\  I taught all levels of education for over 40 years specializing in Learning Assistance/Special Education. Using Brain Gym in the classroom eventually led me to the many other modalities that I have learned to use in my practice. I was very excited after retirement, to be able to take the RCST® training very close to home. I began this therapeutic practice in 2010. Since that time I have attended all of the in person BCTA/NA conferences, sat on the conference committees, and now have been on the Board since 2019. I feel very fortunate to do this work, be in the community of my colleagues and serve on the Board. I live and work in a private practice from my home in rural southern British Columbia.
 I am a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and co-director of The Human Development Center Bellingham, Washington. I began studying craniosacral therapy 20 years ago while working as a care provider for children living with disabilities and in hospice. Growing up in Alaska gave me a deep respect for and intimacy with nature and the raw elemental power of this earth that has shaped my views of life, and the continuum of life. I currently works with prenates, newborns, infants, children, families, and individuals of all ages offering somatic process work, attachment and bonding support birth work/education, infant massage, BCST, and holistic resiliency.
 I am a Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner and teacher working with babies, pregnant people, children, families and adults in Bellingham, Washington. I grew up in the pacific northwest as an avid outdoorsman, sailor and mountaineer. I have done hands on and distance work since 1976, been an organic gardener and beekeeper since 1971. Working with honeybees and the earth has been and continues to be a profound education and influence in my life. Through most of my twenties I lived in a monastery in India and have had a meditation and equanimity practice for over 50 years. I teach stillness meditation, beekeeping classes and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy along with assisting Clara Cunningham in pre and perinatal somatic psychology courses. I have a deep interest in quantum field dynamics and perceptual fields and their relationship to stillness and accessing resilience and healing. Both myself and Clara Cunningham founded the Human development Center in Bellingham, Washington where we work, teach and play.
 Following the path of my own healing, I began a bodywork practice as Licensed Massage Therapist in Ohio in 1996. I studied Polarity Therapy, Reflexology, and Upledger CST, and SER training. I became an RCST in 2007, mentored by Gary Peterson and served as a teaching assistant for several years. I have also enjoyed applying my biodynamic skills as a volunteer at a Farm Animal Sanctuary working with rescued horses, goats, pigs, and ducks (the chickens not so much, they always declined my invitation to settle!). I joined the BCTA/NA Board in 2011 and had fun creating Association’s first newsletter. Since 2012, I have served as the BCTA/NA Treasurer, bringing my long-time experience in corporate finance and nonprofit board leadership to help the organization grow. I live in Aurora, Ohio with my partner Christine, three mini donkeys (Mary Poppins, Buttercup and Ginny) and two cats (Dash and Dot) in the embrace of 6 1/2 acres of loving trees.
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I was born on the African continent and, having spent much of my childhood overseas, English is my second language. Most of my adult life has been lived in the United States, where a college dance injury redirected me toward the bodywork field. I have maintained a private bodywork practice since 1996, practicing various iterations of Craniosacral Therapy since 1999, currently centering my work in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and remote healing for clients around the globe. After ten years teaching foreign language, I began instructing in the healing arts in 1997—first as massage school faculty and now as a BCTA/NA Approved teacher—offering an all BIPOC BCST Foundation Training online and in Santa Fe, NM, and serving as a Teaching Assistant at the Barral Institute for Visceral Manipulation. In 2014 I became a certified Qigong Instructor. While serving on the BCTA/NA Board in 2020–2021 I helped establish the association’s Racial Equity and Inclusion Initiative, and two of my articles have been published in the Cranial Wave, 2022 and 2023 editions.
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