Welcome! It is an honor to have you exploring this site.

Since 1994 I have been a massage therapist and in 2001 I completed yoga teacher training. My primary teachers include:

• Nancy Bender, Maureen Kleiman, Susan Ponce - Fuller School of Massage

• Kathleen Barratt – Barratt Breathworks

• Anna Pittman – Hatha Yoga Teacher Training

• Angela Farmer & Victor van Kooten – Inner Body Yoga

• Eckhart Tolle – Power of Now (he is a teacher through books and lectures on audio &video)

My practice has been fun and busy. I had my beginnings at the Fuller School. From 1996 to 2002 I worked in my own office on Colley Avenue in the Ghent community of Norfolk. For four years I shared space with Breathworks & Alternative Therapies off Great Neck Road in Virginia Beach. I've always had at least a few in-home clients. House calls are beneficial to the receiver. After the session the client can relax further. I have “taken to the road” exclusively to provide services in the comfort of client's homes. Office space is available at Body Enhancement on Great Neck Road if an office setting is preferred.

I have experience working with people of varying ages and conditions. Several clients started receiving work from me when I was a student in 1994 and for many others it has been 8 to 11 years since we connected. It is my honor to be a part of their healthy paths and it would be a pleasure to be part of yours. Holistic health has much to do with taking responsibility. We should strive to be as healthy as possible, making wise choices, on a consistent, daily basis. I see the ultimate goal as one of wellness, not the expectation of complete absence of aging and dis-ease. In fact, we can see temporary illness or chronic issues as a gift. Time, genetics, the environment and gravity present their share of effects! It is through the body that we find peace, contentment. It offers the opportunity to surrender, meet challenges and become aware, alive. In the process we learn to meet our body where it is and nudge it into new territory, bringing the Soul along! Early-stage ovarian cancer offered me this very opportunity in 2005. Being on the other side of the humbling experience supports these ideas of releasing the need for perfection and embracing contentment.

I derive balance from experience with nature. I see the body as a portable nature experience. People residing within cities and surrounded by modern conveniences are often disconnected with nature and this can extend to their own physical form. Our culture is blessed with the bounties of prosperity. The downside is a tendency to seek outside ourselves for nourishment. As Eckhart Tolle and other great teachers instruct, there is only life in the Now. The body and breath can be a very useful portal into the experience of the Now.

Thank you for looking around this website. If you would like to schedule a session or have any questions please contact me by e-mail or telephone.