​​To hold a space of healing, presence, and safety for our kids​
the deep healing starts with us​

Welcome!  I'm so glad you're here!

Through the miracles, mysteries, complexities and awe of birth and adoption, I’m the mother of three daughters.  Mothering has been a wild journey and it's some of the hardest, most sacred, beautiful, complex and life-giving work I’ve ever done. 

I've come to know motherhood is a spiritual path. It pushes me to my edges again and again and again.  It's soul work and has the potential to heal through generations.  

I wholeheartedly believe that when we dissolve the layers of separation within ourselves, we can create authentic spaces of connection and healing with and for others from our own connection.  This is best done with accurate witnessing, support within a community, and often a guide, teacher or mentor.  

​I've been mothering through birth for 20 years, and through adoption for 13 years.  Mothering in and of itself is a rite of passage, but life is also full of transitions and initiations.  Sometimes we need pauses to reorient, to reconnect, and to integrate parts of life experiences and ourselves.  Over the years I've realized how essential it is to care for ourselves in some radical ways that most of us didn't learn from our own mothers because they didn't receive it or have it modeled for them either.  It's clear, however, that it's never too late and all that we choose consciously at any stage or season of life can deeply heal the fragmented parts within us and move through generations past and future.

At 40,  I grew my family through adoption from three to five. That same year I was invited into a  yoga teacher training with the radiant Poonam Gupta of Yoga Gyan Jyoti.  I found my breath, came home to my body, and began feeling alive once again.  Poonam also introduced me to the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda in simple, practical ways that had a profound shift on every part of life.  
 
After completing my training, I went deeper into Ayurveda. tudying with Dr. Claudia Welch and Cate Stillman.  My studies, curiosity and practice continued to expand and so did my health. I've been blessed to study with many teachers and guides over the last 13 years.  Ayurveda helped me slow down, tune in and connect to my own wisdom around my own body, health and as a mother.   I began journeying back to myself.   And over the years it's become clear that healing is not linear.  It's more like a spiral as we move through periods of expansion and contraction in life and are always evolving with it. 

During those early years of mothering through adoption, it was hard to separate the Ayurvedic lens I was developing from the trauma-informed parenting lens.  The studies and day to day observing and experimenting seemed to overlap and intertwine as I was working on my own healing, mothering three young kids, two who had experienced early life trauma, and  teaching and coaching students off all ages who let me accompany them through some of their most vulnerable moments in life.  I will forever be grateful to each who has let me walk with them and I will forever be a student of this deep wisdom from India known as Ayurveda. 

Because of the profound impact yoga and Ayurveda have had on my life and mothering,  I delight in sharing it with others.  It was described to me by one of my teachers, Katie Silcox, as our grandmother's grandmother's grandmother's wisdom.  Through these ancient practices we come home to ourselves and remember the wisdom within. 

I've been holding spaces of healing and transformation for women of all walks of life and seasons of motherhood  and womanhood for more than decade.  The foundation of my work and accompaniment is rooted in yoga and Ayurveda.  I also studied under Kimberly Ann Johnson for four years and participated in her Jaguar courses that deal with somatic approaches to trauma and motherhood.  Kimberly's work has taught me how to understand and regulate the nervous system and it let me to reclaim a feminine path to healing.  This in turn, has deepened my passion and understanding of Ayurveda and how it can help us heal and embody wholeness to experience the whole range of being human. 

I acquired several certifications and have worked in many modalities in various settings, yet I offer what has supported me most in my own life and motherhood journey:  witnessing, wisdom, intimacy, curiosity and connection.  

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My approach and work  to supporting mothers encompasses:

MOTHERHOOD ​
SPIRITUALITY
COMMUNITY
ADOPTION
AYURVEDA
EMBODIED WISDOM PRACTICES 
CIRCLE WISDOM & PRACTICE

​If you'd like to know more about my credentials and experiences go HERE.​

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​We are living in uncertain times.
We're mothering children who are no strangers to uncertainty, disruption, loss, and challenge and they rely on us to be their anchor and healing space.   We also carry our own wounds and traumas.  Some are personal, some collective, some intergenerational, some cultural.   

Your true self, your true nature is a unique blueprint.  Each of us is one-of-a-kind.  As we move through life, we collect imprints through our experiences and relationships.  Some imprints might truly enhance our blueprint and invite a deeper connection to who we are at our essence and that influences how we connect with the rest of the world around us.  But other imprints, systems and cultural ways seem to disrupt and distort our blueprint, creating layers of separation within ourselves and we might feel like we are stuck of out of sync in life.

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When we sense a disconnection within ourselves and feel out of synch, it usually reflects a deeper truth: we are out of synch--with nature, her natural rhythms and our own biological rhythms.   We have forgotten that we are nature and nature is us. We have forgotten that maternal health is connected to planetary health.  We feel separate from nature, others and ourselves.  And there is nothing wrong with us.  We live in a world that has pulled us away from center, away from our own natural rhythms and away from our own wisdom. And we can find our way back. 



I BELIEVE that healing starts with dissolving the layers of separation and disconnection within ourselves. 
        Earth-based rhythms and ancient wisdom can be a compassionate guide.

​When we dissolve the layers within ourselves first, we can be a safe anchor for our kids and participate in creating the world we want to pass on to them and future generations.  

This is where ancient wisdom, modern science, and authentic, unapologetic self-care come in. 
          To heal or engage in reparative work, we first have to be in our bodies.   Ayurveda and feminine wisdom wisdom practices guide us to knowing and loving ourselves--to  embodying our wholeness.  We are offered healing through exploring seasons, cycles, rhythms and ritual.


This is also where accompaniment and a village come in.  
    As humans we crave connection and we are not meant to mother alone. 
       We know this. 
​            Our bodies and souls are remembering and seeking this. 

I help women come home to their bodies so they can remember their own wisdom. 
        I also create healing spaces and facilitate circles where women can gather to witness others and be witnessed.  


For me, it's been very powerful to receive witnessing, connection, intimacy, and community along with knowledge and practice.   So, this is what I offer to other mothers who want to deepen patterns of connection.  I believe this kind of care for ourselves, especially together,  can heal through generations ,and even across mother lines, because we are creating culture and change.  

Sitting in circle with women is the oldest code.

Ancient wisdom and modern research tell us that when women gather,
their mental health drastically improves. 
I love working with women in circles and group courses, yet I acknowledge that sometimes 1-1 support offers the witnessing and individualized support we need.  So I offer both.  We walk this path together.

Ayurveda, Mothering & the Healing Path

​I was entering my fourth decade on the planet when I felt like I finally began learning what  it means to have a body, be in a body,  and care for my own beautiful and intelligent body.

 I wish we all would have had access to this knowledge and learned at a very early age.  

Wisdom and practices from yoga and Ayurveda were my entry points.  I truly felt my breath for the first time. I started sleeping better, eating better, feeling better.  I got rid of seasonal allergies and no longer needed medication. I healed food insensitivities.  I balanced my hormones and stopped being so reactive to everything and everyone around me.  I felt more joy and ease in the day to day.

It's been a slow and steady process of embodying this wisdom.  I'll forever be a student and in practice because they are so life-changing and remind us of our connection to nature and natural rhythms to return to our own true nature.   I share them with my daughters and hope they will learn to normalize taking care of themselves in ways that connect them to their intuition, power, and inherent wholeness. 

The healing  journey is not linear.  It is more of a spiral path.  I recent years, I've crossed more life thresholds and met more grief than I thought was possible--all while also navigating perimenopause, a long and massive threshold on it's own.  Again and again, I am reminded that when life gets complicated, it's often best to simplify and go back to the basics.  Ayurveda can offer us this invitation and a map.  It also continues to remind us that we are nature and nature is us.  Nature is always changing. 

We can remember this feminine path to healing and wholeness together. 
    It's in you.
       It's in me.  
         It's our grandmother's grandmother's grandmothers' wisdom.
             When mothers thrive, communities can thrive.
                  This is generational and intergenerational work. 

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LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW WE CAN DO THIS WORK TOGETHER?

So, here’s what I desire.
I want you to trust YOU.   To remember your wisdom, and power, and aliveness.  To feel rooted, rested and resilient.
To replenish your life force energy.

I WANT US TO BE FIERCE YET SOFT TOGETHER, inhabiting our bodies fully and experiencing the full range of being human and mother while we create a path of healing and wholeness for our kids and their kids. This is embodied healing, feminine healing. 

I want us to nurture and nourish and remember together.  Thrive together so our kids and communities can thrive too.
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I want to create, bless, and sustain a community of wise women who are momma bears for themselves in such radical, hopeful ways that they are free and powerful in their care for others and their hope for the future as we help create the world we want to live in and leave behind for future generations. 

I want us to remember and acknowledge the mothers and grandmothers who came before us, to remember we are nature, and receive the Great Mother as our guide and we create culture together. 

I don’t think that’s too much to hope for.  Do you? 

I would love to guide you through understanding your unique blueprint, your cyclical nature, and how to align to natural rhythms in and around us to restore vitality and a sense of feeling rooted in yourself.   
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Here's how we can begin...

START WITH AN AYURVEDIC WELLNESS PACKAGE, 
JOIN A MOTHERCIRCLE
CHECK OUT ROOT RISE THRIVE
JOIN A WORKSHOP
OR...

SCHEDULE A FREE DISCOVERY CALL SO WE CAN GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER

May you know you are inherently whole and always enough.  

You can find free resources I share on Facebook and YouTube as well. 

I would love to hear from you.  
Let's connect!