My life has been devoted to creativity and learning the mechanics and subtle languages of the body. Being born blind in one eye and having spinal surgery at 12 years old—leaving me paralyzed from the chest down—propelled me into a lifetime pursuit of paying attention. What the doctors called numb, I experienced as a new sensation of alive. I could not feel my skin, but I felt a new texture underneath my skin. I followed curiously, I listened, and then I learned to walk again.

Learning to listen and rediscover my body’s signals is the foundation and lens through which I live. My step-by-step physical experience has been my road map. It has guided me to a fluency in body languages, which has allowed me to support countless others as they unearth their own.

I am a mother to my 10-year-old child Luka. I hold a Bachelor’s degree from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and a Master’s in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I am the co-founder and Artistic Director of Proximity, a movement-based theater company in Santa Barbara, CA. I have directed over sixty productions, performance-based workshops and classes for the past two decades, yielding a rigorous performance vocabulary and multi-layered teaching methodology.  

I studied with Anna Halprin, learning her Life Art Process on her dance deck in Kentwood, California. I am certified for both Movement for Trauma (MFT) and as a Creative Body Practitioner through the school of Jungian Somatics with Jane Clapp. I have completed over two years of Kimberly Ann Johnson’s trauma, nervous system and female sexuality education. 

I currently work one-on-one and implement movement-based curricula for 12 to 85-year-olds, teens, young women, university faculty, museums, and developmentally disabled students that weave together self-study, creativity, and the human body.