I am so grateful
I am forever grateful to the following teachers and healers who have blessed my life, brought me great healing and/or influenced my work with their mentorship:
Miss Beatrice Torres Waight,
Mata Amritanandamayi, Sarah Peyton, Eric Bowers, Daniel Foor, John Burton, Melissa Michaels, Pam Sophia Savory, Barb Magdalena Westover, Rosita Arvigo, Rosemary Gladstar, Aviva Romm, Erico Schleicher, Kim Kelsey, Camilla Blossom, Michael Moore, Sajah Popham, Missy Rohs, Gradey Proctor, Feather Jones, Aaron Johnson, Porsha Beed, Jennie Pearl, Dylan Wilder Quinn, Sandra Kim, Ann Drucker, Orion Gladstone, Cindy Lindsay-Rael, Ash Johns & Marylee Smunitee Jones
My Training
I am an Oregon licensed and California Certified massage therapist #17893 with 30 years of bodywork experience including specialized training in Abdominal Massage, Cranio Sacral Therapy, and Prenatal and Postpartum Massage.
I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner with Ancestral Medicine.
I apprenticed for a decade in Yucateca Maya Traditional Healing including Herbalism, Abdominal Massage and Spiritual healing and I have life long reciprocal relationship with the Yucateca Maya medicine family that shared their healing traditions with me. I freely give the teachings and healings back to those within the culture from which they come and I transcribed my main Yucateca Maya teacher, Miss Beatrice Torres Waight’s book which supports her grandchildren's education. I actively give back through Full Circle .
I am a trained community and clinical herbalist with 25 years of experience growing and harvesting herbs, making herbal remedies, educating people about herbs and working with private clients.. I graduated from The Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine's Herbalist Training and Advanced Clinical Herbalist training and was an instructor there for 2 years. I studied for 3 years at Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical studies . I graduated from the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Aviva Romm's Herbal Medicine For Women Course and Rosemary Gladstar's Art and Science of Herbalism Course. I learned for 10 years from Herbalist Miss Beatrice Torres Waight and I currently study with Sajah Pophum at the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
I have healed and supported myself with herbs through menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, gender transition and countless ailments. I have raised two children on herbal medicine. I have a working herbal garden and herbal craft studio. I offer herbal consults, teach herbal classes and work one on one with herbal mentees. Herbalists do not diagnose or treat any disease and do not prescribe medications. Herbalism is a practice of supporting one's health by engaging with healing plants.
I apprenticed for 7 years in home birth midwifery. I am a certified massage doula and have undergone lactation counseling training. I am a certified prenatal and postpartum massage therapist. I have attended 53 births. I have birthed two children of my own naturally with midwives and nursed and raised them on herbal medicine and lots of love.
I carry the ancestral gifts of my mother's mother's line. My great grandmother was a chiropractor, massage therapist, nutritionist, herbalist, gardener and astrologer who ran a clinic called Minerva which focused on "The Nature Cure" My great grandfather was an arborist, gardener and lover of plants.
I am an animist. Animism is a way of life that embraces all of nature as having soul. In animism, humans are not separate from nature and they embrace conscious reciprocal relationship with plants, trees, rocks, rivers, animals, mountains and all of nature, striving for balance and harmony with the elements within and without.
I am a mystic. A mystic is a person who moves between the worlds and turns within, surrendering themselves to the mystery. A mystic communes with benevolent forces in nature and lives spiritual truths that are beyond the rational mind.
I am a trained Breathwork Metamorphosis practitioner.
I completed Sarah Peyton's Resonant Language Course and many of her workshops on resonance, family constellations, unconscious contracts, healthy boundaries and time travel.
I completed the Non Violent Communication training course.
I completed the Anti-Racism Facilitator Training with Holistic Resistance.
Through my personal experience as a Trans person, working with many Trans, Non-Binary, gender expansive and Gender Non Conforming people and by taking special training on offering health care to Trans, NB, GE and GNC people, I have the capacity to hold welcoming space for the life experiences, health issues and challenges of trans, non-Binary, gender expansive and gender non-conforming people. I welcome and celebrate LGBTQ+ clients!