Hello friends!

Learning to see real, whole food as medicine helped me see how quick and easy it is to feel better in my body.

Want to know how I got here, so you can heal, too?

As a child in elementary school I felt SO uncomfortable in my body, with good reason.

Considering how sick I was as a child, I never would have guessed I’d end up where I am now.

I had red itchy sores all over my body from eczema.
Asthma made me fearful that I couldn’t take the next breath. And allergies caused constant sneezing (because of course I was reactive to practically everything.)
To top it all off, I was often mortified by my own gaseous explosions (due to gluten intolerance), which showed up in quiet moments in my 2nd grade classroom.
And if that wasn’t traumatizing enough, all of my hair fell out when I was just 5 years old (alopecia- autoimmune disease that causes hair loss)!

I felt like I couldn’t trust my body.

Going away to college in Santa Barbara, that all began to shift.

Running became my new stress outlet.

When I would return from a night run along the beach, sweat pouring from my body and the smell of the ocean invigorating me, there was a sense of calm energy that enveloped me like a blanket. It felt like magic,

I’d found the key to feeling good in my body.

My next discovery was yoga, and another door opened to feeling a new level of calm in my body that I never knew existed.

I had stumbled across classes that focused on breath work & meditation which gave me a sense of control over the asthma that had plagued me for years.

The familiar panic faded away.

Then life decided to serve me a gut punch.

During my time in Chicago, I lost a dear friend, which sent me into a spiral of depression I didn’t know how to deal with. I was drinking too much, eating too much “comfort” food, and pushing myself way too hard to “run off those calories.”

I was invited to take a 250 hour yoga teacher training course which ended up being just the kick in the pants I needed to motivate me to shift my habits. This opened my eyes to how powerful a consistent practice of yoga could be. It lifted my mood and became a meaningful way to give my life focus and purpose.

Over the next 16 years I learned from master teachers all over the world who had dedicated themselves to helping students feel more comfortable in their bodies. I learned how to give safe manual adjustments, tailor a practice for specific injuries, and how to be aware of the breath to avoid injury. I also enjoyed challenging the more advanced students with inversions, arm balances and back bends.

Diving deep into the world of teaching yoga gave me a new understanding - which I love passing on to everyone I work with.

I moved back to Northern California (where I grew up) after my mother passed away from cancer, to be closer to my family. Externally, you would have thought I was healthy and strong, like an elite athlete, but internally my digestion was a complete mess and I wasn’t sleeping well. I was waking up every night. Learning about nutrition and healthy eating habits was the last piece of the puzzle that shifted my body to feeling as good on the inside as it looked on the outside.

Since 2016, I’ve studied with various Functional Medicine Practitioners (and some bio-hackers), as well as taking in-depth courses on Clinical Ayurvedic Medicine.

I’m always shocked by how simple these concepts are, yet they lead to profound healing in the body.

Learning to see real, whole food as medicine, shifted my understanding of how quick and easy it was to feel better in my body.

This is exactly what I teach my clients, every day.

I can teach it to you.

It’s not complicated.

And it can be FUN!

The symptoms you’re experiencing are not mysterious.

They are simply the way your body is talking to you.