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, and diploma from the Chef Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in NYC. 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
• Chef, Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, NY, NY
• 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