Grounded Touch
Holistic Body Work

My interest in massage and therapeutic arts started in Eugene Oregon and began with a sports injury to my ankle from playing soccer.  After some looking around I found an amazing acupuncturist that helped me through a lot of my pain while also getting me interested in qigong.  Through my continuing interest in qigong and other methods of thinking I met my massage mentor Nicolaza Gomez through the local Baha'i community who taught me how to see with my hands.  

After moving back to California I started my massage training at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2015 and graduated at the end of 2016 with an Associates of Applied Science with over 1000 hours of training as a Holistic Health Practitioner.  Yet my ankle still bothered me and would act up when I worked out, making it hard to keep to a stable workout schedule.  So after massage school, in 2017, I underwent additional training in Myofascial Release(MFR) learning the John Barnes method.  And this was how I finally was able to move through my chronic pain and become able to workout without the same chronic pain that had plagued me for years.  

With over 100 hours of training in MFR I drastically increased my ability to help people with pain and dysfunction such as frozen shoulder, fibromyalgia, headaches, neck pain and reduced range of motion and painful movement in the neck, low back, and hip flexor issues that can contribute to low back pain and general hip pain.  I have also been working at Thai sport Bodyworks since 2016 and helped develop their signature Thai Neuromuscular protocol.  While specializing in MFR I also offer a mix of neuromuscular, craniosacral, and MFR.