Services
Bodywork
My bodywork is holistic, integrative, therapeutic, problem solving, and based primarily in a couple lineages of Lomi Lomi (traditional Hawaiian massage). I work with deep structures of the body—down to the connective tissue around the bone—and my work also feels great to receive. During bodywork sessions I center your wholeness and wellbeing while also addressing specific areas of tension, discomfort, pain, and restricted mobility. I work with a depth of pressure that’s comfortable for you and also effective at meeting your therapeutic needs. Throughout the session I listen deeply to your body, and dialogue with you as needed. Deep presence and compassion combined with technical skill are the cornerstone of my massage style.
Though my massage is based in Lomi Lomi, I sometimes incorporate techniques from western Swedish and deep Tissue massage, Thai massage, META Integrated Bodywork, and energywork to best meet your needs. As taught by my Lomi Lomi teachers, sessions begin with a (non-religious) blessing performed in silence out loud, in which I call upon all of our ancestors who are sound, whole, and healthy, and the web of life in which our bodies and being exist. This work can be deeply relaxing and nourishing and bring a sense of wholeness and connection with ourselves and the world. My intent is for you to leave feeling more deeply at home and at ease in your body.
In bodywork sessions you’ll undress to your comfort while I’m out of the room, and private areas of your body will be draped throughout the session. High quality massage oil or cream is used in all sessions. I’ll sometimes guiding you in breathing in a way that will support our work.
Lomi Lomi comes from the heart, and I endeavor to practice each session in alignment with the inner and relational principles I was taught as central to this art. My bodywork doesn’t include Hawaiian cultural elements or practices in which I don’t have deep grounding or context.
Spiritwork/Energywork
Many cultures have recognized a vital force that both animates and connects every part of our being and simultaneously connects us to the living, interactive, conscious, and inspirited world. In spiritwork sessions I facilitate a healthy flow of this lifeforce in collaboration with our ancestors and other helping spirits. I draw upon over twenty five years of training with multiple spiritworkers and energyworkers to facilitate your wholeness, vitality, regeneration, inspiration, and empowerment.
I use the terms spiritworker and energyworker to describe how I work in these sessions. I do not use the word “shaman” to describe myself, though sessions may include elements sometimes described as “shamanic.” You’ll lay fully clothed on a massage table while I use light touch, laying on of hands, hand movements over your body, and sometimes sound, smoke, fire, water, and simple ritual actions to facilitate your wellbeing and desired outcomes. Sometimes I may guide your breath or attention in particular ways that will deepen our work together.
These sessions are good for people who are going through life changes and transitions, who enjoy subtle and process based work, who enjoy exploring natural altered states of consciousness, and who are seeking revitalization.
Sessions are tailored to your specific needs and situation.
Private Kripalu Yoga Instruction
Kripalu Yoga focuses on using the body and breath as a doorway into our internal worlds through postures, breathwork, breath retention, internal energy seals, and internal awareness. These practices release powerful internal currents of vitality that create altered and expanded experiences of self and deep introversion. Sessions involve an appropriate balance between focus on deep internal experiences and explorations and meeting the needs of your body through stretching and strengthening in a balanced and therapeutic way.
These sessions are good for people that prefer to learn in a one on one setting, who are looking for help designing a home practice that will meet their specific needs, or who would like guidance in allowing their practice to bring them more deeply into the depths of themselves.
Divination
Divination refers to systems that give insight into the unfoldment of our lives through webs and cascades of cause and effect. I use cartomancy and runes in readings on whatever questions you bring to the session. My goal is for you to leave a divination session feeling more grounded, oriented, vital, and empowered.
Divination are the only sessions I offer in a half hour length.