About

I started massage school in a different world, in the year 2000, and graduated in December 2001. The events of September 11, 2001 changed my path. I thought I would have a happy career working with pregnant women (which I also do), but after the 2001 terrorist attacks, I was awakened to the effects of stress and trauma in the body, and the pervasiveness of trauma in many people coming from many sources. Sometimes it manifests after sustained and chronic stress. Sometimes it comes from a single or repeated traumatic event. I work with clients on improving their daily lives-- through postural assessment and modifications, stretching and strengthening, learning to breathe deeply and efficiently, and by using touch to address places of pain and chronic tension. Because of how the stress response cycle works in the nervous system, many psychological and spiritual hurts can be helped by bodywork. And, Rome wasn't build in a day, so I recommend on-going bodywork sessions. I see bodywork as an act of spiritual care, but my clients don't have to. It was a desire to reclaim and proclaim the essential goodness of the body that led me to seminary, and that has led to so much more!