For over 40 years I have been studying the body. Ballet consumed my early life, including two European tours. I earned a Biology degree from Oberlin. Yoga practice and teaching lead me to living off-and-on in Southeast Asia. My lifelong dedication to expressive movement lends to my responsive approach to bodywork. Mine is the Wounded Healer journey. I depended on holistic therapies and devoted yoga practice to sustain myself through bouts of depression with high-stakes web design career in the go-go 90s dot-com boom. But then I had a near-fatal illness which western medicine couldn't fix. Stress-induced digestive failure, coupled with tropical poisoning and heart-break met in a perfect storm. I lost tons of weight and my vitality was simply seeping away. My friends noticed "you have one foot in the other world." This was true. Ultimately I would transform the illness via meditation while living in a Thai Buddhist monastery in 2000. I healed myself, and went directly from the monster to begin  bodywork studies. My devotion is to return  your ease and balance now.