Therapeutic Sessions
Hands-on Work
Current Availability
Sessions in Boone, North Carolina are available at the Art of Living Retreat Center through October. From November 1, sessions will be available in Indiana at MassageWorks Southwest in Fort Wayne and Vital Living Integrative Spa in Leo. Booking for all locations is through the venues.
CranioSacral Therapy
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach centered on the craniosacral system — the membranes and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord — and its relationship with the body as a whole. Bones, muscles, fascia, nerves, membranes, and fluids are all part of this interconnected physical system.
During your session, my hands “listen” for areas where movement has become restricted or asymmetrical, or where structures are no longer relating to one another as freely as they might. Rather than trying to correct what I find, I bring gentle attention and contact to these relationships and follow your body's response. The premise of the work is that your body has an innate capacity to recognize and reorganize patterns of tension and imbalance when it is ready to do so.
You may come with a particular concern or the lingering effects of an injury, or simply want to experience a deep state of relaxation. The session follows what your body presents and what it is ready to respond to, so no two sessions are necessarily alike.
SomatoEmotional Release
SomatoEmotional Release builds upon CranioSacral Therapy. Our physical patterns do not exist separately from our experiences, and when you are ready to investigate more deeply, an SER session supports that conscious exploration through dialogue in conjunction with the hands-on work.
Dialogue may begin with something you notice, or with a response that occurs during the hands-on work. Together we become curious about what is present, and I may ask questions that help you explore your own experience while remaining grounded in the present moment.
The experience and any associations that arise come from you. My role is not to interpret or lead you toward a particular explanation, but to listen, ask, and follow while continuing to work with the body. There is nothing you are expected to experience or uncover; the session follows what is present for you.
The intention is to create space for physical, emotional, and energetic patterns to be explored together, supporting a fuller process of recognition and release.
Energy Balancing
Underlying this work is an understanding of prāṇa as the universal life energy moving through and around us, and of an intelligence larger than our individual awareness. This is an invitation to become more receptive to that connection, allowing what is asking to be recognized to come into awareness.
Intuitive perception has always been part of the way I work. Information may arise for me as a felt sense, an image, a thought or association, a difference in energetic quality, or simply a sense of where my attention or hands are being drawn.
In an Energy Balancing session, I allow this intuitive perception to become an explicit part of the work. I may draw upon the energetic maps of the chakras, Marma Chikitsa, and Polarity Therapy as I notice differences in vitality, movement, or relationship within and around the body.
At times I may share an image, sensation, or impression that arises through my intuitive connection with you. I offer what I perceive without assigning it a meaning; you may recognize an immediate connection, understand it quite differently, or find that it holds no particular meaning for you. At other times, nothing specific arises for me to share, while you may be experiencing your own physical, emotional, or energetic process. In those moments, there is nothing I need to interpret or direct. I simply remain present, maintain contact, and allow space for what is unfolding.
Come As You Are
There is nothing you need to do to prepare for a session. Come as you are — in whatever clothing feels comfortable, and in whatever state of mind or body you find yourself. The work meets you exactly where you are that day.