About Me

At the age of five, my parents packed up the family, left our home which doubled as a yoga retreat center in the heart of Portland Oregon, and bought a series of one-way tickets around the world. Moving almost yearly, I spent my childhood living anywhere from a houseboat in Northern India to a marbled floored apartment in Singapore, to a lavender farm in Provence, France.

Now, I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest, with my husband and two thriving kiddos.

In my thirties though, life took a turn. Creating my family came with stillbirth as a result of a medially advised late-term abortion, miscarriage, failed IVF, NICU parenting, and postpartum depression. A need to find support led me to create what I craved but didn’t see – sacred space for women to have their hearts held and let their bodies be. Combining decades’ worth of mindfulness, spirituality, and embodiment training, I began hosting women’s circles, eventually leading me to open a private practice as a shamanic healer.

Background & Philosophy

I bring over 20 years of spiritual study and embodiment work to my shamanic practice. I grew up in a household that celebrated the Solstice as much as Christmas. I followed my father, a devout Jungian scholar, to Sufi gatherings as well as Sunday Catholic service. I attended my first silent retreat with Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh at 19. But for me, spiritual practice and inquiry is not enough. I am also a past instructor of GYROTONICS, Pilates, and yoga, as well as a trained dancer of sensual feminine movement. I believe strongly that we are both a Soul and a Body and learning to anchor our soul and our spiritual experiences into our body is all part of this journey of being a human-being having a spiritual experience, a spiritual-being having a human experience. And it is when this union of Soul and Body merge that we are at our most powerful.