I have always loved science, especially the Life Sciences and so, after high school I began studying to become a Dental Hygienist. I had always dreamed of traveling and living in another country, so I moved to Switzerland in and practiced Dental Hygiene full-time for four years.
When I moved back to the States, I fell in love, got married, and began "looking for myself". I got involved with Zen meditation, women's groups, therapy, alternative healing for my migraine headaches that I had ever since I was a child, and just searching for some meaning to my life. I then had a realization that I wanted to do some type of healing work. I didn't know in what way, but thought I should at least know how to touch people in a healing way.
So I decided massage school was a good place to start. After finishing the program, I began doing massage full-time in my own private practice in downtown Ann Arbor. I began exploring other modalities such as Polarity, and Cranial-Sacral.
Then I had an Ohashiatsu session and knew I wanted to study that. I went to the Ohashi Institute in New York City in and studied with them for two years and graduated in I really fell in love with the dance-like quality of the sessions and the Zen approach.
I changed my massage practice to shiatsu, originally I lost many of my clients as I was changing my practice, I was sorry to let people go, but I had to follow my passions. I delved into Japanese, and Chinese healing arts. That led me, in , to travel to Sri Lanka for three months to study Traditional Chinese Medicine and Homeopathy at the Open University in Colombo, a free clinic for all peoples who come for treatment, and we students studied and assisted in the clinic to learn.
