About Me

My first memory, as weird as this may sound, is of chasing a nature spirit through the tall, unmown grass of the field that surrounded my first home - a yoga retreat my parents had created in the late 70s in the heart of Portland, Oregon. Since then, connecting and communicating with the unseen has been a natural way I walk through life. And when the going has gotten tough, especially during my journey navigating creating my family, it is help from the unseen world I have leaned on the most. It wasn’t until I began my formal shamanic training and apprenticeship under the tutelage of Michelle McKinney, a longtime student of Sandra Ingerman and Michael Harner, though, that I recognized this as shamanism. Called to the work after years of leading group ceremony and ritual, I soon discovered a true love for working with one-on-one clients.

Background & Philosophy

I bring over 20 years of spiritual study and embodiment work to my shamanic practice. I grew up in a household that celebrated the Solstice as much as Christmas. I followed my father, a devout Jungian scholar, to Sufi gatherings as well as Sunday Catholic service. I attended my first silent retreat with Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh at 19. But for me, spiritual practice and inquiry is not enough. I am also a past instructor of GYROTONICS, Pilates, and yoga, as well as a trained dancer of sensual feminine movement. I believe strongly that we are both a Soul and a Body and learning to anchor our soul and our spiritual experiences into our body is all part of this journey of being a human-being having a spiritual experience, a spiritual-being having a human experience. And it is when this union of Soul and Body merge that we are at our most powerful.