My Story

I’ve been called a mystic, a yogi, a healer, and — my favorite — a thoughtful student of life.

I’m also someone who has spent a lot of years learning how to come home to myself.

My path has taken me through trauma, addiction, recovery, yoga, bodywork, spirituality, motherhood, grief, and more than a few experiences that forced me to question what I thought I knew about myself and about healing.

For a long time, I looked outside myself for the answer. I followed other people’s rules. I learned how to be good, how to be safe, how to survive, how to do the right thing.

And eventually, I learned that none of those things could replace the deeper knowing that lives inside the body.

That knowing has become the foundation of my work.

I believe we are born with an innate capacity for wisdom, connection, creativity, love, and joy. Life can bury those qualities under trauma, conditioning, grief, fear, and the adaptations we make to survive. But I don’t believe they disappear.

They’re still there.

My work is about creating the conditions for you to reconnect with them.

Through CranioSacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Realization, somatic breathwork, and embodiment practices, I work with the body as a source of information rather than something to overcome. We slow down enough to notice what is actually happening — sensation, breath, emotion, impulse, resistance, intuition — and allow your own experience to become part of the conversation.

Over time, my work has naturally expanded from hands-on healing into something broader: helping people develop a deeper relationship with their own inner wisdom and learn to live from it.

This is the heart of my embodiment work.

I’m not interested in teaching you how to become someone else. I’m interested in helping you become more fully yourself — to notice what your body is telling you, recognize the patterns that keep you disconnected from yourself, and begin making choices from a place of greater awareness, trust, and authenticity.

Return to Inner Wisdom is a deeper container within this work — a guided journey for people who are ready to move beyond simply understanding themselves and begin living from what they know.

I’m interested in the place where science and spirituality meet, but I don’t think everything meaningful needs to be proven in a laboratory before we’re allowed to trust our experience.

Your felt experience matters.

Your body knows things your thinking mind may not yet have words for.

And sometimes the most profound changes happen when we stop trying so hard to fix ourselves and begin listening instead.

That is what I mean by embodiment.

Not becoming a better version of yourself.

Coming home to the one who has been here all along.

I don’t see myself as someone who has all the answers. I’m still a student. I’m still listening. I’m still discovering what it means to live from the heart while keeping my feet firmly on the ground.

What I can offer is a steady presence, a deep respect for your experience, and a space where you don’t have to perform, prove, or become anything other than who you are.

We’ll start there.

Embodiment and our relationship to the earth

Embodiment is about more than coming home to our physical presence.

It is also about remembering our organic nature.

We are not separate from the natural world. Our bodies are made of the same living world we often experience as something "out there" — earth, water, air, plants, animals, seasons, and the people around us.

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to experience ourselves as separate. We became increasingly disconnected from our bodies, from one another, and from the living systems that sustain us.

Returning to ourselves can also mean remembering that we belong here.

This is part of what I mean by embodiment: reconnecting with the felt experience of being a human being in relationship — with our own bodies, with other people, and with the earth and the aliveness all around us - with us.

It is a remembering.

A return to what is already known at a deeper, more organic level.

And perhaps this is one reason I feel it is important to acknowledge the land on which I live and work. This land has a history, a people, and a relationship to those who have cared for it long before I arrived.

North Star Somatic Arts is located on the traditional homeland of the Lenni-Lenape people. I offer this acknowledgment with respect for the Lenape people, past and present, and as an invitation to remember that none of us exists apart from the living world.