Born in Detroit Michi­gan, fam­i­ly cir­cum­stances moved my fam­i­ly to Cana­da. This was a trans­for­ma­tive move, pro­pelling me at a young age on an ardent search towards a greater sense of whole­ness. My per­son­al explo­ration was fueled by my desire to come to a greater under­stand­ing of what being human is in rela­tion to suf­fer­ing. At the time I was inspired by Don Juan’s words to Car­los Cas­taneda.“To the ordi­nary man, every­thing that hap­pens to him is either a curse or a bless­ing. To a war­rior, each thing is a chal­lenge.” I saw the heal­ing chal­lenge of being authen­tic and kind when tak­ing on the respon­si­bil­ity of offer­ing help to oth­ers with­out imposition.

Over time my heal­ing jour­ney revealed lay­ers of pro­gram­ming from a vari­ety of sources in place to rein­force angst and hard­ship. As I cleared her­self of these old pat­terns and recov­ered more of my own life force ener­gy, it became appar­ent to me that the suf­fer­ing that fills human sto­ries could be repro­grammed to cre­ate a shift into a life infused with joy­ful purpose.

Over the years I have devel­oped my devo­tion to embody my life force ener­gies in a flow towards ever greater whole­ness and inner peace. And my devo­tion to ser­vice to oth­ers has grown. My pres­ence acts as a cat­a­lyst and con­duit of sound and light fre­quen­cies, ground­ed in my aware­ness of the unique­ness of every­one with­in the uni­ver­sal back­ground of our shared humanity.

I have matured to be able to offer the expe­ri­ence of a cre­ation of a lov­ing cru­cible in ses­sions for the unfold­ment of cre­ative heal­ing solutions.

Stud­ies and oth­er Experience

I grad­u­at­ed from York Uni­ver­si­ty in The­atre Direc­tion /Psychology. Spent a few years on the the­atre scene before study­ing at ISIS- Cana­da to grad­u­ate as an Expres­sive Art Ther­a­pist. For sev­er­al years I was part of a research project with the Toron­to School Board in alliance with the Clarke Insti­tute, and lat­er the George Hull Cen­tre. In this project, I part­nered with teach­ers to use dra­ma in the class­room as a means of con­nect­ing with “at risk” children.

My expe­ri­ence deep­ened into the body- mind con­nec­tion for six years at the Muki Baum Treat­ment Cen­tre For Adults and Chil­dren with Com­plex Dis­abil­i­ties.  Here work­ing as an Expres­sive Art Ther­a­pist, I was being informed very much so from the phys­i­cal body, and the impor­tance of being com­fort­able in our own skin. This inter­est led me on to var­i­ous stud­ies of body work; com­plet­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Kun­dali­ni yoga teacher train­ing, exten­sive per­son­al work in shaman­ic heal­ing, and train­ing in sound, move­ment and breath work through­out Cana­da and the Unit­ed States.

In 2006, I began a full time study in Mas­sage Ther­a­py at Kikkawa Col­lege and grad­u­at­ed with hon­ours. After estab­lish­ing a RMT prac­tice, I then took a deep dive into Acupunc­ture stud­ies (Chi­nese Med­i­cine) to grad­u­ate with hon­ours from the Acupunc­ture and Inte­gra­tive Med­i­cine Acad­e­my (AIM) in Toronto.

In get­ting to know clien­t’s over the years, it became appar­ent that many face the respon­si­bil­i­ty of sup­port­ing their aging par­ents and oth­er rel­a­tives. The med­i­ta­tive qual­i­ty of my work and my pas­sion to assist oth­ers led me into train­ing at the Insti­tute of Tra­di­tion­al Med­i­cine In Con­tem­pla­tive End of Life Care. When called upon I am now hon­oured to offer sooth­ing touch in pal­lia­tive care as a death doula.

To con­tin­ue to offer the best ther­a­peu­tic heal­ing space for oth­ers, I main­tain my focus and inge­nu­ity by explor­ing my own cre­ative process, My per­son­al expe­ri­ence with breath work and med­i­ta­tion, along with art and ener­getic sound and heal­ing approach­es pro­vide a fer­tile ground for me to be a com­pas­sion­ate wit­ness and facil­i­ta­tor with clients on their own heal­ing journeys..

Phos­pho­rus Flame Heal­ing Intention

A bril­liant equi­lib­rium emerges in when we open up to our inner heal­ing power.

The beau­ty of this bal­ance is often wit­nessed by me in session.

I envi­sion the har­mo­nious union of water and fire, see­ing a flame burn­ing at ease with­in a watery realm. Sym­bol­iz­ing in the moment, the res­o­lu­tion of duality.

The evo­lu­tion of modal­i­ties in ses­sion such as the inclu­sion of Light Lan­guage reveals the poten­cy found when the present moment is keyed into and inten­tion of ser­vice is to the high­est heal­ing gesture.

Yoga nidra med­i­ta­tion, breath­work, ener­getic sound­ing ses­sions and oth­er modal­i­ties can also be accessed on line and by phone.

Pho­to cred­its: R.K. Clip­per­ton, Mark Tegeth­off, Dou­glas Bagg and Chris Ensey