All of my life I have known myself as a Truth seeker, and I have always loved to share my discoveries with others. My passion for true health creation began as I approached age twenty and experienced my own previously "good" health begin to deteriorate at an alarming rate.

For years, following a ski accident which left one knee in shatters, I suffered with a seemingly endless array of symptoms, including migraine headaches, TMJ, depression, insomnia, debilitating back pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and severe chronic reflux. Various drugs were prescribed to me by different kinds of doctors. The medications all came with unpleasant "side effects", and left me feeling detached from my true self.

Intuitively I felt a body-mind connection, and I also realized the importance of an appropriate diet. I hungered for information that made real sense, and I began to read voraciously about health and nutrition while in college. As my search led me deeper, I found yoga.

Yoga became a lifeline for me, and though it would be many years before I had command of a consistent practice, I gained much insight into my Self, my body, my emotional and spiritual life, and the awesome power of mind mastery. I have always been athletically inclined, and yoga also met this need in a form that felt safe and fulfilling.

Diet was another story . . . I tried every healthy sounding dietary possibility I came across, and while I would often experience brief improvements in my symptoms, they would inevitably return, or crop up in a new form. I began to lose hope of ever figuring out how to eat right. I received treatments from all sorts of alternative healers, but I was never fully able to heal.

Then in 2002 I learned of the raw food diet. After nearly 20 years of nutrition study, and as many years of suffering, the first book I read about the raw diet gave me the biggest "aha" moments of my life . . . I knew I had found some real answers, some core truths I was seeking. The very next day I adopted a raw vegan diet, and I have never turned back because the benefits continue to amaze me.

Mine has been an exciting and adventurous path, but not always an easy one. Yet with each step I have felt more vibrantly alive on every level, and this always keeps me going. I cannot imagine a better path. I have spent years weeding through all the available information, and stumbling through many teachings before finding the people whom I would choose to trust as my guides. I could see that they had truly mastered the health that I wanted: they walked their talk with radiant success! There are many potential pitfalls when learning how to live a healthy, natural lifestyle today, and I discovered that qualified expert guidance is essential.

I now live a healthy raw lifestyle, and enjoy a strong personal yoga practice. I delight daily in a level of health vibrancy previously unimaginable to me.
Living Yoga is my invitation to others to walk (or joyously bound along!) this path of liberating, exhilarating, abundant health with me.

My professional credentials include a master's degree in counseling, specialized in Art Therapy, Registered Yoga Teacher certification with Yoga Alliance, and Raw Nutritional Science training from internationally renowned raw food and fitness teachers, Dr.Doug Graham and Professor Rozalind Gruben Graham. I embody more than twenty years of independent research on the topics of health and nutrition, my own personal experience adhering to a raw vegan diet since 2002, commitment to a personal yoga practice, and the knowledge gained from traveling the country and beyond to numerous workshops and training events in the complementary fields of raw food nutrition, yoga, physical fitness, and sustainable living practices.

My other passions include co-creating homeschooling and other adventures with my children: Hannah (16), Eric (13), and Rose (10), growing food and flowers, exploring natural building projects, bicycling, hiking, swimming in waterfalls, playing in tropical oceans, traveling, camping, making art and music, and building conscious community.

Join me on the adventure the Costa Ricans call, "La Pura Vida," or The Pure Life!

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