I am a creative soul that has experimented with many paths including theatre, music, art and clothing design. I've worked many jobs to support my creative endeavors, from custom framing, to landscaping, to educational programming at a botanical garden.

My path to restorative wellness began after spending the better part of a decade living with chronic pain in my shoulders. Despite being in pain, I wanted to keep moving, and taking a 200-hour yoga teacher training seemed like a good way to go deeper into movement and self-care. It was intense, and one of the best choices I’ve made.

By going deep into training, I began to recognize that my fruitless soul-searching through different jobs and projects was what ultimately needed to shift. But it was my body that would end up showing me what was holding me back, years later.

Over the years I became less artistic and creative. I was feeling worn out, and months would go by between my creative projects. My creative fire was becoming a pile of ash. As someone who had always loved creating and trying new things, I wondered if this was just me getting older and less energetic, and thus a fact of life.

Being the problem-solving type, I didn't want to accept that as fact. I had a good self-care practice, but I was feeling the pull to go beyond maintenance. I needed to dig deep, and I needed a teacher. Animism as a spiritual practice intruiged me because of its nature-based approach, but I had no idea it would be the powerful missing link I was looking for.

Before I started exploring the Medicine Path with my teacher Angela Prider, I had a very casual, disconnected spiritual practice. Angela helped me reconnect with my instincts and core being through Animism and the wheel of the year. The alignment with the rhythms of nature was a natural fit for healing and growth. I experienced the truth that the more we walk with the rhythms of nature, the more easeful life becomes.

Meanwhile, I had begun to feel and ongoing pain and muscle disfunction in my lower abdomen that doctors couldn't identify as a problem despite mulitple tests.

The Somatic Connection

Through my work with Angela, I connected with my ancestry and my subconcious. I discovered I was always living with sense of scarcity in the back of my mind. The fear of not being enough or making enough money was being held in my lower abdomen. I experienced a powerful somatic release once I identified the emotional and ancestral baggage I'd been carrying there.

The womb is considered the creative centre in many traditions, and it was my reconnection with this part of my body that began to bring my creative fire back to life. Incredibly, the pain and tension in my abdomen started to disappear.

Elemental Wisdom

As I continued to work on healing my relationship with scarcity, I was re-connecting with dance, as if my body knew what it needed already. My work led to training as a Dance as Medicine guide, a potent practice that weaves together science-based somatic practices and shamanic wisdom. During the training, I worked with the element of Earth in particular because of its connection to creative source and intution.

With dedication, I eventually fully reignited my dimming flame, and now had the tools to never let it go out again. I had assembled my own unique fusion of healing practices that would become what I teach today.