My lifelong interest in the relationship between the body and consciousness, spirit and matter, began with a single life-changing experience.

When I was fifteen, my father died suddenly in front of our family. The loss created the kind of rupture that divides a life into before and after. Paradoxically, the intensity of the rupture was matched by a profound heart-opening experience that words could never capture. Inside the loss, I understood two things: we don’t die and love is all there is. 

Nothing in the context of my life could explain what I experienced, so I held it, along with the confusion, quietly in my heart—partly to honor my own process, and partly, to avoid being misunderstood and put in a psyche ward. At the same time, I remained deeply engaged with both the twin currents of grief and awakening, and with the questions they generated: What was that? How do I make sense of what I experienced? And a favorite of many sensitives: Am I just making this up? 

For the next decade, alongside school, sports, and family life, extraordinary experiences occurred as if life were leaving me breadcrumbs, quietly guiding my next steps. Among them was serving in Calcutta, India, in the Home for the Dying and other centers of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. My time there became a defining initiation that completed the dissolution begun in the experiences surrounding my father's death and revealed a truer north. That new orientation quietly shaped every significant choice that followed, drawing me toward the places, teachers, and disciplines that would shape the next forty years.

My life has evolved within a living stream of teachers. While my body, biology and biography have been my primary guides, there are countless people, traditions, places, and lineages that have expanded, challenged, refined, and deepened my understanding. Together, they form a living curriculum that continues to shape both my life and my work. My gratitude to these teachers is immeasurable.

Formal Foundations

• Duke University, B.A.,

• Loyola University, M.A.

Cultivated disciplined inquiry, intellectual rigor, and a lifelong love of learning.

The Body-Mind

• Chicago School of Massage Therapy

• Continuing Education: Neuromuscular, Zero Balancing, Craniosacral, Polarity, Brain Gym, Applied Kinesiology, Reiki

• Dr Dean Ornish Healthy Heart

• Nutrition with Shelley Summers
  

Revealed that touch can become a conversation with consciousness

Living Wisdom Traditions

• Living in India with my family 

• Studying traditional yoga in the Krishnamacharya lineage with A.G. Mohan of Svastha Yoga

• Studying Zhineng Medical Qi Gong with Master Luke Chan

• Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: Buddhist immersion studies

• Experience and study with indigenous teachers of the Lakota, Tiwa and Dine Nations

Revealed language, perspective and practices for realities my body had already begun revealing.

Earth Teachers 

• India: Calcutta, Chennai, Dharmsala and other sacred sites

• Sacred Valley in Cusco, Peru

• Study Abroad: Israel & Giza Pyramid, Cairo, Egypt

• Pilgrimages to Celtic and Christian sacred sites 

Revealed embodied truths that could never be learned through instruction alone.

Biological Intelligence

• Mindful Menstruation, Pregnancy, Birth, Miscarriage, Menopause

• Motherhood

• Tamara Slayton & Female Embodiment studies

• Curating and facilitating the Women Awake Experience.

Revealed that my own female biology was living the teachings I was studying.

Relational Field

• My beloved children

• Thousands of clients and students

• Soulful friendships that deepen growth

• Long-term mentorship and teaching relationships

• Participating and facilitating Ceremonies

• Community-based experiences

Revealed that remembering is a collective endeavor

All that I have studied, integrated and created has occurred within the context of being a householder, which included 20 years of single parenting. That lifestyle greatly informs my perspective and experience – all of which makes my teachings practical and full of compassion.

For forty years, I’ve devoted myself to translating eastern wisdom for western understanding, ancient teachings into embodied practices, the body's intelligence into language people can comprehend, spiritual insight into everyday living. That focus has taken many forms that I call Wayfinders. Some include:

• Private Practice: advising leaders and teachers; supporting thousands of people with a wide array of physical, emotional and mental needs

• Mindful Movement Classes: in tradition of Svastha Yoga and Medical Qi Gong.

• Retreats: created and led a wide variety of retreats nationally and internationally

• Ceremonialist: facilitating ceremonies for many of life’s threshold moments

• Speaking: hundreds of speaking engagements at various educational, corporate and other institutional venues.

• Community building and Educational Events 
  

Different paths with one intention: to help people awaken their innate capacity to heal themselves, steady their mind, be in communion and community and practice loving without end on this exquisite planet we call home.