So in my endless loop of still trying to find answers and educate myself I was still working as a high end trainer and yoga therapist for A listers, Royalty, and Celebrities in the LA area.. I wanted to keep moving forward in my career, but I wanted to get far away from anything “fitness competitions” as I could. SO I got into working with kids and Seniors as a fun break. I was always a youth fitness educator but now I took two extensive trainings to teach yoga to kids..one in more academic settings and one more in community settings. I became a trauma informed youth educator and began to also work with families in the area of mindfulness, fitness, and yoga. I created a program that was a blend of fitness and yoga and even taught it at various studios in the Los Angeles area and even had a mommy and me version. I also created a company called Project GLOW for a brief time ( GIRLS LEARNING OVERALL WELLNESS ) where we taught them mindfulness, communication, confidence, movement, and healthy nutrition. After working with thousands of starts in the area of weight loss I truly came to understand this journey was always an emotional one, and one that started early on as a childs subconscious mind starts forming. I wanted to start at the root.

 I had done so much mainstream coaching I really wanted to study and serve more our youth and our elderly. Focusing on the beginning and later stages of physical and emotional development. After I did the two years at LMU with Yoga Therapy I began to work in more clinical settings alongside Drs which I loved, I specialized in helping  people with severe chronic conditions and injuries. I also had a large senior clientele within my business, my oldest being 97 Judge Wapner where we focused on simply manual movement to keep him comfortable and healthy and tend to his Bells Palsy. When I worked with kids and seniors this was some of the most rewarding work I did. I had entered the LA scene and had worked at all the A list yoga studios with the Kardashians and all the celebs, trained international royalty at hotels, traveled to the 15 million dollar homes on the Malibu coast… but it was this new deep work that warmed my heart. So much so I began working with kids with disabilities and also at Private Rehab facilities for those recovering from alcohol or drug abuse. I would go in and teach yoga and meditation and it was some of the most heart warming work of my life. That community is so misunderstood. So much of the reason they are there is true physical pain management that led them to drugs. I took my education further  becoming certified in bodywork and soft tissue assessment and deepened my studies in fascia work. I attended almost every conference, seminar and webinar there was on fascia on how this relates to how trauma can get stuck physically and energetically in the body. Fascial release in general is still a widely underused, misunderstood modality that has the ability to heal beyond our wildest dreams, which is why I still keep it in my programs. 

Here is where I circled back to focus a bit more about the academics. I knew at this point what was working for me and what wasn't. I was beginning to heal my seizures through my own techniques and with the help of coaches. For me it was more coaches than therapists that allowed the biggest breakthroughs for me. That was just my own experience. I will always refer out to a therapist if I feel a client isn't right for me or needs more in depth help. But when I started to heal, I realized I was ready to begin to help people in this area and I wanted to have an in depth coaching program created just for Trauma. So I joined the International Association of Trauma Recoverys 6 month coaching to become accredited to do recovery coaching. While I know nothing is more important than our life experience and coming out on the other side. I wanted to be in deep integrity with this space and learn even more. I always will be learning more. I also studied with Irene Lyons in the area of Somatic Experiencing and she studied directly with Peter Levine who is considered the Father of Somatic Experiencing. I weave in Somatic Education to all that I do. Having started primarily with the body I find it gives me a great base from which to pull from when helping others through Somatic Embodiment.

When I started to feel I was healed from the seizures I started to do more non profit work with Peace Over Violence as a Violence Prevention Specialist and a Speaker telling my story through Voices over Violence. This is when I also created a social impact movement called I AM A Lighthouse helping women healing from sexual assault, which you can read more about on the Lighhouse tab. I started to become a sought after coach and speaker in the area of healing sexual trauma. I am devoted to making a difference in this area and it fuels alot of the work I do.