My grandmother had healing hands.  She studied massage, reflexology, hands on healing, nutrition, ayurveda, aromatherapy - pretty much anything related to holistic health.  I grew up listening to her stories, eating her delicious food, and asking for foot massages.  She told me about the healing power of trees and shared her belief that our Creator was magnificent. I told her that God was not a person, but a power. Some of my earliest memories are feeling unconditionally loved by my grandmother and knowing that there was something magic about her.  I realized later that magic was also called love.

I left home at 17, to study in an enchanted forest with students from around the world (Pearson College UWC). I woke up to see deer outside my window and I sometimes plunged into the icy waters of the Pacific.   I eventually graduated from that magical school and left a close knit community.  Reluctantly, I started university.  There were many ups and some tremendous downs.  There were challenges I had never anticipated.  I decided to take my foundational hatha yoga teacher training in 2012.  I finished it and quickly started teaching classes at my university.  Over the years the classes multiplied, I did a formal research study involving yoga, I started to address some of my own deep wounds, and embark on a holistic healing journey.  That’s a story for another day. 

 I graduated with my degree, and when I finally walked across that stage, it happened to be the day after my grandmother’s funeral. 

After traveling and exploring, working in schools delivering consent and violence prevention education, and being completely disillusioned with corporate wellness companies - I came to the awareness that my purpose is to heal.  Heal myself, help facilitate healing for others, and healing our relationship to the Earth.  I share what I know.  From my own life and studies.  What I have learned that has helped and what I have found works.  My intention is for us all to feel more whole.  More authentic.  More peaceful.  More able to meet what Life brings us with love.  

So after more than 20 years of steady yoga and meditation practice, and over 10 years of teaching internationally to over 1500 students in 4 countries, I’m ready to own it.  I am an international, certified, ancestral yoga teacher and I also have a B.A. in Cultural Studies, minor in Gender and Women’s Studies from UBC.  I have taken additional training in compassionate communication, conflict resolution,  violence prevention youth empowerment, consent and relational education, trauma-informed yoga, therapeutic touch, mind body spirit medicine, pre/postnatal yoga, teen yoga, and holistic massage.      

 I offer one to one intuitive healing sessions, corporate leadership coaching, workshop facilitation on diversity, equity and inclusion,  private therapeutic yoga sessions (1 on 1), and public workshops including women’s circles.   I have taught for companies and organizations across all sectors like Samsung, UBC, United World Colleges, Rhodes Wellness College, Columbia College, Canadian Actor's Equity /  National Society of Intimacy Professionals, Justice Institute of BC, Lululemon, and more.    I continue to invest in my learning as a student and a teacher.

 I believe in being courageous and living our dreams, I believe in being the best we can be.

Thank you for reading all of this.  I hope to meet you soon and hear all about your story, too.  This life is a gift.  I look forward to every chance to connect  and let the magic do its work.

My deep gratitude to all the teachers, healers, mentors and communities that have nurtured me and helped to reawaken my gifts so I could share them with you.