Training & Lineage

This page is offered for those who are curious about the many streams of study that inform my work.

While no list of trainings can capture the heart of Truth or healing, they reflect the decades of learning, inquiry, and lived experience that continue to shape how I listen, perceive, and accompany others.

Every teacher, discipline, and tradition has offered a different doorway into the same mystery: how human beings awaken, heal, and come home to themselves.

For more than three decades, my studies have woven together somatic psychology, bodywork, movement, contemplative practice, energy medicine, developmental healing, and nondual realization. While these traditions differ in language and method, each has deepened my understanding of embodiment, consciousness, and the innate Wholeness that lives within us all.

Rather than practicing a single modality, my work is informed by the synthesis of these many streams.

Professional Credentials

  • Board Certified Polarity Practitioner (BCPP)

  • Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist #11807 (North Carolina)

  • Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME)

  • Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT)

  • Certified Perinatal Therapist

  • Reiki Master Teacher

  • Realization Process® Healing Ground Teacher

Professional Education

My professional education has included extensive training in therapeutic bodywork, somatic psychology, developmental movement, trauma healing, contemplative practice, and energy medicine.

This foundation includes:

  • Medical Arts School — Massage & Bodywork Therapy

  • Registered Yoga School graduate

  • Reiki Master Teacher Training with Vickie Penninger

  • 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (RYT-200) Mind-Body Centering Yoga

  • Yoga Therapy Training, Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga

  • AWAKE Academy with Dr. Rebecca Sullivan

  • Polarity Therapy with Janice Marie Durand at Tree of Life Center

  • State of the Art Therapy (STAT) Program - NeuroSomatic repatterning for Trauma and Attachment with Annie Brook, PhD

  • Body-Mind Centering® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and affiliated faculty

  • Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

  • Developmental Movement Education

  • Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology

  • Birth Process Education

  • Somatic Movement Education and Therapy

  • Complex Trauma Integration

  • Energy Medicine with Donna Eden

  • Quantum-Touch® with Richard Gordon

  • Advanced Chakra Healing with Cyndi Dale

  • GHK - Germanic Healing Knowledge with Andi Locke Mears

Meditation & Contemplative Practice

Meditation has been a central thread throughout my life.

For decades I have studied and practiced within the Ishayas' Ascension meditation tradition, establishing a foundation of daily contemplative practice that continues to inform every aspect of my work and life.

My path has continued to deepen through Realization Process®, nondual inquiry, and an ongoing exploration of embodied Presence.

Teachers who have significantly influenced my understanding include:

  • David Hawkins

  • Rupert Spira

  • Adyashanti

  • Mukti

  • Judith Blackstone

  • Ishayas

Esoteric Studies

Alongside my clinical and somatic education, I have devoted many years to the study of consciousness and the Ageless Wisdom traditions.

My ongoing studies include:

  • Student of the Arcane School

  • Service through Lucis Trust

  • Esoteric Psychology

  • Esoteric Healing

  • Esoteric Astrology

  • Evolutionary Astrology

  • Sacred Geometry

  • Awakening the Illuminated Heart with Drunvalo Melchizedek and Jason Hunt

These studies continue to enrich and deepen my understanding of the Soul, service, and the evolutionary unfolding of consciousness.

Embodied Arts

Movement has always been one of my deepest teachers.

These lifelong practices continue to inform the way I perceive, listen, and accompany others.

  • Yoga

  • Contact Improvisation

  • Authentic Movement

  • Continuum

  • Tai Chi

  • Body-Mind Centering® (BMC)

Closing Reflection

No single tradition holds the whole.

I have always been drawn to the places where disciplines meet—where the wisdom of the body, the clarity of science, the depth of contemplative practice, and the mystery of the Soul illuminate one another.

Every lineage represented here has offered a unique language for understanding healing and awakening. Rather than belonging to any one approach, my work is an ongoing synthesis of these many streams, held together by a deep commitment and devotion to Presence, healing, compassionate inquiry, and a reverence for the deeper Intelligence that lives within all of life.

In the end, the greatest teacher has been Life itself—and the privilege of accompanying others as they remember the Wholeness and Truth that has always been theirs.

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