Bio

Having enjoyed the benefits of massage, yoga, and meditation for many years I decided to become a massage therapist because receiving a massage is such a wonderful gift.

During 17 years working as a nurse I frequently found myself giving massages to patients, coworkers, friends, and family and found it to be the most healing and nourishing treatment that I could offer. My Massage Therapy training and Yoga Teacher Training were done at Kripalu Center. My background also includes a BA in Biology from Ohio Wesleyan University and AD in Nursing from University of Maine. I have boundless interest in learning about the human body and exploring ways of helping people heal so my continuing education is plentiful. I'm currently pursuing a Master's degree in Holistic Nutrition.

My training includes:

• Certified Kripalu Massage Therapist
• Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher
• Certified KMI Structural Integration
• Holistic Nutrition, Hawthorn University
• The Center for Mind Body Medicine: Mind Body Medicine and Food as Medicine
• Institute for Functional Medicine: Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice and Gut Health Modules
• Functional Fitness: Perform Better
• Frozen Shoulder, Sandy Burkart, PhD, PT
• Clinical Flexibility, Tim Agnew
• Neurosomatic Therapy, St. John-Clark: cervical spine, posturology, low back, shoulder
• Myoskeletal Alignment and Advanced Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques. Erik Dalton
• Clinical Massage of Ankle, Knee and Hip. Bob King
• Deep Tissue and Neuromuscular Therapy, Sean Riehl
• Orthopedic Massage, Whitney Lowe
• Trigger Point Therapy
• Reiki level 2
• Positional Release Therapy, Lee Albert