My story is both unique and not unique.
- Biography -
My story is one from non stop business traveling, wine guzzling French tourism presse attachée, to burnt out, sick, somatic symptom ridden broken mess to hardcore healthy seeking yogi, to training as a yoga teacher in Spain, to studying sexuality and sociology in Amsterdam to studying Clinical Psychology at Columbia University to find what neurology, somatics, interpersonal neurobiology, positive psychology, developmental psychology, behavioral psychology, depth psychology, sociology, and theology had to say about meditation, spiritual awakening, yoga asana and yogic philosophy in the role of healing.
Born to two adventurer parents, I grew up sailing around the world on a proper sailing yacht. Starting our circumnavigation from Northern Europe, to the Caribbean, Central America, concluding with the Red Sea and Mediterranean, the majority of my childhood boat years were spent island hopping and living in the South Pacific; part of me still identifies as “an island kid” with wild hair that was never brushed and skin always covered in seawater salt. I was taught my first yoga poses at 9 years old by Australian and New Zealander yoga teachers who sailed with us.
On return to land I lived and studied on the East Coast of the U.S., the UK and France. Following a life of travel, my career was in tourism, working as the presse attachée for the French Government Tourist Office, where my job was to know France inside and out, to share the riches of France’s history, heritage, nature and gastronomy with American media.
However, after many years of non-stop travel and promotion, I was burned out, a job that had once been a calling and a passion, was no longer.
“The Western mind can never accept the possibility that the unconscious can do anything but cause a stomach neurosis, or a heart neurosis... They never assume that the unconscious might behave intelligently. And the East is convinced that the unconscious consists of nothing but sense… For it is really true that if one creates a better relation to the unconscious, it proves to be a helpful power. And at times it really produces little miracles.”
- C. G. Jung Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934, Vol. 1, p. 604
