About me
Doula
I have been working with pregnant women and there families for over 20 years, offering prenatal yoga, mother-baby yoga, couples yoga for labor, children yoga, and adult yoga classes. I am is a skilled and trained birth doula, postpartum doula, and lactation consultant.
I am interested in re-awakening the connection to sacredness in ordinary daily living. I create a space for my clients to develop and explore this connection and provide them with skillful means to continue this inquiry on their own, whether practicing yoga, raising a family or exploring their role in the collective unfolding of life.
Artist
My artwork is influenced by my experiences as a mother, mystic, doula, musician and yogini. I start each studio session with centering and listening from deep within. I enjoy painting figuratively and from nature. Many of my paintings are from archetypal sources that we all can relate to. From there, depending on what I find, questions usually emerge that are the starting point for my work. Sometimes quirky, sometimes fantastical, -and mostly these questions are about the mysteries of life. Questions like “Who am I?” “Why are we here?” and "why is this so heartbreakingly beautiful?" "How do you paint delight"? “What is there beyond this life?”
When I paint I use many of the same principals that I use when I am teaching yoga or accompanying a woman in childbirth: Balance and flow, trust in intuition, strength and flexibility, letting go, rhythmic work. As a birth and postpartum doula I have had the unique opportunity of witnessing new beings coming into this world and into the loving arms of their parents. I have also had the unique privilege of accompanying a dear friend in illness and as she left this world. These experiences have left an indelible impression on me and influence my way as an artist.
Currently I am studying portrait and figure drawing in charcoal in Los Gatos
YOga and meditation teacher
I have been practicing yoga and meditation for over 30 years, and have been teaching for nearly as long. I am trained and certified in various schools of yoga and have synthesized them into an effective and fun way to be present on and off the mat, on and off the cushion. I love to learn and am continually taking workshops from my own teachers so that I can grow and flourish in my own life, as well as to ensure that my offerings are of a high caliber. I am currently completing a two year course in to be certified as a mindfulness meditation teacher through The Greater Good Science Center of UC Berkeley, and though Sounds True. My teachers have included the senior teachers of The Iyengar Yoga Center of San Francisco, and Barcelona. Senior teachers of Integral Yoga Center in Barcelona, New York, and Yogaville, as well as senior teachers of the Dynamic Yoga Training Method in Spain, France and in Portugal
More about Me
I live with my husband of many years in a little cottage in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We moved back to California after 25 years living in Spain and raising our two remarkable children. It is like coming full circle for us, because we met here in the Bar Area long ago.