Background & Credentials

This work is rooted in lived experience and formal training in healing arts, yoga, consciousness studies, and design. I’ve spent over two decades immersed in the study of transformation through the energetic body, the psyche, the creative process, and the wisdom of presence.

Energy Healing & Consciousness Studies

  • Certified Higher Guidance Healer (4-year apprenticeship + certification)
    Extensive training in intuitive development, energetic anatomy and hygiene, clear spiritual guidance, subtle sensing, working with consciousness, self as instrument, and applied metaphysical sciences (including unified field theory and quantum principles).
    Mentored by April Waldman, a master healer and teacher with over 30 years of experience in the mystical and healing arts.

  • Integrated Transformation Immersion
    Focused on Non-Dualism, samskara digestion, and working through the koshas.

  • Spiritual Studies with Igor Kufayev
    Ongoing immersive coursework and online study, including Seeing Through The Heart, Kundalini, and Samadhi. These teachings offer deep insights into subtle energetics, yoga philosophy, and meditation. Participant in several of his online Darshans.

  • 500+ Client Practice Hours
    Direct hands-on energy healing experience supporting individuals through transitions, burnout, inner healing, and empowered embodiment.

Yoga Training & Embodied Wisdom

  • 200hr RYT in Hatha Flow

  • LifeForce Yoga: Yoga for Anxiety & Depression

  • OM Mama: Pre/Postnatal Yoga Certification

  • It’s Yoga Kids Certification

  • Trainings with Senior Teachers: Sadie Nardini, Leslie Kaminoff (Yoga Anatomy)

  • Focus on the intersection of yoga, energy, trauma recovery, and subtle body awareness

  • Taught in schools, preschools, and corporate settings, including Pixar and Clif Bar

Creative & Design Background

  • 10 years as an Interior Designer
    With a formal education in interior design and a strong focus on psychology, philosophy of space, and aesthetics, I designed and managed multi-million-dollar residential renovation projects.

  • Expertise in holding creative vision, leading teams, and creating beauty with intention.

  • Especially skilled in systems thinking and design-minded, which directly supports healing and coaching work

Volunteer Work & Leadership

  • Donated design services to Middle Way House, a shelter and advocacy center for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking

  • Volunteer yoga teacher in East Oakland public schools

  • Facilitator for Roots of Empathy, expanding social-emotional learning through parent-child mirroring

  • Held various PTA leadership roles, which included spearheading fundraising events, costume design for school musicals, and supporting sports teams

Personal Growth & Devotion to the Work

  • Graduate of the Awakened Motherhood program (3-month intensive)

  • Member of a 2-year women’s circle devoted to goddess work, spiritual deepening, and ceremony

  • Member of an Ayurvedic Women’s community focused on Ayurvedic education and living, ceremony, ritual, and whole health

  • 20+ years of personal study in psychology, trauma, somatics, attachment theory, spiritual development, and consciousness

  • 2500+ hours of meditation practice

  • Lifelong seeker, reader, and student — currently immersed in conscious marketing and the energetics of visibility