Navigation is this tricky art of finding your path, looking for signs, growing an awareness of your surroundings, learning to be present, grounded, clear, honest and able to respond to the world-quickly. Cairns are stones typically stacked at the crossroads, where the trail forks, where you have the chance to choose a path rather than simply follow the one laid out before you. Without these trail markers a hiker can get lost. If you or someone you know is in crisis or feeling stuck, track me down.I am passionate about guiding people to find the tools they need to follow their hearts and survive this crazy, beautiful world. 
 I specialize in working with young-ish people who don’t necessarily know which way to go or how to get to where they want to be. I am a guide on this journey towards “adulting”. For many years I have been helping clients get back on their feet after having fallen down in one way or another. I have deep respect for who and where my clients are at, and I meet them here. I give them time to reflect and explore the crack in the concrete they just tripped over, the brambles they are tangled up in, the emotional wilderness they feel lost in. I gently challenge my clients to make sober and thoughtful life decisions, as we begin to explore what radical self-care looks like and what embodied transformation might make possible.
​ We all come to these crossroads at different times, when life gets complicated and confusing. In these intense moments I can offer you my professional, openhearted camaraderie. You will receive the encouragement you need to authentically express who you are, what you are going through and I will give you support in persevering to find what is true for you. I work with the wisdom of the body, not just the understandings of the mind, as in traditional talk therapy.Being trained in the expressive therapy model of guiding clients inward, I can help you to connect to your strength and calling by engaging in art-making, movement and/or spoken word.  Dance/movement therapy is about self-discovery, not perfection or performance. The work we do together can intensify your voice and invigorate your spirit to persevere as the powerful kind of change-maker that you already are.

​   Friends, I have cleared a space in my schedule, just for you. I invite you to join me in this warm, lush and vibrant massage  studio I have created- when you are not playing in the snow... I will be balancing hot stones in my hands and breathing in steam as the outside temperatures continue to drop below zero.
   Is you’re skin dry and craving sweet smelling massage oils? Do you need a short break from trying to change the world? I welcome and dare you to join me in 2018 by taking up a more radical practice of self-care. Schedule a massage with me and be prepared for an even deeper sense of hibernation, while simultaneously awakening all of your senses.  Every cell in your body will receive much needed nourishment. 

 The air is sweet after a cleansing  rain. The apple blossoms have been blown to the ground making a pathway upon which I walk. The beauty is bigger than the buzzing of black flies around my head.
 The ferns are ready for the great unfurling. They   extend their leaves up and almost fully out- a tiny curl remains. They help me unwind from my workweek.
 This great unfurling, this is the uncurling of what was once so tightly bound. A bundle of fern and fur spiraled upon itself, made for enduring that which is ever changing.
  Eventually, with or without warm weather, we all must surrender. Do you long to unfurl your leaves, stretch your limbs, reach for the sun? Are you ready to catch  wind in your sails?
  I am fortunate to have witnessed the last of the tiny spirals unfolding after the spring rain. It is a glimpse of the last great green yawning. A reminder of what is awakening around and within me.
 
   It is the spring of new beginnings. There are openings in my schedule to see new clients. I invite you to visit my sanctuary/ office. It is a place for coming home to your body. I am a guide. I am here to support your unfurling and spiraling into the unknown. Please send me your dear ones and anyone needing some extra support right now.

"October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming-October than May. Every green thing loves to die in bright colors." Henry Ward Beecher