Licensed by Educating Hands School of Massage, Florida, a 1200 hr program, then Certified in California. 

I spent 2 years as Research Consultant with The Touch Research Institute under Dr. Tiffany Fields, MD, University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital. The first Center in the world to study Touch and its application to science & medicine. There I directed three clinical studies on how massage affects Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia & Bulimia, that were published in The Journal of Clinical Rheumatology and JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). 

Later I studied under:

• Judith Delaney, founder of the Neuromuscular Center in St Petersburg FL. 

• John F. Barnes, PT, leading authority/teacher/therapist in the field of Myofascial Massage, Palm Springs CA and The Myofascial Release Treatment Center, Sedona AZ.

• MPS Microcurrent Point Stimulation Advanced Scar-Adhesion-Trauma Therapy, with The Center for Pain & Stress Research, Texas & Florida.

Other Studies Include:

• Pre-Natal Massage

• Medical Massage of Thailand Nuad Bo Rarhn

• Reiki Certification, California 

• Sampoorna Yoga Teacher Training Certification, Florida

• Healing Family & Ancestors, Sonorous Family Constellations: Jill Purce, International Sound Healing Pioneer, London UK

Completed several Vipassana 10 day silent retreats & studied with different non-dualistic teachers such as Adyashanti, Mukti, Gangaji, Jack Kornfield, & Debra Chamberlin-Taylor. Sound Healing with Jill Purce in the UK.

In Miami, I worked almost exclusively with a high end private clientele. Occasionally on-call for resorts such as: Eden Rock, Delano, Fischer Island, and Musha Cay the Islands of Copperfield Bay, Exumas Bahamas. Here in the San Francisco Bay area my services have extended from San Francisco to Marin and Sonoma Counties where I enjoy receiving doctor referrals and ongoing clientele from my beautiful Sebastopol office.