My Journey…
“I believe we all have an amazing rich story that comes from our life experience, the challenges we’ve faced can lead towards helping us find peace and wisdom in our later life if we are open to that idea. I have lived a full life always working diligently and trying to do the best I could. I was a teenage mother and experienced early injury and trauma that stayed with my body for most of my life. Always trying to “fix myself” and relieve my pain, I tried everything alternative I could find though living in a small Texas town there wasn’t a lot so I was always seeking on my own. Dramatically changing my life a decade ago at 50, I stepped fully into spiritual seeking mode, I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, driven to fix what was wrong me. My adventurous journey has taken me to and through years of focused Yoga discipline and training, into and out of the mental health system, around the globe a few times, and back studying eastern philosophy and healing modalities, and of course doing my own physical, emotional and spiritual work and play.
In 2017 I discovered the somatic way by joining a year long 1:1 coaching program with Kaila June at the SomaKinese School. This word somatics was coined to cover a range of modalities that honor the experience of the lived body, my soma my lived experience. This has allowed all my many years of experience to synthesize into my current offering as a Somatic Personal Trainer and Somatic Movement Guide.
The most auspicious piece of discovery I’ve come to is to find that I can be my own most powerful ally as I embrace belief that my own internal experience is as valid as any outside perspective. In all I offer I hope to share the concept of living with ease and confidence”
One to One Somatic Personal Trainer and Somatic Movement Guide:
2017-18 The SomaKinese School. Embodied Movement Science, Intelligent Motion Training, a 1 year training and coaching program aimed at providing a high quality 1:1 personal Integrated Movement Design. (https://www.kailajune.com/intelligent-motion-training-online-course/)
Yin Yoga teaching Credentials:
2015 - 100 hr Yin Yoga teacher training in Bali Indonesia with Mysan Sibdo International Yin teacher and long time student of Paul Grilley, founder of the Yin functional system based in his deep knowledge of anatomy and fascia in the human body.
2016 - 100 hr Yin Yoga teacher training in Bali. A deepening of teaching skills and an opportunity to work with Mysan Sibdo.
Anusara Yoga teaching Credentials:
2010 - 100 hr. Anusara Immersion @ Spandarama Studio, Santa Fe, NM
2011 - 200 hr Anusara Teacher training @ Yoga Oasis in Tuscon, Arizona with Darren Rhodes and Christina Sell.
Practicing and teaching in a strong and physical style of asana for a few years lead me to evolve my own practice. This road brought me to Yin Yoga when an injury required me to slow down for healing.
Other areas of complimentary study.
2015 - Chi Nei Tsang I Energetic organ massage from the Taoist teaching of Master Mantek Chi at Tao Garden, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2016 - Chi Nei Tsang comprehensive training Universal Tao System, taught by Ajahn Panyo former teacher at Tao Garden
2016 - Tok Sen traditional Thai healing training intensive @ Omsala School Chiang Mai, Thailand