I came to study the healing arts after years of training in martial arts and qi-gong.  This led me to study Tui-na, Chinese medical massage, at the International Institute of Chinese medicine in Albuquerque, NM. Tui-Na, Chinese medical massage, is the overarching term for all manual therapies in china, including: massage therapy, physical therapy, and osteopathic type manipulations.  Tui-na is based on both musculoskeletal anatomy, as well as Chinese energetic anatomy, and treats both physical and physiological conditions.
I graduated in 1998 and have been in private practice since that time.  I also hold a B.A. in ethnoecology from Warren Wilson College.

Since then, I have studied various modalities in order to increase my understanding and effectiveness, including: 

• neuromuscular therapy
• Deep myofascial release
• Thai medical massage
• Various types of qi-gong healing
• Energy work
• Cranial manipulation

I do not separate modalities, but draw from my repertoire as needed.

It is through my studies of qi-gong and energy arts that I came to my appreciation of the importance of alignment.  Electromagnetic energy flows easily through a body that is relaxed.  Maintaining relaxation in movement requires proper alignment.  When proper alignment is restored, many seemingly unrelated energetic and physiological issues are spontaneously resolved.
Even those issues that aren’t resolved structurally are affected much more easily by other modalities such as acupuncture, herbology, homeopathy, energy work, etc., once proper alignment has been restored.  In fact, the only thing that I have seen to have greater clinical importance than proper alignment is possessing a positive attitude.
 
I know first hand how debilitating chronic pain can be,  and I have learned how unnecessary it usually is.

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