BIO
Spirituality and transformation are my passions. It has been over 30 years since I began healing work for the body and mind, my own and then working with others. I have been a teacher to individuals, small groups and larger classes in yoga, qigong and aromatherapy.
It all started when I was very young. At five I loved to burn pine incense in a beautiful brass burner and followed alongside my grandmothers’ afternoon yoga practice. Later, in my early 20’s bored by aerobics and intimidated by the New York dance studios, I rediscovered yoga. Quickly, almost immediately it became a great passion. I could feel myself in a profound way and doors to spiritual feeling and meaning were flung open. Within a few years I could claim being a yogi and a teacher. I traveled to India to learn in the birthplace of the practices that sustained me and continued to expand my spiritual growth. Over the years I explored many practices including meditation, pranayama, cleansing and sacred chanting.
For a time, I tried to live a more conventional life but my heart was being called to the spiritual realm. I was working in a spa as an ‘undercover’ energy worker. Eventually I could not continue my spa work as an esthetician, it was time to break out. Though I had many tools in my bag, I still did not know exactly how to put them together. After studying and working with Desda Zuckerman and Cyndi Dale I can now work in the way I have wanted, directly with a clients energy system through detailed energy anatomy. As a guide, I value creative partnership and seek to serve with equanimity and an open heart.
Areas of Study and Influence
Energy Studies and Practice: Desda Zuckerman and Cyndi Dale. Study and practice in quantum distance work.
Clairvoyance and Mediumship: Debra Katz
Yoga: Ashtanga, Iyengar, classical hatha, Bihar school of Yoga in India, Tantric school of Kashmir Shaivism as taught by Swami Lakshamnjoo, Tibetan Buddhist studies, Vipassana, yoga philosophy, Continuum Movement, traditional Indian dance.
Qigong: 5 element forms including Taoist meditation and internal alchemy. Taoist philosophy.
Essential Oil and Flower Essence Therapy: Exploration, reading and creating products for my company Sukha Skin Care and for other small companies.
Skin Care: Ayurvedic and western approaches. .
Fine Art: Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, N.Y.C., University of Oregon, BFA, and Hunter College.
N.Y.C museums and galleries, European museums and architecture, fine art studies at various institutions.
Psychology: University studies, Social Research with children on a multi generational study, Re-evaluation Co-counseling or Peer Counseling exchange. I received traditional counseling myself. Lots of reading especially in the Jungian school.
Relationship Experiences: I have lived in long term relationship and been a step mom to 2 children and one teen. Working through being a child of a single mom, later discovering the power of spiritual practice and loving my relationship with Self.
Sacred Sites:
•Sleeping in a hammock in the jungle of Palenque, Mexico. Exploring the Temple complexes.
•Studying with a Hindu lineage priest at a Shiva Temple complex: meditating, drawing and absorbing the culture,
learning dance and opening up to the powers of spiritual practice. In Southern India.
•Exploration in N.Y.C. and Sacred Churches in Paris as a teen and young adult.
