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My Journey…

I am a graduate of the 4-Year Practitioner Certification Program from The Institute of Core Energetics, New York.

The seeds of my work with Somatic Healing were planted when, as an actor, I began training with the legendary Sandra Seacat in 2005. I was introduced to Feldenkrais technique (a therapeutic body-awareness method) and hours of creative “matwork” where I first discovered the mind-body connection. I began to understand how my ideas, my need for validation and my disconnection from my body’s reality, were not where I wanted to create my work from. Sandra taught me to allow expression to happen from a deeper place. To trust that my body knew what it was doing.

Through years of commitments to spiritual and yogic practices I further focused my attention on the realities of the body-mind. I began to experience how my ego defences and distortions were made manifest in my physical habits and structures. I experienced my resistance to my own feelings and how I shut myself off from various parts of my body and how I had retreated into living life solely from my mind.

My work as an actor evolved into teaching acting and I became more fascinated by psychology and character structure as well as the space between teacher and student. I studied how trauma and our resulting self images created “intention” and “character”. I could see that, in part, the work of an actor was freeing themself from the “character” they were habitually playing in life. This development allowed the actor the ability to step into other character-experiences.

Finding Somatic Psychotherapy and training in Core Energetics, has been a natural step in both my own healing and working with others. I’m grateful to have found a modality that includes psychology, somatics and spirituality in a working model that’s focused on evolution while learning the tools to work one-on-one in a safe and effective way.