My relationship with movement & sound comes through many decades of studies of these mediums through the lenses of performance, therapeutics, esoteric/spiritual, ceremonial, and the unnamed spaces and places in between them all. 

In my youth, I focused on studying a range of dance and music theory/techniques and performance skills through dance studios, school bands, and a rock band or two. When I wasn’t in a studio, rehearsal, or performance, I spent time outside in nature, hiking and cultivating a meditation practice. By the time I was sixteen, I had explored several healing arts modalities and Buddhism. I began college in music performance/education studies before shifting to psychology. After taking a few ballet and modern/contemporary dance classes, I took a semester of yoga classes twice a week for college credit. After graduating with a BA in psychology,  I cultivated a twenty-year career in non-profit public health organizations, focusing on working with people with diverse types of disabilities and trauma in community-based programs. My roles included direct care, program & senior management roles, quality assurance, and staff training/education in several small to large organizations. 

My studies of the healing arts, movement/sound-based therapeutics, and cultural/historical/ceremonial perspectives of movement/sound continued parallel to my work in human services. Some of my teachers had backgrounds in areas such as dance anthropology, ethnomusicology, or other sciences and also a deep reverence for the mystical elements that exist in our world and beyond. In 2010, I began teaching movement/sound-based classes and workshops at yoga studios, public health programs, conferences, colleges, and other community-based settings. 

Over time found myself gravitating back to fully immersing back into the performing arts as an artist, educator, technician, and administrator. The years of immersion into other perspectives of movement and sound continue to flow through me and inform my work. 

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Areas of Studies

~Dance: Ballet/Pointe, Contemporary, Jazz, Post Modern, Tap (Broadway/Rhythm)

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~Instruments: Clarinet (classical); Electric Bass (jazz/rock/experimental); Percussion-Frame Drums/Riq (Arabic, Contemporary, South Indian), Gongs (experimental/therapeutics/ensemble), Metal Singing Bowls (experimental/therapeutics), Keyboard/MIDI (electronica/ambient/experimental)

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~Music Production: High school graduation project of recording/mixing a song. College classes in sound design, recording, and live sound engineering. 

~Healing Arts: I have studied and trained multiple modalities for over thirty-five years. 

~Meditation/Somatics/Yoga: Yoga practitioner for over twenty-five years. Have studied and taught multiple styles of meditation, somatics, and yoga Specialize in restorative, therapeutic, and trauma-informed practices. 

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~Theater: Physical/Experimental and Somatic based approaches. 

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