Hello! Thank you so much for your curiosity about my practice. As someone who has dealt with more than one chronic condition, I am no stranger to the way long-term health challenges can impact daily life, not just on a physical level, but in the mental and emotional body as well. My greatest hope is to create moments of rest and refuge from the demands of the world, both in the comfort of my treatment space, and in the physical experience of my clients.

In the years following graduation from massage school in 2012 I pursued several courses of continuing education in the John Barnes method of Myofascial Release (MFR), and this has been my primary focus in bodywork ever since. It is a gentle and safe hands-on approach without oil or tools, with which we can access deep levels of structural imbalance and chronic pain patterns through slow and sustained engagement of the connective tissue. I have personally seen some extraordinary results in my health with these techniques, leading me to use MFR as a foundation of my own care, and I am grateful to be able to offer clients something I value so much in my own life.

Another inspirational branch of exploration has been the study of herbalism. Integrating my well-being with the rhythm of the natural world and grounding my own cycles of action, reciprocity, and rest with those of the earth has been a huge piece of learning to work with my health in a kind and sustaining way. I graduated an herbal apprenticeship at Misty Meadows Herbal Center in Lee, NH in 2016, and have spent the last five years in a course of study that dives deeper into not just the physical medicinal properties of herbal medicine, but the interwoven energetic effects as well. It is an absolute joy to me to formulate and offer therapeutic spa treatments that bring together the sensory comfort of aromatherapeutic herbs with the nurturing and relief they can offer our physical bodies, and the relaxing benefits of massage.

I grew up in Scotland, raised by a professional storyteller at a time when there was an intentional focus on reviving and supporting Scottish culture, language, and music, and much of my childhood was spent in folk clubs, listening to the stories of the places, people, and the ‘Good Folk,’ who might also be called the fairies, or the spirits of a place. When I moved to the USA in 2010, this rich sense of belonging and interrelatedness felt painfully absent in daily life, leading me to seek a deeper understanding of indigenous stories and culture here, and these studies led me on a path of earth-based spiritual traditions. It has been an honor to receive teachings and initiations and participate in the ceremonial heritage of this place, interwoven with lineages of shamanic teaching and initiation from the Andes, Amazon, and Hebrew and Celtic traditions as well, and I hold these cultural and spiritual practices in great reverence as they are foundational to the energetic work that I do.