• Bodywork, Yoga, Pilates, Weight Training, and Craniosacral

  • Vital Ease Bodywork, Yoga, and Pilates

  • Personal Trainer

  • Massage and Cranio Sacral Therapy: Sukha Stillness

• Aesthetics

  • Imagine Esthetics

• Reproduction

  • Birth Sisters of Charlottesville

  • River Haven Community Birth Center

• Joy Things

  • Fresh and dried flowers, Custom bouquets, Wreaths : Pigentop Flowers

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We must, of course, start with my mother, Jeanine, who taught me service, empathy, compassion, self control, and intuitive energy work. Mom protected me, loved me fiercely, and guided me to prepare for the worst while expecting the best. She gave me my positive outlook, hard work sensibilities, and love for dancing

Chris, a region 10 counselor saved my life when I was most suicidal as a child. Chris validated my comping mechanisms, and gently but frankly acknowledged trauma that I had never spoken about out loud. She also introduced me to acupressure, despite the risks, which became and is still an important coping mechanism in my life today

Ken Zarski is a physical therapist that encouraged me to learn Craniosacral Therpay. I still use the PT exercises Ken taught me. His frank nature about the severity of my physical injuries helped me to stay balanced while battling intense chronic pain at an age where no one wanted to believe me.

Janet Evergreen, my craniosacral therapy and first somatics mentor, also began my life's learning around soul recall, grounding, and tuning. Her depth of compassion and ability to sit with trauma, while encouraging individuals to shift the pain gently on our own timeline, was vital to me learning how to hold space for people from all walks of life. Janet was an impactful example of what it looked like to be flexible in the lessons being provided to those seeking.

Gloria Cappola was a mentor for most of my 20's, after meeting her as my massage school anatomy teacher in 2007. She generously shared a plethora of skills, and an abundance of physical and metaphysical knowledge. The words she spoke to me over the years we worked together resonate within me while new layers of the old teachings unfold. 

I think of Dane Silva as one of Gloria's teachers, as I learned from him only very briefly. In that short time, he illuminated a domino of epiphanies that play large roles in how I work, think, and perceive myself on the journey of my life. 

Leilani Kalilimoku Kaleiohi and I were introduced about 4 or 5 years into my study of lomi, after I asked questions that my then kumu was unable to answer. Kahu Leilani has been generous with her love of traditional teaching. I am deeply privileged that she has taken the time to instruct me with questions, videos, and in depth conversations. The oli that were shared with me have helped to support, shift, and transmute. She has helped to expand my connection to my higher self, and to trust my intuition more deeply.

Nana Veary's book "Change We Must" is a short tome, with large lettering that carries an abundance of education. After owning this book for 5 or so years now, despite constantly rereading it, I always learn new things from Nana Veary's impactful words. Her mana'o still resonates in the stars and the rain, and I'm deeply grateful to the guidance I've found in her wisdom.   

Cindy Meyers, an egoscue practitioner and owner of Pain Free Performance helped me heal myself deeply. Once I peaked with my physical therapy exercises, I needed another layer. These exercises continue to help me stand stronger and taller, and with less pain

Kahu Raylene Kawaiea had deep impact within myself, and I was thrilled when I learned her connection to the lesbian and queer communities before she passed. Kumu Raylene Kawaiaea was a woman who embodied love with every breath. She passed on before I was able to connect with her in person, however I will forever be grateful for the words she left behind in her students, and in video form. Her heart energy is still felt; it is many years after her passing and her love is still palpably echoing within the legacy she has passed on, and she's been too influential to leave out. The most perfect example of her deep love can be experienced in this potent oli she gifted the world by allowing herself to be recorded: here

Harry Uhane Jim taught me about my favorite oli, bone washing, and the sacredness of Awa'awa. He helped me to deeper understand my connection to, and the meaning of 'anuenue. The hālau I was a student of is Kahu mālama a ao ke 'anuenue, loosely translated to Stewards of the Rainbow's Light. He is one of many teachers to encourage me to dance in the shadow, not just the light

Sarita Bennett, the instructor and mentor for the entirety of my midwifery journey was both a DO and a traditional midwife. She started her midwifery practice before going to medical school and has continued to offer education and midwifery care. She walked the line between western medicine and spiritual midwifery, and the physiologic education I received is unparalleled to any other midwifery education I've heard about or explored since. Sarita has a deep faith in the body's ability to give birth, and she encouraged independence and reciprocity, and she was working towards a non hierarchical environment during the time I worked with her and within her practice.  

A note about Lomilomi;

Though I have been told specifically to offer Lomi by my kumu and her teachers, it feels inappropriate after only studying intentionally for 8 years. Lomi is a perspective, a relationship to the energies around you, a way of approaching the world, and not just how a practitioner interacts with a body on a table. 

Living in Charlottesville, Virginia, I knew I needed to find words to describe the entirety of my offerings that wasn't tied to a culture not of my blood. I offer the approximate of Alchemist, and hope it not only suits, but honors the spirit of the offering. 

This is where I will give credit to those who's art is used on this website. 

• Logo: K Robins Designs  created the gorgeous Prana Pendant that I use for my logo. When I first saw this work of art, I immediately realized how perfectly the image would fit my offerings in this world.  I will write a more eloquent paragraph later, but it is imperative you are able to get a pendant of your own! Their artwork is stunning!

• Any photos linked to this page were taken by Logan Breaud, or myself, unless otherwise labeled