Hey love!

My first introduction to massage was in 2001 -  back when I used to train horses, back when I was a senior in high school. I took a fall off a pony that left me with three compressed vertebrae in my lumbar spine - essentially, a broken back. At the time there was no surgery to fix this type of injury, and doctors didn't want me to be on painkillers long term, so I was sent to physical therapy. Through physical therapy, I was introduced to massage to assist with pain management.

In 2005 I started working in a physical therapy clinic, where my relationship to massage deepened. We had several massage therapists on staff, who helped me not only with pain management for my back, but for chronic migraines as well. It was these lovely ladies who encouraged me to sign up for massage school. Still, I hesitated.

Until roughly 2010 - I found myself in a deeply emotionally abusive relationship that left me closed off and hating touch. At work one day, I had asked one of our massage therapists whom I was really close with to work on my neck to release a headache - and I bawled the whole time. It was the first time I had an emotional response to bodywork, and while I didn't know much about the mind-body connection at that time, it was enough of a wake up call to make me want a change. I signed up for massage school the next day.

After graduating from Body Therapy Institute in 2012, I worked off and on focusing on deep tissue and sports injuries, while maintaining my office management job. However, I continued to study somatic work, how the body hold on to memories, and the emotional connection to all of it. After starting a lot of personal development work, and getting burned out on deep tissue, I was seeking a way to work with clients on a deeper level, to release pain from a cellular/emotional level, not just muscular. In 2018, at a personal development conference, I discovered breathwork. This modality, I quickly discovered, was the missing piece to so much of my own healing, to being able to work with clients deeper and get better results faster, and to facilitate permanent healing and change. 

Now, I use breathwork in most of my sessions to create lasting change for clients, whether within the massage session or standalone somatic sessons. I utilize breathwork to help massage therapists release the limiting beliefs holding them back from creating the business of their dreams. And now, I get to teach breathwork for continuing education.

However you found me, as a client looking to come back home in their body, as a massage therapist looking to grow their business, or someone wanting to learn how to do this work for themselves - I'm so glad you're here. Let's change the world together, one breath at a time.

Education & Training:
Pause Level !!: Advanced Energy Techniques, 2024
Certificate, The Science of Well-Being, Yale University, 2021
Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Pause Breathwork 250 hour certification, 2020
Certified Life & Wellness Coach, Hungry for Happiness 400 hour certification, 2019
Advanced Training Neural Resest Therapy, 2015 
Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist, Body Therapy Institute 600 hour diploma, 2012