My Story

I grew up in the world of competitive dance. Fourteen years of bright lights, long rehearsals, and the cathartic thrill of expressing through movement. 

In that environment, I quietly learned to override my own needs in the name of perfection—pushing through pain, ignoring my body’s signals, and tying my worth to how well I performed.

Then, on the brink of a world tour, an injury brought everything to an abrupt halt.

My soul was aching to dance, but my world was about to get even smaller when a chronic illness swept in and completely debilitated me. Unable to get answers from the medical system, I was alone and bedridden.

In my stillness, the pain stopped being something to conquer and became something to enter. With nowhere left to look, I turned inward and began listening. I learned how to feel where energy was being held in my body and how to access the emotions and old stories that were woven into my tissues and ancestral layers. It took me over a year to accomplish, but when I finally reemerged, I was inspired to formalize my newfound gifts and study the healing arts.

On the other side of that initiatory experience, I was eager to dance again. But from a different place. Dancing became the vehicle through which my spirit could move, process, and reclaim what was lost. 

On Ecstatic dance floors, I surrendered to movement as medicine, allowing the sacred to move through me. I rediscovered myself, and not only understood the language of my body, but how to alchemize it through movement. 

As my own perception refined, I began to recognize the same language in others. The patterns in their movement, the places where energy stagnated, and the self emerging from beneath the surface, ready to move freely and authentically. 

Over time, people began approaching me during dances, asking for support to reconnect with their own bodies or to move them through stuck energy. What started as spontaneous, intuitive encounters became a natural extension of my path — guiding others back into alignment through movement, presence, and embodied awareness.