About ME

I’m an open book.

For much of my adult life I was numbing out and hiding from myself. I used exercise, drugs, sex, fashion, vanity, pornography, and you-name-it practices to work around the things in my life that didn’t feel true instead of moving toward or through them.

This period left me frustrated, guarded, and disconnected from myself and the gifts I didn’t know I had. But it also catapulted me onto the spiritual path I’m still on today.

In 2009, I found movement and fitness as a way to connect to myself. Through working with my own body and teaching clients about their bodies, I discovered an intelligence that went beyond my mind.

When I opened my gym, Lifted, in San Francisco in 2016, I knew instantly I’d created a place where people could connect to themselves and each other not just on a physical level but through their emotional and spiritual experience of movement.

Also around this time I began to go deeper into my own healing journey to truly know myself and to uncover what had been hidden.

I’d always known that my relationship to my sexuality was a core wound in some way but until then, I hadn’t felt ready to address it. Exploring my relationship with my sexuality took me all the way down the rabbit hole of emotional healing and spiritual exploration.

After a single deeply profound breathwork session, I was guided to take the training to become a facilitator in 2017. This practice was and is central to my personal evolution. It showed me how much wisdom our bodies have stored within and how much pain can be stored there too.

Breathwork became my medicine of choice and the modality that I was honored to guide others through. Over the years of facilitating this practice for hundreds (maybe thousands) of people, I became very well versed in the beauty and pain of the human experience. I’ve both experienced for myself and held people as they processed death, abuse, trauma of all kinds, divorce, sexual confusion, and all matter of grief.

As I witnessed how by bravely allowing their body to show them what had been hidden, the people I was working with were transforming their lives. They began to blossom and the pains that they once held became their greatest teachers. As was my experience.

Concurrent to my deep work with clients, I was on a journey of my own. My once fraught relationship with my sexuality became my greatest strength and my path toward becoming a more conscious human.

Over the years, that core wound of mine led me into other healing practices and modalities such as Non-Linear Movement Method, Chi Nei Tsang, coaching programs, timeline jumping, vocal toning and meditation courses.

Each tool became something I could reference. I began creating my own practices and mixing modalities. I’ve recently put a name to a practice that I have been intuitively doing for years, called Body Talk which is the foundation of all of my 1-1 work. For me, all roads lead back to our bodies. They are our internal guru when we learn how to listen to them and communicate with them which is what the practice of Body Talk is.

This is why I am here - to support you in listening to the wisdom of your body and in embracing the parts of yourself that have been the most fraught so that you can also have a relationship with yourself that is endlessly empowering, balanced, and deeply satisfying.

I’m currently living in a little beach town in Mexico offering myself to the work of connecting incredible humans to their own inner guide, holding space for sexual liberation and life empowerment through healing our relationship with fractured parts of ourselves. Nothing lights me up more than sharing all of the modalities I’ve picked up along my path and being of service to my communities near and far.

What people are saying about me.

Over the years, people have said some really wonderful things about me and my gym Lifted, which I’m grateful for. You can find me featured in 7X7 Magazine and GOOP. And, in 2016, Well + Good listed us as one of the coolest new studios in the US!