“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health - and create profitable diseases and dependencies - by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.”
— Wendell Berry
My mission is to support you in connecting to your intuitive body wisdom so you can heal from pain and depletion, reclaim your vitality, and shift from surviving to thriving.
I believe that health is more than just the absence of disease, but rather physical, energetic, spiritual, ecological, and community wellbeing built through relationships with the self, with community, and with the natural world, and cultivated by daily, intentional practice. Integrating the wisdom tradition of Yoga, the ancient science of Ayurveda, the healing practice of CranioSacral Therapy, and the modern sciences of Physical Therapy and pain neuroscience, I aim to support clients in reconnecting with their innate wisdom and inherent wholeness to address the root causes of imbalance and facilitate health and healing.
I envision a community and a culture in which wellness is a practice, grounded in ancestral traditions and ecological wisdom, integrated into the rhythms of life, and embodied as a way of being in the world that honors our connection and interdependence. We are partners in health and wellness, recognizing the interdependence of our individual, collective, and ecological health. We are being called to be stewards of these ecosystems and commit to sustainable, responsive practices that awaken our capacity for intentional, heart-centered action for individual and collective liberation. We invest in wellness as a practice and support each other in cultivating balanced lives rooted in relationship and connection. The practice of wellness is an investment in the health of your entire ecosystem, and the practice is the path to reclaiming wholeness and connection.
Wholeness is our natural state.
The body, mind, and spirit are interconnected, and anything that impacts one, impacts all three. Similarly, the health of the individual, community, and planet are intertwined, and cannot be treated in isolation.
Health is more than just the absence of disease, but rather physical, energetic, spiritual, ecological, and community wellbeing rooted in connection and relationship.
The five elements (earth, water, fire, wind, and space) are present in varying ratios in all things in nature, including our food, and our individual constitutions. We each have our own unique combination of the elements that we can bring into balance with our environment to facilitate optimal health.
Each element has specific properties or qualities (e.g. heavy or light, cold or hot, dry or oily), called gunas. Understanding the gunas can help us identify early signs of imbalance by recognizing when a particular quality is too high or too low. We find balance by applying this law of the universe: Like facilities like and opposites bring balance.
Shifting our daily routines and diets in accordance with the seasons maintains balance and prevents illness.
Anything can be a medicine or a poison depending on how it is used.
Small, intentional choices can lead to large long term changes.
“Ayurveda is to free the mind, which is trapped in the body. Yoga is to free the soul, which is trapped in the mind.” - Baba Hari Das
Yoga is a deep spiritual practice and system of cultivating meditation. As the second Yoga Sutra states, “Yoga is the state in which we no longer identify with, or get carried away by, the swirling of the mind.” - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
I believe that shadow illuminates light and I intend to hold space for the full spectrum of experience. I am not afraid to dive into the shadows. I named my practice lotus because the lotus represents the beauty that grows from the mud.
As we deepen our connection to our highest selves, we deepen our connection with each other.
Yoga is a practice of liberation. The eight-limbed path begins with the relationship between the individual and society, and is founded on the principle of ahimsa, or non-violence and non-harming. As a person with both marginalized and dominant identities, I recognize the violence of systemic racism, homophobia, sexism, nationalism and other systems of oppression on individuals and communities. I believe that systemic oppression deeply impacts each individual’s health and wellness, and that healing must occur in the context of recognizing this trauma and actively working to dismantle oppressive systems. This includes acknowledging the social determinants of health and the unequal health outcomes in this country for people with marginalized identities. It also includes the recognition that oppression harms all of us, including those members of our community with dominant identities, by robbing us of our humanity and imposing social and cultural norms that limit our authentic self-expression and our relationships. Yoga teaches that individual liberation is not possible without collective liberation. I intend to examine the roots of oppression and violence where they begin, in our own hearts and minds, and to continue to do the work to unlearn habits of racism, heteronormativity, sexism, etc. I aim to create a practice in which all beings can show up as their full selves and be truly seen and heard.