MOVEMENT BACKGROUND

I am a multi-disciplinary performer and writer, with an MFA in Choreography and Performance. I’ve trained for 40+ years in many movement and somatic techniques, including qigong, pilates, yoga, contemporary dance, social dance forms, percussive tap, dance kick line (yes, dance kick line), authentic movement, and a range of improvisational methods.  This spectrum of dancing has helped me regularly immerse into those invisible energies that animate us from inside out and vice versa.

 

I consider the interplay between our bodies and our conscious thinking to be an everyday act of intentional magic.  The fact that we get up and travel through our day means we're in an interconnected world of perpetual motion and change. Not unlike the multiple planetary transits around the sun or the constellations rising up to meet us in the night sky.  My work as a dance artist has greatly impacted how I approach my sensing body within moving cycles of the world we live in. I root both my movement and divining practices in the simple truth that we all wear meat suits that move through space and time, and that it is in this felt experience that new perspectives of our lived narrative can sprout and form.  Often we need to remember that our bodies are a part of stories we tell ourselves.

 

APPROACH TO DIVINATION

Divination is an act of conversing with images or signs in the moment of their appearance.  It is an emergent kind of storytelling that can address your questions, longings, thoughts, experiences, the list goes on.  Divination speaks in a burst of pattern rather than a string of facts.  It loves for us to tease out a feeling that we might not have otherwise named.  And then we can carry its message with us it into our everyday lives and perhaps see our reality in fresh ways.

 

I bring a range of divination techniques to our sessions (my education below) and develop a tailored structure for what appears before us during a reading.  I see divination as a one-one-one conversation that gives us a container inside of which we can talk and listen.  It is a hallowed place, a space I hope to be entrusted to tend with you.

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EDUCATION / NETWORK OF TEACHERS

I am primarily a Traditional Astrologer and have taken the 2-course program with Adam Elenbaas at Nightlight Astrology.  I also owe much to the teachings of T. Susan Chang (Tarot) and Hilary Barrett (I'Ching).   I’m regularly illuminated by the writings/podcasts/lectures of Sabrina Monarch, Cory Nakasue, Diana Rose Harper, Jonathan Koe, Sophie Strand, Jessica Lanyaado, and Chris Brennan’s The Astrology Podcast, to name a few. 

 

I’m also a qi gong practitioner at Valley Spirit Acupuncture & Internal Arts. I’m continually studying in the wide-spun realms of archetypes and dream/shadow work, mostly of the Jungian persuasion. Unpacking symbol logic and imagery has opened up a whole other way of reading, seeing, listening, feeling and doing for me.  I’m in awe of the intricate, immense network of it, and I'm a lifelong student of symbolic study and its connection to embodiment. There is always something to learn from the stories buried in us -- with their rich minerality waiting to be found.