindful compassionate dialogue, presencing work (helping people navigate their emotions thoughts and patterns through being deeply present with what is happening in the body), matrix energetics, bodymapping, breathwork, neuromuscular therapy, and reiki.

I am a life-long dancer, and have studied movement and somatic forms for the past 25 years.

Having completed the four-year Alexander Alliance NW/SW training course in 2013, I am a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

My current work focuses on helping people become more regulated and resourced, understanding themselves more fully and being more deeply kind to oneself,  working through life patterns and coming into more true choice, and getting more comfortable in their body and with themselves.

A few other facts:

• I have facilitated workshops for public and touch practitioners since 2004

• I worked for 4 years at Providence hospitals, doing bodywork with inpatients and outpatients with cancer and other medical conditions

• My BA was in Psychology and Dance

• I have been a student of dance since the age of 4, and continue to dance and perform in the present, although in more recent years you will more often find me with my family or out hiking somewhere beautiful