When you see your doctor or naturopath, they work on your physical body—the visible, tangible suit that your spirit wears in this life. Energy medicine healing is based on the belief that a vital energy flows through the body, and that balancing this energy can promote healing, reduce stress, and improve overall well-being. In this practice, we work on the invisible layers of the body—the energetic layers of the human body that are accessible in the quantum field.

How it works

Energy medicine healing adjusts these energy layers to address both physical and emotional pain and discomfort. Sessions can focus on deep childhood emotions or a current physical ailment. In working with the energy field, the human body can often re-orient and release old patterns, energies and emotions. There are three important concepts that make it successful:

• Belief in energy flow: The core concept is that a vital life force energy flows through the body, and disruptions in this flow can lead to health issues.

• Balancing energy: The goal is to restore this flow and achieve a state of harmony, vitality, and balance within the body's energy system.

• Holistic approach: Energy medicine takes a holistic view, treating the mind, body, and spirit together by addressing imbalances in subtle energy systems. 

 The beauty is that to you, the session will feel like peaceful, deep relaxation. I will guide you on a beautiful journey to my medicine room. Once there, you will sink into a quiet meditation. You may feel twitches, heat, or other sensations. Some people experience an emotional release, such as crying or yawning. It is also normal to see visions or feel them as they surface. Or you may fall asleep. You mind may stay active. All of these things are normal!

After the session you may feel rested and refreshed, or that feeling might take a few days to arrive (it always does) as you cleanse and detox the emotional toxicity from your field.

Combing it with yoga, meditation, and overall wellness

Addressing the energetic layers is one piece of the overall health balancing. Yoga, meditation, physical movement all help prepare your body and mind to receive the healing. They also strengthen your physical body so that you move through life with energy and vitality.

Yoga is far more than physical exercise, although it is definitely great for that. Yoga is a complete system for personal transformation that unites body, mind, and spirit. Rooted in ancient India and first codified by the sage Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras, yoga outlines an eightfold path (known as Ashtanga Yoga, meaning “eight limbs”) that guides practitioners toward inner peace and balance. Each limb supports the others, forming a holistic approach to living with awareness, balance, and compassion.

And no, you don't need to be flexible to do it!

The Eight Limbs of Yoga

1. Yama – Ethical Disciplines
   The yamas are moral guidelines for how we relate to others and the world around us. They include:

   • Ahimsa (non-violence)

   • Satya (truthfulness)

   • Asteya (non-stealing)

   • Brahmacharya (moderation or right use of energy)

   • Aparigraha (non-attachment)
     Practicing the yamas cultivates integrity, kindness, and respect in daily life.

2. Niyama – Personal Observances
   The niyamas are inward-focused disciplines for self-care and growth:

   • Saucha (purity)

   • Santosha (contentment)

   • Tapas (discipline or inner fire)

   • Svadhyaya (self-study or study of sacred texts)

   • Ishvara pranidhana (surrender to a higher power)
     Through the niyamas, practitioners nurture balance, humility, and spiritual awareness.

3. Asana – Physical Postures
   Asana refers to the physical postures of yoga. Originally intended to prepare the body for meditation, asana practice strengthens, stretches, and purifies the body while cultivating stability and ease. The goal is not perfection of the pose, but harmony between body and mind.

4. Pranayama – Breath Regulation
   Prana means life force or vital energy. Through breathing techniques, practitioners learn to regulate and expand this energy. Pranayama calms the nervous system, balances emotions, and connects the physical and subtle bodies.

5. Pratyahara – Withdrawal of the Senses
   This limb involves turning attention inward, detaching from external distractions. By withdrawing the senses, one becomes less reactive and more centered, laying the foundation for deep concentration and meditation.

6. Dharana – Concentration
   Dharana is the cultivation of focused attention on a single point—such as the breath, a mantra, or an image. It trains the mind to be steady and clear, reducing mental chatter and preparing for meditation.

7. Dhyana – Meditation
   Dhyana is the state of effortless awareness that arises from sustained concentration. It is a continuous flow of attention, where the distinction between observer and object begins to dissolve. Meditation deepens insight and fosters profound peace.

8. Samadhi – Union or Enlightenment
   The final limb represents complete absorption and union with the divine or universal consciousness. In samadhi, there is no separation between self and existence—only pure awareness, bliss, and liberation.

Benefits of Asana Practice

• Improves flexibility, strength, and balance

• Enhances posture and spinal health

• Boosts circulation and immune function

• Reduces physical tension and chronic pain

• Promotes relaxation and stress relief
  
  

Benefits of Meditation

• Calms the nervous system and reduces anxiety

• Increases focus, clarity, and emotional regulation

• Supports better sleep and lower blood pressure

• Cultivates self-awareness and compassion

• Deepens inner peace and spiritual connection

Together, the eight limbs of yoga offer a timeless roadmap for living with presence, integrity, and grace—uniting body, breath, mind, and spirit into one harmonious whole.

Hi and welcome. If you’ve landed here then you are likely curious whether energy medicine healing, yoga, meditation, or all these things can help you find the balanced and peaceful life you crave.

I am living proof that they can.

In many ways, my story is common: I’m a middle-aged woman who spent most of my life taking care of everybody else’s needs rather than my own. I work soul crushing corporate jobs that were so stressful my doctor once told me to quit immediately (I left that job six months later). I married a lovely man and got two step children who I adore. I have a dog.

I STRUGGLE with my weight, body image, and self-worth. I spend way more time dwelling on those things than I want to admit. Although much less time doing that since I discovered energy medicine healing.

For years I’ve been on a journey to figure out my purpose. What AM I here to do? I've known it was through wellness. But what? Along the way, I became a certified health coach, yoga teacher, meditation teacher, death doula, and energy medicine healer. And with that, my journey made sense because these things all go together beautifully to empower people to live on their terms. Magic.

That’s the short story. I want to spend my crone years helping people find peace and health to live with intention and purpose. The world is heavy and dark right now. And it is changing whether we like it or not. We all need to develop resilience to bring back the light.

But wait, there is more….

Meditation, yoga, and radical self-care got me through the hardest time of my life.

In July of 2020, I had just finished yoga teacher training. I meditated, did asana, and nourished myself every day. I believe that is why the day my life exploded, I stood strong.

July 20, 2020, my husband of 15 years told me he could no longer lie to himself or me about his true identity. The quiet of the pandemic had forced him to understand the root of his sorrow and depression. It turns out, he is she. And on that day, she started living her truth.

Everything I knew about my life, all of my plans for the future, changed in an instant.

To this day, people say they don’t know how I took the journey by her side with grace. But I do. It was the consistent practice of extreme self-care that fueled my resilience and allowed me to love both of us enough to find joy in what was happening.

That time contained some of the most beautiful days of my life, and many of the most difficult. I was so happy for her as she blossomed. But losing my husband and my marriage was devasting. Fighting to maintain a relationship with my best friend was hard. I felt every emotion that exists, with frequent stops at anger.

But meditation, asana, and self-care got me through it. If I can share just a little of this gift with others, then the world will be a little bit better. 

About the Crone Years

I didn't live the first third of my life with any intention at all. I was going about my business doing the things I was supposed to do… College, a corporate job, exploring life independently. Basically, living under the patriarchy and capitalism.  I realize now I was always rebelling at the edges. I didn't get married. I didn't have children. But still, I did what was expected of a single woman. 

In my second act I continued rebelling at the edges,  but still not really living with intention. I left my corporate job and ran my own business. I married a man who could not support me financially, but with whom I had an amazing relationship. This was not the path I was supposed to be on. But I felt free. And then, of course, life blew up. As it does.

Now embracing the crone years, taking everything that I learned with my semi rebellious life to help people navigate what is dark, scary, and crazy. 

I believe we are powerful. And when we recognize that power through healing our body mind and spirit, we are unstoppable.