I am

A practitioner of presence. A guide of bodies back to themselves. A weaver of breath, touch, story, and stillness.

I began teaching yoga in 2010, drawn first to the breath and the way it could soften grief, bring you back into the moment, and sometimes help you find your way back to yourself. Over the years, I taught private sessions and community classes in yoga studios, rec centers, military bases, art camps, and corporate spaces. My early trainings were trauma-informed and rooted in mindfulness and movement, but I learned pretty quickly that healing is rarely linear. And it is never just physical.

In 2013, Reiki cracked something open in me. In 2014, I fell in love with Thai Yoga Bodywork, studied extensively with a teacher based in Thailand, and continued my training in the years that followed. Somewhere along the way, I also became an ordained minister with the Church of Life and have had the honor of officiating three ceremonies.

I have always been interested in the layers of healing. The nervous system, the stories we carry, the things the body remembers even when the mind has moved on. In 2019, I pursued a certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. At the time, it felt like another piece of the puzzle, something that could bring language and understanding to places the body alone could not always reach.

But even while studying CBT, I kept coming back to the same things: the breath, the body, emotion, awareness, and the parts of healing that do not always fit neatly into words. I realized I did not want to choose between cognitive work and somatic work. I was far more interested in the place where they meet.

Before I had language for some of what I was doing, I was already drawn to that intersection. Logic and tenderness. Mindfulness and emotion. Structure and intuition. Learning when to understand something and when to simply stay present with it.

In 2020, ten years after first dreaming about it, I became a licensed massage therapist. Massage did not replace Thai Yoga Bodywork. It gave me another language to work with. I continued offering Thai-inspired sessions while expanding into table massage and more intuitive, integrative bodywork.

Sound also found its way into my work around that time, especially through Acutonics, tuning forks, hand chimes, and using vibration and resonance within a session. My Reiki practice continued to deepen, eventually leading to my Holy Fire Master attunement in 2024.

Today, my work brings all of those threads together: touch, breath, movement, stillness, nervous system awareness, energy, curiosity, and listening. I am less interested in deciding what I think a body should be doing and much more interested in listening to what it is actually doing. That has become one of the deepest foundations of my work.

My practice is still evolving. I hope it always does. There is no finish line here, just a deeper listening, a little more honesty, and a willingness to keep meeting the body where it is.

I am honored to do this work.