Bio

Currently living on 120 acres of rolling pasture and pine in the northern Wisconsin outback transitioning to urban homesteader in my home town on the shore of Lake Michigan . . . merging threads of calling into a path I have no name for and as of now, no desire to name, involving mutually beneficial relationship, creative movement, playful investigation, appreciation of myriad layers of language and expression from the physical through the subtle, simple techniques to invite reminders of well being . . . trying to walk lightly, to see clearly, to listen deeply . . . lately, currents of radical trust, settling into a newly downloaded understanding of the experience of mothering and allowing myself to be mothered, building an inner cathedral of hope from moments of slippery beauty and the steady reveal of kindness . . .

Skills and talents

nest-making, dance liberating, loud teary laughing, willingness to practice presence, fluidity . . . intuitive massage therapy and energy attuning . . . teaching, learning . . . experience in rough traveling, direct action, organic farming, bone singing, wild crafting, dream work, spoken word, imagining, guiding movement exploration through avenues of yoga, belly dancing, and unlocking ancient freestyle shapeshifting lovemaking to waves of sound felt or heard or newly born in the dancer herself

Interests

dancing everyday, inventing and cocreating a career, living without a car, midwifery within and on a global scale, Permaculture, realizing wholeness as my natural state, sharing my new backyard as classroom and sanctuary, simplicity, the power of imagination, the power of story to assist us through massive change, Urban Homesteading

What I'm Reading

Shikasta by Doris Lessing, Generation Debt by Anya Kamenetz

What I'm Listening To

spaces of silence between the distant drone of a concrete river, peepers, downloads from inner space, dream messengers, my body, waves, thunder, birdsong, coyote, sunset into starlight into the dark

Movies I've Seen Recently

Steal This Film, Juliette of the Herbs, Dirt! The Movie, The Native American Experience, Medicine Men Go Wild

Education

High school

Interlochen Arts Academy

Additional study

Windemere Institute of Healing Arts, Moonwise Herbs Apprenticeship in traditional foods, Hygieia College, Yogaloft Teacher Training, various apprenticeships and travels and exchanges arising from instant connection and resulting in shifts in understanding without certificates . . .