About
Growing up hiking for days deep in the Canadian Rockies
instilled a deep love for the subjectivity of the natural world
– listening to how each place is a community of consciousness, ever changing.
Teaching gross and subtle anatomy feels similar –
traversing our interior landscape of mountains, rivers
and the migrations of mind
that unite and differentiate each of us
through different eras of our life,
from conception to death.
Teaching therapeutic yoga, massage and anatomy cross culturally,
whether it was in Inuit communities in Northern Canada with Cirque du Soleil,
in Japan
or in the women’s yoga leadership training I co-founded in Bali…
each opened new doorways to what is universal and what is exquisitely unique.
I hope your calling
for more understanding, embodiment and awe can be enriched
by what is offered here.
Please be in touch if these resources can serve you and your community.
Adjunct Professor
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Leslie University & Kripalu Institute for Integrated Leadership
Saybrook University
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2006 - 2008
Course: Users Guide to the Body
2013: Co-taught Course for Mind Body Medicine PhD in Exercise, Movement & Health
USA Conference Presenter
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Harvard Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency
Georgetown University Achieving
Optimal Health Conference
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2013: Yoga Therapy : talk and practise
2015: Realizing the Heart's Full Potential
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Brown
University
International Yoga Therapy Association
New England College of Osteopathic Medicine: Integrative Medicine Symposium
2015: Yoga & Meditation Association Class
2018: Metaphor as Medicine: Culturally Relevant Yoga with Inuit Communities
2014: Fascial Chains
2013: Heart as an Organ of Perception
International Presentations
Tokyo & Osaka Japan
Yoga Australia Conference
Atlantic Canada Yoga Conference
2017: Anatomy Intensives
2018: GPS for Self Soul and Society: A Contemporary Exploration of Gross and Subtle Anatomy
2003 Gross and Subtle Anatomy Intensive
Anatomy Studies
Cadaver & Surgery
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2020: Completing MSc in Anatomy Education: Johns Hopkins, including 1st yr medical cadaver dissection
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2018: Unembalmed fascia cadaver dissection with Tom Myers
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2007: Attended hip & knee replacement surgery
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2006: UCONN medical school cadaver dissection
Hands On
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1997: Massage National Exam
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1997- now: Private practice in massage & aquatic bodywork
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2002-2009: Faculty Kripalu Massage School
Advanced Studies
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2007: Canadian College of Osteopathy: Embryology & Pelvis intensives
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2006: Embryology Intensive with Jaap van der Wahl
Grace’s Anatomy is an integrative embodied education
focusing on human potential
as well as pathology.
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Traditionally, books like Grey’s Anatomy
focus on taking apart sick or dead bodies.
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Grace’s Anatomy focuses on
integrating
embodying &
befriending (y)our body as a
profoundly powerful & collaborative field of consciousness.
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Shifting from object to subject,
dissection to integration…
Countless students have come up to me years after they studied with me,
and share that this curriculum forever changed their experience,
inside and out.
This education in embodiment is a birthright.
We hope you join us and step inside.
Yoga Range of Experience
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Intensive training age 8-14 in breath retentions, inversions etc as a junior trainee in the first Olympic Gold Medal synchronized swimming team
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Teaching or taking over 100 programs at Kripalu Center as faculty from 1997-2014 in the massage and yoga schools.
Meditation Range of Experience
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Backcountry hiking for days throughout my childhood in the Canadian Rockies
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10 day Vipassana sit
Influential Era Highlights
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Joined Kripalu Ashram age 24 as it transitioned from an ashram in crisis to a internationally renowned holistic health training center
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Overcoming two years of chronic pain
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Currently pursuing an MSc in Anatomy Education at Johns Hopkins Medical School
