Training and Experience
25 years of experience, over a 1000 hours of training including 5 courses devoted to the childbearing year, all the knowledge and stories shared so generously by clients and colleagues, and continually exploring my own body’s healing and creative expressions—all these guide my work to meet the unique needs of each trimester and the postpartum.My work is rooted in techniques and underlying principles of Myofascial Release, Shiatsu, Acupressure, and CranioSacral Therapy. Each session is a a confluence of echoing your stated intentions, following the body’s landscape and cues, and integrating your feedback as we go. At its heart, I believe the greatest offering of bodywork is assisting the vast and magical intelligence of our own bodies to flow unimpeded.
The Roots 
I started dancing at thirteen—this is how I came to know and fall in love with the body as infinitely fascinating, wise, artful, awake. By seventeen I was already interested in bodywork, but it wasn’t until 2000 shortly after I moved to San Francisco that I was able to start my training. Years later, the somatic journey is showing no signs of dullness or boredom, drawing me in deeper and further. Though it is now much more of a challenge to find time as a mother of two young boys, mypersonal embodiment rituals continue to refine, inform, and inspire my understanding of bodywork. I still make certain not a week goes by without my most beloved dance practices: Fusion Bellydance, Afro-Brazilian, and circus-style conditioning. Receiving from other healing arts practitioners is essential to keeping fresh what it means to give. Alone or with my family, I roam the woods, mountains and meadows, and spend days at our favourite beaches—they flood my mind with beauty and keep me in touch with the older, more instinctual part of my being.
Formal Education
BS Psychology // CIIS
AA Graphic Communications // City College of San Francisco
I will return to CIIS in the fall of 2026 for an MA in somatic psychology. I will continue seeing massage clients indefinitely, and intend on finding ways to weave the two paths together and into a larger tapestry of community healing.
Back In Being: The Name
Back In Being is about returning moment after moment, into the fullness of our selves — embodied, intelligent, dynamic, complex. Rooted in the depths of our being, filled with a sense of belonging on a cellular level, we expand and shine. Coming from this place nourishes our sense of connectedness and ability to offer our best gifts to the world.