Welcome to Soaring Spirit Bodywork!

Private sessions, consultations and mentoring available.

I offer Jin Shin Jyutsu, Myofascial Release, and SpiritBodywork.  All are influenced by Arnold Mindell’s Process Work, as well as the shamanic training and experiences I’ve had over the decades. I bring almost 30 years of bodywork experience with diverse and extensive training to the table.  Because of my own struggles with multiple life stopping illnesses, my work stems from direct experience. 

I have experimented with a wide range of healing and harmonizing practices including a trip to Africa to participate in medicine dances with the Bushmen shaman of the Kalahari desert. Jin Shin Jyutsu brought me out of the depths of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome and started me on the path to help others find their own guidance and vitality. The Barnes method Myofascial Release released traumas and restrictions held in my tissues that I couldn’t quite get to with Jin Shin Jyutsu. SpiritBodywork brought me out of 8 months of no sleep; it is an unusual process that links the body with the mind in a direct way. My family history with mental illness magnetizes shamanic teachers and experiences, opening up my view of consensus reality and questioning what is considered disease in the modern mindset. My work parallels my own process; I continually question, learn, and grow in awareness. 

I am interested in the transformational process. My work is about self-awareness and becoming comfortable with the unknown. Without awareness, there is no choice. The release of long held tensions and holding patterns shift thoughts, perceptions and beliefs, changing the way we respond to life along with our symptoms and structure. Our body does not differentiate between physical, mental and emotional stress, it is all one. Jin Shin Jyutsu harmonizes, strengthens and integrates, while Myofacial Release and SpiritBodywork are more challenging to the ego and can cut through the mind’s deceptions. The assumption is that there is an unbroken, perfect essence within all of us, and that everything that occurs is simply bringing us home to our authentic self.

With my diverse and extensive training, I am interested in helping people with a wide range of issues through shifting energetics, deep introspection, and lifestyle changes.