This is only a “brief” summary, as my reality has included endless details….

My journey to heal my being and increase consciousness began 12 years ago in my 4th year of undergraduate education.  (this was not my final year)

I was living in Boston, studying Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and very traumatized from past experiences, addicted to drugs, starving myself, and pretty much hurting/abusing myself in any way possible.  I was very creative around ways to accomplish this mission J.

After many rehabilitation attempts, hospitalizations, psychiatric drugs, and in/out patient programs, I had suffered enough and was unwilling to accept this existence for even one more second.  I have not experienced anything, in this lifetime, more exhausting than the relentless desire to eliminate myself slowly.

I made a focused, conscious choice to end the madness. 

About a year later, in my final year at Northeastern, I began to receive information about gluten and gluten allergies.  This information resonated with me very strongly and my conscious experimentation/research process began.  My base questions being….”What happens if………?”, “How much is TOO much”, and “What does TOO much look like?”

I eliminated gluten from my diet and within a week to two weeks I had lost 7 pounds and was feeling infinitely more emotionally stable and mentally clear.  This was a significant discovery.

Upon graduation, I began working in Boston directly with the Department of Social Services, Probation Officers, Attorneys, Schools/Teachers etc. relating with “at risk” youth and challenged families.  I would also relate privately with these children, young adults, teens, and families through counseling and outreach.  And, as a service project, I began mentoring teenage girls.

Some time later, I shifted into paralegal work for a Real Estate law firm in Boston (my intention was to attend law school) while my mentoring work with teen girls continued.

My intense passion for healing, nutrition, optimal functioning and having the BEST LIFE EVER led me to receive certifications in Personal Training.  And so began my path in the Fitness Industry.  I obtained a position, personal training part time a few nights a week at the Boston Celtics training facility, HealthPoint, in Boston. 

My interest and intention with my clients was balance.  I’ve always been very clear that the secret to optimal functioning and having the BEST LIFE EVER is balance and harmony, within and without.

I received much training and practice in sports and conditioning and orthopedic rehabilitation from the leaders in the industry (my father taught me to go BIG, thanks Dad!). 

My personal, nutritional experiments/research continued, as I was clear that clinical nutrition felt inappropriate.  I would explore with all kinds of things and my intrigue was very clearly similar to that of an enchanted child.

My infinite curiosities landed me relating with physical therapists and doctors and they would send me their clients.  Meanwhile, I’m also training athletes, addressing muscular-skeletal imbalances and general fitness, and teaching fitness classes.

While still in Boston, my relentless mission for healing, and extreme sensitivity to energy, led me to receive training in Reiki, Chakra Balancing, and CranioSacral Therapy.  And, I would work with clients.

In May, 2000, I discovered Yoga.  What a blessing!  WooHoo!!!!  I began to practice power yoga within Baron Baptiste yoga studios and other surrounding yoga studios.

At the end of August, 2003, I moved to Tempe, Arizona to explore Naturopathic Medicine at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Ultimately this program felt inappropriate for me and, in February, 2004, I moved to sunny San Diego.  Yay!!!  Nutritional experiments/research continues…….And spiritual studies begin…..

At the beginning of September, 2004, I began my studies at BodyMind College where I received and practiced healing on the deepest level yet; Inner Child work, Emotional Release, Energy work, Massage Therapy, Holistic Nutrition, Rebirthing, Tai Chi, and SO much more.  The Mission Statement for this school is “Healer, Heal Thyself.”  Brilliant!  Each class involved teachings and practice with each other.  And, client work continued.  I was also working directly with one of my primary teachers in this lifetime, Dr. Barry Green, one to two times a week to heal personal imbalances and incongruencies within mind and soul.

During this same time, I began to study and practice Tantric Tibetan Buddhism with my Root Teacher, Kali Ma.  Tantra is the study of energy, the language of energy, and its relationship to all of existence.  What a blessing to have all that I’ve known to be true articulated for me in such a brilliant fashion!!

I continue to receive teachings from Kali Ma several times a year and practice the application of these teachings every moment of every day.  Different and extremely profound experiments/research arise from these teachings every day.

My experiments/research continued as did my work with clients.  I was primarily teaching yoga, some fitness classes, training a few athletes, and facilitating healing for clients within the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social bodies.

Throughout these years, my dietary choices shifted dramatically starting with the elimination of gluten, evolving to only organic fruits and veggies, free range/grass fed flesh foods and dairy, the raw diet, and some superfoods.  So many experiments!!!!

My resonance with Veganism has been present throughout, which has been challenging for me because my family eats meat and I was other than given the opportunity to choose. 

In the Fall of 2005, I made a focused and conscious choice to live a Vegan lifestyle.  One to two months later, I began to feel extremely malnutritioned.  I bought a Raw “cookbook”, and started making raw soups and massive, awesome salads.  About a month after that, I noticed that I hadn’t eaten anything cooked in a month and that I felt Amazing!  So many new experiments!!!!

In July, 2006, I went to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, in Patagonia, Arizona, to attend the Spiritual Gardening Apprenticeship for 3 months and to study with Dr. Gabriel Cousens.  I never returned to San Diego.  I spent the first 6 weeks at the Tree living in a tent in the National Forest, communing with nature and releasing my fear of the natural world.  What a profound experience!!!  You would not believe what’s really going on outside the box we refer to as our mind or our reality!!!

After my apprenticeship, I accepted a position in the Tree of Life spa facilitating healing.  A few months later, I was accepted into Gabriel’s Vegan and Live Foods Master’s Degree Program where I’m currently studying Nutrition and the Essene lifestyle.   The Essenes were/are a group of elite teachers and healers whose lifestyle is rooted in harmonizing with all life forms and all of existence; earthly and universally.

In June, 2007, I joined forces with David Wolfe and Sunfood Nutrition. 

In August, 2007, I resigned from the staff of the Tree of Life to launch my No Adults Present Mission and work with Sunfood Nutrition.

When I’m not offering my teachings all around the country or working events with David (and receiving amazing teachings!), I live in Patagonia, with Gabriel, Shanti (his beautiful, goddess wife) and the Tree of Life community.  I offer service, in the spa and teaching yoga asana, at the Tree during some fasts and continue to maintain a beautiful exchange of energy with Gabriel and Shanti; while receiving amazing teachings from both of them.

No Adults Present has been launched and it’s my intention to continue my experiments/research and share my Super Fun experiences and consciousness with everyone, everywhere!!!!

Please come and play!!!.........