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Meditation. After meditating for many years, I can drop into a space with love and stars that completely fills me up with expansive energy, even when I’m surrounded by chaos and drama. I am that space, that expansive love that radiates out everywhere. 
 

That space came through as I  learned from all of these experiences and forms of education. I bring a rich and varied blend of knowledge. I will provide support so that you may grow and cultivate your own deep intuition and knowing, possibly your own spaciousness, and express your unique creativity. 

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Education & Experience 

  • B.A. English Literature and Writing, 1994 North Park University

  • Teaching and Education Certificate, 1996 North Park University

  • Chicago and Evanston Public School Teacher, 1996-2001

  • Tutor and Teacher at two Alternative Learning Centers, K-12 and adults, 1995-2001

  • Nature Awareness Parent/Teacher/Facilitator, 2003-present

  • Reiki I, II, and Master trainings and Intuitive Energy session Immersions with Aska Yoshizu and Lisa Powers, 2014 and 2024

  • Hospital as well as home water-birth with my kids, Kai and Story, and Doula training Labor & PP 2017 with Megan Bunch. Experience with birth/postpartum/lactation and parenting, 2003-present

  • Alternative education, and a facilitator/mentor/teacher of both of my kids, Kai and Story’s education, 2005-present

  • Private Chef 2016-2023 & volunteered and made free meals for people in San Jose, CA during the pandemic 2020-2021

  • Poet

  • Taught Herbal Plant and healing salve making as well as redwood cone dying nature Workshops

  • Facilitated and organized Journaling, Creative Writing, Art, Meditation, and Book Group gatherings

  • Organized women and family gatherings for alternative education

  • Speaker and Facilitator at Alternative Education Conferences

Yoga,
Meditation,
Bhakti Yoga,
Nature Awareness
Trainings & Experience:

I attended my first yoga class in 2006, when my first son Kai was three. I have also been exploring nature and have loved being outside my whole life. I have been following my intuition and learning throughout the years. I have been on many immersion retreats and taken lots of trainings over the years to enrich and grow, including:

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  • Yoga Journal Conference, San Francisco, CA

  • Wanderlust Yoga retreats, The Palisades, Lake Tahoe, CA

  • Women’s Herbal Symposiums in CA

  • Bali meditation and yoga immersion retreats

  • Northern India multi-city immersion and retreat

  • Krishna Das/Ram Dass Bhaki/Meditation/Yoga retreats, Maui, HI

  • Krishna Das Heart of Devotion Retreats 1440 Retreat Center Scotts Valley, CA

  • Japan multi-city meditation and yoga Immersion retreat

  • Esalen Self-Directed Retreats Big Sur, CA

  • Self-Directed Nature Immersions Grand Canyon, AZ, Moab, UT, Lake Tahoe, CA, Joshua Tree, CA,  Yosemite Valley, CA, Boulder, CO

  • Vitality Wellness Retreat, Mount Madonna, Watsonville, CA

  • Krishna Das Chanting Flow of Grace Training

  • Krishna Das Kirtans, San Francisco & Santa Cruz, CA

  • Mindfully Just: Integrating Social Justice, Yoga, and Collective Transformation with Anjali Rao, Monique Wright, Asha Frost, Lonnell Graham, Alyssa Prettyman

  • 200 Hour Yoga TT with Jennifer Prugh & Whitney Spagnola

  • Teaching and Practicing in a Multicultural Yoga Class Immersion with Anjali Rao

  • Yoga and Chakra Balancing & Hand Stand Workshops with Leslie Germain

  • Yoga for Kids immersion with Christina Enneking 

  • Joy of the Heart Yoga immersion with Noell Clark and Kenny Graham

  • Movement Lab: Practical Anatomy & Kinesiology Training with Noell Clark

  • Envision: The Art of Flourishing with the Different Seasons Meditation/Yoga/Art/Creative Writing Workshops with Jennifer Prugh

  • Contemplation of the Body Workshop with Noell Clark

  • Meditation Workshops with Jennifer Prugh & Jennifer Walthers

  • Mapping the Inner Life Meditation immersion with Jennifer Prugh and Jennifer Walthers

  • Feng Shui  and Meditation Workshops with Jennifer Walthers

  • Kirtan and the Expression of Heart Yoga Immersion with Kirti Saran

  • Many Bay Area, CA Kirtans and Bhakti Yoga chanting meditations with traveling and local Bhakti musicians, including: Nina Rao, Jahnavi Harrison, Prajna Vieira, Srutih Asher-Colbert, and David Estes

  • Yoga Nidra Training with Caroline Wybar & Dr. Katja Bartsch

  • Yin and Meditation Training with Tiffany Cruikshank and Rashmi Bismark, MD

  • Daoism and Qigong Immersion with Angela Delfin-Salazar

  • Mindful Loving Awareness Meditation Workshop with Jack Kornfield

  • Meditation Courses with Sharon Salsberg

  • Yin, Acupuncture, and Ayurvedic Nutrition Workshops with Bridget Puchalsky

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