Looking back on my life in hindsight, I can see the Empath in me was always present. In the 6th grade I won an award from Ted Kennedy, for a project I coined “Solution for Pollution” that recommended recycling, a practically unknown concept at the time. I was a dancer in NYC in my 20s, and it wasn’t my technique that got me jobs, but my ability to express and convey my emotions through the art of dance that opened doors for me. But then I got Graves Disease, a chronic illness, that forced me to change directions and walk a path of self-discovery and eventual self-healing through alternative methods. I became a licensed massage therapist, eventually having a successful private practice in the Hamptons for the rich and famous. I studied with some of the most well known yoga teachers of my generation, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Dharma Mittra, and Rodney Yee, and I received my teaching certification through Sivananda in India. I travelled to Nepal and trekked for a month to Everest Basecamp. I studied Zen Buddhism and practiced Zazen. I became certified in Applied Vegetarian Nutrition. I studied Sociology and received a Post Graduate Certificate in Death and Dying. I co founded two non-profit foundations, created various yoga centers, developed projects for at-risk kids, death row inmates, the elderly, and cancer patients, and conducted monthly retreats and coursework. I took a leap of faith and left the foundation I co founded, to follow my path of purpose and mission. Having dug deep into my soul for strength, wisdom, and inspiration, I developed The Vibra Healing System, which combines the modalities of coaching, yoga, meditation, whole food nutrition, chakra balancing, Bach Flower Remedies, Shamanic teachings, emotional clearing, grounding in nature, and art therapy. These were all of the tools I had used in my own personal growth work that had guided me to heal my body, mind, and soul, and my connection to that which is greater than me. I found purpose and meaning in my life and can see clearly how all of my life experiences, both positive and negative, have helped me to arrive at compassion, acceptance, contentment, and unconditional love for myself, leading me to my current process of applying that to all that is. And so here I am in the present, living in Mataró, sharing my life with my best friend, my son Kai, honored and humbled to be co directing Shades of Awakening, an international organization that supports people in Spiritual Emergence(y), and returning to work summers in the Hamptons with my beloved clients.
