My relationship with movement & sound comes through many decades of studies of these mediums through the lenses of performance, therapeutics, esoteric/spiritual, ceremonial, and the spaces in-between them all. 

 

In my youth, I focused on studying a range of dance and music theory/techniques and performance skills through dance studios, school bands, and a rock band or two. When I wasn’t in a studio, rehearsal, or performance, I spent time outside in nature, hiking and cultivating a meditation practice. By the time I was sixteen, I had explored several healing arts modalities and Buddhism. I began college in music performance/education studies before shifting to psychology. After taking a few ballet and modern/contemporary dance classes, I took a semester of yoga classes twice a week for college credit. After graduating with a BA in psychology,  I've cultivated a twenty-seven year career in non-profit public health organizations, focusing on working with people with diverse types of disabilities and trauma in community-based programs. My roles included direct care, program & senior management roles, quality assurance, staff training/education and serving on a board in several small to large organizations. 

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My studies of the healing arts, movement/sound-based therapeutics, and cultural/historical/ceremonial perspectives of movement/sound continued parallel to my work in human services. Some of my teachers had backgrounds in areas such as dance anthropology, ethnomusicology, or other sciences and also a deep reverence for the mystical elements that exist in our world and beyond. In 2010, I began teaching movement/sound-based classes and workshops at yoga studios, public health programs, conferences, colleges, and other community-based settings. 

 

Over time found myself gravitating back to fully immersing back into the performing arts as an artist, educator, technician, and administrator. The years of immersion into other perspectives of movement and sound continue to flow through me and inform my research & work. 

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Areas of Training/Studies

 

Movement

~Dance: Ballet/Pointe, Contemporary, Jazz, Post Modern, Tap (Broadway/Rhythm)

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~Theater: Intro class in high school. Physical/Experimental and Somatic based approaches.

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~Yoga/Meditation/Somatics: multiple trainings in yoga, meditation and somatic practices. Most influenced by restorative, slow fluid and yin practices. Trauma-Sensitive yoga training with The Trauma Center (Boston). 

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Sound

~Musician/Instruments: Clarinet (classical); Electric Bass (jazz/rock/experimental); Percussion-Frame Drums/Riq (Arabic, Contemporary, South Indian), Gongs (experimental/therapeutics/ensemble), Metal Singing Bowls (experimental/therapeutics), Keyboard/MIDI/Synth (electronica/ambient)

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~Music Production/Music Theory/Live Sound: High school graduation project of

recording/mixing a song. College classes in sound design, music production, music theory and live sound engineering. Grrrls 2 The Front Sound Tech/Engineer Training with Dan Richardson/The Stone Church. 

 

The Spaces Between

~Therapeutic/Healing Arts: I have studied and trained in multiple modalities for

over thirty-five years. Began studying sound therapeutics in 2007 with Mitch Nur/9 Ways Academia.   

 

 

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