Meet your wellness therapist

I am here to help make healthcare and health management-manageable! You can think of me as a health rehabilitator of sorts. I work WITH you to find your baseline. What’s important? How to manage it all? Well let’s start by keeping it real.

Why do I care about facilitating healing and transformation in your life? Because what we do affects not just us but generations. We don’t just change ourselves because as we change ourselves so too we have an impact on the world around us. This is an opportunity to better the world, by bettering ourselves.

So let’s get cooking! Why else do we work so hard? Why do we do, all that we do? REMEMEBER how to live life fully again, so that being present, spending quality time and improving daily function is a way of constant being rather than a state of constant trying.

I have been studying, practicing and teaching all the things that promise to build self-awareness and cultivate transformation since 2013. I have been down the long road of self discovery with some amazing and empowering revelations…and some revelations not so amazing. And that’s keeping it real! I will never profess to having perfectly attained enlightenment as I walk around with a halo of white billowing in the wind behind me. However, I will tell you that there are moments and the journey is real. It’s the consistent and unwavering determination to stay with it, for you, for us, for them, that brings about healing relationships and growth of self. It might not be pretty, but hey, without the darkness….

I started a journey towards natural healing in 2008 when I was told I would never be able to have children. The advice at the time was to have a hysterectomy. This information did not sit well with me and I decided in that moment that there must be more to this. This was not the way. There must be more information, different answers, a different way to go about things. Enter the power of yoga. Two years later of diligent practice along with some minor nutritional changes and I was facing a different outcome. I enrolled at Thrive Yoga in Rockville, MD. Susan Bowen (Owner/Founder of Thrive Yoga) was my first deeply inspirational and genuinely caring introduction to the powerful and big world of yoga. Upon completion of Thrive’s teacher training program I married my high school sweetheart. Two beautiful children later I found the American Viniyoga Institute and followed through with the goal and desire of becoming a yoga therapist in the hopes of offering individuals hope and a path forward. Becoming a yoga therapist has shown me there is much more to all this and only further opened the desire for me to complement my offerings with an holistic approach to well living. I am currently pursuing those passions in my B.A. in Integrative Medicine as an Ayurvedic Consultant at MIU. It is my hope and desire to bring what I have learned, what has inspired me and what has changed me in all the best ways, to you.