Been called to the healing journey and studies through a thirst for natural living, harmony with the elements and the heartache inside such confusion of our world and the cognitive dissonance I felt so often in my teens.

Minister’s daughter I felt the joy and stability from my ancestors living their truth. Yet I was drawn to all the slants on that such as yoga, astrology, meditation, creating wild and free fruit orchards in the tropics and community working in harmony for a consciousness awakening.

After a few years on an organic farm in southern California living with a group of artists and musicians, where I was lead singer and musician in our Farm Band and also we published and distributed our own eco-arts magazine throughout Los Angeles, I also experienced a fulltime raw vegan diet and fasting lifestyle there, growing our own food.

I was on a team also providing green juice from a Norwalk juicer, salads etc to the groups’ leader’s mom who had pancreatic cantzer and observed her reversal within several weeks of this cleanse.

This made a huge impression on me; I already knew it would work based on just my studies independently and the affects of this lifestyle on my own body and how I felt. I knew I wanted anyone who wanted to, to be able to learn this and implement it.

The Farm had its faults with leadership and control and eventually I left and while working and living in the mountains of California under the stars, I also transformed again resolving a binge-purge pattern of eating through the macrobiotic foods easy to manage in the woods with a Coleman stove and no access to produce and refrigeration.

During that time I met my first husband and we conceived my first son.

His addictions and impulsive domestic violence caused me to reach out to my mom who helped me and my five-month old son. We began a healing journey at Alive Polarity at Murrieta Hot Springs where all I’d studied was being lived and much more.

I resonated with all they were doing and they had a very wholesome and holistic community running a five-star hot springs resort and a polarity therapy school housed within the entire operations of running a day spa, restaurant, retreats and family counseling.

It was there I was able to have the support and guidance to care for myself and my son while deep-diving daily into the studies of Dr Randolph Stone’s polarity therapy.

Daily for over six months of bodywork, diet, exercise and counseling while living, eating and breathing polarity therapy in the hotsprings, mud baths, sunbathing, eating organic food, studying the charts and connecting with the amazing staff of teachers and families.

My insecurities were deep and there was a sudden breakdown of the community. So when that happened I had already graduated from the three month practitioner training (after about four months of basic and advanced residential training as a client as well.)

I wasn’t mature enough to realize what exactly I was capable of and floundered for quite some time, ended up in several treatment centers for alcoholism–and then into a small pacific northwest san juan island recovery community and worked on my sobriety and raising my son.

I was able to use polarity with family and friends and in my daily life–occasionally doing a booth at fairs but still not fulltime.

I remarried and had two more babies then went to massage school to meet requirements in my state for touch.

I suddenly was working in a franchise massage clinic and learned work ethic, habits of documentation and skills of communication and listening with clients. I had a lot to learn!

I was able to introduce polarity therapy to thousands of clients with 99% success rate when I combined it with some massage–very popular is to do polarity just use lotion and draping. It’s a fantastic way to introduce this work to people who otherwise would never hear of it and would not be curious about it. But once they experience it, it all makes sense and most people really love it! Polarity has a way of letting you feel the flow of energy through your whole being rather than maybe just a feeling of one muscle being pressed out.

From that I’ve developed a teaching method for massage therapists.

I’ve also become a registered polarity educator (RPE) and approved training manager (ATM) with the American Polarity Therapy Association (APTA) where I’m currently on the Board of Directors as well.

I offer the polarity practitioner training level one which is 155 hours minimum (I may add some hours to my training since I add key craniosacral and somatic emphasis to the polarity work.)

Since I learned in an immersion, I like to create something like that for students so I do intensives in Mexico!

For those who want a slow but steady approach and be able to study from home I offer 2xs a month classes over a period of one year for their certificate.

With you training I then recommend you to APTA and you can apply for your associate polarity practitioner (APP) membership status.

As long as your membership is active you can use the APP and APTA logo.

Some states even waive the need for a massage license to touch if you are trained and in good standing with your professional organization. For example Oregon Board of Massage has an exemption for polarity therapy as long as you don’t claim you’re doing massage and you stick to the polarity methods you’re certified in!

I like having a massage license but you don’t necessarily have to.

I’m available to consult with on this and what your goals are!