When the body feels safe, healing begins.

I.
A life of devotion

II.
The turning point

III.

I learned Transcendental Meditation first. Then, at nineteen, I sat ten days in silence at a Vipassana retreat, and that style resonated with me more deeply. Yoga and meditation have been at the center of my life ever since.

I wanted to understand healing from every side, so I kept studying: energy healing, reflexology, traditional Japanese shiatsu and other bodywork, Mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing®, and iRest® Yoga Nidra.

I have had the privilege of learning from many incredible teachers along the way, and I am grateful to every one of them. I studied with the Iyengars and Pattabhi Jois, and three people shaped me most: Lisa Walford, who taught me Iyengar yoga, Dona Holleman - Centered Yoga, and Erich Schiffmann, who has the biggest heart of all. Their generosity lives in everything I teach.

Over the years these disciplines stopped feeling separate. They became one way of working: alive, present, and meeting whatever is here, in me and in the people I work with

Then I had a brain aneurysm. The practices I had taught for decades became the practices I needed myself. When I reached for them, they were there: the steadiness, the self compassion, the ability to feel and settle my own nervous system.

Not as knowledge. As lived experience I could actually rely on.

These practices carried me through my recovery, and they continue to teach me. They don’t take the hard moments away. What they give me is a choice. In every moment I can choose how I meet what is happening, and when I choose differently, a different outcome becomes possible. That is what I most want for the people I work with.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHELLE KRONENBERG

What I hope for

My hope is that you begin to hear what your body has been telling you and to trust it. What you find isn’t new. It’s a quiet knowing that has been with you all along.

I hope you discover a home in yourself, one so familiar you can find your way back on your own.