My Journey

A Path to Healing and Self-Discovery

I am so happy you are here. I am honoured to sit in this space with you and share a little bit about myself allowing you to feel the essence of who I am and how we might begin to work with one another.

Unveiling the Threads of My Spiritual Journey

My path has been a tapestry woven and unwoven through a lifetime of self-reflection, self-actualization, and extensive training in the Yoga, Ayurvedic, and Hindu traditions. I was born legally blind and from birth I assumed the identity handed to me by others. It was an identity that ran deeper than the label of blind or disabled, I quickly realized that I was different in many ways. I was clairvoyant and as an infant and young child, I did not understand the gift that had been bestowed upon me. I couldn’t see the way others could, but I could see things that others could not. Some of my earliest memories are of times when I communicated with spirit as an infant in my crib and throughout my childhood. I could feel the beauty and magic of the world in my body and my life’s work has been dedicated to helping others find this beauty and magic within themselves.

Over time, society tuned into my differences, and I found that I needed to become demure to fit in and preserve myself. I silenced my laugh, softened my footsteps, and tried to become the good, invisible girl that the world expected me to be. Thankfully, at the age of 12, my mobility teacher introduced me to yoga as a tool to compensate for my low vision and help me to develop my intuition and sensory perception. This was the first of many signposts guiding me throughout my life. I felt a deep calling to India and although I did not know it at the time, the ancient traditions, and teachings of Hinduism.

Spiritual Odyssey in India

I traveled to India in my early twenties and spent three years learning yoga, meditation, palmistry, and Ayurveda. It was there that I encountered many spiritual teachers who recognized my gifts beyond my own understanding of them and taught me to practice the art of discernment through humility and hours of deeply contemplative work. I was blessed to connect with my first Guru at the age of 21 and my life was irrevocably changed from that moment on. I spent several years training in the Hindu tradition, and I even married a man who would later become a Hindu priest. We lived together in a temple for seven years where I helped to spiritually guide people by teaching yoga, meditation, and chanting. It was a magical time of connecting and serving others while personally working through several deep initiations with my own Gurus. These teachings still rumble through my being all these decades later and they allow me to support my clients in deeply personal and effective ways.

The Dance with Fire

In 2010, my sari started on fire in the temple during Diwali, the festival of lights. The fire took 15 seconds to burn 65% of my body! It took my body three years to recover from the burns. I had to apply all the teachings I had learned for the service of others to myself. That time of deep contemplation and isolation in the hospital illuminated the darker parts of my life that I had tried to compartmentalize. I was suddenly faced with my own shadow and the culmination of abuse and sexual trauma I had encountered throughout various periods of my life. I felt numb. Emptiness. Nothing.

Embracing the Transformative Power of Grief

I have endured the depths of grief that get caught in your throat and pour from your eyes to cleanse you of the identity that was handed to you. I understand the pain of shedding the unauthentic self-image that somehow became who you felt you were and rebuilding a life from the ashes of everything you held dear. I carry the scars on my body as a reminder of the power of deep self-love and acceptance and I use the lessons I learned during this time to holistically support others who find themselves facing their own shadows.

I had no clue who or what I would become, but I rose slowly, at a pace that would only feel like the silent rumble of a train in the distance to lull all the parts of me into an awakening that ultimately allowed me to claim true integration, embodiment, and bliss. In the decade that followed my accident I have explored the connections between all aspects of the human experience. I have woven my decades of formal training and practice in spiritual realms with deeper training in tantric practices that allowed me to connect to the numbness in my body left by trauma and harness this vital sexual and physical energy as a source of joy, creativity, and aliveness!

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My Purpose

My purpose is to help others find bliss in their own lives. To shine lights on our gifts and create space for them to thrive. If you find yourself seeking deeper meaning, a yearning to connect with the core of who you really are, or ways to embody and overcome traumatic experiences from your life, you have found a hearth for you heart here with me. I am here to walk alongside you as you shed old patterns and personas from your life and find the essence of who you really are. I will use all the wisdom and knowledge I have gained from my training to support you through your customized journey so that you can feel truly alive in total self-love!