My work is informed by:

• the work of Rachael Kessler and the PassageWorks Institute

• council practice as taught by the Center for Council & the Ojai Foundation (certified levels 1-3)

• trainings in healing modalities-including integrative massage(certified), Reiki (Levels 1, 2, 3), Healing Touch (levels 1-3), extensive shamanic training & journey work

• Rites of Passage approaches to transformation

• community-based ceremonial work 

• my poetry and writing mentors: Marilyn Krysl, Lucia Berlin, Mark Irwin, Lorna de Cervantes

• embodiment & dance practices~5 Rhythms, Soul Motion & Authentic Movement 

• the land based work of School of Lost Borders (in particular the Practice of Living & Dying

• Truthtelling Practice~a practice co-developed by a circle of women for circles of women)

• the land based "soul" work of Animas Valley Institute

• the work of the Pachamama Alliance in partnership with indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest

• the work with myth, storytelling and community based ceremony taught by Michael Meade and Mosaic

• earth-based wisdom traditions

• the work of the Conscious Dying Institute

• my own personal experience with supporting rites of passage, birth, illness, death and transitions