Meet Your Guide

I'm a great lover of MUSIC—always have been. 

And my favorite tv show when I was a kid was Fame. 

All I've ever really wanted is a world where everyone is singing and dancing, 

jumping off furniture and doing spins. 

I began practicing restorative Iyengar yoga as part of recovering from neck & back injuries when I was 28. I was very uncomfortable in my body and began utilizing countless modalities to manage pain.

Discovering Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms® and the concept of "sweating your prayers" changed my life.  I studied with Kathy Altman, and helped found Dance Tribe (now DanceTogetherVt) which has been dancing together every Thursday since 2001. I studied with Toni Bergens, and became a licensed JourneyDance® facilitator in 2010, and deepened my yoga practice with Piper Abbott in Burlington Vermont. 

In July 2025, I will become a lifetime certified Shake Your Soul® facilitator and I am thrilled to have found this jam. 

One of the reasons SYS speaks to me so well is that the logical side of my brain totally gets it. It's a scientific fact that we are made up mostly of fluids. And once you get them each rocking in their own way, the rhythm takes over your body and your mind can relax. It feels like this practice has allowed me to actually feel what it's like to BE IN MY BODY. As if my soul finally felt like it was safe enough to come back inside "me" again. And it feels GOOD! 

That's why i want to share it with you. 

It's about as fun as healing can be.